Weird & Popular Baby Names | British vs American | Evan Edinger & Noahfinnce & NotCorry

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  • @evan
    @evan  4 года назад +700

    Might be attempting to pronounce all your names in the next community video so comment away! ;)

    • @CailinNaEireann
      @CailinNaEireann 4 года назад +11

      Laoibhse (Not my name but I heard of a girl with it) it's Irish for Louisa or Louise I think

    • @crinkle-cutiguana8130
      @crinkle-cutiguana8130 4 года назад +12

      Can you try and pronounce some welsh names, mine is Efa

    • @donkeysareevil8026
      @donkeysareevil8026 4 года назад +13

      Sinead.
      When I first heard it I thought it was a type of fizzy juice. - it’s my sisters name...

    • @ismillie2890
      @ismillie2890 4 года назад +11

      Some names of my friends at school:
      Goodnews, Princess, Ekani, Kudzai, Eiillii and Queenie
      (also we have every type of reece in my year lol)

    • @helRAEzzzer
      @helRAEzzzer 4 года назад +10

      😂 If you can't pronounce Raven, there's a problem. How about my grandmother's maiden name - Desruisseaux
      Hint: Its French (Quebecois but IDK if they pronounce names differently with differing French dialects).

  • @charlotteharrison7779
    @charlotteharrison7779 4 года назад +2806

    Let’s not forget Katie Hopkins non-geographically named child ‘India’

    • @remib1199
      @remib1199 4 года назад +332

      and then criticising people calling their daughters brooklyn, london, paris etc💀

    • @TanakaZoe
      @TanakaZoe 4 года назад +15

      😂😂😂😂

    • @ramcams
      @ramcams 4 года назад +41

      I actually know a few girls called India

    • @crystalkirlia4553
      @crystalkirlia4553 4 года назад +51

      Ya, and her hatred of anyone who's not her 😂😂😂

    • @frostyblade8842
      @frostyblade8842 4 года назад +5

      Isn't there a porn star called India

  • @Hussain-tv6rs
    @Hussain-tv6rs 4 года назад +2087

    Imagine losing your kid in a shopping centre and calling "Shooter" to find the child.

    • @johnlondonbimeetup7961
      @johnlondonbimeetup7961 4 года назад +56

      Or calling out to a girl called shooter with cops in the vicinity.. urk!

    • @theneekofficial8829
      @theneekofficial8829 4 года назад +70

      “Shooter where are you?! cmon out darling or you’ll be left here… here lemme go to the office that can help find my child” **5 minutes later** “Hey um Ms. I lost my child, can you call out his name over the loudspeaker to find him, his name is *Shooter” *confused look from the attendant**

    • @pipitameruje
      @pipitameruje 4 года назад +63

      Quickest way to clear the isle in a supermarket

    • @ianprince1698
      @ianprince1698 4 года назад +35

      .@@johnlondonbimeetup7961 Or her brother Active.

    • @Sigmaoverload
      @Sigmaoverload 3 года назад +4

      "APPLE!!! APPLE!!! WHERED U GO???!?!?!?!?!"

  • @drawingbee
    @drawingbee 4 года назад +1582

    Thinking about how Gerard Way named his child 'Bandit', but his dog is called 'Susan'

    • @obliquesauce6741
      @obliquesauce6741 4 года назад +18

      right?

    • @epicotakucherry5280
      @epicotakucherry5280 4 года назад +55

      I had no idea what his dog was named, that's hilarious

    • @tylerrr1391
      @tylerrr1391 4 года назад +36

      Me too. His cats name is Mitch but his child’s name is bandit lee.

    • @alishaw2454
      @alishaw2454 4 года назад +38

      because its much cooler to say "I ALREADY FED YOU TWICE SUSAN" to your dog than your kid

    • @Catlily5
      @Catlily5 3 года назад +9

      Pet names for kids and visa versa.😂🤣

  • @toastie1310
    @toastie1310 4 года назад +561

    "Vivian's like your mum's mate who's a hairdresser."
    😂 so accurate

    • @ser132
      @ser132 4 года назад +13

      She's also a really cool aunt

    • @zekeleonard5247
      @zekeleonard5247 4 года назад +5

      *when you don’t have a mom so you’re confused*

    • @viviandeleon1589
      @viviandeleon1589 3 года назад +8

      I was like 😔 when I heard that

    • @RandomnessGirl309
      @RandomnessGirl309 3 года назад +3

      My great grandmas name was vivian mae

    • @msoda8516
      @msoda8516 3 года назад

      My mom’s name was Linda I would have loved to name my daughter after her but I couldn’t because to me it seemed like a middle age woman’s name.

  • @katelynkeenen5218
    @katelynkeenen5218 4 года назад +489

    My name was almost Katelyn Korrin Keenen before my sister noticed the initials...my parents then changed it to Katelyn Corrin Keenen. Thank god for my sister because that would've been unfortunate to say the least😬

    • @SamWest96
      @SamWest96 4 года назад +64

      My initials are SHIT - not nearly as bad but I feel your pain

    • @harrinivijay1862
      @harrinivijay1862 3 года назад +28

      When you don't have a middle name
      👁💧👄💧👁

    • @Dazzlefae
      @Dazzlefae 3 года назад +10

      Mine are DFM and my brothers are ARM... Hahhaha

    • @dadjokes8963
      @dadjokes8963 3 года назад +3

      B.J are the initials of my middle name oooof

    • @rileyd593
      @rileyd593 3 года назад +3

      My initials are RED

  • @bbatty9649
    @bbatty9649 4 года назад +1325

    My cousins middle name is literally danger. His mom wanted him to be able to tell girls his middle name is danger and not be lying 😂😂

    • @georgia7543
      @georgia7543 4 года назад +64

      my sisters middle name is danger aswell

    • @gracebarnes3825
      @gracebarnes3825 4 года назад +44

      I Love that so much 😂🤣

    • @HaniiPuppy
      @HaniiPuppy 4 года назад +75

      Imagine them getting pulled over for speeding, the policeman looking at his driving license, and seeing "James Danger Thomson" or w/e

    • @nate_storm
      @nate_storm 4 года назад +11

      ok that’s really cool

    • @amandahyre8613
      @amandahyre8613 4 года назад +37

      That's amazing and why didn't I think of that? I know someone whose grandson's middle name is Chaos. 😅

  • @littlemissoptimism
    @littlemissoptimism 4 года назад +881

    can’t lift his neck but he’s a slayer

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +54

      *father, help me head-bang*

    • @swampykeane
      @swampykeane 4 года назад +10

      It sounds like something a movie pirate would say when describing their mysterious captain.

  • @Nora-rk6pk
    @Nora-rk6pk 4 года назад +545

    “No one will talk to them in school, they’ll ig-Nora” honestly yeah

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +61

      hahaha

    • @yoinksscoob4889
      @yoinksscoob4889 4 года назад +9

      Aw sorry Nora, I will be your friend if you want

  • @stel4878
    @stel4878 3 года назад +321

    ‘Most popular english boy names in 2019’
    “Charlie”
    “Harry”
    “Arthur”
    “Freddy”
    “George”
    Molly Weasley is quaking

  • @Fernful
    @Fernful 4 года назад +400

    Amelia: **is a top girls name in Scotland**
    **Doctor Who theme music slowly starts to play**

    • @deborahbasco3514
      @deborahbasco3514 4 года назад +19

      Bit fairy tale

    • @katiem656
      @katiem656 4 года назад +5

      Stop I'll cry

    • @ameliaxiulan6797
      @ameliaxiulan6797 4 года назад +8

      Istg growing up the only other Amelia I knew of was Amy pond - now apparently it's one of the most popular names?? Damn I guess I'm not as original as I thought lmao 😂😭

    • @catherinepotter4716
      @catherinepotter4716 3 года назад +15

      There was also Rory for boys' names...

