What Happens If Parents Don't Give Their Baby a Name?
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It turns out there are a shocking number of rules and regulations concerning what parents can name their children, when the naming has to happen by, and even a section of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child that specifically states that all people, from birth, have an inalienable right to have a name.
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Imagine being an adult going for an interview. " Hi, I am Baby Girl one."
Me too would they just choose their own name later in life
@@alexreinhardt671 it was a joke
That's just every day life for my sims.
Then they will star in a Netflix polish movie
Nice name, my daughter has the same name, your hired
I went to school with a kid (we're American), where his parents were some kind of new age hippies. They didn't believe that they should force a name onto their child, because it was essentially the same as fascism or being a slave owner. So, for the first SEVEN YEARS of this boy's life, he had no first name. When he was put into school, teachers just called him by his last name. He got so used to being called by his last name, that he decided that his first name would just be the same as his last name, with a bit of changes. When I saw him back for 2nd grade, he proudly told the class he had named himself "Lenny Lennon" (not his real name, just an example of what he named himself). I looked him up on Facebook after watching this video, and sure enough, this is still his name. He also apparently went into the military, which definitely must've made his parents really angry lmaooo.
Tbh joining the military to piss of your fucked up hippie parents is so much the essence of what hippie culture was about, he just reversed it in the most funny way.
That's hilarious. Glad he rocked it. Not sure how to feel if this is a bad thing or a good thing, since every kid would handle this differently, so I definitely understand his parents' perspective. And to be fair, a lot of people DO hate their (legal) names. I heard that when people hate their name, they're disproportionately more likely to suffer anger and psychological issues, and commit violent crimes compared to people who are fine with their names. Well, calling someone something they don't like is INCREDIBLY disrespectful and akin to insulting them, which damages people, so that's no coincidence. Names can either make us, or break us.
And it definitely doesn't help that there's an increasing number of people (not only celebrities, but yeah, they're the worst offenders of this) giving their kids ridiculous names, or at least ridiculous spelling, as if they're trying to force their kids into hating them from an early age, like Elon Musk's kid, some kid whose parents sued an airline company over an employee at the counter pronouncing their kid's name wrong (it was spelled Abcd; it's pronounced "ab-sid-ee," which doesn't sound like a winner, either), some parents who named their kid Collin but almost spelled it as "colon" because they wanted to give it a more "unique" spelling (thank goodness the nurse told them what a colon was before they marked the birth certificate), a mother who almost named her newborn daughter "latrine" because it's "a pretty word," etc. People don't look past the baby stage. Imean, if one's name sounds like a joke (or at least spelled like one), they're going to face a lot of suffering that could've been avoided, starting with bullying at school, to having trouble getting hired for a job.
Personally, I would've handled this with good humor, because I actually really wish my parents did me that favor, too, since I've always HATED the name they'd forced onto me (first off, I'm not cisgender! So that's incredibly insulting to be called by a non-unisex, non-genderblender name. Secondly, I wasn't planned, so they picked whatever name was the most popular in my birth year for my biological sex, and they did likewise with my sister; my sister's cisgender and also okay with her name. It's always confusing growing up with so many other people in our age group with the same first name, like which one of us is being addressed? I want to be called [ ], but everybody says it has to be by our LEGAL names or diminutive form of them to avoid "confusion"), but my mother believes in being "proper" (including being a heteronormative crusader) and explodes abuse on me when I politely ask her to not call me by this name, knowing full well that I hate it and always had even as a very little kid (and never responded to that name, something she still complains about; you'd think she'd take that hint by now). She rages about that her father saw her as a son rather than a daughter (though in her culture, I'd consider that a privilege) and gave her a boy's name, which she's always hated, which might explain why she explodes in anger that I hate the "pretty" name she gave me and insist on being called an "ugly" name (that she INTENTIONALLY mispronounces, which I know she's doing to try to guilt trip me, because it's only one syllable, unlike the one listed on my legal documents, and simple to pronounce and spell), and my not identifying as the gender I was born as, because that was denied her and she probably doesn't want that same denial of our gender for her own kids, but doing the opposite is a narcissistic approach, too, since either way is denying our own selves in favor of what the parents want, not to mention hypocritical.
I. Am. Not. HER!
She just can't get that through her head! She refuses to accept who I am, that I have different tastes and preferences than she does, as well as the fact that I'm just a non-conformist by nature (yet she DELIBERATELY continues to call me/refer to me by the WRONG NAME (i.e., the one she imposed on me). Every. Single. Time, which I clearly heard her do literally just a few seconds ago from the other room (and then scream at me and say that I "don't know how to communicate" when I protest this and ask her not to call me that), as if trying to force this name would make me submit and accept this false version she expects me to be (that only ever proves counter-productive. And, yes, no surprise, I have anger issues, like pretty much all people who hate our birth names do but can't get changed for whatever reason, with being called this name always being my biggest Berserk Button). Also no surprise that she and I utterly resent each other and how turbulent our "relationship" has always been, with having me being the biggest thing she regrets in her life, and she's very open about it, which is both infuriating and hurtful.
I asked to change my name as a kid, but, of course, protests from the family and how "dumb" and "ungrateful" I am for rejecting it. And changing one's name as an adult is so MUCH more difficult to do, and they can deny you for any reason (my documented history doesn't help me much, smh), not to mention that it's very expensive, so, obviously this hasn't come to any fruition as of yet. Job applications, and anything requiring legal documents/paperwork/ID is particularly difficult and a humiliating process on top of it (which is why I currently don't have either a valid photo ID nor a job, and have no plan of getting either UNTIL someone helps me finally get my name LEGALLY changed; all the jobs I'm actually qualified to do require name tags, which I was forced to wear for my old job, and it has to be our full legal name, the HORROR), because I have to explain myself Every. Single. Time. Only for the other person to STILL call me by the wrong name literally a second later, because it's not even close to the one that has me listed as, not even as a "nickname," and continually requesting to be called a drastically different name is a Red Flag for employers, since this brings out the worst in me (and even when I try to restrain my rage, my face automatically turns red when I get mad, which I have no way of hiding my displeasure when this happens, since I'm light-skinned and my face turning red shows).
Terrible for the relationships department, too, since I obviously introduce myself by the name I chose, that fits ME, but eventually, people always find out what my so-called "real" (birth/legal) name is, when my family or someone from my past ignores my request and they call me by the wrong one, anyway, and all of a sudden I'm being red-flagged as a "liar" and not potential partner material, because if I couldn't be "honest" about something as simple as my name, what CAN I be trusted about? (Makes sense, though). But when I (albeit reluctantly) add (albeit the diminutive form of) my dead name when introducing myself by my chosen one (to avoid the previous conflict), people literally ignore what I said and would refer to me by the WRONG name, which is so disrespectful and degrading/emasculating, so I would rather use my chosen name and risk being accused of being a "liar" than start some drama with others calling me by basically an insult, because how people would react to this would be a perfect test for me on who I could trust.
