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Комментарии • 15 тыс.

  • @kathrinstegmayer4528
    @kathrinstegmayer4528 6 месяцев назад +1812

    "Dad am I adopted?"
    - "Why are you asking, Grindrleigh?"

  • @rosestern5502
    @rosestern5502 6 месяцев назад +12374

    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🎉

    • @LexifromZargon
      @LexifromZargon 6 месяцев назад +312

      Was about to say that!

    • @alicevanhuijzen-vandenbran6646
      @alicevanhuijzen-vandenbran6646 6 месяцев назад +601

      Yes also in Denmark and the Netherlands

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +500

      There IS still some weird Shit that goes through, but at least there IS the possability to avoids the worst

    • @mipsan
      @mipsan 6 месяцев назад +635

      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.

    • @JustYourAverageMilkLover
      @JustYourAverageMilkLover 6 месяцев назад +59

      GOOD

  • @tiaxanderson9725
    @tiaxanderson9725 6 месяцев назад +1077

    Rip Christopher
    "My condolences to the family"
    "Erh, Rip is the baby's name!"
    "My condolences to the baby"

    • @searchingfororion
      @searchingfororion 6 месяцев назад +39

      I constantly ask myself this whenever I see Rip Torn in a film... Is that an incredibly metal SAG name or ignorant parents?

    • @Techy404
      @Techy404 6 месяцев назад +19

      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

    • @lfr8666
      @lfr8666 6 месяцев назад +21

      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.

    • @tiaxanderson9725
      @tiaxanderson9725 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@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

    • @tiaxanderson9725
      @tiaxanderson9725 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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

  • @karanhdream
    @karanhdream Месяц назад +146

    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."

    • @fizzyofbrassica
      @fizzyofbrassica 24 дня назад +7

      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.”

    • @karanhdream
      @karanhdream 23 дня назад +3

      ​@@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 😅)

    • @theempath8244
      @theempath8244 7 дней назад

      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.

  • @alostkoi
    @alostkoi 6 месяцев назад +7394

    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.

    • @kitkatbreaker1270
      @kitkatbreaker1270 6 месяцев назад +451

      Hell yeah children rights!

    • @nola281
      @nola281 6 месяцев назад +422

      You really should consider how the name will affect them later. Don't give them names to make the bullies really hunt them.

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 6 месяцев назад +416

      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!

    • @Amelia-vk4jt
      @Amelia-vk4jt 6 месяцев назад +77

      Oh yes I live in one such country and really wish I could change it but alas no can do

    • @mysticpumpkin8520
      @mysticpumpkin8520 6 месяцев назад +173

      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!!

  • @yfkevangeest8748
    @yfkevangeest8748 6 месяцев назад +3087

    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

    • @Envy-Animations
      @Envy-Animations 6 месяцев назад +264

      Leaux quality comment (not)

    • @djoctobeat5204
      @djoctobeat5204 6 месяцев назад +276

      Neaux way

    • @helyphion
      @helyphion 6 месяцев назад +136

      you really did just deaux this huh... congrats

    • @griff2009
      @griff2009 6 месяцев назад +140

      "Eaux" is technicaly the plural of "eau" which mean water

    • @quakxy_dukx
      @quakxy_dukx 6 месяцев назад +40

      @@griff2009I always find that funny

  • @jacobmerrill693
    @jacobmerrill693 6 месяцев назад +3289

    "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

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +190

      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?!

    • @shaunalennon3144
      @shaunalennon3144 6 месяцев назад +193

      When naming my children I consider how their name would sound being yelled across the neighborhood.

    • @prcupine9066
      @prcupine9066 6 месяцев назад +164

      Exactly! I really like “Rosie” for a baby girl but want to do “Rosalie” so she can go by that or even Rose

    • @Annie_Annie__
      @Annie_Annie__ 6 месяцев назад +121

      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.

    • @themeemqueen
      @themeemqueen 6 месяцев назад +38

      @@SingingSealRianaI think Lenny is a okay name?? But I'm not a native speaker so idk

  • @LaRana2315
    @LaRana2315 Месяц назад +24

    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.

  • @magmaferret636
    @magmaferret636 6 месяцев назад +2088

    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.

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +81

      Yeah, but Like really confusing and hard on everyone Not socialised Irish . . .the spelling Problem stays the Same . . .

    • @JayLeeBeanz
      @JayLeeBeanz 6 месяцев назад +160

      I was about to say. That name seemed to be the most normal one on that list.

    • @unapologeticallylizzy
      @unapologeticallylizzy 6 месяцев назад +146

      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)

    • @treekritter7522
      @treekritter7522 6 месяцев назад +79

      ​@@SingingSealRianabut if you're Irish I think its fine to keep your cultural name lol.

    • @YourWaywardDestiny
      @YourWaywardDestiny 6 месяцев назад +68

      @@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?

  • @morganqorishchi8181
    @morganqorishchi8181 6 месяцев назад +944

    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.

    • @thaloblue
      @thaloblue 6 месяцев назад +197

      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.

    • @chatnoir9038
      @chatnoir9038 6 месяцев назад +35

      Jesus christ...

    • @B.Harper7
      @B.Harper7 6 месяцев назад +52

      Yup, that sounds murrican enough 👌

    • @GeekGamer666
      @GeekGamer666 6 месяцев назад +49

      Please don't hate me... it's 'undue' distress... I'll go away now.

    • @LesbianImpact
      @LesbianImpact 6 месяцев назад +55

      TULULADOESTHEHULA??? 😭😭😭💀

  • @Shaggy9271
    @Shaggy9271 6 месяцев назад +3081

    For Ora-Leigh to be the butt of every joke her name would have to be Ana-Leigh

    • @goverlord
      @goverlord 6 месяцев назад +48

      my boomer sister was named Leora

    • @wouldntyouliketoknowwesath7789
      @wouldntyouliketoknowwesath7789 6 месяцев назад +163

      Aura Lynn honestly sounds like a much better name than the other options. If they're head set on it.

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 6 месяцев назад +138

      Guys, Aurelia is *right there*

    • @janmots2829
      @janmots2829 6 месяцев назад

      I guess that must really suck for her? 🤔🤨😉😂

    • @nicjoy4407
      @nicjoy4407 6 месяцев назад +31

      The BUTT of the joke....

