Stop Giving Your Children Stupid Names. Dry Bar Comedy
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2021
- Stop giving your children stupid names, or as these Dry Bar Comedy comedians will tell you, they will be traumatized for life. Whether you're someone who has a weird name, or your just someone who is thinking about what you want to name your children, this Dry Bar Comedy compilation is sure to keep you laughing from start to finish.
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Dwayne Perkins
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Danny Villalpando
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Costaki Economopoulos
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Kjell Bjorgen
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Rahn Hortman
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Eric Oshea
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Cory Michaelis
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Giving your child’s name a “unique” spelling will make sure their name will be misspelled for the rest of their life.
And that they'll have to spell their name to every person, every single day for the rest of their life! And then those people have to comment on the unusual spelling and then they have to smile and say yeah, thanks mom & dad and so on and so on and so on...
My "favorite" name is spelled Abcde, (not joking) pronounced Ab-si-dee
@@korpellious7622 That is AWESOME! I hope he/she succeed(ee)....
When I hear of "unique" American names, "Shaniqua" always comes to mind.
I thought "Fantasia" was a stage name when I first heard it.
In Australia, the trend is to have a common name spelt "uniquely" whilst still being pronounced the same.
Think Siimon, Kyly, etcetera.
@@MrBenHaynes Siimon, the advertising guy, was named maybe 60 or 70 years ago. Or did he change his name when he got into advertising?
Kylie, as in Kylie Minogue, is a perfectly lovely name for a perfectly lovely woman. Why would anyone want to misspell it? I haven't come across anyone named Etcetera yet, but I did hear of an unfortunate girl named Excretia.
Looking at it from the other side, I've always tried to learn the correct pronunciation of names that are not members of the common European set of names. Some of my coworkers had surnames such as Vanniasingham, Selvenantham, or first names such as Aoife, Saoirse and Niamh, and those are just the Irish ones. The Czeck name Jitka gave me some problems. It's pronounced Yitka. Sorry for the occasional stuff-up, Jitka.
I think that it's rude not to pronounce someone's name correctly. If I'm introduced to someone with a name I can't pronounce, I ask them to teach me to pronounce it correctly. Some need more practice than others, but once you've got it, it stays with you forever.
"Lacretia sounds like she doesn't think the customer is always right..." hilarious stuff
It is actually Latin and means Profit. $$$$
@@jad43701 it means "succeed"
And I think it's Lucretia
Just an alternate spelling of Lucretia? Which is at least as old as Shakespeare, being commonly used as recently as Poe's lifetime
Its hilarious, because he said 'out loud' what we all know is sadly true
My name is Thecla. My mother's name is Barbara. When I had my children I named them Andrew and Travis. My mother asked me why I chose such common names. I said, "I don't know, Barb. Why don't you think about it". Yeah, a weird name is not a gift.
@Disguised Dv8ant how do we pronounce that?
I get it, Thecla!!!!!! I am a woman and I STILL get called KARL. I hated the 1st day of every quarter in school. I am the only one in my family with a weird name
my sister has a combo name🤦♀️mine is spelled differently so i always have to spell it...baby sister has a common name, never has to spell it. my kids names never have to be spelled, that common...both my parents have odd names, so why did they repeat it? some of these names are just stupid, like Riot...yes that's a kids name. i remember a kid in third grade punched me in the mouth, his name was Stormy, 🤦♀️😳wonder where Stormy is now
Lmaooooooooooo! Love this!
@@Kate98755 stormy is probably in jail I'd say lol
Years ago at the local elementary school I remember a teacher having to call a little girl's mother to come to class. The child- 7 years old- did not know how to spell her own name. The mother was outraged at the teacher for "embarrassing" her child. To this day I cannot pronounce the child's name. However what stood out to me was that when the teacher asked the Mother to tell her how to correctly spell her daughter's name SHE COULD NOT DO IT. The Mother could not spell the very name she gave to her child. STOP GIVING YOUR CHILDREN STUPID NAMES!
I remember reading something about a woman naming her daughter L-a and the teacher didn't know how to pronounce it the woman replied the dash don't be silent.
@@olinewright6877 Along the lines of a list of "popular" names for children in the 2015-2020 range.... Abcde.
Ahb-see-day. Seriously... WTF.
@@Dakarn I actually remember an article that said some people name their daughters "Female" because they either don't actually want the kid or can't come up with name so maybe this is something similar?
@@aozzya1563 my close friend graduated with a girl named Female back in the sixties. The girl told people that her mother always said “the hospital” named her.
@@aozzya1563 Female on birth certificate- parents that had limited English thought the hospital named the baby. Pronounced Fuh mal lee.
This is why so many boys are named Tony, because when their mothers were sending them to America, they attached a slip on their shirts saying: "To NY!!" Our family is Sicilian, and this is one of my favorite family jokes!
Cute joke....
Very old joke that offends many Italians!
@@donnaanndefelice-junk9528 Italians are not that pathetic - leave being offended to the snowflakes!
Ignorance of facts does not equal truth or make it funny. That is totally false.
Good thing it wasn't Ckeveland!!!
