Fun fact: in Germany, there ARE laws against it. You're not allowed to name the kid stuff like orahl or Nutella or smth because it goes against the best interest of the child🎉
idk Rip does sound like a cool name, if it doesn't so happen to be right before what would normally be someone's first name, like, Rip Lee sounds cool, definitely wouldn't name my child after a Metroid character, but it sounds cool
Apparently Rip can be short for the German name "Rippert", and I think used to be a more popular given name in the States (based on "Rip" van Winkle). It might not be that bad as a name, just the formatting of that embroidery looked more like a memorial. Though, "Ripley" would probably trip people up less.
I once witnessed an argument between two colleagues. One wanted to give her children classical names but with absolutely cursed spelling like "Anne-Marie" spelled "Han Màree" or something along those lines. The other told her this thing I will never forget : "If you feel the need to give your kids names like that so they feel unique, you aren't ready nor emotionally mature enough to have them in the first place."
It’s not about making the child feel unique but more about the parent. The child probably won’t comprehend that their name has uncommon spelling until they’re a few years old, while the parent would already have proudly and (over)eagerly told many people:”oh my baby’s name is pronounced as Ladasha and it’s spelled La-A.”
@@fizzyofbrassica That's what they said but hte conversation was is French originally. My translation isn't the best (english is not my maternal langage 😅)
Too right. Leave names how they are spelled in the first place. To have a unique name can always be an older name so that when they grow up, they are treated better.
There's this mini influencer in my country who works registering baby names. He's a saviour, rejecting ugly names because the law allows him to. The law says the public official can reject names that might be offensive/create conflict in future. People complain about parents rights, but children should have rights too. Especially in countries where changing names is almost impossible.
Not just that kid's should have rights too, but *kid's rights > parents' rights!* It was the parents decision to bring the child to life and for that they owe them not to ruin it before it even began!
Tbh thats the type of influencers we need. Because no Jannet, we will not allow you to name your child Captain Marvel Raw XD Lohaiza just because you want to feel unique!!
Just a very gentle reminder: -eaux in french in pronounced oh or ow. So Sneaux is Snow, Reignbeaux is Rainbow… they are still very, very unfortunate theaux
"You're naming an adult" is a big thing. My mom wanted to give my younger sister a cute name but went with a legal full legal name that sounded formal but could be shortened to the cute one. My moms exact thought was 'so she has something nice to put on a plaque' and its sad so many parents don't get that
Yeah, a Friend brought forth the recommendation for Lennart which is . . . OK, a normal Name but Not overly Common where I live . . . .but Last Minute the mother changed her opinion to Lenny . . . . Like No one IS ever going to Take him seriously AS an adult cause thats so so obviously a deminutiv . . .why Not Stick with Lennart and Just call him Lenny so He has the Option to Go into a Job Interview without appearing Like He never grew Up and wants to BE Friends with His new Boss?!
My parents did this too. My mother wanted to give me a cutesy nickname for my name, but my dad told her that was a name for a baby. So they went with a more formal name that can shorten to that nickname. ….Then I married my husband and he has an older sister with that exact same cutesy nickname as her legal name. So, my husband rarely calls me by my actual name because he says it’s too weird calling me by his sister’s name, lol.
My mom new a woman named "Female." Her parents were from another country and didnt speak English well. When given paperwork for birth certificate, it had female on it and the parents thought in US the hospital names the babies and left it
I was just having a conversation with a coworker yesterday about Greek mythology and all the heroes having names like Perseus, Achilles, Ajax, Hercules, Odyssey, Theseus…and then there is Jason. Only slightly relevant, but this reminded me of it.
The name "Siobhan" is an Irish name pronounced "Sha-vawn." The spelling comes from when the indigenous language was converted to the english alphabet. It is spelled correctly and not a Tragedeigh.
It's not spelled correctly, actually, the person spelled it Siobahn and they also tried to use it as a boys' name. (ETA: I was talking about the first instance of Siobhán being mentioned, not the second one where the person completely butchered the spelling)
@@unapologeticallylizzy Eh... Mismatching the gender of a name isn't bad, really. There are hundreds of names that have been flipped around, it just happens, that's not an issue in the long run. Outside of Ireland, about 6 people will have a pre-loaded idea that this name is for girls, and that goes for any uncommon names anywhere. They're just sounds at the end of it, so it's whatever. Misspelling it, though, that's an issue. That's no longer the name, that's just messing people up for no reason. There's no history on misspelling it and pronouncing it a certain way, now you're just ignoring everything about the name anyway, so why would you bother with that at all?
My dad wanted to name me Anakin. My mom said no and now I wish she hadn't. I would've gotten crap for it in middle school but now it would have been a dope name.
Anakin is not a tragediegh. It's the demunitive of the Norman Christiandom surname Ankey or Ankeny, from the Ancient French Angenot. Meaning "point of the sword". It's a Decrit of Plantagenet, which are from Merovingians. It has more meaning and cultural history than the fandom franchise. A rarer name though.
7:05 Fun fact: it is legal in some states in the US to petition a judge to change your name even as a minor if the name in question is bad enough. The legal case that decided this? TululaDoesTheHula vs. Illinois. Yes, TululaDoesTheHulu was her actual first name. At 9, she successfully petitioned a judge to have it changed to Nicole. The judge ruled it was causing her undo distress and her grievance was valid, granting her the name change legally.
i went to school with a girl called vagina, pronounced 'vah-gee-na' whose mother threw a tantrum any time anyone mispronounced her name. unsurprisingly she went by gina.
I knew two girls in high school who had the name Kaylee. Kayleigh had dutch parents Celidh had canadian parents who decided to go with the irish name of the spelling. One of Celidh's friends decided to call her "see-lid" for the majority of high school.
I think we should apply the same rules to baby names as with graphic design: when in doubt, show it to a group of 13-year-old boys. If they laugh, you rethink it.
that was literally my first thought when i heard it, when my class read it we already made enough fun of Piggy as it was, especially when a younger kid joined the school and looked EXACTLY like the movie Piggy- poor kid i hope his class don't watch the movie when they reach that point
I'd be seriously worried the kid would develop an eating disorder with that name, being called a pig and being bullied. It's not just a bit uncomfortable for the child, it can lead to a deadly mental disorder. I developed my anorexia due to being tall early as a child, if I were named Piggy it would NOT have helped. Thank god Sweden can forbid names due to "inconvenience for the name carrier".
But that is not their name, its the cute nickname their uncle/aunt (I don't remember) was calling them while they are a baby until they have another option.
A hospital in my town has a billboard that announces babies that have been born there (which is a massive security problem for the family but we're not gonna get into that now) and I love seeing the ridiculous names these parents come up with and then pity the children saddled with them
And you know an unacceptable amount of parents of Mahckeyighleighs get angry at people not being able to figure out how to say their kids' names, but will ask people from non-English speaking countries if they have an 'English' name because theirs is too hard. 😑
I grew up in a very multicultural area of southern Ontario, and the amount of substitute teachers who butchered some of the easiest names. Badir, Guled, Amman, these were not difficult! I can’t even imagine the horror that’ll come from some of these atrocities. And you just know that as soon as the room hears the mistakes the sub makes, that’s going to be used against the kid by someone.
@@Chocobo0Scribe usually they would over emphasize the K. Think eri-K rather than Eh-ric (insert Canadian Eh joke here) The real trip up tended to be vowels. Many, many mistaken vowels. And the worst part was that there were many that wouldn’t apologize when they said it wrong, but would instead just move on without a word.
@@qwinlynI am 37 and my name is Keair. It is pronounced exactly the way it is spelled (like Key-air). To this day, my doctor's office I have gone to for eight years calls out my last name (which is Snyder, no easier honestly then my first name but there are no food brands named Keair so maybe that's it....I am American after all 😂). And it is not just the doctor's office. You would think my name was really challenging. Hell, people will read it and add an 'a' at the end that doesn't exist so that they say it 'Key-air-a'.... That's the one that really drives me bat shit! And I can still recall the dread of a substitute teacher all these years after leaving school. Lmao Needless to say, I named my daughter River. The alternate name (the one I wanted more for her but I married a nerd and she's named after a Doctor Who character) was Stevie Lynn. I figure no one could screw that up. 😂
@@qwinlyn - I know exactly what you mean about the vowels, my deadname threw people off constantly. The day someone tried to make a nickname from that name was the day that I _definitely_ wanted to go get it legally changed long before I realised I was enby/agender because that was the final nail in the coffin
As an *author* that creates unique names for my characters and their kingdoms in the fantasy settings.... I double-check every name I make up. EVERY name. FOR FANTASY CHARACTERS. I SWEAR YOU CAN DO IT FOR YOUR KID. I PROMISE. H A R L O T T E ? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? G O D .
if you want further motivation; remember Drizzt the Dark Elf? never took off in slavic countries, cause his name sounds like the word for uh. a shart. it's onomatopoeic...
Right. I took a name in a medieval group without thoroughly researching it. I found out FAST. Freydis? Okay....did you read the history? Uh, no..... OMG. I had to pick the worst person in their time. People that meet me kind of assume I'm an ass and that's MY fault. Can't change it after 30 years.....RESEARCH.....
This video is setting me up for having a nightmare where I have to introduce myself: "Hi my name is Valentina, it's spelled Vahlainteeynugh." Poor kids.
"Harlotte" should just call herself "Harley" like "Harley Quinn", that'd be super cool and a great reference, and then she should quietly get her name changed legally. Best thing is nobody will assume "Harley" is an abbreviation.
I can't help but imagine her as the most based hilarious granny. Picture bringing your fella to meet the famileigh for the first time and going "so this is my mom Xorxys, uncle Glenn short for Glendalf, and granny Hoor"
I like scrolling the comments while watching the video so i usually see comments about parts of the vid i haven’t seen yet. I literally choked on my food when I read this, WHO TF NAMES THEIR DAUGHTER THAT. 😭😭😭
@@ElaineAlwaysMS There are even women already named Charley. But I guess she didn't want to "combine" Charlotte and Harvey that way round... It's like all the people who have a "completely new" business idea and think they will be super successful because nobody else does it.
No effing way someone named their child Rubella! 🤦♀️ “This is my son, German Measles, and my daughter, Smallpox! And little Yersinia is on her way this spring!” 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️
Friend of friend had 2 students splled Niamh (a pretty Irish name meaning "light"). One girl had the Irish pronunciation of 'neev', the other was rhymed with Liam.
I do believe Simeon is actually a valid (and quite long-lived) variation of Simon, present in slavic countries like Bulgaria. Since I am not Slavic however, I dare not presume to know how it is supposed to be pronounced.
Exchange overheard in the maternity ward: Dr: "what's the baby's name?" Mum: "Fire" Dr: "oh.... Does he have a fiery personality?" Mum: "emotionless* "no" Dr: *silent* I imagine them parents calling for that child in a crowded place and realising their terrible mistake "Fire! Fire!" SMH 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Names have meanings too like do parents just forget that 💀like why couldn’t this parent name their kid “Aidan/Aiden” ?? it’s gender neutral and means fiery 😂😭
@maevetravis2123 as long as their name doesn't mean something humiliating in a language commonly taught in school, that's fine. Unlike for example Nemo, which is Latin for NOBODY. I know of one kid who was given that name and Latin is taught at most Gymnasiums (High school and college equivalent) here in Europe... 😰
Something like this happened many years ago to an Israely friend. They had named one son Itai (a common name in Israel). And since the dad was the captain of a tradeship the family sometimes joined him. In Japan the son got lost and the mother ran around calling his name. Several Japanese people were very concerned and wanted to call an ambulance. Itai in Japanese means horrible pain.
My 12 year old self really thought, the worst names a baby could get was old names that I associated with 70+ year olds. As I have grown older, I have been exposed to the true horrors of baby names.
I actually looked up Pot-8-o's and evidently the reason he's named that is because the person responsible for gathering the horses' names to be displayed was a moron, and when he heard the owner tell him the horse's name was 'Potatoes' he somehow convinced himself that the owner meant "Pot with eight 'o's"
33:00 I went to high school with a girl whose first name was Puet, pronounced halfway between "poot" and "put". She was a refugee from Cambodia, so it didn't have that kind of meaning there. She was a nice girl, and our school had a lot of immigrants and refugees, and most kids were nice, so no one made fun of her name.
Here in Australia, heard of a case where the Vietnamese born parents wanted to name their new daughter a beautiful and traditional name, only to have every local born friend beg them to choose something else. None could adequately convey how difficult life would be for Suk-mee.
It'd been more than 20y since my dad passed away, but I'll never forget how bloody close I went to lose it at his funeral in front of the whole family. I was already on the edge emotionally, and then I saw that the final resting place of my father was right next to a man called "Divine Woodpecker". Not proud of it, but I had to trot out of sight with my face buried in an handkerchief because I was indeed in tears, but for all the wrong reasons. Let's add "it may cause hysteria on mourners" as an extra reason to avoid fucked up names for our offspring.
@@Cainmak I see how that can be seen as a possibility from a Central/North American pov, but the event is set in Italy, and "Divine Woodpecker" is a literal translation of the poor man's name from Italian. Instead of a noble chief our hero was just a victim of his creative parents, I'm afraid.
