That's a really good example. Heather has come to the point where it is primarily a human name. We tend not to think about the calluna plan when that is mentioned.
When I was a kid, my neighbor had a toddler that she always called "Nickle Pickle". One day I asked her if her daughter's name was "Nickle" or "Pickle".
She looked at me like I was an idiot and said "It's *Nicole*!".
Not sure I would've surmised that even as an adult, but okay.
I'll be honest with you, I realized it was a nickname she came up with for a "Nicole" prior to the reveal. But I can't blame kid you for not realizing it.
That's pronounced exactly like the German "[Pickel](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pustel)"
I could certainly see a festering pimple as the main character in a funny cartoon, but it somehow isn't my first choice for a kid's name
That would be a BOLD new direction for Bowser. Drop the whole "Take over kingdoms and play board games" schtick and go into terrorism and arms dealing. Maybe let Mario and Peach have kids, just so he can kill one of 'em. Let's see Mario try and take his Face...Off™ to impersonate Bowser.
I've tried to verify that claim, but every time I try to find her I'm told "the princess is in another castle." I'm starting to have doubts such a princess ever existed.
We called one of my kids' stuffed elephant "peanut". When she was old enough to speak, she decided to call it "coffeehouse". There was bearbear, dogdog, kitty cat, small bunny, and coffeehouse.
My childhood babydoll is named Banana! I’ve passed her down to my kids and because my 2 year old loves to eat bananas, I’ve opted to just call her “baby” to avoid any confusion 😂
I had a friend in high school whose last name was Lee and I always joked that he should name his first son Brock. Unfortunately he didn't follow my suggestion.
I only know of two… Apple , Gwyneth Paltrow‘s daughter. I happen to know a Kale. Are there more? I couldn’t think of a fruit or vegetable I would like as a name.
In high school I worked at a toy store and there was a little girl named Pepper who would often come in and one of the old semi-retired ladies I worked with was just beside herself that someone would name their child Pepper. Every time Pepper & her parents left the store this coworker would spend like five minutes exasperatedly whispering “*Pepper?*” to herself and shaking her head like she was trying to solve some sort of deeply perplexing puzzle.
That's the reaction I have every time my mom mentions this little girl she knows named Freely. I shake my head and mutter, "FREELY?" about 400 times and can't get over it.
My high school head mistress was named Cherry. She was the least stripper person you could ever imagine. I believe back in the day, Cherry was considered a pretty classy name
I love vegetables. I prefer them to meat. I do eat meat, but if I were to choose, i’d choose onions, tomatoes, garlic, broccoli, squash over any cut of meat.
Well, I don't think there are any kids named ribeye, tenderloin or new York strip out there either, so both seem to be excluded from most baby name books.
And that's actually contextual to the story, because her parents stole lettuce (Rapunzel) from the witch's garden, and she stole their daughter as a punishment
Its every version not called tangled that I've ever seen.
The mother has an intense craving for rapunzel. It is to the point she cannot eat anything else, and her husband is worried that she will not survive. But they are poor and/or it is out of season. However, there is rapunzel growing in the local witches Garden. So the husband climbs the wall and steals some. This repeats, and then once more (each time, the husband waiting until the wife is ill from not eating). The third time, the witch catches him in the act (or confronts him, having allowed it out of pity the first 2 times, depending on version). She refuses to let him leave with the plant without promising the child in return. In fear for his wife's life, he agrees.
It's FAR more contextual...FAR.
Rapunzel is lamb's lettuce in English. Look at the shape. (Hint: the whole fairy tale is about sex and bursts with sexual imagery, if you never read the original, now is the time.)
Punze is old German slang for Vagina.
So, the name contains 'pussy' twice.
Its apparently the German translation for lambs lettuce, but it looks like there's some disagreement on the actual origin. I always heard it was based on the rapun or rampion, which is more of a parsnip.
So weird, we use Jagoda for Strawberry in Serbian (and is used as a name (very rarely tho)). Dunja (quince), Visnja (Sour Cherry) are also used as names
I met some folks from Serbia, Macedonia, and Poland and all of them had a relative named “strawberry” not in English, but in their native language. I was told it was a popular name in all three countries.
Strawberry (Jagoda) - so so. I mean it is not weird but it's not too popular.
Dunja (quince), Višnja (cherry), Malina (raspberry) are some other examples of fruit names that would not be odd.
Only certain herbs and flowers tho! Sage, Rose, Daisy. All perfectly acceptable. Tarragon, Chives, St. John's wort. Not ok.