I mean, nothing wrong with the name itself; it's just not ME. My mother chose it because SHE wanted it, but didn't know she could change her own name, so wanted to have it through me. Doesn't work that way.
This is another reason why I never want kids of my own. Naming is a gamble, because nobody gets to pick and choose who their kids get to be, so won't know who they end up getting. Because of the way I grew up, I prefer taking this "hippie" approach, too, not giving my kid a name because I want to give them that choice when they've figured out who they are and what fits them, yet at the same time, this could also damage them because maybe the kid might think that their parents didn't love them enough TO give them a name. (Charles Manson was literally named "no name" at birth, and we all know how messed up he became).
Sorry this is so long, but giving someone a name against their will is a serious topic, because it deals with our very essence, and most of us are likely to be stuck with ours for the rest of our lives (I hope not me) because changing it is very complicated and expensive.
@@phatcat3705 Hmm, long text but good for you.
@@michaelchance6125 eh, thanks? I guess. Not sure if you meant that as a compliment or not, but I'm not sure how any of this is "good" for me, so I'm confused what is the "good" part. 😅
@@phatcat3705 only losers get bullied its not rocket science im a loser popular kids were jus naturally popular their names dont matter a kid with the name butt munch could be cool if they were just very likeable
Q: what happens when you don’t name your baby?
A: The child learns to respond to long moments of silence
“Come here _______! Oh _______ you’re walking! Open your mouth ______! Eat _____!”
@@minvi152 how do exclaim silence?
@@lowleypeasentmr.l8836 By being a chad.
@@lyly_lei_lei makes sense.
B: give up :'V
A teenager in the USA sued his parents for the name that they had given him at birth.
They named him Gaylord.
Was his last name Focker?
LMAO What in the actual fuck! :D
Gaylord Perry was a ball player
Gaylord was actually a fairly common name once upon a time. It's... uhh... not so well received anymore for some reason.
@@osmium6832 : _Oh,_ it gets _worse..._ Gaylord is a _family_ name, so someone who only half of the relevant info could think the family used to claim to be the feudal lords of the homosexuals.
“Likely to lead to humiliation of the child” is an excellent requirement in my opinion.
Agreed. That's a shame for countries that allow parents to literally name their child anything. Some parents push it
Totally disagree. While it's a great rule of thumb, it's too open ended. An official has to decide, apparently they've even rejected the name "Nemo" because there was an uptick after the movie came out.
I think you cannot define it well enough though for it to be a law. naming your kid "Ho" seems so clear cut as humiliating, right. But Ho is pretty common chinese name.
@@aroseprince cultural/traditional reasons is a valid reason I think but then there's parents naming their children abcd, drug. Nope
@@irrelevance3859 but who is to say whose cultural traditions (or any other reasons for that matter) are valid? When my mom was born, the attending hospital staff wouldn't allow her mother to name her Deirdre (pron DEER-dra) for 4 days because in their minds, it was just gibberish, a made up word.
Please name your children and put it on the certificate. My mom didn’t, also didn’t put my dad on there, and left us. It was always very difficult enrolling in school and when I was finally 18 and tried to fix it myself, it took YEARS. 22 years old is when I finally received my first government issued ID card, which was actually a few months ago. Now trying to get my license amid a pandemic. Don’t sabotage your children.
You are required to in the UK
That sucks. I was born with no birth certificate as far as I been told. But at least, a got a name by one of my uncles.
When your born in a small refugee camp, with no written documents, it's hard.
But for me at the time in the 80`s, we had some photo to proof as a document, until me and my family moved to the USA, though. Lol.
That shits hard to get normally. I lost my wallet as a teenager and it was hell trying to prove I was who I was when I had no damn ID. the only saving grace was that we ordered duplicates of my birth certificate when I was a baby and after being sent from line up to line up they finally gave me a temporary id... I cant imagine going through that without even a name... I wish you hope and patients. you dont have a fun battle to fight
@@Stettafire You are required to in Australia as well, doesn't mean everyone does. I've met adults who's births were never registered. It's hell for them.
@@dwarfbunni My state stopped accepting hospital-issued birth certificates in 2011. I moved back to the state in 2014 and tried to get a driver's license but couldn't because I didn't have a state-issued birth certificate, and I didn't have a valid driver's license (I moved back right as my Nevada one was expiring) to prove my identity to get a state-issued birth certificate. It was a nightmare... And the driver's license building was about a 15-minute drive from the state records building, with no bus route 😩
I actually had a great-uncle, Boy, and a great-aunt, Daughter. They were twins.
who were their parents? the berenstain bears?
@@molls127 somebody who didn't know that boy babies were called 'son"
ImaBlack1969 they didn’t change it?
@@koibubbles3302 Nope. They were always Uncle Boy and Aunt Daughter.
@@ImaBlack1969 Hey? I just had a thought; you said 'great uncle and aunt', how long ago were they born? Do you know of their circumstances?
this one’s for you, X Æ A-12.
Shockingly that’s a way to say Kyle apparently
a teacher: how should I pronounce your name? ( some suggestions like zexi, zixi...)🤔
xaex12: Kyle.
teacher: 😶
@@Script.Doodles Apparently it's X Ash A Twelve". According to Elon Musk himself.
Rachel Taylor is it?! I thought I read somewhere that it’s just another way to spell Kyle
@@Script.Doodles Nope, definitely not Kyle according to Elon.
Who is pregnant for nine months and still needs over forty days to pick a name.
I'm not even pregnant and I have baby names chosen just in case.
I can understand not wanting to name a kid until after they are born, gotta look at them and figure out what kind of name would fit
But I cannot understand how someone wouldn't at least have a list of names already
@@Deathnotefan97 right. That's what I'm saying.
Right? Like I'm not planning on having kids ever but even I have some names in the back of my head.
Deathnotefan97 sometimes when you get pregnant literally everything including your tastes in names and styles changes. Even if they have lists there’s no guarantee they’ll still like those once it’s time to pick a name. Or sometimes the ones they pick don’t fit the kid or sometimes family will also make fun of people for what they name their kids and that tends to cause people to hesitate as well.
To be fair, I go by my non-given name because it took my parents so long to figure out what name to give me.
Here are two for you: "L-sha." When asked about it, the mother pronounced it "Ladasha," further stating "The dash don't be silent". Number two "Batman Jesus Kennedy Jones." The parents said it is to reflect the "people" they admired.