No joke I know an elementary kid named Rigor Mortis. The child is too young to know what his name means. I just pray that he doesn’t hate his mother when he finds out.
I wish my last name Mortis. I'd be Goth as hell.
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm dying!!!!
I knew a kid named Seymour butz. Poor kid. Let’s not forget my Chinese neighbor’s last name was “Ho”
@@AwesomeConsoles How about Sum Ting Wong and Wi Tu Lo? Or Bang Dingh Ow.
I'm a teacher and you would not believe the crazy names parents give kids these days. They think they're showing everybody how special their kid is but all they're doing is dooming them to a lifetime of having their name mispronounced, being made fun of, and having to spell their name to people 10 times a day for the rest of their life.
We owe it to our children to give them a name they can proudly carry for life.
😉👍 Exactly! Which is why we should name our children after high quality alcoholic beverages and automobiles, NOT the cheap stuff! 🥰We VALUE our 2 kids, so we took the time to carefully scan the top shelf liquors at the local bar, so as not to accidentally pick a "rail name" for our daughter. Then we dutifully walked through the aisles at "Larry's Discount Cars" to pick just the right make or model name for our son!
After much debate, we eventually named them "Tanqueray Tonic" and "Lamborghini Diablo" Johnson"😁
Exactly, and a name that makes them employable!
@@HighlanderNorth1 Not funny at all.☑️
@@HighlanderNorth1 i love the Denim and Diesel example. the hollywood people are so out to lunch.
@@melaninmoxiellc963 Geeez lighten up!!
I was going to be named "Secundino" but while I was getting baptized the priest said "NO" he is David. My Dad cracks up every time he tells the story because my mom wanted that name. Lol
That is funny. Lol
Clearly a good man who went above and beyond his duties!
That priest saved your life! 🤣🤣
That priest is a true follower of God
When your name is so bad the priest steps in 🤣🤣🤣
I had a lady tell me that she worked in the newborn nursery and while handing the baby to her mom said, "here is your little Shady-nasty" and the mom looked at her with the maddest face and said, 'her name is Sha-Dynasty." Cracks me up everytime I think about it! LOL
🤣😂🤣😂
Oh my....that IS a bad one. Seriously, yeek!
🤣
LMFAO! WHYYYYYYY.
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As a teacher, let me just say how annoying it is when parents decide to cute-spell an incredibly popular name 50 different ways. Inevitably a kid gets annoyed at ME when I can’t remember THEIR version. “I’m sorry your parents decided to give you the same name as five other kids on my roll sheets, Haley....I mean Hayleigh. I mean Hayley. I mean Haylee. I mean Haylie. I mean Hailey.” ….. EDIT I had no idea this would turn in to such an interesting thread! It was fun to read all the comments (good and bad). For the record, I’m a drama teacher & I love ALL my kids….even the cute spell ones ☺️
It could have been worse for the poor kid--I know one named after their parents' DOG!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh wow do not envy you.
Or "Katelynn"
I had a friend 50 years ago who named her son Jammie which was her cute version of Jamey. I told her she was ignoring basic pronunciation rules that we all learned in grade 2 and that her son was going to suffer for it. And he did.
Lolol. “She doesn’t sound like she thinks the customers always right!” 😂🤣😂
Now I'm the stodgy woman who named her son Henry, so take this as you will.
I've worked in health care (14 years in total), specifically, at a children's hospital for 6 years. People, please. You need to consider the WHOLE name when naming your child. For example; Brock is a perfectly good name, but if your surname is Lee or Colley, pick something else.
Exactly. I grew up going to school with two brothers with the family name Bacon. The younger brother was Mark. The older (who I suspect was a cautionary tale) they had named Christopher - but of course he never went by Christopher. Yep, Chris Bacon. Can't not sound like breakfast. SMH.
Also keep in mind children grow up. Allow them some dignity as they live out their lives.
I went to middle school with a kid named Eric Chen.
Yup! Like Rocky and Sandy Beach.
@@lauramalek3128 Middle initial “P.”😋
"John?"
"Here"
"Katie?"
"Here"
"Lemon Jello?"
*sighs* "here..."
I've heard the name "Orangejello" too.
😅😂😛
Love it! 😁
Still better than the.twin girls I met with in the Neonatal nursery who were named.after STDs.
@@christinebutler7630 oh no! Poor babies!!
I'm a teacher and this is spot-on.
in Canada the registrars office can refuse a name. one was Clamydia... yup.
Yeah, they get those throughout the US from time to time. Generally, the mother just heard the word somewhere, thought it was "pretty", and gave it to a daughter as a name - not realizing it's a disease.
There are newspaper articles of family members, and sometimes the girls themselves when they reach adulthood - knowing what it means. It might make for a rough time in high school, and make dating a bit awkward.
oh lort..thats how momna got u
😂
In Finland the same thing.
Anaconda and Alopecia anyone?
When the title alone deserves the like
Right lol
I'm guilty of that too...
You made me like the video.
Amen
Tt ty
Elon Musk must've watched that before his son was born and got inspired. The kid wound up with a default WiFi password for a name.
