@@Drawersama no we don't. go outside. yeah shit's not perfect, a lot of shit sucks. but you sort of folk would cry "dystopia!" if the line at the supermarket is 1 person too long. "oh no a minor inconvenience, literally 1984."
@@miguelnewmexico8641 I'd say our current reality is more vicious than a dystopia. It's comfortable enough to not get people to rebel against it while still maintaining a surveillance state.
I had the same thought but when I thought about it more I think it was a move to protect their IP from other shows being like "our Khalessi is a badass Queen who doesn't disintegrate an entire kingdom's worth of innocent civilians" and it unfortunately plays a roles in these type of scenarios.
Dang, that's a slap in the face for the kid. Not being able to go to Disney Land because their parents named them after a tv show character would give that kid a justifiable angst for months.
After the pod i checked out the Baby Karen post, wanted to mention an update for anyone curious: the child's name is now legally Caroline (they had already started calling her C/Karrie), for the low low price of $30. The "you should have tried harder" comment was from the grandmother of the child rather than the actual parent, who has since apologized to the OP for how she acted during her sleep deprived pregnancy. Really worth reading the original post for having nuance on the parent since that can get lost in retellings, cause the OP never bears ill will.
More context for the original post is that it was back when the Karen meme was first starting to pick up speed and wasn't nearly as widespread. Most of the comments on the original post are saying OP is the asshole and that it won't be a thing when the baby is old enough for it to matter. Lo and behold...
Even from this video I immediately understood the mother at least. Like, she's who knows how many months pregnant at that point, she's not exactly at the best state of mind. It's everyone ELSE who has no excuse, the whole family trying to shame was nuts.
My stepmother was a nurse, she's seen some awful babu names come through the maternity ward. There's a little girl out there named Syphilis, pronounced "sah-phalis", because the parents thought the spelling looked pretty on the page...
White people: * Moves into the suburbs where community is a foreign concept, gives their kids the worst names possible to maximize bullying, hands them an iPad at age 1. * Also white people: "God, why is my kid such a depressed little edgelord? After all we've done for them? What an ungrateful little shit."
12:04 …this is literally the plot of a Gumball episode where he finds out his real name is Zach and he obtains a split personality that turns him into a douchey jock. They end up getting rid of him by legally changing his name back to Gumball.
Everyone started calling her "Karrie" when the daycare stuff happened, and after the airport incident her parents legally changed her name to Caroline.
@@warzone822 If William can become Bill, and Robert becomes Bob, Anything works, Especially when every Richard is always a moment away from being an unlikable Dick
What infuriates me about people naming their girls khaleesie is that Danearys *already* has a normal sounding nickname, she's called Dany from the very beginning, in fact, most characters have normal sounding nicknames in ASOIAF, Eddard Stark is functionally only called Ned Stark.
@@KaitoTheRamenBandit This is the bit that always got me, if you're such a big fan that you want to name your kid something ASOIAF related you should know that it's not even a name.
You see this is why I'm picking a normal name for my daughter, like Master Chief. My son meanwhile will be Doctor William Peck (Doctor will be part of his name ensuring his success)
I think both of those are illegal for exactly that reason of confusion. Can't have Doctors running around not being doctors, and Master Cheif is an actual military rank
I think Max naming his kid Ripley is a great example of this. Totally reasonable name for a kid but also an homage to one of the best horror film protags of all time
also yeah as someone named Richard Johnson i've been flagged at a bar twice for trying to use MY REAL ID AS A FAKE Editing again because it came screaming back to me and sent me for a loop: I dated a girl with a cousin that had a son named Truck. That poor fuckin kid lmao and if I'm saying that it's gotta be rough
I always bring this anecdote up, but years and years ago when I was living in Puerto Rico I was reading the "human interest" section (which was more or less the "women's" part of the newspaper) and they had a feature for expecting mothers. And one of the major bullet points they had was to *not* name your kid after a soap opera character. Soap operas ("telenovelas") are really popular in Puerto Rico, as they are across Latin America, and certain ones can get *really* big for a while but they're like isekai anime where they drop off almost immediately after they end. So the point the newspaper was making was "Spare your child from having a ridiculous name like Patricio-Esteban, by the time your child is old enough to go to school nobody will remember the soap opera it's from anyway." This is also why you shouldn't be naming your kid Astos, Kirito, Eren...
when it comes to naming children, I agree with Woolie, give the kid an out. I would also suggest, run the name by multiple teenage girls. If they laugh or roll their eyes, choose a different name.
I feel like a lot of this borne from people who see children as extensions of themselves instead of people in their own right, they have to give them weird names to show how unique they personally are and don't care how it'll affect the kid.
Yep. I have a slightly less common spelling of a very common name and that's annoying enough. I can't imagine having to go through life being named some stupid fantasy/scifi/anime shit. Would legitimately change my name at the first opportunity.
Pat in the old folks home, dementia fully set in, saying to his son "Reyn, hit the yoinky sploinky..." And his son just says "Dad, we talked about this, Mom vetoed that name."
I have encountered over a dozen girls who have all hated their first name and went with their middle name. Some were normal names, but I encountered it so much that I have come to expect "Middle Names" being a girl's safety net. I had a friend who named his daughter something his misspelled the shit out of... on Purpose... and thought he was being creative. He was always known for being intensely stupid and so I held on to hope and asked him for his daughter's full name and somewhere in that jumble of syllables, I heard a normal girl's name and said to myself "ya, that's what she's gonna default to..." People with an utter lack of foresight are the bane of my very existence.
Long story made short: My dad almost named me "Gilgamesh" but mom was against it, not because it's too long or too foreign for where we lived, but because it for sure was gonna be shortened to "Gil" for the rest of my life and because of life she thought that anyone with that nickname was probably an a-hole.
I live on the American East Coast and I’ve never met a single Dante that wasn’t black. It’s gotten to such a degree that I’m getting push back on wanting to name my kid Dante because I’m white and “that’s a black persons name” it’s not, it’s a Italian name. In their mind it’s like having a white kid named Tyrone.
It drives me crazy dealing people who are so stubborn that you tell them something straight up multiple times and they tell you off for it. Then months or a year later they go "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME, You never said that." And get angry with you over their stupidity. F**k off. Happened so many times over the years I've just stopped trying to warn people about shit.