🤦🏻♂️
You've met a la-sha too... how many are there?
@@kmitchell8323 Three that I know of.
@Darth Karnagge that's it I'm voting for an asteroid. 😑
Europe: pls name your child a normal non humiliating name thank you
america: yeah (XÆ A-12Of chunky CHeese/boixa0 thats a great name
I want my future son to be Caleb. Not too common, but not strange.
@@jadethegamermc and send him to Caleb City?
I like Damien,Blake,Aaron for my future son
And Mabry,Ayla,Resse for my future daughter.
@@jadethegamermc Whatever you do, don't ever name your children Yesterday or Tomorrow. Had two friends who were brother and sister who had those names. They were always eavesdropping into conversations that they were not even a part of whenever they heard you talking about either yesterday or tomorrow with your friends. Needless to say, when they became of age and off from under their parents rules because they wouldn't let them change their names, they had their names changed. If their parents ever, from that point forward ever tried to call them by their birth names, they wouldn't respond. And their parents would get angry as if determined and persistent to get them to change their names back to their birth names. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't F#&%)!^ respond to you either or anyone else for that matter once I had my named changed to something different, if you ever named me that; I witnessed what those two went through growing up. It was absolute torture to them, because they always thought everyone was talking about them whenever they heard the words yesterday or tomorrow in a conversation, and knew everything else everyone was doing the next day or had done the previous day. They knew everyone's entire lives when it was never any of their business lol.
In Brazil we have a how bunch of terrible names for kids, some try to emulate American artists but written wrong, bits of songs, in extreme cases there are people called by the name of objects like "carimbo" which mean "stamp" and some other kinds of things. Unfortunately it happens more often than you may think
There's a story in our family that when my grandmother was born in the 1930's that my great grandmother wanted a boy so she named her "Johnnie" and refused to acknowledge her as a girl, the doctor felt sorry for her and so he added the middle name himself of "Faye", thus giving my grandmother the name "Johnnie-Faye", but grandma has always gone by just "Faye".
I really like that doctor. 👍
My maternal grandmother's name is Johnnie Q (the Q doesn't stand for anything. Her middle name is Q). She was mostly called Johnnie. Occasionally someone would call her Johnnie Q. She named her youngest son Johnny. You normally don't hear of a boy being named after his mother.
Oh so she's a fairy? that's so cute
My ex husband's grandmother was named Johnnie. I thought it was cute. I've actually had a few elderly female patients with that name.
@@tyneriddle7149 that's terrible! Who does that to their kid? What name did she go by?
Knew a guy in school named: Yourmajesty McFadden. Teachers never called him by his first name, only as Mr. McFadden.
Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine named one of his sons Jermajesty. Sort of a play on Your Majesty.
a kid in my school is named Master Phakin Saetan or Master Saetan
teachers call him master
*claps*
Thyst1 lmfao
I'm an Ohioan and was Baby Girl for awhile. My mom still calls me that. I wish she wouldn't do it in public. It makes us look like a May December lesbian couple.
That's... interesting.
Just saw this. I have a aunt who was not named at birth. They just called her 'Lady'. A year later they drove thru Henrietta, Okla. Grandpa really liked that name. So, that's what they named her. Didn't hurt that grandpa's name was 'Henry'.
I heard of a guy once who legally changed his name to Larry. That's it. No last name. The IRS was real mad.
Robin Goodfellow The IRS is interested in your SS number, birth date, and if Larry is your legal name as used on all your official papers, then Larry. Your story sounds like an urban legend.
@@653j521 Definitely could be. It was second or third hand information by the time it got to me. Maybe even further than that.
Good for Larry. He found a way to cheat the system
I knew someone who's parents were going through a divorce when they were born. Apparently, both their parents filed different birth certificates with different names. They ended up with two names and two social security numbers. They didn't know this until they tried to join the military. Essentially they were told to pick one and I assume the other was just deleted.
This episode made me think of the Family Guy episode where we see that Meg's first name is actually Megatron.
EyeHeartShantel oml 😂
Lmmfao, watch Family Guy all the time and didn't know that.
I approve . . .
Hahaha that’s hilarious.
i thoutht it was Megan...
Short answer: "the government gives them a name"
Long answer: "theee governmenttttttttt givessssss themmmmmmm aaaaaaa nameeeeeeeee"
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Thank you
Not so. My late girlfriends birth certificate had no first name only a surname.
@@carjaroo I guess you don't care about the 99% of other content on this video then
A woman walked into Walmart with 14 kids. They all started running around like idiots, and finally the mom got annoyed. "Billy! Get over here!" she said. And all 14 boys came running. A bystander was impressed. "You actually named all of your kids the same name?" he asked. She says, "Yes. I knew I wouldn't be able to remember that many names, so I named them all the same thing." The man says, "But what if you only need to talk to one particular boy?" The woman replies, "Then I call them by their last names."
I knew a family with several sons, all named John. They would always be referred to by both first and middle names-John Clint, John Samuel, etc.
That's alot of kids and mouths to feed. Reminds of my sister, which sits at 10 kids. Lol.
Ha ha
Bada tssshhhhhhh
My partner's family uses 5 male names, each of them get one for their first name, a different for the middle name. So my FIL's first name is my partner's middle name. My partner's first name is one of his brother's middle name. That brother's first name is another brother's middle name... I thought my family had it confusing with all of us just having the same initials
Short answer:
They can't be killed by Death Note
Truth!
Big brain
Tygr of culture, I see 👏
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Lol
This literally happened to me. For the first five years of my life, my legal name was "Unnamed Male".
Those are some lazy parents. No offense.
@@sleesullivan2796 None taken, more forgetful than lazy. They didn't realize the mistake until they were enrolling me in school.
@@unnamedmale3093 That's bad, almost as bad as neglect.
@@sleesullivan2796 haha that's a great party story!
Lol
"You're also a Nazi, Heath; for fucks sake" is my new favorite Simon quote
When I was three my older brother just to be mean said my real name was Flubber Blubber. I cried in hysteria until mom and dad got home an hour later. Looking back I have no idea why that bothered me so much.
You were three years old. At that age, stability is of HUGE importance, so being told something contradictory can be traumatic (plus being teased about something as personal as your name). When I was either 3 or 4, I misunderstood a headline read out from a newspaper (it was about a WAC, but I thought it was wax), and had hysterics. One of the joys of childhood:(.
“Unfortunately, the state did not care about her nocturnal hallucinations.” I think my day has been made.
The state being Israel and the nocturnal hallucinations being Mohammed's.
Organon The state being Denmark and the nighttime hallucination being A dream.