A great way to explain why these tragic names are so bad is because these people treat their kids like they’re gonna be kids forever. “They’re cute so we’re gonna give them cute original names” is a mindset of someone who doesn’t see their tiny human as a cute thing rather than A PERSON just tiny. Kids aren’t pets don’t names them as such
exactly but nonhuman fellow animals that are family members aren’t cute things either, they’re also individual with lives and loved ones and everything just like us minus the school and work but still
I had a great uncle born on Valentine's Day, and he was given the middle name Valentine. His uncle was also born on Valentine's Day, and they had the exact same first and middle name. I would never have known this if someone hadn't made up a family tree, but I actually think it's cool. . . And super smart of their parents to give them the first name "Jesse", so that they didn't have to be teased their whole lives.
Okay so when Click said jokingly that his middle name was Danger That was almost literally my middle name My parents opted out at the last second because "what if he just grows up to be a wimp" and I still resent them for it my middle name could have literally been Danger. I could have said "My middle name is Danger" with a completely straight face.
You know, if you choose a name for yourself, it's no longer a tragedeigh because you're not forcing it on a child. If only there were an easier way to legally change your name, you could simply change your middle name to Danger if you wanted to. I honestly think that everyone deserves at least one free name change. Perhaps it could become a cultural "coming of age" thing, where kids are given temporary names at birth and then choose their own name in their teens or adulthood.
Y'all, remember Twilight when Bella names her daughter Renesmé Carlie as a hybrid of her grandparents Rene+Esmé and Carlyle+Charlie? I had no idea how deep this milennial rabbithole went lol. I wonder how this Milennial naming trend started.
@@myaren0101Renesme Carlie Cullen was the name she ended up getting with the name for it she had been a boy being Edward Jacob Cullen. Both are weird but naming your childs middle name after your orbiter simp friend is weiiiiiiirrd especially considering Jacob later imprints on her.
Not the parents of the Brandon Jr & Brandon the Third not understanding generational name additions (Senior, Junior, Third, Fourth, etc ). You don't get a Junior (or 2nd) and a Third in the same generation! 🤦🏻♀️
"2 deletion syndrome (22q) can affect any system of the body, however most children with 22q have heart, immune, learning, speech, and/or behavior difficulties. Each person with 22q has their own unique needs, and interdisciplinary team care is the best management approach. " My god. Aren't those two girls going through enough without the name bs as it is!?
I thought q (as in 22q) meant Queer, and the mom was talking about themselves since usually it's M for male and F for female, but this makes more sense
My best friend is trans and named himself Rhys and from that moment on when I heard the name spoken I always transcribe it as “Rhys” even though “Reese” is a more common spelling
I can actually see how “Rhys” could be mistranslated by some. It’s the h/us of other popular words that lead to it… Mystery Hysterical/hysterics/hysterically System Symptoms Symptomatic Systemic Hysterical I will stop now 😂
enbies named Bug should have a show down like the guys named Josh did cause istg i have 3 friends named the same and if i get a 4th one im gonna start assigning them numbers
Literally. Like, I didn't do much, I just used a different, still well-used spelling of the name (I've named myself Rhys instead of Reece), but one of my nicknames is Basil. At least it's better than stuff on r/tragedeigh
In Poland the employee can refuse to register your kid's name if they think they are inappropriate or harmful to the child, some of rejected names were Nutella, Koka (from Cocaine), Joint, Batman.... 🤦 One would hope US would also have some office worker tell you that your name for the baby is absolutley stupid and will harm the child later in life
It's state-by-state and very lax. Some will ban things like emoji because their system can't type it, some will ban swears. But like, Kentucky has no laws. Examples of controversial/strange names that have been approved: Messiah, Santa Claus, "Darren QX Bean!", Sexy Crabtree, Ynot Bubba, and Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop. There's also states that don't legally require you to name your child, I'm sure with specific circumstances, such as Michigan and Nevada.
@@sandrosliske But wasn't that his surname...? Also I think main language in Australia is english, Poland uses polish, so even our regular names are different from english ones; Wiktoria - Victoria, Mateusz - Matthew, Jakub - Jacob, Grzegorz - Gregory That and both "bat" and "man" are totally different words in polish than in english, and the only "Batman" written like "Batman" in polish is the superhero And I don't think any polish kid will be like "oh they're called Batman like the city in Australia!" 😆
34:43 reminds me of the vine that goes "My name is Micheal with a B and i have been afraid of insects my whole life..." "Stop stop stop. Where's the B?" "There's a Bee?!"
I work in the government side of health insurance. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please stop naming your twins with nearly identical names. These kids are going to have the same address, the same birthday, their SSN or equivalent will be one number different, and then their names are like Timothy and Tinothy.
@@hermitized4391 Like the twho Evalynnleigh and Emmalynleigh in the video. Just call them Evelynn and Emily. Different "e" sounds and everything...I had it bad enough having the same initials as my dad.
My biggest regret is naming my son after his father, who was named after his father, who was named after his father, who was named after his father... OMG. How could we break such a cute tradition? well, lemmetellya, we should have broken it. It is the BIGGEST PITA on paperwork, in dr. offices, my husband still gets mail for his dad who passed years ago. Don't get me wrong, I love the child's name, but.
Yep, like those issues already exist enough for when a child is named after a parent, and with what there's way more differences noticeable than with twins. My sperm donor was denied a mortgage because of a house he apparently bought before he was born. And his birthday wasn't enough to clear it up. And they have different middle names.
we have very similar names but first letter is the difference so initials are as well .. still bullies called us by family name cos they weren't bothered to learn to tell us apart.
One of my parents is from Mexico. When they were a kid they knew a trio of siblings named Primero, Segundo and Tercero- literally meaning “First,” “Second” and “Third.” I’m not even quite sure what naming your children that says about a parent, but it can’t be good.
Please absolutely do NOT add special characters to a name. I have an apostrophe in my surname and that's bad enough. Every new job begins with a battle to get my email account working, webforms hate punctuation, and paying for things online is a pain because websites won't accept the apostrophe but my bank won't recognise my name without it. DO NOT ADD RANDOM THINGS INTO YOUR CHILD'S NAME.
yeah. i don't know where it happened, but my name, which is 12 characters, got split in half at one point so the DMV thinks i have two last names and i am struggling to fix it 4 years after getting my license. i can't imagine the nightmare of an apostrophe
I was thinking this too, even if you sign stuff digitally, it's still gonna be hard to have very special characters (like Greek letters, etc) that most keyboards won't have access to. Ain't nobody gonna know what half of those characters are! Apostrophies are one thing, but yeah, business emails and such aren't gonna be easy to do, much less other legal documents that may not have access to those. And then how would it be translated to a cursive signature - though I've heard kids nowadays aren't even learning how to write in cursive so idk if that's gonna be a problem in the future or not - I think yes, since even some places require an electric signature that's still written in cursive...
I have a two word last name and this is already enough to confuse so many online systems. It’s ridiculous how programmers do not consider even the slightest variations in names.
Even just a hyphenated last name is hell People would always assume my 2nd last name was my first name So when I legally changed my name I also changed my last name Also because both of them were already long last names
The funny thing is, Potatoooooooo’s name was a mistake. It was supposed to be Potato, but the groom (who wasn’t particularly literate bc poverty) misunderstood and put down eight os. The owner thought it was so funny that he registered it,
Imagine yelling at your children for calling another child 'harlot' only to find out that THAT'S actually the girl's name. Hopefully the mom dragged her daughter right back to the hospital to change the name...
The birth registry in the UK, will not allow any unusual, hyphenated, or stupid names go through. It thinks of the children growing up and having to live with insane names. At least I hope it still is like that!!!!!
This is a true story according to my old friend who was a camp counselor. At his camp they had young girl name Le-a. "Lee-ah, Lay-ah?" He'd ask. "No" she replied, "it's pronounced Ledasha. The dash ain't silent."
Oh weird. I knew a dude who worked in a university doing intake either for students or new employees (I don't recall which) and he can't across a La-a. She explained her name using the same wording, too!
I hope everybody in this comment section knows that the "Ledasha" story is actually just made up, racist bullshit, that got turned into a copypasta YEARS AGO
Whats ridiculous is how many people want "unique" names but instead of finding a actually unique name they take a really common name and spell it the most ridiculous way possible
And on the reverse people (sometimes the same people) will mock and belittle people with names they're not used to. I'm breton and so many friends or family members have been mocked, questioned or some other variation because people found their names "weird". Even the really basic names like Malo! Meanwhile I've known like 5 different Tugdual/Tudwal which makes the mocking of 4 letter names feel completely unwell to me
My older sister did this with my youngest niece her names Abigail but spelled Abygale I’m just glad I can just use the nickname Abbi for birthday and Christmas gifts
@@amaeliss7827 Thanks for sharing some interesting examples of names from one of the three surviving "P Celtic" languages. I'd be very interested to learn how my name ("Mahon," old Irish for "bear") would translate into Breton. I know that in old Brittonic (the ancestor of Welsh, Cornish and Breton) it was something along the lines of "Artos," but I'd really love to know what it is in modern Breton. *Go raibh maith agut.* ("Thank you" in Irish.)
@@amaeliss7827 Wow, I really like "Arzhur," but I absolutely love "Arzul!" Thanks ever so much! Now, if I ever manage to visit your part of the world, I'll be able to introduce myself properly.😉 Maybe we could meet by the ruins of lost Tolente, or by what's left of the famous Yeun Elez bog. That "mersi" sounds like it has some French influence, not surprisingly, much like the various English loan words found in modern Irish, I suppose.
I used to work in several schools and saw many different names. One precious little girl was named ‘Emma’. Instead of spelling her name like a sane person, her awful parents spelled it ‘Ehmmhah’. It threw me for a loop every time I saw it, and the poor girl kept putting the H’s in different places. THIS WAS THE MOST TAME EXAMPLE!!! Also, the names at the end that Click had a hard time with are pronounced Rainbow and Brightly. I hate that I can decipher this.
I can already imagine her being bullied in late elementary all the way to high school from the way her name is spelled. Poor kid. The fact that "THIS WAS THE MOST TAME EXAMPLE!!!" is included in this text makes me scared and curious about other kids.
@@MeWhenTheWhen. there were about fifteen to twenty girls in a school with the name pronounced ‘Brixly’. All of them were spelled differently and some reached over ten letters long. Another popular one was ‘Brinley’, also spelled a bajillion different ways. I don’t want to get too specific, but there are a lot of kids that didn’t know how to spell their name. There was one girl who knew how to spell it, but she kept changing the way it was pronounced. I miss when I was a kid and the quirky spelling of a name just involved using an ‘i’ at the end instead of ‘y’.
Nevaeh is Heaven spelt backwards...😑 My daycare nanny named her child Peasant. My asked her why she would do that to her child, she replied with a shocked expression and said, "But don't you know, it's a beautiful bird!" 🙈 Dear parents, BEFORE you sign it on the birth certificate, please make sure you spell the name CORRECTLY. This girl has been mocked relentlessly, because her mother couldn't spell Pheasant. A simple mistake perhaps, but a lifelong disaster.
Even if you spell it correctly, be aware of pop culture history around the world. Anyone who hasn't tried to sing the pheasant plucker song at least once at a party, really needs to.
Uf ... if in my old school she would have prob. commited to not existing anymore ... people got bullied soooo bad (i almsot got unalived once) ... if someone called "peasant" would have been around they would have been the main target for some Father and motherless Bullies .... UF
I just remember a girl from high school whose middle name was Gayfox since she was born on Guy Fawkes day. At least she had a perfectly normal first name!
22q means that they have 22q11-deletion syndrome, also called CATCH 22, a genetic disorder that affects a lot of the organs and also often leads to developmental delay and learning difficulties. Which seems to me to be a situation where having an impossible-to-spell name would be extra annoying.
Side note: catch 22 does not come from this mutation, but the mutation has received the nickname from the older "catch 22" which referred to psych evaluation to be medically discharged in WW2 (catch is that trying to leave the military is the sane thing to do, hence you are capable of service and can't be discharged)
I worked with a lot of Polish ppl in the past and I noticed many names are ones I know already, but the spelling is just different. Once you understand the phonics, it's fine, but I could see people tripping up while reading it for the first time.
I have a hard enough time with my name simply being “Lacy” I get Lucy (at the dmv) almost always “Lisa” or “Tracy” are the most common. Also I’m a piss poor speller and even attempting these names are exhausting
To be fair to Rhys [at 14:30] it's pronounced like "Reese". It's actually a very old name with a long history, and comes from Wales if I recall correctly. It was even the name of a ruler of Wales in the 12th century, Rhys ap Gruffydd, who fought against the Normans. But there is for sure a lot of cursed names in there ^^; just giving context on Rhys because that one's a linguistic misunderstanding more than anything.
@@aylacrissman3443 yeah im not certain where its from, but my nickname came from my birth name, where i got the nickname Rys, but when deciding what to change my name to my friends helped me find a name where Rhys is a nickname for. Unfortunately i pronounce it like the original Rys nickname was (think Kris without the K), and since the slang Rizz has popped up some ppl have tried to call me Rizz, which sucks
I had a kid in my class with the name Rhys and since I was like 11 and had never seen the name before, I called him "Rice" to my friends before I finally heard him say it was "Reese", felt so embarrassed 💀
Yeah I had a classmate named Rhys in 6th grade, I never asked but I always figured it was just an English spelling or something, just not spelled like Reese
10:45 Fun fact about Pot-8-o's, the story goes that that masterpiece was born from a misunderstanding because the owner of the horse told the stable boy to name it "Potato" on the feed bag, but the stable boy misunderstood it as "pot" "8" "o", wrote it down as "Potoooooooo" and the owner found it so amusing he kept it that way.
