I've mentioned my cousin naming his baby girl Risen itt. He just had a boy and they named him Nash. Our last name is Hunter, so, Nash Hunter. Not even half a year old and he's already been relegated to a life of bounty hunting, with a name like that.
I told my wife my rule was if it’s not the name of a pope, king, or Saint it’s not for me We ended up with Thomas for our son His daycare class is: Levi, Aya, Scarlet, Wren, Carson, Knox, Sheldon, and Avi
I’m guilty of uncommon names. I just happen to hate my name and most common names I find a way to hate- e.g. Oliver or Olivia was a hard no from me because fuck olives.
Levi was pretty much a king. He had his own pretty influential tribe. That's a sweet name IMO. Scarlet is a traditional name. I don't really think there's anything wrong with it.
Probably represents some progress for the board? The original version of this thread went after more ethnic names iirc
It did, and that was dumb. I just don't think that bad naming is a "white" or "black" thing. A bad name is a bad name.
This is one of those things I'll talk shit about online for fun but wouldn't really shame someone to their face about. For one, you can't help the name you're given. Two, we all carry our own cultural perspective so my dumb name is your cool name and vice versa. Hopefully that gives me a pass for my next 2 pages of pitiless scorn
I knew an Irma in college. She went on a smoothie diet before spring break, passed out in the shower, cracked her head, and woke up with no sense of smell/taste. She drank straight aristocrat after that.
No shit. One of my best friends’ name is Exitus. His mom was 16 and damn near homeless when he was born. When it came time to fill out the birth certificate she panicked and looked up and saw the “exit” sign in the hospital. Boom. Exitus. A nurse gave him the middle name Jeremiah. He goes by EJ. His mom tries to rewrite history and say she wanted to name him exodus, from the Bible, but nurse screwed it up.
I was just listing the daycare class in it’s entirety, not really saying any of the names have issues
That was one of the criteria for our kids’ names. It had to sound appropriate for a 5-year-old on a playground and a 50-year-old in a boardroom. I have a fairly short last name, so we also needed first names with multiple syllables. It wasn’t by design but both kids’ names are also last names.
My college roommate passed out chugging a pitcher of iced tea (as an adult) and also lost his sense of smell. Crazy.
My wife has no sense of smell but had no trauma and was actually born without it. Weirdly enough, my son was born with no sense of smell either, though the doctor doesn’t think it’s because of hereditary reasons.
I have a unique or uncommon name but it's a family name and not something my parents thought sounded super cutesy or original when I was born. That said, a poster on this board once made fun of people in a thread with a similar subject as this one by using my particular name as an example. I'll never forget it especially as I'm pretty sure I met the guy IRL once!
Worked with a girl named Lakynn for a year, about 8 months in I found out how her name was spelled. I had been calling her Lincoln the whole time, thought it was a weird name for a girl. Not sure Lakynn is any better.
Me and my brothers were blessed with some real turn-of-the-century, old-world family names. I lucked out as my first name isn't very common nowadays but also isn't particularly weird, same can't be said for my middle name or my brother's names. Just one of many things my parents are/were clueless about.
As a buckeye fan, one thing that makes my eyes roll out of the back of my head is when people name their kids after OSU players/coaches/figures like if you wanna name your dog Brutus, or Scarlet, or Carmen, whatever... but one of my coworkers named his boy “Braxton” after Braxton Miller. And there’s this one dude in Celina OH, hometown of user Pelican, who named his kid “Zaiden Tressel” as if naming your kid Zaiden isn’t bad enough, you make his middle name the last name of a former football coach. Pshh, unreal
There’s a girl who was at UA the same time as a bunch of us whose name was Krimson Ann White or something along those lines
We did name our 2.5 year old Beckham. Which ended up playing out nicely when we got OBJ this past offseason. Now he runs around in his little Browns OBJ jersey with Beckham Jr. across the back. It’s cute as shit.
When the head board members are Lyker, Ayden, Asher, and Thanos your son John is going to be the dumb one!
I know an OSU fan who named his son Braxton. I'd imagine there are lots of 5 year old Braxton's in Ohio. Also recently saw someone with a kid named Tressel on facebook. I have a friend who legitimately tried to talk his wife into naming their daughter Scarlet Gray as a first and middle name. And also had the idea to name his son Buck Isaac. Get it? Buck I. Buckeye. Luckily his wife denied both attempts.