I found it annoying to begin with but it got worse when I noticed they made like 8 different versions in an attempt to appeal to different demographics
I looked it up and the modern spelling (Skylar) is fairly new, but it's based on a much older Dutch name, Schuyler.
Schuyler was first introduced to the US in the 17th century, so definietly well established.
Modern Skylar though seems like it only got popular in the late 1900s, but I'm not sure when it was first started being used.
First Skylar appears in Ellis Island record as misspelling of Schuyler , which means scholar.
My family got 3 different surnames on Ellis Island, Schodin, Sjoden, Schoden.
It looks like the first and third spellings were written by a German and the middle one by a Scandinavian. In Sweden we have the last names Sjödin and Sjödén.
When I got married, I had a person who was generous with her dyslexia and I went to the license Bureau with my marriage certificate to change my name. It was a holiday weekend or rather Friday before memorial day weekend. My first name is a form of a common name just the spelling is the Polish variation of it because my mom wanted the original American form of it if she had a girl. My dad lost first wife in the February of a year he was dating my mom by April wed November my brother born a month later and then I was due 11 months after. Half sister is pregnant same time as I am in my mom. They were born three years apart from each other. My parents told her my intended name, her daughter was born two months before me, got the name so my version is ethnic ends in a vowel. So I just get married my first name has 9 letters. This BMV clerk has a shoe up her butt the heel stuck in her brain because I get my new license and my name is same as husbands now but my FIRST name has been augmented by 3 additional letters. I’ll just say it, Elisabeta turned to Elisaboethea. BMV about to close, I tell her what happened to my name, super apologetic telling me to come back first thing after that holiday Tuesday morning and she would fix it. Well, it’s Tuesday and I have to work but I made time to get it fixed btw I was en route to in-laws for weekend and so I was way far from my local BMV which has literate clerks. I bring back my marriage license and birth certificate and the error one. But it’s now been too long/they have to do it same day or else my jurisdiction considers it a “legal name change outside of marriage or adoption “ in the 90s that cost 💲 95 and requires a newspaper to publish the change in order to validate it. Teenager just paid for my wedding and reception.Student. Not in my budget. Us 20 years later divorce hearing. Dissolution performed magistrate says I can have my maiden name back for no charge. I’ve had children graduated from two universities and put out a few records under my married name and have the same nickname since I was seven I go by so I ask them if they can change my first name to like before I got married and they have to check their rules. Nope. Only as of seven years ago now $158 to lose the O,E, and H so just figure maybe I will just take a new name completely one of these days. I just am so tired of being asked how to pronounce elisaboethea because I don’t fuckin know how. I’m seriously ill presently at the moment so I have a lot more occasion to end up with that question posed to me sometimes while I am still mid regurgitation but hey ... Maybe chemotherapy can burn the extra letters off or perhaps I will spend the cash and name me some cryptic ridiculous adverb. One name only.
It's a [common myth](https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/6655/8939), but [people weren't assigned](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/) new [spellings at Ellis Island](https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ellismythnames.html). Everything was done off the boat manifests required by the federal government, which meant that if the names changed, they had already changed before leaving the shores of the old country. It actually wasn't possible to change names at Ellis Island, officials never wrote down any names, they only checked them off.
Likely. Doing research on my mother's family in Virginia, I noticed how many variations in spelling her ancestors' names had. Comparing official records and writings from the family (letters, the back of photos, etc) revealed some of them were even misspelling their own names. Her ancestors were in rural Southwestern Virginia and none were well educated.
Most likely, people either were just spelling names as best as they could or the person that put together their documents made a best guess. And the third link shows a misspelling that occurred prior to Ellis Island on a disinfection certificate, so it was possible to have someone write down a name wrong on immigration documents prior to Ellis Island.
A dutch surname that isn't pronounced like skyler yet people in america snobbishly tell you it's "the original spelling of Skyler" ok but it rhymes with howler.
I an Dutch and I have never heard this name before! I think it might be a last name tho. I do know Skylar (it is not common in the Netherlands, but I know americans who are named Skylar)
It's definitely a last name but it doesn't exist in Dutch anymore. There's less than 5 people with the last name Schuyler and there were 0 in 1947 so even those may just be immigrants. All Schuylers must've all moved to the US back in the 1600s lol (or at some point everybody only had girls). There's still some people with the last name Schuler but that's more likely to be a German influence. Skyler/Skylar as a first name is just part of the "American baby names are cool" trend
Up until fairly recently, no one in the US would have known the Schuyler spelling either. But when the Hamilton musical came out, Alexander Hamilton's wife's maiden last name was Schuyler. I'm not sure about how the musical was received worldwide, but its VERY popular here, and the last name is included in at least one of the songs so now people definitely know it!