My neighbor is a 3rd grade teacher (in Michigan) and he told me he had a kid in his class named “baby boy” and I never believed him.... but now I think he was telling the truth lol
Of course, these days, parents might have given the child the name "baby boy" on purpose!
Michigan’s weird af let’s be honest
@@cockroachcor3 I live there and can confirm
I would refuse to call a child by that name and would have made the parents or the child give me a suitable name to call him by. I have had small children tell me they wanted to be called different names, but I always go by what the parent's choose and it's never been a problem short of when kids want the Americanized name their previous (and too stupid to say it correctly) called them. Latino children have it rough sometimes.
My legal name is Baby Boy...
X Æ A-12 already making a list of the things he’ll sue Elon for so he can take all his money and rule Mars once the colony is started
And start a weird cult
I love how Simon reacts like anyone in Europe would react: laugh with the ridiculous statement, and than just assume that everyone knows that being a nazi is horrible.
Apperently, they do not. But I like to keep assuming thay everyone *else* knows that nazis are bad. And I hope they do.
Is that an incorrect assumption?
@@potato_the_pig5757 Unfortunately
Sane people in America know that as well.
You know what assuming makes you...
My grandma knew a girl named Female when she was in school.
I saw somewhere where the mother was Mexican or something and thought the baby's name was femali like female with thelast e sound like an e
I knew a girl named lady
I used to tutor a girl named Baby
i know a girl named lady
@Amanda Miranda In which country? Never in my life I have heard it.
I was "Baby" on my birth certificate. I was actually adopted from the hospital immediately after birth so my biological mother never bothered to name me. My adopted mother did, but for some reason, the record of that name was lost by the hospital, and they only had the original form with no name (besides Baby) on it from when I was birthed. That would not be the last time my name and records were lost. I have had my legal and education history go missing as well. It sometimes feels like there's someone out there, going through and scrubbing my files for some reason.
I was called baby for 6 months too! Though for me it was because my parents were horrendously indecisive 😂
I’m sorry to laugh. Smh
WOW! That's like something out of the X-Files ...creepy😨😨😨
Muahaha I’m deleting you! Some day you will be completely gone!
Jokes besides, this sounds absolutely creepy.
What do you go by
"Sir Blahblahblah 6 F*ck-Face Whistler" HAHAHA
Now I'm imagining the Queen pronouncing that name in order to knight them 'Sir'
I wish that was my name.
I volunteered at an inpatient pediatric ward of a major hospital when I was in high school. One day the nurses were talking about the unusual baby names they had seen. One that really stuck with me was a girl who’s name sounded like “Femolly”. Turns out the mother had seen “Female” written on the birth certificate and thought that the hospital had already named the baby.
If anyone wanted, the intro ends and the actual video starts at 3:21
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Thank you
Was also gonna do this but you saved me the time :) Thanks
I love how you choose the timestamp to be 3.. 2... 1.
I almost expected a rocketship to blast off somewhere just counting down those numbers. 😂
But thank you!
The Gersha case really pissed me off. Like it’s a real name, it’s just a foreign name.
Iceland is against foreign names too, I think
@@VicereineKillbride That's stupid, Its your child you should be able to name your child whatever you want. It's your child not there's.
@@BayMaxAcademy Yeah, I don't think the law is because they're trying to be mean, lmao. Pretty sure it's because most of their databases aren't equipped to process characters, sounds, and symbols from other languages.
Same reason that when a Russian move to the US, the name Иван would become the name Ivan. Or the name Оля becomes Olya. It's for practicality purposes most of the timr
HrhMk it’s 2019 bro beside government technology is 7-10 years Ahead of the public so your argument is invalid.
If I met a Russian called that until they gave me a pronunciation I'd call em squiggles
He looks, acts, and sounds like a british Michael from Vsauce. Honestly, I can't say that's a bad thing.
I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't watching Vsauce lmao
When we had a stillbirth the hospital tried to simply name him baby boy. I angrily changed it to what we wanted.
that’s disgusting. dying young gives no one any right to deprive him of a name. honestly, that is depraved.
That's horrible. I hope you are doing okay now. That's disgusting who would do that. Even if he past away that doesn't mean he isnt any less human!
Hospitals usually call all babies some form of baby boy/girl until the parents come up with a name.
My Uncle was denied a job which required a security clearance because his birth certificate stated his name was Baby Boy. He had to go through so much rigamarole to change his name legally to George (which everyone had called him forever) but in the end, he succeeded. He never did get that job, it took too long to change his name. [born in Brooklyn, USA in the 1920s]
This happened to my grandpa. Her birth certificate said, "baby girl." When she was in her 80's it made getting a passport difficult.
I had a teacher whose birth certificate read "baby boy *insert surname here*"
My original birth certificate says Baby Girl but my parents and I had it legally changed to Melissa, which is what they called me, when I was 15.
My mom's original birth certificate says Baby Abbott. She was adopted and adopted parents had her name changed and such so we didnt know because we didnt see her birth certificate until a few years ago.
Yep. Same thing with my Grandpa who had to have his brother Daniel go to court to testify to his identity as the correct "baby boy".
I'm wondering the psychological aspect of never being named
Exactly! I came here wondering how a person would act if they were, somehow, never given a name or nickname. Would they assign themselves a name?
That's what I'd like to know too! Like how much does a name contribute to your identity?
In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five.
Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family.
A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely.
Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name.
If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name.
If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names.
My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win.
Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes"
So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:(
So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition.
So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth.
It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 I'm so terribly sorry that that happened to you. It wasn't right, and I agree that it was an insult, not just to you, but to everyone who follows those traditions.
However, I would like to point out that that doesn't answer the question being posed. What I was wondering, at least, and what I think the original commenter was wondering as well, is how would an adult think of themselves if they were never given a name or nickname. It would be nearly impossible for this to happen naturally, I'm sure, because it involves no-one ever referring to them by the same thing twice before the age of adulthood (or at the very least late teens). Even if that was someone's family tradition, I would still be interested to know how they thought of themselves before having a name.
Thank you for sharing your story. It was very informative, and I appreciate knowing it. Again, I wish Florida hadn't been so cruel to you.
@@caileyrookids I was called boy for the first few years until I reached the age of five, I am a boy so I did not really notice or care about not having a true name at the time as one was not needed.
I knew my father and mothers voices and if they called to me the other children knew it was not there parents but mine by the tone and sound of the voices of the ones calling.... I turned out fine not having a name at a young age.
I was just one of the boys and my sisters were just one of the girls.
You will get a name some day, whether you want it or not, whether you chose it or not.
Not having a name at a young age gives you the freedom to chose who you want to become, it is not a detriment.