My kid went to school and kept beating up all the other kids in their class. It happened so often that I'd be called over to the school multiple times a week (my wife used to as well, but the stress of talking with the other parents was too much for her, so I'm on call duty). I'd be yelled at by other parents and needed to pay for medical care twice. I'm surprised we haven't gotten sued, or that some of the other fathers haven't tried to beat me up for revenge. I have had to switch schools multiple times, though. Even behavioral schools have us blacklisted, so that's getting harder to do. I tried to talk with my kid about it, but these conversations never went anywhere. I'd just get stone-walled and end up grounding them. It feels like all I can do is complain to my wife. We're at a loss as to what we could do, and the stress has been getting to us. I just don't get why this keeps happening. We're not a violent family. My wife and I never even raise our voices with each other or our kid (though I've been really tempted to start shouting a few times). We don't know where this violence is coming from. Why is my sweet little Malenia getting into so many fights at school?
The key is either to A: pick a weird name with a normal name baked in. Khaleesi -> Khalee (Callie), Daenerys -> Dany, Astarion -> Rion, etc. Or B: Put the weird name in the middle, give them a normal first name, and let them choose. Note that option B does NOT work in reverse. If you give them a weird first name, everyone will learn about it on the first day of school and make fun of them for it anyway. This also applies to all forms of option A.
I did not know about this baby Karen thing, and wow. "You didn't try warning us hard enough" is such a Karen thing to do, the mom and grandma should be the ones cursed with that name.
Decided to check the subreddit, and the worst you can say about the mom is she was kinda dumb and had a bad first reaction due to pregnancy hormone moodiness. The grandma, there may be something there though. Also, you’ll probably be happy to know they changed the name, the kid won’t be cursed to be called Karen
If I recall, Wendy wasn't a name that came into existence until Peter Pan was written. Could be wrong, but if that's true then Wendy could be the earliest nerd name
To play devil's advocate here (seriously, no pun intended), Good Omens touches on this. In the show, at least (haven't read the book), angels don't necessarily always do the "good" thing, and demons don't necessarily always do the "bad" thing. Morality is complicated. However, even overlooking that and the fact that said characters are gay for each other, the fact remains that Aziraphale and Crowley are really fucking stupid names for a human child. If you must name your kids after some stupid pseudo-biblical nerd shit, go with actual names. Like Dante and Vergil.
This reminds me of a reddit post i saw where OPs friend named their baby Annally as a mix of two names. Atleast in the end the friend realzied how awful of a name it was and they changed it i think.
Giving your kid a weird pop culture name is so selfish and stupid. They're not pets. They're people that are gonna have to live their whole lives, going to school, applying for jobs, going out on dates, with that stupid ass name.
If you're gonna name a child after a nerd thing, make it something you can easily spin into something normal. My brother when he was young wanted to name a potential kid Miranda after a class of Star Trek Starship. Still nerdy but not nerdy enough to raise suspicion
Similiar to Adolf, Vidkun (as in Vidkun Quisling, whose surname is now an INTERNATIONAL term for a traitor or collaborator) is a name that's been absolutely nuked out of existence here in Norway.
@@johnrivers3813adolf is a traditional germanic name. Do you not name kids joeseph because that’s stalin’s first name? No, because you’re an american so joeseph sounds normal. But in germany, adolf or dolph is a pretty normal name.
My Dad really wanted me to be named Sebastian after the musician but then my mum pointed out the little mermaid so they just plucked a name out of the family tree at the last second. Anyways, shoutout to the kids named Luke after Star Wars came out, at least you could pretend your parents were just religious.
I was almost a Sebastian too, which wouldn't have been so bad, but my middle name was almost *Moonshadow.* They backed out because of Sebastian being so butler-coded. No idea what they were thinking with that second one. Of course they didn't go for something more normal, no, they went in the exact opposite direction and now I've got a name that's so unique that google seems to believe it only exists as a rare surname. Almost one of a kind, I've definitely never heard of another let alone met them. I've come to terms with it. It isn't a pop culture reference or some cringeworthy "unique" lettering. Nobody ever bullied me for it at least, it's weird but in an interesting way. (Editing this in, apparently Moonshadow came from the Cat Stevens track. Makes sense, they were big into the 70s music scene. Still sounds like a fursona name.)
Why should you let your kid go through the most formulative years of their lives on Easy Mode? When I name my kid Kickme, not only will they be tough as nails by the time they're an adult, but they'll probably pick their own name by then AND they'll cut ties with me immediately, meaning I get to enjoy my twilight years in peace! It's the perfect plan.
Yoona is the name of a famous K-pop artist, and is just a real name for Korean women in general, so she has that as an out if anyone asked. Honestly, Yuna is probably on the list for least egregious nerd names out there
What gets me most about this is the fact that Khaleesi isn't even her name, it's a title! Like I don't care how stupid it sounds, Hulu better don't stop me from naming my son Shogun!
11:55 - nominative determinism! the idea that a guy who goes by, like, "Bradley" is going to have a MARKEDLY different personality from his identical clone "Brad" (accounting for differences in upbringing, etc), because "Bradley" is someone with an accounting or law degree, and "Brad" is a drinking buddy.
My sister named her second child Kylo which she insists is not because of Star Wars and I kind of believe her because she's not really a Star Wars but at the same time it's like. Okay but I've literally never heard that name before Star Wars. Apparently he's doing fine but I still think she set him up to fail a little bit. He's only like three at this point so there's still plenty of time for him to become miserable.
We've been debating baby names for a while and one day out of nowhere my wife told me she really liked the name Clementine, this was about a day before we were going to start playing the collection. Few months later it's now our top choice for a girl and we're just waiting to know if it's a girl or not. (Here's hoping for Clem)
Clementine is such a winner name. The only one I can think of that is both traditional and owned by a character that is freaking awesome. The fact that character is someone you also have to raise and care for to begin with anyway creates such a positive connection too!
aziraphale and crowley? as in, the characters that literally have the narrator pull you aside at one point and go "aziraphale is gay. he's very gay. the gayest man alive"? i dunno man, i think the constant references to people losing all worry about them and comforting them in the street after a fight because crowley calls azzy "angel" were on the nose, but the narrator literally lays it out for you in both the book and the show at one point. speaking of good omens though, there's apparently an interview with terry pratchett and neil gaiman (who wrote the book, gaiman oversaw the show) where they start messing with the interviewer because the interviewer thought good omens was a radical christian book.
