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When I was a kid, Brittany wasn't a popular name, maybe 2 in my school. Now they're everywhere. Only takes one to bring it back and all the rest to make it a tragedeigh
Ahh but names go in cycles and something you think is out of fashion will suddenly come back as ppl start naming kids after older relatives. So you get no Emma’s for a while and then like 5 in one class!
I mean, some names have always been on the outskirts. My name, conrad, has been around for a really long time but has never been a "common" name, but it's still a pretty normal name.
My middle names are my two grandmothers’.
They are very pretty and popular now, but growing up in the 70s they were so old fashioned and incredibly embarrassing.
I liken it to calling your daughter Barbara or Patricia nowadays.
My dad always said they’d be popular by the time I grew up, and he was right.
>hasn't been popular in 40 years.
Can confirm, I've got one of those and I can count on one hand every single person my age I've met in my entire life with my name.
In the esteemed words of my sister in law, when asked why she wasn’t using her grandmother’s name for her daughter - “Who’s taking Edna to the prom?!?’”
We wanted a unique name (but not THAT unique) and we have a bit of a weird last name so we took a longgggg time to settle on: Tess. And it fits her perfectly 💘
I knew a Norman in college (early 90s), and he wore the government issue frames for glasses (he’d been in the military). Those glasses, paired with his crew cut made for the perfect Norman.
I named my kids classic names that are pretty unusual currently. Like think of a boy’s name that’s been in the top 10 for like the past hundred years until the past 20. It’s cool because you can’t tell what generation he’s in by his name.
i honestly love and support that. although to be fair, when her task was to “draw the drapes” i would’ve also drawn them because using that term to mean “close the curtains” isn’t used anymore
My kids' favorite was when she dressed the chicken for dinner, LOL. They laughed about that for weeks, even though they had never heard the term used correctly (in the 90s!)
I kept my kids names simple and classic, my youngest I named Jack. After I was recovering from birth my physician came in and asked what name I decided on.
I told him Jack, and he goes “like Jackson?” And I said “no just, Jack.” And he says “not Jax with an x?” And I replied “just Jack, normal Jack.” Then he said “thank god, I delivered 5 boys this week all named Jaxson with an x. Hopefully they don’t all end up at the same school.”
Sure enough, my son goes to school with at least 3 Jaxson’s, he’s about to enter middle school where I image there will be more.
We just left a newborn appointment, and an older couple with volunteer badges asked our baby's name. When we told them, they sighed with relief and said, "Oh good, a normal name!"
Best compliment we received yet.
Same. I have a Luke, Michael, John and Maxwell. I live in the south with a very high level of Hayden, Jayden, Brody, Cash type names. My family made fun of me for picking such classic names but jokes on them we never meet kids with the same names.
My daughter's first name is Laura. In the delivery room when I was giving birth they write the baby's name on a whiteboard. My doctor almost seemed relieved when he read her name, and said you don't see traditional names like that anymore. Gave me quite the chuckle.
This is such a weird coincidence… or maybe I’m just silly but I’m named Laura (born in 86 it was real popular then but might be unique now). If I had been male my name would have been Michael (cause that’s my dad’s name)… and because my parents were satisfied after 2 kids without a son my sister is Michelle
Yup, I read a study years ago how people get judged based solely on their name. Katherine scored as being perceived the most intelligent. Guess what I’d name a girl if I ever had one?
https://gizmodo.com/people-judge-how-smart-you-are-based-solely-on-your-nam-5807543
There is a great chapter in Freakanomics about given first names. It goes more into the source of the naming, rather than the outcome of that child’s life (though it does touch upon that briefly when he writes anecdotally of the child named “winner”).
Anyway, the theory that they propose is that names drift downward socioeconomically.
The first children with unique, yet real names, tend to be adopted by the upper class. The middle class then follows suit because “the elites” are doing it, and that’s when you see 5 Jackson’s in the same elementary school class When the name finally trickles down to the lower classes the names start getting “tragedeigh” because parents want their kids to be “unique”.
TLDR: the elites introduce the new names because they want something new and original. The middle class follows suit because it’s the norm. The lower class modifies the “norm”. And then they upper class brings in new names because “Jesus Christ look what they did to the names Jaxon, Kortknee and Chauntyl
Makes sense. I think that’s why we see names (in the UK) that I think people here would view as unique and strange (not youneek as in spelt strangely, just not common) in private schools, upper/um class people. Venetia, Olympia, Allegra, Peregrine. Then the middle class have more common names like Elizabeth, Emily etc
I called it my "50 year old in a board room" test.
I wanted to give my kids names they could proudly and confidently introduce themselves as in a professional setting. This is why I feel it's harder to name a girl. My personal opinion is that there aren't a lot of female names that aren't too "big" for a kid, but also aren't too "cutsey" for an adult.
My name is one that I find "cutsey" and I'm in my late 40s. It's not a Tragedeigh, but in my teens I wished it was more "adult".
Catherine/Katherine with a nickname of Kate was on my list as was Elizabeth, but my husband wasn't a fan so we didn't use either of those, but our daughter's name is in the same vain of "classic" names as is our son's.
I have a Katherine. I liked the names Kate or Katie but took advice from a friend whose name is just Katie to give her a more formal name. My friend is an attorney. She said feels like an idiot signing Katie and she said please give your child a grown up name as well.
There is someone named "Caden" running for political office in my area and I will admit that I'm judging him as likely too inexperienced for office based on his first name alone. I'll do more research before casting a vote but he's starting out -1 on name alone. His parents clearly never thought about this eventuality.
Yes, there were a million Sarahs growing up, but now there are none so it would ACTUALLY be rare now.
When we were having trouble naming our daughter (I had a list and my husband had a list, but we couldn't agree, despite the fact we had like 10 boy names we agreed on) my MIL kept suggesting Sarah. She has one girl and then 2 boys (my husband is the youngest). It turns out she was such a fan of Sarah with our last name that if either my husband or his brother had been a girl that would've been their name, so . . . as much as I love my MIL we didn't use the name she'd held on to for all those years.
I have a Sarah and if I call her name in a crowded area she - and a bunch of middle aged ladies - all look up. She finds it hilarious and has always been the only one in her grade with the name.
I wanted that and researched all the names... and then it turned out that my son's name sounds like the most popular name of his birth year... but isn't the same name. It's also a foreign name that people aren't familiar with. He will have to spell his name eternally.
We didn't realize the names sounded so similar somehow and we couldn't know this particular name would be the most popular one.
I love his name, though. The meaning, the role model, the sound, the fit with our surname, it's all perfect.
But the second son just got the most basic, national name that hasn't been in style for 150 years but is having a slow come back. He's lucky. No name trouble for him.
Yes! My ex was really into the name Zoe and I liked it too but when I saw it was in the top ten or twenty for my daughter’s birth year, I vetoed it immediately. We now have an Alice Marie, because I like the names themselves and hoped my daughter would have some of the characteristics of the Disney characters who share them. (She has all of the curiosity and badassery and idk what to do with it sometimes)
Though my ex had more say in our son’s name. Damiens don’t really have a good rep but it doesn’t seem to be too bad for him yet. At least it’s a somewhat normal name and not one that we encounter often.