If anything having a name early on and being stuck with it forever ties you to one mindset and leaves you no moniker to shed as you go from child to youth to adult. Each phase in your life is a new beginning, a new chance to change, grow and better yourself with all the lessons you have learned in each stage of your life. Unless you do not separate them and hold on to all of your baggage.
That can lead to people always feeling that they have been a failure, even though as a child or young adult they may not have had many options or room for personal growth.
Then as they become an adult a whole new world of opportunity's opens up. Yet they hold their old name and all it's failures, feeling they will just fail as they always have, but with a new name and new opportunity, they may feel more emboldened to venture forth and MAKE a name for THEMSELVES. One they can call their own, one they earned, one they have cultivated.
"what happens if parents don't give their baby a name?"
The Nameless King.
I have a friend like this, best friend in fact. She was just referred to as 'baby girl', apparently because of how many children the parents had and never cared for. On the bright side, she got to name herself proper. If any y'all have a child, give them a name, from what I can tell it has only bad effects on them not to name them.
Unknown to him, my dad was Baby Boy “Taylor” until he enlisted in WWII.
My father's firth certificate had his name & his gender mixed up. Nothing ever happened.
My Dad was given the middle name NoMI, no middle initial.
My dad found out when he went to college that his name was Baby Boy Green.
My husband went to war in Viet Nam 5 years, using a hospital issued souvenir certificate. We had a crazy time getting his birth certificate so he could join the local reserve 10 years later. Someone in charge of deciding who should be in the reserves discovered the mistake. He and I married young and he used his military ID to prove he was old enough to get married, a few years before we found out what that original certificate was. lol !
My mother's name is Baby Girl Wyatt. Then her mother decided to name her after her bunk mate in prison, Alicia.
Person: Hi, I'm Roger, what's you're name?
Adolf Hitler Campbell: Uh, John.
7? They didn’t have to like “Seinfeld” to like the name 7. They could have been into “Star Trek: Voyager.” (7 of 9)
only if the child's middle name was Ofnine could that be an acceptable reference.
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That then would b a kind of altered cross-reference between ST Voyager and The Handmaid’s Tale. Nevertheless, it could work.
And my parents literally rejected perfectly normal names like Laura and Sophie, because they could be made into something funny in conjunction with my surname. Parents, be nice to your kids.
I had a coworker named Seven because she was the seventh child. That's all. She hates the 789 joke.
I don’t actually know Latin, but isn’t this what the Romans used to do, with names like Septimus and Octavius?
I have a cat named Seven. He's named after my brother but that's just a nickname.
My youngest sister also has this name. At least my parents were "original" enough to change the spelling a bit: Sevyn
My friend was ewalu which means 8 in Hawaiian.... he was the 8th sibling lol
@@sybillestahl8646 The coworker's parents were born in the wrong generation :D
I didn’t know he had legs
Only occasionally.
@@TodayIFoundOut Apart from other names i like the name "Wichita" {as a girls name}. 👨🏫🙋♂️ 👨💻🇦🇺 🤱✍
Today I found out that Simon Whistler wears short shorts.
For the gender thing in Germany: if you want to name your child something where the gender isn’t clear you can use that name IF you give your child a second name which clears up the gender :) my boyfriend has a name that when you read it it could be any gender depending on how you pronounce it and therefore his parents had to give him a second name that’s a “boys name” :P
Imagine being named Hitler then when you are announced at a meeting everybody runs. Or salutes idk it might happen.
That actually has happened before. Two Americans named their child "Adolf Hitler" (as firstnames) - and it's completely legal in the US.
In America, you couldn't name your kid R2-D2, but you could name it Adolf Hitler.
@@lobeliaowl2482 that's so fucking messed up
As a teacher, my mother had students with strange names. She taught "Watermelon" one year followed by her little brother "Orange" the next year. Their mother named all of her children after her favorite foods although the two I listed were spelled as shown, but pronounced non-standardly (wah-TER-muh-lawn and oh-RON-chuh).
I also got into it with a local governmental agency shortly after the birth of one of my children. We had filled out the form with the middle name we chose, but they had made an error in transcription. When we pointed it out, they denied that they made errors, got very snooty and claimed it was our error and we would have to pay to have the name changed "if we didn't like what we had chosen." I pestered them until they went into the files and looked up the original filled form and meekly told us they would correct the error and mail us the new certificate.
A hospital nurse filled out some papers to get my younger brother registered in the county he was born in. When my parents got his birth certificate his last name was listed as: EGGS. That wasn't our family's name, but close to it.
My friend has a cousin named Tangerine. Former neighbor named his son Seven.
I knew a full grown woman who insisted on being called Rainbow. That was so strange
Hello, I'm Officer babyboy 1 how can I help you?
@lcyw20hahaha LMAO😂😂
Help my name is nine and seven is trying to eat me
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@@crazy4orlando2 excuse me, what?
@@TonyMacaroni69_ My ohone was being an a hole and I couldn't get out of the comment screen and ai thought if I Tyler something it would work but it didn't. So i shut it down and forgot to go back and delete it.
To be fair the random characters my phone pocket typed would have been even more confusing. Sorry.
Bruh listening to the European rules is so weird for me since I've met kids names Seven and Twix (yes like the candy)
In some countries, children cant have numbers in their name
**angry Hargreeves noises**
What happens in those countries, when a person is named after a long line of people with the same name ? Like a person who is the 3rd or the 6th person in the family with the same name. .
"The meanest thing that he ever did before he left, he went and named me "Sue" - Johnny Cash
S. Truth Lmaoooo. Love that song
Actually the song was not written by Johnny Cash, is was written by Shel Silverstein. Yes, that Shel Silverstein.
@@barrishautomotive Shel hung out with Johnny and surprisingly even David Allen Coe. Shel loved some of those more vulgar songs Coe made
@@junkiejackflash Shel wrote some of those vulgar ditties.
Check out his own LP's
Just watched this after Elon Musk named his kid "X AE A-12" and ii feel bad for him
Notice its always the 4th or later child, where they make it obvious they stop giving a shit
Oh shit forgot about that
@@mickcv4554 yeah, there seems to be 3 names ready in parents' mind, but with the later ones they start using some great grandparents/uncle's/aunt's middle name. At least in my country.
@@mickcv4554 omg this is hilarious. I'm the 4th child!
They named me Feather btw
Fucking Feather.
No. There is no meaningful backstory.
They just named me that.
Oh, and I hate birds.
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"We're family oriented" 😂 that's simultaneously horrific and hilarious.
my uncle was named “Boy” legally until he was 18, because my grandma waited for months to name him
Was his father a Greek god-killing machine with a beard, by any chance?