  • @SixtiesWoman
    @SixtiesWoman 28 дней назад +8

    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.

  • @dragonswirl3579
    @dragonswirl3579 6 месяцев назад +332

    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"

  • @curiousnerdkitteh
    @curiousnerdkitteh 6 месяцев назад +659

    "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.

    • @fridyaliii
      @fridyaliii 6 месяцев назад +49

      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

    • @SamirCCat
      @SamirCCat 6 месяцев назад +40

      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".

    • @fartmagus
      @fartmagus 6 месяцев назад

      BAHAAA🤣🤣🤣🤣
      have nicknames died?

    • @tuturuu104
      @tuturuu104 6 месяцев назад +15

      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.

    • @genbunin5376
      @genbunin5376 6 месяцев назад +4

      Or they’ll think of the Downward Spiral album by Nin…..😬😬😬🫠🫠🫠

  • @heartofthewild680
    @heartofthewild680 6 месяцев назад +397

    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.

    • @Cenn_Devel
      @Cenn_Devel 6 месяцев назад +32

      But the problem is these parents here don't seem to be in doubt about their name choices at all.

    • @hmnhntr
      @hmnhntr 6 месяцев назад +31

      ​@@Cenn_DevelRule 1: Always have some doubt about choices that will last a lifetime

    • @Cenn_Devel
      @Cenn_Devel 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@hmnhntr Alright 👍

    • @valkyrie1066
      @valkyrie1066 Месяц назад +4

      Great idea. If there's a way to get a joke out of it, they'll figure it out quick.

    • @doodle1804
      @doodle1804 Месяц назад +1

      When you show it to the girls, they're just gonna stare at you, making you rethink all your life choices

  • @quinnholleman1547
    @quinnholleman1547 8 дней назад +7

    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

  • @crystalratclffe3258
    @crystalratclffe3258 6 месяцев назад +1555

    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

    • @bforman1300
      @bforman1300 6 месяцев назад +372

      Had twin students named Male and Female, pronounced "mah-lee" and "f'mah-lee".
      Yes, their parents spoke English.

    • @JediLoreen
      @JediLoreen 6 месяцев назад +39

      *knew, not "new". 🤨🤔🤦🤷🙄👎

    • @wigley7610
      @wigley7610 6 месяцев назад +43

      Knew*

    • @CordeliaWagner1999
      @CordeliaWagner1999 6 месяцев назад

      Learn the langzage BRFORE you immugrate

    • @alexesloan8325
      @alexesloan8325 6 месяцев назад +187

      @@JediLoreenyou understood what the person meant and this isn’t college so it’s fine

  • @MyVanHaven
    @MyVanHaven 6 месяцев назад +1223

    "You can't just make up phonetic stuff that doesn't exist."
    The English language: Ghuld mae behir

    • @KimonFrousios
      @KimonFrousios 6 месяцев назад +127

      I resent that it only took me two attempts to read that last thing...

    • @Virtualblueart
      @Virtualblueart 6 месяцев назад +74

      Ah, smells like Welsh.

    • @saasseli
      @saasseli 6 месяцев назад +36

      can someone explain that last part?

    • @saasseli
      @saasseli 6 месяцев назад +35

      @Iyasaykicyh huh, now it seems obvious, thanks

    • @jurealeksejev3568
      @jurealeksejev3568 6 месяцев назад +29

      Bloody brilliant mate! You may remember a little video called If English was Phonetically Consistent...

  • @nickiebanchou
    @nickiebanchou 6 месяцев назад +780

    amazing moment when baby finally starts calling his parents "Meaummeigh" or "Dahdheey"

    • @nihathepurrito
      @nihathepurrito 6 месяцев назад +55

      I laughed so hard I woke up my Meaummeigh and Dahdheey 🤣🤣

    • @harveyhaslostit
      @harveyhaslostit 6 месяцев назад +14

      Really impressing that this young child can already pronounce words with such a complicated spelling!

    • @Nox.x_ART
      @Nox.x_ART 6 месяцев назад +16

      I read this in a peppa pig-ish voice in my head

    • @valerielevasseur8674
      @valerielevasseur8674 6 месяцев назад +16

      You forgot the apostrophe: Dahdhe'ey

    • @ThinWhiteAxe
      @ThinWhiteAxe День назад +1

      Dha'deigh

  • @avisartstudio9747
    @avisartstudio9747 Месяц назад +28

    Worked in a daycare and had several children named "Unique"

  • @Vox-Multis
    @Vox-Multis 6 месяцев назад +1390

    I'm going to name my child "Gorgorax, Destroyer of Worlds."
    Or Jason, if it's a boy.

    • @KaoticWhisper
      @KaoticWhisper 6 месяцев назад +84

      "Gorgorax want's their mummy"

    • @arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42
      @arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42 6 месяцев назад +9

      Ok, hope it's a boy, I think Jason is just a way better name than anything destruction-related and sounds nice

    • @GeekGamer666
      @GeekGamer666 6 месяцев назад +41

      @@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42 it's a joke...

    • @aiden3627
      @aiden3627 6 месяцев назад +80

      The Doctor “I speak baby!” *listens to infant babbling* “He say his name isn’t Alphie, it’s Stormageddon Dark Lord of All.” 😂

    • @it.comes.around
      @it.comes.around 6 месяцев назад +24

      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.

  • @chunglu
    @chunglu 6 месяцев назад +987

    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.

    • @mysticpumpkin8520
      @mysticpumpkin8520 6 месяцев назад +195

      I didnt knew Vipziepop had children😂

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 6 месяцев назад +204

      ​@@mysticpumpkin8520 Honestly Gina is so much better than Vaggie

    • @justsomething1349
      @justsomething1349 6 месяцев назад +135

      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 😰

    • @Zoey_the_Rat
      @Zoey_the_Rat 6 месяцев назад +29

      @@justsomething1349 despite being russian, I read g as j here, heh

    • @ferretqueen2908
      @ferretqueen2908 6 месяцев назад +60

      ​@@justsomething1349 I don't understand the thought process of some people...like how could that name have gone any other way

  • @TeroTheShortOne
    @TeroTheShortOne 6 месяцев назад +704

    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. 😑

    • @qwinlyn
      @qwinlyn 6 месяцев назад +70

      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
      @Chocobo0Scribe 6 месяцев назад +33

      @@qwinlyn ever had a teacher who always butchered a name when the only difference was K instead of a C?