Gonna have to disagree with Woolley on this slightly, if the parent has the mental capacity to give their child an out with their weird name, they should know better than to curse their child with any sort of weird pop culture name
I bring up this story on the subreddit a lot, but at work I had a couple come in with their kids, one boy, one girl and their names were Arthur and Illya I think Illya for the girl is a bit weird since it's a girl's name and in my head think 'oh my god, Fate reference. 'And then I see on the dad's phone case, or Wallet, a fucking Fate design. So yes, it was in fact, a couple who named their kids after Fate characters
I gotta be honest though Karen isn't that bad of a name. It feels like a bubble during the height of COVID. Maybe it's just cuz I'm like early 20s but I feel like I haven't heard it in at least a year seriously
I think Karen from Spongebob also helped ferment the sentiment. I mean, she's not an annoying or obnoxious character, but she sounds like one and married to one
This is really a story about the Airport being morons more so than it is "don't name your children dork things" but since Woolie and Pat just really love talking about it, sure let's go with that. Since that's the topic, I'll once again state that my future Child's name (if we have a boy) will be Nicholas "Wolfwood" ______, my out for them is giving my kid a normal first name and the middle name can be ignored if desired or embraced if they want a cool nickname, which will bring only mild amusement for anyone who pieces the full name together.
I remember one customer was mad that everyone thinks she reads Lord of the Rings cause she named her kid Thorin, right when the hobbit movies came out. She had no connection to Scandinavia btw just the name `came to her one day, definitely wasn't the hundreds of ads around at the time.
This reminds me of how one of my sister's friends married a Japanese dude; they have a daughter named Megumi*, and my sister mentioned they were possibly gonna use "Meg" as a nickname. Also, my Dad was originally named "Mujeeb", but because of Bangladesh getting Independence from Pakistan, and the guy who headed the independence movement first name was "Mujeeb", he got picked on because of his name. His name was then changed to "Faisal". *When my sister told me what her friend named her baby, I sent a gif of Fushiguro from JJK into the family group chat with an added explanation of why I did that.
If i had children there names would be ramza and delita i would give them contrasting colored clothes and treat them both entirely different as a child should be treated
I have this memory as a kid of reading Good Omens and being introduced to a character whos parents were hippies who lived on a commune for a while until the sheep ate all their weed and were huge LOTR fans so named their daughter Peregrin. She goes by Pepper and despises both it and her parents for naming it and certainly will never read Tolkien out of spite. Teachable moment.
The thing that gets me with Karen is that it's also an East Asian feminine name with a different etmology, and it's also a masculine Armenian name. So how is the name perceived in those cases in modern day?
Hey remember that guy that named his kid after Kamille Bidan from Zeta Gundam. And instead of just naming him Kamille or Camille, which would give him an out, dude used the whole name Kamille Bidan. Without his partner knowing. Which lead him to get bullied at school because his classmates found THE 30 YEARS WORTH OF JOKES MADE AT HIS EXPENSE.
You see the trick is to have it be an innocuous name like Aron (the pokemon) or Drake (one of the Robins), that way you give them plausible deniability.
My 40 something brother-in-law's name is Chad and I always kinda wondered if that would be a thing, and sure enough his son, my gen alpha nephew, said his friends call him Gigachad
A friend of mine had naming competitions with his wife. Each would draw up a list of names and they'd play games against each other to see which names go further in the tournament bracket. However... He no joke would put names on his list like Kenpachi, Meliodas, Sephiroth, Xehanort, Sparda, etc... no matter what anyone would say, he just couldn't understand why naming his kid any of those names wouldn't be cool
My idea was if I ever had a daughter was naming her Morrigan cause darkstalkers. I don't think many people will catch the darkstalkers reference and if anything she can just go with Morgan. 😂
I like the idea of giving a kid a more gender-ambiguous middle name like Alex, just in case. Middle names are a backup that's easy to use in case they come to dislike their first name for whatever reason.
Or what my parents did, where they just decided on day 1 to call me by my middle name and to ignore my first name so it was a headache every time the school year started or we had a substitute.
@@PredictableEnigma That's like an old catholic thing, give your kid a saint's name as their first name, then the name you actually want to give them as their middle, both my parents were named like this.
My middle name is the second half of my original name, my parents just split it in half at the last second. Then, when my sister was born, her middle name was chosen to match my middle name. So if we both used our middle names we'd both be called "Lee", but with different spelling.
Hm. I always thought a “Karen” is somebody who’s bossy and complains a lot, is arrogant, demanding, privileged and entitled. That’s not at all what “Kevin” means in Germany. Or it’s female equivalent “Chantal”.
So I used to work the service desk at a retail store and I once had a guy attempt to apply for a credit card and he got denied due to his name being, in fact, James Bond. I asked him about it and he said it was a problem anytime he had to do anything involving his finances as he is immediately flagged for fraud despite it being his actual name. Please take care naming your children folks. Consider your last name as well. And don’t get me started on the little girl named Kharisma I met one time…
I mean you have normal ass kids names in Got Brandon John Ned Caytline how do you land on Khalisi. Also one of my favourite historical anidotes is that when Japan got romance of the three kindoms Kyo Ming was one of the more popuplar kids names out of that book.
I think fussing over kids being named after characters in media is pretty historically ignorant, where do you think most of the "normal" names you know came from? As far back as we have recorded history we have been naming our children after the characters in the stories we tell, that's where my name came from, and it's probably where _your_ name came from, even if indirectly. The only difference is how fast we've created so many new stories we all have ready access to choose from in the last few decades 🤷
@@karidyas00 but Bibble names (or at least their original un-anglicized versions) were already normal names in the middle and near east at the time. Yeshua did not just appear from nothing in a vacuum
I know a lot of people who go by their middle names. Sometimes its because they have really dated names for their age like someone in their 20s named Irene but usually it's just personal preference
I want to start a lineage of people who has a V in their name like Marvin or Veronica. Say the reason is for them to have ambitious goals and tell the story of how the V cannot be silent
Theirs something like that in my Dads family. Apparently in his family every man has Ivan as their middle name, I don’t know why but that’s just the way it’s been. My dad hates the name Ivan and when I was born he was determined to break the cycle.
I've got an uncle named Thurlow, but his middle name is Christopher. When he was young, he went by Chris, and then just switched to Thurlow once he aged into it. I think the weird first/normal middle combo is a great way to give someone a unique name while giving them the option. That said, Thurlow was a weird old family name (we've got a bunch, a Zephyrin, a Ulysses, I'm a Calvin) so unique names are almost a family tradition; I absolutely can't understand the people who name their child after a pop culture reference or people who just fuck with the spelling of an otherwise normal name.
You ever realized that all the kids named Sasuke are probably old enough to change their name by now? I doubt the name Karen will have any half-life left by the time the kid is old enough
It's fine to name your kid after something nerdy, but don't be so blatant and dumb about it. I love Dragonball, but I'm not naming my kid Goku or Piccolo
This segment is hilarious to me as someone with family members who are obviously named after Mortal Kombat characters and another who is a reference to Yu Gi Oh but still has a normal name.