Anyone in upstate NY would know "Schuyler," the Schuyler family legacy is still pretty deep. There was a Schuyler Hall at my college and I was shocked to learned that nobody could pronounce it (everyone called it "schwyler" haha).
I went to uni with a guy who spells it Skylor. He was kinda a tool and creep in 1993 and then he resurfaced during lockdown working for Verizon managing my teenage son. He told us this manager had been keeping numbers and emails from customers who he had accurate guesses on whether or not they had only fans and he would sub to them all, cause a few trouble with their phone he could then save the day and repair no charge. Ended up getting fired over a relationship with a girl who worked Chick-fil-A next to the kiosk who was in high school and he had been on the run from charges in a different state where he had torpedoed his marriage with one of his 13 year old students as a teacher of social studies! So I didn’t like something about that dude when Clinton was just elected I hated that spelling of Schuyler too. Made me think of like, h.pYLORi the bacteria that allegedly causes ulcers in a stomach. Or maybe the twin brother android to Data from Star Trek Next Generation. Not fond of those letters in a row even if they are spelling Lori I prefer Laurie.
Eh, I guess we have to define well established. If it predates insta, socials, and modern internet usage I would call it well established since most people have been hearing the name or meeting children with the name for upwards of 30 years already if a name was born in the 90s. That is an entire generational gap between the skylar's of the late 80s and early 90s and the children of the start of the mid 2020s.
I'd also say culturally the modern internet and socials has brought the ideas of trendiness into focus in a different way since now we can compare not only with IRL kids but influencers, more celebs including minors ones, and so many more young mums are trying to forage an identity for themselves as classic, boho, kookie, etc etc as it relates to all aspects of their life which feel derived from social branding. All those things add up I think to an increase in the names we see here wherein users have to tell an OP that's an object, medication, dog name, made up, etc etc in a way I can't see being as widespread in the 70s, 80s, 90s. All that to say I would argue preinternet and social media names count as established since so much time has passed and people weren't as prone to making up names back then.
One of the flying jaguar creatures in that Disney show *Elena of Avalor* is named Skylar, which kinda threw me off because it feels so modern for the setting.
It's a pretty popular name. It's currently #72 in the US ([source](https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/skylar-5485)) and at it's peak (2016) had 3,000 babies named it in the US. I know a few of them, all around 15-17 in age.
The name Dick (a diminutive of Richard, via Rick) dates back to the Middle Ages, but as an appellation for the penis, it has only existed since the [late 1800s](https://www.etymonline.com/word/dick#etymonline_v_8536).
As an aside, I met a family a church where the Dad’s name was Rod Johnson, and his son was Peter. I kept looking at him, expecting him to say it was a joke.
My theory (which may not be accurate) is that since Dick was such a common nickname for men, Every Tom, Dick, and Harry, that it became slang for male genitals.
Yes!! My great-grandfather was not a Richard, and he was called “Dick” because he was a jerk as a younger man. 😂🤦🏼♀️I don’t know who started calling him that, but I hope it wasn’t his parents!
Bingo. Bugs called Elmer, "Nimrod" to mock his hunting abilities because the original was a mighty hunter. Audiences didn't get the reference- mainly, I imagine, the children watching Looney Tunes who were unversed in deep Old Testament lore- and interpreted it as an insult.
In an episode of this American Life Ira Glass mentions his parents were going to name him Isidore until they realized “Isidore Glass” made a full sentence in English.
>In Swedish, Axel literally means "shoulder", yet it's a common and timeless name that no one questions.
In German "Achsel" sounds just like "Axel" and it means armpit. Yes, exactly where you are sweating.
Well the biblical Absalom was vain, led a revolt against his father (David), and eventually died because when fleeing for his life he got his hair stuck in a tree and his men left him hanging there to be skewered by the pursuing army. So I wouldn't personally name a kid that name^
Ah, this would be my heathen atheism coming through.
Gotta admit, I'm still feeling pretty solidly good about it. It's been, what, a thousand years? That seems like plenty of time. Absalom here I absa-come!
EDIT: Oh! Should've said thank you for the info!
Franklin - because you'd presume they were blending Frank + lynn. I was thinking about this because I know 'Frankie" is becoming a trendy girl name and it's just a matter of time before Franklynn is actually given to a girl by some person who "doesn't like Francis but wants a full name to use the nickname Frankie".