I tended to horses when I was younger, the owner brought them in from abroad. I guess he had quite some trouble reading the registration papers, because horse named Candy was changed into Gandi in the import process. I had to go behind the stables to let my scream-laughter out after checking the papers.
I worked at Disney World for many years and met a little girl named Erzebet. I surprised the heck out of her and her parents by not only correctly pronouncing the name but knowing what it meant (Hungarian form of Elizabeth). According to them, I was the first person outside the family who knew those two things. The reason for her name is actually very sweet. She was named for a great grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant who fled the Soviets shortly after WWII. I said “You are aptly named, Erzi. She was strong and you are too.”
Erzsébet is honestly such a beautiful name, I wish parents who wanted to give their kids unique names would just find variations in other languages or look for names from other cultures rather than making something up. (Obviously within reason, don't go and name your child an ethnic name from a different race or something that would be very confusing/difficult to explain and may cause offense) My name is Saoirse and while people get it wrong, it's a beautiful Irish name and I wouldn't trade it for something else. But if I was named Seighr'shah I would be changing it ASAP.
knew a girl in college that was named "Wrainboux" (Pronounced Rainbow) when she spelled it for me she added "yes my parents are hippies" without me even asking
It is possible to name a kid after a fictional character. You don't have to make that known, and you don't have to give them the full name. Like Arthur, Arnold, Timothy, James, Doug, Mark, or Christopher. All perfectly normal names that fictional characters also happen to have.
Also, Eren is a fine name. Most people will probably spell it Aaron, but still, it would have been fine without the Yager attached. See also Arin Hanson with his unusual spelling of the name. So long as you do it subtly, it's entirely possible to have a reverence to a fictional character without it being an issue. For example, I know a kid who is named after his parent's favorite character from Babylon 5. His name seems completely mundane to the average person... but if you've seen Babylon 5, you're like "Oh! The ranger guy!"
my french teacher told us about one of her friend's kids(?). the kid's grandmother is named Jone, and the kid's full name is Indiana Jone (insert last name)
I mean there's a load of kids named Harry, Hermione and likely Ron and Draco so yeah. If it's mundane enough you can get away with it. Hell, I'm sure there's a bunch of Bruces, Robins, Clarks etc. The issue as you mentioned is taking the unique names and keeping them that way. Like yeah, you can wholly believe your child is so unique to you, but don't let that serve as the sole reason to use a name that they will likely be bullied for.
Eva and Emma's mom really did not see that Eva Lynn would sound like Evelyn and Emma Leigh sound like Emily? That would have been so dope and also honoured both grandmas.
Also Morgan wants to be edgy, goes with Morgue-Anne, instead of accepting Morgan Le fey mother of Mordred, half-sibling of Gawain, or in other versions was nephew of Arthur that later slew him to be later revived in England’s darkest hour.
As someone with an apostrophe in my last name, I can 100% assure using special characters in a name is assuring a life of problems with banks, the government, and poorly programed apps. That's with what is probably the most common special character in a name too. I can't imagine the hell with Greek symbols.
YES a software we have at work is so incompatible with apostrophes and I always feel bad when we have to go through and awkwardly edit someone’s name just to have the software accept it.
I have a hyphenated first name. A government website refused to let me type in my legal name because of the special character. What should have been an hour long process took 6 months as I had to do all the manual paperwork
@@morgiana111 Its still everywhere in 2024 too. Sure, I could understand some limitations if the system was built in the 80s, but brand new software is still doing this in some cases. I remember my parents got in a big mess with the IRS because of it in the 90s. My last name it irish and the apostrophe is important and meaningful. I hate not using it but have pretty much accepted reality and never use it with tech because of all the problems I have had in the past.
For me, my name is a perfectly common Arabic name, Benazir, but thing is, my nickname when I lived in Tunisia was Nazi (Nah-zee). Didn't realise how bad that was until I moved to australia when I was 15, and now get called Ben by most friends.
my landlord is from Turkey and his first name is Naci, which if you read it "germanly" sounds a lot like "Nazi". He prefers to be called by his last name^^
How did you introduce yourself when you first moved to Australia? Like, "Hi, my name is Benazir, but my friends call me Nazi"? Cuz I definitely know what my reaction would be as an american if I heard that, especially as a latina.💀Your full name is cool btw!
@@zombieedrea I was just like "Oh hey, I'm Benazir, but you can call me Naz or Nazi or whatever. Then they told me Nazi was what in tunisia we call "al-Nazi" in english, and I was like "Oh shit! Well, then just call me ben or somethin'.
@@Benwut ahhh, I see. That makes sense. It makes me think of well-meaning but silly people on twitter who go upset over spanish seaking people saying "negro" in spanish, and thinking that's racist since in the english language, "negro" can/has 100% been used as a slur against black people in america specifically. Only the word "negro" in spanish just means black, as in the color, not a black *person.* It was a very silly day on that hellsite lol.
People with "normal" names are more likely to be already from America and have more money so better educated and more qualified for anything. It's not a name thing.
The only except I can think of are maybe names of Western European or Jewish heritage. But I doubt people are gonna be okay with pronouncing Shakked Azoulay. (שקד אזולאי translation; almond azalea ) Don’t even get me started on how many times people would ask someone named Bar if they mean the place where they server beer. aaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
To specify Romani people are most likemy Indian decented people inhabiting most of Europe and are not even that closely related to each other. To give an example Finnish Romani people are more related to Finns than French Romanis
While there has been some local intermarrying over time in their wide travels, the Romani are originally from the Indian subcontinent and retain some cultural aspects.
I really like Romani. It's pretty. If you have Romani heritage it's a nice call out to it. I've heard Roman as a name too. So there is precedent for it.
You know. In Germany we currently have the trend of reviving old names like Emil, Wilhelm, Johan, Konrad, Emma, Ruth, Irma. People like to make fun of that (mainly the media). Probably because they don't know how much worse it could be.
Idk if you knew but Konrad is actually a normal name in poland, like no one will bully you here (at least to my knowledge). It is old based on the historical figures and literature we learn in School, but it's not archaic and it's out of the blue field to name your boy Konrad.
The reason that Irish names don't follow English spelling is that the names are not only a different language, but a differant language family all together. Irish is part of the Celtic language family, while English and Swedish are part of the Germanic family. That's why ClickyThicky really botched the name Sinéad, it's just too foreign. I myself can't even intuatively figure out how an Irish name/word is supposed to be pronounced, and I HAVE ONE. Which is why I'm going to try to learn Irish. Knowing my trackrecord [With learning languages], it won't go well or easily.
All the more-traditional Jewish names can seem incomprehensible and often all unpronounceable, if not a Tragideih Nachshom Gershon Avigail Bruruah Chavah Chaiyah Devora Rukhel Avidan Noach Eliyahu Aminidav Yiskah Yitzchak Shimon Shmuel Moshe Moishe Daniel (“No, it’s pronounced Dah-nee-ell”) Yaakov Yosef Yoisef Mara Aharon Zelda Shoshanna Shlomo Yoel Boaz Yonasan Yehudah Naomi Gad You might meet an Israeli named/nicknamed “Dudu”. Yes. It’s pronounced “doo-doo”. Levi (“it’s actually pronounced Lay-vee”) Ariel (as a boy’s name. Aree-EL) Tamar (this girl’s parents are likely strongly-feminist, if progressive at all) Shaul. Sha-OOL Keep in mind: all those “ch” and “kh” sounds are gutterals. A hacking, cat hissy, k+h sound. Yitzchach Yeets-*hock up loogie*
Feivel is a normal Yiddish name. The mouse has a normal-ass name and now everyone thinks these boys are named after a mouse. There is a serious chance there are many hardcore orthodox boys named Feivel Moskowitz.
@@GretchZ This is an amazing list! Funnily enough though, I instinctively pronounced all the names you gave phonetics for exactly the same way as the phonetics you gave! :D Like I got really confused with Daniel because I was going like: Wait, but isn't that the normal way though? Oh no! This is in English! They weren't expecting me to pronounce it the Dutch way! I actually have a friend called Daniel so I'm completely used to using that pronounciation. And I've also come across a Levi once. Just checking, a fair number of these names are Yiddish right? Because if that's the case then that would explain why I don't have that much difficulty. I'm actually Dutch. Only half Irish. So I'm used to speaking a normal west-Germanic language. A fair couple I've also come across in the wild, so it's not particularly news to me. These things make it much easier for me to pronounce these names then it is for some mono-glot anglophone who only knows English. A language which has drifted so far from it's roots as a Germanic language that there's an entire movement dedicated to removing all the French influence and turning it from a hodgepodge of Romance and Germanic languages into a pure Germanic language again. I do have to ask, how do you pronounce the "ch" and "kh" in Dutch you pronounce the ch as a harsh(er) g. Which in Dutch is pronounced by imitating the sound of sawing a tree down. But I don't know if that is the particular guttural sound your looking for. And Dutch doesn't have a kh sound, so I have no frame of refrence to make it. Lastly, one more thing. I've actually made a list of names which sound like a tradegeigh,. Is it possibly for you to copy this comment and put the cop in the replies to that list? If it's to much of a bother please tell and I'll do it. But I'd prefer it's easy to see who made the additional entry to the list. While I'd ofcourse credit you and stuff, I'd like people to be able to see it at first glance. Though I get if you don't want to, for me it's at the top of the comments, but for you it's somewhere right in the middle of the comment soup! Probably near the bottom as well, since I'm pretty sure I'm the only on who's seen it.
@@GretchZ Imagine that. A fictional mouse steals your name. That would suck. Unfortunately some people just don't know much about the names of other cultures. I mean it makes sense, it's not something easily deapdived (I mean I do, but I'm a special case of weird). But it's easy enough to imagne that a name like "Feivel" is a regular name somewhere. I mean it looks and sounds German, and it's pretty bland. Do you honestly think the writers managed to create such a good normal sounding name on their own from scratch? Of course not! Names are one of the worst things to figure out, when you can steal one, you do!
Since Potatoooooooo got mentioned shout out to my favorite racehorse ever named Hoof Hearted. Liatening to the announcers of the race slowly fight back laughter as they realize what they were calling out fills me with joy--it's one of my fondest memories watching it with my mother.
I’ve heard the same thing happens with Japanese children too. See, Japanese has 3 writing systems, one of these being hiragana and katakana, which are phonetic. The third is kanji, which are lifted from Chinese, and are logographic, essentially meaning they have multiple pronunciations based on context, and 2 kanji combined together could be pronounced entirely differently to the two kanji separately. Many names have multiple ways of being written, using different kanji, and while they may be pronounced the same, and appear the same when romanised, have entirely different meanings based on the meanings of the kanji used. Some Japanese parents have started giving their children unusual names, comprised of Kanji that are read in non-traditional ways. This creates names that anyone reading for the first time will have no idea how to read, and have been dubbed “Kirakira Names”, which translates to “Sparkling Names”. Another name for these that I recently head is “DQN name”. DQN, a shorter way of typing “Dokyun”, is apparently Japanese internet slang that means something like “pleb”, according to Wiktionary. One example of a Kirakira name (that has become fairly well known from what I can tell) was a child named “光宇”, comprised of kanji that I believe mean “light” and “space”, when written on their own. However, the intended reading of this name given by the child’s parents is “Pikachu”. Like the Pokémon. Idiocy is a global disease, and while it might be sad to see how common this stuff is, I personally find it comforting to know we’re not alone in dealing with stuff like this, and that even foreign countries have issues like ours. I think it’s nice to know that despite any of the language barriers, and our cultural differences, in the end we’re really not so unalike.
It doesn't help that in Japan, the kanji in names can be read however the parent wanted it to be read when filling out the birth notification form. There is no combination of alternate readings that would get Pikachu from 光宇.
Reminds me of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei manga/anime. The main character's full name when written horizontally had meaning "despair" or "suffering" (i don't remember which one) so when they were writing it they were "leaving a large space between words"
Yeah, the Japanese naming conventions can be pretty wild. Kanji have "onyomi" (Chinese readings) and "kunyomi" (Japanese readings). When writing names, they pretty much exclusively use kunyomi, but there can still be multiple sounds to choose from. It makes it a nightmare for non-native speakers to read names unless there are furigana (pronunciation characters, typically written in hiragana).
Ah, see Japan is actually one of those countries where you have to pick your kids name from an approved list to avoid this sort of thing. Clearly they found a loophole. Reminds me of Death Note: it wasn't an dub name change his name was pronounced Raito, literally: that's literally how the English word "Light" is pronounced... it was spelled with the Kanji for Moon (this was a minor plot point). Like, did they know he was going to be an anime protagonist?!
I work with a company that processes legal documents. Not a DAY goes by that I do not get a name change form across my desk. Almost every single one had an absurd name spelling, Was 20 letters long, and completely unpronounceable. Almost every time they changed their name to something simple, Like James or Susan. Once in a while, the name change came because their name was after a cartoon character, Book, movie, TV character, or superhero. I feel for these people because, by the time I get their paperwork for the name change, I assume they went through YEARS of teasing because of their names.
Back in 1997 I wanted a unique name for my daughter and went with Madison, after the movie Billie Madison (don't ask). At the time, the name was rare and locally more boy than girl. To my surprise, two other Madisons in the nursery, but they were spelled horrifically! I was mad at my sister for tossing an extra L in Alex for her kid, but these babies had Maddyson and Madasin... I mean, seriously. My daughter loves to be able to say, 'traditional spelling' instead of having to use interpretive dance to check into an appointment.