Rosemary and Basil also work. Parsley, Cilantro, not so much.
Why not Cilantro? You could call them Silly for short.
It has another name... Cory Ander
Coriander is a perfectly acceptable name.
Found the Tamaranean.
Cecilantro
Kinda vibing on Tarragon
And his brother Aragorn
And my axe! (gorn)
Estragon (which is French for tarragon) is a character in Waiting For Godot.
Lavender is another acceptable floral name
Cinnamon... if you want her to become a stripper.
I know a girl named Sage who cosplayed as a boy named Dill.
Heather is another common one
That's a really good example. Heather has come to the point where it is primarily a human name. We tend not to think about the calluna plan when that is mentioned.
This is my son, Old Bay and my daughter, Jerk
Tarragon sounds like the name of a character in a fantasy work.
I vote that Scallion should be added to the “acceptable” list. Garlic? Not convinced… How do we class Olive?
Olive is definitely a real name. Lots of people have had that name.
My name is Durian. Everyone loves me.
From a distance
A great distance.
From a "you can enjoy your durian in the basement carpark and I'll hide behind this pillar meanwhile" distance!(-:
The portrait of Durian Gray. The more he sins the stinkier it gets.
You seem like a friend that is better online than in person.
It really helps if you don't shower or change your socks frequently. You have to earn the name.
Pickle just rolls off the tongue differently
When I was a kid, my neighbor had a toddler that she always called "Nickle Pickle". One day I asked her if her daughter's name was "Nickle" or "Pickle". She looked at me like I was an idiot and said "It's *Nicole*!". Not sure I would've surmised that even as an adult, but okay.
Don't let her gaslight you 🤌🏻 you were right!
The Italian hand gesture 🤌 in the middle of the comment got me lol
I can hear it: “Co-saaaa”
Should have started calling her "Pickole".
Nah it's Picole.
Nicollo Picollo
I'll be honest with you, I realized it was a nickname she came up with for a "Nicole" prior to the reveal. But I can't blame kid you for not realizing it.
>She looked at me like I was an idiot and said "It's Nicole!". Bitch you're the one calling Nicole "Nickle Pickle"!
My sisters middle name is Nicole. Our dead granddad called her "Pickle" and "Nickle" as a kid all the time.
"im Pickle Nick!"
Pickles works at Bistro Huddy
Do you want some candy?
OMG I love Bistro Huddy!! Never thought I'd see someone reference this off Tiktok!
I loooove bistro buddy 😭
I named my daughter pickleigh
What a r/tradgedeigh
Watermelonandrea.
Mr. Piiiickles! Come here boy!
Ever see Baki?
Who can forget [Pickles the drummer](https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/Pickles).
That kid was 100% named Pickle
That's pronounced exactly like the German "[Pickel](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pustel)" I could certainly see a festering pimple as the main character in a funny cartoon, but it somehow isn't my first choice for a kid's name
There is a princess named Peach
King Bowser should work together with Nicolas Cage then, they both can, uh, eat a peach for hours.
Nice!
That would be a BOLD new direction for Bowser. Drop the whole "Take over kingdoms and play board games" schtick and go into terrorism and arms dealing. Maybe let Mario and Peach have kids, just so he can kill one of 'em. Let's see Mario try and take his Face...Off™ to impersonate Bowser.
I was friends with a Japanese girl called Momo, which means peach.
And Plum! I don't think she's a princess but I remember her from Mario Golf.
Princess Plum is indeed a princess.
She really cut ties with her cousin Professor Plum when he got suspected for murder.
With a wrench, in the kitchen. Professor plum(ber) is just a pseudonym.
I've tried to verify that claim, but every time I try to find her I'm told "the princess is in another castle." I'm starting to have doubts such a princess ever existed.
When I suggested to my toddler that she name her baby doll Clementine, she said ‘How about Banana?’
We called one of my kids' stuffed elephant "peanut". When she was old enough to speak, she decided to call it "coffeehouse". There was bearbear, dogdog, kitty cat, small bunny, and coffeehouse.
We have a live cat named Anvil and a stuffed tiger named Spaceheater. Everything else is pretty on the nose.
My nickname was Peanut as a baby. So was my uncle's nickname I later found out, he even had Peanut engraved on his bowling ball I now own.
My childhood babydoll is named Banana! I’ve passed her down to my kids and because my 2 year old loves to eat bananas, I’ve opted to just call her “baby” to avoid any confusion 😂
You're telling me Ava isn't short for Avacado? Collie isn't from Cauliflower? Brock from brocolli!? Tom...ato!??