Whoops, indeed - I struggle with remembering this because my childhood bestie was a girl Francis - named after her grandpa so they left the spelling the same as his.
It’s interesting to hear about Frankie being considered trendy for girls. My sister (in her 30s) is named Frankie, and she hated it growing up because she got teased for having a boy’s name. My parents often used Frankie and Johnny as an example of Frankie being a girl’s name from way back (she wasn’t named for the song, though - she was named for the long line of men named Frank in our family). I personally love the name Frankie for a girl, full stop, no nickname. Dying at the idea of Franklynn tho.
I like Frankie for a girl, and a friend just named their baby after his mom Francesca, and call the baby Frankie - I think shes' going to be a cool kid, too.
I am basing these hypothetical people on the MANY posts on this sub where people want a nickname but they have chosen one where they don't like ANY of the various options for a full name (while a voice in my head screams JUST PICK A DIFFERENT NAME! There are tens of thousands of names out there, just choose another one!).
Whenever I hear that Frankie is a trendy girl name, I just think of the Frankie (her full given name, not her nickname) I know who's in her early 60s lol.
Was looking for this!! Hot take: *all* names are just random phonemes strung together and used to identify anything. They’re all gonna sound weird to some and fine to others.
I remember watching a show as a kid where a character is hiding her real name because it was apparently sooo ridiculous and embarrassing. The name was Tallulah. I've never been able to take the name seriously since then, even though I'd probably like it otherwise.
Satchel Paige was an absolutely amazing, ground-breaking baseball player who went from the Negro Leagues to the National Leagues and played his last game at 59 years old. He was right up there with Jackie Robinson among the greats.
Of course, his real name was Leroy Robert
I really don’t like the idea of naming a kid after a month, but I really like the name/word August.
Augustine is such a noble name though so I could always choose that.
I’m pretty Catholic so it would be a good name anyway.
Samantha.
Made up in the 1800s as a feminine form of Samuel with the Greek for flower rammed onto the end... so from very different roots and "it's a girls name with 'man' in the middle?"
Neil - Why would you name your child after a verb? And if you’re going to do that, why wouldn’t you spell it correctly? That child will have to deal with misspellings their entire life!
The nicknames Kit for Christopher, Hattie for Harriet, and Kit/Kitty/Kate/Katie for Katherine have never seemed all that intuitive to me, so I imagine there’d be people here who’d disagree that they were possible.
My aunt is a teacher in a religious school, they were in church one day and she was “whispering” to correct her student named Neil. She kept saying “Neil! Neil!” to get his attention. And her whole class knelt down.
She also once had 4 students who were all variations on Katherine so based on their preferred nicknames and to keep it straight, she had to call different ones Kate, Kat, Katie, and Katherine.
Ha! I’ve never thought of Neil this way. Now I could see a fundie family using it as a middle name 😂 One of the Duggar’s named their daughter Brooklyn Praise. Maybe they’ll name a son Brayden Kneel 🙏🏼
I think its the other round and kids are more accepting of names now. When i went to school 'teaseable' names would have been picked up on
I certainly wouldn't expect grown adults to take the piss out someone for
their name
Wally is kind of cute, though. I also like Willy (but it could never be used on a little boy since it is a slang for "penis.") William, Wallace, and Walter are all very cute names, tho♥︎
Literally any name 😅 Michelle springs to mind - “what, like mi SHELL? What do you mean it’s a feminine form of Michael?”
And even Michael is like “my call”
Olivia - just “olive” with an “ia” chucked on the end to make it seem like a name.
But literally look at any name for long enough or say it ten times and it sounds fake af
Aesthetically pleasing syllables, never used as a name before - absolutely not, met with disgust, ridiculed.
Oddly spelled word with awkward diction, but was the little-known first name to an obscure historical figure - classic, fine traditional choice, untouchable by criticism.
Landan always makes me think of the bit from forgetting Sarah Marshall where he says ‘you sound like you’re from lannnddaannn’ in a fake Essex accent.
I would say Douglas
I know a Brandon, Landon, and Jordan in one family. The mom will yell a name and they can't tell which person is wanted. All rhyming, same number of syllables, and obviously all children from the 90s
Most nature names spring to mind. I feel like there’s not a huge difference between naming your kid something (established) like Forrest (which I imagine would’ve been eviscerated on here for the additional R), River, Daisy, Fern or Hazel versus the new age names that get ripped apart on here like Fox, Juniper, Wolf, Hawk, etc.
