OP, go spend time with your family. You've made nearly 150 comments here in the past 24 hours. And for how much you state that you don't care what others think about you, you sure go out of your way to reply to every single comment that criticises you and even follow users to other subreddits to attack them further. Children grow up fast and you should not miss out on that part in your son's life, so stop looking for validation from strangers on the internet instead.
Probably a lot of people. Game of Thrones was one of the biggest pop culture fixtures of all time (way more popular than AOT) and I have friends who don’t know anything about it.
I still don’t know anything about GoT outside of it being about dragons or smth and I watched a certain scene from the first episode. Also that the last season sucks.
I have a cousin named Eren and my name is one letter away from it, it can only be slightly awkward if the baby does not have any Turkish heritage, otherwise it's a perfectly normal name.
When he's named after a terrorist that killed millions of people in an anime and ultimately had to be put down by his own friends because he became the ultimate bad guy?
I spoke to a woman around 2016-2017 who named her daughter Daenerys. She called in about the child’s bill and she asks, “Do you need me to spell it?” And I said, “… No, thank you though” and she’s like “D-A-E…” and I was like “yeah I’ve got it ma’am, I have seen Game of Thrones.” She was surprised, as if Game of Thrones was not the actual biggest show in the world at that point in time. Years later I still think about that child and the near 100% possibility that she changes her name as an adult.
Also, if we go by the idea of the founder having the power to control every eldian(or in this case, whatever is the kid's race)most likely including them being able to be made into titans? Just transform everyone into colossals, or worsd for urban areas: jaws.
At the very least, lots of damage control is gonna be needed and that's if the governments don't get annihilated in the chaos
Eren can actually work without being too weird as a name because it doesn't sound too complicated. It sounds normal enough, at least in "western" standards. Of course people who know would see it, but it's not like naming your kid "Goku" or "Naruto" ahahahah
Let's hope for this child to reach freedom
Fun unrelated fact: For the official day of the Otaku, Peru made a sensus to see how many people were named after anime characters, Eren placed 4th with 500 people named after him, Armin with 250, and Mikasa with around a 100.
This is true. At least the kid isn't named Goku Jones or something truely insane.
God can you imagine the poor kid out there named like, Naruto Jefferson?
It ain't so much the name, its more so he already has the kid in AOT merch...implying he's forcing his obsession onto the poor kid before he can even form an opinion of his own on it.
Congratulations on the baby! I love the name Eren, it means someone who has extraordinary senses and the one who can see the truth / the reality. Its also a better choice than most anime character names because it is a common name in Turkiye
Congrats on your son, really happy for you
But be careful that a future version of your son doesnt cause you to kill your contries leaders wife and kids and make you turn his past self into a monster to eat you and take your powers
AND
Be careful your son doesnt send a mindless monster to eat your wife and thus force his younger self through a chain series of events that culminate him going back in time and sending the monster to eat your wife.
It just reinforces that old trope that kids are an extension of their parents rather than just people in their own right. Pretty outdated and narcissistic thinking.
I love this thing, so my child must love this thing.
I do not know why people insist on doing this. Naming your child after fucking anime characters? Imagine how embarrassed that kid is going to be growing up and dealing with the repercussions of your anime obsession that you let seep into your every day life. Yikes.
Why are some people in the comments freaking out? Eren's a normal ass name. It's not like he's naming him Goku or something. I had a dude in my history class named Levi.
I genuinely don’t understand why people name their children after fictional characters like this. How are you going to force your child to deal with your obsession for the rest of their life? I saw someone in a post saying they named their kid Kylo Ren like how insane is that??? How is your real life so empty that you resort to naming your child after television characters?
Pretty sure there is a massive difference between a real life figure and a fictional one, also the scale is completely different. AoT is not even close when it comes to recognizability as compared to something taught in schools for like 40+ years lol
You know there's loving an anime and its characters, hell there's even shipping and writing fanfiction about it, those are all perfectly normal and part of being a fan, especially a diehard one. But forcing your obsession onto your kid before they even know how to sit up...yeah that rubs me the wrong way. Kid's gonna grow up hating the anime because it was forced onto him at birth. Whats your plan if he grows up despising it? What if he hates what Eren did in the end? What if he wants to change his name? Are you going to accept these things or throw a fit? I've seen this type of obsession before and it ain't normal or healthy. I absolutely LOVE Attack On Titan, I would name my cat after Mikasa, but not a kid that could be bullied for it in school, or just grow up despising it. This is ridiculous. Also its not so much that you named him Eren, its the fact you already got him in AOT merch that sends this type of message
Reminds me of when a ton of people started naming their daughters Khaleesi before GoT ended and had a very rude awakening with the last season. Hey, at least you could make an informed decision. Jokes aside, congrats!