    • @deborahbasco3514
      @deborahbasco3514 3 года назад +10

      River and Melody are also good names

  • @rowandaws5490
    @rowandaws5490 4 года назад +490

    “Bryn is a really nice name” It literally means hill.

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +41

      It's still a nice sounding name.

    • @jackpadfield8779
      @jackpadfield8779 4 года назад +21

      I'm from Wales and I've never met someone called "Bryn". I only know it as names of places.

    • @emyrlewis5816
      @emyrlewis5816 4 года назад +12

      I have only met 1 Bryn there are alot more wyns than bryns

    • @emjenkins464
      @emjenkins464 4 года назад +6

      @@jackpadfield8779 it's the middle name of every male in my paternal Grandad's family

    • @ghostlybf3785
      @ghostlybf3785 4 года назад +4

      Jack Padfield i know 2 bryns but they’re old men

  • @danielkenah2152
    @danielkenah2152 4 года назад +179

    Imagine naming your kid shooter and then loosing them in public." SHOOTER, SHOOTER, where are you SHOOTER".

    • @lightdeathguy9266
      @lightdeathguy9266 4 года назад +11

      Imagine screaming for your friend’s name at school “SHOOTER”

    • @AdeleD79
      @AdeleD79 4 года назад +1

      Yeaaa they really didn't think that one through.

    • @charlotte726
      @charlotte726 4 года назад

      I can just imagine a kid coming home and telling their parents "there's a shooter in my class"

  • @zoe9799
    @zoe9799 4 года назад +472

    Jamie Oliver's kids:
    Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver, Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver, Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver, River Rocket Blue Dallas, Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver.

    • @evanspencer3632
      @evanspencer3632 4 года назад +36

      I was thinking about this throughout the whole video lmao

    • @oliverkiernan4997
      @oliverkiernan4997 4 года назад +45

      "Oi! River Rocket Blue Dallas, stop hitting Buddy Bear Maurice! And Daisy Boo Pamela, it's not funny! Ooh, that's a nice drawing, Poppy Honey Rosie, and did you help her, Petal Blossom Rainbow? Wow!"

    • @remib1199
      @remib1199 4 года назад +27

      the director robert rodriguez named his sons rocket, rebel, racer and rogue🤣

    • @ellae8232
      @ellae8232 4 года назад +29

      They sound like the names of a kid's stuffed animals lmao. poor kids...

    • @hoperothwell9396
      @hoperothwell9396 4 года назад +2

      Is there 4 Oliver's there

  • @KarlaJeannieDoddy
    @KarlaJeannieDoddy 4 года назад +568

    "jessica thats a very american name" is Shakespeare a joke to you, he literally invented the name...

    • @PiranhaSatan
      @PiranhaSatan 4 года назад +71

      and it's probably derived from hebrew too; it's like how tiffany sounds like a modern name but its got medieval roots

    • @killingeveedits8228
      @killingeveedits8228 4 года назад +8

      Yh but how would he know no one cares bout shakesspere lol

    • @lunalovegood8931
      @lunalovegood8931 4 года назад +54

      @killingeve edits you have committed a crime against our lord and saviour Shakespeare, but seriously the world would not be what it is without Shakespeare

    • @killingeveedits8228
      @killingeveedits8228 4 года назад +1

      Luna Lovegood I don’t see how

    • @killingeveedits8228
      @killingeveedits8228 4 года назад +1

      Luna Lovegood Tbh the world would be better English classes wouldn’t be as boring

  • @ngib059
    @ngib059 4 года назад +539

    My friend - whose name was James - had seven other people named James in his class 🙄

    • @Circlesquare_11
      @Circlesquare_11 4 года назад +13

      In my primary school we had 4 Alex’s in our class

    • @junkh3add
      @junkh3add 4 года назад +7

      i had like 4 charlie’s in my class lmao

    • @Ten13Grl
      @Ten13Grl 4 года назад +13

      In one of my classes in high school, there were only 8 of us. 3 boys and 5 girls. Of the girls, 3 of us were Jessicas and 2 were Jennifers.

    • @mia.grace72
      @mia.grace72 4 года назад +13

      Teacher: James?
      The eights James: Yes?

    • @lily-annbarrett5580
      @lily-annbarrett5580 4 года назад +4

      I had way to many Connors

  • @caitlin6742
    @caitlin6742 4 года назад +320

    fun fact: a lot of typically ‘english’ names are actually french like “george” and “henry” because after the Norman conquest the language of the Anglo-Saxons merged with the Normans french and we took a lot of their words

    • @kermitmurder5536
      @kermitmurder5536 4 года назад +22

      They are English names now, they've been used for so long that the pronunciation has changed significantly. I think when there basically a different word altogether that's when it becomes English.

    • @AmalaFrequents
      @AmalaFrequents 4 года назад +29

      I'm here for bringing back the anglo-saxon names, call your kid Æthelred, Ælfric or Hrođgar. Just imagine a class register with Alice, Benjamin, and Wulfstan- that kid's gotta be interesting.

    • @henriquesoares2343
      @henriquesoares2343 4 года назад +12

      Both of those names aren't originally French, though. Henry is a German name and George a Greek one

    • @rykloog9578
      @rykloog9578 4 года назад +1

      Now I’m curious about what names the Proto Indo-Europeans has that have modern ancestors

    • @lucie4185
      @lucie4185 4 года назад +1

      @@rykloog9578 decendants? Alfred and Edward are from anglo saxon most other common names are from the bible like Noah, John, Peter etc. To go back to proto indo European Is a very long time, before writing was invented.

  • @lizcavs
    @lizcavs 4 года назад +249

    My dad’s cousin is named Evan Effin Evans

    • @niamhiebeanie8661
      @niamhiebeanie8661 4 года назад +20

      Cruel parents

    • @lizcavs
      @lizcavs 4 года назад +7

      Niamhie beanie I won’t disagree

    • @plasmaturtle4520
      @plasmaturtle4520 4 года назад +8

      Is he at least a cool guy? Cuz that’s quite a name to live up to lol

    • @ecee5139
      @ecee5139 4 года назад +5

      That's too brilliant lol

    • @indiacr6865
      @indiacr6865 4 года назад +7

      My taid is called Robert Roberts😂

  • @MisEMariaS
    @MisEMariaS 4 года назад +418

    I feel like in England everyone knows at least one Chloe, Jessica, Jack, Luke or Amelia.

    • @francesatty7022
      @francesatty7022 4 года назад +36

      bonus points if you've known all 5

    • @nix_
      @nix_ 4 года назад +25

      I had like 7 Toms all in my year in secondary

    • @andysutcliffe3915
      @andysutcliffe3915 4 года назад +5

      I can’t imagine what recent thing popularise Emilia 🙂

    • @iwant2die946
      @iwant2die946 4 года назад +2

      I know one of each.

    • @rowan9199
      @rowan9199 4 года назад +8

      I know 2 chloe's, 4 Jessica's, 3 Jack's, 3 Luke's, and 2 Amelia's (one being myself ) lol it's like so common for teachers to call a name and like half the class will stand thinking its them😂

  • @marcypan8219
    @marcypan8219 4 года назад +141

    Fun fact (4:31): the name "Saoirse" is Irish for "freedom".