That Reddit is a gold mine of fuckups; I'll never forget this woman naming her baby "Eddie-Munson" (yes, all that's the first name) after the one character everyone liked in Stranger Things. This was in honor of her sister dying but everyone in their family was rightfully angry about it.
When I was a kid, our Sunday school teacher was a 90+ year old man named Adolphus. Must've been one of those things adults don't bring up, because it was years after he died before I really thought about it.
I wonder how baby Dragonborn's parents are loving all those free Elder Scrolls games that have come out since then
Holy shit, that's why Bethesda is not working on TES anymore. They are bitter about not wanting to give that kid his games!
What are you talking about? They got Skyrim and Skyrim and Skyrim and of course Recently released Skyrim.
hahahahahahahha DRAGONBORN oh noooooo Might as well have a kid named Master Chief lmfao
@@PurplePizzaTurtle
"That kid should be buying another re-released Skyrim for the eighteenth time by now... FREELOADER!"
“Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer”
"You need permission from the company to use this name" is the most dystopian thing ive ever heard
We do live in a capitalist dystopia already, I just people are in negation because is not the modern media version of it.
@@Drawersama no we don't. go outside. yeah shit's not perfect, a lot of shit sucks. but you sort of folk would cry "dystopia!" if the line at the supermarket is 1 person too long. "oh no a minor inconvenience, literally 1984."
@@miguelnewmexico8641 I'd say our current reality is more vicious than a dystopia. It's comfortable enough to not get people to rebel against it while still maintaining a surveillance state.
you need permission to make a child's grave spiderman themed. at least we haven't reached arabic levels of naming.
I had the same thought but when I thought about it more I think it was a move to protect their IP from other shows being like "our Khalessi is a badass Queen who doesn't disintegrate an entire kingdom's worth of innocent civilians" and it unfortunately plays a roles in these type of scenarios.
Dang, that's a slap in the face for the kid. Not being able to go to Disney Land because their parents named them after a tv show character would give that kid a justifiable angst for months.
A name owned by Warner instead of Disney, too. Oh, the irony.
@@rickdaniel7341if only Disney had the rights, then that kid would have stocks
Not only that, but named after a show she won't really get for at least a decade
After the pod i checked out the Baby Karen post, wanted to mention an update for anyone curious: the child's name is now legally Caroline (they had already started calling her C/Karrie), for the low low price of $30. The "you should have tried harder" comment was from the grandmother of the child rather than the actual parent, who has since apologized to the OP for how she acted during her sleep deprived pregnancy.
Really worth reading the original post for having nuance on the parent since that can get lost in retellings, cause the OP never bears ill will.
Way too easy for the nuance of a situation to get lost in media sensationalism, whether it's baby names or... _gestures widely at everything_ .
More context for the original post is that it was back when the Karen meme was first starting to pick up speed and wasn't nearly as widespread. Most of the comments on the original post are saying OP is the asshole and that it won't be a thing when the baby is old enough for it to matter. Lo and behold...
Even from this video I immediately understood the mother at least. Like, she's who knows how many months pregnant at that point, she's not exactly at the best state of mind. It's everyone ELSE who has no excuse, the whole family trying to shame was nuts.
The grandma was pregnant?
perfect boy name: Matt
perfect girl name: Mattress
problem solved ✅
Pattress
Patthew.
too soon
This is the "+10%-of-ending-one's-self" kind of debuff you get at birth.
My stepmother was a nurse, she's seen some awful babu names come through the maternity ward.
There's a little girl out there named Syphilis, pronounced "sah-phalis", because the parents thought the spelling looked pretty on the page...
Depression and being named Karen. Except the later involved fully warned parents that chose regardless. *enraging*
@@RipOffProductionsLLC at least she can go by Phyllis, but unless she's 80 years old that's not really much better.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 Shorten it even further and go by "Liz". Improvise, adapt, overcome.
White people: * Moves into the suburbs where community is a foreign concept, gives their kids the worst names possible to maximize bullying, hands them an iPad at age 1. *
Also white people: "God, why is my kid such a depressed little edgelord? After all we've done for them? What an ungrateful little shit."
12:04 …this is literally the plot of a Gumball episode where he finds out his real name is Zach and he obtains a split personality that turns him into a douchey jock. They end up getting rid of him by legally changing his name back to Gumball.
That kid is definitely gonna grow up introducing herself as "Kaylee" or "Kay"
Edit: I meant the Khaleesi kid
Carrie works too.
Everyone started calling her "Karrie" when the daycare stuff happened, and after the airport incident her parents legally changed her name to Caroline.
i think Casie would also be valid for a nickname
@@warzone822
If William can become Bill,
and Robert becomes Bob,
Anything works,
Especially when every Richard is always a moment away from being an unlikable Dick
I would go with Kelly
What infuriates me about people naming their girls khaleesie is that Danearys *already* has a normal sounding nickname, she's called Dany from the very beginning, in fact, most characters have normal sounding nicknames in ASOIAF, Eddard Stark is functionally only called Ned Stark.
Even worse is that Khaleesi is a title, not a name
It's also funny to me because as far as I know, Khalessi is a god damn title, its not even a name
@@KaitoTheRamenBandit This is the bit that always got me, if you're such a big fan that you want to name your kid something ASOIAF related you should know that it's not even a name.
@@3lloGuvner I'm such a fan of Harry Potter, I'm gonna name my child Headmaster, after Dumbledore
You see this is why I'm picking a normal name for my daughter, like Master Chief. My son meanwhile will be Doctor William Peck (Doctor will be part of his name ensuring his success)
At least he could go by Doc.
So when's our kids' play date again? My son, Turok Shadowman, is looking forward to it
It's always best to pick one that can slide under the radar. I'm naming my son Isaac or Earl. Kid won't know it's from Dead Space or My name is Earl.
I think both of those are illegal for exactly that reason of confusion. Can't have Doctors running around not being doctors, and Master Cheif is an actual military rank
Worked out pretty well for King Bradley.
I think Max naming his kid Ripley is a great example of this. Totally reasonable name for a kid but also an homage to one of the best horror film protags of all time
also yeah as someone named Richard Johnson i've been flagged at a bar twice for trying to use MY REAL ID AS A FAKE
Editing again because it came screaming back to me and sent me for a loop: I dated a girl with a cousin that had a son named Truck. That poor fuckin kid lmao and if I'm saying that it's gotta be rough
@@richardjohnson8991damn man
Also being able to go by "Rip" is pretty sick
I actually think the opposite, that to me is a terrible name to give a kid doesn't even sound like a first name, Ellen would have been better.