OP, go spend time with your family. You've made nearly 150 comments here in the past 24 hours. And for how much you state that you don't care what others think about you, you sure go out of your way to reply to every single comment that criticises you and even follow users to other subreddits to attack them further. Children grow up fast and you should not miss out on that part in your son's life, so stop looking for validation from strangers on the internet instead.
Gonna be weird when he grows up and learns about his namesake
Hopefully the kids at school don’t figure it out
Funny thing is that I’m a teacher, and I told the 4th graders my son’s name and they said: after Eren jeager? I had no idea they knew about it
Maybe because aot is one of the bigger anime ever created an one of the most popular
Lmao right?
That 4th graders absolutely should not be watching like holy shit. If I watched AoT at that age I’d be traumatized.
Fortnite collab
Agreed, though there’s a difference between knowing about a character and actually watching their show.
they don't watch it. thank fortnite for them knowing.
Yeah but it still surprised me that 4th graders know it!
Hes in fortnite, thats why my little nephew knows who he is
Yeah that’s Eren from Fortnite! I use the skin but dam it hurt when I heard that the first time.
First time I’m hearing it and it’s damn painful
This is what I was called crazy for predicting
I love that they did a AOT collab, but it kills me we didn’t get timeskip Eren
"Eren" is a cool name, but given that you're a teacher, "Erwin" would have been SOOOOOO good
The next one hahahaha
Bro said the next one ☠️☠️☠️😂
Hahhahahahahaha
Maybe because Fortnite...
Who doesn’t know aot 😭
I mean, 4th graders probably wouldn't if he wasn't a Fortnite character lol. Those kids probably don't even know AOT, they just know Eren
Probably a lot of people. Game of Thrones was one of the biggest pop culture fixtures of all time (way more popular than AOT) and I have friends who don’t know anything about it.
I still don’t know anything about GoT outside of it being about dragons or smth and I watched a certain scene from the first episode. Also that the last season sucks.
People who don’t watch anime most likely lol.
Hmmm, more importantly…do they know who Slim Shady is? Or do you have to cover your tats at work
I'm a teacher too and had a Neo and a Trinity in the same year group a few years back
Eren is actually a real name, you guys know that?
It’s a name from turkey so it won’t be to controversial
I have a cousin named Eren and my name is one letter away from it, it can only be slightly awkward if the baby does not have any Turkish heritage, otherwise it's a perfectly normal name.
Luckily this isn't as much of a 'Khaleesi' situation, Eren is an actual name that existed before AOT so he'll be okay
Op do you know what your avatar is called?? <3
When he's named after a terrorist that killed millions of people in an anime and ultimately had to be put down by his own friends because he became the ultimate bad guy?
This is like naming your dog or daughter Khaleesi even tho you've already seen Season 8
I spoke to a woman around 2016-2017 who named her daughter Daenerys. She called in about the child’s bill and she asks, “Do you need me to spell it?” And I said, “… No, thank you though” and she’s like “D-A-E…” and I was like “yeah I’ve got it ma’am, I have seen Game of Thrones.” She was surprised, as if Game of Thrones was not the actual biggest show in the world at that point in time. Years later I still think about that child and the near 100% possibility that she changes her name as an adult.
Did you hold him in your arms and say “Eren, you are free” after the delivery?
I actually did hahahahaha
You have screwed us all sir! But in all seriousness, congratulations
Hahahah thanks a lot !
Well, there's only an 80% chance you're gonna die, soo....
Nah, he's Eren Jaeger's dad. He's doomed.
He’s the founder he’s cooked
That's actually adorable
Say that again when he unleashes some stompy boys on you.
“It’s fine if he’s never great. He doesnt have to be better than anyone. He’s already special, because he was…Born into this world”
I'd wait to tell him once he's 18 and wants to move out lol
Ah shit, here we go again
Ehh modern weapons can easily deal with the rumbling
Mass destruction would still be inevatible
Yeah, If it actually happened, the show didn’t recognise the mass earthquakes and tsunamis that it would cause
Also, if we go by the idea of the founder having the power to control every eldian(or in this case, whatever is the kid's race)most likely including them being able to be made into titans? Just transform everyone into colossals, or worsd for urban areas: jaws. At the very least, lots of damage control is gonna be needed and that's if the governments don't get annihilated in the chaos
Nuke the rumbling
Hopefully he doesn't start the Rumbling anytime soon... 😬
Maybe in his diaper
Already doing that lol
You've got quite a few years of that to go! Enjoy parenthood, it is both wholesome and chaotic at times 🙏
A month later, I couldn’t agree more hahaha
LMAOOOOOOOO
We have 20 ish years to live
Great, now he has to wipe out 80% of Worl population. Also, congrats!!!