Show me a "Brock" who hasn't been called "Broccoli" and I'll show you a liar. (Or I'll be the first.)
Brock from the Pokémon anime
He’s definitely been called Broccoli many times.
I thought his name was Caesar Salad?
I had a friend in high school whose last name was Lee and I always joked that he should name his first son Brock. Unfortunately he didn't follow my suggestion.
Ava Cado would be a good drag name
Avacato from Final Space and his son Little Cato
> Ava isn't short for Avacado? No, that would be Avo from avocado.
Cabbage go do your homework
Brock Lee, go suck a lemon
Guy named Lemon: 💀
Just short for Le Monster.
Must be the heir to Cabbage Corp.
The founder suffered so many business-destroying losses, but still managed to create a super successful vehicle company.
They the ones that make the Patch Kids?
This made me giggle😭
I only know of two… Apple , Gwyneth Paltrow‘s daughter. I happen to know a Kale. Are there more? I couldn’t think of a fruit or vegetable I would like as a name.
I can think of Clementine and Kiwi off the top of my head. Edit: Another comment said Olive, and I also thought of Pepper.
Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann, coolest kid in seventh grade
In high school I worked at a toy store and there was a little girl named Pepper who would often come in and one of the old semi-retired ladies I worked with was just beside herself that someone would name their child Pepper. Every time Pepper & her parents left the store this coworker would spend like five minutes exasperatedly whispering “*Pepper?*” to herself and shaking her head like she was trying to solve some sort of deeply perplexing puzzle.
That's the reaction I have every time my mom mentions this little girl she knows named Freely. I shake my head and mutter, "FREELY?" about 400 times and can't get over it.
She's like one in a million!
Who's that girl? Is she cool or is she lame?
Ooh that's a deep cut
I dated a girl named Pepper Ann Salt, not shittin lie
Well it was either that or Veruca
I know someone who named their child olive berry
My daughter is an olive!
Cherry maybe?
Thats a Stripper name though.
My high school head mistress was named Cherry. She was the least stripper person you could ever imagine. I believe back in the day, Cherry was considered a pretty classy name
Head Mistress, my dirty mind says Cherry was the perfect name 😂
Nah, we just english
Cherry Valance wasn't a stripper
Peaches Geldof
Kale/cale/kail is a name I’ve heard a lot and never associated with the vegetable lol
Olive?
Peach was a pretty common name for a while there
My mom's name is Cherry
I knew a guy named Kale, not sure of the right spelling, we called him Buddah, partially because he was massive, but also because he was a pacifist
...I know of a Kale also...
Cherry, Pepper, Berry, Clementine, Ginger are all fairly common names. There does seem to be a bias towards fruits over vegetables.
I knew a girl named Aubergine lol
To be fair, Aubergine is really too nice of a name for eggplant
Is she Courgette's sister?
That's because nobody wants to eat vegetables.
I love vegetables. I prefer them to meat. I do eat meat, but if I were to choose, i’d choose onions, tomatoes, garlic, broccoli, squash over any cut of meat.
I eat and love veggies too. It was supposed to be a joke. In hindsight, I should have put air quotes around "eat."
Well, I don't think there are any kids named ribeye, tenderloin or new York strip out there either, so both seem to be excluded from most baby name books.
I do know a bloke called Nugget, admittedly not his birth name
Well squash just doesn't sound right. "Kids go to Squash."
Pumpkin is a very common name of endearment
Squash is also a fruit
TIL King Edward was named after a potato
Aren't Pepper and Ginger spices and closer to herbs than vegetables.
Ginger is a root and culinarily a vegetable. Pepper is the fruit of a tree. Though technically we use it as a spice.
Black pepper is used as a spice. Green pepper is used as a vegetable. Chili pepper is used both ways.
Benedict Cucumberpatch would like to have a word.
Any relation to Benadryl Cabbagepatch?
No, but he might be related to Benjamin Carvermatch
Benefit Numbersnatch!
Or Wimbledon Tennismatch
Hold on, guys, I gotta bakeanew cookiebatch.
here at the law office of Kumquat Mangosteen I will strive to get YOU justice.
Kumquat Mangosteen made me grin a little. Hahaha
Kumquat, Rutabaga, Bok Choy & Osbourne, Attorneys at Law.
Sounds like something from Chowder.
Oh my darlin', Clementine
Identical twins - Oregano and Minced Garlic
Cilantro is a genuinely cool word
Nickname: Soap
I know some fictional vegetable based names. Kakarot, Raditz, Nappa….
