Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.
I’ve always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
I wouldn’t trust the 12 years old me to decide a name for myself.
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Yup. Looking back at my first email address, I’m glad I didn’t change my name.
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
What a tragedeigh
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh
i’m so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
I could see a system like that being used to racist ends in America. “Please select from the pre-approved list of biblical names”
I’m having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I’ve heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren’t on the list). There’s few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the door open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.
perhaps we have a list of “accepted variations of names” where that is what is legally recognized. Though the body will have to regulate it properly of course.
My sister named her baby “Ecks-Fourmerlee-Twittre”
I have a hard time believing that.
Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon
Amazon barely even does brand names now.
A baby name from Amazon would be like “BABY CHILD YOUTH LIL ADULT 6LB 7LB 8LB DOCTOR OLYMPICS ATHLETE FAMOUS TALL INDOOR OUTDOOR EASY TO CLEAN CUTE COLLECTIBLE FAMILY 3-PACK”
The “6LB 7LB 8LB” bit broke me, congratulations with a hearthy laugh.
Leviathan seems to stand out.
i cannot imagine the jokes and innuendos that’s gonna be made on the kid due to the name.
Leviathan is just fucking awesome. Imagine some big power lifter dude and he’s named Leviathan.
“Cool, but what’s his real name?”
“That IS his real name”
Merricka was someone mishearing her their boyfriend talking about elden ring
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as “Allison” or “Ashley”
- Ashlie
- Ashlee
- Ashly
- Ashleigh
- Ashlea
- Ashli
- Ashely
- Ashlei
- Ashleah
- Asheleigh
- Ashelie
- Ahshlee
- the list goes on and on and on
No amount of vowels is going to make your kid’s name stand out when at the end of the day it’s the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
Mötley might be weird but it’s at least unique.