    • @qwinlyn
      @qwinlyn 6 месяцев назад +30

      @@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.

    • @lestatsluv317
      @lestatsluv317 6 месяцев назад +24

      ​@@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. 😂

    • @lazyperfectionist3978
      @lazyperfectionist3978 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@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

  • @qbking3
    @qbking3 Месяц назад +23

    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.

    • @MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram
      @MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram Месяц назад

      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.

    • @qbking3
      @qbking3 Месяц назад

      @@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram my dad wanted the name because of starwars

  • @curiousnerdkitteh
    @curiousnerdkitteh 6 месяцев назад +613

    "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.

    • @cftyftyufyfuyfty
      @cftyftyufyfuyfty 6 месяцев назад +64

      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"

    • @ElaineAlwaysMS
      @ElaineAlwaysMS 6 месяцев назад +32

      And Charlie was right there (Charline being another fine choice)

    • @spammywaifu1996
      @spammywaifu1996 6 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@ElaineAlwaysMSalso Charlotte. JUST ADD A C.

    • @n0va_starr
      @n0va_starr 6 месяцев назад +8

      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. 😭😭😭

    • @michaelklaus
      @michaelklaus 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@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.

  • @luniticarmor6843
    @luniticarmor6843 6 месяцев назад +332

    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 .

    • @crowdemon_archives
      @crowdemon_archives 6 месяцев назад +33

      Unless you want to make a meme out of that poor NPC 😅

    • @tntgirl7820
      @tntgirl7820 5 месяцев назад +2

      Same 😭

    • @comradewindowsill4253
      @comradewindowsill4253 5 месяцев назад +5

      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...

    • @CaptainCloudyNWhiskers
      @CaptainCloudyNWhiskers 2 месяца назад +2

      I just give my fantasy characters normal names like Nolan.

    • @valkyrie1066
      @valkyrie1066 Месяц назад +3

      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.....

  • @dudewhatthewhat8983
    @dudewhatthewhat8983 6 месяцев назад +430

    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.

    • @thethe4665
      @thethe4665 6 месяцев назад +24

      Baby Bertha? Baby Gertrude?

    • @ZarBluestar
      @ZarBluestar 6 месяцев назад +51

      I’d much rather name a baby in 2024 Gertrude/Matilda/Maynard/etc than a key mash or innuendo

    • @amberg4131
      @amberg4131 6 месяцев назад

      My nieces initials for her first middle and last name spell Vag… I hope she never realizes

    • @haq248
      @haq248 6 месяцев назад

      @@thethe4665 baby Phyllis baby Enid baby edwin

    • @FunkyLittlePoptart
      @FunkyLittlePoptart 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@thethe4665 What's wrong with Gertrude? That's how you get Trudy, which is a perfectly acceptable and boring name.

  • @valentinagiovanardi6080
    @valentinagiovanardi6080 Месяц назад +7

    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.

  • @kassivils5260
    @kassivils5260 6 месяцев назад +1686

    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!” 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️

    • @Sucellusification
      @Sucellusification 6 месяцев назад +75

      Yersinia sounds like a name someone from Colombia could have

    • @Ri_F
      @Ri_F 6 месяцев назад +64

      I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone out there called Koev Idixx or Coron Avighroos

    • @kassivils5260
      @kassivils5260 6 месяцев назад +83

      @@Sucellusification, it does sound close to Yesenia, but still, it would be pretty awful to name your child Yersinia Pestis.

    • @dr.chillwell4435
      @dr.chillwell4435 6 месяцев назад +45

      Roseola was in this video somewhere too. We're just naming our kids after rashes now.

    • @bigboredthing
      @bigboredthing 6 месяцев назад +29

      @@Ri_F I seem to remember a Click video a couple of years back where someone posted the birth of their new son, Covid.

  • @EveningSoother
    @EveningSoother 6 месяцев назад +423

    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.

    • @pokemata1035
      @pokemata1035 6 месяцев назад +103

      Divine Woodpecker sounds like a damn codename, "Commence Operation Divine Woodpecker"

    • @5688gamble
      @5688gamble 6 месяцев назад +54

      Hey, it cheered you up on a sad day. That's gotta be with something!

    • @Cainmak
      @Cainmak 6 месяцев назад +32

      maybe he was native American?

    • @Robb3636
      @Robb3636 6 месяцев назад +20

      @@Cainmak I'd like to second this, that's a real possibility

    • @EveningSoother
      @EveningSoother 6 месяцев назад +44

      @@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.

  • @PressAtoJ
    @PressAtoJ 6 месяцев назад +230

    A name is the first gift you give your child. Treat it as a gift to them, instead of one to yourself.

  • @manofmanynames_
    @manofmanynames_ 2 месяца назад +22

    11:08 "Congratuleighshions on compleighting preighschool"

  • @glamrockgalaxy9007
    @glamrockgalaxy9007 6 месяцев назад +112

    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?!"

  • @zoenauta9976
    @zoenauta9976 6 месяцев назад +528

    My cat’s name is “Toothless” after the dragon, his middle name is “Trogdor” can confirm wacky names for cats are socially acceptable

    • @Mel12722
      @Mel12722 6 месяцев назад +7

      Omg I love this 😭

    • @345necrofix
      @345necrofix 6 месяцев назад +25

      "Trogdor was a man! I mean...he was a dragon man! Or maybe he was just a dragon... But he was still TROGDOR"

    • @elspethawake4541
      @elspethawake4541 6 месяцев назад +4

      One of my cats is also named Toothless after the dragon! 🐈

    • @kasugaifox8571
      @kasugaifox8571 6 месяцев назад +1

      Awsome! Great PET name. 😊

    • @buttercupup3687
      @buttercupup3687 6 месяцев назад +3

      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)

  • @mikna5758
    @mikna5758 6 месяцев назад +491

    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 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @maevetravis2123
      @maevetravis2123 6 месяцев назад +81

      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 😂😭

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 6 месяцев назад +36

      @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... 😰

    • @Boundwithflame23
      @Boundwithflame23 6 месяцев назад +33

      @@LRM12o8 Honestly makes the movie Finding Nemo a bit amusing.

