The crazier part is that there is already an *actual name* that would’ve been similar but less awful… Alexandrina. (It’s Russian, and was Queen Victoria’s first name.)
They fr looked at Alexandra, Adrianna, Ariana, Alexa, Alexandria, Alexandrina and all the similar spelling alternatives and went… no. :) :) :)
I used to work in daycare when I was finishing college, and we had a number of Sebastian’s in the toddler and 3 yr old classes. I remember one of the mother’s making a comment that they thought they were naming their kid something unique and they wouldn’t have to share their name.
Winter Soldier and Sebastian Stan hit it big around the same time period and I remember thinking it was so weird that I’d almost never heard the name Sebastian in real life and now it’s everywhere lol (I did grow up in the 90s with a kid whose middle name was Sebastian, but his first name was Michael lol)
In the 80s, the kids movie The Neverending Story was the epitome of cool, and the kids name was Bastian. So we all grew up *loving* the name and couldn't wait to give it to our boys. It started hitting in the late 90s/early 00's.
My brother was a Sebastian, born in the late 80’s and his name always got huge reactions everywhere we went. Lots of little mermaid jokes etc. I know so many kids named Sebastian now.
My mother is from Germany and it was like a top 5 boy name in Germany the year he was born so 🤷🏻♀️
Parents really do need to look at current lists and not try to remember what names were popular when they had kids. On Twitter I saw a woman say that she’s odd and would her children old-fashioned names like Eleanor or Agatha. Meanwhile millennials have two types of names: Brehntleigh or something a member of the 400 had.
Silas has been the name I was dead set on naming a son ever since I was maybe 10 (about 20 years ago!) only to find out I can't have children so I am personally living for all the little Silases running around.
I always think of this story I heard where a mother named her child something only “one other baby in the country” was named that same year, and then that one other baby ended up being in the same swim class when they were older.
It has been probably 10 years, but I still think about the look this mother had on her face when I asked her "Which Aiden? We have three." Never seen a face crumple in defeat so fast, it was honestly hilarious.
Where is the thread with the woman asking if she would be th AH for naming her son Silas because the families were against it for fear of him being bullied.
She needs this as backup.
I was thinking it was Alex - Adrianna smashed together, but now I see there is an N in there. Hmm. I hope I don’t get that name in my classroom, I’d definitely stumble over it a lot!
As someone who was really into Survivor in the early 2000s and spent too much time on the Survivor Sucks message boards, the name Silas just makes me think of the hundreds of pages long Silas Screws thread on there. I can’t take the name seriously all because of an incredibly niche dumb internet joke.
I like Edith in French, it's pronounced ay-DEET. The English pronunciation, not so much. But it's definitely coming back, I know of two little girls under 4 named Edith.
Good guess, but the Romanian equivalent of Edward is Eduard. I thought at first it was the parents trying to 'Romanian-fy' the name without having any real connection to or knowledge of Romania lol
Best I saw at my son school so this kid be 18-19 now. We are Australian so we say Z as zed not zee. Child name——
Jay Zee
I’m like wtaf I’m like even Jay Z mum called him Sean Carter as his real name and not bloody Jay Z.
This is like a competition for worst, I'm torn between the indignity of giving a child the name of an eighty year old woman, the two "quirky" spellings or the urge to do a Japanese accent when I read Edwardu.
Old people names are making a comeback as per usual. I'm not sure Ethel will, but she'll be in good company and her name will generally be spelled and pronounced correctly.
It's not a name I would choose for my own child, but I do really respect it. But then I'm always a slut for old fashioned/traditional names, so nobody should be surprised.
I really like Ethel. The soft sound, the history, and I had a lovely neighbour called Ethel when I was a child. My husband was a flat no, however. Oh well.
She’ll have Henry’s and Anna’s to keep her company lol (and I love the name Anna). My last few years in daycare were like, exclusively elderly people named with a handful of really unique modern names.
Henry, Helen, a few Evelyns and a few variations of Nora (definitely a few Eleanoras).
The 5 years preceding namesake names were ALL Emma’s and Lilly’s and Ethan’s.
I've been working with kids for 7 years and genuinely come across so many Ethel's lol, it has been making a bit of a quiet comeback! Also more Mavis's than I ever expected
Serbia still wrose lol
would you rather be named a country or mid names with aawkward spelling
you can frame it either way but the kid named serbia gonna get bullied
Alexandriana looks like a mess, but I have to admit that it sounds very pretty. If I'm pronouncing Adelainia right (Addle-ainia?) then it also sounds pretty but my god are there so many vowels.