Social Security Administration is great for this. Looked at the prior year top names and crossed out the top 30 and all their spelling variants before picking names for my kids
We accidentally did the Sarah thing.
Our daughter is named Emma. I work in the local school and hadn't had any 1th graders named Emma in a while, so I figured it was alright. Classic, easy name.
There is another little girl named Emma in the area. And to make it easy, they are born on the same day and have the same last name. We have to make sure to use their middle name at the doctors office.
I don’t want kids but my only friend who has a kid so far went on a rant about this exact thing. She and her fiancé wanted a more classic, “grown up” name for the full first name but wanted it to be one with a cute nickname, and alternative spellings were entirely off the table. Their top two choices were Theodore (Theo) and Tobias (Toby).
So my friends dad is named Tobias (he goes by Toby) and when Toby was in 7th grade, a substitute teacher was doing attendance and said the name “Tobias” *nothing* then again, “Tobias?” and Toby very quietly whispers to his friend “who names their kid Tobias? Hahahaha” then at the end, when Toby said his name wasn’t called, the teacher asked his name + he says “Toby” then the sub was like “……. Your name was called, Toby is short for Tobias” and that’s how Toby found out his legal name was actually Tobias LOL
Everyone thought my kids first and middle name together were just his first name for years because I very often was calling him Justin Timothy loud and fast. They thought his name was Justintimothy 🤣
Oddly enough, I referred to my kid by a cutesy nickname so much that from 3-7 years old, if I called his actual name at a park, he wouldn't respond... I would have to belt out the equivalent of "Poopsi-whooooooooopsie!" and he would immediately turn and run to me...
kind of embarrassing for me...
he didn't realize it was a thing till he was about 7, and then didn't want his classmates to hear me yelling his nickname at the school playground... he started responding to his real name, and now, almost 9, requests I don't use my shortened version of his nickname anywhere but at home.
He's ADHD, and the nickname is still sometimes the only thing that will break him out of a hyper-focus and make him respond to me.
My brother in law didn’t know his name wasn’t his name until I wanna say kindergarten or first name because his parents filled out his birth certificate wrong. I got confirmation from said brother in law and all of his siblings about how his name was supposed to be one thing, but either the format changed on the birth certificate in the state he was born, or it was a different format from the state the sibling before him was born in (two different states). He’s kid 4 and kids 1 and 3 were born in one state while 2 and 4 were born in another state.
So for example, his name was supposed to be (note: THIS IS NOT HIS REAL NAME) Michael James but because of the different birth certificate format it ended up being James Michael, so instead of spending a few dollars to change it, they just called him by what was supposed to be his first name but was legally his middle name. His school years were FUN.
I was helping my ex fill out an application for something. It asked middle name. He paused. He looked puzzled, and I asked if he didn't have one. He said he did, and he was trying to remember it. Then he wrote "Kieth".
I should have broken up with him then and saved myself another 4 years. He couldn't even spell his own 5 letter basic b middle name. No, he's not dyslexic. He said he used it so infrequently that he even forgot what it was and then didn't know how to spell it. 🤦♀️
He helped around the house so infrequently that I guess he forgot that too, so I forgot him 🫠
I had a teacher ask for my middle name, and I proudly told her Leah (“LEE-uh”). Then she asked me how to spell it, and … I didn’t know. I remember being *so* embarrassed I could not answer her! So I asked my mom as soon as I got home that afternoon and have had it down ever since.
It’s hard to imagine being in that situation as an adult; this happened to me when I was in *first grade*. 🙃
This is wild to me. I'm 39 and I have to look at my full name all the time.
Driver's license, passport, birth certificate, health insurance renewals; credit card applications; applying to rent an apartment; glancing at your diploma.
How did he not have to constantly look at his own id? Did he live off grid?
IDK where to even start with that overgrown manchild. I'm just so glad he's years out of my life.
I'm in the healthiest, happiest relationship of anyone I know. He can even spell his own name!
I found out submitting documents for college & my student job that my name was spelled differently on my birth certificate and social security card 🫠 "Autumn" and "Autumm"
This happened to a guy I used to work with. He was called by his middle name by everyone for years. He started school, his given name was called out, he had no clue it was him. He was 6 when he found out his true first name. Confused the heck out of him.
That happened to my grandmother. Her first name was Agnes, but everyone called her by her middle name, and that’s what she went by her entire life. She learned her actual name was Agnes on the first day of school during roll call, and she instantly hated it. She never understood why her parents gave her such as ugly name if they were going to call her by her middle name anyway.
This is exactly why I don't understand why people don't just do the opposite. Like, my grandmas have awesome, like, above average good names, but even if they DIDN'T and they were "We'll just die if someone doesn't name a granddaughter after us after all we've done for you" then I don't see why people just give their kids weird middle names.
That used to be the trope! "What's the initial stand for? I bet it's something weird." And then all of a sudden in the '90s SO MANY people just started insisting that kids needed to have dumb names with weird spellings. 🤣
And it never, ever makes sense to me. Because YOU can call your kid whatever you want. Why give them a name every future bank, hospital, and agency will need to triple-check?!
Had a student start with no English who experienced this same thing. He had always been called by his middle name, we only had his official first name on the class roll and no way of clearly communicating with him to figure out what was going on. The class teachers got it sorted out with the family, but forgot to tell the specialist teachers (and the parents hadn't explained it to the kid, so he still didn't recognise that we were talking to him), so we went through the same thing again and again for every specialist class and emergency replacement teacher for a few weeks. Thankfully, the rest of the class picked up on it and were able to help out.
Lmfao that reminds me of when I was in 11th grade I got my service dog and named him Toby. My English teacher was asking about him but called him Tobias. I was like "Who's Tobias?"
Chinese people seem to give their kids nicknames as given names. My cousin’s legal name was Jimmy. He finally changed it to James after becoming a doctor. I also know a Vicki, Eddie, Andy, etc. All legal names, on their official documents.
Edit to add: I knew one unfortunate guy whose parents named him Dick. His legal first name was Dick. Relentlessly teased until they changed it to Richard.
At my university it was pretty common for international students to pick an english name to use for their english language study, plus to use if they'd rather not deal with teaching everyone they meet how to pronounce their real name. One day the Dick/Richard thing came up in conversation and my friends and I explained to our chinese international student friend that Dick was also a name sometimes (he already knew the other meaning 🤣) He thought it was hilarious! When he stopped laughing he asked us if any other english names were secretly slang for penis. At that moment it dawned on us that our friend had chosen "Woody" as his english name 😅😵
I have a friend whose name is Wood, short for “Woodford.” People love to say “Morning, Wood!” then giggle.
It also always cracks me up when I remember sometimes people use the word “Peter” for that body part.
When we were deciding what word we’d use to identify our toddler boy’s penis when we spoke to our little guy (nick name or medical real word ) my husband suggested Johnson. I wasn’t sure if he was kidding or not, but he waited for my response. I said, “and what if his Kindergarten teacher’s name is Mrs. Johnson?” Yeah, we used real words not nicknames for everyone’s body parts. 😂
Yes, very common among those in Hong Kong especially. I know a Billy and Vicky and Dan. Like just Dan. Not even Daniel. Probably a switch over from his chinese name having “Dan” in it. I also knew a Joe. Not Joseph, just Joe. His chinese name also had “Joe” (Zhou) in it so it made sense.