    • @Oshamon
      @Oshamon 6 месяцев назад +15

      On the bright side they’d get the crowd out of the way really quickly

    • @reginas.3491
      @reginas.3491 6 месяцев назад +29

      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.

  • @Sacroooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    @Sacroooooooooooooooooooooooooo 2 месяца назад +23

    Here's a way of pronouncing English cities:
    Step one: Pronounce it how you think it sounds
    Step two: Keep pronouncing it faster and faster until you've removed most syllables
    Step three: Leicester = Leister = Lester

  • @cathchapo
    @cathchapo 5 месяцев назад +1091

    "Avocadosia" sounds like a Harry Potter spell to make vegans levitate

    • @bittersweetpepper2482
      @bittersweetpepper2482 4 месяца назад +89

      Replaces every plant in a 5 kilometers radius with avocados.

    • @fabienchamberland4791
      @fabienchamberland4791 4 месяца назад +49

      @@bittersweetpepper2482 Is every singular blade of grass turned into it's own avocado?

    • @bittersweetpepper2482
      @bittersweetpepper2482 4 месяца назад +38

      @@fabienchamberland4791 hahah, what if yes.

    • @kuronya3582
      @kuronya3582 4 месяца назад +31

      @@bittersweetpepper2482 infinite food glitch

    • @melly6102
      @melly6102 4 месяца назад +22

      This reply section is beautiful

  • @johnnyjoestar4473
    @johnnyjoestar4473 6 месяцев назад +262

    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.

    • @justb4116
      @justb4116 6 месяцев назад +32

      Danger IS your middle name
      Would sound like from the movies

    • @uniquefreak37
      @uniquefreak37 6 месяцев назад +10

      Also he did it wrong. His name should have been Atlyn Kay...
      At least it sort of sounds like a name?

    • @FangTheHellcat
      @FangTheHellcat 6 месяцев назад +8

      My last name would've been slaughter

    • @LoremIpsum-dp1li
      @LoremIpsum-dp1li 6 месяцев назад +17

      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.

    • @AnimationEvi
      @AnimationEvi 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@LoremIpsum-dp1liYES. That'd be so much better, especially for those of my friends who go by different, more gender-comfortable names.

  • @WPFLAWLESS
    @WPFLAWLESS 6 месяцев назад +180

    RIP to the mental stability of kids with learning disabilities whose parents think the default wifi password would make a cute name.

  • @LiveLaughLoveMiguelOHara
    @LiveLaughLoveMiguelOHara 2 месяца назад +13

    In pain because my name is Elena. Eleighna is pronounced the same way. I showed it to my mother and even see was absolutely flabbergasted somebody spelled their kid's name that way.
    What makes it funnier that people can't even spell my name.

  • @dmond93
    @dmond93 6 месяцев назад +132

    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"

  • @thunderpants3500
    @thunderpants3500 6 месяцев назад +249

    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...

  • @lux0rd01
    @lux0rd01 6 месяцев назад +285

    "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!?

    • @TheTrueMr.Chicken
      @TheTrueMr.Chicken 6 месяцев назад +8

      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

    • @ryan-anarchist-2535
      @ryan-anarchist-2535 6 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@TheTrueMr.Chickenlmao yeah no, it's definitely talking about 22q deletion 👍🏻

    • @Hardhead456
      @Hardhead456 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@ryan-anarchist-2535ya neva know

  • @leximorales5131
    @leximorales5131 2 месяца назад +8

    If we're naming kids after the dating app, we met our significant other on. Mine would be "Hingeleigh" 💀

  • @wikitygrys
    @wikitygrys 6 месяцев назад +520

    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

    • @CadeAver
      @CadeAver 6 месяцев назад +43

      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.

    • @wikitygrys
      @wikitygrys 6 месяцев назад +21

      @@CadeAver Oh thank you!! Good to know! But also horrifying seeing some of the approved ones 💀

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske 6 месяцев назад +9

      To be fair though, batman is an actual name. The Australian city Melbourne was almost named Batmania after a guy named John Batman.

    • @wikitygrys
      @wikitygrys 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@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!" 😆

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@wikitygrys was just giving an example of Batman being an actual fucking name mate.

  • @alongstorycutshort
    @alongstorycutshort 4 месяца назад +434

    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.

    • @MiaGonzalez-dy8ne
      @MiaGonzalez-dy8ne 2 месяца назад +4

      Oh no did u change it?

    • @Hypothermic_Ghosty
      @Hypothermic_Ghosty 2 месяца назад +10

      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

    • @OverlordZeroULTIMA
      @OverlordZeroULTIMA 2 месяца назад +4

      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...

    • @thecolorjune
      @thecolorjune 2 месяца назад +1

      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.

    • @Vampirthedarkone
      @Vampirthedarkone 2 месяца назад +1

      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

  • @CheekyOnion
    @CheekyOnion 6 месяцев назад +262

    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

    • @sistermadrigalmorning233
      @sistermadrigalmorning233 6 месяцев назад +14

      Exactly. You need to think of this name as something that will be on a resume or letterhead.

    • @natdoesstuff
      @natdoesstuff 5 месяцев назад +2

      On the flip side I don’t understand how you name someone a strictly old person name like Barbara or Gary

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 3 месяца назад +2

      @@natdoesstuffbarbara was a saint and gary is often short for gareth or something

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 3 месяца назад

      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

  • @psychowierdiac
    @psychowierdiac 8 дней назад +2

    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.

  • @curiousnerdkitteh
    @curiousnerdkitteh 6 месяцев назад +209

    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.

    • @myaren0101
      @myaren0101 6 месяцев назад +7

      Wasnt it supposed be Jacob+Edward? Thats how i remember it 😅 I get the point tho

    • @Ecclectic_citcelccE
      @Ecclectic_citcelccE 6 месяцев назад +7

      At least Carlie isn't too bad, relatively speaking.

    • @ElaineAlwaysMS
      @ElaineAlwaysMS 6 месяцев назад +16

      @@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.

    • @lfr8666
      @lfr8666 6 месяцев назад +4

      Apparently it's popular practice among the Latter Day Saints/Mormons, which I think was Meyer's background?