That's why Germany has laws in place for names. A few years ago, a mother wanted to name a kid Jacqueline, but completely botched the spelling to "make it easier". Schakelien, I think. The court rightfully rejected it and told her to spell it right or choose something else.
ngl when it's spelled like that my brain defaults to making the first E long, so I feel like it's not even really equivalent in pronunciation to the original name...
The origin of Potoooooooo is even funnier; one day, I think before a race, the owner of Potato told I think a trainer to Wright "Potato" on something, but the trainer (?) misheard Pot-8-o, and wrote Potoooooooo instead, and that name stuck. Naming a pet/horse potato is kinda cute, though.
When I was in high school, a teacher once told the class that if you have a very obscure name or one that isn't spelled correctly, a lot of potential employers will throw your résumé right into the trash. So not only are these parents setting their kids up for a childhood of bullying with these garbage names, they're diminishing the kids' prospects all throughout life. Worth considering before giving your kid a "quirky" name like this: how will it treat them down the line?
Got this talk too from every teacher since I was 12, because I was the only one in my year with a tragedeigh name for the time. :| They weren't wrong. I've struggled with legal documents, job prospects, employment in general. Many people can't even spell or pronounce it properly. It's been the bane of my existence. I'm getting it legally changed.
I remember hearing 3 stories related to naming in Japan: 1) A father wanted to name his son 悪魔 (aku-ma) which means “devil.” The Japanese government obviously did not approve of that name. 2) A couple wanted to name their newborn daughter 水子 (mizu-ko) which literally translates to “water child.” They were, however, quickly informed that that word actually means “stillborn” which they freaked out and chose a different (but normal) name. 3) There was a young man whose mother named him 王子様 (ou-ji-sama) which would translate to something like “esteemed prince.” He hated it and changed it to a more common name 肇 (hajime) much to his mother’s disapproval. I supposed the Japanese equivalent to tragedeighs would be kirakira names.
This is more on the darker side of history, but I really love the fact that some farmer in Korea under the Japanese soverign had to change his name to Japanese(probably around 1930~1940s); 1) his original name was 田炳夏 (very normal name for a Korean farmer back then) 2) he added 農(to farm / farming) to his name to make his name 田農炳夏 3) the new name, when pronounced in Japanese, sounds like 'Tenno Haika' 4) which is similar to how they pronounce 'His majesty' 5) promptly got arrested
Oh wow, seriously! That is very awful as a name. The only person I've ever known that used that was a homeless junkie girl I used to know, and her nickname was Princess. I guess because she liked to wear pink and her parents were pretty wealthy. But she was certainly not a princess 😂
My mom used to be a teacher. She taught this one kid who had "Prince" before their name to make it seem like they had a royal title. She also taught a kid named "Megatron"
fun fact my nickname used to be insomnia (not because of sleep or anything like that my friend just thought it sounded alike enough to my name while also being strange) and if i ever heard someone call their kid insomnia i would run the other direction.
Whenever I see a wack name it makes me think if a kid I met back when I was like 10, my dad pulled me aside and told me that his name was Skywalker. Just, Skywalker. No Luke, just Skywalker, my dad pulled me aside to tell me specifically that I couldn't say "Luke I am your father" because he knew id do that. I asked my dad why he was named Skywalker and the explanation was that they were hippies, they didn't even like Star wars. Sometimes I wonder if Skywalker changed his name....
Funny enough, I knew a kid named Luke growing up. He was just the right age where it was a coin flip as to whether his name was taken from the original release of Star Wars, or the Bible.
I live in New Zealand and it's very common for people to be named after rivers and mountains (example; Rangiora, Manu, Ngarunui etc) but I wait for the day someone names their child after the longest place name in the world (which happens to be in NZ) Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
42:49 Reminds me of a funny story my mom told me: When she was pregnant with my brother, she was deciding between two names for him. Now, both of these names were very normal, typical Indian names. But because this wasn't India, but the United States, what stood out the most was that one of the names was 'Kaushik'. She went with the other name when her coworker kept going, "You're naming you're kid COW SHIT?"
I really hope she went for the Meaning of the Indian name or for a name that sound similar in English.. I think Cody sounds nice and after short Google search does have a nice meaning.
I feel like a good rule of thumb is, if you can't find the name you chose for your kid on one of those keychain racks in gift shops? It's probably a bad name. Obviously, this only applies to American names.
I named my daughter Luna and was so worried she would grow up to hate it that I gave her two middle names so she could go by one😭😭 now shes got 3 other Lunas in her class alone
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Fun fact: in Germany, there ARE laws against it. You're not allowed to name the kid stuff like orahl or Nutella or smth because it goes against the best interest of the child🎉
Was about to say that!
Yes also in Denmark and the Netherlands
There IS still some weird Shit that goes through, but at least there IS the possability to avoids the worst
In most of Europe there are laws like that. Rules like, a name needs to be actually usable as a name, and not obscene. Thank god this is not 'Murica.
GOOD
Rip Christopher
"My condolences to the family"
"Erh, Rip is the baby's name!"
"My condolences to the baby"
I constantly ask myself this whenever I see Rip Torn in a film... Is that an incredibly metal SAG name or ignorant parents?
idk Rip does sound like a cool name, if it doesn't so happen to be right before what would normally be someone's first name, like, Rip Lee sounds cool, definitely wouldn't name my child after a Metroid character, but it sounds cool
Apparently Rip can be short for the German name "Rippert", and I think used to be a more popular given name in the States (based on "Rip" van Winkle). It might not be that bad as a name, just the formatting of that embroidery looked more like a memorial. Though, "Ripley" would probably trip people up less.
@@Techy404 You're absolutely right, out of all the names in the video this is mostly harmless if a bit unfortunate. But still funny :P
@@lfr8666 You're absolutely right, out of all the names in the video this is mostly harmless if a bit unfortunate. But still funny :P
"Dad am I adopted?"
- "Why are you asking, Grindrleigh?"
LMFAO
jfc im howling LOL
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
At this point you can call him grindelwald
I once witnessed an argument between two colleagues. One wanted to give her children classical names but with absolutely cursed spelling like "Anne-Marie" spelled "Han Màree" or something along those lines. The other told her this thing I will never forget : "If you feel the need to give your kids names like that so they feel unique, you aren't ready nor emotionally mature enough to have them in the first place."
It’s not about making the child feel unique but more about the parent. The child probably won’t comprehend that their name has uncommon spelling until they’re a few years old, while the parent would already have proudly and (over)eagerly told many people:”oh my baby’s name is pronounced as Ladasha and it’s spelled La-A.”
@@fizzyofbrassica That's what they said but hte conversation was is French originally. My translation isn't the best (english is not my maternal langage 😅)
Too right. Leave names how they are spelled in the first place. To have a unique name can always be an older name so that when they grow up, they are treated better.
There's this mini influencer in my country who works registering baby names. He's a saviour, rejecting ugly names because the law allows him to. The law says the public official can reject names that might be offensive/create conflict in future. People complain about parents rights, but children should have rights too. Especially in countries where changing names is almost impossible.
Hell yeah children rights!
You really should consider how the name will affect them later. Don't give them names to make the bullies really hunt them.
Not just that kid's should have rights too, but *kid's rights > parents' rights!*
It was the parents decision to bring the child to life and for that they owe them not to ruin it before it even began!
Oh yes I live in one such country and really wish I could change it but alas no can do
Tbh thats the type of influencers we need.
Because no Jannet, we will not allow you to name your child Captain Marvel Raw XD Lohaiza just because you want to feel unique!!
Just a very gentle reminder: -eaux in french in pronounced oh or ow. So Sneaux is Snow, Reignbeaux is Rainbow… they are still very, very unfortunate theaux
Leaux quality comment (not)
Neaux way
you really did just deaux this huh... congrats
"Eaux" is technicaly the plural of "eau" which mean water
@@griff2009I always find that funny
"You're naming an adult" is a big thing. My mom wanted to give my younger sister a cute name but went with a legal full legal name that sounded formal but could be shortened to the cute one. My moms exact thought was 'so she has something nice to put on a plaque' and its sad so many parents don't get that
Yeah, a Friend brought forth the recommendation for Lennart which is . . . OK, a normal Name but Not overly Common where I live . . . .but Last Minute the mother changed her opinion to Lenny . . . . Like No one IS ever going to Take him seriously AS an adult cause thats so so obviously a deminutiv . . .why Not Stick with Lennart and Just call him Lenny so He has the Option to Go into a Job Interview without appearing Like He never grew Up and wants to BE Friends with His new Boss?!
When naming my children I consider how their name would sound being yelled across the neighborhood.
Exactly! I really like “Rosie” for a baby girl but want to do “Rosalie” so she can go by that or even Rose
My parents did this too. My mother wanted to give me a cutesy nickname for my name, but my dad told her that was a name for a baby. So they went with a more formal name that can shorten to that nickname.
….Then I married my husband and he has an older sister with that exact same cutesy nickname as her legal name.
So, my husband rarely calls me by my actual name because he says it’s too weird calling me by his sister’s name, lol.
@@SingingSealRianaI think Lenny is a okay name?? But I'm not a native speaker so idk
Worked in a daycare and had several children named "Unique"
😂
I knew a "Original". Honest.😨
Ironic
Oh the irony is killing me
Love the irony
My mom new a woman named "Female." Her parents were from another country and didnt speak English well. When given paperwork for birth certificate, it had female on it and the parents thought in US the hospital names the babies and left it
Had twin students named Male and Female, pronounced "mah-lee" and "f'mah-lee".
Yes, their parents spoke English.
*knew, not "new". 🤨🤔🤦🤷🙄👎
Knew*
Learn the langzage BRFORE you immugrate
@@JediLoreenyou understood what the person meant and this isn’t college so it’s fine
I'm going to name my child "Gorgorax, Destroyer of Worlds."
Or Jason, if it's a boy.
"Gorgorax want's their mummy"
Ok, hope it's a boy, I think Jason is just a way better name than anything destruction-related and sounds nice
@@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42 it's a joke...
The Doctor “I speak baby!” *listens to infant babbling* “He say his name isn’t Alphie, it’s Stormageddon Dark Lord of All.” 😂
I was just having a conversation with a coworker yesterday about Greek mythology and all the heroes having names like Perseus, Achilles, Ajax, Hercules, Odyssey, Theseus…and then there is Jason. Only slightly relevant, but this reminded me of it.
The name "Siobhan" is an Irish name pronounced "Sha-vawn." The spelling comes from when the indigenous language was converted to the english alphabet. It is spelled correctly and not a Tragedeigh.
Yeah, but Like really confusing and hard on everyone Not socialised Irish . . .the spelling Problem stays the Same . . .
I was about to say. That name seemed to be the most normal one on that list.
It's not spelled correctly, actually, the person spelled it Siobahn and they also tried to use it as a boys' name. (ETA: I was talking about the first instance of Siobhán being mentioned, not the second one where the person completely butchered the spelling)
@@SingingSealRianabut if you're Irish I think its fine to keep your cultural name lol.
@@unapologeticallylizzy Eh... Mismatching the gender of a name isn't bad, really. There are hundreds of names that have been flipped around, it just happens, that's not an issue in the long run. Outside of Ireland, about 6 people will have a pre-loaded idea that this name is for girls, and that goes for any uncommon names anywhere. They're just sounds at the end of it, so it's whatever. Misspelling it, though, that's an issue. That's no longer the name, that's just messing people up for no reason. There's no history on misspelling it and pronouncing it a certain way, now you're just ignoring everything about the name anyway, so why would you bother with that at all?
My dad wanted to name me Anakin. My mom said no and now I wish she hadn't. I would've gotten crap for it in middle school but now it would have been a dope name.
Anakin is not a tragediegh. It's the demunitive of the Norman Christiandom surname Ankey or Ankeny, from the Ancient French Angenot. Meaning "point of the sword". It's a Decrit of Plantagenet, which are from Merovingians. It has more meaning and cultural history than the fandom franchise. A rarer name though.
@@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram my dad wanted the name because of starwars
@qbking3 Anakin sounds cool as hell!
In theory, nothing stopping you from changing your name. THIS is where the fun begins
7:05 Fun fact: it is legal in some states in the US to petition a judge to change your name even as a minor if the name in question is bad enough. The legal case that decided this? TululaDoesTheHula vs. Illinois. Yes, TululaDoesTheHulu was her actual first name. At 9, she successfully petitioned a judge to have it changed to Nicole. The judge ruled it was causing her undo distress and her grievance was valid, granting her the name change legally.
Poor baby!!! :( the shit she had to have gone through to already be petitioning a court at age 9?? I only vaguely knew what Judge Judy was at 9yo.
Jesus christ...
Yup, that sounds murrican enough 👌
Please don't hate me... it's 'undue' distress... I'll go away now.
TULULADOESTHEHULA??? 😭😭😭💀
For Ora-Leigh to be the butt of every joke her name would have to be Ana-Leigh
my boomer sister was named Leora
Aura Lynn honestly sounds like a much better name than the other options. If they're head set on it.
Guys, Aurelia is *right there*
I guess that must really suck for her? 🤔🤨😉😂
The BUTT of the joke....
i went to school with a girl called vagina, pronounced 'vah-gee-na' whose mother threw a tantrum any time anyone mispronounced her name. unsurprisingly she went by gina.
I didnt knew Vipziepop had children😂
@@mysticpumpkin8520 Honestly Gina is so much better than Vaggie
Bro the pronounciation of the name is literally how it's pronounced in Russian it's so bad I'm so sad for the child 😰
@@justsomething1349 despite being russian, I read g as j here, heh
@@justsomething1349 I don't understand the thought process of some people...like how could that name have gone any other way
I knew two girls in high school who had the name Kaylee.
