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Wow.... just Wow! I was 14 years old when my half sister was born. The nurses were all a titter about the teenage couple in the next room that had just named their twins, Pebbles and Bam Bam.
Dogs and cats are for the silly goofy names. Also horses. Especially registered horses. One of my dad’s old horses (she has a new home now if shes the one im thinking of, i get a few of them mixed up though) is registered with the name “Miss Demeanor”. That’s some drag-queen type shit (not surprised since the horses live on a farm with my dad and my dad’s husband lmao). It’s multi-faceted and that’s my favorite part.
After high school, I did a semester outdoor program. Combining kids and counselors, our (pretty small) group included: Jesse, Jesse, Jessie, Jessa, Jessica, and Jess.
we had all the "K" names, Kelly M, Kelly K, Karen, Kim, Kimber, Karina, Kourtney, Katie, Kathy, Katherine, Karla, and me, I'm Nicole and was always the odd one out.
Sports Illustrated had a blurb in the late 90s about a college soccer team (UNC?) that had like 10-12 Jennifers or Jessicas on the roster. I can't find it online, but I distinctly remember reading it in the physical magazine ca. 1999.
LOL yes - the song *27 Jennifers* by Mike Doughty really cracks me up because it is so true.
*I went to school with 27 Jennifers, 16 Jenns, 10 Jennies....*
Given that my name is Emily pretty much every year there were 2 or 3 others in my class. One year there were three of us with C last names. That sucked. One of the reasons I started going by Emmie.
Yes I am Chelsea Anderson and there was a girl Chelsea Andrews who didn’t do well in school. My mother got a report card saying a was failing 3 out of 4 classes and grounded me for weeks before she finally got a call from the school about the mistake.
Later in life I got arrest because another girl with my same exact name did something and had a warrant. I made it all the way to finger printing when they finally realized I wasn’t lieing. Sometimes I wish I had one of those crazy names
Lol when I was a grad TA we would make a game out of this - competition for the largest mononym groups. I think the record was 8 katelynn/Caitlins etc in two confusing lab groups
Haha, it’s not a tragedeigh, but I once worked briefly with a Japanese woman named Saiko. When folks would ask how to say it, She’d say “Psycho, like the movie” lol
An old school friend named their daughter something like Aevyrleighy (Everly) I know I've spelled that wrong, because no one is ever gonna spell that right.
And my cousin's daughter's name is Emyhleigh (Emily).
I was about to comment about a girl I went to school with whose middle name was Metallica! She said her parents almost gave her Pantera as a first name too (but luckily her first name ended up being normal)
Maybe she can be friends with my entry, a child named “Clitty” her parents are English as a second language so they probably don’t know 😭 and yeah it’s pronounced how it looks
I’m a teacher and a few years ago, I had a Messiah and a Jesus in the same class.
I took a certain perverse pleasure in putting them to work in pairs together.
Someone in my town is named Knickolle.
Sound it out. It’s the same name as mine (except mine is the usual spelling) and it took me a good 30 sec to realize that.
A couple we met on our honeymoon had a little baby girl about a year after. They named that little girl Saylor James. Saylor James. Like Popeye’s little nephew or something. I can’t get over it
Capers. His last name was weird too. Word beginning with A that means “crooked or in disarray.” Ends with W and sound like “ask you.” (Trying not to doxx.)
I also once rode a Greyhound bus with a little girl named Kiwi Strawberry NormalLastName. I know because her mom full-named her when she was misbehaving.
That just looks like a misspelling of the Scottish form of Mary, Mhairi. But given what I've seen on this sub, I wouldn't be surprised if her parents had never heard of it.
Escherichia - this could conceivably be a girl's name, but it's what the E. in E. Coli stands for. The couple that named their daughter this were biology teachers. She'd be about 16 now.
When I was a kid we had a woman that named her son and daughter Jett and Karma. Terrible names and both kids were little terrors with absolutely zero discipline lmao.
I was doing voter registration and I met a guy named T. His first name was the letter T and his last name was unremarkable. He showed me his ID, he was very proud of this fact.
Clamesha
She was 100% white. I grew up in Oakland. It's what you think.
She was very sweet, she made it out of the hood, she became a biologist and changed her name.
I win this one hands down. Nobody will beat this answer.
I interviewed a lady at Social Security and asked her son's name. She pronounced it Suh.KWAN. I asked her to spell it. Her reply was S.U.C.K.J.U.A.N! I nearly fell out of my chair. I figured that Juan was the boyfriend. Then she said, but it's spelled wrong. Thank God, I thought.