The kids aren't alright
"Hell is for children"
- Pat Benatar
I always bring this anecdote up, but years and years ago when I was living in Puerto Rico I was reading the "human interest" section (which was more or less the "women's" part of the newspaper) and they had a feature for expecting mothers. And one of the major bullet points they had was to *not* name your kid after a soap opera character. Soap operas ("telenovelas") are really popular in Puerto Rico, as they are across Latin America, and certain ones can get *really* big for a while but they're like isekai anime where they drop off almost immediately after they end. So the point the newspaper was making was "Spare your child from having a ridiculous name like Patricio-Esteban, by the time your child is old enough to go to school nobody will remember the soap opera it's from anyway."
This is also why you shouldn't be naming your kid Astos, Kirito, Eren...
when it comes to naming children, I agree with Woolie, give the kid an out. I would also suggest, run the name by multiple teenage girls. If they laugh or roll their eyes, choose a different name.
LOL, Test Screen It!
Hire a council of 5th graders and high schoolers. You'll find out real quick if you're about to give your future kid some rough school years.
I feel like a lot of this borne from people who see children as extensions of themselves instead of people in their own right, they have to give them weird names to show how unique they personally are and don't care how it'll affect the kid.
Yep. I have a slightly less common spelling of a very common name and that's annoying enough. I can't imagine having to go through life being named some stupid fantasy/scifi/anime shit. Would legitimately change my name at the first opportunity.
The urge for pat to name his son Reyn, and to yell for him to hit the yoinky sploinky
Pat in the old folks home, dementia fully set in, saying to his son "Reyn, hit the yoinky sploinky..."
And his son just says "Dad, we talked about this, Mom vetoed that name."
I have encountered over a dozen girls who have all hated their first name and went with their middle name.
Some were normal names, but I encountered it so much that I have come to expect "Middle Names" being a girl's safety net.
I had a friend who named his daughter something his misspelled the shit out of... on Purpose... and thought he was being creative.
He was always known for being intensely stupid and so I held on to hope and asked him for his daughter's full name and somewhere in that jumble of syllables, I heard a normal girl's name and said to myself "ya, that's what she's gonna default to..."
People with an utter lack of foresight are the bane of my very existence.
Long story made short: My dad almost named me "Gilgamesh" but mom was against it, not because it's too long or too foreign for where we lived, but because it for sure was gonna be shortened to "Gil" for the rest of my life and because of life she thought that anyone with that nickname was probably an a-hole.
Dang, imagine if you met another kid with the name Enkidu, nicknamed Kid
@@TAMAMO-VIRUS We probably would've been best friends.
did you have a brother named Ashurbanipal?
what you gotta do is pull an FF14 & short it to Greg
Short Name - Money.
Long Name Version - I HAVE EIGHT ARMS AND MAY USE EXCALIPOOR!
If I have twins they’re getting named Dante and Vergil, regardless of gender
Amen
I live on the American East Coast and I’ve never met a single Dante that wasn’t black. It’s gotten to such a degree that I’m getting push back on wanting to name my kid Dante because I’m white and “that’s a black persons name” it’s not, it’s a Italian name. In their mind it’s like having a white kid named Tyrone.
@@Broomer52 it's not greek, it's italian.
@@Broomer52 Literally same; it’s fucking stupid
@@gorimbaud sorry, I picked the wrong side of the water
It drives me crazy dealing people who are so stubborn that you tell them something straight up multiple times and they tell you off for it.
Then months or a year later they go "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME, You never said that."
And get angry with you over their stupidity.
F**k off.
Happened so many times over the years I've just stopped trying to warn people about shit.
People like that know they are in the wrong but want to blame you anyway as to feel better about them making a shitty decision.
I am gonna need to be fought to kept from having my child's middle name be "Wait-for-it".
what about naming your kid after sins? "here is my son pride and his sister wrath"
My kid went to school and kept beating up all the other kids in their class.
It happened so often that I'd be called over to the school multiple times a week (my wife used to as well, but the stress of talking with the other parents was too much for her, so I'm on call duty). I'd be yelled at by other parents and needed to pay for medical care twice. I'm surprised we haven't gotten sued, or that some of the other fathers haven't tried to beat me up for revenge. I have had to switch schools multiple times, though. Even behavioral schools have us blacklisted, so that's getting harder to do.
I tried to talk with my kid about it, but these conversations never went anywhere. I'd just get stone-walled and end up grounding them. It feels like all I can do is complain to my wife.
We're at a loss as to what we could do, and the stress has been getting to us. I just don't get why this keeps happening. We're not a violent family. My wife and I never even raise our voices with each other or our kid (though I've been really tempted to start shouting a few times). We don't know where this violence is coming from.
Why is my sweet little Malenia getting into so many fights at school?
Wait until she meets her Rival Letme, last name Soloher
@@TAMAMO-VIRUSno I frames irl
well, she has never known defeat after all.
Thought you were going to say Akuma, but that works too.
At least your schools aren't exploding!
I can't find a damn school strong enough to educate my dear Alessa.
The key is either to
A: pick a weird name with a normal name baked in. Khaleesi -> Khalee (Callie), Daenerys -> Dany, Astarion -> Rion, etc.
Or
B: Put the weird name in the middle, give them a normal first name, and let them choose.
Note that option B does NOT work in reverse. If you give them a weird first name, everyone will learn about it on the first day of school and make fun of them for it anyway. This also applies to all forms of option A.
The key is to not name your kid fake fantasy names, not even the middle name. You like thing, your kid might not like thing.
@@fk3239 pffft, think about the _child?_ Where's the fun in that?
I had so many Brittany's in my 5th grade class it was 5 girls in a class of 25.
Shoutouts to my friend Rayden, who's parents spelled after the mortal kombat character
ELECTRIC COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!
I pretty sure Raiden is still spelled as Raiden in Mortal Kombat. It's just pronounced as "Ray-den".
@@tylerhenderson5871 In the first game it was in fact spelled with a y.
@@doomzillaX25That explains it
@@tylerhenderson5871His is spelled with the I, but they pronounce it the Y way lol
I did not know about this baby Karen thing, and wow. "You didn't try warning us hard enough" is such a Karen thing to do, the mom and grandma should be the ones cursed with that name.
Decided to check the subreddit, and the worst you can say about the mom is she was kinda dumb and had a bad first reaction due to pregnancy hormone moodiness. The grandma, there may be something there though. Also, you’ll probably be happy to know they changed the name, the kid won’t be cursed to be called Karen
Also that story is less about the name Karen being bad and more about how American are so god damn stupid.
god im sick of that name as an insult crap.