  • @siobhanchampion2692
    @siobhanchampion2692 4 года назад +97

    When you said "Siobhan" my stomach sank for some reason, like I got called on in class 😂

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 4 года назад +10

      When I first learned how this name was spelled I was like "but...there's no b sound?" But now that I know more about linguistics I know that b and v are related, kinda cool actually, but it's still definitely not how an American ear would spell those sounds

    • @Lauren_3000
      @Lauren_3000 3 года назад +5

      @@mermaidismyname cause its written in another language

    • @siobhan5656
      @siobhan5656 3 года назад +4

      I hear you

    • @siobhanchampion2692
      @siobhanchampion2692 3 года назад +5

      @@Lauren_3000 yeah, Siobhan is an Irish name. I'm guessing you already knew but just in case someone doesn't haha

    • @bowbooks5659
      @bowbooks5659 3 года назад +4

      There was another Siobhan in my high school. She liked to go by Shiv, I did not. But everyone called me Shiv because she liked it, and it was easier 🙄

  • @aljowen
    @aljowen 4 года назад +152

    Imagine being at a playgorund and calling out your child's name "Shooter!"

    • @AntonoirJacques
      @AntonoirJacques 4 года назад +2

      Someone hasn't seen Happy Gilmore.
      Shooter McGavin

  • @Ella-jk7rq
    @Ella-jk7rq 4 года назад +98

    I LOVE british vs American videos and Baby name videos so this is **chefs kiss**

  • @terryfang
    @terryfang 4 года назад +165

    Luke. Every town in UK has a Luke.

  • @g8yearsago948
    @g8yearsago948 4 года назад +46

    The way he pronounced Charlotte hurt lmao

    • @user-es7ui5mc1m
      @user-es7ui5mc1m 3 года назад

      He said the German pronounciation (although I wouldn't say he nailed it...)

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 2 года назад

      @@user-es7ui5mc1m: surely the German pronounciation would be Carlotta?

    • @user-es7ui5mc1m
      @user-es7ui5mc1m 2 года назад

      @@eattherich9215 Carlotta (/Karlotta) is also a (different) name in Germany but Charlotte is pronounced like Evan tried to say ("shar-lott-eh")

  • @derkarlotto
    @derkarlotto 4 года назад +177

    Mungo - "sounds like a slur"
    Mongo is a German slur for people with Down-Syndrom. 😲

    • @AdeleD79
      @AdeleD79 4 года назад +48

      The original word was Mongoloid and was used to describe people of East Asia, but then was used as a slur for people with Downs. Then got shortened to Mongo. People are so very cruel.

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 4 года назад +12

      I have never heard the word used in the US as far as I can remember, but in England there's "mong" which is basically the same thing, I didn't realize it was such a common word

    • @gavinparks5386
      @gavinparks5386 3 года назад +3

      @@mermaidismyname Mungo is a reasonably common boys first name in Scotland. Mungo Park being a famous explorer back in history. St Mungo ( AKA Saint Kentigern ) is the patron saint of Glasgow. You get the occasional Cuthbert and Ninian in Scotland too - both being originally saints.

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 3 года назад

      @johns banana yeah I gathered that on account of this entire conversation being about the fact that it was a slur

    • @creative_carrie
      @creative_carrie 3 года назад

      @@AdeleD79 at least in the south west of England, it's also been shortened to mong to be an insult for people who are so ugly that they are beyond "minging". Though I'm guessing that ming came from the same word. I've been called all these things. Just ended up thinking about cute Asian girls tbh

  • @sarahwright2271
    @sarahwright2271 4 года назад +85

    “This is a customer announcement. Can the parent/guardian of Shooter please make their way to the customer service desk to collect their child. That’s the parent/guardian of Shooter to customer service please. Thank you.”

  • @allanagiles9470
    @allanagiles9470 4 года назад +355

    The dislikes are from people called Fanta

    • @ew6483
      @ew6483 4 года назад +5

      Fanta is a Spanish name

    • @Jamie_Smith.
      @Jamie_Smith. 4 года назад +5

      And Charlotte....

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +4

      E W well it’s not fantastic

    • @FreyaEinde
      @FreyaEinde 4 года назад +5

      Fanta is a real name though

    • @yanaga9947
      @yanaga9947 4 года назад +2

      Yes in some countries it stands for Fatima

  • @eviebradney2068
    @eviebradney2068 4 года назад +324

    Evan: "Declan ive only heard of from Declan McKenna"
    Me:...EVER HEARD OF ANT AND *DEC* ?? ...DECLAN DONNELLY FROM ANT AND DEC?

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +124

      never knew what Dec was short for besides the small legs

    • @sonia-nq5pv
      @sonia-nq5pv 4 года назад +6

      I didn't know that was his full name

    • @eviebradney2068
      @eviebradney2068 4 года назад +4

      @@evan 😂🤣

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +21

      Evan Edinger don’t anger the short, they have a lower centre of gravity.

    • @seancodrington8297
      @seancodrington8297 4 года назад

      Conor Murphy your safe know

  • @Asa...S
    @Asa...S 4 года назад +31

    In case anyone is curious about the most popular baby names in Sweden 2019:
    Boys: Lucas, Liam, William, Elias, Noah, Hugo, Oliver, Adam, Matteo
    Girls: Alice, Olivia, Astrid, Maja, Vera, Ella, Wilma, Alma, Lilly

  • @chloeleighhardy3435
    @chloeleighhardy3435 4 года назад +54

    “No one will talk to her, they’ll igNORAH.”

  • @paulasalazar2093
    @paulasalazar2093 4 года назад +112

    saoirse ronan though!! every interview she has they're like hOW dO yOu pRoNouNcE yOur naME

    • @TheGingerJedaii
      @TheGingerJedaii 4 года назад +3

      I know right i just used to just call her the girl from city of ember with the weird name

    • @sneakerhead6625
      @sneakerhead6625 4 года назад +9

      saw-sher like it’s not that hard, these brits and americans annoy me when they can’t say irish names when they’re literally explained to them. it’s the same with most west african names aswell

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +8

      @@sneakerhead6625 I agree that's stupid. I can't pronounce them based on spelling but if someone tells me I remember and for a celebrity they really should just Google beforehand.

    • @Blirre
      @Blirre 4 года назад +4

      @@sneakerhead6625 I dunno. I could explain to you how my Finnish name is pronounced but I doubt you'd get it. It's a different language. Even if you could repeat it correctly once, you probably wouldn't be able to do it again later, because you don't understand the spelling and can't use it for help. It's the same. Though I do understand why it's annoying, because mispronunciation is very common with people learning my language an it's unfortunately nearly impossible to understand.

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад +1

      SnEAkErHEaD well it’s not really our fault cuz we are not irish and so we don’t know your language or how to pronounce things so you shouldn’t expect us to remember right away

  • @clublinkadminoffice2425
    @clublinkadminoffice2425 4 года назад +208

    The way he pronounced "Charlotte"... it's SHAR-LUT not SHAR-LOTTA 😂

    • @MyenaVT
      @MyenaVT 4 года назад +50

      That’s how it’s pronounced in German

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад +4

      PiggyMoney Gaming why

    • @woltti
      @woltti 4 года назад +18

      It's pronounced differently in different languages. I would say Shar-lot.

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +35

      @@MyenaVT I've been watching Dark too much hahaha

    • @lincolnmckay555
      @lincolnmckay555 4 года назад +8

      I mean it's a really famous American city so he really has no excuse on pronouncing it so poorly.