@@hugemusiclover1837 Ah yeah, my bad. Corrected. Thanks 😉
@@anotherone7924 You're welcome 👍
His freak girlfriend named the poor baby. 🤦♀️
Elon is itself a strange name and Elon Musk sounds like the creatives had a bad day trying to come with a name for some awful fragrance.
@@eattherich9215 😂😂😂
"You changed your name TO Latrine?"
"Yeah... Used to be Shithouse."
Excellent!
This is the comment of the year!
"That's a good change. A very good change"
🤣
I'm so glad someone mentioned Robin Hood Men in Tights! Right on point! 🤣🤣
I get people want to be unique with names for their children instead of names you see/hear all the time… BUT on the other hand I think some people are a little TOO extra with it.
One New Zealand couple named their daughter "Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii". A court made the parents change it.
Smart court. 😀
That probably violates the character limit
Did the court also send the parents to rehab😩
@@morganlowe1245 No, but the child's new name was not revealed to protect her privacy.
@@morganlowe1245 the court should've taken the kids to protective services lol
The irony is he said LaCretia and I just hired someone with that name last week. She started this week and so far she’s awesome lol
Poor girl😂
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 wait... why?
@@joywestermann3121 it's kinda a wacky name.
I knew a classmate with similar name, but it was spelled Lucretia, which is pretty. I think children should have at least 2 syllables in their names, that way they can get a nickname to make it shorter if they don't mind having one. 👌
Lucretia Borgias , a very interesting woman from a very powerful family in Italy, look her up as I said “ very interesting “ 😊🇬🇧
I think they just throw scrabble tiles on the table and where ever they land, that's the name they go with. Some of the names are just plain stupid.
There's a stand up comic (Lee Mack) who says that's how Irish names are given.
Then they put La……in fr9nt
Yeah. Like Abcde or KVIII
the story I heard was Oprah Winfrey was supposed to have been named "Orpah" which I believe is a name out of the OT bible, but the spelling got messed up on the birth certificate or something? She's an extremely rare case of a incomprehensibly odd name which was no major hindrance to her life success (self esteem).
I once told a friend that I was sure that my parents wrote the alphabet on pieces of paper and then pulled them out of a hat for my name!
I went to high school with a girl name Champagne Copper. I always felt like she’ll definitely be lost in life. She had a baby in 11th grade, dropped outta school. She named the baby girl Chardonnay. Like seriously… did she not learn the first time. It’s all in the name.
Especially important for girls. Don't name them Barbie, Trixie, Crystal, etc.
@@marinamartinez6886 yikes you’re ignorant
@@marinamartinez6886 Grew up in the 70s/80s and always felt sorry for girls called Brandy.
Had a girlfriend in high school named Happy Berry.
@@lisaloopers68 haha thank you! It's a terrible name. 🤣
It's amazing how much a name can influence a person's character and the way others interact with them. Some parents are just clueless. Now excuse me while I go pick up my son Elizabeth from pre-school. We call him Eli for short.
@@astrodreamer946 this is very clearly a joke. Learn to read sarcasm
@@skullio2802: I can read sarcasm. This is one time I couldn't. Tone is difficult to indicate through text, especially on the internet. Don't tell me you haven't had to second guess a post before, at least once. Sometimes people aren't joking.
@@astrodreamer946 it was a joke
@@juliblued Clearly.
@@astrodreamer946 elizabeth is a female name
Dwayne (1st comic) was right on point. 😂
There's a very good reason for giving kids funny names. It makes them an instant target for abuse from their schoolmates. Once a child is teased into submission, it will destroy his self esteem and make him much easier to control. I speak from my own childhood experience.
So sorry to hear that.
Wow. This is brutal. You ok, man?
Gosh, sad to hear 😢.
Bless you.
So you're saying your parents gave you a funny name on purpose and thought it was good for you to be bullied?
I was named for my father. Having an uncommon name gives your a sense of your own uniqueness early on.
When naming children parents need to consider what their child's name will look like on a CEO nameplate
My mom used to say when naming a baby, you should think how that name will sound with "Grandma" in front of it. Or "Grandpa", presumably!
I can see Giovanni on a CEO nameplate, but I don't think Geo Vonnie will ever have a chance.
they say what your name is on job application is 1st thing employers see 1st impression
....Or on the mental asylum name tag
@@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat I am screaming with laughter....What a comeback!!!!!!!!!!!
In Australia we have to apply to name our children and there are certain names that you are not allowed to call your kids BUT the list is based on the names people tried to use for their kids and it is brutal! Some parents here don't deserve to have kids.
AV: People everywhere dont deserve to have kids. Its as if some of them put more thought into what to eat for lunch than they do having children.
I always dreamt of that world where we have to apply to have children in the first place😮 of course that would lead to the slipperiest of slopes. Brave New World😐
If you look up Healthy Mummy online there are 46 names that are illegal in Australia including Satan, Christ, Brother, Sister and several ranks of army or monarchy which people cannot use due to them having to actually BE appointed in those positions. We are an English settled colony and therefore under the rule of the monarchy and the guardianship of our army and its allies. The majority of people who like to imply that they or their children are police, army or royalty are usually paedophiles or people who expect people to treat them in a certain way because of a need for power and authority and they are self entitled, selfish and a lot of them are rapists of more than just their own families.
