Parents naming their kids weird names

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  1. wes tegg

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    We're really coming after white people from every direction ITT.
     
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  2. Popovio

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    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.
     
  3. theregionsitter

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    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
     
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  4. dukebuckeye

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    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.
     
  5. wes tegg

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    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.
     
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  6. TC

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    Probably represents some progress for the board? The original version of this thread went after more ethnic names iirc
     
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  7. wes tegg

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    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.
     
  8. Bo Pelinis

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    It's not but they both have their own distinct version of bad.
     
  9. prerecordedlive

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    I am constantly of the thought “is this going to sound fucking stupid in a board room one day?”
     
  10. TC

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    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
     
  11. theriner69er

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    wes making a reverse racism claim??

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  12. Dick Dollars

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    This is where I’m at with it. Imagine meeting a 50 year old named Lakynn or Bryar.
     
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    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.
     
  14. Dudley Dawson2

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    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.
     
  15. wes tegg

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    No, you dolt. The point was that two entirely different naming patterns were identified as "white."
     
  16. theregionsitter

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    I was just listing the daycare class in it’s entirety, not really saying any of the names have issues
     
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  17. theriner69er

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    oh, right, sorry

     
  18. Boo MFer!

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    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.
     
  19. jrmy

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    It's okay I'm allowed to say cracker since I'm white
     
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  20. 20/20/20/20

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    My college roommate passed out chugging a pitcher of iced tea (as an adult) and also lost his sense of smell. Crazy.
     
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    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.
     
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    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!
     
  23. Boo MFer!

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    I’m really sorry, Lakynn.
     
  24. Barves2125

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    Lakynn is a girl name. My name is Laken.
     
  25. Popovio

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    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.
     
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  26. Shawn Hunter

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    Millennials also killing naming kids reasonable names with correct spellings.
     
  27. bigred77

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    My dogs name is Laken and I'm pretty sure she identifies as a girl
     
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    It's different in dogs. The same in horses and weasels though.
     
  29. MoJo

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    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.
     
  30. 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
     
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  31. Daniel Ocean

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    Jose? Jose is made up?
     
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  32. The Blackfish

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    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
     
  33. wes tegg

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    I read that as Jase, which is totally made up. Jose is a pimp name.
     
  34. Shawn Hunter

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    There is a top 10 girls basketball player that’s a senior this year named Treasure Hunt
     
  35. steamengine

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    Mahomes seems like a cool first name
     
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  36. bigred77

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    Or Lavon-Mahomes
     
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  38. dukebuckeye

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    I tried naming my boys Lebron but my wife vetoed that idea.
     
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    Like lebron 1 &lebron 2?
     
  40. dukebuckeye

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    I wish.

    No it was shot down for the first boy. Tried again for the second boy and shot down again.
     
  41. Boo MFer!

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    Yeah, but enough about your sex life! Lol
     
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  42. dukebuckeye

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    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.
     
  43. Bruce Bowen

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    When the head board members are Lyker, Ayden, Asher, and Thanos your son John is going to be the dumb one!
     
  44. Barves2125

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    There's a Jase on this board. :twocents: colonel_forbin can confirm.
     
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  45. Hatfield

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    Nash Hunter is either a NASCAR truck series driver or back-up QB at Ga. Southern
     
  46. prerecordedlive

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    I don’t have any kids, ya big dummy. Take that.
     
  47. theriner69er

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    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.
     
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    Can't wait for all the girls named Danaerys and Khaleesi to start school
     
  50. Bo Pelinis

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    Cal being spelled Khal.