It's not that they're finding a nickname to give them but names that end in y are easier to say for a Chinese speaker. My husband is named Andy and people sometimes assume his name is Andrew. It's kind of annoying lol. Like what Chinese parents are gonna name their kid Andrew? That's incredibly difficult to pronounce in Chinese.
My BF is first generation Puerto Rican. His siblings names, and his, all sound like nicknames or very old. Ivan, Gilbert, Johnny, Ricky, Albert, Ivy, Carmen.
I'm very like that. My husband chose Penny for our 2nd daughter but I put Penelope on her birth cert. Everyone knows her by Penny but when she's older she has the option of Penelope.
I don't want kids either, but I really like both those names.
I've also always liked Seamus (Shay), Douglas (Doug), and Oliver (Ollie) for the exact reasons your friend mentioned.
I have a traditional, classic name. I went by a nickname of it growing up, though I hated it, but the cool thing was getting to just choose to go by my full name at 17 and leave that awkward person with the nickname I hated behind. I think this is a great idea.
My bf calls them "key chain names". I don't want my kid to be one of 17 Sarah's in her grade, but I grew up with a name that I was constantly having to spell and pronounce for people. I want something in between. Not top 50 most popular, but in the top 200 would be fine
My name wasn't popular until I was 20. It's a real annoyance to go shopping and all the parents are screaming your name at their kids. Startled me for a couple of years until I got used to it. I'm pretty sure it's back to a reasonable level of obscurity.
Me too! I don't react to my name in public because I assume someone is talking to their 10-year-old. It was rare for adults and kids alike (other than really old people), so it was weird to go from always reacting to my name because they were probably talking to me, to not reacting because they are are probably talking to their child haha
My kids are John, James, and Elizabeth. I had some people say things about them not being unique enough names. I rolled my eyes. We are all perfectly happy with their names. I don’t have to spell them and pronounce them for everyone. It’s wonderful.
A lot of parents think this but tbh I’m a teacher and the “Johns” are typically just as common as the Tragedeighs. They’re always a breath of fresh air though
My kids are Evelyn (shortened to Evie) and Annabel (refuses any nicknames). Tragedeighs seem to be more an American thing, I don’t see many here in Canada. My kids’ class lists are pretty tame. I read this sub out of morbid curiosity.
I live west coast US with kids ages 3 & 8 and honestly rarely come across any tragedeighs. Plenty of uncommon names, but they’re legitimate names with proper spelling. I think this subreddit skews people’s perceptions as well as weird celebrity and influencer baby names. In the real world, I mostly encounter normal names in the wild
I live in a predominately Black city... so I definitely encounter names people here would call "tragedeighs" but I think that's actually racism/prejudice talking....
I did side-eye the (white) lady who had two kids... Haven and Rebel... and then was shocked that Rebel had behavior problems. 😂
Here in Germany our version of tragedeighs is misspelled French names by German parents that don’t know French. It’s considered very trashy. But while it has become a meme it’s still quite rare.
With both of our kids, we went through the gamut of baby names to find one that sounded nice, wasn't über popular at the time (so no 'top 25 names of last year') AND was hard for kids to make fun of. It was pretty entertaining trying to come up with juvenile ass nicknames for all the names we read, but we did settle on two very nice ones.
This is what I've been doing. Trying to come up with any way that the name could be skewed (my name is Jessica but I used to get teased for my name and a lot of other things outside of my control like having curly hair, kids are cruel and ingenious at finding ways to mock someone).
Totally. We would really only eliminate if the nicknames produced were, like, reeeeally mean/bad/inappropriate/could scar for life, but if they were more like "hurrr durrr, you called me a city name...so clever, derpity derp" or similar, we kept it on the short list. Our kids names are both classic, and my daughter's name can be considered a little old timey classic, but has risen in popularity since she was born.
I have five (yes I have since learned what causes that) and all of them have classic names, spelled correctly. Not trendy enough so that there were eleventy other kids in their classes with the same name, but you could at least find their names on keychains and other novelty items at the store.
Before I had children, I read something that said "Name your kids as if some day they will be Supreme Court Justices" and I stuck to that.
I work with teenagers and I had to tell girl to leave another girl alone. She was making fun of her for her name. She had a tragedeigh name and honestly it broke my heart because this girl is so sweet and so smart, and here she was getting bullied over her name 😞😞 it’s not right what the bully did, but as someone who is pregnant right now, I would not willingly put my child in a situation where it’s easy for them to get picked on and judged because I chose a tragedeigh name.
Parents please, your child’s name is not the place to show the world how creative you are.
So Im with you- I want to name my child a name that is pronounceable, spell-able, and not so “creative” it’s outrageous.
Our son’s name is John and the ER staff yesterday (he’s good, took a nose dive off his changing table tho) remarked how they were happy to see a child with a normal name 😂
We are gonna use John too. It’s my FIL’s name and my husband’s middle name. I barely ever hear of anyone my age or younger who is named John these days so it feels like a solid, classic name.
Same here! FiL’s name and husband’s middle too 😂 it’s a family name so it meant a lot to my husband to name our son John. I’m glad other people are naming their kids normal names
We stuck with names that have been around for hundreds of years, unchanging, and always in the top 500. They are spelled normally, most people don't need to ask, and our kids have thanked us.
I’m happy with my name (Natalie). It’s a normal name but not overly used. I would carry that over for my kids. I love Bridgette or Claudia for a girl or Colin for a boy.
My kid is 14 but I had criteria for her name: easy to pronounce in English and Spanish (for my family), unique enough that there wouldn’t be a bunch of them in her class but still recognizable as a name. I went with Annabel. Still love the name and I was successful in all my goals.
Yes, my husband and I were in agreement on classic names spelled absolutely normally. Our son is the IV and we did nothing funky with it.
My SIL is the opposite and went full weird with her kids (like, if you named your kid “Fairy” but spelled it “Faerie.”).
My MIL was upset when we said we didn’t like our niece’s and nephew’s names, and we had to say, “We like the kids! It’s just their names that are trash.”
Faerie isn't a word in Irish. The Irish word for fairies is Aos Sí (people of the mound). There are lots of Taboo Avoidance terms as well like "na daoine maithe" (the Good people), "Tuathghinte" (northwards people), "na daoine beaga" (the little people) "na huaisle" (the noble people) my granny called them "Na cuairteoirí" (the visitors),
There are lots of individual words for fairies as well Aosán, Síbhean, Síofra, Sióg, bean sí etc
Christian Michael is my son's name. I wanted to avoid a tragedeigh at all costs because I didn't want it following him his whole life. Every time I see a ridiculous name I just think, "Thank God I didn't do that to my kid." Lol.
Donovan Ray (brother's middle name, dad's first name) and Jeremiah Ian are my boy names.
