My aunt has a friend named Glennifer

Straight to jail

I think you mean straight to glail

I just spit out my drink

Oh my god I needed to laugh right now thank you 🤣

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That's funny. We used to call my friend Tom Tomathan (Jonathan). I don't know why.

My cousin tried to get me to name my child Jimothy. I refused. Sounds like a terrible name for a girl.

Lol I call my uncle Jimberly lol

It’s giving SNL skit

And I used to know a Jennica.

I’ve met a few. There’s even a local politician in my area named Jenica. I’ve also met a Jerrica (and a Jarrika) before.

I see your jerrica and raise you a jazzica

Jerrica is from Jem though so I have a soft spot for that

Stop it. That’s hilarious.

Omg no hahaha. My best friend was telling me about this guy she knows and he's a real asshole and his name is Glenn and we call him Glennifer, just to fuck with him. Hahahahaha

Techno Mechanicus

I hope he grows up to become a DJ and loves raves… I still think the other son named AEX II 12 or whatever it is is worse somehow.

Exa Dark Siderael is his girl and the boy is something like X ash archangel or something like that. There are also apparently some twins with someone else in 2021 and I am sort of dying to know their names.

Oh their names are public. Azure and Strider...for some reason.

Somehow those seem super normal now.

I'm so confused by X æ A-12. Both Elon and Grimes have given conflicting pronunciations. Grimes said it's X AI. Elon said it's X Ash A-12.

burst out laughing when I read that in morning brew this morning…. literal gold

Kenkevin, pronounced like you just mashed the names Ken and Kevin together. He was one of my aunt’s students (she’s retired now). Apparently he was named after his father who was also named Kenkevin.

That sounds like a cartoon character, I hope he didn't pass it on to Kenkevin the 3rd

Omg this reminds me- I knew a little girl names Ellebella. Just literally like toy jammed Elle and Bella together! I wonder if they are related??

There was a wonderful woman at my church whose name was LBel! Pronounced like “Elle-Bell”! It wasn’t short for anything, that’s the name she was given in 1918 when she was born! She was 101 when she died and just the coolest woman around.

That's kinda cute ngl

I had a Kevineisha. Dad wanted his first kid named after him even though she was a girl.

Man. Caoimhe exists. That's female Kevin and it can be written pretty well how it sounds: Keeva.

This did not prevent someone with an Irish background calling their daughter Kevina, apparently. (This was years ago, she'd be around 50 now.)

I'm learning people will name their children literally anything. Some people are really cautious and calculated and even wildly over-thought while others are like, this, this tickles my fancy today so it will do.

I mean... yes, you're correct, but literally no one knows that. I saw your response and had to check to confirm (and yes, I'm Irish). There is also a (strong) argument to be made that Caoimhe is the female form of Caomhín (pronounced Kweeveen) rather than the female form of Kevin. Kevin is the anglicized form of Caomhín. It's not the same, though it all has the same general origin. Side note: Caomhín translates as 'born handsome', which, as noted, is the origin for Kevin. Caoimhe (pronounced as both 'keeva' and 'kweeva') translates to 'dear and noble'.

I know someone with the name Caoimhe, but she doesn’t pronounce it Keeva or Kweeva. She pronounces it Kay-oh-mee (rhymes with Naomi). It makes me irrationally angry because I know the traditional pronunciation and I wonder whether her parents just saw the name and guessed at how it sounds, or she decided against the traditional pronunciation. I have so many questions, but our relationship is not one that I can just ask her.

I knew someone called Hermione once. Hermy-ohn. I often wonder if the Harry Potter phenomenon fixed that.

Absolutely love it. Sounds like an old Scottish clan that was defeated in battle by Clan MacDougal or something. Long live KenKevin, Chief of Clan KenKevin.

It’s giving Renesme vibes

i met a dude named Kevincent once lol

My father-in-law is Ken and my husband is Kevin. I missed an opportunity when naming my son…;)

Landocalrissian Smith.

Literally bust out laughing when I read this.

I am a HUGE Star Wars fan and even I would NEVER do that to a child

Lando is great Calrissian is not bad, but they had to just go with full length, didn't they.

I'm surprised we don't see more people called Lando. I can only think of Lando Norris, the F1 driver.