That's cool, I wish people had to apply to even have kids....
@@aimeevictoria6372 My mom worked with a man who was ex-military and his name was Lieutenant Major. Yes, first name Lieutenant last name Major.
Speaking as a sub teacher, you are SO RIGHT!! Parents--spell the name so it may be pronounced properly, whatever it is!!
I feel your pain...fellow sub here!
At last! Some people with an audience telling the world not to burden their children...or scar them...for life with ghastly names! Thank you, thank you, thank you. From the bottom of my heart!
My grandfather's name was supposed to be Achilles. The family and the officials were all fairly illiterate. His birth certificate says "Killus". He was called "Kill" all his life.
😳😳😳😳😳
See, that’s an awesome name.
🤣🤣🤣... I'm sorry... that's messed up
It's funny and kinda sad. I hope he took it in stride.
@@aneshiadixon8762 He was a happy and confident man. Wife and 12 kids. Farmer, veteran, and remembered fondly.
True story. My husband met a woman named Female(pronounced Feemalee). When he asked her why her parents named her that, she said because her mother told her the hospital gave her that name It was on the birth certificate.
Oh...my...God...This went over so many peoples heads
Was this in Michigan? Because a retired teacher I know taught a Female, pronounced fuhmalee, during his career. If it wasn't that makes it worse, there's two of them!
heard of girl named siphyllis
That was Ruby Dee's characters name in the 1982 movie Cat People starring Malcolm McDowell and Nastassia Kinski. And for the same reason. Goddess, I loved that movie.
Well, if that’s a true story, there must be a lot of stupid women who don’t know that they get to name their own children. Because that is a Joke I heard 20 years ago.
During my time as a Sheriff's Deputy, we brought a woman in labor to the ospital. She had a vision while there to name her Baby Nosmo King. No kidding - saw writing on the wall and everything. Didn't hit me until the way out and I had the same 'vision' - a No Smoking sign.
SO GREAT to hear a black man acknowledge this and talk about how stupid it is.
as soon as white comedians do the same suddenly they are racist. double standards tho...
stereotypes aint racist, facts based on statistics cant be racist...
@@peterzana6260 because I can talk crap about me and mine but you have can't. Especially when you know nothing about it. Makes sense to me.
What does that have to do with race? White people don't give ridiculous names to their kids? 🙄
@@f.-j.j.5738 they do but they also know how to spell them
*ba dum tss*
@@f.-j.j.5738 are you being funny?
There was a little girl named Latrina in the Catholic School where I used to work. The nuns "renamed" her Trina.
Was that in DC??? I worked with her Grandma!!
We had waitress named Latrina. I wonder if her parents realized what a latrine is.
@@nancymontgomery8897 lol...😹😸
I got a call from a gal in another department named Latrina. I had to laugh. I thought it was someone in my department making a crank phone call! I realized too quickly that it WAS NOT! YIKES! She was a beautiful young woman: professional, sharp, nice. But, oh, that name did her NO favors.
The parents originally wanted to call her Shithouse.
I laughed so hard I started wheezing. That kind of silent laughter. MAN I needed this.
In Iceland, they actually have a list of pre-approved children's names: That citizens MUST choose from.
Sounds like a plan.
I feel like that's going too far...
Like, Bjørk.
Same with Iran
@@samichgrrl same with at least some countries in South and Central America.
Teacher: "Ran!"
Rahn: "My mom spelt my name the way the schools taught her to read, Phonetically!"
LaCrisha DOESN'T sound like she thinks the customer's always right! Lol.
She sounds like she wants an explanation.
Same for Schylar. A karen if ever there was one.
she sounds like she wants to argue, we all know
Irony of irony, my parents wanted to give me a simple name, so they named me Mary. I CONSTANTLY get it misspelled and mispronounced. Marie, Maria, Mery, Mari, Marry, Merry, Murry, Marv, Mart.
Really??? Being named Mary also...I think someone getting that name wrong is the crazy one!
I've got something similar. My mom named me Kiley because she liked the simple spelling - it looks the way it sounds, doesn't it? But whenever someone else spells my name, it becomes Kylie, Kyley, Kilie, or even Keighleigh. However, my name's a little more fortunate than my dad's - his name is Gail! I can't tell you how many times my dad's gotten a cup from starbucks with the name Bill or Gill on it.
Has a boss named Meri.
My name's Carol and I can't tell you how many times I've been called Clara. The only person I ever allowed to get away with that was my grandfather, with his heavy Portuguese accent. My street name for several years was isis (I changed it way before ISIS) and I often had to correct folks who called me Iris.
This made me remember the TV show Night Court and the female bailiffs name was Roz Russell. Her mom named her kids after famous people.
She then told how her brother didn't talk to their Mom anymore. His name was Topo Gigio.
🤣🤣🤣
Night Court is one of my all time favorite shows. Few shows have made me laugh so hard
@@elizabethsullivan7176 yes, so sad Markie Post just died.
@@marinamartinez6886 oh, no! Did not know that 😪
Saturday Night Live had a routine with Bill Murray and Gilda Radner (must have been 25 or 30 years ago) calling roll at school. Names like Fallopia, Clamydia, etc. It was hysterical!