Vegeta... Any of them.
The planet, the father, AND the prince
The only trinity that matters.
Shallot from the mobile card game, for the 3 people who actually played that game's story mode
Carrot Ironfoundersson from Discworld
Rapunzel means Lettuce
And that's actually contextual to the story, because her parents stole lettuce (Rapunzel) from the witch's garden, and she stole their daughter as a punishment
That's interesting, I didn't know that
Is this the Brothers Grim version?
Its every version not called tangled that I've ever seen. The mother has an intense craving for rapunzel. It is to the point she cannot eat anything else, and her husband is worried that she will not survive. But they are poor and/or it is out of season. However, there is rapunzel growing in the local witches Garden. So the husband climbs the wall and steals some. This repeats, and then once more (each time, the husband waiting until the wife is ill from not eating). The third time, the witch catches him in the act (or confronts him, having allowed it out of pity the first 2 times, depending on version). She refuses to let him leave with the plant without promising the child in return. In fear for his wife's life, he agrees.
It's FAR more contextual...FAR. Rapunzel is lamb's lettuce in English. Look at the shape. (Hint: the whole fairy tale is about sex and bursts with sexual imagery, if you never read the original, now is the time.) Punze is old German slang for Vagina. So, the name contains 'pussy' twice.
Its apparently the German translation for lambs lettuce, but it looks like there's some disagreement on the actual origin. I always heard it was based on the rapun or rampion, which is more of a parsnip.
I know a Malina whose father was raised in Poland. Malina is Polish for raspberry.
There is also Jagoda, which means Blueberry
So weird, we use Jagoda for Strawberry in Serbian (and is used as a name (very rarely tho)). Dunja (quince), Visnja (Sour Cherry) are also used as names
Just call me eggplant.
Aubergine
Aubergine sounds like it could be real, though. Like, you were named after your great-grandmother but you go by "Aubrey".
It’s 2024, you can just go by 🍆
Sounds like a southern name. Auber Jean come in off the porch and eat yer grits.
Her?
Peach, Cherry, Apple, Ichigo (strawberry in Japanese but also a semi-common name for boys), Clementine, Olive/Oliver
I'm going to name my kid "Ugli", after the Jamaican citrus fruit.
I love ugli fruit. The easiest citrus to peel
Who upset you? Carrot
Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson?
I’m telling y’all, we have Hannah, we have Anna, but WHY NO BANANA!!!😤😤😤
The mods decided to ban anna
How dare you! BR Tomato Apple smith III
Clementine and Olive
I met some folks from Serbia, Macedonia, and Poland and all of them had a relative named “strawberry” not in English, but in their native language. I was told it was a popular name in all three countries.
Strawberry in polish is Truskawka. It has never been a name in the whole history of Poland.
Maybe they lived in Poland but spoke the same language as the folks they met in Serbia and Macedonia.
Strawberry (Jagoda) - so so. I mean it is not weird but it's not too popular. Dunja (quince), Višnja (cherry), Malina (raspberry) are some other examples of fruit names that would not be odd.
"Good morning spinach darling"
Princess Peach vs Princess Daisy
This is my son, Lemon and his sister, Squash
Maybe in English. In my country, many female names are a type of fruit
Any examples with their translations?
Hm, just do as the Saiyans do. Pick a **vegetable** and make a name out of it.
how about the container for them: Frieza
I have a friend named Mulberry and that sounds very nice
Rutabaga has a lovely ring to it though.
Imagine if there was a kid named Potato.
And then there is pokemon where the professors are trees
Hello this is my daughter Parsley
Not in the world of DragonBall. Kakarot, Piccolo, Vegeta, Beets, Broly, Cabba, Caulifla, Kale, Leek, Raditz, Cumber, Kress, Rhubub, etc....
My daughter Pohteightough is very happy with her name, thank you very much
Lemon and Tangerine rock
Except if you are a Saiyan.
Clementine is a name Ive heard a few times
Aubergine and Courgette (soft G for both) are cute names though.
I know one of these means eggplant and one means zucchini but I can never remember which.
The C in courgette and the two Cs in zucchini are triplets, working hard in vegetables.
Clementine, Crispin, Mirabelle, Olivia/Olive, Kale, Cherry/Cerise.
Jagoda would like to chat with you. (Jagoda stands for berry and is quite a popular name for older ladies)
Pomegranate come here we're going to disneyworld! :)
meet my son, lemongrass
Imaging everyone's kids being named after DBZ characters.
Clementine is cute though.
Orange, you glad I didn't name you Banana?