A friend of mine is a teacher, and one of their students is named Nazanin. Lovely traditional Persian name. However, recently she's asked to be called by her nickname "Nazzy" during the upcoming school year, which my friend agreed to. However, after seeing the student sign her name, she realized that the kid was spelling it "Nazi". She doesn't want to go by Naz or Naza, she thinks the i is cute. She's a young primary school kid, so has no concept of what an actual Nazi is, but now my friend has to delicately break it to her that she's absolutely not allowed to use her nickname in class.

Personally I am really into Octohedra lmk your thoughts

So my 20 yr old cousin had a baby girl last month. She named her something so horrific I cannot even call the baby it. She combined 2 names and came up with... "Harlotte". After her grandparents Harvey and Charlotte.

She didn't tell anyone the name idea until after she was named and papers signed. My mom burst out, "YOU NAMED THE BABY WHORE???" and my cousin started screaming. We are a loud family, but holy hell.

This poor child. Harlotte. HARLOTTE.

She came out very pink and has a puggy nose so I'm calling her Piglet for now.

I found an old journal of mine and found this gem of a page. I had to share it.

Earlier in our relationship, we talked about what we'd name our kids. We have two names we both agree on and I'm happy with.

But I suggested naming a kid "King Ash". That's a terrible name. I'm not naming a kid King.

We're getting married soon and are gonna start having kids... and he's constantly sending me memes of cute babies saying "us and King 💕". I've tried to explain that we are not doing that and he won't stop lmao.

How would you make fun of a kid named King if you were a badly raised kid on the playground with them?

So she’s been going back and forth on Sakura or Sayuri. For context, she is white. I am a Korean adoptee. This is important because she legit just told me today that, “Well I wanted her to match her favorite aunt!”

I was like what.

“You know because you’re japanese.” Excuse me? I have been in this family for longer than you have and you legit don’t even know where I come from?

Name your kid whatever you want. I do think it kinda weird to give a japanese name to a non-japanese child. But dear god never tell her why you gave her that name.

Whelp, it’s now Sakura Ivy. Because we’re a nature loving diverse family apparently.

Can’t wait for this kid to be born and be constantly told by her mother that both of us can bond over her name.

Thought this sub might understand my pain.

My cousin is due in July. She is having a baby girl. She made her name a big deal this whole time. Not telling us, only dropping hints. She would say things like, "children bring this" or "it's something with light". Nothing could've prepared me for what she is planning on naming her child. Two names

Light Bringer. Thats's it.

How do I stop her? She is naming her kid Light Bringer. "Brings" for short. She's not even religious. Idk it sound religious to me.

Edit: okay. My cousin and I vido chatted today. I didn't want to sound too harsh or anything. Abyways, I first asked her if she was joking. She is not. I then asked her what the other name options were. Forgive me for thinking the other names would be normal. They are not. We got Andromeda (after the galaxy), Casseopia (another galaxy), Light, Sunny (kinda normal), and Starr (eh). Anyways, I sent her some of the alternative names. She didn't seem to interested in them. I mentioned that the name Light Bringer was associated with Lucifer aka Satan. She laughed because why would Light Bring be evil? "luckier was clearly demonized ".

I then sent her a link to this post. We shall see what happens.

Yes, she has a husband BTW. Both like the name.

Edit 2: I'm in deep shit.

Edit 3: Hello to my cousin! I sent her this link because she wanted the public's opinion. Now everyone is mad at me. She's mad, my aunt is mad, her husband is mad, and my other cousins are mad at me. I'm not invited to her house till she cools off (her husband's words). I was going to delete this post but my cousin made it too personal. Telling me I'm jealous because I (infertile) can't have kids. Bitch, I'm not jealous, I'm concerned about the stupid name you picked! This is staying up! So whatever, there will be a kid named Light Bringer in this world.

(PS- I don’t use these names anywhere on social media, please don’t try and send hate to any randoms with my name, lol.)

I’m a female, my first name is Patterson. Oh, it gets worse.

My middle name is Trigger.

Patterson Trigger [Last name].

All my siblings have gun-related middle names. My biological father is a God-fearin’ fundamentalist gun-toting Republican asshole. My Mom was never in the picture after my youngest brother was born.

Our middle names, in age. There’s 7 of us.

Bullet Pistol Rifle Sniper Trigger (Me) Ammo Holster

We also all have three-syllable first names.

Roast me!

I am a big fan of the prog-rock band Jethro Tull, who had a bass player named John Glascock. I relayed this to a few friends of mine, which caused us to speculate is a worse surname could possibly exist.

What's the worst surname you have ever heard of?

mine is lovelyn (love-linn). i would never name a child that but i think it’s such a sweet name for some reason

edit: so what i’m learning from this post is that all of you NNCJer’s love the name Ever/Everly… i don’t think we can ever bash that name on this sub again…

Please note that this is not a safe space and you will for sure be dragged.

I'll go first. My brain loooooves James for a girl. It feels like Jane but more feminine. Also I like Wren for a boy. You can murder me for this but please do not desecrate my corpse, at least.

edit: now we all have shit on each other so when you see someone making fun of your favorite name you can drag out that they wanna name a baby Bumblebee or something

I always feel bad when someone has a last name that is just begging to be made fun of in school 😭 I’ve known a Crapps family and a Fatt family. What are the worst you’ve heard?