Kayleigh had dutch parents
Celidh had canadian parents who decided to go with the irish name of the spelling.
One of Celidh's friends decided to call her "see-lid" for the majority of high school.
I think we should apply the same rules to baby names as with graphic design: when in doubt, show it to a group of 13-year-old boys. If they laugh, you rethink it.
But the problem is these parents here don't seem to be in doubt about their name choices at all.
@@Cenn_DevelRule 1: Always have some doubt about choices that will last a lifetime
@@hmnhntr Alright 👍
Great idea. If there's a way to get a joke out of it, they'll figure it out quick.
When you show it to the girls, they're just gonna stare at you, making you rethink all your life choices
"Piggy" is an awful name. They'll get bullied, and then they'll read Lord Of The Flies at school about how Piggy gets crushed with a rock.
that was literally my first thought when i heard it, when my class read it we already made enough fun of Piggy as it was, especially when a younger kid joined the school and looked EXACTLY like the movie Piggy- poor kid i hope his class don't watch the movie when they reach that point
I'd be seriously worried the kid would develop an eating disorder with that name, being called a pig and being bullied. It's not just a bit uncomfortable for the child, it can lead to a deadly mental disorder. I developed my anorexia due to being tall early as a child, if I were named Piggy it would NOT have helped.
Thank god Sweden can forbid names due to "inconvenience for the name carrier".
BAHAAA🤣🤣🤣🤣
have nicknames died?
But that is not their name, its the cute nickname their uncle/aunt (I don't remember) was calling them while they are a baby until they have another option.
Or they’ll think of the Downward Spiral album by Nin…..😬😬😬🫠🫠🫠
Also I'm crying Click's like "yeah I have dyslexia let's do a video where I have to read the most unhinged spellings on the planet"
Dis’lexiyah
Dis'lexlyn'leigh' pronounced dyslexia ❤☺️🤗
This way it's especially funny.
Misspronouncing the horrid spellings, making them sound even more bonkers (if possible).
A hospital in my town has a billboard that announces babies that have been born there (which is a massive security problem for the family but we're not gonna get into that now) and I love seeing the ridiculous names these parents come up with and then pity the children saddled with them
And you know an unacceptable amount of parents of Mahckeyighleighs get angry at people not being able to figure out how to say their kids' names, but will ask people from non-English speaking countries if they have an 'English' name because theirs is too hard. 😑
I grew up in a very multicultural area of southern Ontario, and the amount of substitute teachers who butchered some of the easiest names. Badir, Guled, Amman, these were not difficult! I can’t even imagine the horror that’ll come from some of these atrocities.
And you just know that as soon as the room hears the mistakes the sub makes, that’s going to be used against the kid by someone.
@@qwinlyn ever had a teacher who always butchered a name when the only difference was K instead of a C?
@@Chocobo0Scribe usually they would over emphasize the K. Think eri-K rather than Eh-ric (insert Canadian Eh joke here)
The real trip up tended to be vowels. Many, many mistaken vowels. And the worst part was that there were many that wouldn’t apologize when they said it wrong, but would instead just move on without a word.
@@qwinlynI am 37 and my name is Keair. It is pronounced exactly the way it is spelled (like Key-air). To this day, my doctor's office I have gone to for eight years calls out my last name (which is Snyder, no easier honestly then my first name but there are no food brands named Keair so maybe that's it....I am American after all 😂). And it is not just the doctor's office. You would think my name was really challenging. Hell, people will read it and add an 'a' at the end that doesn't exist so that they say it 'Key-air-a'.... That's the one that really drives me bat shit! And I can still recall the dread of a substitute teacher all these years after leaving school. Lmao
Needless to say, I named my daughter River. The alternate name (the one I wanted more for her but I married a nerd and she's named after a Doctor Who character) was Stevie Lynn. I figure no one could screw that up. 😂
@@qwinlyn - I know exactly what you mean about the vowels, my deadname threw people off constantly. The day someone tried to make a nickname from that name was the day that I _definitely_ wanted to go get it legally changed long before I realised I was enby/agender because that was the final nail in the coffin
As an *author* that creates unique names for my characters and their kingdoms in the fantasy settings.... I double-check every name I make up. EVERY name. FOR FANTASY CHARACTERS.
I SWEAR YOU CAN DO IT FOR YOUR KID. I PROMISE.
H A R L O T T E ? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? G O D .
Unless you want to make a meme out of that poor NPC 😅
Same 😭
if you want further motivation; remember Drizzt the Dark Elf? never took off in slavic countries, cause his name sounds like the word for uh. a shart. it's onomatopoeic...
I just give my fantasy characters normal names like Nolan.
Right. I took a name in a medieval group without thoroughly researching it. I found out FAST. Freydis? Okay....did you read the history? Uh, no..... OMG. I had to pick the worst person in their time. People that meet me kind of assume I'm an ass and that's MY fault. Can't change it after 30 years.....RESEARCH.....
amazing moment when baby finally starts calling his parents "Meaummeigh" or "Dahdheey"
I laughed so hard I woke up my Meaummeigh and Dahdheey 🤣🤣
Really impressing that this young child can already pronounce words with such a complicated spelling!
I read this in a peppa pig-ish voice in my head
You forgot the apostrophe: Dahdhe'ey
Dha'deigh
This video is setting me up for having a nightmare where I have to introduce myself: "Hi my name is Valentina, it's spelled Vahlainteeynugh."
Poor kids.
"You can't just make up phonetic stuff that doesn't exist."
The English language: Ghuld mae behir
I resent that it only took me two attempts to read that last thing...
Ah, smells like Welsh.
can someone explain that last part?
@Iyasaykicyh huh, now it seems obvious, thanks
Bloody brilliant mate! You may remember a little video called If English was Phonetically Consistent...
"Harlotte" should just call herself "Harley" like "Harley Quinn", that'd be super cool and a great reference, and then she should quietly get her name changed legally. Best thing is nobody will assume "Harley" is an abbreviation.
I can't help but imagine her as the most based hilarious granny. Picture bringing your fella to meet the famileigh for the first time and going "so this is my mom Xorxys, uncle Glenn short for Glendalf, and granny Hoor"
And Charlie was right there (Charline being another fine choice)
@@ElaineAlwaysMSalso Charlotte. JUST ADD A C.
I like scrolling the comments while watching the video so i usually see comments about parts of the vid i haven’t seen yet. I literally choked on my food when I read this, WHO TF NAMES THEIR DAUGHTER THAT. 😭😭😭
@@ElaineAlwaysMS There are even women already named Charley. But I guess she didn't want to "combine" Charlotte and Harvey that way round...
It's like all the people who have a "completely new" business idea and think they will be super successful because nobody else does it.
No effing way someone named their child Rubella! 🤦♀️
“This is my son, German Measles, and my daughter, Smallpox! And little Yersinia is on her way this spring!” 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️
Yersinia sounds like a name someone from Colombia could have
I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone out there called Koev Idixx or Coron Avighroos
@@Sucellusification, it does sound close to Yesenia, but still, it would be pretty awful to name your child Yersinia Pestis.
Roseola was in this video somewhere too. We're just naming our kids after rashes now.
@@Ri_F I seem to remember a Click video a couple of years back where someone posted the birth of their new son, Covid.
I work in schools occasionally - one year I had 2 kids on my list with the name “Simeon”….1 was pronounced Simon and the other was Sim-ee-on.
That must have been confusing and hard to keep straight.
Friend of friend had 2 students splled Niamh (a pretty Irish name meaning "light"). One girl had the Irish pronunciation of 'neev', the other was rhymed with Liam.
Because these really are two different names, arent they? Simon and Simeon? You cant just spell a name julia and expect people to read it as katie
SO THE OTHER ONE'S NAME WAS PRONOUNCED "SIMIAN" !?!?!
I do believe Simeon is actually a valid (and quite long-lived) variation of Simon, present in slavic countries like Bulgaria.
Since I am not Slavic however, I dare not presume to know how it is supposed to be pronounced.
My cat’s name is “Toothless” after the dragon, his middle name is “Trogdor” can confirm wacky names for cats are socially acceptable
Omg I love this 😭
"Trogdor was a man! I mean...he was a dragon man! Or maybe he was just a dragon... But he was still TROGDOR"
One of my cats is also named Toothless after the dragon! 🐈
Awsome! Great PET name. 😊
I named mine Kevin, I considered Toothless but it didn’t quite suit him (I didn’t expect Kevin to suit but once I said it, it was his name)
Exchange overheard in the maternity ward:
Dr: "what's the baby's name?"
Mum: "Fire"
Dr: "oh.... Does he have a fiery personality?"
Mum: "emotionless* "no"
Dr: *silent*
I imagine them parents calling for that child in a crowded place and realising their terrible mistake "Fire! Fire!"
SMH 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Names have meanings too like do parents just forget that 💀like why couldn’t this parent name their kid “Aidan/Aiden” ?? it’s gender neutral and means fiery 😂😭
@maevetravis2123 as long as their name doesn't mean something humiliating in a language commonly taught in school, that's fine.
Unlike for example Nemo, which is Latin for NOBODY.
I know of one kid who was given that name and Latin is taught at most Gymnasiums (High school and college equivalent) here in Europe... 😰
@@LRM12o8 Honestly makes the movie Finding Nemo a bit amusing.
On the bright side they’d get the crowd out of the way really quickly
Something like this happened many years ago to an Israely friend. They had named one son Itai (a common name in Israel). And since the dad was the captain of a tradeship the family sometimes joined him. In Japan the son got lost and the mother ran around calling his name. Several Japanese people were very concerned and wanted to call an ambulance. Itai in Japanese means horrible pain.
My 12 year old self really thought, the worst names a baby could get was old names that I associated with 70+ year olds. As I have grown older, I have been exposed to the true horrors of baby names.
Baby Bertha? Baby Gertrude?
I’d much rather name a baby in 2024 Gertrude/Matilda/Maynard/etc than a key mash or innuendo
My nieces initials for her first middle and last name spell Vag… I hope she never realizes
@@thethe4665 baby Phyllis baby Enid baby edwin
@@thethe4665 What's wrong with Gertrude? That's how you get Trudy, which is a perfectly acceptable and boring name.
Honestly anytime you see "eaux" in a name it's probably the sound 'OH" making Reignbeaux "Rainbow"
I actually looked up Pot-8-o's and evidently the reason he's named that is because the person responsible for gathering the horses' names to be displayed was a moron, and when he heard the owner tell him the horse's name was 'Potatoes' he somehow convinced himself that the owner meant "Pot with eight 'o's"
"Avocadosia" sounds like a Harry Potter spell to make vegans levitate
Replaces every plant in a 5 kilometers radius with avocados.
@@bittersweetpepper2482 Is every singular blade of grass turned into it's own avocado?
@@fabienchamberland4791 hahah, what if yes.
@@bittersweetpepper2482 infinite food glitch
This reply section is beautiful
RIP to the mental stability of kids with learning disabilities whose parents think the default wifi password would make a cute name.
lmao
33:00 I went to high school with a girl whose first name was Puet, pronounced halfway between "poot" and "put". She was a refugee from Cambodia, so it didn't have that kind of meaning there. She was a nice girl, and our school had a lot of immigrants and refugees, and most kids were nice, so no one made fun of her name.
Here in Australia, heard of a case where the Vietnamese born parents wanted to name their new daughter a beautiful and traditional name, only to have every local born friend beg them to choose something else. None could adequately convey how difficult life would be for Suk-mee.
It'd been more than 20y since my dad passed away, but I'll never forget how bloody close I went to lose it at his funeral in front of the whole family. I was already on the edge emotionally, and then I saw that the final resting place of my father was right next to a man called "Divine Woodpecker". Not proud of it, but I had to trot out of sight with my face buried in an handkerchief because I was indeed in tears, but for all the wrong reasons. Let's add "it may cause hysteria on mourners" as an extra reason to avoid fucked up names for our offspring.
Divine Woodpecker sounds like a damn codename, "Commence Operation Divine Woodpecker"
Hey, it cheered you up on a sad day. That's gotta be with something!
maybe he was native American?
@@Cainmak I'd like to second this, that's a real possibility
@@Cainmak I see how that can be seen as a possibility from a Central/North American pov, but the event is set in Italy, and "Divine Woodpecker" is a literal translation of the poor man's name from Italian. Instead of a noble chief our hero was just a victim of his creative parents, I'm afraid.
A name is the first gift you give your child. Treat it as a gift to them, instead of one to yourself.
This is beautiful
wise. simple. thx.
A great way to explain why these tragic names are so bad is because these people treat their kids like they’re gonna be kids forever. “They’re cute so we’re gonna give them cute original names” is a mindset of someone who doesn’t see their tiny human as a cute thing rather than A PERSON just tiny. Kids aren’t pets don’t names them as such
Exactly. You need to think of this name as something that will be on a resume or letterhead.
On the flip side I don’t understand how you name someone a strictly old person name like Barbara or Gary
@@natdoesstuffbarbara was a saint and gary is often short for gareth or something
exactly but nonhuman fellow animals that are family members aren’t cute things either, they’re also individual with lives and loved ones and everything just like us minus the school and work but still
I had a great uncle born on Valentine's Day, and he was given the middle name Valentine. His uncle was also born on Valentine's Day, and they had the exact same first and middle name. I would never have known this if someone hadn't made up a family tree, but I actually think it's cool. . . And super smart of their parents to give them the first name "Jesse", so that they didn't have to be teased their whole lives.