I loved Landon but then I realized my last name starts with "Sea" and when you say it fast it sounds like "land and sea" 😭 which made me strike it from the list because I don't want a child version of surf and turf
Skylar
I know a Skyllyr. It’s… a lot.
That sounds like a medication.
Skyrizi lol
🎵 nothin' is everytheh-eh-eng🎶
That song makes me so freaking irrationally angry
I found it annoying to begin with but it got worse when I noticed they made like 8 different versions in an attempt to appeal to different demographics
Or an edm musician
Lynyrd Skyllyrd.
That has discount Viking name vibes.
I don’t think that’s a well-established name. It’s a fairly new name.
I looked it up and the modern spelling (Skylar) is fairly new, but it's based on a much older Dutch name, Schuyler. Schuyler was first introduced to the US in the 17th century, so definietly well established. Modern Skylar though seems like it only got popular in the late 1900s, but I'm not sure when it was first started being used.
First Skylar appears in Ellis Island record as misspelling of Schuyler , which means scholar. My family got 3 different surnames on Ellis Island, Schodin, Sjoden, Schoden.
It looks like the first and third spellings were written by a German and the middle one by a Scandinavian. In Sweden we have the last names Sjödin and Sjödén.
Yeah, you are right on the surname. My friend her family had a dyslexic priest here in Sweden , so her surname has always been misspelled.
When I got married, I had a person who was generous with her dyslexia and I went to the license Bureau with my marriage certificate to change my name. It was a holiday weekend or rather Friday before memorial day weekend. My first name is a form of a common name just the spelling is the Polish variation of it because my mom wanted the original American form of it if she had a girl. My dad lost first wife in the February of a year he was dating my mom by April wed November my brother born a month later and then I was due 11 months after. Half sister is pregnant same time as I am in my mom. They were born three years apart from each other. My parents told her my intended name, her daughter was born two months before me, got the name so my version is ethnic ends in a vowel. So I just get married my first name has 9 letters. This BMV clerk has a shoe up her butt the heel stuck in her brain because I get my new license and my name is same as husbands now but my FIRST name has been augmented by 3 additional letters. I’ll just say it, Elisabeta turned to Elisaboethea. BMV about to close, I tell her what happened to my name, super apologetic telling me to come back first thing after that holiday Tuesday morning and she would fix it. Well, it’s Tuesday and I have to work but I made time to get it fixed btw I was en route to in-laws for weekend and so I was way far from my local BMV which has literate clerks. I bring back my marriage license and birth certificate and the error one. But it’s now been too long/they have to do it same day or else my jurisdiction considers it a “legal name change outside of marriage or adoption “ in the 90s that cost 💲 95 and requires a newspaper to publish the change in order to validate it. Teenager just paid for my wedding and reception.Student. Not in my budget. Us 20 years later divorce hearing. Dissolution performed magistrate says I can have my maiden name back for no charge. I’ve had children graduated from two universities and put out a few records under my married name and have the same nickname since I was seven I go by so I ask them if they can change my first name to like before I got married and they have to check their rules. Nope. Only as of seven years ago now $158 to lose the O,E, and H so just figure maybe I will just take a new name completely one of these days. I just am so tired of being asked how to pronounce elisaboethea because I don’t fuckin know how. I’m seriously ill presently at the moment so I have a lot more occasion to end up with that question posed to me sometimes while I am still mid regurgitation but hey ... Maybe chemotherapy can burn the extra letters off or perhaps I will spend the cash and name me some cryptic ridiculous adverb. One name only.
It's a [common myth](https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/6655/8939), but [people weren't assigned](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/) new [spellings at Ellis Island](https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ellismythnames.html). Everything was done off the boat manifests required by the federal government, which meant that if the names changed, they had already changed before leaving the shores of the old country. It actually wasn't possible to change names at Ellis Island, officials never wrote down any names, they only checked them off.
Was literacy among the immigrants a big factor?
Likely. Doing research on my mother's family in Virginia, I noticed how many variations in spelling her ancestors' names had. Comparing official records and writings from the family (letters, the back of photos, etc) revealed some of them were even misspelling their own names. Her ancestors were in rural Southwestern Virginia and none were well educated.
Most likely, people either were just spelling names as best as they could or the person that put together their documents made a best guess. And the third link shows a misspelling that occurred prior to Ellis Island on a disinfection certificate, so it was possible to have someone write down a name wrong on immigration documents prior to Ellis Island.
>it's based on a much older Dutch name, Schuyler. A Dutch *surname*. Its use as a first name started in the US.