It should start with an F, not an S. Fuckjuan. I told her that she had to go to city hall to have the birth certificate amended.
The honest truth.
I feel like this was one of those names that started as an online meme but you always get a couple estupidos that get “inspired” and find it to be “so unique”
I thought the same thing and then this girl from my school had a baby right after senior year and named her Abcde and this was in the year of our lord 2010
Twins named Deevious and Keevious. Deevious in particular—both crooks but it feels like someone named Deevious was doomed from birth.
They were identical and at some point got identical tiger tattoos on their right arms so it was always fun figuring out which one you had and if the warrant was for him or his brother.
As far as I know Keevious is still around but Deevious tried to rob the wrong dude in midtown Atlanta a few years ago. Rest in Peecious.
Adolf. Was a Chinese student. Apparently he actually wanted to be called Rudolph (like the reindeer) but his nanny misunderstood him when filing for his international name and it became Adolf instead.
In one of our school readings, I believe the last sentence was “Only with the first child named Adolf again, will the second world war be finally over” (which is obviously true), so we always joked that WWII was finally over with the advent of his.
Keiahlee (pronounced Kee-ah-lee), from my primary school. As far as I can tell (with my seconds long google search) they’re the only one on the planet given that name
A lotta street names that are named after prominent figures during the Vietnam-France and the Vietnam-US wars.
For context, literacy tanked during those times because stupid people are easier to be colonized, so most people were named after literal words. There was a past belief that giving children ugly names would dispersuade demons from capturing.
Some of those that gave me wtfs are: Nguyễn Thị Đây (here), Nguyễn Thị Đó (there), Nguyễn Thị Nhúng (to be dipped), Nguyễn Thị Nữa (more), Trịnh Thị Dối (to lie), Trần Thị Ngon (delicious), Lê Thị Nửa (half), Lê Thị Sọc (stripes), Hồ Thị Dẹp (to be dispensed), Trình Thị Gắt (grumpy), and Võ Thị Hết (end).
These are all feminine names, and they all came from a list of street names in Củ Chi, HCMC. The ugly word naming thing seems to be more prevalent for females back then as well since guys definitely had more thought out names back then as well.
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Wow.... just Wow! I was 14 years old when my half sister was born. The nurses were all a titter about the teenage couple in the next room that had just named their twins, Pebbles and Bam Bam.
I have a coworker who named his dogs those names
Dog names are much more appropriate!
Dogs and cats are for the silly goofy names. Also horses. Especially registered horses. One of my dad’s old horses (she has a new home now if shes the one im thinking of, i get a few of them mixed up though) is registered with the name “Miss Demeanor”. That’s some drag-queen type shit (not surprised since the horses live on a farm with my dad and my dad’s husband lmao). It’s multi-faceted and that’s my favorite part.
Please tell me you’re joking
I am dead ass serious
No fucking way!!!! 💀
Off topic but noteworthy. My TAs put the following group together for final projects. Kyla, Kaila, Caelin, Kylie and Kyle.
After high school, I did a semester outdoor program. Combining kids and counselors, our (pretty small) group included: Jesse, Jesse, Jessie, Jessa, Jessica, and Jess.
That's nothing. I'm Gen x. We had like 12 Jennifer's in class
Same but Michelle’s
Not Gen X, but Same but Nicholases
Soooo many Sarahs….
we had all the "K" names, Kelly M, Kelly K, Karen, Kim, Kimber, Karina, Kourtney, Katie, Kathy, Katherine, Karla, and me, I'm Nicole and was always the odd one out.
Sports Illustrated had a blurb in the late 90s about a college soccer team (UNC?) that had like 10-12 Jennifers or Jessicas on the roster. I can't find it online, but I distinctly remember reading it in the physical magazine ca. 1999.
What’s a “physical magazine?” Just kidding, I remember those.
LOL yes - the song *27 Jennifers* by Mike Doughty really cracks me up because it is so true. *I went to school with 27 Jennifers, 16 Jenns, 10 Jennies....*
I work with a Jess, Jessie, and a Jesica. Do not mix them up, or they will correct you lol
Jesica with one S or was that autocorrect. Because I can imagine her correcting that conssssstantly.
Given that my name is Emily pretty much every year there were 2 or 3 others in my class. One year there were three of us with C last names. That sucked. One of the reasons I started going by Emmie.