Okay so when Click said jokingly that his middle name was Danger
That was almost literally my middle name
My parents opted out at the last second because "what if he just grows up to be a wimp" and I still resent them for it my middle name could have literally been Danger. I could have said "My middle name is Danger" with a completely straight face.
Danger IS your middle name
Would sound like from the movies
Also he did it wrong. His name should have been Atlyn Kay...
At least it sort of sounds like a name?
My last name would've been slaughter
You know, if you choose a name for yourself, it's no longer a tragedeigh because you're not forcing it on a child. If only there were an easier way to legally change your name, you could simply change your middle name to Danger if you wanted to.
I honestly think that everyone deserves at least one free name change. Perhaps it could become a cultural "coming of age" thing, where kids are given temporary names at birth and then choose their own name in their teens or adulthood.
@@LoremIpsum-dp1liYES. That'd be so much better, especially for those of my friends who go by different, more gender-comfortable names.
Y'all, remember Twilight when Bella names her daughter Renesmé Carlie as a hybrid of her grandparents Rene+Esmé and Carlyle+Charlie? I had no idea how deep this milennial rabbithole went lol. I wonder how this Milennial naming trend started.
Wasnt it supposed be Jacob+Edward? Thats how i remember it 😅 I get the point tho
At least Carlie isn't too bad, relatively speaking.
@@myaren0101Renesme Carlie Cullen was the name she ended up getting with the name for it she had been a boy being Edward Jacob Cullen. Both are weird but naming your childs middle name after your orbiter simp friend is weiiiiiiirrd especially considering Jacob later imprints on her.
Apparently it's popular practice among the Latter Day Saints/Mormons, which I think was Meyer's background?
I know someone who named her daughter Renesme... 🤦🏼♀️
People who wanna be unique with names… I feel so bad for their kids 😢
I think there was this woman who named her kid, no joke ‘methamphetamine rules’ or something like that 💀
It's in comparison to America I am so so glad we have restrictions on how to name your child here.
My neighbors name their kids Malibu and Manhattan
If they like quirky names so much, why don't they rename themselves? :D
In Sweden, it’s illegal to name your child tjottablottaplingplong 👍
Not the parents of the Brandon Jr & Brandon the Third not understanding generational name additions (Senior, Junior, Third, Fourth, etc ).
You don't get a Junior (or 2nd) and a Third in the same generation! 🤦🏻♀️
"2 deletion syndrome (22q) can affect any system of the body, however most children with 22q have heart, immune, learning, speech, and/or behavior difficulties. Each person with 22q has their own unique needs, and interdisciplinary team care is the best management approach. "
My god. Aren't those two girls going through enough without the name bs as it is!?
I thought q (as in 22q) meant Queer, and the mom was talking about themselves since usually it's M for male and F for female, but this makes more sense
@@TheTrueMr.Chickenlmao yeah no, it's definitely talking about 22q deletion 👍🏻
@@ryan-anarchist-2535ya neva know
"Rhys" is a Welsh name pronounced "Reese", someone pronouncing it as "Rizz" would be my thirteenth reason
As a Rhys... I concur. Spain without the S
how do people even consider to say Rhys as "rizz"
My best friend is trans and named himself Rhys and from that moment on when I heard the name spoken I always transcribe it as “Rhys” even though “Reese” is a more common spelling
I can actually see how “Rhys” could be mistranslated by some. It’s the h/us of other popular words that lead to it…
Mystery
Hysterical/hysterics/hysterically
System
Symptoms
Symptomatic
Systemic
Hysterical
I will stop now 😂
I was assuming it was after Rhysand from Sarah J Maas’ books. Totally forgot Rhys is a legit name
Don’t give your kid a weird name. If they’re trans enough they’ll do it themselves.
Sincerely, someone who named themselves Bug
Honestly that's a pretty cool name
Yeah my mum can post on Facebook about her new son onion
enbies named Bug should have a show down like the guys named Josh did cause istg i have 3 friends named the same and if i get a 4th one im gonna start assigning them numbers
Bug, you have such a real name
Literally. Like, I didn't do much, I just used a different, still well-used spelling of the name (I've named myself Rhys instead of Reece), but one of my nicknames is Basil. At least it's better than stuff on r/tragedeigh
I deal with a lot of kid's names at work.
At this point, the only thing that would cause me to raise an eyebrow would be "clamydiah".
In Poland the employee can refuse to register your kid's name if they think they are inappropriate or harmful to the child, some of rejected names were Nutella, Koka (from Cocaine), Joint, Batman.... 🤦
One would hope US would also have some office worker tell you that your name for the baby is absolutley stupid and will harm the child later in life
It's state-by-state and very lax. Some will ban things like emoji because their system can't type it, some will ban swears. But like, Kentucky has no laws.
Examples of controversial/strange names that have been approved: Messiah, Santa Claus, "Darren QX Bean!", Sexy Crabtree, Ynot Bubba, and Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop.
There's also states that don't legally require you to name your child, I'm sure with specific circumstances, such as Michigan and Nevada.
@@CadeAver Oh thank you!! Good to know! But also horrifying seeing some of the approved ones 💀
To be fair though, batman is an actual name. The Australian city Melbourne was almost named Batmania after a guy named John Batman.
@@sandrosliske But wasn't that his surname...?
Also I think main language in Australia is english, Poland uses polish, so even our regular names are different from english ones; Wiktoria - Victoria, Mateusz - Matthew, Jakub - Jacob, Grzegorz - Gregory
That and both "bat" and "man" are totally different words in polish than in english, and the only "Batman" written like "Batman" in polish is the superhero
And I don't think any polish kid will be like "oh they're called Batman like the city in Australia!" 😆
@@wikitygrys was just giving an example of Batman being an actual fucking name mate.
34:43 reminds me of the vine that goes
"My name is Micheal with a B and i have been afraid of insects my whole life..."
"Stop stop stop. Where's the B?"
"There's a Bee?!"
I work in the government side of health insurance. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please stop naming your twins with nearly identical names. These kids are going to have the same address, the same birthday, their SSN or equivalent will be one number different, and then their names are like Timothy and Tinothy.
Oh god, those kids are going to be fixing merged database entries for the rest of their lives
@@hermitized4391 Like the twho Evalynnleigh and Emmalynleigh in the video. Just call them Evelynn and Emily. Different "e" sounds and everything...I had it bad enough having the same initials as my dad.
My biggest regret is naming my son after his father, who was named after his father, who was named after his father, who was named after his father... OMG. How could we break such a cute tradition? well, lemmetellya, we should have broken it. It is the BIGGEST PITA on paperwork, in dr. offices, my husband still gets mail for his dad who passed years ago. Don't get me wrong, I love the child's name, but.
Yep, like those issues already exist enough for when a child is named after a parent, and with what there's way more differences noticeable than with twins. My sperm donor was denied a mortgage because of a house he apparently bought before he was born. And his birthday wasn't enough to clear it up. And they have different middle names.
we have very similar names but first letter is the difference so initials are as well .. still bullies called us by family name cos they weren't bothered to learn to tell us apart.
One of my parents is from Mexico. When they were a kid they knew a trio of siblings named Primero, Segundo and Tercero- literally meaning “First,” “Second” and “Third.” I’m not even quite sure what naming your children that says about a parent, but it can’t be good.
Please absolutely do NOT add special characters to a name. I have an apostrophe in my surname and that's bad enough. Every new job begins with a battle to get my email account working, webforms hate punctuation, and paying for things online is a pain because websites won't accept the apostrophe but my bank won't recognise my name without it. DO NOT ADD RANDOM THINGS INTO YOUR CHILD'S NAME.
Oh no did u change it?
yeah. i don't know where it happened, but my name, which is 12 characters, got split in half at one point so the DMV thinks i have two last names and i am struggling to fix it 4 years after getting my license. i can't imagine the nightmare of an apostrophe
I was thinking this too, even if you sign stuff digitally, it's still gonna be hard to have very special characters (like Greek letters, etc) that most keyboards won't have access to. Ain't nobody gonna know what half of those characters are! Apostrophies are one thing, but yeah, business emails and such aren't gonna be easy to do, much less other legal documents that may not have access to those.
And then how would it be translated to a cursive signature - though I've heard kids nowadays aren't even learning how to write in cursive so idk if that's gonna be a problem in the future or not - I think yes, since even some places require an electric signature that's still written in cursive...
I have a two word last name and this is already enough to confuse so many online systems. It’s ridiculous how programmers do not consider even the slightest variations in names.
Even just a hyphenated last name is hell
People would always assume my 2nd last name was my first name
So when I legally changed my name I also changed my last name
Also because both of them were already long last names
The funny thing is, Potatoooooooo’s name was a mistake. It was supposed to be Potato, but the groom (who wasn’t particularly literate bc poverty) misunderstood and put down eight os. The owner thought it was so funny that he registered it,
Pot-oooooooo. Not Potatoooooooo. You ruined the pun.
@@nlanwarne fr
@@nlanwarne pot88o
Put-8-O's
You watch odd1’sout? :)
Imagine yelling at your children for calling another child 'harlot' only to find out that THAT'S actually the girl's name.
Hopefully the mom dragged her daughter right back to the hospital to change the name...
The birth registry in the UK, will not allow any unusual, hyphenated, or stupid names go through. It thinks of the children growing up and having to live with insane names. At least I hope it still is like that!!!!!
This is a true story according to my old friend who was a camp counselor. At his camp they had young girl name Le-a. "Lee-ah, Lay-ah?" He'd ask. "No" she replied, "it's pronounced Ledasha. The dash ain't silent."
Oh weird. I knew a dude who worked in a university doing intake either for students or new employees (I don't recall which) and he can't across a La-a. She explained her name using the same wording, too!
Bro, my coworker used to go to church with a girl named Le-a, pronounced the exact same
@@calih2011 @notbot2648 Wow! As it turns out, it is a small world after all.
I'm naming my baby traditionally. Tra-ion Kar-ian.
I hope everybody in this comment section knows that the "Ledasha" story is actually just made up, racist bullshit, that got turned into a copypasta YEARS AGO
Whats ridiculous is how many people want "unique" names but instead of finding a actually unique name they take a really common name and spell it the most ridiculous way possible
And on the reverse people (sometimes the same people) will mock and belittle people with names they're not used to. I'm breton and so many friends or family members have been mocked, questioned or some other variation because people found their names "weird". Even the really basic names like Malo! Meanwhile I've known like 5 different Tugdual/Tudwal which makes the mocking of 4 letter names feel completely unwell to me
My older sister did this with my youngest niece her names Abigail but spelled Abygale I’m just glad I can just use the nickname Abbi for birthday and Christmas gifts
@@amaeliss7827 Thanks for sharing some interesting examples of names from one of the three surviving "P Celtic" languages. I'd be very interested to learn how my name ("Mahon," old Irish for "bear") would translate into Breton.
I know that in old Brittonic (the ancestor of Welsh, Cornish and Breton) it was something along the lines of "Artos," but I'd really love to know what it is in modern Breton.
*Go raibh maith agut.* ("Thank you" in Irish.)
@@That70sGuitarist oh, it'd be Arzhur or Arzul (I've seen that one more as a last name), I reckon. *Mersi vras dit* (thanks a lot)
@@amaeliss7827 Wow, I really like "Arzhur," but I absolutely love "Arzul!" Thanks ever so much!
Now, if I ever manage to visit your part of the world, I'll be able to introduce myself properly.😉
Maybe we could meet by the ruins of lost Tolente, or by what's left of the famous Yeun Elez bog.
That "mersi" sounds like it has some French influence, not surprisingly, much like the various English loan words found in modern Irish, I suppose.
I used to work in several schools and saw many different names. One precious little girl was named ‘Emma’. Instead of spelling her name like a sane person, her awful parents spelled it ‘Ehmmhah’. It threw me for a loop every time I saw it, and the poor girl kept putting the H’s in different places. THIS WAS THE MOST TAME EXAMPLE!!!
Also, the names at the end that Click had a hard time with are pronounced Rainbow and Brightly. I hate that I can decipher this.
I think at least one of her parents were high.
Rest in peace, you sorrowful fallen angel.
I can already imagine her being bullied in late elementary all the way to high school from the way her name is spelled. Poor kid.
The fact that "THIS WAS THE MOST TAME EXAMPLE!!!" is included in this text makes me scared and curious about other kids.
@@MeWhenTheWhen. there were about fifteen to twenty girls in a school with the name pronounced ‘Brixly’. All of them were spelled differently and some reached over ten letters long. Another popular one was ‘Brinley’, also spelled a bajillion different ways. I don’t want to get too specific, but there are a lot of kids that didn’t know how to spell their name. There was one girl who knew how to spell it, but she kept changing the way it was pronounced.
I miss when I was a kid and the quirky spelling of a name just involved using an ‘i’ at the end instead of ‘y’.
@@MissE_Art good god.
If I ever have kids, they'll get names that aren't completely off the wall.
Nevaeh is Heaven spelt backwards...😑
My daycare nanny named her child Peasant. My asked her why she would do that to her child, she replied with a shocked expression and said, "But don't you know, it's a beautiful bird!" 🙈 Dear parents, BEFORE you sign it on the birth certificate, please make sure you spell the name CORRECTLY. This girl has been mocked relentlessly, because her mother couldn't spell Pheasant. A simple mistake perhaps, but a lifelong disaster.
Even if you spell it correctly, be aware of pop culture history around the world. Anyone who hasn't tried to sing the pheasant plucker song at least once at a party, really needs to.