Rowan Atkinson did a sketch on a similar theme: calling the roll in a classroom. And another on Satan's Welcoming address to those condemned to Hell. Both hilarious. I don't know the performance dates to see if he predates SNL or vice-versa.
@@wilfbentley6738 And don't miss Key and Peel 'substitute teacher" video. hilarious.
@@wilfbentley6738 Yeah, we know Mr. Bean well! That one in hell was hilarious!
Personally, I've always loved the names Syphyllis and Gonorrhea for twins.
Clamydia? Isn't that Miley Cyrus' middle name?
I used to teach this program at different middle schools and the 2 unique names that I’ll never forget were La-na ( pronounced Ladashna ) and Nosmoking (pronounced Noz-mo-king ). When the mother was asked what inspired her to name her son that, she said she saw the ‘No Smoking’ sign in the hospital while in labor and since it had the word ‘king’ in it she felt it was fitting for her son.
You can always change your name, but you have to pay.😄
Imagine Elon Musks son explaining his name. It’s like model number from a science experiment: X Æ A-12. This kid should sue his father!
Kyle, someone already solved the puzzle.
I thought it was a cool concept. I picture If anyone ask him his name he'll take off his sunglasses with a smirk on his face and say figure it out😏. You got to work to try to figure out who he is. Perfect when you don't want people to know too much about you
You say it like "Ash".
Right! It'd be like George Lucas naming his child THX-1138.
@@interestedbystander196 it's still a stupid name though lol
Before you name your baby, consider how many times they'll have to repeatedly spell it to others (at the MD office, at the DMV, to 911, etc). Weird spellings cause data entry errors which can mess up your life.
The one I always remember is consider how many times you'll have to yell out their full name when you're mad at them.
I've always been fond of "princess consuela banana-hammock"
I loved the name "Crap Bag" 🤣🤣
I like that, maybe friends can call you Valery ?
Crap bag
@@doradennis2409 🤣🤣I remember that Friends episode!!! Excellent!!
1:21 unfortunately he is right...it is amazing how prejudicial people can be just based on a name
Saw a Target employee with the name tag that read, “ L- iana” . When we asked how to pronounce her name, and then tried, we were quickly, and with an eye roll attitude, corrected. She said “you pronounce the dash.”
Oh dear, I didn't learn how to pronounce a dash! Hmmm. So, "El Dash E Anna"??? Lol.
@@okeydokey3120 yep..the girl had the "ptsk" attitude. That with the eye roll, like everybody knows you pronounce the dash. Smh
😑 TF.... She would have been stamped with Ma'am ....
@@oceaniamonarch5404 ma'am yes ma'am!
As a teacher, I’ve heard it all. Gad! And now children can choose another name, if they have “identity” struggles. (Every day a new name: Silver, Jamanji…..etc).
Or you know, you could respect your students identities.
@@ladysybylgrey why? My 70+ lb black lab thinks he's a teacup lab, however reality bites him in the @$$ when he can't fit in small places. The world doesn't care about a person's feelings and it sure as hell doesn't revolve them, I know from personal experience.
@@ladysybylgrey or, and here's a thought, parents could teach their kids to be respectful & not over indulge them about every blessed lil thing. I applaud a teacher who would say "on the first day of school your name was Jill. I am not going to call you Sparkle Princess just because that's how you wish to be addressed today. Sit down & do your work" their parents and friends can indulge their sillyness, that is not a teachers job. Nor will it be their bosses job. School is about preparing them for life as a grown up. Not indulging them.
@@heydeanie so, every time you meet an adult with a nickname, you refuse to call them that, because it's not the name you were introduced to them by? Please.
There is nothing disrespectful about a child saying "this is who I am, and this is how I would prefer that you address me." There is something disrespectful in a teacher or other adult refusing, because "that's not how you started the year."
Oh, and as for bosses refusing to do this? You're 100% wrong. As someone who has gone by a nickname for 25 years, my boss *never* calls me by my legal name. She probably wouldn't even recognize it right away.
@@ladysybylgrey a nickname is not the same as a ridiculous nonsence name & you know it! Your just trying to argue because you like to be easily offended
Ps. Deanie is short for Nadine... I'm not anti nickname, I'm anti teachers having to be made to over indulge someone's bratty kid...
A guy I used to work with said he wouldn't tell me his given name "Just call me Will" he finally told me his name then he said "She was high on drugs when she named me". He was a great man.
Kjell at 11:00, "oh yeah guys there's more let's buckle up!"
I knew twins named lemonjello and orangejello. When he said that name I got whiplash to the past.
Are you serious? Where was this and what color were they? How old are they now?
🤣🤣
Good thing you can legally change your name as an adult.
No that can't be allowed by the registrar 😂
In high school I knew a kid named Moonbeam
When he said the teacher read Kjell as “Kill” I almost peed my pants hahaha. Great jokes!
My stepmother was a pediatrician so she had a lot of these. The first name I recall was Amphibian Submarine and they called him Fibby for short.
"I'm C - hinese" lol
I wonder if the dash sounds kinda' like a grunt?
I would have pronounced "Kjell" as Kyell. Good to learn.