  • @kellie126
    @kellie126 4 года назад +289

    There is a Korean-American singer named Ailee, pronounced the same as Eilidh
    Also, who tf pronounces Charlotte & Aria the way Evan did

    • @sarahsauter5820
      @sarahsauter5820 4 года назад +26

      Germans 😂

    • @YourSakuraDream
      @YourSakuraDream 4 года назад +2

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @thabaatballali7493
      @thabaatballali7493 4 года назад +24

      I died whenn he pronounced Charlotte and aria

    • @luis_zuniga
      @luis_zuniga 4 года назад +9

      Sarah Sauter though the same, I was like "he pronounced Charlotte in a German accent" 😂

    • @angelindisguise247
      @angelindisguise247 4 года назад +4

      ? Ailee isn't pronounced like eilidh it's pronounced how it looks with the literal "ee" instead of "ay" at the end XD

  • @mattstevens4342
    @mattstevens4342 4 года назад +26

    evan: noah reminds me of an old bald priest
    noah: *i'm sitting right here*

  • @charliedavies8776
    @charliedavies8776 4 года назад +64

    Someone in my school is called Harry Potter. And he wears round glasses.

  • @zeldifyy2736
    @zeldifyy2736 4 года назад +181

    Everyone in england knows at least one person with each of these names-
    - Steve - John - David - Mark - Paul - Gary -

    • @nicholasthorn1539
      @nicholasthorn1539 4 года назад +4

      Interestingly John is much less common than when I was a boy back in the 50s and 60s. David is probably less common too. At the factory in Slough where I worked back in the 70s every other man had that name

    • @annathomson718
      @annathomson718 4 года назад +27

      And they are all over 50

    • @silent935
      @silent935 4 года назад +1

      I know a david but not the others

    • @lanahands781
      @lanahands781 4 года назад +7

      6 of those are my uncles and 3 are named Paul! Lol

    • @cactojuice
      @cactojuice 4 года назад

      Is this just not take that

  • @Ella-jk7rq
    @Ella-jk7rq 4 года назад +236

    First UK names people think of: Harry & Elizabeth probably?
    First US names I think of: Addison & Chad
    Edit: im english so dont really know what US people think of for UK

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад +2

      the first ones I’d think of are Amber and Samuel but they weren’t in the top 10

    • @danikac1890
      @danikac1890 4 года назад +13

      When I think of populars names in the US for girls it's a tie between Madison and Hailey, for boy I think of John

    • @bakeymykakey
      @bakeymykakey 4 года назад +3

      for uk is think of issy and ben but that’s just becuase they were most popular in my school

    • @Josake.
      @Josake. 4 года назад +1

      I think of Elizabeth and John for UK names. For the US I think of Liam and Maddy.

    • @Leenapanther
      @Leenapanther 4 года назад

      First US names that come to my mind are Ashley and Abigail.

  • @eloquentlyemma
    @eloquentlyemma 4 года назад +17

    Ruairidh pronounced Rory is a fun one if you’ve never seen it before, because that’s the way we do it in the Western Isles.

  • @IreneFriederike
    @IreneFriederike 4 года назад +41

    My sister told me she had a patient with hydrocephalus and his mother called him Brian. But, because the mother didn’t know how to spell it and apparently the official at the registry office in this East German town didn’t either, the child’s name on official documents etc. was Brain.

    • @harrinivijay1862
      @harrinivijay1862 3 года назад +1

      Omg

    • @jchow5966
      @jchow5966 3 года назад +1

      Omg. Awful.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 года назад +2

      Why not just have it changed? That is possible.

    • @morganmeadowes6861
      @morganmeadowes6861 2 года назад +1

      This is such a German mistake, tbh, because the German 'a' sound is like in the British 'can’t' and the German 'i' sound is an English 'e', so ia and ai are confused a lot.

  • @TheAnalyticalEngine
    @TheAnalyticalEngine 4 года назад +494

    Americans name their kids "shooter" or after a gun manufacturer.
    Level of surprise - zero.

    • @jchow5966
      @jchow5966 3 года назад +2

      Yes - sadly (im American).

  • @tarynedwards4733
    @tarynedwards4733 4 года назад +51

    my dad wanted to call me aiofa because my last name is edwards and it sounds like 'e for edwards' in his lancastrian accent. That's my dad's sense of humor in a nutshell

    • @martinanugent5045
      @martinanugent5045 3 года назад +1

      Aoife.

    • @Ri57490
      @Ri57490 9 месяцев назад

      That's why mothers should name daughters, not fathers.

  • @samkelly4132
    @samkelly4132 4 года назад +149

    My mum’s friend helped deliver a baby in America (he’s a firefighter)
    When he helped check the mother and baby into the hospital he wrote “baby, female” for the baby
    When checking in on the family later, he was asking what they decided to name her (the baby)
    They said ‘we’ll stick with the name you chose for her’
    Obviously he was very confused, like he didn’t name the baby
    Yeah.... they called the baby Female (fe-ma-lay)

    • @quackadoo3101
      @quackadoo3101 4 года назад +23

      No way

    • @shersmk90
      @shersmk90 4 года назад +29

      That is just so bad...

    • @samkelly4132
      @samkelly4132 4 года назад +26

      Quackadoo yeah, this was about 10 years ago, but they never changed the name
      So there’s a 10 year old Female running around somewhere

    • @samkelly4132
      @samkelly4132 4 года назад +12

      Eliza I’d say they’d heard the word before, but whatever was going through their heads at the time, that’s what they named her, maybe when they saw “baby female” they thought he meant a name, and he was Irish so maybe they were thinking it was an Irish name, idk
      Listen I can’t believe it, it’s ridiculous, we’ve all tried to rationalise it, but we can’t
      I guess there’s more ridiculous names

  • @carysalcock5318
    @carysalcock5318 4 года назад +51

    Evan isn’t welsh there isn’t even a v in our alphabet the welsh version is Efan

  • @Youcantstopthebeat62
    @Youcantstopthebeat62 4 года назад +32

    I think my name (Lorelei) is beautiful, and I love it, but I have grown up with a lot of anxieties around people pronouncing and spelling it incorrectly. I wish people would take the time to learn others' names a bit more. This video is great 😊

  • @sierramares05
    @sierramares05 4 года назад +49

    I totally forgot that Noah wasn't always named Noah lmao. I was like, why are they saying he looked at baby name lists??

  • @erinesping1898
    @erinesping1898 4 года назад +40

    my mom: i’m very irish, i’m going to name my kids ryan and erin
    23&me: uh actually ur german

  • @chantelboyle5534
    @chantelboyle5534 4 года назад +55

    "You don't name a baby Craig if you love them"
    *Sad Mini Ladd noises* XD

  • @LK-on6rw
    @LK-on6rw 4 года назад +101

    The name Jessica was first invented by William Shakespeare and here’s Evan saying it’s American 😭😭😭

    • @2797krmb
      @2797krmb 3 года назад +4

      He didn’t say it was invented in America. Lol Most common American names obviously have different country origins.

    • @LK-on6rw
      @LK-on6rw 3 года назад +1

      @@2797krmb obviously different country origins, but if it specifically originated in the OPPOSING country in the video, I’m going to bring it up

    • @2797krmb
      @2797krmb 3 года назад +3

      @@LK-on6rw which is pointless because Europeans colonized America, so obviously they would still have European originated names down the line. 💀

    • @LK-on6rw
      @LK-on6rw 3 года назад +1

      @@2797krmb that’s not the point? also, the first permanent colony in America was placed when Shakespeare was about 50. I seriously doubt the name Jessica spread in America due to that. calm down.

