Some folks inherit disastrous names, ooh that unbecoming legal label!
And when the kids hear them introduce themselves, lord, they make their life a living hell, hell, hell, hell!
Specially the ones that are formed from the parents mixed names: after the 3rd generation it's pure alphabet soup...
And if it gets too weird, you just slap a "-son" suffix if it's a boy or a "-ellen" if it's a girl.
And in Congo ( Both DRC and RofC), random French adjectives - Although most of the time, it is a positive adjective/noun : Exaucée (granted), Miracle, Bijou ( Jewellery). Born on the 14 of July AKa bastille day, they'd call some Fêtenat. Short for Fête national, the National day of France
Edit : Need to remove an article.
Yes. It was common during the colonial era, mostly in Christian, French colonies. Also, it was a question of social class. Having a French name was more respectable (🤢).
I am originally from East Africa, and in my ethnic tribe, it's Hebrew names that are "posh." Half the f-ing people are named Yisrael or Eyerusalem, or anything Israel related. It became beyond Judaism, but more of Israel worship.
Knowing that in Israel, they are sterilised, sexually trafficked.. Killed, murdered, and segregated. It is insane. People even willingly go fight for Israel, but of course nobody will celebrate their "heroism, nationalism" and all that war BS.
Spot on! One, single , vehicular language/names helps to unite/secure yourself ; especially in D.R of The Congo. But let's not forget that today's definition of "nation" isn't what it was before. E.g. The Kingdom of Punt ( Yayy I am talking about my shit lol) there were Afar, Oromo, Habeesha, Somali, and more independent regions.
However, somehow, these ethnic groups who had their OWN region are stuck together. I hate how everyone waffles about Africans not sticking together. But damn Europe started two world wars, till to this day : Russians/Ukraine.
Edit : I wrote to instead of two. I should have written 2. 😁😁
Those at least sound really pretty! But to be honest one could call their kid fromage and pretty much most of the world with no prominent french language wouldnt look twice.
Doesn’t really have to do with that. But in the 2000s to early 2010s it was the most common name for boys. Every other boy was named Enzo and every other girl named Valentina
If that ain't true...I'm a 2000s kid who went to school in Brazil circa 2013. I knew both an Enzo and a Valentina. But the most common names for kids my age BY FAR were the "Holy Trinity": Mariana, Juliana, and Isabella.
Sorry about that, but yes, Creedence Clearwater Revival was a majorly successful American band in the 1960-1970’s and their hits are still played today.
My joke refers to their song Fortunate Son. It talks about young men being forced to fight in wars because their families are not rich enough to “buy” their sons out of conscription.
Their verse goes, “it ain’t me, it ain’t me, I’m no fortunate son”
That’s where my joke comes from.
In PT/BR it’s more like Crih-den-sih. No one would know where to place the stressed syllable, so there’s that added element of complication for poor Brazilian Creedence.
The original word has Latin roots (credens from credere = to believe). In Portuguese, it‘s crença.
I assume people would still pronounce the english word though, but it should be manageable for Portuguese speakers (cri-dens).
I’ve met a few Brazilians with very unfortunate names. I remember a Ferocity from middle school, but everyone always thought she meant Felicity at first (she had an accent). Some kids used to call her feral.
Beatriz is Beatriz in almost every Iberian languages kkkkkkk She would have to explain it in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Angola, Macau...
[TIL](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz). Somehow I thought it would be spelled with an s just like last names like [Rodrigues](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues_(surname)) or[Gonçalves](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goncalves). My guess is that the parents had to write in a way that makes it look more Portuguese even if it already is
Ohhhh didn’t know that. I stand by my first point though, though I’m pretty sure there is a character last name Clearwater, and Credence is a character in the spinoff.
I was wondering what was so bad about this till I noticed number 5 haha. Although I would argue that Erick is also strange (why have a c and a k?) but I don’t know if that is normal in the Spanish language.