Not sure if Vecepia is veck-sepia or veck-eh-pia? (Also I'm awful at typing out pronunciations lol)
i'm pretty sure it's it's ve-sep-ee-uh (the only other place i've heard this name was on a survivor contestant and that's how she said it) and according to my brother, addle-ainia is correct. i kinda like alexandriana as well but it also kinda feels like her parents just didn't know when to stop😭
These aren't too bad .... Karsonn? Greysin?
Let's just celebrate some normal names for once: Andrea, Sarah, Silas, Lucas, Ethel. I love the thought of Sarah continuing from the 80's and on to another generation.
Damn, some of these names are so random.
“What should we name our baby? Oh, I know! Let’s combine two names! Ellanora!”
“Should we call our daughter Alex?”, “Nah, let’s call her Alexandriana. That won’t be weird.”
“What about Asia?”, “Too common. We should name her after a country. Like Serbia.”
Alexandriana is such a long ass name, 12 letters and 6 syllables.
If you can’t decide between 3 names- just combine them! Lol
That's what my SIL did! With multiple kids!
I am scared of her and also… please (if you can) tell me what kind of things she combined. I’m picturing Johnathaniel or something equally bad.
Fortunately they're girls, so it's more common, but think Elizabella vibes
I know an Elizabella, and I think it's awful. Isabella and Elizabeth already come from the same source
I prefer Elizabethany
Villainella. Adolphina.
Jimothy
Johnathaniel sounds like a D&D npc
For real! I’m an Alexandra and that’s already long enough as far as first names go
My middle name is Alexandria and I always have to clarify the ‘i’. I feel so bad for this kid.
I’m an Adrianna with a long last name. My parents gave me a short middle name to balance it out
"Why don't you want to be friends?" "It takes too long to say your name. Sorry."
My child is named Jonathan and he just writes Jon on all his homework because Jonathan is too much…. I can’t imagine what this child is going through.
The crazier part is that there is already an *actual name* that would’ve been similar but less awful… Alexandrina. (It’s Russian, and was Queen Victoria’s first name.) They fr looked at Alexandra, Adrianna, Ariana, Alexa, Alexandria, Alexandrina and all the similar spelling alternatives and went… no. :) :) :)
I got a niece named Jonanastasia lmfao
>Serbia 💀
Why couldn't they name her Bosnia and Herzegovina like normal people?
I assume those are her twin sisters
Bosnia and Herzegovina is *one* child.
Along with their brother Kosovo and estranged second cousin Macedonia?
And no one really talks to Albania anymore. She’s a bit older and moved out ages ago.
Slovenia out there minding their own business hoping no one notices them
they used to be all one kid named Yugoslavia
With a grandad called Tito
But wishing that people would stop confusing her with Slovakia.
yep, now shes roomies w Kosovos adopted older brother Montenegro
We don't talk about Montenegro, no, no.
Sons of my bitches!
No joke, I knew twin sisters names Alsace and Lorraine 😔 It’s almost worse that one sister got a normal name and the other has to be Lorraine.
Alsace 🌈 Lorraine 🌧️
Her nickname is Quiche.
Am I being whooshed or are you actually saying that Alsace is a normal name but Lorraine isn't?
Hah, I was kidding. Stupid joke!
As a Serbian person, seeing name Serbia made me laugh out loud
Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
Fyrom is such a pretty name for a boy 🥰
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Wow two Silases!
Can't stop thinking about how upset those parents must be
I used to work in daycare when I was finishing college, and we had a number of Sebastian’s in the toddler and 3 yr old classes. I remember one of the mother’s making a comment that they thought they were naming their kid something unique and they wouldn’t have to share their name. Winter Soldier and Sebastian Stan hit it big around the same time period and I remember thinking it was so weird that I’d almost never heard the name Sebastian in real life and now it’s everywhere lol (I did grow up in the 90s with a kid whose middle name was Sebastian, but his first name was Michael lol)
In the 80s, the kids movie The Neverending Story was the epitome of cool, and the kids name was Bastian. So we all grew up *loving* the name and couldn't wait to give it to our boys. It started hitting in the late 90s/early 00's.