    • @2797krmb
      @2797krmb 3 года назад +1

      @@LK-on6rw Maybe you should calm down and think about what you just typed. Shakespeare was 50 in the 1600’s, the first actual U.S colony was founded in 1607. 😂 Yes it VERY likely that European names would be becoming popular. I expected you to be a bit more intelligent than that. Lol

  • @eilidh2346
    @eilidh2346 4 года назад +25

    My name's Eilidh and i have actually been called Alien before, and also Edith and Eyelid and many MANY more variations.😂😂

  • @user-es7ui5mc1m
    @user-es7ui5mc1m 4 года назад +119

    USA: gives brand names as names
    Germany: brand names as first names are illegal (pretty sure Fanta was rejected a few years ago)
    also:
    -names cannot impede on the child's dignity (Adolf is actually technically legal but the registration office can refuse to put it on the birth certificate; so kind of depends on the person you get to put in the name or the specific area you're from)
    -name has to make it obvious that it's a person, not an object
    -name has to make the gender obvious (if it's a gender neutral first name, you need a gender-specific middle name)
    -cannot be a place name (there are some exceptions, if it's a normal, somewhat common name somewhere else, that's usually fine; meaning Brooklyn would most likely be accepted, New York wouldn't)
    -cannot be a last name (no Teslas, Hemingways or Shakespeares)
    -spelling has to be deductible from the common spelling rules (meaning basically from reading it, you should be able to kind of guess the pronunciation; foreign names, accents and everything are okay I think)
    -max 5 names
    -cannot impede on the religious beliefs of others (Gott (God) is not allowed, Jesus is but only because it has tradition in Spanish-speaking countries I think)
    -not allowed to name your child the (religious?) epitome of evil (e.g. Satan, Judas)
    -cannot be a noble title as a name (e.g. Lord)
    but basically, if you can prove the name has tradition in another country, you can often get around some of the rules, Mercedes is a girls name in the US, thus might be allowed here, same with Brooklyn, possibly Paris and Jesus (from Spanish)

    • @TKDDLJ09
      @TKDDLJ09 4 года назад +11

      We also have strict nameing laws, which i find completely necessary when i hear what some people want to name their kids, like Satan... why do that to your kid? Like its a fact that other kids will make fun of a kid with a name like Satan. Why inflict that pain on a tiny human being.
      Also, my sisters name Thara had to go through the application process, because my dad wanted the H in there and it wasnt approved at the time, but since it was just another spelling of a name, they allowed it. So she was the first named that 😊😊😊

    • @IreneFriederike
      @IreneFriederike 4 года назад +19

      the car is named after Mercedes Jellinek. Mercedes is a Spanish name (Maria de las Mercedes “Our Lady of Mercy”). So you shouldn’t have any trouble naming your child that. Unless it’s a boy.

    • @regenbogentraumerin
      @regenbogentraumerin 4 года назад +22

      The gender-specific middle name is not necessary anymore though.

    • @crystalwolcott4744
      @crystalwolcott4744 4 года назад +8

      The name has to make the gender obvious? wtf germany

    • @regenbogentraumerin
      @regenbogentraumerin 4 года назад +14

      ​@@crystalwolcott4744 It's been that way back in the day but a gender-specific (first or middle) name isn't mandatory anymore and has not been for several years now. I myself have a non-gender-specific first name which is mostly given to boys and no middle name even though I am a biological woman and identify with that and I was born in the early 90s in Germany. It's still not allowed to call a girl a name that is specifically a boy's name and the other way round though if this might cause harm to the child due to e.g. bullying later on, so you can't name your daughter Steven or Robert or Mohammad and you can't call your son e.g. Savanna, Lisa or Ruth. If e.g. the person you thought was a daughter identifies as a man or boy later on the name can allways be changed though.

  • @Adamgarv
    @Adamgarv 4 года назад +63

    So alot of people seem to get this wrong, the name Saoirse and is pronounced ‘Soar-sha’ by a good few people, especially in the UK, however its an Irish name and is actually pronounced ‘Sear-sha’

    • @user-el8fj5lu7d
      @user-el8fj5lu7d 4 года назад +8

      Not entirety true. Depending on where you are in Ireland people pronounce it either way. Source am Irish

    • @bronaghmccabe
      @bronaghmccabe 4 года назад +1

      defo depends on region where i live its sear sha but where i like caoimhe is key va not kwee va.

  • @novart9230
    @novart9230 4 года назад +81

    I was confused by the pronunciation of "Charlotte" : "Charlotta" ? In french it's Charlot (we drop the "E" and we just pronunce the "T" at the end)

    • @silent935
      @silent935 4 года назад +21

      He pronounced it wrong

    • @bloedjohan7602
      @bloedjohan7602 4 года назад +18

      It's pronounced like this in Germany, don't know if he did it intentionally though

    • @riowalsh7462
      @riowalsh7462 4 года назад +10

      He pronounced it the German way. My cousin’s girlfriend is Charlotte and that’s how she pronounces her name.

    • @elenatramontana234
      @elenatramontana234 4 года назад +3

      He pronounced it as you would in german

    • @charlotteeeee7359
      @charlotteeeee7359 4 года назад +6

      I can confirm as a Charlotte myself, i pronounce it as shar-lot

  • @KeyJKandy
    @KeyJKandy 4 года назад +15

    American preschool teacher here: I've got a kid who's dad is from Ireland and his name is Declan. And I also have a Nora (though spelled Norah) and a Vivian (though it's spelled Vivienne and we call her Vivie). I also had an Isla :)

    • @TKDDLJ09
      @TKDDLJ09 4 года назад +4

      Im sorry, but vivienne and Vivian ia two different names. Those parents are stupid. Like if its spelled vivienne then it cant be pronounced Vivian, it sounds completely different. How stupid do you have to be to do that to your child, for the rest of ber life, people who only see her name on paper will call her vivienne and then she has to correct every single one of them. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ why not just spell like its supposed to...

    • @hiraeths3806
      @hiraeths3806 4 года назад +2

      @@TKDDLJ09 I pronounce them both the same...?

    • @suekennedy1595
      @suekennedy1595 3 года назад +1

      Declan is quite normal in Australia

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 2 года назад

      I knew two Vivienne's at school.

  • @amaliedawall1375
    @amaliedawall1375 4 года назад +99

    Also can we talk about famous people calling their kids, "North" "Bear" "Moon". Like did you even consider the fact that, that person is gonna grow up, become an adult and have to go into a job interview and introduce themselves by those names. "Hey. I'm bear." or "Hello, I'm moon" like wtf!

    • @maariahussain4414
      @maariahussain4414 4 года назад +16

      Poor Bear Payne

    • @AntoineM1312
      @AntoineM1312 4 года назад +2

      Lol is that shading Mr Kate?

    • @zekeleonard5247
      @zekeleonard5247 4 года назад +9

      Is it bad that I actually like the name Moon..?

    • @amaliedawall1375
      @amaliedawall1375 4 года назад +1

      @@zekeleonard5247 Of course not, it's just a trend that birth even stranger things.

    • @azelmamortlake4471
      @azelmamortlake4471 4 года назад +4

      @@maariahussain4414 he'll just have to bear the pain of having that name

  • @mollyonyxbox
    @mollyonyxbox 4 года назад +39

    Welsh names are great, I’m biased because I’m welsh but they have such nice meanings. Heledd, Bryn, Geraint, Hugh, Alys, Carys, Catrin, Efa, Aled, Cai. I could go on, I just love them

    • @ArianwenMay
      @ArianwenMay 4 года назад +1

      Yeah Arianwen doesn’t come around too often 😂

    • @beth7935
      @beth7935 4 года назад +1

      Yes!! I love Welsh names, & I'm not Welsh, unless 1 Welsh ancestor counts, but I nearly called my cat Bryn, & one of my other cats' middle names was Blodwen. I also love Owen & Evan (tho I know they're Anglicised), Llewyn, Rhys, Gareth, Geraint, Bran, Ioan, Iestyn, Rhodri, Seren, Gwendolyn, Gwyneth, Branwen, Bronwen, Ceridwen, Arianwen- pretty much all the girls' names ending in "wen" really! & lots more I can't think of!