Yes I am Chelsea Anderson and there was a girl Chelsea Andrews who didn’t do well in school. My mother got a report card saying a was failing 3 out of 4 classes and grounded me for weeks before she finally got a call from the school about the mistake. Later in life I got arrest because another girl with my same exact name did something and had a warrant. I made it all the way to finger printing when they finally realized I wasn’t lieing. Sometimes I wish I had one of those crazy names
This makes me think of the couple in my hometown named Jesse and Jesse
*Someone* likes to watch the world burn.
Lol when I was a grad TA we would make a game out of this - competition for the largest mononym groups. I think the record was 8 katelynn/Caitlins etc in two confusing lab groups
I once taught class that in a single section had 6 Kaitlynn/kaylynn Gonzalez’s.
Natalie was a popular name in 1996. My class had 4 girls named Natalie Chan, plus several other Natalies.
In college I worked at a pizza restaurant where the counter girls were named Mae, June and Julie.
Last year my 8th period class had Isabel, Isabelle, Isabella, Bella, and Belle. That was fun.
I’m having flashbacks to the 80s when my class had Chris, Christine, Crystal, Kirsten, Khaerstyn, Kristen, and Chrissy.
A friend of mine did a beginner's language course in uni for a semester. There were 12 people, five of them named Anna.
Boot 😭
Why did this make me fucking choke Ahahahaha fucking boot
Sure it's not Bort ? 😀😀😀
Are you talking to me?
Pistol, she’s a kid in my son’s class. Siblings include Remington and Colt.
Could be worse. At least it wasn't spelled Pystill.
lol piss still
My coworker has Derringer Colt Annie Oakley (goes by both names)
Qurrystal 🙃
Curry stall
Child of Poppa Dom
I don’t know what this is supposed to say carrisol? I feel like it may be obvious. Or is it made up lol
I *think* it's supposed to be "Crystal."
Oh my god. Oh no !!!!
Felony. Poor kid.
I met a newborn with the name. Her parents were step siblings and thought they were immensely clever.
Thanks! That's the worst thing I've read so far today!
Terrible day to be literate
Fellini. "Pronounced like Melanie but with an F" is what she said to me when I asked how to pronounce her name 😂
I would pronounce that "Feh-LEE-nee", myself. Like tortellini.
That's how it should be like the Italian director.
Haha, it’s not a tragedeigh, but I once worked briefly with a Japanese woman named Saiko. When folks would ask how to say it, She’d say “Psycho, like the movie” lol
Fellini is an Italian last name, and it's absolutely not pronounced like Melanie with a different initial 😅
I was like “hey Federico Fellini, must be fans of neo classical film, that’s not SO terrible?” Sigh
Hey I met a Phelony
Carrion. I feel so sorry for that child.
Carrion, my wayward son.
There’ll be peas when you are done
Daexia (pronounced day-ja)
Middle name Veaux
Vea’ux.
Sounds like something from Stargate. Like T'ealc and his spouse Drey'auc, who were both hosts to symbiotic larval Goa'uld.
Bodacious Jr. I also met his father, the senior Bodacious.
I don't like it but I kind of respect it.
Jacsun. Just... Why? It was on his name plate outside his office.
I met a Yakxon. Pronounced with a J. I felt so bad for the kid.
I worked with a Brllan (pronounced Bryan)
parents probably inspired by PacSun
Vegan. "Vegan, come sit down and eat your burger." Actually heard this. They were eating McDonalds.
*the vegan teacher screaming in the distance*
Velveeta
I must keep this idea away from my sister 😂
And their siblings Salsa, Chip, and Chex. Just a few more and they will have a whole snack buffet at a sports game watch party.
Jaythyn. Like you’re saying Jason, but with a lisp 🤣
I knew a Thera who had a lisp (at least in Kindergarten). Everyone called her Sarah and she would get mad and say "Thera, not Tharah."
Lol that poor kid!
I went to elementary school with a girl named Quinnzola. My friend said it sounds like a cooking oil lol.
An old school friend named their daughter something like Aevyrleighy (Everly) I know I've spelled that wrong, because no one is ever gonna spell that right. And my cousin's daughter's name is Emyhleigh (Emily).
Strike me dead
Zeaui (pronounced Zoey)
Should've gone all the way with Zeauxeigh
A male co-worker named Sugarplum Fruitcake. The name fits him well though.
Were you working in a "night club"? 😂😂
Flight attendant, actually 😆
i used to work with a woman in her 30s named pebbles. customers would always ask, “is that your real name?” and she’d be like, “unfortunately.”
The receptionist at my doctor's office is Pebbles!