Girl name is Brianna Margaret. Brianna is for someone who was very special to me during my teen years, Margaret for my grandmother.
We went with classic but not currently common names, Roger and Darcy. We love their names so much. Everyone knows how to pronounce and spell them. They will age well and they won't have the frustration of being so-and-so#5. My husband and I are Matt and Stephanie, so we knew that frustration well.
My parents named me a "traditional" name, but my mom, rearranged two of the letters in my first name because, "I had to deal with people always misspelling my name (Diane), so I wanted to make sure my kid had a unique spelling." WTF, Mom? I never got to get the cool pencils and bike license plates with my name on it because my *unique* spelling. {sigh} So, when I had a kid, I named him two extremely traditional names with *traditional* spelling. He had all the personalized things! Aside from that silly reason, his name is easy to spell and pronounce. I wanted to make sure he had a name that could go from baby to adult and not seem weird.
I’m Gen X and already named my kids 20+ years ago but they have classic names. Peter and Madeleine. Though my daughter has the classic French spelling and everyone messes it up. So almost a tragedeigh 😂
My daughter’s name is a noun, but it’s an actual name and spelled correctly. While she’s the only one with that name in her grade level, there is another one at the same school.
My kids both have uncommon first names that are real names and spelled properly. They have extremely common and very basic middle names just in case they want to go by something more traditional.
William and Vivienne.
Vivienne may have been a tragedeigh at one time but today it’s nearly as popular as the Vivian spelling, from what I’ve seen.
Vivian always seemed more masculine to me.
Me, no. We went the uncommonly common easy to spell and say route. We've met one other family's who's kid shares a name here in our community, same spelling etc..
My sister tho... Lol
So all of us (my sister, brother and myself) have uncommon names. Mine being on the more common end but spelled weird (eye roll, thanks mom..).
my sister's same, but far less common than mine, a few corrections when introducing herself and she's good.. and our brother..poor guy.
My brother got it the worst. Extremely old, OLD fashioned name. He was named for his grandfather (who had an older styled name during his life in the early 1900s) and has NEVER gone by it. He's used a nickname his entire life.
His own daughter didn't know his actual name until middle school when she accidentally had thrown out important mail and they had to sit her down and explain Dad's real name lol
Anyway .. my sister had 2 kids, (this was in 1984 & 1985) and was so determined that she researched the most popular names and went with that for each kid. Didn't care if she liked them or not, just wanted her kids to have a normal name.
My sons have simple names, and my youngest has decided he wants to give himself a middle name (I didn’t give him one). He wants Zygmund, of all things. The name was my Pop’s, from Poland. I think he likes the idea of the tie to family he never got to meet.
I don't have/intend to have kids, but I would have to strike a balance between unique and classic, while avoiding tradgedeighs. My reasoning: I have a *really* common last name (think Smith, Jones, Miller, Lee). A kid named "Mike Smith" or "Katherine Jones" is going to be as annoyed as "Mohrghaynah Smith" or "Daymyaen Jones", because every time they check in for anything, they will have to go through the following script.
Alex Miller: Hi, I'm here to check in for my 11:00 appointment.
Receptionist: Great! Can you give me your name?
Alex: Alexander Miller.
Receptionist: Oh.... Um, could you give me your middle name?
Alex: John.
Receptionist: I still have twenty names on this list.... How about your birthdate?
Alex: June 12.
Receptionist: ...... Year?
I don't have the most common first name, and I have had this interaction *multiple* occasions.
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The easiest way to have a unique name is to pick one that isn't from pop culture or hasn't been popular in 40 years.
Well, it's EASIER to just toss out some letters... Janiomas Ta-da! Took me 3 seconds!
Sorry that's been taken (almost) https://m.yelp.com/biz/janioma-cabeleireiros-osasco
How about mine? It's a combination of two classic names that are also my best friends names- Jamimotheys
Your friends' names are Jami and Motheys?
Jamimo and Theys
Already comes with pronouns. Nice way of saving time
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When I was a kid, Brittany wasn't a popular name, maybe 2 in my school. Now they're everywhere. Only takes one to bring it back and all the rest to make it a tragedeigh
Could be a pop culture thing. Arctic Monkeys resurrected the name Arabella.
Thats why we went with Areola.
Should've just gone with Boobs.
Always the Brittany, never the Normandy...
My mom tried that. Nice to meet you- I’m Alexa.
Rip every girl named Isis
Big oof
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What do you call a snail on a ship? A snailor!
Ahh but names go in cycles and something you think is out of fashion will suddenly come back as ppl start naming kids after older relatives. So you get no Emma’s for a while and then like 5 in one class!
I mean, some names have always been on the outskirts. My name, conrad, has been around for a really long time but has never been a "common" name, but it's still a pretty normal name.
My middle names are my two grandmothers’. They are very pretty and popular now, but growing up in the 70s they were so old fashioned and incredibly embarrassing. I liken it to calling your daughter Barbara or Patricia nowadays. My dad always said they’d be popular by the time I grew up, and he was right.
Æthelred, though
>hasn't been popular in 40 years. Can confirm, I've got one of those and I can count on one hand every single person my age I've met in my entire life with my name.
Just name your little girl Rita, and its done.
Edna.
Edna 😂 yes thats the spirit
Easy to see an 80 year old named Edna but not a 2 year old
In the esteemed words of my sister in law, when asked why she wasn’t using her grandmother’s name for her daughter - “Who’s taking Edna to the prom?!?’”
Seymour Skinner perhaps?
That's my Aunt's name. She's 73 😂
That’s what we did! Not too many Edith’s and Ursula’s around but they’re real names
Watch out, it doesn't take much for names like that to make a comeback, and if you time it wrong, you end up with an entire class full of them
We wanted a unique name (but not THAT unique) and we have a bit of a weird last name so we took a longgggg time to settle on: Tess. And it fits her perfectly 💘
I worked with a guy named Norman, I don’t know why his parents picked that name, but it was unique while still being a name people knew how to spell.
I knew a Norman in college (early 90s), and he wore the government issue frames for glasses (he’d been in the military). Those glasses, paired with his crew cut made for the perfect Norman.
Literally any plant
Here's my daughter, Monstera.
She can marry my son, Corpse Plant
Gertrude sounds like a real ragtime gal. Her family calls her Gerddy and her friends, Gert.
I named my kids classic names that are pretty unusual currently. Like think of a boy’s name that’s been in the top 10 for like the past hundred years until the past 20. It’s cool because you can’t tell what generation he’s in by his name.
My brother and I are amelia and henry. Amelia is a lot more popular now but there are barely any amelias my age!
Triggered memories of Amelia Badelia books as a kid. Funny maid who did wacky things
My kids are convinced she was autistic because she followed directions *exactly* based on the words said, not the intentions.
i honestly love and support that. although to be fair, when her task was to “draw the drapes” i would’ve also drawn them because using that term to mean “close the curtains” isn’t used anymore
My kids' favorite was when she dressed the chicken for dinner, LOL. They laughed about that for weeks, even though they had never heard the term used correctly (in the 90s!)
That makes a lot of sense actually
Your name is on our shortlist! Very beautiful name.