    • @beth7935
      @beth7935 4 года назад +2

      @@ArianwenMay Your name is beautiful! And I have come across it; someone had it as their persona name in a mediaeval recreation group, & it suited her perfectly because she had the fairest hair & skin, & as you'd know, Arianwen means silver.

    • @faithspencer6082
      @faithspencer6082 4 года назад +4

      Isn't the Welsh version of Hugh spelled Huw?

    • @user-ri3dj7vr6d
      @user-ri3dj7vr6d 4 года назад +1

      Yess I'm called bronwen and I love it but people always think its spelt bronwyn :/

  • @conormurphy4328
    @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +199

    I’ve never understood why they’re called baby names when... they’re just names.

    • @amandahyre8613
      @amandahyre8613 4 года назад +35

      Because you're naming a baby. If I just say, "I'm looking for good names," you wouldn't know if I was naming a baby, a puppy, a hamster, or my car. Sure, they're just names, but people say "baby names," because that's when humans get named.

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +23

      Amanda Hyre i I mean if you were to ask somebody for some names they liked i think they’d just assume you’re thinking of names for people, I doubt anybody’s first response would be “the pussy wagon”.

    • @ninao8460
      @ninao8460 4 года назад +19

      I thought it was because it's refers to only the new names, so a name that was very popular 50 years ago those people won't count for the most popular name

    • @Gamerthon98
      @Gamerthon98 4 года назад +9

      Personally, I think it matters that you're naming a baby, and not a fully grown adult, because I don't think many people are naming their babies 'Doris' or 'Ronald'. You want something that sounds nice/cute for a child, that's less likely to have them be bullied for said name, and still works as an adult name.

    • @gerardacronin334
      @gerardacronin334 4 года назад +6

      Yes, they are just names, but people are given them when they are babies.

  • @samkelly4132
    @samkelly4132 4 года назад +392

    I’m ready for a lot of Irish names
    I’ll add some here
    Niamh, Roisín, Bláithín, Caitlín, Tadhg/Tadgh, Ciarán, Meadhbh, Sadhbh, Saoirse, Aoife, Áine, Aoibheann, Gráinne, Cliodhna, Eoin/Eoghan, Ruairí, Aodan/Aiden, Daithi, Thomás, Tiernan, Caolan, Diarmuid, Donnchadh, Orán, Pádraig(boy) / Pádraigín(girl), Cormac, Fionn
    Feel free to add more
    Edit: Some I forgot
    Caoilfhionn, Caoimhe, Sinéad, Aisling, Oisín, Naoise, Neasa, Laoise, Eilís, Liam, Dónal, Béibheann/Béibhinn, Ciara, Cian, Brónagh, Cathal, Orlagh/Órflaith, Mairéad, Ultán, Léá, Mícheál/Míháil, Siobhán, Dearbhla
    Edit: lower in the comments I made a list of the phonetic pronunciation of all of these names for anyone interested

    • @graceharvey2588
      @graceharvey2588 4 года назад +13

      i always love caoimhe

    • @aliceverzelloni8435
      @aliceverzelloni8435 4 года назад +7

      I love orla, muireann and laoise.

    • @poggies7639
      @poggies7639 4 года назад +24

      They’re not really weird though tbh, that’s like saying a Spanish person naming their son Miguel is super weird and so on

    • @elliemaree99
      @elliemaree99 4 года назад +21

      It’s another language, they aren’t weird?

    • @annamayslowie9316
      @annamayslowie9316 4 года назад +6

      @@graceharvey2588 the name where there are 7 silent letters

  • @Sewer._.rattt25
    @Sewer._.rattt25 4 года назад +32

    Talks about Evans
    Me:”Haha my friends name is efan pronounced differently coz it’s welsh”
    Noah:*in welshie accent* “efan”
    Me:*also in welshie accent* “efan” *pauses* *realises that my country has been recognised by an American* *recites llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychsantasiliogogogoch* *feels special* *realises that they’re saying that hill is a good name*

  • @ripurutheman4082
    @ripurutheman4082 3 года назад +7

    "Arson"
    "That's a crime."
    "Riot"
    "That's so cool!"

  • @peacelovelarkable
    @peacelovelarkable 4 года назад +129

    Did Corry and Noah just switch shirts for this video after recording the last one? It really messed with my brain for a couple minutes lol

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +28

      They got mixed up after the topless pillow fight.

    • @sanitysquota937
      @sanitysquota937 4 года назад +20

      Maybe they recorded this on the same day and thought switching shirts would make that less obvious. Evan was just like...I'll put on a different white polo shirt.

    • @peacelovelarkable
      @peacelovelarkable 4 года назад +10

      @@sanitysquota937 I thought it was the same white polo lol

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +33

      @@sanitysquota937 whoah I do NOT own any polos I am INSULTED
      I thought it'd be funny so recommended they change shirts cause I was gonna.
      I film on Tuesdays and it takes so long to set all the lighting, sound blanket, and whatnot up I try to just film both vids on the same day

    • @sanitysquota937
      @sanitysquota937 4 года назад +10

      @@evan lol I called it! It does make sense to film twice on the same day. It would have been funnier if all three of you just switched shirts though.

  • @scsutton1
    @scsutton1 4 года назад +49

    I still remember a child named Kia that was born in a Kia car. Top Gear covered it years ago.

    • @Bunnybananabunny
      @Bunnybananabunny 4 года назад +3

      Kia is actually a really common name in Finland! But usually spelled Kiia.

    • @laravio
      @laravio 4 года назад +1

      It’s not super common is England but my brother is called Kia, spelt ‘Keir’ though. I pretty sure he wasn’t named after the car.

    • @86upsmaya
      @86upsmaya 4 года назад

      Kia at least sound like girls's name

    • @laravio
      @laravio 4 года назад

      86upsmaya
      Kia is a girls name, Keir a guys name. Don’t know why but y’know. For example Keir Starmer (a politician guy)

  • @laceym314
    @laceym314 4 года назад +32

    Being a teacher I want to comment so hard with my experience with unique names, but privacy.

    • @user-dq1jl4pb9d
      @user-dq1jl4pb9d 4 года назад +11

      My mum taught a girl called Snow White

    • @emilian7052
      @emilian7052 4 года назад +6

      Go on spill the tea lol

    • @TheGingerJedaii
      @TheGingerJedaii 4 года назад +5

      @@user-dq1jl4pb9d How many dwarves were in the class?

    • @sneakerhead6625
      @sneakerhead6625 4 года назад +6

      yeah there was one girl i knew called matilda-mini-mo. like her name was triple barrelled i didn’t even know that was possible till i met her

    • @martynnotman3467
      @martynnotman3467 4 года назад +7

      Try being a travel agent. "I need the full names please.."
      Ive had Rocket, Buzz, Lion, Bimbi Drake, Cutee (with two ees not an I) ...in general they save the true horrors for middle names!

  • @elliembh1726
    @elliembh1726 4 года назад +11

    "oh that's prettier"
    "It's like, a real version, not just dumbed down"
    As an English Ellie, I am offended.