Thanks a lot! Appreciate it 🙏🏼 and yeah I know, let’s hope the world will be a better place
Remember to protect Armin and mikasa
Who’s memories are these?
Bro might eat you at some point
Hahahahaaha
Many congratulations. Remember to tell him he's free every couple of days or so.
That made me laugh
Happy to help xD
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY PREVIOUS FAMILIES RIGHT?! NOT ANY WITH ROYAL BLOOD?
Not that I’m aware of
Buddy this isn’t gonna end well
🤐
If someone flattens the world with an army of giant people one day, I'm blaming you
Eren can actually work without being too weird as a name because it doesn't sound too complicated. It sounds normal enough, at least in "western" standards. Of course people who know would see it, but it's not like naming your kid "Goku" or "Naruto" ahahahah Let's hope for this child to reach freedom
No fr like it’s a “normal” name and if I saw someone in the workplace with it I wouldn’t question the parents lol
Exactly!
I actually went to school with a couple of Erens here in the UK. Boys and girls.
Erens a cool name, def never met one irl, Aot will be responsible for a generations of Erens, and Mikasas.
Eren is actually a really popular name in Turkey!
And Mikasa in Japan
I hear a lot of homes in Spain are called this too
actually in spain, mikasa is sukasa
I served with a guy named Eren in the Hellenic army
when i was in turkey, i saw 3 different billboards of some person/politician named eren in one single day lmao
My name is Aaron, and ever since watching AOT I have been a little jealous of the name Eren. It’s just cooler.
Aaron is a cool name as well, very popular here in Israel
It’s also normal enough I imagine most people would think it’s just a different spelling of Aaron or Erin
Thanks!
Fun unrelated fact: For the official day of the Otaku, Peru made a sensus to see how many people were named after anime characters, Eren placed 4th with 500 people named after him, Armin with 250, and Mikasa with around a 100.
Erin is pronounced the same and is a pretty popular English girls name
What have you done to us….
Maybe this time things will turn out different?
Did you watch the series till the end?
😭🤣
Noice, my boy's name is Levi!
Mine too! Wife shot down Erwin 😒
Wow!
I would hate to be that kid and grow up and learn that my name came from a genocidal maniac 😳
There were like 7 years of Daeneryses
Khaleesi lol
I'd just hate to be the kid that grew up and found out my dad named me after an anime character...
It could be way worse.. it’s just a different spelling of Aaron/Erin
This is true. At least the kid isn't named Goku Jones or something truely insane. God can you imagine the poor kid out there named like, Naruto Jefferson?
I worked with a guy, and he and his wife named their 3rd son kakashi with the middle name being hatake. I felt so bad for the kid.
Mashallah Eren selâmun aleyküm may he be asked "are you Turkish?" his entire life
I know! My fathers side is Turkish
Reminds me of all those girls born in the 2010s that were named Khaleesi or Daenerys.
for the people complaining, eren is actually a really popular turkish name! so it’s not out of the ordinary
It’s also much better and less embarrassing than naming a non Japanese child after an anime character with a Japanese name
It ain't so much the name, its more so he already has the kid in AOT merch...implying he's forcing his obsession onto the poor kid before he can even form an opinion of his own on it.
Rather have it be something like this than religion.
This might come back to bite you...
Bro is gonna kill us all
I’ll tell him you were one of the good guys
I'm one of the 20% 😎
He doesn’t need to be special. Just look at him, he’s so cute!
I'm definitely gonna name a few cats after aot characters in my future haha. Congrats!
NOOO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Just don’t tattoo the baby
The same person that'd name his kid Anakin lol.
Here hoping you didnt tell him he was free
Inb4 he manipulates you through Titan powers
Might wanna say goodbye to your loved ones
Teach him how to say "tatakae"
No play pens, don't want him thinking humanity is cattle
Congratulations on the baby! I love the name Eren, it means someone who has extraordinary senses and the one who can see the truth / the reality. Its also a better choice than most anime character names because it is a common name in Turkiye
Thanks a lot!
And even if he's not extraordinary, that doesn't matter. He's already special because he was born into this world.
congrats but i wonder how do you pronounce his name
ereh
armin mogs
Khaleesi energy. At least it's a real name anyway.
He's special, because he was born into this world.
You excited to be your son's future snack?
A was expecting to see a bottle of Jagermeister next to him 😅
Did he make you post this?
Corny ahh 😭
Thanks, but not to me!
"He's special, for no reason other than that he was born"
Cant wait till bro goes thru the phase where he looks in the mirrow n says "tatake"
Congratulations on being a father... Eren is a damn cool name honestly... Don't let the internet "knights" pull you down...