Shout out to Robin Williams: the first guy to name his kid after nerd stuff
Publicly, at the very least
At least Zelda is also a real name and not just from the game
Zelda is great
If I recall, Wendy wasn't a name that came into existence until Peter Pan was written. Could be wrong, but if that's true then Wendy could be the earliest nerd name
@@thatoneguy5969 I always assumed that came about as an alternate form of Gwendolyn/ine, interesting to learn it originates from Peter Pan
Middle names can often help in these situations
But there's a difference between Rachel and Khaleesi
Rachel is Rachel's name
Khaleesi is Daenerys' TITLE
IT'S LIKE NAMING YOUR KID QUEEN
I think the most exotic I’m willing to go for names are things like Zelda, Samus, etc.
Well Zelda is an actual name... Samus? Well good luck having your kid refered as Sheamus for the rest of their lives.
@@diegomedina9637
Oh cmon, Samus easily turns to Sam, which is gender neutral too.
The gay aside what kind of maniac names twins after an angel and a devil. what kind of whammy are you putting on them
To play devil's advocate here (seriously, no pun intended), Good Omens touches on this.
In the show, at least (haven't read the book), angels don't necessarily always do the "good" thing, and demons don't necessarily always do the "bad" thing. Morality is complicated.
However, even overlooking that and the fact that said characters are gay for each other, the fact remains that Aziraphale and Crowley are really fucking stupid names for a human child.
If you must name your kids after some stupid pseudo-biblical nerd shit, go with actual names. Like Dante and Vergil.
Gabriel, Michael, Raphael are the names of angels and are fine names for children. the devil bit I agree with.
@@jonmac1987 it's the dynamic between the twins this creates that's the issue. I don't particularly care if you call your kid azazel
@@wizlez Ahh you think that would create some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy effect?
This reminds me of a reddit post i saw where OPs friend named their baby Annally as a mix of two names. Atleast in the end the friend realzied how awful of a name it was and they changed it i think.
HOPEFULLY
Giving your kid a weird pop culture name is so selfish and stupid. They're not pets. They're people that are gonna have to live their whole lives, going to school, applying for jobs, going out on dates, with that stupid ass name.
Wasn't there a story of a guy who convinced his wife to call his kid Lanesra, it's his favourite team Arsenal backwards lol
From Karen to Adolf is crazy.
If you're gonna name a child after a nerd thing, make it something you can easily spin into something normal. My brother when he was young wanted to name a potential kid Miranda after a class of Star Trek Starship. Still nerdy but not nerdy enough to raise suspicion
To be frank my son is named Simon just because TTGR is a core memory in my head. But also it's a pretty common name
Assuming it's pronounced SAI-mon and not SEE-mon.
@@BrazillianCara "SEE-mon" is the Swedish prononciation of the name "Simon".
No one cares, but now you know!
I don't know if it is tainted BUT every Julius I know goes by a knickname.....
It could also be a fear of inevitable comparisons to historical figures
Similiar to Adolf, Vidkun (as in Vidkun Quisling, whose surname is now an INTERNATIONAL term for a traitor or collaborator) is a name that's been absolutely nuked out of existence here in Norway.
Vidkun sounds like something a group of Japanese friends nickname the one guy who's really into videos or videogames.
Pat saying that White people have weird names as if he isn't talking to someone named Woolie.
How old were you when you first realized Woolie wasn't a Nickname?
you mean Darlington ?
@@thepickles8833 hey at least one pretty okay guy in history had that as his name, (Absolutely refuse to defend his first name though)
I knew an Adolf in high school. He loved it. He was weird and I stayed away. You can guess what he said when people asked for his last name....
He embraced the heel.
Hopefully they grew out of that.
Alundgren.
Either that's not his actual name or it's something his family encourages. Either way, yikes
@@johnrivers3813adolf is a traditional germanic name. Do you not name kids joeseph because that’s stalin’s first name? No, because you’re an american so joeseph sounds normal. But in germany, adolf or dolph is a pretty normal name.
My Dad really wanted me to be named Sebastian after the musician but then my mum pointed out the little mermaid so they just plucked a name out of the family tree at the last second. Anyways, shoutout to the kids named Luke after Star Wars came out, at least you could pretend your parents were just religious.
I was almost a Sebastian too, which wouldn't have been so bad, but my middle name was almost *Moonshadow.* They backed out because of Sebastian being so butler-coded. No idea what they were thinking with that second one.
Of course they didn't go for something more normal, no, they went in the exact opposite direction and now I've got a name that's so unique that google seems to believe it only exists as a rare surname. Almost one of a kind, I've definitely never heard of another let alone met them.
I've come to terms with it. It isn't a pop culture reference or some cringeworthy "unique" lettering. Nobody ever bullied me for it at least, it's weird but in an interesting way.
(Editing this in, apparently Moonshadow came from the Cat Stevens track. Makes sense, they were big into the 70s music scene. Still sounds like a fursona name.)
the former singer for Skid Row? your dad's got good taste.
Thing is, Luke is also just a very normal name. That and I refuse to believe being named after Luke Skywalker is an L.
@@CerberusMalt Its a fairly uncommon name these days though, Ive never met one in 32 years. Plenty of Lucases, but no Lukes
@@WakkaMadeInYevonyou can NOT write all that out and blue ball me from your first name like that.
Why should you let your kid go through the most formulative years of their lives on Easy Mode? When I name my kid Kickme, not only will they be tough as nails by the time they're an adult, but they'll probably pick their own name by then AND they'll cut ties with me immediately, meaning I get to enjoy my twilight years in peace! It's the perfect plan.
this is what middle names are for, the perfect option select
There's a girl in my collage named Yuna, she's named after the Final Fantasy character.
She's asian so she can get away with it but still.
Is she followed by the ominous sound of crows laughing ?
Yoona is the name of a famous K-pop artist, and is just a real name for Korean women in general, so she has that as an out if anyone asked.
Honestly, Yuna is probably on the list for least egregious nerd names out there
@@thepickles8833 Now that you mention it-
What gets me most about this is the fact that Khaleesi isn't even her name, it's a title! Like I don't care how stupid it sounds, Hulu better don't stop me from naming my son Shogun!
shoutouts to all the people named Cesar
I'm naming my kid "Grand Poobah" and none of you can stop me
11:55 - nominative determinism! the idea that a guy who goes by, like, "Bradley" is going to have a MARKEDLY different personality from his identical clone "Brad" (accounting for differences in upbringing, etc), because "Bradley" is someone with an accounting or law degree, and "Brad" is a drinking buddy.