  • @WriterGirl90
    @WriterGirl90 3 года назад +2

    Like the mini discusion on Welsh names, one side of my family is Welsh so we've got some unusual ones: Bryn
    Brynna (one of my middle names)
    Ffion - pronounced 'Fee-on'
    Sian - pronounced 'Sha-n'
    Siôn - The Welsh version of 'Shaun, Shawn or Sean'
    Cai - Rhymes with 'Sky'. We've also go Nain (Welsh for grandmother and pronounced 'Nine') and Taid (Welsh for grandfather and pronounced 'Tied')

  • @eqlispe5730
    @eqlispe5730 4 года назад +26

    A few years back the name Elspeth was quite a popular Scottish name. It’s the Scottish version of Elizabeth.

  • @eilidhbrodie3893
    @eilidhbrodie3893 4 года назад +15

    Yeah I got called eyelid for a year by my french teacher, and Eilidh is also the Scottish version of Helen

  • @emilyshaw4146
    @emilyshaw4146 4 года назад +115

    As an Irish person I appreciate the proper pronunciation of the irish names, seriously good job, usually Americans butcher them. But, never, say top of the morning to you again. No one says it here!

    • @OnMission4theKing
      @OnMission4theKing 4 года назад +7

      Noah’s mom is Irish so he has it down pat!

    • @conormurphy4328
      @conormurphy4328 4 года назад +7

      Bottom of the night to me sister

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +3

      I'm English and I butcher them accidentally to be honest. I'm good at Welsh pronunciations because my extended family is Welsh and my grandma taught me and I can generally guess Scottish names but I can never get Irish just from looking at it. It took me years so realise Sibohan was said *Shivaun*

    • @Blirre
      @Blirre 4 года назад

      They know nobody says top of the morning, which is why it was used for a bad impression.

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад

      Violet None Of Your Business i thought sibohan was sebastian

  • @SherriLyle80s
    @SherriLyle80s 3 года назад +3

    You forgot Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards) for American names 😂 I am a social worker and see this name a ton, along with Destiny (and various spellings).

  • @galdoug8918
    @galdoug8918 4 года назад +10

    As a dougal who's name could have been fingal, yes I am a wizard.

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 2 года назад

      When I hear the name Dougal, I think of the dog on the Magic roundabout.

  • @kellisylvester6663
    @kellisylvester6663 4 года назад +188

    Oh, Evan, Charlotte is pronounced “Sharlut" like “Charlotte’s Web.” Anyway, love the video! :)

    • @lania2246
      @lania2246 4 года назад +25

      Evan pronounced it the German way!

    • @corvus1374
      @corvus1374 4 года назад +15

      I thought it was Shar-LOT.

    • @kellisylvester6663
      @kellisylvester6663 4 года назад +1

      @@lania2246 ohhh okay, that makes sense!

    • @kellisylvester6663
      @kellisylvester6663 4 года назад +2

      @@corvus1374 I’ve heard both pronunciations! Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking?

    • @charlotteeeee7359
      @charlotteeeee7359 4 года назад +3

      I am here to confirm that at least where im from (north west England) its shar-lot

  • @Nadeshda44
    @Nadeshda44 4 года назад +12

    “You don’t name a kid Craig if you love him” omfg 😂😂😂

  • @understandablylost
    @understandablylost 4 года назад +17

    I love how names do have their time throughout the decades, I’m 25 and in Scotland I swear every girl in my year was called Shannon or Rebecca and now those names barely make the top ranks

  • @JudeKennedyATCL
    @JudeKennedyATCL 4 года назад +15

    Noah: a 50 yo priest....
    we're here for the DARK references!!
    Or maybe we were there for the DARK references

  • @toastie1310
    @toastie1310 4 года назад +8

    I know SO MANY Sophies. There's literally a girl at my school also called Sophie Anderson.

    • @kaia6758
      @kaia6758 4 года назад +2

      same ik way too many sophies. same with rubys

    • @ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108
      @ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108 3 года назад

      Wow. My last name is Anderson and one of my best friends is called Sophie.

    • @veronicam4745
      @veronicam4745 3 года назад

      that’s the advantage of having a super uncommon first name and a hyphenated last name lol

  • @narlth
    @narlth 4 года назад +58

    My mum always really wanted to name her first daughter Iona, except that our surname is Lamb, and if you say that slowly it sounds like 'I own a lamb' so instead I am called Nicola, because my parents actually thought about it.

    • @Alertse
      @Alertse 4 года назад +12

      I get that ... My sister wanted call her daughter Emma but married someone with last name Cao (pronounced cow) so we had to point out it sounded like I'm a cow..... Her husband wanted boba fett as a middle name too so she could have been Emma fett Cao
      ......that would have been bad 😂

    • @lanahands781
      @lanahands781 4 года назад +6

      I knew a girl in college named Emma Lee and I thought she was saying Emily, I called her that for la week before she corrected me. Someone else I know named their baby Isla but there last name happens to be white.

    • @Luubelaar
      @Luubelaar 4 года назад +4

      A lady I know loves the name Robin and wanted to name her son that. But she married a guy whose surname is Hood, and she said "I just couldn't do it to the poor kid."

    • @lanahands781
      @lanahands781 4 года назад +3

      Luubelaar my husband wanted to name our daughter Jasmine so she would be Jazz Hands. We ended up calling out dog Jasper instead lol

    • @lk-l2818
      @lk-l2818 3 года назад +2

      my sister is Iona, luckily our surname isnt an issue with it. She did struggle with a teacher from France who could not pronouce it at all though.

  • @meglane2020
    @meglane2020 4 года назад +145

    I love how badly he pronounced “Charlotte” and “Aria” eeek

    • @GreifenRitterGirl12
      @GreifenRitterGirl12 4 года назад +19

      He actually pronounced Charlotte in the german way :D I think it sounds great!

    • @charlotte-xq7sl
      @charlotte-xq7sl 4 года назад +8

      I hated it ik I'm being biased because my name is charlotte

    • @TheGingerJedaii
      @TheGingerJedaii 4 года назад +3

      Aria is pronounced Are - ea (bit like ear)

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +9

      @@GreifenRitterGirl12 Been watching too much Dark :'D

    • @NonyaBuizness-
      @NonyaBuizness- 4 года назад +5

      I was literally coming to say this like who says those names that way? Haha

  • @eilidhl3140
    @eilidhl3140 4 года назад +53

    Why has no one from England or America heard of ‘Eilidh’, I swear it’s such a common name here

    • @isabelnecessary5915
      @isabelnecessary5915 4 года назад +2

      Yeah that really surprised me, I know loads of Eilidhs

    • @hayleycarroll2149
      @hayleycarroll2149 4 года назад +1

      I live in Canada and used to know an Eilidh, but I was like the only person who could ever remember how to spell it

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +5

      I've never met anyone with the name as an English person but I really like it. Its pretty.

    • @rae17
      @rae17 4 года назад +1

      yeah i’m scottish here, there was 3 eilidhs in my year at school!!

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад +1

      why would english people and american people have heard of it? we are not irish

  • @hannahcairnie766
    @hannahcairnie766 4 года назад +6

    I’m from Dumfries and Galloway😂😂 I didn’t ever think my region would be mentioned in a You Tube video ever😂

    • @aceatlasska4343
      @aceatlasska4343 3 года назад +2

      Haha I'm from Ayrshire and me and my family go to Dumfries and Galloway fairly often for walking (so also feeling kind of represented)

  • @HarryRobins
    @HarryRobins 4 года назад +9

    I'm really luckily that I'm a boy, bc I would have been called Ella, and I have an older brother called Sam. So our parents would have been calling "Salmonella!"