    • @lilblondiebear
      @lilblondiebear 5 месяцев назад +4

      I know someone who named her daughter Renesme... 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @bubblegumsnowdrop
    @bubblegumsnowdrop 6 месяцев назад +210

    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.

    • @StarKoSuru
      @StarKoSuru 6 месяцев назад +7

      Yeah, my nickname is Rhys so i felt kinda bad ngl

    • @aylacrissman3443
      @aylacrissman3443 6 месяцев назад +10

      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.

    • @StarKoSuru
      @StarKoSuru 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@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

    • @leefelix9898
      @leefelix9898 6 месяцев назад +4

      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 💀

    • @artperson7617
      @artperson7617 6 месяцев назад +2

      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

  • @artacrosstheocean3671
    @artacrosstheocean3671 6 месяцев назад +271

    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.

    • @allygatorrampage
      @allygatorrampage 6 месяцев назад +66

      Wow. Those names are even more abusive than I originally thought

    • @jbz4788
      @jbz4788 6 месяцев назад +26

      If it’s genetic maybe that’s why their parents couldn’t spell the names right in the first place

    • @janemiettinen5176
      @janemiettinen5176 6 месяцев назад +13

      No.. Then those names are straight up abusive!

    • @SpamEggSausage
      @SpamEggSausage 6 месяцев назад

      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

    • @trillionbones89
      @trillionbones89 6 месяцев назад +9

      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)

  • @KDE4LIFEBAYBAY
    @KDE4LIFEBAYBAY Месяц назад +12

    If I ever have kids, they'll get names that aren't completely off the wall.

  • @amberfox9543
    @amberfox9543 6 месяцев назад +2073

    People who wanna be unique with names… I feel so bad for their kids 😢

    • @TheSleepyGayArtist
      @TheSleepyGayArtist 6 месяцев назад +102

      I think there was this woman who named her kid, no joke ‘methamphetamine rules’ or something like that 💀

    • @kaethlynreyes67
      @kaethlynreyes67 6 месяцев назад +58

      It's in comparison to America I am so so glad we have restrictions on how to name your child here.

    • @Jellywolf-Taylorsversion-
      @Jellywolf-Taylorsversion- 6 месяцев назад +28

      My neighbors name their kids Malibu and Manhattan

    • @qtluna7917
      @qtluna7917 6 месяцев назад +58

      If they like quirky names so much, why don't they rename themselves? :D

    • @tr-st_me_bro
      @tr-st_me_bro 6 месяцев назад +45

      In Sweden, it’s illegal to name your child tjottablottaplingplong 👍

  • @ferretqueen2908
    @ferretqueen2908 5 месяцев назад +341

    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

    • @amaeliss7827
      @amaeliss7827 4 месяца назад +17

      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

    • @simsgirlgem
      @simsgirlgem 3 месяца назад +8

      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

    • @That70sGuitarist
      @That70sGuitarist 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@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
      @amaeliss7827 3 месяца назад

      @@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)

    • @That70sGuitarist
      @That70sGuitarist 3 месяца назад +1

      @@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.

  • @WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean
    @WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean 7 дней назад +2

    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.

  • @scriptorpaulina
    @scriptorpaulina 6 месяцев назад +269

    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,

    • @nlanwarne
      @nlanwarne 6 месяцев назад +28

      Pot-oooooooo. Not Potatoooooooo. You ruined the pun.

    • @TriggerHappy-hd1cl
      @TriggerHappy-hd1cl 6 месяцев назад

      @@nlanwarne fr

    • @Kacenits
      @Kacenits 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@nlanwarne pot88o

    • @andrewpinedo1883
      @andrewpinedo1883 6 месяцев назад +7

      Put-8-O's

    • @valarian4423
      @valarian4423 6 месяцев назад +3

      You watch odd1’sout? :)

  • @RAHelllord
    @RAHelllord 6 месяцев назад +191

    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.

    • @janemiettinen5176
      @janemiettinen5176 6 месяцев назад +17

      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.

    • @galaxychill9578
      @galaxychill9578 6 месяцев назад +1

      wouldn't it be Poooooooot?

    • @janemiettinen5176
      @janemiettinen5176 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@galaxychill9578 I doesnt say Pot8o anymore in your version.

  • @SephKane
    @SephKane 6 месяцев назад +592

    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.

    • @tealkerberus748
      @tealkerberus748 6 месяцев назад +51

      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.

    • @yuzuchi5381
      @yuzuchi5381 6 месяцев назад +29

      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

    • @phantomflunder
      @phantomflunder 6 месяцев назад +34

      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!

    • @CandyHatsuneWolff
      @CandyHatsuneWolff 6 месяцев назад +13

      @@phantomflunder My brother was born on Guy Fawkes' Day... his middle name's Edward...?
      Our dad was James though.😂

    • @milaskygaming3538
      @milaskygaming3538 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@CandyHatsuneWolff what

  • @myhero20xx
    @myhero20xx Месяц назад +5

    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.

  • @hushronni8362
    @hushronni8362 6 месяцев назад +271

    "Rhys" is a Welsh name pronounced "Reese", someone pronouncing it as "Rizz" would be my thirteenth reason

    • @ledacisne7610
      @ledacisne7610 6 месяцев назад +28

      As a Rhys... I concur. Spain without the S

    • @makinnir
      @makinnir 6 месяцев назад +20

      how do people even consider to say Rhys as "rizz"

    • @kitkatkk2
      @kitkatkk2 6 месяцев назад +17

      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

    • @mamalynnda
      @mamalynnda 6 месяцев назад +5

      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 😂

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 6 месяцев назад +5

      I was assuming it was after Rhysand from Sarah J Maas’ books. Totally forgot Rhys is a legit name

  • @janeyrevanescence12
    @janeyrevanescence12 4 месяца назад +172

    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.”

    • @Sarah-ki4vo
      @Sarah-ki4vo 4 месяца назад +13

      I named my all black cats Erzsabet Bathory and Contessa Elise (countess liz).

    • @AnimationGuy-x3y
      @AnimationGuy-x3y 2 месяца назад

      These Parents Be Like:
      “Please Welcome The Newest Edition To The Hoffman Family, Jackque (Pronounced Jack)

    • @AnimationGuy-x3y
      @AnimationGuy-x3y 2 месяца назад

      Wops I accidentally replied instead of commented sry

    • @saoirse_miller
      @saoirse_miller 2 месяца назад +6

      Erzebet 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.