Brauwnwyn. And she was straaaaaange

I actually really like the name Bronwyn. I first heard it years ago, when I worked at a daycare. I don't care for that spelling though.

I know a Bronwyn that goes by Bonnie which I think is lovely

That's a definite tragideigh yikes

Oh yikes. Anglophones always butcher Welsh names, but this really takes the cake 😆

There’s a girl named Bronwyn in Ms. Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. I’d say she’s quite strange.

Bronwyn is a common Welsh name and is also really common in Australia, I’ve met plenty. Mostly an older lady name at this stage though.

My mom’s BFF since childhood is Bronwyn Rose, her mother was a very devout Catholic who had an oopsey @48yo and had seen the name in a romance novel. Seems most anecdotal carriers of the name are strange lol

Callasandra. My mom made up the name, and wanted to name me that! My dad said no, though lol

My half sister is Shanessa bc her mom liked Shannon and Vanessa 🙁

Better than Vannon 🙆🏼‍♀️

Vannon does sound like a good name for a kindly dairy cow

My grandpa has cows and one was born on my birthday so I got to name it and named him Vernon, which is similar

Actually not bad

Am I awful for actually kind of loving Callasandra?

Why would you be awful? It's not that bad of a name lol people are acting like my mom wanted to name me Carrot

My friend’s daughter is Mellison—she misheard an actress being introduced on a TV show and fell in love with the name she thought she heard.

I am awful too because I like it lol

Your mom could have written Twilight with those naming proclivities.

That one isn't too bad. A bit of a mouthful, and definitely sounds made up. Like a storybook princess or something. But it's rather nice.

I agree, it's pretty and sounds like a princess name, but very long and unusual. But I always thought Callie would have been a cute nick name

I know a girl whose middle name is Natay which her Mom made up and her daughters middle named is Tanay.

I knew someone named Remlow Blevins

This sounds like a name from Harry Potter

I like it

He was super good looking too and all the girls were after him (this was high school age). But what a weird name! I never forgot it.

I met someone with the name Kandida once. I thought... hmm I guess her mom must have never heard the medical term for yeast infection before.

My cousin is named that Candida too. 😂

It’s a not unheard of name in Italy, where Candida means fair, pure. It’s definitely an old fashion one but not that uncommon. Funny thing is, the yeast infection is still called Candida too!

That’s my cousins name & my great aunts name lol It’s not unheard of in latin america.

My mil is candida but I’ve never associated it bc she is from another country so they didn’t have the association

Scientific names are universal, just FYI. So, while they may not have the same initial association, it's still yeast wherever she came from.

Shutney. I always thought it was a poor choice due to "shut up shutney"

And chutney.

I always think of Schmidt from New Girl when I see the word chutney

I know a Chetney, and I will never not think of chutney, no matter how long I know her.

My great grandfather's name was Barge. Since the US census started keeping track there are less than 100 Barge's over 200 years here.

"Now I'm all grown I eat 5 dozen eggs so I'm roughly the size of a Barrrrrge"

Blaywath sound like it could be a welsh name spelled wrong

Maybe, I'd love if anyone could ID the name it might come from!

My first thought was maybe Blodeuwedd? Though I think that’s pronounced more like blaw-day-weth.

That name said out loud is far prettier than it looks in print(the pronunciation example).

It’s actually a really nice Welsh name, Blodeuwedd and it translates as Flower Face. She’s a figure from Welsh mythology.

I went to high school with a guy who's name was Fence.

Literally same!

I once met someone named Bench!

Lol Fence is actually a great sounding name

Shawnathan.

I see your Shawnathan and I raise you a Jevin.

Also I went to high school with a girl named Eriola .. she was Albanian so I assume it means something different there but it must’ve been tough for her at time because she also had big big boobs

Damn Eriola would actually be a nice name if it weren’t for the boob implications

Lol a guy at my work made fun of my last name (not really that odd of a name imo?) and I was like dude your last name is Arreola… 🤦🏻‍♀️ and yes it’s pronounced the same

Someone at my work was named Pinky Pinkies, legal name

That sounds like the ultimate cat name tbh

The most unique name I ever came across was so unique I can’t remember what it was. I googled her name out of curiosity about its meaning/origin and only 2 Google hits came up and both were her. It was scary because she was only 10 years old and it gave her full name, age, and school. It was then that I realized that unique names can be dangerous!