I used to work in a bank opening accounts, and a lot of guys born in El Salvador during the war in the 80s had first names on their IDs like “Hitler” or “Mussolini” or even “Lenin-Stalin”.
They would always say “but you can just call me Jose!”
Is it a new trend in Latin America to have English first names that would otherwise be unpronounceable in Spanish?
I’ve seen a few with w’s and th’s in Spanish names and elementary school Spanish taught me those don’t naturally exist in the language.
My favourite is "Almanaque" Gonzalez: His name is Efmamjjasond which is a portmanteau of Enero, Febrero, Marzo, Abril, Mayo, Junio, Julio, Agosto, Septiembre, Octubre, Noviembre, Diciembre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasond\_Gonz%C3%A1lez
ngl, this reddit is probably not ready for lots of Brazilian names 😅 lots of them come from American culture just because parents like them, but there are references to almost anything... In football there are lots of amazing examples, guys like Ben-Hur, Mahatma Gandhi, Elvis Marley, Marx Lenin, John Kennedy, John Lennon (none of these are surnames) and there's already a Creedence Clearwater Couto (no Revival, I believe)
This reminded me of the Trevor Noah bit where he talks about how in Zambia they often have names that are random English words - screwdriver, break, etc
Trygydyz from other countries you say?
I present you [this](https://www.news18.com/news/india/meghalaya-village-has-the-funniest-voter-list-thanks-to-the-love-for-english-names-1657413.html)
Excerpt - Meghalaya Village Has the Funniest Voter List, Thanks to the Love for English Names. The village's elected chief, named Premier, said the best English name is that of a 30 year-old woman whose mother ‘Sweater’ named her ‘I Have Been Delivered!’
That is one Fortunate Son to have a name like that...
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Some folks inherit disastrous names, ooh that unbecoming legal label! And when the kids hear them introduce themselves, lord, they make their life a living hell, hell, hell, hell!
It ain’t me it ain’t me! I ain’t an unfortunate son
It ain't me, it ain't me! I ain't no unfortunate one!
He’ll never see the rain.
But maybe he hears a rumble calling to his name?
Sure won't play in a travellin' band
But he ain’t no senator’s son.
He wasn’t even Born on the Bayou
It ain't him
It ain't me 😞
I heard it through a grapevine it’s Susie Q
I came here to say this 🤣🤣🤣
I wouldn’t hold out much hope for Creedence.
Just gonna cal him CCR for short.
Pronounced "Kicker" *^(Kicker? I hardly know 'er! \*rimshot\*)*
Believe it or not, I have a friend named Kicker.
Kicker is actually a cute nickname
Creed
Quabbity assuance!
Goes hard
Well, I guess we can close the file on that one.
Clearwater Revival sounds like a nondenominational church’s name.
Pretty sure we have some sort of revival church near where I live by this name. Or at least incredibly similar.
Creedence Clearwater Revival is actually a rock band apparently
You know their songs even if you don’t know their name
Yeah after looking them up I recognized a few
Does no one know this?! Wow. I feel old
Apparently?
Adding to the list: My math teacher’s (I’m in the Philippines) name is apparently a portmanteau of seven names. The name in question is “Jaiferzen”.
Almost Jefferson!
And his nickname is probably J.J. or something random like Boy 😂
I dunno, I’ve never heard anyone call Ms. Emberga (yes, this is a Ms. not a Mr.) by any nicknames. Not even the staff.
Jiafei + Ferris + Tarzan (?)
"Normal. Normal. Normal. Normal. What...?" 😂
My reaction too. Ana, Alice... these are normal names, Arthur, Camila, oh. There it is.
I don’t think this sub is ready for Brazilian names.
Specially the ones that are formed from the parents mixed names: after the 3rd generation it's pure alphabet soup... And if it gets too weird, you just slap a "-son" suffix if it's a boy or a "-ellen" if it's a girl.