    • @erikszabo7773
      @erikszabo7773 2 месяца назад

      Not to be rude but its erzsébet

  • @nine39_pm
    @nine39_pm 6 месяцев назад +3028

    Don’t give your kid a weird name. If they’re trans enough they’ll do it themselves.
    Sincerely, someone who named themselves Bug

    • @captainhufflepuff501
      @captainhufflepuff501 6 месяцев назад +253

      Honestly that's a pretty cool name

    • @hello_i_am_jacob
      @hello_i_am_jacob 6 месяцев назад +204

      Yeah my mum can post on Facebook about her new son onion

    • @pyeom7376
      @pyeom7376 6 месяцев назад +265

      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

    • @Bunny_Bill
      @Bunny_Bill 6 месяцев назад +89

      Bug, you have such a real name

    • @CoffinsApricity
      @CoffinsApricity 6 месяцев назад +73

      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

  • @KDE4LIFEBAYBAY
    @KDE4LIFEBAYBAY Месяц назад +7

    20 years later:
    Mother: Meet our baby, "Skibhi'dee Qeyedududhdhej Smith"
    People: Uhhh...?

  • @honeykitty7278
    @honeykitty7278 6 месяцев назад +77

    “I thought I was fluent in English”
    Me, a native English speaker: me too… me too…

  • @MissE_Art
    @MissE_Art 6 месяцев назад +188

    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.

    • @thatchaoticspirit9806
      @thatchaoticspirit9806 6 месяцев назад +10

      I think at least one of her parents were high.

    • @misfits9294
      @misfits9294 6 месяцев назад +3

      Rest in peace, you sorrowful fallen angel.

    • @MeWhenTheWhen.
      @MeWhenTheWhen. 6 месяцев назад +10

      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.

    • @MissE_Art
      @MissE_Art 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@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’.

    • @MeWhenTheWhen.
      @MeWhenTheWhen. 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@MissE_Art good god.

  • @Senrabekim
    @Senrabekim 6 месяцев назад +138

    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
      @hermitized4391 6 месяцев назад +28

      Oh god, those kids are going to be fixing merged database entries for the rest of their lives

    • @ojrmk1
      @ojrmk1 6 месяцев назад +14

      @@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.

    • @auroraasleep
      @auroraasleep 6 месяцев назад +15

      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.

    • @waffles3629
      @waffles3629 6 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @Acinnn
      @Acinnn 6 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @JonathonBone
    @JonathonBone 23 дня назад +5

    Honestly anytime you see "eaux" in a name it's probably the sound 'OH" making Reignbeaux "Rainbow"

  • @bricc9964
    @bricc9964 6 месяцев назад +134

    “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”

    • @leahryan5560
      @leahryan5560 5 месяцев назад +4

      Best comment I’ve read all week

  • @archonfett
    @archonfett 6 месяцев назад +150

    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

    • @AriaFlame37
      @AriaFlame37 6 месяцев назад +2

      46:06 like this?

    • @archonfett
      @archonfett 6 месяцев назад

      @@AriaFlame37 no it started with a “W”

    • @AriaFlame37
      @AriaFlame37 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@archonfett no I mean that they’re both rainbow

    • @archonfett
      @archonfett 6 месяцев назад

      @@AriaFlame37 oh, yes, the name is rare enough you don’t have to be quirky about it

  • @TheOddHog
    @TheOddHog 6 месяцев назад +720

    As an Irish person, the spelling Ruairí is pretty common here, but if you're in another country you'll have problems

    • @clairebatt4030
      @clairebatt4030 6 месяцев назад

      Literally came here to say the same 😂 as long as they prounnce it properly 😂 Americans are always butchering as gaeilge 😂

    • @srose1088
      @srose1088 6 месяцев назад +54

      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.

    • @Alias_Anybody
      @Alias_Anybody 6 месяцев назад +39

      @@srose1088
      To be fair, the whole Polish language is basically just the tragedeigh version of Czech/Slovakian.

    • @todorokishouto9997
      @todorokishouto9997 6 месяцев назад +5

      Im having trouble with 'maria' like don't say it like mareeha or marya.... or any other possibility 😅

    • @farawayxgalaxy
      @farawayxgalaxy 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@Alias_AnybodyAs someone with strong Polish heritage who knows the very very basics of Polish language- I agree with this statement xD

  • @theempath8244
    @theempath8244 7 дней назад +2

    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!!!!!

  • @TimboFromLimbo
    @TimboFromLimbo 6 месяцев назад +376

    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."

    • @notbot2648
      @notbot2648 6 месяцев назад +48

      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!

    • @calih2011
      @calih2011 6 месяцев назад +26

      Bro, my coworker used to go to church with a girl named Le-a, pronounced the exact same

    • @TimboFromLimbo
      @TimboFromLimbo 6 месяцев назад +13

      @@calih2011 @notbot2648 Wow! As it turns out, it is a small world after all.

    • @scottscully4325
      @scottscully4325 6 месяцев назад +29

      I'm naming my baby traditionally. Tra-ion Kar-ian.

    • @ryan-anarchist-2535
      @ryan-anarchist-2535 6 месяцев назад

      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

  • @cacklebarnacle15
    @cacklebarnacle15 6 месяцев назад +118

    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.

    • @laurelelasselin
      @laurelelasselin 4 месяца назад +2

      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

  • @kumaken
    @kumaken 6 месяцев назад +162

    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.

    • @chomik172
      @chomik172 6 месяцев назад +9

      Someone wanted to flex their knowledge of arthurian legend huh

    • @greymacleod9626
      @greymacleod9626 6 месяцев назад +19

      @@chomik172 and why not?

    • @animelover2546
      @animelover2546 6 месяцев назад +5

      damn this comment came at a perfect time because I'm reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for class rn

    • @celticlass8573
      @celticlass8573 6 месяцев назад +6

      I was thinking the same thing, like Morgan is already pretty kick-ass.

    • @killuazoldyck7442
      @killuazoldyck7442 6 месяцев назад +1

      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

  • @yumiyumipancakes
    @yumiyumipancakes Месяц назад +6

    12:46 Harley would honestly be the best option for a nickname. (IMO) Poor kid.