I kept my kids names simple and classic, my youngest I named Jack. After I was recovering from birth my physician came in and asked what name I decided on. I told him Jack, and he goes “like Jackson?” And I said “no just, Jack.” And he says “not Jax with an x?” And I replied “just Jack, normal Jack.” Then he said “thank god, I delivered 5 boys this week all named Jaxson with an x. Hopefully they don’t all end up at the same school.” Sure enough, my son goes to school with at least 3 Jaxson’s, he’s about to enter middle school where I image there will be more.
We just left a newborn appointment, and an older couple with volunteer badges asked our baby's name. When we told them, they sighed with relief and said, "Oh good, a normal name!" Best compliment we received yet.
Love this approach. I kept going 1800-early 1900s for name inspo 😂
Im naming my son beauregard
ah do deCLARE, mr beauregard
Cecil, Luther, Archibald, Horace, Grover. All solid af
Same. I have a Luke, Michael, John and Maxwell. I live in the south with a very high level of Hayden, Jayden, Brody, Cash type names. My family made fun of me for picking such classic names but jokes on them we never meet kids with the same names.
My daughter's first name is Laura. In the delivery room when I was giving birth they write the baby's name on a whiteboard. My doctor almost seemed relieved when he read her name, and said you don't see traditional names like that anymore. Gave me quite the chuckle.
Love the name Laura. If my son had been a girl that would’ve been his name. Instead he’s a Michael.
This is such a weird coincidence… or maybe I’m just silly but I’m named Laura (born in 86 it was real popular then but might be unique now). If I had been male my name would have been Michael (cause that’s my dad’s name)… and because my parents were satisfied after 2 kids without a son my sister is Michelle
Yup, I read a study years ago how people get judged based solely on their name. Katherine scored as being perceived the most intelligent. Guess what I’d name a girl if I ever had one? https://gizmodo.com/people-judge-how-smart-you-are-based-solely-on-your-nam-5807543
Wait until I tell my daughter Chatherighynne, she's going to be so excited. 😂
Not enough h’s, I can only give you 6/10.
Shit. You're right. My poor daughter. 😭 😭 😭
Chahthehreighynne
Kha'eaghtherrheiyghn-nuh
Love this! Not enough people use both an apostrophe and a hyphen in one name
Warrior daughter of chief chtulhu
Where's the apostrophe? She can't go through school without one.
I think it's ok to skip it at long as you reach the 10 letter minimum
I’d never read this study till today. My kids are Katherine (Kate) and Samuel (Sam) so I like it a lot!
There is a great chapter in Freakanomics about given first names. It goes more into the source of the naming, rather than the outcome of that child’s life (though it does touch upon that briefly when he writes anecdotally of the child named “winner”). Anyway, the theory that they propose is that names drift downward socioeconomically. The first children with unique, yet real names, tend to be adopted by the upper class. The middle class then follows suit because “the elites” are doing it, and that’s when you see 5 Jackson’s in the same elementary school class When the name finally trickles down to the lower classes the names start getting “tragedeigh” because parents want their kids to be “unique”. TLDR: the elites introduce the new names because they want something new and original. The middle class follows suit because it’s the norm. The lower class modifies the “norm”. And then they upper class brings in new names because “Jesus Christ look what they did to the names Jaxon, Kortknee and Chauntyl
Makes sense. I think that’s why we see names (in the UK) that I think people here would view as unique and strange (not youneek as in spelt strangely, just not common) in private schools, upper/um class people. Venetia, Olympia, Allegra, Peregrine. Then the middle class have more common names like Elizabeth, Emily etc
My roommate always jokingly pronounced "unique" as "you nee cue". Didn't take long for the rest of us to say it that way, too.
The ego you just put on me 😅😂 ✊🏻 Katherines unite
I called it my "50 year old in a board room" test. I wanted to give my kids names they could proudly and confidently introduce themselves as in a professional setting. This is why I feel it's harder to name a girl. My personal opinion is that there aren't a lot of female names that aren't too "big" for a kid, but also aren't too "cutsey" for an adult. My name is one that I find "cutsey" and I'm in my late 40s. It's not a Tragedeigh, but in my teens I wished it was more "adult". Catherine/Katherine with a nickname of Kate was on my list as was Elizabeth, but my husband wasn't a fan so we didn't use either of those, but our daughter's name is in the same vain of "classic" names as is our son's.
Am I still smart if Katherine is my middle name? Maybe half smart?
smart adjacent
I like that. I'm Katharine, I was one of many at school. Katherine, Catherine, Kathryn.
My name is Katrina, but I was called Katherine a lot. Admittedly, it made be a bit of a Katherine Antagonist lmao
I have a Katherine. I liked the names Kate or Katie but took advice from a friend whose name is just Katie to give her a more formal name. My friend is an attorney. She said feels like an idiot signing Katie and she said please give your child a grown up name as well.
I'm 60, I've been Katharine, Kathy, KT, Kath. These days I'm Kat. I lived abroad, where they struggle to pronounce 'th'.
There is someone named "Caden" running for political office in my area and I will admit that I'm judging him as likely too inexperienced for office based on his first name alone. I'll do more research before casting a vote but he's starting out -1 on name alone. His parents clearly never thought about this eventuality.
My plan is to name my kid a well known name that isn't extremely popular the year they're born. So they're not Cera, but they're not Sarah #5 either
Haha "Sarah" was the example I used in my comment for an overly popular name too
Yes, there were a million Sarahs growing up, but now there are none so it would ACTUALLY be rare now. When we were having trouble naming our daughter (I had a list and my husband had a list, but we couldn't agree, despite the fact we had like 10 boy names we agreed on) my MIL kept suggesting Sarah. She has one girl and then 2 boys (my husband is the youngest). It turns out she was such a fan of Sarah with our last name that if either my husband or his brother had been a girl that would've been their name, so . . . as much as I love my MIL we didn't use the name she'd held on to for all those years.
I have a Sarah and if I call her name in a crowded area she - and a bunch of middle aged ladies - all look up. She finds it hilarious and has always been the only one in her grade with the name.
I wanted that and researched all the names... and then it turned out that my son's name sounds like the most popular name of his birth year... but isn't the same name. It's also a foreign name that people aren't familiar with. He will have to spell his name eternally. We didn't realize the names sounded so similar somehow and we couldn't know this particular name would be the most popular one. I love his name, though. The meaning, the role model, the sound, the fit with our surname, it's all perfect. But the second son just got the most basic, national name that hasn't been in style for 150 years but is having a slow come back. He's lucky. No name trouble for him.
Yes! My ex was really into the name Zoe and I liked it too but when I saw it was in the top ten or twenty for my daughter’s birth year, I vetoed it immediately. We now have an Alice Marie, because I like the names themselves and hoped my daughter would have some of the characteristics of the Disney characters who share them. (She has all of the curiosity and badassery and idk what to do with it sometimes) Though my ex had more say in our son’s name. Damiens don’t really have a good rep but it doesn’t seem to be too bad for him yet. At least it’s a somewhat normal name and not one that we encounter often.
Ha, I always think of the movie, Damien - Omen 2!