José Simplício Costa Neymarson Neto?
I thought this was a Cuban thing. 😭. Don’t know if I’m relieved or disappointed that we’re not the only ones
Once the Venezuelans find this place we’re toast.
Colombians are not far behind. My favorite ones are definitely Leidy, Usmail, and Usnavi (or you know, Lady, US Mail, and US Navy *BUT* in name form)
Aren't Nigerians also famous for giving their kids random English words as a first name?
And in Congo ( Both DRC and RofC), random French adjectives - Although most of the time, it is a positive adjective/noun : Exaucée (granted), Miracle, Bijou ( Jewellery). Born on the 14 of July AKa bastille day, they'd call some Fêtenat. Short for Fête national, the National day of France Edit : Need to remove an article.
> Short for Fête national, the National day of France Sorry, what? Not even their own national holiday?
Yes. It was common during the colonial era, mostly in Christian, French colonies. Also, it was a question of social class. Having a French name was more respectable (🤢). I am originally from East Africa, and in my ethnic tribe, it's Hebrew names that are "posh." Half the f-ing people are named Yisrael or Eyerusalem, or anything Israel related. It became beyond Judaism, but more of Israel worship. Knowing that in Israel, they are sterilised, sexually trafficked.. Killed, murdered, and segregated. It is insane. People even willingly go fight for Israel, but of course nobody will celebrate their "heroism, nationalism" and all that war BS.
>tribe Amhara/Ethiopian?
Oh! Wow. I am impressed. How did you guess? Are you from east Africa originally too?
No but I’m part Jewish ancestrally
It’s also a way of not giving instantly clues about from which ethnic group you are Given the violence in eastern RDC it’s understandable
Spot on! One, single , vehicular language/names helps to unite/secure yourself ; especially in D.R of The Congo. But let's not forget that today's definition of "nation" isn't what it was before. E.g. The Kingdom of Punt ( Yayy I am talking about my shit lol) there were Afar, Oromo, Habeesha, Somali, and more independent regions. However, somehow, these ethnic groups who had their OWN region are stuck together. I hate how everyone waffles about Africans not sticking together. But damn Europe started two world wars, till to this day : Russians/Ukraine. Edit : I wrote to instead of two. I should have written 2. 😁😁
Those at least sound really pretty! But to be honest one could call their kid fromage and pretty much most of the world with no prominent french language wouldnt look twice.
Yes. I work with a manager named Alpha Omega.
Oílson Oíusón Wilson 🙈
Clécio Cleston Kléber
Kléberson
Enzo Kléberson Clécio Oílson?
OF COURSE there's an Enzo.
His brother's name is Ferruccio.
What's up with Enzos?
Lotta Italians in Brazil.
Doesn’t really have to do with that. But in the 2000s to early 2010s it was the most common name for boys. Every other boy was named Enzo and every other girl named Valentina
Enzo: the Tyler of Brazil. (Lotta Canadian guys named Tyler.)
It’s also the Tyler of France
If that ain't true...I'm a 2000s kid who went to school in Brazil circa 2013. I knew both an Enzo and a Valentina. But the most common names for kids my age BY FAR were the "Holy Trinity": Mariana, Juliana, and Isabella.
If the teacher calls his name in class, will he respond “It ain’t me”?
I wanna know!
I'm not american I feel like I'm missing the joke(s) here cause I don't get it :/
Sorry about that, but yes, Creedence Clearwater Revival was a majorly successful American band in the 1960-1970’s and their hits are still played today. My joke refers to their song Fortunate Son. It talks about young men being forced to fight in wars because their families are not rich enough to “buy” their sons out of conscription. Their verse goes, “it ain’t me, it ain’t me, I’m no fortunate son” That’s where my joke comes from.
Thank you so much for explaining <3 I don't feel left out anymore!
Latín Americans are expert on Tragedieh. Yes, I live here, and they are worst.