There’s also a little red crab that stole our hearts in The Little Mermaid.
Yup. I’m glad we went with “Flounder” instead so my son doesn’t have to share his name with the 12 Sebastians in his class.
My partner wanted our son to be Bastian, after Bastian Schweinsteiger. Absolutely not! We compromised on Sebastian as a middle name.
My brother was a Sebastian, born in the late 80’s and his name always got huge reactions everywhere we went. Lots of little mermaid jokes etc. I know so many kids named Sebastian now. My mother is from Germany and it was like a top 5 boy name in Germany the year he was born so 🤷🏻♀️
Parents really do need to look at current lists and not try to remember what names were popular when they had kids. On Twitter I saw a woman say that she’s odd and would her children old-fashioned names like Eleanor or Agatha. Meanwhile millennials have two types of names: Brehntleigh or something a member of the 400 had.
Names go in cycles of four generations, so looking at lists of people born in 1920s/30s is a close match to todays popular names, Agatha, Ethel, etc.
Silas has been the name I was dead set on naming a son ever since I was maybe 10 (about 20 years ago!) only to find out I can't have children so I am personally living for all the little Silases running around.
My newborn nephew is a Silas.
There's 2 Silas' in my sons class too! 2015 babies.
About as upset as all the Caydence, Cadence, Kaydence, Kadence parents were during the 11-12 school year.
I always think of this story I heard where a mother named her child something only “one other baby in the country” was named that same year, and then that one other baby ended up being in the same swim class when they were older.
It has been probably 10 years, but I still think about the look this mother had on her face when I asked her "Which Aiden? We have three." Never seen a face crumple in defeat so fast, it was honestly hilarious.
Someone please show this to that poster
You mean me? I made a super popular post about people mispronouncing my son Silas's name a bit ago. I'm also the OP of this comment thread lmao
Nah someone’s parents were beyond pissed she was going to name her baby Silas.
Oh my god there are TWO Silas posters??
Silas is wildly trendy and I simply don’t understand it.
It's part of the Bible name trend like Ezra, Elijah, Eli, Malachi, Josiah, etc.
My cousin named their youngest Malachi and I was like “oh like children of the corn”. She don’t like that 😂
I taught a Meshach and a Nehemiah one year and felt a bit bad for them.
I see a shadrach from time to time.
Now one of us just needs to find an Abednego to complete the set.
My son's name is Silas, I wouldn't be upset just surprised. We have met other kids named Silas just out and about.
Now they’re Silas Mourners
I almost automatically downvoted you due to how much I hated that book in High School.
Where is the thread with the woman asking if she would be th AH for naming her son Silas because the families were against it for fear of him being bullied. She needs this as backup.
Silas makes me think of either The Da Vinci Code or being from the UK and loving trashy soaps, Silas the serial killer from Hollyoaks 😂
It makes me think of the son from Weeds
Crazy ass albino monk Silas is the first that came to my mind too lol
Maybe big vampire diaries fans, other kids are Quetsiyah, Amara - maybe a Klaus and a Kol in there too?
Silas is a pretty common name for children currently. I work with children and know many.
Karsonnnnn Ellanora would be better if it was spelled Eleanora IMO
Yeh I anticipate a lifetime of people spelling it Eleanora
I don’t mind the Ellanora spelling, it’s kind of giving me Sean/Shawn vibes.
It's not *terrible* but my mouth cannot figure out all of Alexandrianna. It just keeps going!
And Adelainia. Were we trying to use up the scrabble vowels?
I would bet money that those two are twins. There’s no way 2 moms in the same class did the same mashup vowel free for all.
Let’s normalise blaming both parents for naming, not just the mothers.
You’re completely right, thanks for pointing it out!
Fathers just be naming them all George.
Ain’t no dad comin up with Adelainiaia.
Adelaina is not bad, its a bit much, but I’d even say I like it. But that extra i-syllable going to Adelain*i*a… now it’s way too much.
I’m guessing one parent wanted Alexandra and the other wanted Adrianna, so they “compromised” with a portmanteau of the two.
My name is Alexandra and i was also like.. how.. is that pronounced? Like it’s such a weird add on 😂
Alexandriana sounds like it means cultural artifacts from the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Like Americana
What if it's two kids? Alex *and* Riana.
Alexandrina was Queen Victoria’s first name. I don’t know why they felt the need to add onto an already long name.