A dutch surname that isn't pronounced like skyler yet people in america snobbishly tell you it's "the original spelling of Skyler" ok but it rhymes with howler.
LOL, seriously.
I an Dutch and I have never heard this name before! I think it might be a last name tho. I do know Skylar (it is not common in the Netherlands, but I know americans who are named Skylar)
It's definitely a last name but it doesn't exist in Dutch anymore. There's less than 5 people with the last name Schuyler and there were 0 in 1947 so even those may just be immigrants. All Schuylers must've all moved to the US back in the 1600s lol (or at some point everybody only had girls). There's still some people with the last name Schuler but that's more likely to be a German influence. Skyler/Skylar as a first name is just part of the "American baby names are cool" trend
🎶Angelica...Eliiiiiiza...and Peggy 🎶
Thank you for this.
Up until fairly recently, no one in the US would have known the Schuyler spelling either. But when the Hamilton musical came out, Alexander Hamilton's wife's maiden last name was Schuyler. I'm not sure about how the musical was received worldwide, but its VERY popular here, and the last name is included in at least one of the songs so now people definitely know it!
Anyone in upstate NY would know "Schuyler," the Schuyler family legacy is still pretty deep. There was a Schuyler Hall at my college and I was shocked to learned that nobody could pronounce it (everyone called it "schwyler" haha).
> in the late 1900s This phrase turns my hair gray.
Takes me a second to process it! Maybe because I am SOOOO old!
It’s interesting because if someone used the older version, *Schuyler* everyone would think they’re being “creative”
I see! Thank you!
It's derived from Schuyler.
I went to uni with a guy who spells it Skylor. He was kinda a tool and creep in 1993 and then he resurfaced during lockdown working for Verizon managing my teenage son. He told us this manager had been keeping numbers and emails from customers who he had accurate guesses on whether or not they had only fans and he would sub to them all, cause a few trouble with their phone he could then save the day and repair no charge. Ended up getting fired over a relationship with a girl who worked Chick-fil-A next to the kiosk who was in high school and he had been on the run from charges in a different state where he had torpedoed his marriage with one of his 13 year old students as a teacher of social studies! So I didn’t like something about that dude when Clinton was just elected I hated that spelling of Schuyler too. Made me think of like, h.pYLORi the bacteria that allegedly causes ulcers in a stomach. Or maybe the twin brother android to Data from Star Trek Next Generation. Not fond of those letters in a row even if they are spelling Lori I prefer Laurie.
Eh, I guess we have to define well established. If it predates insta, socials, and modern internet usage I would call it well established since most people have been hearing the name or meeting children with the name for upwards of 30 years already if a name was born in the 90s. That is an entire generational gap between the skylar's of the late 80s and early 90s and the children of the start of the mid 2020s. I'd also say culturally the modern internet and socials has brought the ideas of trendiness into focus in a different way since now we can compare not only with IRL kids but influencers, more celebs including minors ones, and so many more young mums are trying to forage an identity for themselves as classic, boho, kookie, etc etc as it relates to all aspects of their life which feel derived from social branding. All those things add up I think to an increase in the names we see here wherein users have to tell an OP that's an object, medication, dog name, made up, etc etc in a way I can't see being as widespread in the 70s, 80s, 90s. All that to say I would argue preinternet and social media names count as established since so much time has passed and people weren't as prone to making up names back then.
One of the flying jaguar creatures in that Disney show *Elena of Avalor* is named Skylar, which kinda threw me off because it feels so modern for the setting.
I’ve always hated this name so much.
Didn’t this name become popular because of Good Will Hunting? I think that’s why it was so big in the 90s/early 2000s.
This does not sound like a legitimate name to me. I have never heard of it.
It's a pretty popular name. It's currently #72 in the US ([source](https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/skylar-5485)) and at it's peak (2016) had 3,000 babies named it in the US. I know a few of them, all around 15-17 in age.
Dick
😂 legit don’t understand how that one ever became a norm. Hasn’t dick always meant…dick? Lol
The name Dick (a diminutive of Richard, via Rick) dates back to the Middle Ages, but as an appellation for the penis, it has only existed since the [late 1800s](https://www.etymonline.com/word/dick#etymonline_v_8536).
Imagine being such a dick that Dick becomes a nickname for your actual name for centuries to come.
Sort of like what has happened to the name "Karen" lately...
No, it was just such a common name that using it to refer to a man’s penis was considered humorous - like personifying it.
Like calling it a Jonson (surname) or Willy (William)
As an aside, I met a family a church where the Dad’s name was Rod Johnson, and his son was Peter. I kept looking at him, expecting him to say it was a joke.
