Flying SquidOkay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.
deafboyI’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
FonderthudI’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
Wait, it’s all bullying?
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
That does tend to happen to children that are half human and half flying squid
hungryphrogAt least she can spray ink on her enemies and then fly away.
Good tactic for almost any situation in life imo
Honestly being bullied for a weird name just feels like victim blaming. It’s just someone else’s shitty behaviour we’re expected to dance around? That was the one problem with the name.
I don’t disagree, but it’s also a parental responsibility, in my opinion, to help your child avoid bullying. It’s not possible to avoid entirely, but there are definitely ways to make it worse. And a weird name is one of them.
Give a kid a weird name and the bully will pick on them but set a bully on fire… no… wait, I think I got that wrong.
It may be someone else’s problem, but as a parent , you should consider your child’s well being when naming them, and try to avoid obvious pitfalls
I mean yes obviously, but still. Just angering me we have to fight human shittiness with something like this
🇰 🌀 🇱 🌀 🇳 🇦 🇸 🇰 🇦 🇵 🇮Always has been.
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it’s memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.
And absolutely not religious.
a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.
Dharma Curious (he/him)Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it’s absolutely killing me knowing I’ll never know if I’m right. But also, my brain itch doesn’t trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.
What an awful parent you are, doxxing your own kid on the internet!
Never post while high.
Korne127Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name is baffling to me… but I’m German.
It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck
The kicker is her siblings have normal names.
Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
mari, or mary.
In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
Narcissism
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.
Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.
If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Leazel sounds like a fine name ngl, but others lol
snooggumsLeazel the Weasel
Leaz the sleeve
Altima NEONah it sounds like a knock off Pokemon. Like sometime from palworld
Come on, man. Mötley is a metal name. Literally. I’d love to be named Mötley. Especially if it came with the umlaut like it’s supposed to.
Patapon EnjoyerThat’s the lady from Baldur’s Gate who looks like the Grinch
My first thought too, but misspelled which somehow makes it worse
Well, there was Liesl Von Trapp. Maybe they just didn’t bother to check the spelling.
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon’s name in his office. And I hated it.
ManucodeDid Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
I have no idea.
Was his middle name Mississippi?
We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can’t imagine two different sets of parents deciding that “Jackson” is just too boring
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
Did Jason have cybernetic arms?
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren’t “welcomed home” but rather just treated as visiting Americans.
It’s cute
HolyhandgrenadeIt doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
It’s to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the “normal” names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn’t have to be about accomplishing something beyond “I like how that looks”.
I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”
You’d be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.
My name isn’t common here, but it’s also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That’s about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.
I’ve seen a lot more “burden” on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.
Because you hate your child but don’t believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it’d be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.