Cz32. His siblings also had numbers
How on earth was that pronounced?
“Say-zee” numbers are silent. What they mean, we still have no idea
a quick google suggests it’s a gun 😬
It’s also a Nissan. Truly not sure
any chance he’s related to X Æ A-XII?
Geccika -_-
Is this supposed to be JESSICA???
Yes. Her parents actually chose that, it wasn't some edgy teenage desire to be yooneek.
Sponsored by Geico
That reads like Mike Tyson trying to say Jessica.
Ikea
Ya’Majesty. Most entitled person I ever met.
I wonder how my life would have been different if I had had that name.
Metallica for a tiny newborn boy and Bocefus for a beautiful little 6 year old girl.
I was about to comment about a girl I went to school with whose middle name was Metallica! She said her parents almost gave her Pantera as a first name too (but luckily her first name ended up being normal)
I know someone who just named their sweet baby girl Zeppelin.
Tinkerbell
Felatia
Omg
Yea. She worked with my sister at a pizza place. I was dumbfounded when I read her nametag.
Maybe she can be friends with my entry, a child named “Clitty” her parents are English as a second language so they probably don’t know 😭 and yeah it’s pronounced how it looks
First name British Last name Office
And a runner-up is Elexus, Pronounced Alexis.
“Couldn't afford a car, so she named her daughter Alexis”
Dude named "Jumbly". Not a nickname - his actual given name.
Bridalveil. It was about 15-20 years ago. I saw her ID and that was her actual, legal name. Pronounced exactly like it sounds: bridal veil 👰
I've worked with a Justin Case, and an electrical engineer whose surname was Sparks.
JesusIsLord. No joke, that was his first name. Went by Jesus.
I’m a teacher and a few years ago, I had a Messiah and a Jesus in the same class. I took a certain perverse pleasure in putting them to work in pairs together.
I had a Genesis and a Psalms once in my class and I made them pair up every chance I got. 💀
My friends mom was named Jahnoah. Her parents were jehovahs witnesses.🤦♀️
Yeah mine was a girl named Histestimony
Someone in my town is named Knickolle. Sound it out. It’s the same name as mine (except mine is the usual spelling) and it took me a good 30 sec to realize that.
Is your name nickolle ( spelled Mary?) /s
N'Coal
Kinickey!
We’re racing for PINKS!!
A couple we met on our honeymoon had a little baby girl about a year after. They named that little girl Saylor James. Saylor James. Like Popeye’s little nephew or something. I can’t get over it
Capers. His last name was weird too. Word beginning with A that means “crooked or in disarray.” Ends with W and sound like “ask you.” (Trying not to doxx.) I also once rode a Greyhound bus with a little girl named Kiwi Strawberry NormalLastName. I know because her mom full-named her when she was misbehaving.
Fence. I went to school with a guy named Fence.
Mahire (pronounced Mary)
That just looks like a misspelling of the Scottish form of Mary, Mhairi. But given what I've seen on this sub, I wouldn't be surprised if her parents had never heard of it.
Roam Wolf. First name. In two parts. Parents must be soooo hip and outdoorsy.
Calligraphy! They called her Callie.
Honestly... I don't 💯 hate it?
Escherichia - this could conceivably be a girl's name, but it's what the E. in E. Coli stands for. The couple that named their daughter this were biology teachers. She'd be about 16 now.
I will never understand people who name their kids Karma.
she's a bitch?
The parents should’ve known better.
That damn Jojo song ruined it for me
When I was a kid we had a woman that named her son and daughter Jett and Karma. Terrible names and both kids were little terrors with absolutely zero discipline lmao.
Cigarette.
I was doing voter registration and I met a guy named T. His first name was the letter T and his last name was unremarkable. He showed me his ID, he was very proud of this fact.
I know an “R”. Birth certificate confirms his first name is just the letter “R”.
Cur’Nazzion. i just………..
TF is that, Carnation?
Dick Virus. Not even shortened from Richard 😔 I also knew a girl named Arresta.
LeStat. Yes the poor kid was named after the Anne Rice character. I worked at a daycare at 19 he was 2 and in my group.
Revenge, Chaos, Ransom, and Rage. Not related but I was their teacher (different years.) Always made me scratch my head and feel bad.
I know a Danger, Chaos, Riot and Epic. Same kinda theme apparently.
Lushus. Her last name was Cox.
That’s terrible. I knew a girl Luxshurie.
LaSagna. She was married to one of my forklift drivers. I thought he was kidding,until she brought him lunch one day.