@@maskoblackfyre Who's now starting a new career in killing Norse gods, might I add?
My mom didn't have a first name but she didn't find that out until she was an adult and requested a birth certificate from the state. It said "Baby Girl" instead her first name.
How did people address her? Miss ? Or with a nickname?
Same thing happened with my daughter kinda. I forget how but her name on everything while in the hospital was "baby girl * insert last name*) We fixed the issue though. I think my fiance was delirious and just kept referring to her as baby girl so they thought that's what it was. The nurses thought it was just a cute name. We fixed it and Venus will be 2 in November :)
@@restricttheopennotes Aww Venus is a beautiful name!
@@PongoXBongo Her first name was Doris, it just wan't on the birth certificate because my grandparents never recorded it. That's why she didn't know.
Family oriented and had nine children by five women and beat and threatened to kill the women in his life Tell me Heath, how is that family oriented again?
Creating, and possibly using.
In a conservative sense, I guess?
@@Kevin15047As a conservative myself, I think I'm qualified to say that no, conservatives don't believe that being a domestic abuser makes someone a "family man."
family oriented violence still makes him family oriented. or perhaps he often was oriented towards his family physically
Then you need to come out of the attic
As a kid I thought the answer to this question was “Untitled”
I blame MS Paint on Windows XP
😂🤣😂🤣
They gave mine "Baby Girl Glassheart-Gonzales"
They used her doctor's last name 😂
When my wife was getting her name changed she was one of a long line of people in Court for that purpose. One of the petitioners was a forty-something man who no longer wanted to be known as "Baby Boy Larsson"
Todd Ellner But it’s just so funny though 😂
Dude took his sweet time, eh?
On the day I was finalizing mine, there was an 80 year old woman called Anna correcting her certificate from Annie. Everyone called her Anna because it seemed to fit her better and she just had found out she could fix it.
How about "Pretty Boy Floyed?"
@@PongoXBongo He hadn't realized it was still his legal name
So with me I was separated by my mother at birth and put into foster care. I wasn't given a "legal" name until my adoption was finalized when I was 4. BUT all that time I was "legally" named "baby boy (and bio last name)"
BUT the cool thing is that a nurse named me Zachary (unofficially) and it just stuck with me ever since. So when I was asked at my adoption if I wanted to keep the name, I said yes.
My maternal grandmother was a foundling and one of the nurses in the nursery wing was permitted to adopt her. This was in the 1920’s. The nurse named her after the ward nurse who approve her and her husband’s request to adopt her.
Hey there, Baby Boy 😉
This whole video, as he explained that parents only have some specific amount of time before their child has to have a name, I kept thinking about John F. Nash and his wife's first child. The story goes something like this: John Nash was a brilliant guy and a Nobel-prize winning mathematician, but when he was in his thirties he started acting strange and they found out he was schizophrenic.(Ever seen 'A Beautiful Mind'? Yeah, he's that guy.) His wife was pregnant, but because he was in no mental state to be naming a baby and his wife wanted him to have a say in it, for the first YEAR of his life their son was just called "the baby". You know what they eventually named him? John. The most boring name ever AND his father(and grandfather)'s name! They waited an entire YEAR just so they could name him JOHN!
B1 and his brother B2 grew into perfectly happy bananas, although they did have issues with resident teddy bears.
For a split second I was really buying into the Mac Weldon name assignment 😆
lol, me too.
Me too
There were twins at one of my old schools named envy and beauty or something along those lines. As you can imagine, it was an absolute disaster
There was a girl who was a pretentious gothic girl (redundant, huh?) dating a DJ where I was a bartender in the mid 90s in Chicago. He was not a very pleasant dude physically or Personality wise,and around 25 yrs old and he wed the girl (coincidentally named Molly as well, sorry) when she got pregnant with twins) and he learned that her ID was fake. Her name WAS Molly but she was not born in 1972 as he had been, rather but 1980 and was a high school junior. So her sons were born before her graduation and she named them Judas and Lucifer. WTF? I saw the now ex husband in Chicago several years ago and they were in an all boys Catholic high school and he remarried and they had been renamed Jude and Luke.
My best friend is the 6th of 7 kids, and the doc told her parents 43 years ago "sounds like a heartbeat of a big healthy boy. He should be here in time for the bicentennial and maybe a few days later. " Her dad owned a bar and her mother was already in like sardines w/siblings in the apartment above, they aged from 3, 7, 9, and 12. So the plan was to start looking for a new home once the new baby, tentatively to be called "John Adam" arrived... a month before the bicentennial, her mom went into labor and instead of the big healthy boy, she had two little underweight girl twins, even the doctor was not sure if they were fraternal or identical, but he had tagged the first child A and her sister was B since she was born almost 21 minutes after. Their dad came in after he closed the bar and the doctor told him that the whole event was for sure complete. She had only left the bar herself around half past eight and my friend was born a few minutes past 1 AM. He was a little bit confused and he looked at the tags and said "A, B. Agatha and Bertha now can we just go home?" They are actually Amy and Beth and I think it was a good couple of months before the family could see they were not identical, though I can not tell them apart on the telephone and we've been friends for 25 years.
First twins born in Oklahoma. Olka and Homa
I went to school with a girl named Euneek.
Molly Patterson we had twins at my school names Diamond and Peaches 😬
Molly Patterson my step-mom is a teacher and has a lot of kids with “unique” names lol. Including: A-a (adasha), Abcde (ab-sih-dee), Da’Finest with her brother Handsome, Minnie Mouse, and I can’t remember the rest lol but there are some crazy ones lol
My mom spent a lot of time choosing the names for me and my siblings. She went over family records, books, music, newspapers and in the case of one sister being a bit loopy from the pain medication. It is a bit hard to not need it when having twins you weren't even supposed to conceive, but that's just how things go. Names are a big deal in my family, even the pets have full names including the ones we are only caring for until we find them a more suitable home.
To hear some parents intentionally don't name their child even when intending to keep them or having a limited list of option is odd to me. Names are just such an important thing in my family that I never thought of such things and I had never heard of it until now.
Name your child Noland Void and they will forever be able to skip out of any legaly binding contract stating that it is clearly written "Null and Void" on the contract.
Picabo Street donated some of her winnings to a hospital and they built a new intensive care unit: The Picabo ICU.
Surf Wisely.
dolst this is how you win life
Also there was the story of the couple who were in a car accident while the wife was pregnant with a mixed gender pair of twins. She gave birth to the twins while in a coma so her brother was asked to name the kids. The brother was known to be a bit of a joker so when she recovered she asked him what he named the kids.
"Well, I named the girl Denise"
Relieved, she asked, "And my son?"