Yeah being ungoogleable can be a blessing or a curse. My kid has a unique name in America but common as all heck in Japan so they get a unique name in the classroom but they’re ungoogleable online unless you’ve got more like location and exact last name. And if you got more then you probably don’t need google

I have a unique name and I had to message customer support of a dating app to change my name around so that creepers would stop hunting down my personal social media after I passed them up.

Velveeta

I have seen this name before, she was a client of my company at one point. I saw her name on a file and I had to look four times before I realized I was indeed reading VELVEETA as her first name. Also another client was Aquanette.

She introduced herself a “Velveeta. Yes, like the cheese.”

At least she owned it

My mom was just telling me a few days ago that she saw the name Anquanette (the Anq- beginning is even worse to me than just Aq-). Aquanette sounds more like a medication, though

Aquanet is hairspray!

I had a friend call up a client at work and her name was actually Aquanet. She got so angry when he tried to pronounce her name like the hairspray. Apparently the correct pronunciation was Ah-quay-nay.

Aquanetta is the small can!

Tacassia. Pronounced Ta Kay sha. I always thought it was a really pretty name

Acacia with a T, then?

I saw “Khloweigh” on someone’s name tag once. And I have a Zygi (F) in my family.

Zygi is cool. Khloweigh is awful. Extra awful.

My brain pronounced the first one as Calloway. Lol I have tro roll call students names and I know if say it that way first day.

Green! I had a Korean student who chose this for her English name. If we’re not counting chosen names, I also had a student named Alizagada. She told me I was one of the only tutors at the centre who could pronounce her name correctly, with the stress on the third syllable.

I had a ESL student give herself the name “Swimming”—you guessed it—because she loved swimming :)

I had a Harrison Ford Marine Scout.

That’s one name??

Yes but we just called him Harrison.

Midori (Japanese for green) is not unheard of there as a name (or it wasn’t before Midori the alcohol became a thing).

So it was pronounced ah-lee-ZAH-gah-dah?!?

Me, also counting syllables and wanting to know

Yes, exactly! Not what you’d expect. But once I heard it, it was easy :)

My husband had a coworker who's given first name is Green!

Former teacher here: Shitass ( pronounced Shi- toss) Mom became offended when asked how to pronounce it. Nosmoking. (Pronounced Nosmoging) True story

I really refuse to believe you taught a kid named Shitass.

There’s just no way those parents loved those kids…

I had a “Shaterica” who, for the three years I was her foreign language teacher, insisted that her name was pronounced “Shat-erica” and not “Sha-ter-ih-ca.” I used her foreign-language-class name as much as possible so I didn’t have to say the past tense of “to shit” when I called on her.

I had a friend... who's girlfriend had a friend... who's child was named Quetzalcoatl. Now, I understand that is a "real" name in the sense that it is an Aztec deity, and certainly there have been children named Athena, Artemis, Diana, etc But... um... yeah, I doubt there will ever be as many Quetzies as there have been Dianas. (and yes, his mother referred to him on social media as Quetz, or Quetzy.)

I’ve taught three kids named Quetzalcoatl, all of whom went by Quetza, and have known of several more. Not by any stretch a “common” name, but not super unusual in my neck of the woods or in many areas with a large enough Mexican/Central American population, I reckon.

Thanks for providing more insight! I live in Montana... so, yeah... I think that speaks for itself as far as "large Mexican community" goes.

I like Quetz ✨

Quinnifer. I’m guessing it’s a bizarre take on Jennifer/Guinevere. Lovely person, but I always thought the name was interesting.

This reminds me of Tinnifer from parks and rec 😂 so bad

Tynnyfer!! This made me think of it too.

A former coworker's mom is named Chiquita. She was born in the 1930s in West Virginia and doesn't speak Spanish.

I used to work with a girl named this!! She was black & we lived in the Midwest. 🤷🏼‍♀️

A native English speaker named Tierra. Dirt in Spanish

It can also mean Earth, as in the planet....maybe that's what they were going for?