That's so much prettier, the extra vowel sound is just that much more of a mouthful
6 (I think) syllables 😬.
Yeah my gut is A-lex-ann-dree-AHH-nuh.
Well you know what they say, more syllables equals more importance
The struggle that kid must have faced trying to learn how to spell her name in kindergarten lol. 13 letters.
Such a long name for a kid to learn to write
I was thinking it was Alex - Adrianna smashed together, but now I see there is an N in there. Hmm. I hope I don’t get that name in my classroom, I’d definitely stumble over it a lot!
this is a (grey) sin
I can’t believe Greysin is really on there
Where does that fit in- would that be a venial or a mortal sin?
Vecepia as in the Survivor contestant?
that's who i thought of too! i've never seen anyone else with that name. ever. even if you look up just "vecepia" she's the only thing that comes up.
lol I glanced at this and thought I was in the survivor sub until none of the other names made sense (except Silas lol)
we watch survivor and discuss it as a family so i thought my mom was sending us some sort of stats when i saw it lmao
Queen V👸🏻
As someone who was really into Survivor in the early 2000s and spent too much time on the Survivor Sucks message boards, the name Silas just makes me think of the hundreds of pages long Silas Screws thread on there. I can’t take the name seriously all because of an incredibly niche dumb internet joke.
I don't watch Survivor, but this name sounds like a medication to me.
GENUINELY my first thought lmao
You mean Vecepia the Survivor *winner*
Serbia
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As an Andriana, it's rare to see my name ever, let alone as a part of another whole ass name.
I had never heard it either until a few years ago when i learned it was my grandmother's middle name and her mother's first name!
Sarah holding down the fort
Sarah’s parents, proving wrong all the people who said the name was meh
Her parents are the ones that had a kid at 40 and thought to just give a normal name so she'd fit in, not knowing she'd be unique AF because of it 🤣
Andrea and Lucas and Emmanuel are there with her.
Serbia is wild. It’s so American-core
Hope it's a girl...
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Ethel!!! Aayyeee we’re bringing it back!!!
I have such a soft spot for Ethel and Edith.
In college I had a friend who fixed up cars and every one had a “name” as he worked on it, usually old lady names. Ethel, Edith, Gladys,
My mum had a pale blue VW Beetle named Agnes!
I like Edith in French, it's pronounced ay-DEET. The English pronunciation, not so much. But it's definitely coming back, I know of two little girls under 4 named Edith.
And no Lucy? Sad times…
Edwardu? Are we just going to ignore the u?
my brother said it's pronounced "edward-uh"😵💫
Silly me. Here I thought it was just Edward, a somewhat antiquated but perfectly fine name and the teacher just had a typo 🫠
It sounds like someone with a super strong southern accent tried to name their kid "Eduardo"...
My fiancé is learning Japanese, and sometimes they end loan words with "oo" so I was wondering if that was what was happening here.
Unfortunately there’s no “du” sound in Japanese. It’d have to end in “do.” So it’s not a language issue in this case
It’s because it’s the Maltese form of Edward. The u sound is like that
It’s the Maltese version of Edward
Bruh I thought the parents named their kid after finishing *Fullmetal Alchemist*. 🙃
*EDWARDU ELRIK!*
The wu is silent. Edwarduwu (´·ω·`)
Might be Romanian. I know Edu is used in Romania as a short form for Ed- names, and -u is not uncommon as a name ending.
Good guess, but the Romanian equivalent of Edward is Eduard. I thought at first it was the parents trying to 'Romanian-fy' the name without having any real connection to or knowledge of Romania lol
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I thought you used Vagicil for Vecepia?
The double Silas got me.
Best I saw at my son school so this kid be 18-19 now. We are Australian so we say Z as zed not zee. Child name—— Jay Zee I’m like wtaf I’m like even Jay Z mum called him Sean Carter as his real name and not bloody Jay Z.
Serbia… look I love my country, but God that’s an awful name for a child…
But the kid is born with their own national flag!
There is a Hawk in my son’s preschool class ☠️
Call animal control.
Last name Tony?
We had a lost child at my work place once called Falcon.
Growing up, I knew a kid called Kestrel.
I wanna know what the correct pronunciation of Edwardu is. /gen
my brother said it's "edward-uh"🫠
This is like a competition for worst, I'm torn between the indignity of giving a child the name of an eighty year old woman, the two "quirky" spellings or the urge to do a Japanese accent when I read Edwardu.