"Denephew"
@@LordDragon1965I approve!
Alan Lambert 😂
Oy ye think ye funny m8? Well does ya?? Cuz ye is!
you aren't Micheal from vsauce. I'll stay, but I don't know how I got here.
same here
Was looking for this comment. Same.
What do you mean, this isn't Michael?
amal zuhair hey, vsauce, michael here. what are fingers?
Same
"It really do fits"
I can has grammar!
Some time ago a American woman had given her girl the name "abcde" and the passport control at the airport were making fun of the lettercombination, unsure, if this was a proper name. The mother was extremly upset about that and complained, that they were unpolite to her daughter, making fun of her name....maybe she had provoced that a bit by herself?
I love it when Simon is driven to cursing.
HinduHillbilly Same 😂😂😂
😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
ive never been witness to it before this, fitting conditions
When my mum was pregnant with me my parents had a deal that dad would name the first girl and mum the first boy. I was born female so my dad decided that “cougar” was a good name as he had been drinking out of a shot glass with cougar bourbon written on the side. Mum ended up telling him off for it and naming me Dallas. As an adult I love this name specially since my last name is Austin 😂
I was pitted the name Andrea in my city its mispelled a lot and its a common name
Fake Texas and that’s why your username is fake texas very cool
Wow! That’s an awesome name
That is a pretty sweet name.
Dallas Austin
Excellent
I was actually a Babygirl (Surname) for 13 years of my life! My mom explained she wanted to get to know me a bit before she named me, so she left the hospital without a name. When she got around to legally changing my name to.. what I’d been called for 13 years, and explaining the whole situation to me, I said in much more polite 13 year old child speak “The fuck you mean I haven’t had a legal name this whole time”
American here. When my sister was born, my parents couldn't agree on a name for her. After a few days, everything was fine for them to go home except her name and the nurse said they couldn't be discharged until they had a name for the birth certificate. Eventually they asked her godmother to just pick a name and they went with that name.
I met someone who’s didn’t name her until she was 6, then they had her chose her name.
Basically her name was Jello.
Yeah.
yeah.... parents shouldn't be able to do that
One of my mother's friends did give her kids names but if the kids decided that they wanted to be called something else as they got older, then that would become their name. She has like 9 kids and I don't know all their names but I do know that one is now called Bear and another is Baby.
It's quite dangerous to let a small child pick something so important like a name.... I doubt when she's 20 she will feel as great about Jello as she did when she was 6!
In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five.
Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family.
A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely.
Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name.
If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name.
If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names.
My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win.
Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes"
So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:(
So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition.
So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth.
It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.
Just so I can Fing comment I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. What pagan mythology do you follow??
Smart upstairs
Casual downstairs
You just described a mullet… You are wearing the equivalent of a mullet
Brilliant!
I have been doing genealogy since I was a teenager. My father was always know as "Pat". I was going through the process of gathering birth certificates for my records and could find no records of my father's birth. I did, however, find a birth certificate of a "Boy" born to a couple bearing my grandparents' names on the date and place of my father's birth, even had their home address on it. I found out there was a big argument between my grandparents regarding my father's given name and a name was never put on the official certificate. Apparently, my grandmother wanted to name my father "Patsy" which at the time was a male name in Ireland (we are of Irish-German heritage). My grandfather wouldn't allow it saying that here in the U.S. "Patsy" was considered a girl's name. The dispute was never resolved, my grandmother calling my father "Patsy" and my grandfather calling him "Pat". My father used "Pat" when he enlisted during WWII, so that was considered his official name. My father was 6'4" and was a healthy weight, can't even imagine someone calling him "Patsy" and living to tell the tale.
15:50 “For reasons completely unrelated to the names” That says a lot, lmao
Had to share my "number name" experience. I was hosting a large group at work. I work at an art store so I was goind around and adding the names to the kids pieces so its legible. I was told to write the number 3. I looked at an adult making sure this was correct. She later told me her siblings are named one and two 🤦♀️
That reminds me of a old movie about Easter the bunny mom had so many children she ran out of names and started making them numbers
In the order of birth? And why not at least choose the number written out in a different language?
Japanese do this sometimes! Some of their names translate literally to first son, second son, etc
I've always admired Simon's equanimity and ability to keep a straight face. It's not often you see him go into full "WTF??" mode.
It's that famous "British Stoicism". Obviously it has it's limits, like when talking about Heath the Nazi. WTF is wrong with that guy?
But is a freaking joy when he does break.
I'm sure there were plenty of takes.
Phoenix Uprising and that was the best one.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else made the same observation!
While working at a hotel many years ago, I checked in a family from Germany whose surname was a form of the Queen Mother of words you would never say in the presence of the Queen Mother. I attempted an inoffensive pronunciation, but the father quickly corrected me: "No, It is pronounced 'Fucker'"
I think they enjoyed our discomfort with greeting them at the desk, especially in the presence of other guests.
My dad actually went to school with a guy named "Baby Boy" 😂
My dad's legal first name was Boy until he turned 16 when he legally changed it.
I knew a lady whose grandfather was named Bunch Keys because he was found on the courthouse steps in a basket with only his diaper and and a bunch of keys.
A had a aunt named baby girl
So did I! He went by BJ though, because he was legally Baby Boy Jones
Katrina Rankin BJ doesn’t like much of a better option 😂
First name: Place
Last name: Holder
Name: First
Surname: Last
You just blew my mind.
Instant cerebral death star.
Thank you.
First name: Last Last name: Name
My name is Jade, as an adult I found out my mom wanted to name me Candy but my dad vetoed it and I will forever be thankful to my dad for not letting me have a stripper name.
as i understand it via various females: in Tennessee the child is given the name of the male who conceived the child. this is handled via the hospital at birth and can not be contested. i have heard of cases where a child was given the name of the male who was present during birth despite that male protesting that he is not the biological father.
He doesn't break character very often, but when he does, it's great :-P
Nice profile pic
@@taylorbritt499 thanks lol. It's our channel's logo :-P
@@4thechivostreamsarchive586 is it inspired by the Game Theorists' logo? Reminds me of that one.
@@taylorbritt499 Originally it was inspired by the Xbox Achievement Icon, actually lol. But I can totally see what you mean!
I remember when my niece was born in Texas in 1980s, the issue of naming and legality came up. All I remember is that they had to give a name before they took the baby home. My sister was told they needed the name to file the papers before they were dismissed from the hospital.
Decades later, I worked at a hospital and the receptionist had some stories for me. One was a foreign woman whose son had a "unique" name that she pronounced same as the country Mali. When asked how he got the name, the mother said when she went to name him, she found the hospital already named him so she kept it. Shen asked how it's spelled it was given as "Male". XD
… so it seems she just saw the gender written on the charts and not familiar with US hospitals or English, she thought it was a name.