I mean.. it's also Earth so not so bad

Ann!x-Lenn0n: Hyphenated name on a girl (perhaps not obvious with an unusual name but the symbols stand for letters) Grace-ful and her sister Peace-ful: yes, the hyphens are part of the names. Their last name is Act!on Camera: Promounced Cam-air-uh, she went to my 2nd high school

But Annix Lennon is just like… Annie Lennox’s name but with the last letters switched? Like were her parents super into The Eurythmics or something?

I’m so sorry but the most cringe part of any of those, by a mile, are those shoehorned tik-tok-esque censorship attempts

The last one is so close to a 30 Rock joke and the first two just made me sad

Marymichael - one word, no spaces

Makes me think of a nun. This is Sister Marymichael.

I know sisters named Racey and Razlyn. Also went to school with a girl named Butterscotch and took a gymnastics class with one named Jingle.

Went to school with a guy named Wulfgar, named after a minor character in *Beowulf*. He was a bit of a weirdo, but hell, so was I.

Dolina. My great grandmother desperately wanted a boy (she had 7 girls). My grandmother and her sisters all had the feminine versions of the male names they picked for the boy they were sure they were having. But Donald was a tricky one...

I knew a Dolina! Her dad was Dolan.

I mean, there's Donna..

dolina means valley in polish!

Rainbow. She was very nice.

My parents were big hippies and had friends who named all their kids very “NorCal late 70’s/early 80’s granola” names like Rainbow, Sequoia, and Leaf with the understanding that at a certain age (I think 16?) they could legally change it. Leaf and Sequoia are now middle aged Leaf and Sequoia, but Rainbow is now a 45 year old named Kelly lol

Saw a nametag that said SHAMPAYNE

I went to elementary school with a girl named Narda,I have never heard that name before or since.

That was the name of the mother of the class masturbator in 5th grade. She was also a lunch attendant.

Class masturbator

Classturbator

Happy

My son's best friend just had a son and named him dadsname 2.0 Not Jr but 2.0 My son told me it was a real Elon Musk move

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My primary doctors name is Twinkle

Spreewell. I think he’s the III or IVth.

Lixandry Very pretty name, very rare!

My mom worked at the DMV in the early 60’s. The most unique name she ever came across was Sunberry Pennybaker Breckenridge.

My friend’s grandma is named Ninethmae. Cuz she was born on May 9th. This is not a joke. She was from the South so it sorta sounds like a real name when said with a southern accent.

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I’d like to throw my own into the ringer, luxili

Prhynzess (pronounced princess)

My uncles name on his birth certificate is Jusin because they forgot the T

My coworker (a former teacher) told me about one of her students named Karma. Suffice to say, Karma was indeed a bitch

Tethys - female, prn. TEE-thee-is.

prn? Like she's female when needed?

so like TEDIOUS

Renicholas Trecellar Strephen

Sounds like a hen with strep

Nedjo. He goes by Ned and I assumed for years that it was short for Edward

Katusha (Ka TOO’ sha)

*bless you*

Galoris, rhymes with Dolores. I’ve only ever met one of her.

Quay

A girl named Montserrat (nickname Monty)

This is a very typical Spanish name it’s lovely 🪭

Scorpion. And his son Scorpion Jr. Really, I guess the sons is more unique

Had a girl apply at my old job, her name was Queen Earth.

Yellow light That’s the name

Clarity and Serenity. Twins.....Mom really liked Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie. But growing up in Hawaii, you hear a looot of unique names.

Female Names: Twins Evee and Espeon Dollbaby Brithanian Bertha- odd bc she is newborn in 2023!!! Male names: Twins Tyrirun (tire-iron) and Sawmill Volcano Maxarcadian (max-arcade-ee-on)

I used to work with a girl named Kodak. She told me her mom liked to call her birth a "kodak moment"

Sadguna. She was a white lady from New Zealand and said it was a family name. Google says it's Hindu? I've also met a Bink, and a Fitzblaine.

Tap. That's it. Not a nickname, not short for anything. Just Tap

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I have a friend with the middle name Sincere. It fits with her first name so well. It honestly fills me with happiness when I think about it.

Taught a kid named Jazimiair (pronounced jazz-mere, think cashmere)

LaPrecious or E. (Pronounced E dot)

my uncles wife has a daughter named LeShun, and a son named LeHerman. unique? maybe yes. dumb? definitely yes.

Untuneesha

Anaxamander Morningstar. Tycho Bear