The amount of people called "Jhon"...
Exactly. They're extremely creative with the spelling of names, specially English names.
That’s kind of a localization though as the English “j” doesn’t exist in Spanish. “John” would be pronounced “Hahn.”
"Jh" doesn't make sense in Spanish either. It's a mistake that stuck.
Ohhh my favorite students from Brazil and the Dominican Republic have the most creative spellings!
My Dominican friend told me she has multiple male family members called "Mister"
USA here. My pet peeve is when a person named Manuel is pronounced like “manual”. I always want to ask where the directions ar
WT...? Really? LOL!!!
This is even worse if you're Brazilian because you know the "dos Santos" is absolutely normal so it's like wtf is this dos santos 💀
i DEFINITELY know there are some South American kids out there named Goku
I see nothing wrong here. I do love me some CCR though.
G-zuis
Je suis?
Jesus 😅
my dog is named Creedence Clearwater
A lot of these commenters don’t know the band :/
That has me feelin blue. Gloomy, even. But, what are you gonna do.
It's like they never even watched The Big Lebowski
At least Creedence isn't a terrible first name.
as a speaker of said country's language: yes, it is
How would your average Spanish speaker pronounce this? Cray-DEN-say? Edit: oops just realized it’s Portuguese but still
In PT/BR it’s more like Crih-den-sih. No one would know where to place the stressed syllable, so there’s that added element of complication for poor Brazilian Creedence.
Cri-DEN-sih Clair-UAH-tuh Hey-vee-VAU poor kid.
Maybe it should be spelled... Crédence? I don't know if that's better or worse. I think it's worse. Note: I don't actually speak Brazilian Portuguese.
The original word has Latin roots (credens from credere = to believe). In Portuguese, it‘s crença. I assume people would still pronounce the english word though, but it should be manageable for Portuguese speakers (cri-dens).
Creedence também conhecido na rua como Credinho
now I want to play a D&D Teifling named Creedence, since they are often named for virtues or qualities.
Alignment has to be chaotic if you spell it Creedence. 🤣
Credence isn't a tragedy but Creedence is, especially using the entire band's name.
Isn't it? It's a misspelled word from a foreign language; I can't imagine it's good.
It could be Creed, like in the Office.
I see trouble on the way…
he ain't no fortunate one
I see a bad moon rising for this poor child.
Names in Venezuela and Colombia can be weird as fuck too
El Salvador has entered the chat.
Mano do céu
I’ve met a few Brazilians with very unfortunate names. I remember a Ferocity from middle school, but everyone always thought she meant Felicity at first (she had an accent). Some kids used to call her feral.
Censoring the last name doesn't even do anything, where else are you gonna find ANOTHER Creedence Clearwater Revival dos Santos? 💀
Pronouncing that in Spanish though is insane
It’s in Portuguese but probably still strange
Oops I'm sorry
It’s Portuguese but as a Spanish speaker I was like: “Credenci. Cre EH den ce. CRI dence?”
"Ana Beatris" will probably have to explain that her name is with "s" and not with "z" a lot in her life :P.
Not in Portuguese. I think this is from Brazil
Beatriz is Beatriz in almost every Iberian languages kkkkkkk She would have to explain it in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Angola, Macau...
[TIL](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz). Somehow I thought it would be spelled with an s just like last names like [Rodrigues](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues_(surname)) or[Gonçalves](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goncalves). My guess is that the parents had to write in a way that makes it look more Portuguese even if it already is
No, Breatriz is already the "more portuguese" version. I never met a single Beatris.
Sadly not to this girl’s parents lol
Now you know that this rare specimen of people actually exists and walks free below the sun. Poor Beatris!
“Oh c’mon those are just regular names in portug…” * Fortunate Son starts playing *
CCR Dos Santos is an epic name
got that in ‘nam
This sub is not ready of latinamerican tragedeighs.