Uf ... if in my old school she would have prob. commited to not existing anymore ... people got bullied soooo bad (i almsot got unalived once) ... if someone called "peasant" would have been around they would have been the main target for some Father and motherless Bullies .... UF
I just remember a girl from high school whose middle name was Gayfox since she was born on Guy Fawkes day. At least she had a perfectly normal first name!
@@phantomflunder My brother was born on Guy Fawkes' Day... his middle name's Edward...?
Our dad was James though.😂
@@CandyHatsuneWolff what
22q means that they have 22q11-deletion syndrome, also called CATCH 22, a genetic disorder that affects a lot of the organs and also often leads to developmental delay and learning difficulties. Which seems to me to be a situation where having an impossible-to-spell name would be extra annoying.
Wow. Those names are even more abusive than I originally thought
If it’s genetic maybe that’s why their parents couldn’t spell the names right in the first place
No.. Then those names are straight up abusive!
the creepy thing is she stressed that they're beautiful. they think it's better to have developmentally disabled kids than to have lousy looking kids
Side note: catch 22 does not come from this mutation, but the mutation has received the nickname from the older "catch 22" which referred to psych evaluation to be medically discharged in WW2 (catch is that trying to leave the military is the sane thing to do, hence you are capable of service and can't be discharged)
As an Irish person, the spelling Ruairí is pretty common here, but if you're in another country you'll have problems
Literally came here to say the same 😂 as long as they prounnce it properly 😂 Americans are always butchering as gaeilge 😂
I worked with a lot of Polish ppl in the past and I noticed many names are ones I know already, but the spelling is just different. Once you understand the phonics, it's fine, but I could see people tripping up while reading it for the first time.
@@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl
To be fair, the whole Polish language is basically just the tragedeigh version of Czech/Slovakian.
Im having trouble with 'maria' like don't say it like mareeha or marya.... or any other possibility 😅
@@Alias_AnybodyAs someone with strong Polish heritage who knows the very very basics of Polish language- I agree with this statement xD
I have a hard enough time with my name simply being “Lacy” I get Lucy (at the dmv) almost always “Lisa” or “Tracy” are the most common. Also I’m a piss poor speller and even attempting these names are exhausting
To be fair to Rhys [at 14:30] it's pronounced like "Reese". It's actually a very old name with a long history, and comes from Wales if I recall correctly. It was even the name of a ruler of Wales in the 12th century, Rhys ap Gruffydd, who fought against the Normans.
But there is for sure a lot of cursed names in there ^^; just giving context on Rhys because that one's a linguistic misunderstanding more than anything.
Yeah, my nickname is Rhys so i felt kinda bad ngl
From the little I know, Rhys is a common name in Wales (I could be wrong).
According to Wiki, I’m correct, Rhys is a very common Welsh name.
@@aylacrissman3443 yeah im not certain where its from, but my nickname came from my birth name, where i got the nickname Rys, but when deciding what to change my name to my friends helped me find a name where Rhys is a nickname for. Unfortunately i pronounce it like the original Rys nickname was (think Kris without the K), and since the slang Rizz has popped up some ppl have tried to call me Rizz, which sucks
I had a kid in my class with the name Rhys and since I was like 11 and had never seen the name before, I called him "Rice" to my friends before I finally heard him say it was "Reese", felt so embarrassed 💀
Yeah I had a classmate named Rhys in 6th grade, I never asked but I always figured it was just an English spelling or something, just not spelled like Reese
10:45 Fun fact about Pot-8-o's, the story goes that that masterpiece was born from a misunderstanding because the owner of the horse told the stable boy to name it "Potato" on the feed bag, but the stable boy misunderstood it as "pot" "8" "o", wrote it down as "Potoooooooo" and the owner found it so amusing he kept it that way.
I tended to horses when I was younger, the owner brought them in from abroad. I guess he had quite some trouble reading the registration papers, because horse named Candy was changed into Gandi in the import process. I had to go behind the stables to let my scream-laughter out after checking the papers.
wouldn't it be Poooooooot?
@@galaxychill9578 I doesnt say Pot8o anymore in your version.
“Dad, how did I get my name?”
“You were named after the place your mother and I met”
“Gee, thanks Dad”
“You’re welcome, Walmart Parking Lot”
Best comment I’ve read all week
Next, someone will name their child Fetus, if they haven't already.
I worked at Disney World for many years and met a little girl named Erzebet. I surprised the heck out of her and her parents by not only correctly pronouncing the name but knowing what it meant (Hungarian form of Elizabeth). According to them, I was the first person outside the family who knew those two things.
The reason for her name is actually very sweet. She was named for a great grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant who fled the Soviets shortly after WWII. I said “You are aptly named, Erzi. She was strong and you are too.”
I named my all black cats Erzsabet Bathory and Contessa Elise (countess liz).
These Parents Be Like:
“Please Welcome The Newest Edition To The Hoffman Family, Jackque (Pronounced Jack)
Wops I accidentally replied instead of commented sry
Erzsébet is honestly such a beautiful name, I wish parents who wanted to give their kids unique names would just find variations in other languages or look for names from other cultures rather than making something up. (Obviously within reason, don't go and name your child an ethnic name from a different race or something that would be very confusing/difficult to explain and may cause offense)
My name is Saoirse and while people get it wrong, it's a beautiful Irish name and I wouldn't trade it for something else. But if I was named Seighr'shah I would be changing it ASAP.
Not to be rude but its erzsébet
knew a girl in college that was named "Wrainboux" (Pronounced Rainbow) when she spelled it for me she added "yes my parents are hippies" without me even asking
46:06 like this?
@@AriaFlame37 no it started with a “W”
@@archonfett no I mean that they’re both rainbow
@@AriaFlame37 oh, yes, the name is rare enough you don’t have to be quirky about it
It is possible to name a kid after a fictional character. You don't have to make that known, and you don't have to give them the full name. Like Arthur, Arnold, Timothy, James, Doug, Mark, or Christopher. All perfectly normal names that fictional characters also happen to have.
Also, Eren is a fine name. Most people will probably spell it Aaron, but still, it would have been fine without the Yager attached. See also Arin Hanson with his unusual spelling of the name. So long as you do it subtly, it's entirely possible to have a reverence to a fictional character without it being an issue.
For example, I know a kid who is named after his parent's favorite character from Babylon 5. His name seems completely mundane to the average person... but if you've seen Babylon 5, you're like "Oh! The ranger guy!"
So I could name my kid Azula?
Know a guy that has the first and middle name “ Anikin Skywalker”. Have seen his legal ID
my french teacher told us about one of her friend's kids(?). the kid's grandmother is named Jone, and the kid's full name is Indiana Jone (insert last name)
I mean there's a load of kids named Harry, Hermione and likely Ron and Draco so yeah. If it's mundane enough you can get away with it. Hell, I'm sure there's a bunch of Bruces, Robins, Clarks etc.
The issue as you mentioned is taking the unique names and keeping them that way. Like yeah, you can wholly believe your child is so unique to you, but don't let that serve as the sole reason to use a name that they will likely be bullied for.
That fuckin blazeleigh dayze sounds like a weed straine😂
like "you're gonna be blazed for dayze with this shit" lmfao
Eva and Emma's mom really did not see that Eva Lynn would sound like Evelyn and Emma Leigh sound like Emily? That would have been so dope and also honoured both grandmas.
Or they could have gone the other way around with Emma Lynn/Emeline and Eva Leigh/Everly or something. Those sound less similar but would still fit
“I thought I was fluent in English”
Me, a native English speaker: me too… me too…
Also Morgan wants to be edgy, goes with Morgue-Anne, instead of accepting Morgan Le fey mother of Mordred, half-sibling of Gawain, or in other versions was nephew of Arthur that later slew him to be later revived in England’s darkest hour.
Someone wanted to flex their knowledge of arthurian legend huh
@@chomik172 and why not?
damn this comment came at a perfect time because I'm reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for class rn
I was thinking the same thing, like Morgan is already pretty kick-ass.
Considering their age i highly doubt they knew about that 😂
Morgue Anne makes a lil more sense bc morgue is a well known word even for ten year olds
20 years later:
Mother: Meet our baby, "Skibhi'dee Qeyedududhdhej Smith"
People: Uhhh...?
Skibideigh
As someone with an apostrophe in my last name, I can 100% assure using special characters in a name is assuring a life of problems with banks, the government, and poorly programed apps. That's with what is probably the most common special character in a name too. I can't imagine the hell with Greek symbols.
YES a software we have at work is so incompatible with apostrophes and I always feel bad when we have to go through and awkwardly edit someone’s name just to have the software accept it.
As someone whose first name is hyphenated, I don't even use the hypen online anymore.
I have a hyphenated first name. A government website refused to let me type in my legal name because of the special character. What should have been an hour long process took 6 months as I had to do all the manual paperwork
@@morgiana111 Its still everywhere in 2024 too. Sure, I could understand some limitations if the system was built in the 80s, but brand new software is still doing this in some cases. I remember my parents got in a big mess with the IRS because of it in the 90s.
My last name it irish and the apostrophe is important and meaningful. I hate not using it but have pretty much accepted reality and never use it with tech because of all the problems I have had in the past.
For me, my name is a perfectly common Arabic name, Benazir, but thing is, my nickname when I lived in Tunisia was Nazi (Nah-zee). Didn't realise how bad that was until I moved to australia when I was 15, and now get called Ben by most friends.
my landlord is from Turkey and his first name is Naci, which if you read it "germanly" sounds a lot like "Nazi". He prefers to be called by his last name^^
How did you introduce yourself when you first moved to Australia? Like, "Hi, my name is Benazir, but my friends call me Nazi"? Cuz I definitely know what my reaction would be as an american if I heard that, especially as a latina.💀Your full name is cool btw!
@@zombieedrea I was just like "Oh hey, I'm Benazir, but you can call me Naz or Nazi or whatever. Then they told me Nazi was what in tunisia we call "al-Nazi" in english, and I was like "Oh shit! Well, then just call me ben or somethin'.
@@Benwut ahhh, I see. That makes sense. It makes me think of well-meaning but silly people on twitter who go upset over spanish seaking people saying "negro" in spanish, and thinking that's racist since in the english language, "negro" can/has 100% been used as a slur against black people in america specifically. Only the word "negro" in spanish just means black, as in the color, not a black *person.* It was a very silly day on that hellsite lol.
Seriously though, in the US studies still show that resumes from "ethnic" names are more likely to be rejected than those with "normal" names.
People with "normal" names are more likely to be already from America and have more money so better educated and more qualified for anything. It's not a name thing.
Yup
The only except I can think of are maybe names of Western European or Jewish heritage.
But I doubt people are gonna be okay with pronouncing Shakked Azoulay.
(שקד אזולאי translation; almond azalea )
Don’t even get me started on how many times people would ask someone named Bar if they mean the place where they server beer.
aaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
@@Alberto2That's just racist.
@@oakenshadow6763 How? That's just how it is.
3:12 op missed the opportunity to say "three tragedeigh's in one famileigh"
33:58 this is like naming your kid “Chinese” or “Jewish” or “Aboriginal” for the record- the Romani are a southeastern European ethnic group.
To specify Romani people are most likemy Indian decented people inhabiting most of Europe and are not even that closely related to each other. To give an example Finnish Romani people are more related to Finns than French Romanis
The first name of the spokesman of the German Romani council is... Romani 😅 (Romani Rose)
Here are my children: Pikeigh and Ghyppo
While there has been some local intermarrying over time in their wide travels, the Romani are originally from the Indian subcontinent and retain some cultural aspects.
I really like Romani. It's pretty. If you have Romani heritage it's a nice call out to it. I've heard Roman as a name too. So there is precedent for it.
You know. In Germany we currently have the trend of reviving old names like Emil, Wilhelm, Johan, Konrad, Emma, Ruth, Irma.
People like to make fun of that (mainly the media).
Probably because they don't know how much worse it could be.
Emma and ruth are quite common in the uk.
Yeah, WE have laws that prevent the worst
Yeah, WE have laws that prevents the worst
@@michellej7831Just that you pronounce Ruth Not root
Idk if you knew but Konrad is actually a normal name in poland, like no one will bully you here (at least to my knowledge). It is old based on the historical figures and literature we learn in School, but it's not archaic and it's out of the blue field to name your boy Konrad.
The reason that Irish names don't follow English spelling is that the names are not only a different language, but a differant language family all together. Irish is part of the Celtic language family, while English and Swedish are part of the Germanic family. That's why ClickyThicky really botched the name Sinéad, it's just too foreign. I myself can't even intuatively figure out how an Irish name/word is supposed to be pronounced, and I HAVE ONE. Which is why I'm going to try to learn Irish. Knowing my trackrecord [With learning languages], it won't go well or easily.
All the more-traditional Jewish names can seem incomprehensible and often all unpronounceable, if not a Tragideih
Nachshom
Gershon
Avigail
Bruruah
Chavah
Chaiyah
Devora
Rukhel
Avidan
Noach
Eliyahu
Aminidav
Yiskah
Yitzchak
Shimon
Shmuel
Moshe
Moishe
Daniel (“No, it’s pronounced Dah-nee-ell”)
Yaakov
Yosef
Yoisef
Mara
Aharon
Zelda
Shoshanna
Shlomo
Yoel
Boaz
Yonasan
Yehudah
Naomi
Gad
You might meet an Israeli named/nicknamed “Dudu”. Yes. It’s pronounced “doo-doo”.