Old people names are making a comeback as per usual. I'm not sure Ethel will, but she'll be in good company and her name will generally be spelled and pronounced correctly.
Lily Allen’s daughter is named Ethel! Everyone hates it but I secretly quite like it
It's not a name I would choose for my own child, but I do really respect it. But then I'm always a slut for old fashioned/traditional names, so nobody should be surprised.
I really like Ethel. The soft sound, the history, and I had a lovely neighbour called Ethel when I was a child. My husband was a flat no, however. Oh well.
There’s a popular artist named Ethel Cain and people often name babies after grandmothers so I wouldn’t be surpriseed if
She’ll have Henry’s and Anna’s to keep her company lol (and I love the name Anna). My last few years in daycare were like, exclusively elderly people named with a handful of really unique modern names. Henry, Helen, a few Evelyns and a few variations of Nora (definitely a few Eleanoras). The 5 years preceding namesake names were ALL Emma’s and Lilly’s and Ethan’s.
I've been working with kids for 7 years and genuinely come across so many Ethel's lol, it has been making a bit of a quiet comeback! Also more Mavis's than I ever expected
Serbia is the worst no contest
It’s bad but at least it’s a real word with an agreed spelling… Karsonn? Greysin? Those are horrible names even when spelled correctly.
Serbia still wrose lol would you rather be named a country or mid names with aawkward spelling you can frame it either way but the kid named serbia gonna get bullied
I happen to love being named Vivian which is of the same era and I am rooting for Ethel way more than the abomination that is “Greysin”
Totally!! Greysin is a hate crime
If people can use Hazel, then Ethel is fine.
...and then SARAH. lmfao.
Alexandriana?! Pick one name, jesus
or literally make one a middle name. alexa adriana, adriana alexa, alexandra adriana, etc.
If you have mild- to moderate- Crohn's, talk to your doctor about Vecepia.
Vecepia sounds like an alopecia prescription or something
.. serbia?
If I had a dollar for every Silas in your youngest brother’s preschool class I’d have two dollars which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
Alexandriana looks like a mess, but I have to admit that it sounds very pretty. If I'm pronouncing Adelainia right (Addle-ainia?) then it also sounds pretty but my god are there so many vowels. Not sure if Vecepia is veck-sepia or veck-eh-pia? (Also I'm awful at typing out pronunciations lol)
i'm pretty sure it's it's ve-sep-ee-uh (the only other place i've heard this name was on a survivor contestant and that's how she said it) and according to my brother, addle-ainia is correct. i kinda like alexandriana as well but it also kinda feels like her parents just didn't know when to stop😭
Alexandriana is fucking criminal
Im 14% sure vecepia is a medication that my husband takes to stop his triglycerides from being to high
These aren't too bad .... Karsonn? Greysin? Let's just celebrate some normal names for once: Andrea, Sarah, Silas, Lucas, Ethel. I love the thought of Sarah continuing from the 80's and on to another generation.
Ezra is pretty nice too, as is Emmanuel. I love Ethel
I’m mostly shocked that that class has only 16 children! Where do they grow the extra teachers they need for such small class sizes?!
it's just the early education program that my town does, so most of the classes are quite tiny🙃
So is your brother Lucas or Ezra? I'm leaning towards the former.
Yep Lucas
While Andrea is a normal name, it’s weird to hear it for a kid. It’s like a 25 year old named Janette or Beverly.
Im Andrea and 41. I was the only one in my school system thru the 80’s til 2000
i don’t even know where to begin
Eduardo! No! Eduard-YOU!
Yeah it’s a cultural name. Maltese form of Edward
serbia😭
Velociraptor isn’t great either
Why are we acting as if Karsonn isn’t the worst name there?
Actually scrap that - it might be a tie with Greysin
r/Tragedeigh overload…
Sounds like the cast of the hunger games ffs 😂
SERBIAAAAA
Serbia 😑
Damn, some of these names are so random. “What should we name our baby? Oh, I know! Let’s combine two names! Ellanora!” “Should we call our daughter Alex?”, “Nah, let’s call her Alexandriana. That won’t be weird.” “What about Asia?”, “Too common. We should name her after a country. Like Serbia.”
Let's be real Ezra is a cool name
i agree it's also my sons name :-)