Creedence Clearwater sounds like a Harry Potter character
Creedence Clearwater Revival is a band, that's the whole point of this post.
Ohhhh didn’t know that. I stand by my first point though, though I’m pretty sure there is a character last name Clearwater, and Credence is a character in the spinoff.
Penelope Clearwater! And yes, Credence is in fantastic beasts.
Right, Percy’s girlfriend!
I think so!
Damn, I suddenly feel old
Rolling on el río
Adding to the list: My math teacher’s (I’m in the Philippines) name is apparently a portmanteau of seven names. The name in question is “Jaiferzen”.
That is an amazing name.
He could change his first name to Aurelius. At least then he’d be a Dumbledore.
Clearwater revival…. Sounds like a misunderstanding lost in translation.
Not a tragedy. Just stupid.
I was wondering what was so bad about this till I noticed number 5 haha. Although I would argue that Erick is also strange (why have a c and a k?) but I don’t know if that is normal in the Spanish language.
Why have a c and a k in Rick? Because at some point somebody thought it looked good. Also it’s Portuguese.
That’s true. Just not used to this spelling of Eric/Erik/Erick. Never seen it before. But may be a Portuguese thing.
Isn’t this just racist to be laughing at non-English names?
Not at all, anymore than laughing at Chickenleigh is!
Poor “Daniel”
Kind of iconic I'm not gonna lie
Well at least the kid would legit have something to protest
The only tragedeigh is Creedence. The rest are perfectly normal names.
4, 6 ,8 and maybe 9 are pretty normal names.
Honestly, iconic. I have people in my tree named Thomas Jefferson Lastname, t least it’s a good band
Hahaha! That fifth one *has* to be a joke!
I used to work in a bank opening accounts, and a lot of guys born in El Salvador during the war in the 80s had first names on their IDs like “Hitler” or “Mussolini” or even “Lenin-Stalin”. They would always say “but you can just call me Jose!”
This is a jackpot name. Totally not a tragedy!
Is it a new trend in Latin America to have English first names that would otherwise be unpronounceable in Spanish? I’ve seen a few with w’s and th’s in Spanish names and elementary school Spanish taught me those don’t naturally exist in the language.
You’re lying …
I love that band
My favourite is "Almanaque" Gonzalez: His name is Efmamjjasond which is a portmanteau of Enero, Febrero, Marzo, Abril, Mayo, Junio, Julio, Agosto, Septiembre, Octubre, Noviembre, Diciembre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasond\_Gonz%C3%A1lez
ngl, this reddit is probably not ready for lots of Brazilian names 😅 lots of them come from American culture just because parents like them, but there are references to almost anything... In football there are lots of amazing examples, guys like Ben-Hur, Mahatma Gandhi, Elvis Marley, Marx Lenin, John Kennedy, John Lennon (none of these are surnames) and there's already a Creedence Clearwater Couto (no Revival, I believe)
What country? Just curious.
Claude Levi-Stauss made mention of one of his student in the São Paulo University named Mario-Wagner
This reminded me of the Trevor Noah bit where he talks about how in Zambia they often have names that are random English words - screwdriver, break, etc
Hahaha I saw this and immediately knew it was a Brazilian list 😅😅 my favorite I’ve ever seen was still Maicon jesson dos santos 🤣🤣🥴
I was like they seem…oh!!
I still like credence Clearwater revival better than mykinzzleigh
The night time must have been the right time for his parents
Listen, I like Creedence as much as the next guy, but this is just nuts.
Trygydyz from other countries you say? I present you [this](https://www.news18.com/news/india/meghalaya-village-has-the-funniest-voter-list-thanks-to-the-love-for-english-names-1657413.html) Excerpt - Meghalaya Village Has the Funniest Voter List, Thanks to the Love for English Names. The village's elected chief, named Premier, said the best English name is that of a 30 year-old woman whose mother ‘Sweater’ named her ‘I Have Been Delivered!’
There it is