We pronounce it that way. We’re Dutch and that’s how we use it here. Our son’s name is Kjell. We actually use it as short for Ezekiel :)
I'd think that the j was silent, so I'd pronounce it kell. I didn't know that kjell is Norwegian/Dutch 😊
I have a Norweigan friend called Kjell. We pronounce is more with an 'sh' not a 'ch'.
I would not have pronounced the E at the end of Trygve as English E, but as German / Icelandic /Maori E, like I learned from a Swedish Trygve.
So I’m not too sure about his pronunciation of Kjell. 🤷♀️
That is exactly how it IS pronounced in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium etc...
So true! Parents, think of your children who have to carry these foolish names for the rest of their lives!!
When I was substitute teaching and one of the girls was named Maneera. It sounded just like Manure. I guess her parents never lived out in the country!
“I have a twin brother, his name is sea.”
Keep it.
As long as they didn't name you Saw
@@rondanew9916 Or Shore
@@kimberlyking9523 or weed
@@jamierupert7563 Or Shell
Or Cucumber
I heard this about 12 years ago from a guy in Chicago. A little girl named "La-ah", pronounced "La dash ah".
That was another comedian’s story at a drive-thru.
@@MotleyStew at a drive dash through ?
I knew a La-ah
You can't make this stuff up! Poor girl...
That's interesting...like my neighbor named "O%a" opercenta
I have a weird name, but at least it's short and phonetic. 😂
Readable and pronounceable.
I worked with a guy named Cary Bodily. One of my kid's classmates was Jess Kidding; another was Kit Katz.
A girl in my school was Anita Dime.
Now I work with Kandy Samples. She loves her name, so she carries candy around and offers it to people. 😁
Yep. Being a Katz you stay away from Aly, Tom, Kitty.....
@@patriciakatz7866 I knew a Christopher Cross(Cris).
I knew a lion tamer called Claud Balls. 🐴 💩.
My school friend friend Tony Bates,he received letters adressed to Master Bates.🤪.
When I hear Lucretia/Lucrezia, I always think immediately Borgia ...
Back in the day here in Norway the priest could refuse to baptise you with the name your parents chose if he felt that it was a bad name. We should bring that back.
Doesn't make much of a threat against us Baptist families. 😁
My mother used to be the respiratory therapist that dealt with premature babies. She told me this story once about this lady that insisted on naming her baby, Meconium. For those of you who do not know, Meconium is the name of a baby's first poo. She was informed of this... she still named her little girl Meconium..
How sad!
There's another side to this . I experienced it this week during morning shift report. During the morning round to greet patients, a new RN was introduced by her first name. The offgoing nurse immediately stated she would be calling her some other name because she " Wouldn't be able to pronounce that and wasn't going to remember it." I just cringed as I said " Nice to meet you,....and glanced at her name badge to check spelling. I get when names are needlessly complicated. When a name is a cultural norm, we can be adults and make an effort.
Working with an elementary school for a few years, I saw some crazy names. One mother named all her kids the seasons. Summer, Winter, Autumn, etc...
Did she have more than four kids or do you just hate the word “spring”?
@@jameswolf5513 I worked with a woman named Spring. Her last name was a root vegetable--not kidding, here.
I mean that's not that bad
Vår (spring) is a girl's name in Norway - not common, but not too weird. But TV presenter Vår Staude's name is a bit weird, since her surname means "perennial".
Two of my sons: Frankie and Anthony Vincenzo. I must be I-talian.
My grandmother always said I talian... I thought it was just an old person thing lol
Unfortunately most adults are illiterate. Watching people struggle while attempting to read my last name is always eye opening.
Went to school with sisters.Candy and Sugar. Last name, Cane.
Sadly this is hindering another generation of children who have more than enough in life as undeserved obstacles
Undeserved obstacles. I have been looking for this term for years. Not necessarily to do with names.
Children now have it so easy with the BS participation trophies and supported pity parties. The keys to getting through school are disagreeing with the "trans" phase and understanding it's okay to be white!
@@timo4938 trans phase? As someone with a trans friend who's parents refused to seek the proper medical help I find this highly insensitive.
@Danny DNA Self imposed obstacles are different than undeserved . Getting a neck tattoo at 18 is a self imposed obstacle. Having an abusive family would be an undeserved obstacle. So I guess a better term for what I am contemplating is self-imposed obstacle.
True story the kids name was spelled Cardava yes Cardava! and the parent was indignant because I didn't call him Cartier ( like the jeweler)? Go figure. If I become senile I will never forget that incident.
Reminds me of when we had a creative exercise in the 7th grade to come up with the most absurd baby names imaginable. Our team came up with “Cornwall Shaniqua.” I thought it would never be a real name, but I was wrong.
In Ga birth announcements in the newspaper I saw the name of a baby whose mother named her Placenta May. I worked with a woman whose last name was Olga Rottencrauch. She married a Rottencrauch, poor woman must have really loved that man.
Just for the sake of the child , having to repeatedly spell their name to everyone, every day of their lives.. I have a very bland simple name and I have receptionists, pharmacists, online banking etc etc etc needing me to S P E L L it out and they still don't get it.