  • @draiochtmc6902
    @draiochtmc6902 4 года назад +61

    Being Irish, this pains me listening to this haha. All of the Irish names are so common here

    • @PiranhaSatan
      @PiranhaSatan 4 года назад +2

      my favourite mispronounciation has to be when my friend Oisin went to france and the passport security called him Wazin (with a nasal n)

    • @aoife.cassidy
      @aoife.cassidy 4 года назад +6

      It more pains me that they put Irish names in a british thing

    • @marcypan8219
      @marcypan8219 4 года назад +2

      Irish names aren't hard to pronounce if you know how Irish pronunciation works. If you do, they're very logical.

    • @Aithis.
      @Aithis. 4 года назад

      Aoife Cassidy meh you get loads of Irish names over in England like Liverpool and around that area and also in Wales and places in Scotland, don’t know if they’d call themselves British or Irish or wa tho

  • @heddadybvadskog-nebb5603
    @heddadybvadskog-nebb5603 4 года назад +10

    It's fun hearing some of the Scottish/Irish/who even knows anymore names to me because as a Norwegian I know a lot of them exist here as well just spelt differently. Like Torquil is Torkil here! Also Nora is such a popular name here- I'm 18 and in just my year at school, which was only like 200 students, we had 13 Nora/Nouras

  • @tdimccullough
    @tdimccullough 4 года назад +27

    i heard this grown woman shouting Alexa in a cafe recently and was expecting amazon Alexa speaking back, it was her two year old daughter

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +12

      Oh no...Amazon has ruined the name Alexa

    • @novart9230
      @novart9230 4 года назад

      Maybe because it's close to Alexia ? (greek name)

    • @cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
      @cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 4 года назад +9

      Well, it was a girl's name before it was a device's name.

    • @eviekenyon574
      @eviekenyon574 4 года назад

      Well yeah it’s a name

  • @ellamccarthy3542
    @ellamccarthy3542 3 года назад +3

    Funny story, my mum named me Ella because it wasn’t popular when she chose it in early 2004. Now there are six other Ella’s in my year. It genuinely upsets me so much.

    • @ellawanless641
      @ellawanless641 3 года назад +1

      lmao, are we the same person?? i have the exact same story. my mom chose Ella because it was more unique than Emma, now i know like five other Ella’s and no Emma’s.

  • @abigaildaniell9781
    @abigaildaniell9781 4 года назад +4

    I’m from the U.K. and I had 5 Jessica’s in my class at one point

  • @laurentuck7835
    @laurentuck7835 4 года назад +14

    I’ve very happy you all like welsh names 🥺😂
    These are some of my favourite welsh names
    Carys (kah-riss)
    Ffion (Fee-on)
    Eleri (el-air-ee)
    Seren (seh-ren)
    Angharad (angh-hah-rahd)
    Dylan (dill-an)
    Kai/Cai (ca-ee)
    Steffan (stef-ahn)
    Harri (Harry)
    (I probably did the pronunciation wrong because I made it how i say it in my welsh accent 😂)

    • @Ava-cw3jf
      @Ava-cw3jf 4 года назад +1

      Lauren Tuck all of the pronounciations i would say are right, however kai/cai is pronounced k-eye in my west welsh accent

  • @dmreid9620
    @dmreid9620 4 года назад +13

    I'm Scottish and for some unknown reason my parents thought it would be a good idea, in the year 2002, to name their son Donald. Luckily that can be shortened to Donnie which isn't quite so bad but its still annoying when Donald seeps into things like school registers.

  • @evan
    @evan  4 года назад +18

    We're live on Twitch streaming The Last of Us Part II come hang! twitch.tv/EvanEdinger

    • @emmaupchurch9160
      @emmaupchurch9160 4 года назад +1

      Completly forgot to mention Welsh names apart from Evan. Wales has some of the most common names, and also beautiful girls names x

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 года назад +1

      @@emmaupchurch9160 I think all names beginning with that Gw sound are Welsh right? Like Gwen Guinevere Gwendolyn ect. I always loved Welsh names, my grandma is Welsh and if I have kids I'd like to give them a welsh name in honor of her.

    • @emmaupchurch9160
      @emmaupchurch9160 4 года назад

      Yes Gwen and Gwendolen are Welsh names. Meaning Fair and white. Guinevere isn't a Welsh name as there is no "v" in the Welsh alphabet a single "f" would make a v sound. What I love about Welsh names is the beautiful meaning behind them. Like Seren means Star and Liliwen means white lily.

  • @voidnarrations2216
    @voidnarrations2216 2 года назад

    So Beretta is a gun manufacturer but homeboy was thinking of the Barret .50 lmao

  • @asther1884
    @asther1884 4 года назад

    I have seen a lot of names being obvious musical terms like melody and harmony, but Aria really flies under the radar and i like that

  • @xMitchIrons
    @xMitchIrons 4 года назад +11

    i'm surprised you didnt make the joke: 'EA Sports, it's in the name!' 😂

    • @evan
      @evan  4 года назад +4

      HA shoulda

  • @pumpkin_iced752
    @pumpkin_iced752 4 года назад +28

    Corry and Evan: yup we are having a kid
    Noah: "le gasp"

  • @emjenkins464
    @emjenkins464 4 года назад +8

    I live in Wales and have never met a Bronwen, but every school year has a Seren and Celyn (star and holly)

  • @Nicole-cb8bm
    @Nicole-cb8bm 4 года назад +22

    BUT WAIT: Sssst (pronounced “Forest” like “Four-S-t”)

    • @kayd731
      @kayd731 4 года назад +1

      Love it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Cerrie88
    @Cerrie88 4 года назад

    You saying the name Charlotte was brilliant lol

  • @nathanappleby154
    @nathanappleby154 4 года назад +13

    "I only knew one evan and i hated him because im the evan"
    🤣

  • @rosetallulah3774
    @rosetallulah3774 4 года назад +48

    “scottish names are easier to pronounce” gonna have to say no to that one... i live in scotland and go to school with a girl who’s name is spelled ‘ciorstaidh’

    • @klcpesan
      @klcpesan 4 года назад +10

      Rose Tallulah Ciorstaidh is my name but my parents used the Kirsty spelling for schools

    • @aimeeanderson90
      @aimeeanderson90 4 года назад +14

      it's weird how that spelling looks totally normal and easy to pronounce to me but i can totally see how confusing that must be to try and pronounce if you cant speak gaelic!

    • @PassableClown
      @PassableClown 4 года назад +4

      I don’t think my name (Ruadhán) is that difficult, but so many people have trouble with it

    • @abigailhyde2697
      @abigailhyde2697 4 года назад +1

      rhuriararh, rognvald, Roisin

    • @Pulsar-1919
      @Pulsar-1919 4 года назад +4

      I could figure out the pronunciation of that after a few seconds, but its probably just because I speak Irish and some of the phonetics are similar.

  • @lorigrainger4337
    @lorigrainger4337 4 года назад +15

    "you don't name a kid Craig if you love him" HAHA. My dad's called Craig and he literally begged me to name one of my future children after him because the name's dying out, sorry Dad :)

  • @cvetina1
    @cvetina1 4 года назад +2

    When Noah started listing those full names all I could think about was Jamie Oliver's kids' names. They're all named different nouns i.e. Bear, River

  • @adamblack1684
    @adamblack1684 Год назад

    Bronwyn Davies was one of my favourite Neighbours characters 😅 Love that name.