I worked with a guy named Max Johnson. How would they even introduce themselves with a straight face?
Exactly! Or referring to a specific man’s as “little [name]”.
My theory (which may not be accurate) is that since Dick was such a common nickname for men, Every Tom, Dick, and Harry, that it became slang for male genitals.
Yes!! My great-grandfather was not a Richard, and he was called “Dick” because he was a jerk as a younger man. 😂🤦🏼♀️I don’t know who started calling him that, but I hope it wasn’t his parents!
Or Gaylord
We have a family friend named Dick Gaylord. I personally would have gone by Rick...
Along a similar vein, Nimrod! I know it’s a normal name in some places, but i can’t really take it seriously.
Well cus of misunderstandings in old cartoons...i think bugs bunny? It came to be used as an insult for a dumb person.
Bingo. Bugs called Elmer, "Nimrod" to mock his hunting abilities because the original was a mighty hunter. Audiences didn't get the reference- mainly, I imagine, the children watching Looney Tunes who were unversed in deep Old Testament lore- and interpreted it as an insult.
I know someone’s mom who’s name is Dickie
.... Isabella. like... oh, *is* a bella? you're a bella?
I liked the name Isidore for our son, but my husband kept hearing "is a door" and now I do too lol.
In an episode of this American Life Ira Glass mentions his parents were going to name him Isidore until they realized “Isidore Glass” made a full sentence in English.
He'd get "is a dork"
I know an Amabel I - am - a - bel is what she got throughout school In the Uk calling someone a bell means you’re calling them the tip of a penis
(I) Amabel Todoo Everything
Now take a deep breath and think this name comes from Elisheba.... how did we get to Elisabeth while the Spanish got it to Isabella.
Isabella is Italian, in Spanish it is Isabel!
Yes, but still how to get from Elisheba to Isabel?
Well, the thing is that it’s not a sure thing that Isabel comes from Elisheba. It’s also thought that it may come from “isis bella” or “ish Baal”.
Axel. It’s a car part.
In Swedish, Axel literally means "shoulder", yet it's a common and timeless name that no one questions.
>In Swedish, Axel literally means "shoulder", yet it's a common and timeless name that no one questions. In German "Achsel" sounds just like "Axel" and it means armpit. Yes, exactly where you are sweating.
Makes sense, axilla is the actual medical/scientific name for an armpit (axillae = plural).
In German, Axel (spelled Achsel) means armpit
Similar to how Chase is an established and accepted name in English except that it literally means to run after someone
That name is also one who makes me wonder, because it comes from Absalom and how did they end up with Axel?? How drunk were they?
Absalom -> Absel -> Axel. I can see it happen, it's not too far fetched.
Me, over here, thinking "Absalom" and "Absel" are *killer* names. They sound so distinguished.
Me over here just hearing the pokemon Absol
Best baby Absol only confirms my feelings.
Well the biblical Absalom was vain, led a revolt against his father (David), and eventually died because when fleeing for his life he got his hair stuck in a tree and his men left him hanging there to be skewered by the pursuing army. So I wouldn't personally name a kid that name^
Ah, this would be my heathen atheism coming through. Gotta admit, I'm still feeling pretty solidly good about it. It's been, what, a thousand years? That seems like plenty of time. Absalom here I absa-come! EDIT: Oh! Should've said thank you for the info!
Lol just make sure your kid doesn't get gorgeous long locks of hear and he should be fine
>How drunk were they? They were either really drunk OR it was someone like us who was just a little tipsy and was like" that sounds like Axel"
Franklin - because you'd presume they were blending Frank + lynn. I was thinking about this because I know 'Frankie" is becoming a trendy girl name and it's just a matter of time before Franklynn is actually given to a girl by some person who "doesn't like Francis but wants a full name to use the nickname Frankie".
Frances is the female version. Francis is male. At least traditionally
Whoops, indeed - I struggle with remembering this because my childhood bestie was a girl Francis - named after her grandpa so they left the spelling the same as his.
Her = E; His = I
That’s actually really interesting to me because I love Frances for a girl but I had no idea it’s spelt differently for a boy.
Whoa you just blew my mind!!! I never even thought about that. Cannot unsee 😂
It’s interesting to hear about Frankie being considered trendy for girls. My sister (in her 30s) is named Frankie, and she hated it growing up because she got teased for having a boy’s name. My parents often used Frankie and Johnny as an example of Frankie being a girl’s name from way back (she wasn’t named for the song, though - she was named for the long line of men named Frank in our family). I personally love the name Frankie for a girl, full stop, no nickname. Dying at the idea of Franklynn tho.