So I can only try to imagine someone with a unique name going through this; it is maddening sometimes.
Me too! My name is Kay and I always get asked how to spell it! I'm 70 years old and still get asked how to spell it!
To my people, stop giving those kids 🤪 names!
Nicole here. I have to spell mine, too. I also have to tell people “no H.”
Your name was spelled Tracie back in the day.
@@kathrynlayfield9599 try this response next time "That is K, as in Kay, A as in Apple and Y as in you must be an idiot to ask me to spell Kay"
I worked for a social service agency and I had a child on my caseload whose first name was Lucifer! His mom said she called him Luc (like Luke).
His brothers had typical names so why would you saddle a child with that name like that?
still better sounding then Moses, Samson, Peter, John, ...
Mostly you bible thumbing Americans care about that name.
Even scientists used it : Luciferin, the compound that actually produces light in bioluminescence. You even have a TV series about the DC comic book version of the Lucifer character. Does not empower evil in the slightest, your and other people's bad actions in real life do.
Strange people can be named Julius, Mao, Ramses, Joshua (all historically known genociders) and no one cares, because no child indoctrination to make you afraid of or hate those names.
@@THEREALZENFORCE But someone naming their child "Adolf" would have a lot of people caring - throughout Europe people would object to interacting with this child under that name. Some neo-Nazis would think highly of naming a child "Adolf".
It's a perfectly good, traditional German name. It's too bad that it's associated with one 1930s-1940s dictator apparently for all time.
My family had a neighbor named "Adolf" in 1930. He shortened it to "Dolf" and stayed with that nickname for the rest of his life.
Funny, that there's no rules - legal or social - about naming a child "Josef" (or "Joseph"), because of Josef Stalin. Benito is used in some Italian circles with no problems, in spite of Mussolini.
I like it!
@@THEREALZENFORCE wow sounds like someone made you hateful and fearful. Take a chill pill.
@@BM-fz9yc hateful against whom and fearful against whom ? Please specify, if you cannot i simply dismiss you comment as non sense and cheap ad hominem logical fallacy.
We had a woman at church...her name was Snowflake (it was snowing when she was born) and a lady named Whisper, because when she was born her cry was so faint it was like a whisper. At the local hospital there is a nurse named Candle (Christmas baby). Me ? I ended up with a guys name...which has come in handy at times lol
You know, in My Hero Academia, the kids needed approval before picking their hero names.
I agree we need a system like that for naming kids.
My brother wants to, jokingly I hope, call his daughter Svetka. We've lived in the south (US) our whole lives.
Oh, my name. Svetka is short for Svetlana which means "light". The problem is that in Russian "Svetka" this "ka" suffix carries the the shade of sneering attitude, diminution of the named. The affectionate pet name is Sveta. It's OK for the very close people to call me Svetka, but it would be considered absolutely rude if strangers or people I am not close to call me that. Maybe it's different in other Slavic languages though.
Yeah that may be difficult and sure would be nice to let the kid chose the name people call them outside the home.
Something that really ticks me off, for no good reason I know, is people giving like common names to their kids but with a weird spelling. Like Alexy or Mykel... It's not gonna make your kid more "special", they'll just spend their life explaining how to spell their name...
PREACH!!!
I teach tenth grade and I honestly got to the ninth grade teachers with my class lists so that I can try to get as many names right as possible the first day. It doesn't always work. I will see something like Nia and be like, "I had a Nia last year, no need to ask about that" and sure enough the new one will pronounce it NEE-ah instead of N-eye-a. Teachers can't win.
But in the weird name defense, it seems odd someone who teaches English for a living can't get certain names right. My name sounds exactly how it's spelled and I think only 3 people have EVER pronounced it right.
@@deltafoya227 That wasn't their point though. What they're saying is that people on top of having "weird" names add their own pronunciation to it so even if they spell the name the same some might disagree with her pronunciation.
I am a retired teacher: I have seen Melissa spelled at least 4 different ways; A selection of Tanya, Tonya, Tonja, Sonya, Sonia, Sonja all with the vowels pronounced differently. Some parents must be stoned when they fill in the birth registration forms.
Don't know WHERE you grew up, but where I come from Nia (usually Spanish, Italian, or Mediterranean) is ALWAYS pronounced Nee-ah.
@@terrierqueen4091 I live in Detroit, Michigan. There are not really any Spaniards here. Niya names are hot right now. I have Aniyas and Janiahs and Ta'Nias, etc.
what's funny is that in some countries there are rules for Naming children, and the government can have veto over the name
Can't and won't happen in the states because there are too many ethnicities there. It only works in a one ethnicity majority countries.
As it should be! It does Not matter what your Ethnicity is, A Stupid name is a Stupid name!
Well, a while back, someone named their kid Adolf Hitler and a US judge made the family change the name. So I guess there are limits?
😂😂😂
@@holymsophy I think I remember that story... I think it was in new jersey?
@@AbcAbc-sp1od I think so, can't quite remember. It was a while ago.
that one parent who thinks they're quirky, and names their child "Tony" spelt like "Toeneigh"
My name is Desiree. D-E-S-I-R-E-E. I’ll never forget in 7th grade one of my teachers got to my name. Looked exasperated for a minute and called out Destiny. 😂
from the French name Désirée, from the word French word "désir".