Levi (“it’s actually pronounced Lay-vee”)
Ariel (as a boy’s name. Aree-EL)
Tamar (this girl’s parents are likely strongly-feminist, if progressive at all)
Shaul. Sha-OOL
Keep in mind: all those “ch” and “kh” sounds are gutterals. A hacking, cat hissy, k+h sound.
Yitzchach Yeets-*hock up loogie*
Feivel is a normal Yiddish name. The mouse has a normal-ass name and now everyone thinks these boys are named after a mouse. There is a serious chance there are many hardcore orthodox boys named Feivel Moskowitz.
@@GretchZ This is an amazing list!
Funnily enough though, I instinctively pronounced all the names you gave phonetics for exactly the same way as the phonetics you gave! :D
Like I got really confused with Daniel because I was going like: Wait, but isn't that the normal way though? Oh no! This is in English! They weren't expecting me to pronounce it the Dutch way!
I actually have a friend called Daniel so I'm completely used to using that pronounciation. And I've also come across a Levi once.
Just checking, a fair number of these names are Yiddish right?
Because if that's the case then that would explain why I don't have that much difficulty.
I'm actually Dutch. Only half Irish. So I'm used to speaking a normal west-Germanic language. A fair couple I've also come across in the wild, so it's not particularly news to me. These things make it much easier for me to pronounce these names then it is for some mono-glot anglophone who only knows English. A language which has drifted so far from it's roots as a Germanic language that there's an entire movement dedicated to removing all the French influence and turning it from a hodgepodge of Romance and Germanic languages into a pure Germanic language again.
I do have to ask, how do you pronounce the "ch" and "kh" in Dutch you pronounce the ch as a harsh(er) g. Which in Dutch is pronounced by imitating the sound of sawing a tree down. But I don't know if that is the particular guttural sound your looking for.
And Dutch doesn't have a kh sound, so I have no frame of refrence to make it.
Lastly, one more thing. I've actually made a list of names which sound like a tradegeigh,. Is it possibly for you to copy this comment and put the cop in the replies to that list?
If it's to much of a bother please tell and I'll do it. But I'd prefer it's easy to see who made the additional entry to the list. While I'd ofcourse credit you and stuff, I'd like people to be able to see it at first glance.
Though I get if you don't want to, for me it's at the top of the comments, but for you it's somewhere right in the middle of the comment soup!
Probably near the bottom as well, since I'm pretty sure I'm the only on who's seen it.
@@GretchZ Imagine that. A fictional mouse steals your name. That would suck.
Unfortunately some people just don't know much about the names of other cultures. I mean it makes sense, it's not something easily deapdived (I mean I do, but I'm a special case of weird). But it's easy enough to imagne that a name like "Feivel" is a regular name somewhere.
I mean it looks and sounds German, and it's pretty bland. Do you honestly think the writers managed to create such a good normal sounding name on their own from scratch? Of course not! Names are one of the worst things to figure out, when you can steal one, you do!
I think any- and everyone who ever researched the history of holidays was quite surprised at the pronounciation of "Samhain". 😅
Since Potatoooooooo got mentioned shout out to my favorite racehorse ever named Hoof Hearted. Liatening to the announcers of the race slowly fight back laughter as they realize what they were calling out fills me with joy--it's one of my fondest memories watching it with my mother.
I’ve heard the same thing happens with Japanese children too. See, Japanese has 3 writing systems, one of these being hiragana and katakana, which are phonetic. The third is kanji, which are lifted from Chinese, and are logographic, essentially meaning they have multiple pronunciations based on context, and 2 kanji combined together could be pronounced entirely differently to the two kanji separately. Many names have multiple ways of being written, using different kanji, and while they may be pronounced the same, and appear the same when romanised, have entirely different meanings based on the meanings of the kanji used.
Some Japanese parents have started giving their children unusual names, comprised of Kanji that are read in non-traditional ways. This creates names that anyone reading for the first time will have no idea how to read, and have been dubbed “Kirakira Names”, which translates to “Sparkling Names”. Another name for these that I recently head is “DQN name”. DQN, a shorter way of typing “Dokyun”, is apparently Japanese internet slang that means something like “pleb”, according to Wiktionary.
One example of a Kirakira name (that has become fairly well known from what I can tell) was a child named “光宇”, comprised of kanji that I believe mean “light” and “space”, when written on their own. However, the intended reading of this name given by the child’s parents is “Pikachu”. Like the Pokémon.
Idiocy is a global disease, and while it might be sad to see how common this stuff is, I personally find it comforting to know we’re not alone in dealing with stuff like this, and that even foreign countries have issues like ours. I think it’s nice to know that despite any of the language barriers, and our cultural differences, in the end we’re really not so unalike.
It doesn't help that in Japan, the kanji in names can be read however the parent wanted it to be read when filling out the birth notification form. There is no combination of alternate readings that would get Pikachu from 光宇.
Reminds me of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei manga/anime.
The main character's full name when written horizontally had meaning "despair" or "suffering" (i don't remember which one) so when they were writing it they were "leaving a large space between words"
Yeah, the Japanese naming conventions can be pretty wild. Kanji have "onyomi" (Chinese readings) and "kunyomi" (Japanese readings). When writing names, they pretty much exclusively use kunyomi, but there can still be multiple sounds to choose from. It makes it a nightmare for non-native speakers to read names unless there are furigana (pronunciation characters, typically written in hiragana).
Ah, see Japan is actually one of those countries where you have to pick your kids name from an approved list to avoid this sort of thing. Clearly they found a loophole. Reminds me of Death Note: it wasn't an dub name change his name was pronounced Raito, literally: that's literally how the English word "Light" is pronounced... it was spelled with the Kanji for Moon (this was a minor plot point). Like, did they know he was going to be an anime protagonist?!
Aside from super common names, I, for the life in me, cannot decipher the pronunciation of a lot of Japanese names.
I work with a company that processes legal documents. Not a DAY goes by that I do not get a name change form across my desk. Almost every single one had an absurd name spelling, Was 20 letters long, and completely unpronounceable. Almost every time they changed their name to something simple, Like James or Susan. Once in a while, the name change came because their name was after a cartoon character, Book, movie, TV character, or superhero. I feel for these people because, by the time I get their paperwork for the name change, I assume they went through YEARS of teasing because of their names.
"You're not naming a piece of property."
Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. Here's your No-Prize, don't spend it all in one place.
Back in 1997 I wanted a unique name for my daughter and went with Madison, after the movie Billie Madison (don't ask). At the time, the name was rare and locally more boy than girl. To my surprise, two other Madisons in the nursery, but they were spelled horrifically! I was mad at my sister for tossing an extra L in Alex for her kid, but these babies had Maddyson and Madasin... I mean, seriously. My daughter loves to be able to say, 'traditional spelling' instead of having to use interpretive dance to check into an appointment.
If my parents named me something like "Rohn'aald" I'd die of shame the moment I was born.
Like, am I human or an alien warrior cat?
You're a shape shifter who hasn't found out how to sprout a tail and a pair of antlers yet, easy.
That sounds like the name of a dragon in skyrim.
My sister got named Jeylana, but the goverment was like: nope. And now she's just Jelana.
LOL THE WARRIORS SHADE
The Warrior Cats usually have more sensical names
That's why Germany has laws in place for names. A few years ago, a mother wanted to name a kid Jacqueline, but completely botched the spelling to "make it easier". Schakelien, I think. The court rightfully rejected it and told her to spell it right or choose something else.
ngl when it's spelled like that my brain defaults to making the first E long, so I feel like it's not even really equivalent in pronunciation to the original name...
I can't find any written laws about this, I have a headache so idgaf about finding it.
I think doctors legally can in America they just never do
it took me ages to get that the name was supposed to resemble Jacqueline
"Sch" and "J" aren't even the same sound, plus you'd have to spell it "Schaklien",
Wenn schon denn schon.
Germany is a w for that… or teach these people basic grammar. It’s not hard, if you can’t even pronounce a word then that’s a problem
The origin of Potoooooooo is even funnier; one day, I think before a race, the owner of Potato told I think a trainer to Wright "Potato" on something, but the trainer (?) misheard Pot-8-o, and wrote Potoooooooo instead, and that name stuck. Naming a pet/horse potato is kinda cute, though.
If I ever get a Pug or other short and round dog, that’s what I’m naming it!
I know two dogs named Potato, a Tater, a Tate whose full name is Tater Tot, and a Spud, I love it for every single one of them 😂
@@maritasue5067and yes, one of the Potatoes is a pug(?) mutt, (very brown and round,) and Spud is a brown Pomeranian with a very round haircut 😂
When I was in high school, a teacher once told the class that if you have a very obscure name or one that isn't spelled correctly, a lot of potential employers will throw your résumé right into the trash. So not only are these parents setting their kids up for a childhood of bullying with these garbage names, they're diminishing the kids' prospects all throughout life. Worth considering before giving your kid a "quirky" name like this: how will it treat them down the line?
Got this talk too from every teacher since I was 12, because I was the only one in my year with a tragedeigh name for the time. :| They weren't wrong. I've struggled with legal documents, job prospects, employment in general. Many people can't even spell or pronounce it properly. It's been the bane of my existence. I'm getting it legally changed.
damn, did i screw myself over by changing my name to mordred?
@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma
That’s an uncommon name, not a stupid name.
as a trans man who picked an unusual name (Apollo) I've even been thinking of more formal names to use for these jobs for that reason
One of my friends did the "Lawyer Test": would you trust a lawyer with that name? Or would you side eye?
... then they chose a tragedy
I remember hearing 3 stories related to naming in Japan:
1) A father wanted to name his son 悪魔 (aku-ma) which means “devil.” The Japanese government obviously did not approve of that name.
2) A couple wanted to name their newborn daughter 水子 (mizu-ko) which literally translates to “water child.” They were, however, quickly informed that that word actually means “stillborn” which they freaked out and chose a different (but normal) name.
3) There was a young man whose mother named him 王子様 (ou-ji-sama) which would translate to something like “esteemed prince.” He hated it and changed it to a more common name 肇 (hajime) much to his mother’s disapproval.
I supposed the Japanese equivalent to tragedeighs would be kirakira names.
This is more on the darker side of history, but I really love the fact that some farmer in Korea under the Japanese soverign had to change his name to Japanese(probably around 1930~1940s);
1) his original name was 田炳夏 (very normal name for a Korean farmer back then)
2) he added 農(to farm / farming) to his name to make his name 田農炳夏
3) the new name, when pronounced in Japanese, sounds like 'Tenno Haika'
4) which is similar to how they pronounce 'His majesty'
5) promptly got arrested
For clarity I do not find his arrest funny
@Asteri0519 I read 4, laughed and then read 5. Woow...insane.
My mom used to work in juvenile court. She has seen multiple kids named “princess”. Probably one of the worst names you can be stuck with.
Oh wow, seriously! That is very awful as a name.
The only person I've ever known that used that was a homeless junkie girl I used to know, and her nickname was Princess.
I guess because she liked to wear pink and her parents were pretty wealthy.
But she was certainly not a princess 😂
I've know multiple people with the name Princess in my life. At least one uses Prince now and the rest are attempting to legally change their names
literally they can just name the baby 'Sara'. The meaning of it is 'princess' and it's a normal, pretty name
My mom used to be a teacher. She taught this one kid who had "Prince" before their name to make it seem like they had a royal title. She also taught a kid named "Megatron"
@@PronounsInBioyour bio 💀
fun fact my nickname used to be insomnia (not because of sleep or anything like that my friend just thought it sounded alike enough to my name while also being strange) and if i ever heard someone call their kid insomnia i would run the other direction.
Whenever I see a wack name it makes me think if a kid I met back when I was like 10, my dad pulled me aside and told me that his name was Skywalker.
Just, Skywalker. No Luke, just Skywalker, my dad pulled me aside to tell me specifically that I couldn't say "Luke I am your father" because he knew id do that. I asked my dad why he was named Skywalker and the explanation was that they were hippies, they didn't even like Star wars.
Sometimes I wonder if Skywalker changed his name....
Ok but did you say it..?
@@aoneal3723 my dad stopped me before I could
Funny enough, I knew a kid named Luke growing up. He was just the right age where it was a coin flip as to whether his name was taken from the original release of Star Wars, or the Bible.
I live in New Zealand and it's very common for people to be named after rivers and mountains (example; Rangiora, Manu, Ngarunui etc) but I wait for the day someone names their child after the longest place name in the world (which happens to be in NZ) Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
42:49 Reminds me of a funny story my mom told me: When she was pregnant with my brother, she was deciding between two names for him. Now, both of these names were very normal, typical Indian names. But because this wasn't India, but the United States, what stood out the most was that one of the names was 'Kaushik'.
She went with the other name when her coworker kept going, "You're naming you're kid COW SHIT?"
I really hope she went for the Meaning of the Indian name or for a name that sound similar in English.. I think Cody sounds nice and after short Google search does have a nice meaning.
I feel like a good rule of thumb is, if you can't find the name you chose for your kid on one of those keychain racks in gift shops? It's probably a bad name. Obviously, this only applies to American names.
I named my daughter Luna and was so worried she would grow up to hate it that I gave her two middle names so she could go by one😭😭 now shes got 3 other Lunas in her class alone
That’s a such pretty name. If I had a daughter (never will cause I don’t want kids), Luna would definitely be one of the options.
If anyone ever wants to give their child a name related to the moon, Celene is a good alternative to Luna
@@PotPam Celeste was my second option but my mom hated it lol
My sister's name is Luna, lol
I had a cat named Luna. So did about six other people I know....