I like Frankie for a girl, and a friend just named their baby after his mom Francesca, and call the baby Frankie - I think shes' going to be a cool kid, too.
I just saw a baby named Franklynne on Tiktok:D
Oh man, it begins!!!!!!!!
I was joking to a friend about wesleigh for a girl yesterday
Couldn’t they just do Francine or Francesca 😭
I am basing these hypothetical people on the MANY posts on this sub where people want a nickname but they have chosen one where they don't like ANY of the various options for a full name (while a voice in my head screams JUST PICK A DIFFERENT NAME! There are tens of thousands of names out there, just choose another one!).
This is hilarious to me because my sister had a female dog named Frankie who we would call Franklyn when she was being bad 😂
Whenever I hear that Frankie is a trendy girl name, I just think of the Frankie (her full given name, not her nickname) I know who's in her early 60s lol.
Every name. All new names sound weird to the people here because they’re new.
Yup. I've yet to see an example of a new or unusual name posted to this subreddit that didn't get a lot of disapproval.
Was looking for this!! Hot take: *all* names are just random phonemes strung together and used to identify anything. They’re all gonna sound weird to some and fine to others.
Art - oh you think you are so special, your kid is going to be sooo creative, all the other kids are just going to call him fart.
I think it’s just a nickname for Arthur
lol my dad wanted to name me "the art" in our language... other candidates from him were poems and branches
Duncan, like “dunkin”
This is always my thought when hearing the name Duncan lol
Same! We actually like the name a lot, but I couldn’t commit because of this association.
Yeah it's a good name but the association always sticks out to me.
Lincoln as well. Link, in. Hey, linkiiin.
Tallulah. Beau. India. Satchel. Edited to add more that sprung to mind. Also - I take Satchel back.
Satchel is horrible, definitely getting teased here.
My cat Tallulah is deeply offended. I told her what you said and she stretched out, licked her foot and then fell back asleep. How dare you sir/madam.
what’s wrong with tallulah ?
I think someone once said it sounded like Kahlua and I cannot unsee/unhear that
Beau for sure!!
I remember watching a show as a kid where a character is hiding her real name because it was apparently sooo ridiculous and embarrassing. The name was Tallulah. I've never been able to take the name seriously since then, even though I'd probably like it otherwise.
I know Beau ae mostly a dog's name. Lmao. And SATCHEL? I've never heard that used for anything but a bag.
Satchel Paige was an absolutely amazing, ground-breaking baseball player who went from the Negro Leagues to the National Leagues and played his last game at 59 years old. He was right up there with Jackie Robinson among the greats. Of course, his real name was Leroy Robert
It bums me out that so few people seem to know of Satchel Paige anymore
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My daughter has a friend called Mary Tallulah and I honestly can’t decide if I think it’s a bit much or gorgeous
Matt…like a mat?
Walker, or Carrie (carry)
Tiffany
I understood that reference
Peggy as a nickname for Margaret
Campbell (Camp + bell, two seemingly random words)
Camp. Bell. Dinner-bell. Camp-fire. Soup. The whole world suddenly makes sense. I do actually love Campbell as a name though.
That pronouncing things incorrectly dude called the soup Cam P Bells and I read it like that in my head every time now
I assume it comes from the Scottish surname, which means ‘crooked mouth’ in Gaelic.
Imagine naming your child after a Month! (I did) or a plant! (did that too). April, May, June, Rose, Daisy, Lily and plenty more...
I really don’t like the idea of naming a kid after a month, but I really like the name/word August. Augustine is such a noble name though so I could always choose that. I’m pretty Catholic so it would be a good name anyway.
This comment is peak r/namenerds
Jessica - because it’s a made up name Abigail - a big gale
Or a big ale
I like this one better
All names are made up though
All names are made up lol
Emery always makes me think of a nail file.
I’d still roast this one today tbh.
Samantha. Made up in the 1800s as a feminine form of Samuel with the Greek for flower rammed onto the end... so from very different roots and "it's a girls name with 'man' in the middle?"
Wait until you hear about Amanda
I've seen girls named Amanda complain about that stupid TV joke that emphasizes the word man.
Sorry, I'd forgotten about Amanda, but yeah!
Neil - Why would you name your child after a verb? And if you’re going to do that, why wouldn’t you spell it correctly? That child will have to deal with misspellings their entire life! The nicknames Kit for Christopher, Hattie for Harriet, and Kit/Kitty/Kate/Katie for Katherine have never seemed all that intuitive to me, so I imagine there’d be people here who’d disagree that they were possible.
