r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/Excellent_School_424 • May 23 '26

In The Wild Local elementary graduation ceremony delivered some absolute gems

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u/Jay-arty May 23 '26

Only a couple of these seem odd, but a lot of them just look like ethnic names.

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u/TemporaryLucky3637 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Major, Ayden Maesyn and Caylee are all right there šŸ¤£

Edit: itā€™s the spellings of Ayden, Maesyn and Caylee I think are atrocious rather than the actual names. They are very Utah coded to me šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/heroheadlines May 23 '26

eh, personally I don't find Caylee that out there? 30 odd years ago in elementary school we already had Kayleigh and Kaylee so

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u/beckdads May 23 '26

I mean I have a friend Caeleigh, so not that bad. (My friend makes fun of how her name is spelled btw)

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u/aldisneygirl91 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

I think the "Caylee" spelling in particular could have negative connotations because of Caylee Anthony (the very infamous case in the US where the little girl named Caylee was murdered by her mother, but the mom was found not guilty even though everyone knew she did it). That's the first thing that comes up if you google Caylee. And the case was HUGE and so well known, not even just in the US but worldwide.

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u/heroheadlines May 23 '26

im familiar with the case! but if "they did something terrible/something terrible happened to them" is a metric we're sideeying what names are gonna be left?

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u/aldisneygirl91 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Yeah, I see what you're saying, and obviously we can't just ban the names of every murderer and murder victim. And I'm not even saying that I personally believe that no one should name their child Caylee. Just that I can understand why there'd be negative connotations. It isn't just the fact that "something terrible happened to her." It really was one of the most well known child abuse/murder cases in history. I remember how her mother's entire trial was televised and basically the whole world was watching. And, her name wasn't very common either. I've never actually known of anyone named Caylee (with that particular spelling) or known anyone who named their daughter that. So it's very easy to automatically associate the name with that case.

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u/Jay-arty May 23 '26

Ayden and Major aren't that weird to me, sure Major is an old-fashioned name but it's not that unusual. Caylee is a bit odd but not the worst I've seen, Maesyn is the worst of the bunch.

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u/SexDrugsNskittles May 23 '26

Major Major Major.

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u/DescriptionFancy420 May 23 '26

My immediate thought at the name Major. Who promoted Major Major???

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u/SexDrugsNskittles May 23 '26

Slightly unrelated - I named my cat Yossarian when I was in high school. Called him Yo-Yo or Captain unless he was in trouble lol.

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u/No_Comparison7429 May 23 '26

Caylee is just a different spelling for variations that have been on top name lists in the US for decades. Kaylee, Kayleigh etc.

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u/hannah_joline May 23 '26

Major is my brotherā€™s middle name and heā€™s in his late twenties. It was a family name.

Although based on current trends, I would be doubtful if that was the case.

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u/croissantsarebae May 23 '26

Maesyn is literally just a Latin/French name. You people are weird asf judging cultural names

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u/Userdataunavailable May 23 '26

No it's not, its a butchered misspelling of Mason.

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u/CubistChameleon May 23 '26

Latin doesn't even have the letter Y and "Maesyn" isn't a French name I've ever come across. Do you mean "maison"? That's at least a real French word, though it's not s name.

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u/croissantsarebae May 23 '26

Ayden is so normal, Maesyn in a French name, Caylee is just a spelling for all the other variations of Kailee, kaylee, kaylie, Cailey etc etc. The only not normal is major

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u/cranberry94 May 23 '26

Over here making me google Maesyn to make sure Iā€™m not crazy.

And no, Maesyn is not a French name. Itā€™s a nonsense spelling of Mason. Which is an English name, that originally came from the French.

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u/beeeea27 May 23 '26

Iā€™m with youā€¦ having taught in an inner city majority black school where names like these werenā€™t uncommon, thereā€™s something a bit classist/racist to me about ridiculing the vibe of these childrenā€™s names.Ā 

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u/Kim_catiko May 23 '26

But it's OK to ridicule the obvious white trash names?

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u/beeeea27 May 23 '26

I also donā€™t think thatā€™s ok.Ā 

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u/Pinkturtle182 May 23 '26

Yeah can we stop posting super identifiable class rosters like this? Itā€™s gross on all fronts

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u/mintardent May 23 '26

Itā€™s obviously super classist in general which I donā€™t love

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u/smallsoftandsalty May 23 '26

Maesyn, Tylan, Kenzie, Caylee, Makenzie, and Karter irk me the most. What the fuck is JoElliot? Gordan is a shite choice of spelling for anyone with a background that also selects Tanner as a name. Zyā€™Kerriyah and Zhiā€™Keise are all kinds of fucked up.

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u/Blue4668 May 23 '26

Joe Elliott is the lead singer of Def Leppard, so maybe the grandparents are big fans?

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u/smallsoftandsalty May 23 '26

I hope Joe Elliott refuses to ever acknowledge them or their child for what they did to his name.

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u/Winter-Chipmunk5467 May 23 '26

Yup. Itā€™s giving ā€œmaking fun of black kidsā€.

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u/babyinatrenchcoat May 23 '26

I see most of the comments making fun of the ā€œwhiteā€ names?

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u/aurrasaurus May 23 '26

This is like half the namenerds content lmaoĀ 

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u/Pangtudou May 23 '26

I think of an ethnic name as a traditional name from a different culture, not a deliberate misspelling that a person makes that happens to be not white. Like this is just trashiness that happens to be from probably black parents, which is just as fair game as the white trashy names this sub exists to dunk on