Please tell me your dock guy's name is Garfield 🙏🙏
Book. I’m not joking, that was his given name.
Clamesha She was 100% white. I grew up in Oakland. It's what you think. She was very sweet, she made it out of the hood, she became a biologist and changed her name.
I win this one hands down. Nobody will beat this answer. I interviewed a lady at Social Security and asked her son's name. She pronounced it Suh.KWAN. I asked her to spell it. Her reply was S.U.C.K.J.U.A.N! I nearly fell out of my chair. I figured that Juan was the boyfriend. Then she said, but it's spelled wrong. Thank God, I thought. It should start with an F, not an S. Fuckjuan. I told her that she had to go to city hall to have the birth certificate amended. The honest truth.
Bimmy
Iamunique
Freya Andrikitis Zork and her brother Noah Zork. Say his name out loud a couple of times.
Middle name Megatron. For a girl.
Dymphony. Which I’ve just had to type multiple times because my phone really wants to correct to Symphony.
dug. Not doug…Dug.
Justin Sane. Mom swore she didn’t realize.
Abcde pronounced absidee
I feel like this was one of those names that started as an online meme but you always get a couple estupidos that get “inspired” and find it to be “so unique”
I thought the same thing and then this girl from my school had a baby right after senior year and named her Abcde and this was in the year of our lord 2010
Harmonica
Kaskette (like casket).
Expensive. A woman named her baby girl this. Truly WTF.
Twins named Deevious and Keevious. Deevious in particular—both crooks but it feels like someone named Deevious was doomed from birth. They were identical and at some point got identical tiger tattoos on their right arms so it was always fun figuring out which one you had and if the warrant was for him or his brother. As far as I know Keevious is still around but Deevious tried to rob the wrong dude in midtown Atlanta a few years ago. Rest in Peecious.
Ahhnjellyka (Angelica)
PreslieyKa'ilauni (yes, two capital letters with no space)
Goes to hawaii once:
There's a game warden on some reality show whose name is Kqyn. That's Quinn.
Universal Soldier (and I am deadass serious). His brother had an equally crazy name, but I can't remember what it was.
Godslove.
During the 50s, a kid up the street, SPUTNIK.
Adolf. Was a Chinese student. Apparently he actually wanted to be called Rudolph (like the reindeer) but his nanny misunderstood him when filing for his international name and it became Adolf instead. In one of our school readings, I believe the last sentence was “Only with the first child named Adolf again, will the second world war be finally over” (which is obviously true), so we always joked that WWII was finally over with the advent of his.
Love, peace and hope. Sisters close in age, and I will say Love is a POS always involved in drama haha
Rottwilla. Like the dog.
There was a girl at my work named Ambiyen. No idea what her parents were thinking
Conseption and Swaastika. I genuinely wish I was joking about both those names.
My dad approved name changes as part of his job. He had someone come in to change his name to Pythagymus Toadstool.
Felatio
that name both sucks and blows
Maighdelynne
I read this as Magdalene.
Loeyza (Louisa)
Christmas. Native American
Keiahlee (pronounced Kee-ah-lee), from my primary school. As far as I can tell (with my seconds long google search) they’re the only one on the planet given that name
Blue Swan
Devel.
Braian. Like Brian
Krystalmeth
A lotta street names that are named after prominent figures during the Vietnam-France and the Vietnam-US wars. For context, literacy tanked during those times because stupid people are easier to be colonized, so most people were named after literal words. There was a past belief that giving children ugly names would dispersuade demons from capturing. Some of those that gave me wtfs are: Nguyễn Thị Đây (here), Nguyễn Thị Đó (there), Nguyễn Thị Nhúng (to be dipped), Nguyễn Thị Nữa (more), Trịnh Thị Dối (to lie), Trần Thị Ngon (delicious), Lê Thị Nửa (half), Lê Thị Sọc (stripes), Hồ Thị Dẹp (to be dispensed), Trình Thị Gắt (grumpy), and Võ Thị Hết (end). These are all feminine names, and they all came from a list of street names in Củ Chi, HCMC. The ugly word naming thing seems to be more prevalent for females back then as well since guys definitely had more thought out names back then as well.
Tavoryeah or Sinjin
Well, Sinjin is actually an old timey posh British way of pronouncing St. John. Still wack but at least there is some precedence.
Also, are these millennials naming their kids all these ridiculous things, or are gen z doing it too?
Mine won't be the worst but it triggered me with the hyphen. Jake-ub. I cannot unsee it. It haunts me.
Vagina