  • @diannholland
    @diannholland 6 месяцев назад +54

    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.

  • @acat6759
    @acat6759 3 месяца назад +179

    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.

    • @maritasue5067
      @maritasue5067 Месяц назад

      If I ever get a Pug or other short and round dog, that’s what I’m naming it!

  • @Benwut
    @Benwut 6 месяцев назад +129

    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.

    • @hannajung7512
      @hannajung7512 6 месяцев назад +27

      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^^

    • @zombieedrea
      @zombieedrea 6 месяцев назад +6

      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!

    • @Benwut
      @Benwut 6 месяцев назад +16

      @@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'.

    • @zombieedrea
      @zombieedrea 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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.

  • @grifirnyc
    @grifirnyc 2 месяца назад +4

    My brother was in the US Navy back in the early 1990s, and a Marine on his ship became a father shortly after they shipped out for the Middle East. The mother named the child Desiree Stormy.

  • @Creshosk
    @Creshosk 6 месяцев назад +153

    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.

    • @willw6504
      @willw6504 6 месяцев назад +30

      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!"

    • @Endertazer
      @Endertazer 6 месяцев назад +5

      So I could name my kid Azula?

    • @moonbaby1723
      @moonbaby1723 6 месяцев назад +8

      Know a guy that has the first and middle name “ Anikin Skywalker”. Have seen his legal ID

    • @Kacenits
      @Kacenits 6 месяцев назад +3

      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)

    • @darkluxgames2347
      @darkluxgames2347 6 месяцев назад +7

      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.

  • @SadBoness
    @SadBoness 6 месяцев назад +119

    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

    • @leahryan5560
      @leahryan5560 5 месяцев назад +16

      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.

    • @PotPam
      @PotPam 5 месяцев назад +19

      If anyone ever wants to give their child a name related to the moon, Celene is a good alternative to Luna

    • @SadBoness
      @SadBoness 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@PotPam Celeste was my second option but my mom hated it lol

    • @Mx.muffin
      @Mx.muffin 5 месяцев назад +4

      My sister's name is Luna, lol

    • @fallingfeather21
      @fallingfeather21 5 месяцев назад +3

      I had a cat named Luna. So did about six other people I know....

  • @natfoote4967
    @natfoote4967 6 месяцев назад +79

    "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.

  • @Idanuhh
    @Idanuhh 2 месяца назад +4

    As a person with cats named Rigby Jesus, Nathan Love Explosion, Sharkiesha, Mantequilla. We talked my sister out of naming her daughter Audrey Lee back in 2012. Seems like a completely normal name now 🤣🤣

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou 6 месяцев назад +185

    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.

    • @morgiana111
      @morgiana111 5 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @corileerusholme
      @corileerusholme 5 месяцев назад +7

      As someone whose first name is hyphenated, I don't even use the hypen online anymore.

    • @DinoInATux
      @DinoInATux 4 месяца назад +2

      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

    • @hgbugalou
      @hgbugalou 4 месяца назад +3

      @@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.

  • @RangeCMYK
    @RangeCMYK 6 месяцев назад +347

    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?

    • @Leofwine
      @Leofwine 6 месяцев назад

      You're a shape shifter who hasn't found out how to sprout a tail and a pair of antlers yet, easy.

    • @DistinguishedSeal
      @DistinguishedSeal 6 месяцев назад +33

      That sounds like the name of a dragon in skyrim.

    • @GachaschoolWingsoffuture
      @GachaschoolWingsoffuture 6 месяцев назад +8

      My sister got named Jeylana, but the goverment was like: nope. And now she's just Jelana.

    • @3zra._.
      @3zra._. 6 месяцев назад +5

      LOL THE WARRIORS SHADE

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +18

      The Warrior Cats usually have more sensical names

  • @Alverant
    @Alverant 6 месяцев назад +338

    Seriously though, in the US studies still show that resumes from "ethnic" names are more likely to be rejected than those with "normal" names.

    • @Alberto2
      @Alberto2 6 месяцев назад +16

      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.

    • @JustM2024
      @JustM2024 6 месяцев назад +7

      Yup

    • @Barakon
      @Barakon 6 месяцев назад +8

      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!

    • @oakenshadow6763
      @oakenshadow6763 6 месяцев назад +62

      ​@@Alberto2That's just racist.

    • @Alberto2
      @Alberto2 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@oakenshadow6763 How? That's just how it is.

  • @thete6971
    @thete6971 Месяц назад +5

    As a Polish person, the name I got from that make-a-name-chart was, drumrolls please, "Ever". No middle name, and the letter Ł doesn't exist on the chart. (could potentially replace with L or W, cuz yknow, it's like L and pronounced like W, but alas, i do not care)

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 7 дней назад +1

      I have two middle names, so I get this lovely monstrosity:
      Eversynlee Lynne
      Absolutely _gorgeous._

  • @Hevach
    @Hevach 6 месяцев назад +122

    There's a trick to getting away with "fandom names." Just break the context. Combine unrelated characters, or a character and their actor. If you name the kid Erin Yeager that's obviously on the nose and the source is always going to be a google search away. But Erin Levi is a lot less obvious, and Erin Bryce is a deep enough cut that the only people who will figure it out will also be very impressed.
    When naming out first I kept sneaking super hero names like this past my wife. David Clark, Steven Miles, Carol Dana. It's sneaky enough that my wife didn't catch me until I tried Victor Magnus, and in the same batch I saw Logan Scott and realized she'd been doing it back at me the whole time.
    We ended up going with Samuel Xavier and for our second Anthony James and in eight years only one person figured it out.

    • @promisedjubileedaniels
      @promisedjubileedaniels 5 месяцев назад +1

      Matrim was my favorite name from the Wheel of Time series (that I read out loud every night to my husband before we had kids), and he was ADAMANTLY against it. 6 kids later, I still love it and wish one of our kids had it.

  • @UnicornsPoopRainbows
    @UnicornsPoopRainbows 6 месяцев назад +72

    I realized when my daughter was 6 months old that if she becomes an academic, her papers will be authored by F. Yu. I'm not even sorry 😂😂😂😂

    • @sarahr8311
      @sarahr8311 6 месяцев назад +6

      Sometimes these things happen. My initials are SR and my little sibling's is JR. Pretty sure it wasn't on purpose.