My dad wanted to name me Damien, hard veto from my mom lol.
Social Security Administration is great for this. Looked at the prior year top names and crossed out the top 30 and all their spelling variants before picking names for my kids
This is pretty much my son’s names. Not necessarily old fashioned but just has not been used for the last 50 years. Still easy to spell and understand
We accidentally did the Sarah thing. Our daughter is named Emma. I work in the local school and hadn't had any 1th graders named Emma in a while, so I figured it was alright. Classic, easy name. There is another little girl named Emma in the area. And to make it easy, they are born on the same day and have the same last name. We have to make sure to use their middle name at the doctors office.
I don’t want kids but my only friend who has a kid so far went on a rant about this exact thing. She and her fiancé wanted a more classic, “grown up” name for the full first name but wanted it to be one with a cute nickname, and alternative spellings were entirely off the table. Their top two choices were Theodore (Theo) and Tobias (Toby).
So my friends dad is named Tobias (he goes by Toby) and when Toby was in 7th grade, a substitute teacher was doing attendance and said the name “Tobias” *nothing* then again, “Tobias?” and Toby very quietly whispers to his friend “who names their kid Tobias? Hahahaha” then at the end, when Toby said his name wasn’t called, the teacher asked his name + he says “Toby” then the sub was like “……. Your name was called, Toby is short for Tobias” and that’s how Toby found out his legal name was actually Tobias LOL
My pops goes by Jimmy. He didn’t know his name is James until the 6th grade when a similar thing happened.
He must have been a good kid if his mom didn’t full-name him when he won’t leave the park.
This was my first thought. I just used my two year olds full name tonight for that reason.
Everyone thought my kids first and middle name together were just his first name for years because I very often was calling him Justin Timothy loud and fast. They thought his name was Justintimothy 🤣
Oddly enough, I referred to my kid by a cutesy nickname so much that from 3-7 years old, if I called his actual name at a park, he wouldn't respond... I would have to belt out the equivalent of "Poopsi-whooooooooopsie!" and he would immediately turn and run to me... kind of embarrassing for me... he didn't realize it was a thing till he was about 7, and then didn't want his classmates to hear me yelling his nickname at the school playground... he started responding to his real name, and now, almost 9, requests I don't use my shortened version of his nickname anywhere but at home. He's ADHD, and the nickname is still sometimes the only thing that will break him out of a hyper-focus and make him respond to me.
Haha my uncle goes by Jay. Didn’t realize until I was embarrassingly old that his real name is James
My brother in law didn’t know his name wasn’t his name until I wanna say kindergarten or first name because his parents filled out his birth certificate wrong. I got confirmation from said brother in law and all of his siblings about how his name was supposed to be one thing, but either the format changed on the birth certificate in the state he was born, or it was a different format from the state the sibling before him was born in (two different states). He’s kid 4 and kids 1 and 3 were born in one state while 2 and 4 were born in another state. So for example, his name was supposed to be (note: THIS IS NOT HIS REAL NAME) Michael James but because of the different birth certificate format it ended up being James Michael, so instead of spending a few dollars to change it, they just called him by what was supposed to be his first name but was legally his middle name. His school years were FUN.
I had a friend growing up named Kit who didn’t know his name was Christopher until high school when he first got a passport.
I knew a girl who thought her middle name was Susan until she started applying for college loans and learned it was Suzanne.
I was helping my ex fill out an application for something. It asked middle name. He paused. He looked puzzled, and I asked if he didn't have one. He said he did, and he was trying to remember it. Then he wrote "Kieth". I should have broken up with him then and saved myself another 4 years. He couldn't even spell his own 5 letter basic b middle name. No, he's not dyslexic. He said he used it so infrequently that he even forgot what it was and then didn't know how to spell it. 🤦♀️ He helped around the house so infrequently that I guess he forgot that too, so I forgot him 🫠
I had a teacher ask for my middle name, and I proudly told her Leah (“LEE-uh”). Then she asked me how to spell it, and … I didn’t know. I remember being *so* embarrassed I could not answer her! So I asked my mom as soon as I got home that afternoon and have had it down ever since. It’s hard to imagine being in that situation as an adult; this happened to me when I was in *first grade*. 🙃
He would have been about 31ish at the time. LMFAO
This is wild to me. I'm 39 and I have to look at my full name all the time. Driver's license, passport, birth certificate, health insurance renewals; credit card applications; applying to rent an apartment; glancing at your diploma. How did he not have to constantly look at his own id? Did he live off grid?
IDK where to even start with that overgrown manchild. I'm just so glad he's years out of my life. I'm in the healthiest, happiest relationship of anyone I know. He can even spell his own name!
I know a SueZann. Her siblings' names are Gail and Todd. Her name always baffled me.
I found out submitting documents for college & my student job that my name was spelled differently on my birth certificate and social security card 🫠 "Autumn" and "Autumm"
This happened to a guy I used to work with. He was called by his middle name by everyone for years. He started school, his given name was called out, he had no clue it was him. He was 6 when he found out his true first name. Confused the heck out of him.
That happened to my grandmother. Her first name was Agnes, but everyone called her by her middle name, and that’s what she went by her entire life. She learned her actual name was Agnes on the first day of school during roll call, and she instantly hated it. She never understood why her parents gave her such as ugly name if they were going to call her by her middle name anyway.
This is exactly why I don't understand why people don't just do the opposite. Like, my grandmas have awesome, like, above average good names, but even if they DIDN'T and they were "We'll just die if someone doesn't name a granddaughter after us after all we've done for you" then I don't see why people just give their kids weird middle names. That used to be the trope! "What's the initial stand for? I bet it's something weird." And then all of a sudden in the '90s SO MANY people just started insisting that kids needed to have dumb names with weird spellings. 🤣 And it never, ever makes sense to me. Because YOU can call your kid whatever you want. Why give them a name every future bank, hospital, and agency will need to triple-check?!
Had a student start with no English who experienced this same thing. He had always been called by his middle name, we only had his official first name on the class roll and no way of clearly communicating with him to figure out what was going on. The class teachers got it sorted out with the family, but forgot to tell the specialist teachers (and the parents hadn't explained it to the kid, so he still didn't recognise that we were talking to him), so we went through the same thing again and again for every specialist class and emergency replacement teacher for a few weeks. Thankfully, the rest of the class picked up on it and were able to help out.
this is absolutely hilarious
He might have to get a nu start
Lmfao that reminds me of when I was in 11th grade I got my service dog and named him Toby. My English teacher was asking about him but called him Tobias. I was like "Who's Tobias?"
Chinese people seem to give their kids nicknames as given names. My cousin’s legal name was Jimmy. He finally changed it to James after becoming a doctor. I also know a Vicki, Eddie, Andy, etc. All legal names, on their official documents. Edit to add: I knew one unfortunate guy whose parents named him Dick. His legal first name was Dick. Relentlessly teased until they changed it to Richard.