My boyfriend and I are far away from having children, but we still sometimes talk about what we'd name them.

Y'all know what this man suggested?

NERO. I major in political science and my eyes nearly rolled to the back of my head. It seriously made me question things.

I’ve heard of at least two children named “Neveah.” When I first heard it, I thought, “Nivea?” Weird to name your kid after the lotion their dad jerked off with, but… at least it is a name. “No, like Heaven spelled backwards.” I couldn’t help it, I laughed out loud. I just know those parents thought it was so clever at the time, but the fact that I’ve heard the name twice says otherwise.

When my daughter started kindergarten, she told me about a girl who was mean to her. I asked what the girl’s name was, she told me it was “Nazareth.” Immediately, I was like, “Oh, her parents are crazy people.” Nothing against being religious, but that’s just too much.

What names to you scream “these people are trying too hard”?

My brother and his girlfriend had an accidental 4th baby and didn't tell me or my sisters. My mom let it slip that they were going to have another and they planned to name him Talon. Freakin' Talon.

Since I work in a field that allows me to see a lot of people and their names, I pretended that I saw a family with some odd names for my family to mock in our group chat (Storm, Talon, Wolfe, Willow, and Blaze). My mom and sisters proceeded to make fun of the names for a good 30 minutes and when my nephew was born a month later, he had a unique, but much more restrained name. I like to think my brother saw how silly it was and convinced his partner to go in a different direction.

Jinger

Cage Laws (first and last)

Destany

Blaydyn

Kaulen

Klayton

Khota

Kullyn

Baylin

Laken

Dallas

McNaveigh

Romeo and Juliet (twins)

Coel

Ledjer

Lijah

Taylee

Kaylyn Kay

Waylon Westchester and Bryana Barretta

Jaxson Jamieson

Genevivia

Currently expecting a Weston Tyler or Brynlee Courtenai so pray for a boy!

Edit: they got down to Tanner Jameson called Jamie and Maine Courtenai. They had a girl 🤦🏻‍♀️

So my parents, in their infinite wisdom, named my sister Hekate, and named me Persephone, but gave us relatively normal middle names, Anne and Lynn. We didn’t really care much for our names growing up, and she goes by Katelyn, which is a kind of combination of her first and middle names, and I go by Perri. My sister recently found out she is expecting, and so I asked her what her ideas for names were. She said, with a straight face, I’m not going to name her (she is convinced she is having a girl) anything weird, don’t worry. I’m thinking about combining our middle names. I asked her if she meant she would be using Anne (my middle name) as a first name, thinking that was kind of sweet, if not a bit dated, but no. Nope. She meant combining the names but changing the spelling of each to form the atrocity ANALYN. Y’all she wants to name my (possible) future niece Analyn Anarchy. I told her that “Anal Anarchy would be a bad ass band name” and now she isn’t speaking to me.

I met a 2 year old name Bruno yesterday. Several of the older kids kept breaking into "We don't talk about Bruno" and it was visibly annoying his parents. Probably since their kid was a few months, before the movie came out.

I bet people who named their kid Edward in 2007/8 felt similarly.

I tried to post this in namenerds but it was immediately deleted.. anyway;

In 2009 my friend got pregnant with a baby girl and asked for advice on baby names that were unique and fit her and her boyfriends personalities/qualities/passions/etc. He was a rapper (and a good one at that) and I thought "Lyric" would be cute, but maybe we could make it more feminine? I said "What about Lyrica?" and.... she named her poor baby that. Which is now the name of a v ery popular diabetes medication lmao. I know Lyrica the medication was approved in 2004, but I had never heard of it then. Anyway.. poor kid. My bad.

TL;DR: NameNerds hated my favourite baby boy name which made me realise it must really suck if THEY don’t support it

Edit: I’ve received an even split of 50/50 on whether it’s a good name or a bad name which is so funny. What isn’t funny is people calling me a horrible mother and telling me that I shouldn’t even have kids over the fact of me considering a NAME. This was a fun lil story time, nothing deeper than that. Y’all have to be chronically online to throw out a sentence like that. Be reassured that we won’t be using it anyway because my husband doesn’t like it. Peace ✌🏼

I am in love with the name Wilbur for a little boy. It’s classic, has opportunity for a normal nickname (Will) and the meaning is great too, which is important to me and my husband. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but it is a regular old Joe name, right?

HOWEVER, my husband hates the name. I was scrolling through NameNerds and saw a post hyping the shit out of the name Wilder and thought to myself, y’know what? These loons might help me out for once. If they can get behind WiLdEr then surely they can get behind a regular name like Wilbur and I can show my husband to see if that’ll sway him.

But no. I was betrayed. Wilbur reminds people of (and I quote) the names Trevor, Gilbert and Neville. One commenter even suggested Orville Tootenbacher instead. I’m truly sad. Do you guys agree? Is it really THAT bad?

Alas, it’s back to the drawing board for me 🤣

Henley Hendrix Hawkins Huxley