Malaria, Tyranny, and LaQuinta.... I know girls with these names
My sister named her second child Kylo which she insists is not because of Star Wars and I kind of believe her because she's not really a Star Wars but at the same time it's like. Okay but I've literally never heard that name before Star Wars. Apparently he's doing fine but I still think she set him up to fail a little bit. He's only like three at this point so there's still plenty of time for him to become miserable.
"i named my kid glup shitto, and not because of star wars"
@@gorimbaud gonna name my kid luuuke and no it's not because of star wars
Name your kid spider-man. and your pet batman. it'll be really funny.
Unlike those idiots, my son will be named Joker The Punisher
That's why imma name my kid Terry. Funny game reference, but also a normal human name. And it could be short for Terence or Theresa.
Teach them to ask if someone is ok really early on so you can have an authentic "Are u OKAY!?" In your household for a little bit.
Terry Bogard? never heard of him. now, Terry Funk, that's a man you name your kid after.
Terry Crackdown from Crackdown 3
Its clever too because your kid could end up trans but their name still works out if they're cool with it
We've been debating baby names for a while and one day out of nowhere my wife told me she really liked the name Clementine, this was about a day before we were going to start playing the collection. Few months later it's now our top choice for a girl and we're just waiting to know if it's a girl or not. (Here's hoping for Clem)
Clementine is such a winner name. The only one I can think of that is both traditional and owned by a character that is freaking awesome. The fact that character is someone you also have to raise and care for to begin with anyway creates such a positive connection too!
"andy" is making a meteoric rise in derogatory-connotations first name
Podcast andy
it's driving me batty. no one's gonna be named anything at this rate.
Oh no Jerma fans.
aziraphale and crowley?
as in, the characters that literally have the narrator pull you aside at one point and go "aziraphale is gay. he's very gay. the gayest man alive"?
i dunno man, i think the constant references to people losing all worry about them and comforting them in the street after a fight because crowley calls azzy "angel" were on the nose, but the narrator literally lays it out for you in both the book and the show at one point.
speaking of good omens though, there's apparently an interview with terry pratchett and neil gaiman (who wrote the book, gaiman oversaw the show) where they start messing with the interviewer because the interviewer thought good omens was a radical christian book.
Gonna have to disagree with Woolley on this slightly, if the parent has the mental capacity to give their child an out with their weird name, they should know better than to curse their child with any sort of weird pop culture name
There were guys named "Lancelot"
Keep your wives away from them
I bring up this story on the subreddit a lot, but at work I had a couple come in with their kids, one boy, one girl and their names were Arthur and Illya
I think Illya for the girl is a bit weird since it's a girl's name and in my head think 'oh my god, Fate reference. 'And then I see on the dad's phone case, or Wallet, a fucking Fate design. So yes, it was in fact, a couple who named their kids after Fate characters
if you ever see him again, remind him that Fate started as porn.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 I'm pretty sure he knows, but I also have enough class to not make those jokes in front of 5 and 8 year old children lol
Pats pinker then a newborn mii
I gotta be honest though Karen isn't that bad of a name. It feels like a bubble during the height of COVID. Maybe it's just cuz I'm like early 20s but I feel like I haven't heard it in at least a year seriously
I think Karen from Spongebob also helped ferment the sentiment. I mean, she's not an annoying or obnoxious character, but she sounds like one and married to one
This is really a story about the Airport being morons more so than it is "don't name your children dork things" but since Woolie and Pat just really love talking about it, sure let's go with that. Since that's the topic, I'll once again state that my future Child's name (if we have a boy) will be Nicholas "Wolfwood" ______, my out for them is giving my kid a normal first name and the middle name can be ignored if desired or embraced if they want a cool nickname, which will bring only mild amusement for anyone who pieces the full name together.
Give the child options but make sure they're all bad. The out must be a fakeout.
Quest Reward: +1 power to all future dark magic spell uses.
I remember one customer was mad that everyone thinks she reads Lord of the Rings cause she named her kid Thorin, right when the hobbit movies came out. She had no connection to Scandinavia btw just the name `came to her one day, definitely wasn't the hundreds of ads around at the time.
This reminds me of how one of my sister's friends married a Japanese dude; they have a daughter named Megumi*, and my sister mentioned they were possibly gonna use "Meg" as a nickname.
Also, my Dad was originally named "Mujeeb", but because of Bangladesh getting Independence from Pakistan, and the guy who headed the independence movement first name was "Mujeeb", he got picked on because of his name. His name was then changed to "Faisal".
*When my sister told me what her friend named her baby, I sent a gif of Fushiguro from JJK into the family group chat with an added explanation of why I did that.
nonono you dont get it! I'm just a really really big fan of Roman Poetry, thats why I named my child Vergil. No other reason
If i had children there names would be ramza and delita i would give them contrasting colored clothes and treat them both entirely different as a child should be treated
if you want to be truly accurate, delita should be not even adopted, but just another kid who lives in your house
Man, making a One Piece reference is going to be so easy. Any middle name that starts with a D and you're golden.
Richard Dick Johnson.
@@li-limandragon9287 A man to truly embody "the will of D".
@@Roronoa2zoro good ol willy D.
hey speaking from personal experience, don't name your kid anything with "Gay" as the first syllable
I have this memory as a kid of reading Good Omens and being introduced to a character whos parents were hippies who lived on a commune for a while until the sheep ate all their weed and were huge LOTR fans so named their daughter Peregrin.
She goes by Pepper and despises both it and her parents for naming it and certainly will never read Tolkien out of spite. Teachable moment.
The thing that gets me with Karen is that it's also an East Asian feminine name with a different etmology, and it's also a masculine Armenian name.
So how is the name perceived in those cases in modern day?
You're expecting a lot from modern humans. Most of us are dumb as hell and don't know that information.
The name i'd like for my son is "Cole" from Cole McGrath from inFAMOUS, but it's also a plausible _human_ name 😅
Hey remember that guy that named his kid after Kamille Bidan from Zeta Gundam.
And instead of just naming him Kamille or Camille, which would give him an out, dude used the whole name Kamille Bidan.
Without his partner knowing.
Which lead him to get bullied at school because his classmates found THE 30 YEARS WORTH OF JOKES MADE AT HIS EXPENSE.
You see the trick is to have it be an innocuous name like Aron (the pokemon) or Drake (one of the Robins), that way you give them plausible deniability.
My 40 something brother-in-law's name is Chad and I always kinda wondered if that would be a thing, and sure enough his son, my gen alpha nephew, said his friends call him Gigachad
A friend of mine had naming competitions with his wife. Each would draw up a list of names and they'd play games against each other to see which names go further in the tournament bracket.