At my university it was pretty common for international students to pick an english name to use for their english language study, plus to use if they'd rather not deal with teaching everyone they meet how to pronounce their real name. One day the Dick/Richard thing came up in conversation and my friends and I explained to our chinese international student friend that Dick was also a name sometimes (he already knew the other meaning 🤣) He thought it was hilarious! When he stopped laughing he asked us if any other english names were secretly slang for penis. At that moment it dawned on us that our friend had chosen "Woody" as his english name 😅😵
I have a friend whose name is Wood, short for “Woodford.” People love to say “Morning, Wood!” then giggle. It also always cracks me up when I remember sometimes people use the word “Peter” for that body part.
When we were deciding what word we’d use to identify our toddler boy’s penis when we spoke to our little guy (nick name or medical real word ) my husband suggested Johnson. I wasn’t sure if he was kidding or not, but he waited for my response. I said, “and what if his Kindergarten teacher’s name is Mrs. Johnson?” Yeah, we used real words not nicknames for everyone’s body parts. 😂
Oh no
Yes, very common among those in Hong Kong especially. I know a Billy and Vicky and Dan. Like just Dan. Not even Daniel. Probably a switch over from his chinese name having “Dan” in it. I also knew a Joe. Not Joseph, just Joe. His chinese name also had “Joe” (Zhou) in it so it made sense.
It's not that they're finding a nickname to give them but names that end in y are easier to say for a Chinese speaker. My husband is named Andy and people sometimes assume his name is Andrew. It's kind of annoying lol. Like what Chinese parents are gonna name their kid Andrew? That's incredibly difficult to pronounce in Chinese.
I do know some Chinese people with full English names like Theodore and Bernard. But they seem to be the exception.
My BF is first generation Puerto Rican. His siblings names, and his, all sound like nicknames or very old. Ivan, Gilbert, Johnny, Ricky, Albert, Ivy, Carmen.
I dated a toby but it was short for Thomas.
That's weird
I'm very like that. My husband chose Penny for our 2nd daughter but I put Penelope on her birth cert. Everyone knows her by Penny but when she's older she has the option of Penelope.
Penelope is a very pretty name.
I don't want kids either, but I really like both those names. I've also always liked Seamus (Shay), Douglas (Doug), and Oliver (Ollie) for the exact reasons your friend mentioned.
Robert is a great name for nicknames (Rob, Bob, Robbie, Bert etc.) not to mention R.J. depending on middle/ last name.
You forgot Bobert
. . . or even Bertie . . .
I know a tragedeigh Seamus: Sheamus
I'll forgive it only because it eliminated the possibility of an idiot saying seemus.
So cute, both of those are great names. I have a nephew named Theo.
I have a traditional, classic name. I went by a nickname of it growing up, though I hated it, but the cool thing was getting to just choose to go by my full name at 17 and leave that awkward person with the nickname I hated behind. I think this is a great idea.
My friend literally had a kid this year named Theodore. Born on my birthday, no less.
BAHAHAHA my sister's son is named Tobias and her daughter is Theodora
Oh totally. My son has a very traditional name. If he wants to stand out and be unique, it can be based on his personality and not his name.
Love that take.☺
Gen X so so I don't know if I qualify but my kids are Henry and Eleanor.
Eleanor was my choice for a girl, if we had one! I love it
Eleanor is pretty rare for a 20 ish year old, right? Or maybe your kids are younger. Eleanor not at all uncommon for 10 and under (ish)
She's 18. Not super common. Henry much more common.
My bf calls them "key chain names". I don't want my kid to be one of 17 Sarah's in her grade, but I grew up with a name that I was constantly having to spell and pronounce for people. I want something in between. Not top 50 most popular, but in the top 200 would be fine
My name wasn't popular until I was 20. It's a real annoyance to go shopping and all the parents are screaming your name at their kids. Startled me for a couple of years until I got used to it. I'm pretty sure it's back to a reasonable level of obscurity.
Me too! I don't react to my name in public because I assume someone is talking to their 10-year-old. It was rare for adults and kids alike (other than really old people), so it was weird to go from always reacting to my name because they were probably talking to me, to not reacting because they are are probably talking to their child haha
My kids are John, James, and Elizabeth. I had some people say things about them not being unique enough names. I rolled my eyes. We are all perfectly happy with their names. I don’t have to spell them and pronounce them for everyone. It’s wonderful.
They’re becoming unique. Trust me
A lot of parents think this but tbh I’m a teacher and the “Johns” are typically just as common as the Tragedeighs. They’re always a breath of fresh air though
That was my exact reasoning for choosing James and Leah. Perfectly normal names, becoming more unique by default due to all the tragedeighs. 😅
My children all have “normal” classic names. Well known and recognisable
My kids are Evelyn (shortened to Evie) and Annabel (refuses any nicknames). Tragedeighs seem to be more an American thing, I don’t see many here in Canada. My kids’ class lists are pretty tame. I read this sub out of morbid curiosity.
> I don’t see many here in Canada. I'm a teacher in Canada. Trust me, we have plenty of Tragedeighs. I taught a Ya'Hyness once.
I live west coast US with kids ages 3 & 8 and honestly rarely come across any tragedeighs. Plenty of uncommon names, but they’re legitimate names with proper spelling. I think this subreddit skews people’s perceptions as well as weird celebrity and influencer baby names. In the real world, I mostly encounter normal names in the wild
I live in a predominately Black city... so I definitely encounter names people here would call "tragedeighs" but I think that's actually racism/prejudice talking.... I did side-eye the (white) lady who had two kids... Haven and Rebel... and then was shocked that Rebel had behavior problems. 😂
Here in Germany our version of tragedeighs is misspelled French names by German parents that don’t know French. It’s considered very trashy. But while it has become a meme it’s still quite rare.
we have a similar thing in Poland but with English names, we often meme about "Dżesika" (Jessica) and "Brajan" (Brian)
With both of our kids, we went through the gamut of baby names to find one that sounded nice, wasn't über popular at the time (so no 'top 25 names of last year') AND was hard for kids to make fun of. It was pretty entertaining trying to come up with juvenile ass nicknames for all the names we read, but we did settle on two very nice ones.
This is what I've been doing. Trying to come up with any way that the name could be skewed (my name is Jessica but I used to get teased for my name and a lot of other things outside of my control like having curly hair, kids are cruel and ingenious at finding ways to mock someone).
Totally. We would really only eliminate if the nicknames produced were, like, reeeeally mean/bad/inappropriate/could scar for life, but if they were more like "hurrr durrr, you called me a city name...so clever, derpity derp" or similar, we kept it on the short list. Our kids names are both classic, and my daughter's name can be considered a little old timey classic, but has risen in popularity since she was born.
I have five (yes I have since learned what causes that) and all of them have classic names, spelled correctly. Not trendy enough so that there were eleventy other kids in their classes with the same name, but you could at least find their names on keychains and other novelty items at the store. Before I had children, I read something that said "Name your kids as if some day they will be Supreme Court Justices" and I stuck to that.
I work with teenagers and I had to tell girl to leave another girl alone. She was making fun of her for her name. She had a tragedeigh name and honestly it broke my heart because this girl is so sweet and so smart, and here she was getting bullied over her name 😞😞 it’s not right what the bully did, but as someone who is pregnant right now, I would not willingly put my child in a situation where it’s easy for them to get picked on and judged because I chose a tragedeigh name. Parents please, your child’s name is not the place to show the world how creative you are. So Im with you- I want to name my child a name that is pronounceable, spell-able, and not so “creative” it’s outrageous.