NO it's a Hospital not a jail people are not required to follow any hospital rules. I got sick of waiting for the Dr to come and discharge me so I told the staff my ride is here if the Dr isn't here in 15 minutes I'm leaving and I did.
my son Aaryn was born 6 months premature. he was born at one location and life flighted to the Augusta Children's Hospital in Georgia. since it was an emergency situation and he had to be life flighted the assigned him the name "BabyBoy *****" 4 years later we are still trying to get his name officially changed. the only correction i have to offer is, if YOU wont or refuse to pick a name, its way easier to get it changed later than it is if the hospital/government does it themselves.
This reminds of the fact that I am so terrible at deciding on names for my characters, that I have literally just designated some of them with serial numbers :V
That's how I ended up with characters with CrEaTiVe names such as: 009, 1, 2, and 3.
...like Cyborg
I can’t be the only one who thought she wanted to name her kid “Gusher” because she liked the candy 😂
I'm pretty sure it was gersha lol
I thought it was because she loves Usher
I’ve never heard of a candy called that
@@thatoneawkwardturtle9550 It's Gesher. Simon just mispronounces it, like many other things.
@@candice_ecidnac British accents aren't very precise.
There was a kid born over a year ago and the state gave it the name "baby boy" or "baby girl" because the family took over a year to pick a name. Now the mom is mad she has to pay to change it.
The stupid part is she kept calling to make sure she could continue to wait.
In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five.
Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family.
A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely.
Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name.
If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name.
If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names.
My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win.
Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes"
So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:(
So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition.
So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth.
It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 "Computer says no"
In all seriousness, considering how many times a person is entered into a database for the purposes of taxes, passports and many other things, could you not be given a boring 'standby' name upon your birth, just for paperwork purposes? Then once your adult name is known, you can just change it?
@@Redrally No
Let's use our new favorite punching bag China as an example.
Until recently, you could only have one """"1"""' child or you would be heavily taxed or be forced to kill your child... Now, do you want to name your second child just yet?
No.
How about if you live in a place were children are kidnapped and then forced to take drugs and be brain washed/indoctrinated turned into child solders by the local war lord? [large parts of Africa and South America}
Do you want to name your child so they show up on government registrars and can be known to exist and more easily located?
No.
What if changing your name in your home country is an expensive, tedious and difficult task if not impossible?
Maybe not?
What if your parents want you to form your own Identity, opinion and belief unhindered by a name?
A name can and does shape who you are and how you are treated and how you develop.
Why did they take so long, it’s just a name
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 You sound like that guy at a bar who is always telling made up stories to make his life seem more interesting.
I imagine that the fact that Heath was so...himself did have a role in why the children were taken in that it prompted them to start looking for problems. If you’re that bonkers there’s a chance you have more than one concerning habit.
“Heyyyyy baby!”
“That’s my name, don’t wear it out!”
If your parents don't name you, people will call you Batman Bin Superman.
potatomato :p
Or Chocolate Von Dinosaur
Chalupa Batman
Im quite sure those names are trademarked so you'd get sued
@@UberAwesomeMan9 You can't get sued for naming a child after a trademark
I wanted to name my nephew Cosmo Chalupa Batman.
I actually had a friend that i first met in my 1st and 2nd grade class who was - I'm not kidding - ACTUALLY named "Satan" (MEANT to be pronounced like "Satin", but spelled with an "a" in place of the "i" because her parents were weird, screwy hippies.). She wasn't foreign-born, and it's not some kind of spelling variant of the name Satin in another language; she and her family were ALL originally from the same neighborhood as me, and were all monoglottal Anglophones. So they knew better... but they liked that spelling, so they went with it. They insisted that that spelling variant was "too pretty and colorful to be left for silly mythologies to twist and make ugly".
Her mom just... liked that spelling (I strongly suspect the decision to spell it that way had much more to do with the fact that she has color-grapheme synesthesia than with any religious subversion)
Now, during 1st and 2nd grade, none of this poor girl's classmates had any take on how her name was spelled either way - because we were 6 to 8 year-olds who barely knew how to spell anything correctly anyway. She didn't start getting bullied about her name's spelling until like 4th or 5th grade. But she was also in my martial arts class with me and often did have to defend herself. So she was perfectly capable of that.
The ADULTS in our elementary school, however, THEY just couldn't help but notice, and a group of about 10 or so of them decided that it was their "responsibility" to "do something" about this, even though it'd never been made any problem of up to that point. And holy fuck, DID they make an issue out of it! REPEATEDLY. I won't elaborate on it here, because this comment is getting long enough as it is - suffice it said that the teachers and staff at our elementary school took it WAAAAY too far, to the extent that, had they done what they did in 2019, they'd ABSOLUTELY be fired (a few would've even been charged with crimes), and the ENTIRE DISTRICT would be sued into oblivion.
Poor thing... they really did far more harm to her than if they'd just left her and her family's bizarre name choice alone to just... be weird.
I still talk to her today! We've been lifelong close friends for nearly 30 years now. :)
I didn't understand. Did the teachers and school staff also bullied her?
Can you elaborate on what the staff did?
Ok now I gotta know what the staff did
Bless her heart =(. I too would like to know what the staff did to her. Thank you for being such a good friend to her through thick and thin. I know how it is to get bullied in school myself by kids and /some/ staff to the point I had to be homebound (where a teacher comes out). Wasn't over my name though (even though I shortened my name to Dani when I was 8), was just my appearance they bullied me about. Come home with bruises, cuts, etc. Once I was put back into the public, in college of 2012, I made all sorts of friends. Was a nice change. =)
Well you can look at people straight in the eyes and say that Satan is your friend lol. I can imagine the shit she got. I knew a girl named Lilith. She got a lot of shit from the holier than thou religious people. Even my oldest friend has gotten some shit from groups of religious people because his name is Damon. So many extremely religious people I've ran into instantly started saying Damien and went on a religious rant saying he's named after the devil's son.
I knew some folks who named their kids with the initials J and K, middle and surname the same for both. The children were nicknamed "Jay" and "Kay." They were expected to choose their own name (to match the initial) at age 21.
I’m on board with having rules about names because I’ve heard a few that are just...unfortunate, but it probably shouldn’t be a criminal offense.
My suggestion would be tax funded grants that people can apply for if their names truly are a misery. It's not just first names that can be a problem, alas - think bad first+last combos (eg Richard Head) and last names themselves that become risible once they have lost their original historical context or language of origin...? (eg Roundbottom)