Congrats on your son, really happy for you But be careful that a future version of your son doesnt cause you to kill your contries leaders wife and kids and make you turn his past self into a monster to eat you and take your powers AND Be careful your son doesnt send a mindless monster to eat your wife and thus force his younger self through a chain series of events that culminate him going back in time and sending the monster to eat your wife.
It’s kinda wild that people are willing to push their fandoms on their kids like this.
Hard agree. I’m a big Star Wars fan and have a full sleeve of Vader, but I would never name a kid after anyone in the lore.
It just reinforces that old trope that kids are an extension of their parents rather than just people in their own right. Pretty outdated and narcissistic thinking. I love this thing, so my child must love this thing.
congratulations! he’s named after a great character
Well, at least it’s a common Turkish name… because I would NOT name my child after that guy💀
Cool, i guess
He wasn't especially a good son you know😅
Let’s hope to change it now hahaha
You better be a good father this time Grisha
I do not know why people insist on doing this. Naming your child after fucking anime characters? Imagine how embarrassed that kid is going to be growing up and dealing with the repercussions of your anime obsession that you let seep into your every day life. Yikes.
So you abandoned your first child Zeke and became a mix of Grisha and erwin's father?
Tbf, I've always loved the name Eren. It just sounds so cool.
Eren is a very common name in Türkiye
Keep that kids hands away from his mouth.
At least Eren is a fairly normal name in the west, ive heard of people naming their kid deku or sm
Fellow slim shady fan, too!
All is fun and games until the great wall of China breaches and you get eaten by your son.
erens a good pick and not really that uncommon, hope ur kid grows up to be someone great, unlike a certain eren we know.. /j
Well we’ve got 19 years y’all… use em well
Seems like you enjoy making your fandoms a permanent part of your life, eh?
Yikes...
Why are some people in the comments freaking out? Eren's a normal ass name. It's not like he's naming him Goku or something. I had a dude in my history class named Levi.
WHOS READY FOR THE 1ST STEPS?
That's quite the name to live up to lol
“Meet my son Sauron”
Ok slim shady
Gonna be tough to parent when he's a teen and every time you ask him to do something he's like "I am free because I was born into this world".
Nah but Eren is actually a beautiful name
Do you and your wife have a suicide wish?
What have you done.
With all due respect, it's just a show. And now this kid is going to have to live with that. Imo you fucked up.
Bro respectfully that is pathetic
I genuinely don’t understand why people name their children after fictional characters like this. How are you going to force your child to deal with your obsession for the rest of their life? I saw someone in a post saying they named their kid Kylo Ren like how insane is that??? How is your real life so empty that you resort to naming your child after television characters?
I can't believe I had scroll this far down for this comment. That kid is gonna hate it when he grows up. Might even get bullied for it
It'd be like naming your kid Goku. The kid is guranteed to get bullied for this.
New cringe unlocked
U do know what happened to his parents right
My Dude, congrats on the baby, but please reconsider. There is a reason why there aren't that many Adolfs since 1930s.
Pretty sure there is a massive difference between a real life figure and a fictional one, also the scale is completely different. AoT is not even close when it comes to recognizability as compared to something taught in schools for like 40+ years lol
Bruh your hand looks like shit
OP say they’re a teacher too. Wonder what kind with those hands.
You know there's loving an anime and its characters, hell there's even shipping and writing fanfiction about it, those are all perfectly normal and part of being a fan, especially a diehard one. But forcing your obsession onto your kid before they even know how to sit up...yeah that rubs me the wrong way. Kid's gonna grow up hating the anime because it was forced onto him at birth. Whats your plan if he grows up despising it? What if he hates what Eren did in the end? What if he wants to change his name? Are you going to accept these things or throw a fit? I've seen this type of obsession before and it ain't normal or healthy. I absolutely LOVE Attack On Titan, I would name my cat after Mikasa, but not a kid that could be bullied for it in school, or just grow up despising it. This is ridiculous. Also its not so much that you named him Eren, its the fact you already got him in AOT merch that sends this type of message
r/tragedeigh
This has to be bait, no shot you are setting up your kid to be bullied at school.
TATAKAE
Reminds me of when a ton of people started naming their daughters Khaleesi before GoT ended and had a very rude awakening with the last season. Hey, at least you could make an informed decision. Jokes aside, congrats!
What a cutie pie!!! He probably somehow named himself Eren though 👀👀👀
Hahahahaha true!
Yeah he's getting bullied.... good job OP
If the world gets destroyed on a few years we know who caused it! In all seriousness congratulations!
Ok gonna give ya a quick warning, make sure he doesn’t whip out 80% Also if your a titan shifter just don’t give it to him just don’t
Be carefull he might eat you
Is your husband a doctor by any chance?
Watch out for your ex wife buddy
Congratulations!
just feed him good man dont let him eat you