Our son’s name is John and the ER staff yesterday (he’s good, took a nose dive off his changing table tho) remarked how they were happy to see a child with a normal name 😂
We are gonna use John too. It’s my FIL’s name and my husband’s middle name. I barely ever hear of anyone my age or younger who is named John these days so it feels like a solid, classic name.
Same here! FiL’s name and husband’s middle too 😂 it’s a family name so it meant a lot to my husband to name our son John. I’m glad other people are naming their kids normal names
We stuck with names that have been around for hundreds of years, unchanging, and always in the top 500. They are spelled normally, most people don't need to ask, and our kids have thanked us.
I named all 5 of my kids Gary to avoid concern and confusion
I grew up with a name that you couldn’t find on keychains. I made sure my kids could find their name on keychains
I’m happy with my name (Natalie). It’s a normal name but not overly used. I would carry that over for my kids. I love Bridgette or Claudia for a girl or Colin for a boy.
My kid is 14 but I had criteria for her name: easy to pronounce in English and Spanish (for my family), unique enough that there wouldn’t be a bunch of them in her class but still recognizable as a name. I went with Annabel. Still love the name and I was successful in all my goals.
I named my son Daniel... I'm contributing to fewer tragedeighs in the world
Yes, my husband and I were in agreement on classic names spelled absolutely normally. Our son is the IV and we did nothing funky with it. My SIL is the opposite and went full weird with her kids (like, if you named your kid “Fairy” but spelled it “Faerie.”). My MIL was upset when we said we didn’t like our niece’s and nephew’s names, and we had to say, “We like the kids! It’s just their names that are trash.”
By weird do you mean gaelic/Irish? Because faerie isn't a weird spelling (weird AF name though!)
Faerie isn't a word in Irish. The Irish word for fairies is Aos Sí (people of the mound). There are lots of Taboo Avoidance terms as well like "na daoine maithe" (the Good people), "Tuathghinte" (northwards people), "na daoine beaga" (the little people) "na huaisle" (the noble people) my granny called them "Na cuairteoirí" (the visitors), There are lots of individual words for fairies as well Aosán, Síbhean, Síofra, Sióg, bean sí etc
Christian Michael is my son's name. I wanted to avoid a tragedeigh at all costs because I didn't want it following him his whole life. Every time I see a ridiculous name I just think, "Thank God I didn't do that to my kid." Lol.
Donovan Ray (brother's middle name, dad's first name) and Jeremiah Ian are my boy names. Girl name is Brianna Margaret. Brianna is for someone who was very special to me during my teen years, Margaret for my grandmother.
I like Margaret. It's my kids friends name and she goes by Maggie or Mags.
Grant and Nora (their middle names are equally "classic"/dull). I joke that I'm just really prepared for them to turn 80 😄
I have a Grant Alexander and an Elizabeth Grace so I'm totally with you!
I’m a millennial and named by son Edward. We call him Eddie. My husband and I are not ‘cool name’ people haha
We went with classic but not currently common names, Roger and Darcy. We love their names so much. Everyone knows how to pronounce and spell them. They will age well and they won't have the frustration of being so-and-so#5. My husband and I are Matt and Stephanie, so we knew that frustration well.
My parents named me a "traditional" name, but my mom, rearranged two of the letters in my first name because, "I had to deal with people always misspelling my name (Diane), so I wanted to make sure my kid had a unique spelling." WTF, Mom? I never got to get the cool pencils and bike license plates with my name on it because my *unique* spelling. {sigh} So, when I had a kid, I named him two extremely traditional names with *traditional* spelling. He had all the personalized things! Aside from that silly reason, his name is easy to spell and pronounce. I wanted to make sure he had a name that could go from baby to adult and not seem weird.
I’m Gen X and already named my kids 20+ years ago but they have classic names. Peter and Madeleine. Though my daughter has the classic French spelling and everyone messes it up. So almost a tragedeigh 😂
My daughter’s name is a noun, but it’s an actual name and spelled correctly. While she’s the only one with that name in her grade level, there is another one at the same school.
My kids have traditional names (Lily & Harry) but both have somehow developed really silly nicknames that they’re pretty much called all the time!!
My kids both have uncommon first names that are real names and spelled properly. They have extremely common and very basic middle names just in case they want to go by something more traditional.
William and Vivienne. Vivienne may have been a tragedeigh at one time but today it’s nearly as popular as the Vivian spelling, from what I’ve seen. Vivian always seemed more masculine to me.
I named my daughter Alice. About as un-tragedeigh as you can get.
Me, no. We went the uncommonly common easy to spell and say route. We've met one other family's who's kid shares a name here in our community, same spelling etc.. My sister tho... Lol So all of us (my sister, brother and myself) have uncommon names. Mine being on the more common end but spelled weird (eye roll, thanks mom..). my sister's same, but far less common than mine, a few corrections when introducing herself and she's good.. and our brother..poor guy. My brother got it the worst. Extremely old, OLD fashioned name. He was named for his grandfather (who had an older styled name during his life in the early 1900s) and has NEVER gone by it. He's used a nickname his entire life. His own daughter didn't know his actual name until middle school when she accidentally had thrown out important mail and they had to sit her down and explain Dad's real name lol Anyway .. my sister had 2 kids, (this was in 1984 & 1985) and was so determined that she researched the most popular names and went with that for each kid. Didn't care if she liked them or not, just wanted her kids to have a normal name.
My sons have simple names, and my youngest has decided he wants to give himself a middle name (I didn’t give him one). He wants Zygmund, of all things. The name was my Pop’s, from Poland. I think he likes the idea of the tie to family he never got to meet.
I don't have/intend to have kids, but I would have to strike a balance between unique and classic, while avoiding tradgedeighs. My reasoning: I have a *really* common last name (think Smith, Jones, Miller, Lee). A kid named "Mike Smith" or "Katherine Jones" is going to be as annoyed as "Mohrghaynah Smith" or "Daymyaen Jones", because every time they check in for anything, they will have to go through the following script. Alex Miller: Hi, I'm here to check in for my 11:00 appointment. Receptionist: Great! Can you give me your name? Alex: Alexander Miller. Receptionist: Oh.... Um, could you give me your middle name?
Alex: John.
Receptionist: I still have twenty names on this list.... How about your birthdate?
Alex: June 12.
Receptionist: ...... Year?
I don't have the most common first name, and I have had this interaction *multiple* occasions.
My husband picked our daughter's name, Sara. We thought it was easy peasy, but she's spent her life saying 'Sara, no H'. 🙄
I’m literally thinking Jane.
That’s why I’m naming my daughter Eleanor Elizabeth, and we will call her Nora Beth.
My son's name is Calvin. My daughter's name is Emily. I don't get why people name their kids all stupid
I can't have kids, but yes if I ever happen to be graced with a couple I have beautiful old names ready to use.
Yup. I told my wife I'm open to a lot, but nothing over two syllables.