So my guess you or someone in your family come from a French speaking or Creole speaking country that you have that cool sounding name ?
@@THEREALZENFORCE Yes, my name is French. But I was named after a singer my folks can’t remember. 😂
lovely name!
Was your mom a Neil Diamond fan?
My daughter is named Desiree'.Named after a Playboy center fold. I remember during that time in her schooling ,when the teacher asked for a essay on how each student got their name. I was called into the office a few times because they thought Desiree' was being rude. After a few years they got used to it... Many named Desiree' but not so many named after a center fold.
Beat our family...
LaDawn
LaMonte
LaDell
LaRae
LaMar....
Yeah, we struggled.😅
Three of those actually sound pretty nice, aside from the fact that they're all siblings.
@@heartofdawnlight eek...which three? Lol
LaDawn was the name of the babysitter on a Family Guy episode.
@@AlicenSoundGarden I know! When I first heard Stewie say it, I freaked out and called my sister. It's not a very common name. Lol
@@yellowswallowtail33 lol! 😂😂😂
Watch the Key and Peele skit about substitute teacher!
‘’ ya done messed up A.Aron!’’
I actually met a guy whose name is AA- Ron.....😹😸
It's a classic! Made me smile to recall it.🤭
@@styler58 me too! Hilarious
My dad has literally been called that before.
@@lydiapetra1211 really? He was called A-A-Ron even before the key and Peele skit came out?
Had a cashier at Walmart with a name tag that said, Trachea. She said it's pronounced, "Tra-shay-a", and I'm thinking, "No. I'm a nurse. That's trachea, another name for your windpipe."
Having a too common name can be a problem too. My name is so common when I was in school, every year my class had another kid with the exact same name. One memorable year, there was three of us.
I feel your pain; my name is a popular one and there were always multiple kids with the same name in the class, but at the same time, it doesn't solve the problem to use a different spelling. Take Olivia. It's the same if you spell it Olivia, Oliveyah (yes, I've seen that), Olyvyah, Olyvia...it's just a PITA for your kid and it's STILL pronounced the same, so what's the point?
My sister hit the #1 boy name for the year-for both sons…. Many many Ryans and Shaun/Sean/Shawns
@@unkyduck I like your name Clark. My parents had 5 girls...no boys. First sister to have a baby, was a girl. She named her middle name Clark. That continued, we all ended up naming our kids Clark and now the grandkids, all grown, are doing the same!
I have an antique name.Evelyn.😂
I love that name. It was my grandma's middle name, but she hated her first name so she used Evelyn. Everyone called her Eva...not like Christmas Eve but like happily eva after. I hope you love your name.
You have a beautiful name!
My name is Anne. I always thought my mom must have wanted me to be a nun. 😂
That's a beautiful name. A couple of years ago, I had a preschooler named Evelyn.
I think it's a beautiful name.
It doesn't have to be a weird name.
When I was in school, too many of my teachers would read my name as "Patricia" on the first day. That's a very bad way to start elementary school. By middle school, I just refused to answer when they called that name. That turned the tables on them. Instead of the other kids laughing at me, they were laughing at the teacher.
Are you serious? What was wrong with them?
Yup, I had one teacher that always insisted calling me “Kathy” whenever taking roll call in high school, which gave the other kids a shot at laughing at him for getting pissed when I didn’t answer. Lots of confusion in the principal’s office because my cousin Kathy graduated 4 years earlier and was no longer on the rolls. Yet the teacher insisted that I was just being difficult and argumentative and disrespectful.
So what is your actual name?
My parents firstborn was a girl, Cynthia. 2nd child my Dad decided he would be his namesake, Warren. What a surprise when it was another girl! She ended up being called Warrenthea.
my parents did that to my sister, terrelyn 🤦♀️
Sad, poor thing.
That’s horrible!
I have 4 names...I legally dropped one of them with social security when I turned 18..you have no idea how much paper work that took back in 1972
When I was in college, I read the attendance list of my class and someone named Ice Juice.
I worked in a maternity ward, a new age hippy couple named their child “ 4real “ because when they went for their baby scan, they saw the baby was 4 real, true story
Years ago I told the story of how a Detroit mother was registering her daughter for school. The name is
Le-a. The staff member asked if it were pronounced Lee Ah or Lay Ah.
The mother angrily replied, "It's Le Dash Ah. The dash ain't silent." The group to whom I told the story did not believe me. Fortunately, the group leader had just retired from that school and knew the child.
Wow.
Don't forget Moon unit and Dweezil..how come he didn't call the other one Mozzie?.....
My mother almost called me Moon Unit after Moon Unit Zappa too hehe
The third comic just made school roll call creepy!
Cougar teachers stalking the kids. 😫
Exactly...CRINGING through that segment😬
My mother gave me a very common name but with an old French spelling of it. No teacher could ever pronounce correctly the first time they saw it. Was teased incessantly through elementary school.
I remember my Grandmother asking me to NOT name ur children with SECRET PASSWORD NAMES!!😆😅🤣😂
Grew up with a kid named Harry Cox.