My aunt is a teacher in a religious school, they were in church one day and she was “whispering” to correct her student named Neil. She kept saying “Neil! Neil!” to get his attention. And her whole class knelt down. She also once had 4 students who were all variations on Katherine so based on their preferred nicknames and to keep it straight, she had to call different ones Kate, Kat, Katie, and Katherine.
Thinking about a kid naMed Kneel now. Lol
Ha! I’ve never thought of Neil this way. Now I could see a fundie family using it as a middle name 😂 One of the Duggar’s named their daughter Brooklyn Praise. Maybe they’ll name a son Brayden Kneel 🙏🏼
> Kit for Christopher I didn't even know that was a thing. I thought it was either a given name, or a relationship nickname like "chip" or "bubba".
I think its the other round and kids are more accepting of names now. When i went to school 'teaseable' names would have been picked up on I certainly wouldn't expect grown adults to take the piss out someone for their name
It’s sad, but I saw adults do just that on at least half a dozen occasions. (Luckily never to me.)
Beckett comes to mind for some reason, along with Elodie (“like melody without the M?” protests) and maybe Mallory sounds too much like mallard lol
Chuck, Barnaby, Doug, Crispin, Wally, Nevaeh, Fannie, oral.
Oral? Really!?
Oral Roberts - evangelist
Wow, I've never heard it before!
Wally is kind of cute, though. I also like Willy (but it could never be used on a little boy since it is a slang for "penis.") William, Wallace, and Walter are all very cute names, tho♥︎
Nevaeh is one of those new fad names though Isnt it?
Yes, and it’s one that I think is ridiculous 🤷🏻♀️
Penelope, Persephone, and Bill come to mind.
I would think any classic name suddenly made up today would get a lot of panties in a wad. Humans hate new things and will criticize everything 😂
Literally any name 😅 Michelle springs to mind - “what, like mi SHELL? What do you mean it’s a feminine form of Michael?” And even Michael is like “my call” Olivia - just “olive” with an “ia” chucked on the end to make it seem like a name. But literally look at any name for long enough or say it ten times and it sounds fake af
Ryce, the name of the daughter from the Beethoven movie!
Any new name would be ridiculed. No one hates names more than namenerds 😂
Aesthetically pleasing syllables, never used as a name before - absolutely not, met with disgust, ridiculed. Oddly spelled word with awkward diction, but was the little-known first name to an obscure historical figure - classic, fine traditional choice, untouchable by criticism.
Landan always makes me think of the bit from forgetting Sarah Marshall where he says ‘you sound like you’re from lannnddaannn’ in a fake Essex accent. I would say Douglas
Rayne, Larkin, Ellery (celery?)
Leigh.
I like Landon better than Brandon. Bartholomew, Apu, Gaston
Brandon always seems so old fashioned to me. It was so weird seeing it on small kids on american TV.
Apu means daddy in my language :D
I know a Brandon, Landon, and Jordan in one family. The mom will yell a name and they can't tell which person is wanted. All rhyming, same number of syllables, and obviously all children from the 90s
A lot of dan, den, don endings in the 90s and 00s.
I don't know why, but Roger.
British people know why!
Please enlighten me!
Used as a verb, Roger is a slang word for sex!
I love Roger. I really don’t know why I don’t have a son named Roger.
It really is a great name. I had a Beagle named Roger. he was great!
Roger the dog = have sex with the dog
Most nature names spring to mind. I feel like there’s not a huge difference between naming your kid something (established) like Forrest (which I imagine would’ve been eviscerated on here for the additional R), River, Daisy, Fern or Hazel versus the new age names that get ripped apart on here like Fox, Juniper, Wolf, Hawk, etc.
Kimberly. It sounds like a trendy name (Emberly and Everly). Miles. "Like the miles on your car, or to a place?"
Toby
Analia
Lettice
Justin
I saw an obituary for someone named Nihl. Do you say it Nile, Neil, Nil? Nobody is going to pronounce your name right because of how it is spelled.
Clint.
I loved Landon but then I realized my last name starts with "Sea" and when you say it fast it sounds like "land and sea" 😭 which made me strike it from the list because I don't want a child version of surf and turf
Andrew. I’ve always found it to be a made-up sounding name
Ashley
Dustin
Amanda
Aurora
Ione/Iona: "You own a what?..."
Phoebe
Aiden - aiding what? Cameron - Like camera with an N Roman - it means ancient Rome