    • @laurelelasselin
      @laurelelasselin 4 месяца назад

      My last initials are BS 😂

  • @Valandar2
    @Valandar2 6 месяцев назад +110

    I predict that in fifty years, it will be a right of passage at age 18 to choose your own name to replace the utterly ridiculous nasty names their parents saddled them with.

  • @lp1043
    @lp1043 Месяц назад +2

    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

  • @trishapellis
    @trishapellis 6 месяцев назад +82

    To Morgan: "Morrighan" was right there.
    To the parents of Ora-Leigh: Aurelia or its French variant Aurélie were right there...

    • @trillionbones89
      @trillionbones89 6 месяцев назад +3

      Morrighan is not well known enough to be "right there".

    • @galaxychill9578
      @galaxychill9578 6 месяцев назад +3

      or Lenora

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@trillionbones89 For a 15-year-old goth girl? Which self-respecting goth would not know about the goddess of death?

    • @Tiarys
      @Tiarys 6 месяцев назад +6

      For Morgan, I thought the same thing. And I agree, I would have expected her to know the name. But then again, I just read waaaaay too much fantasy and urban fantasy to not know a lot of those names 😂😅 (I can thank the Mercy Thompson series for introducing me to a number of them, which I then started finding in a lot of other series after that - before people come at me, it's coincidence, like learning a new word, not implying that series did it first.)

  • @wortblume2317
    @wortblume2317 6 месяцев назад +163

    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.

    • @michellej7831
      @michellej7831 6 месяцев назад +20

      Emma and ruth are quite common in the uk.

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah, WE have laws that prevent the worst

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, WE have laws that prevents the worst

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@michellej7831Just that you pronounce Ruth Not root

    • @bythejelly3908
      @bythejelly3908 6 месяцев назад +9

      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.

  • @arteiis
    @arteiis 5 месяцев назад +233

    horse names are the wildest thing ever, like genuinely
    I once worked in a stable where there was a horse called 'Kissing me softly'...
    no, I'm not joking

    • @diarmuidkuhle8181
      @diarmuidkuhle8181 5 месяцев назад +36

      The reason for that is, depending on the breed, the animal has to be named starting with the same initial as the sire. You can give the repeat name to offspring and number it, e.g. Paradox II, but otherwise the name can't be the same as that of another of the same breed already registered. So you start running out of normal names pretty quickly Xd

    • @RaginKavu
      @RaginKavu 5 месяцев назад +31

      My favourite weird horse name is "Some Strange Twist of Fate".
      My father is a horseback ride instructor, so I grew up around horses. I've seen a lot of weird names, but none came close to that.

    • @claudialupper
      @claudialupper 5 месяцев назад +38

      Best horse name ever: Fifty Shades of Hay. I don't bet, but it was hard not to bet on a horse with that name.

    • @NijutheWolf
      @NijutheWolf 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@claudialupper oh my god. Yes

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 5 месяцев назад +2

      Also dog names. I know of someone who named their dogs Sniper and Remington. Guess what their favorite amendment is?

  • @ActionYakPolice
    @ActionYakPolice Месяц назад +2

    my mom once told me that my brother was named after her favorite movie at the time, Jason and the Argonauts (the one with the stop-motion skeletons). she also told me to never tell him that.

  • @Genderqueerquack
    @Genderqueerquack 6 месяцев назад +179

    33:58 this is like naming your kid “Chinese” or “Jewish” or “Aboriginal” for the record- the Romani are a southeastern European ethnic group.

    • @voittolehti2432
      @voittolehti2432 6 месяцев назад +10

      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

    • @onlyfoes
      @onlyfoes 6 месяцев назад +6

      The first name of the spokesman of the German Romani council is... Romani 😅 (Romani Rose)

    • @cftyftyufyfuyfty
      @cftyftyufyfuyfty 6 месяцев назад +1

      Here are my children: Pikeigh and Ghyppo

    • @NeptunesHorses5909
      @NeptunesHorses5909 5 месяцев назад +1

      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.

    • @Melody-k7n
      @Melody-k7n 2 месяца назад

      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.

  • @AlienSoup404
    @AlienSoup404 6 месяцев назад +42

    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

  • @FizzyChalice
    @FizzyChalice 6 месяцев назад +218

    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.

    • @lazykbys
      @lazykbys 6 месяцев назад +18

      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.

    • @sairus3239
      @sairus3239 6 месяцев назад +10

      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"

    • @MogamiKyoko13
      @MogamiKyoko13 6 месяцев назад +11

      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).

    • @keigoftw
      @keigoftw 6 месяцев назад +10

      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?!

    • @avgperson6551
      @avgperson6551 6 месяцев назад +2

      Aside from super common names, I, for the life in me, cannot decipher the pronunciation of a lot of Japanese names.

  • @RyuNekohime
    @RyuNekohime Месяц назад +2

    In Sweden we have to get approved by Skatteverket and ‘May not use a name which can be uncomfortable or offensive, cannot be seen as a proper name, seen as a last name or be otherwise seen as improper or otherwise incompatible to Swedish naming conditions.’
    This thing reminds me of the kid named “Number 16 Bus Shelter” living in New Zealand. Some people need to be stopped!

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 7 дней назад +1

      Jag kommer att tänka på hur hemskheten "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssql-bb111163” (uttalat “Albin”) tack och lov nekades av Skatteverket.

    • @RyuNekohime
      @RyuNekohime 6 дней назад

      @@Acidfrog475 Absolut! Tack och lov att de nekade det! Men synd om kvinnorna som hette Penis Anna och Pung-Märta fast det är fullkomligt förståeligt att de senare bytte namn (finns fler exempel på sidan: aviga namn)! Det var namn givna innan Skatteverket fanns men hjälp, vad folk gör när de döper sina barn om ingen stoppar dem!

  • @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV
    @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV 6 месяцев назад +176

    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.

    • @GretchZ
      @GretchZ 6 месяцев назад +12

      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*

    • @GretchZ
      @GretchZ 6 месяцев назад +13

      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.

    • @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV
      @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@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.

    • @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV
      @BasicallyBaconSandvichIV 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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!

    • @rigure
      @rigure 6 месяцев назад +3

      I think any- and everyone who ever researched the history of holidays was quite surprised at the pronounciation of "Samhain". 😅