However... He no joke would put names on his list like Kenpachi, Meliodas, Sephiroth, Xehanort, Sparda, etc... no matter what anyone would say, he just couldn't understand why naming his kid any of those names wouldn't be cool
Zaraki rather than kenpachi is much better in my opinion
Just go full force and name that baby Kenpachi Ramasama
@@unnamedx2 Seconding Zaraki. And Kenpachi is just a title anyway
Vergil, Cesar, Dante, are some names that you can totally pass as regular ass names.
I met several Dantes way back before Devil May Cry ever happened.
If you meet a Virgil without the E, you know they weren't Motivated.
Brazilian names be like: Whatever goes! Just name your kid Goku or Luffy
Any excuse to name your kids underwear.
also isn't khaleesi her title and her name is Daenerys
naming my kid "President"
"Grand Poobah"
Original Child's Name
DO NOT STEAL
My idea was if I ever had a daughter was naming her Morrigan cause darkstalkers. I don't think many people will catch the darkstalkers reference and if anything she can just go with Morgan. 😂
They'd probably just assume you're really into Celtic folklore tbh.
The Japanese version of this is purikuri names. Like Purinsesu Kyandi where the out is Hime.
I like the idea of giving a kid a more gender-ambiguous middle name like Alex, just in case. Middle names are a backup that's easy to use in case they come to dislike their first name for whatever reason.
Or what my parents did, where they just decided on day 1 to call me by my middle name and to ignore my first name so it was a headache every time the school year started or we had a substitute.
@@PredictableEnigma That's like an old catholic thing, give your kid a saint's name as their first name, then the name you actually want to give them as their middle, both my parents were named like this.
Oh, so you're a wokistani who can't give your BOY a BOYS name.
/s
My middle name is the second half of my original name, my parents just split it in half at the last second. Then, when my sister was born, her middle name was chosen to match my middle name. So if we both used our middle names we'd both be called "Lee", but with different spelling.
In germany Kevin is a semi equivalent to karen for guys
Hm. I always thought a “Karen” is somebody who’s bossy and complains a lot, is arrogant, demanding, privileged and entitled.
That’s not at all what “Kevin” means in Germany. Or it’s female equivalent “Chantal”.
@@a.rheser8181 it doesnt, but its the equivalent to a name that slid into the zeitgeist like karen did pretty much worldwide
@@zokkoop1oh, ok. I thought you were talking about the meaning. Sorry.
In that case, correct.
I think it died down a little bit in recent years.
I was at my friend's kids pizza party. I heard over the intercom. Everyone give a happy birthday to Destiny. 😂
Poor kid never had a chance. 😂🤣💀
The male equivalent to Karen is definitely Kyle. Maybe not as nuclear, but it definitely carries some strong, negative stereotypes.
Sound wise, I believe it's Carl, but it's such a lukewarm name like John.
So I used to work the service desk at a retail store and I once had a guy attempt to apply for a credit card and he got denied due to his name being, in fact, James Bond. I asked him about it and he said it was a problem anytime he had to do anything involving his finances as he is immediately flagged for fraud despite it being his actual name. Please take care naming your children folks. Consider your last name as well. And don’t get me started on the little girl named Kharisma I met one time…
I mean you have normal ass kids names in Got Brandon John Ned Caytline how do you land on Khalisi. Also one of my favourite historical anidotes is that when Japan got romance of the three kindoms Kyo Ming was one of the more popuplar kids names out of that book.
I think fussing over kids being named after characters in media is pretty historically ignorant, where do you think most of the "normal" names you know came from? As far back as we have recorded history we have been naming our children after the characters in the stories we tell, that's where my name came from, and it's probably where _your_ name came from, even if indirectly. The only difference is how fast we've created so many new stories we all have ready access to choose from in the last few decades 🤷
Yeah, like millions of people through history are named after characters in #1 best-seller "The Bible"
@@karidyas00 but Bibble names (or at least their original un-anglicized versions) were already normal names in the middle and near east at the time. Yeshua did not just appear from nothing in a vacuum
I know a lot of people who go by their middle names. Sometimes its because they have really dated names for their age like someone in their 20s named Irene but usually it's just personal preference
what really pisses me off about khaleesi is khaleesi isnt a name, its a title.
Daenerys might not be much better but atleast you have dany
And if the parents name them Daenerys, they can shop it down to Denise... a normal girl name that originates from Dionysus of all things.
I want to start a lineage of people who has a V in their name like Marvin or Veronica. Say the reason is for them to have ambitious goals and tell the story of how the V cannot be silent
Theirs something like that in my Dads family. Apparently in his family every man has Ivan as their middle name, I don’t know why but that’s just the way it’s been. My dad hates the name Ivan and when I was born he was determined to break the cycle.
I've got an uncle named Thurlow, but his middle name is Christopher. When he was young, he went by Chris, and then just switched to Thurlow once he aged into it. I think the weird first/normal middle combo is a great way to give someone a unique name while giving them the option.
That said, Thurlow was a weird old family name (we've got a bunch, a Zephyrin, a Ulysses, I'm a Calvin) so unique names are almost a family tradition; I absolutely can't understand the people who name their child after a pop culture reference or people who just fuck with the spelling of an otherwise normal name.
You ever realized that all the kids named Sasuke are probably old enough to change their name by now?
I doubt the name Karen will have any half-life left by the time the kid is old enough
What kind of idiot names their child Sasuke and not Rock.
also I work at a daycare, I've seen 2 different "Khaleesi" and one "Khaleseigh"
Khaleesigh
It's fine to name your kid after something nerdy, but don't be so blatant and dumb about it. I love Dragonball, but I'm not naming my kid Goku or Piccolo
What’s wrong my naming my daughter bra?
This segment is hilarious to me as someone with family members who are obviously named after Mortal Kombat characters and another who is a reference to Yu Gi Oh but still has a normal name.
4kids came through in the end
Gonna guess Joey.
That Reddit is a gold mine of fuckups; I'll never forget this woman naming her baby "Eddie-Munson" (yes, all that's the first name) after the one character everyone liked in Stranger Things. This was in honor of her sister dying but everyone in their family was rightfully angry about it.
She was an Eddie fan and didn’t go with Chrissy for her daughter? Utter stupidity.
When I was a kid, our Sunday school teacher was a 90+ year old man named Adolphus. Must've been one of those things adults don't bring up, because it was years after he died before I really thought about it.
Just go the David Bowie route and give your kid a normal first name but a weirdass middle name (Zowie in his son's case.)
ever since kevin smith named his daughter harley it became less cool to name your kids after characters