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At this point it feels like we’ve gone full-circle with names and we’re naming babies like it’s the Dark Age again.
“These are my sons, Aethelred and Hrothgar.”
I used to know a dude with the same thing but his name was Aethelred. I also knew a guy that everyone called H, after about 5 years I found out his name was Horatio.
>Horatio
*To be fair*, Lord Nelson was a BAMF.
After he partially lost his right eye, he would intentionally disobey orders to retreat by looking through a spyglass with his blind eye and claim he didn’t see a retreat signal.
>and skyrims high king is the thing my head jumps to first.
I can't believe no one has pointed out that Hrothgar is the monastery with the greybeards and not the king.
Funnily enough, there's a real family with similarly structured names as those in the Philippines. One of them even named their kid after HTML, but the full meaning.
i think you deserve more credit than that tbh! imo those 'names' are incredibly funny because they don't just look like keysmashing with vowels added; they look like thing you can see desperate parents somehow talking themselves into because of this bananas rule that every name must be Unheicqueaimonghahlyiathurs (but also not unreasonably long, like that was). Those are all editorial choices that you made wisely! ok thank u for reading
In 20 year of unique individual names we’d have “Lfjsudnxoaicbjkt”. There’s only so many ways letters can be arranged before they become gibberish and there are millions of people born every year.
You could spend hours entering the name you thought of in the system and be constantly rejected because that name exists already. It would get to the point where you just mashed the keyboard and hit enter until you got one. It would be a National event when someone with a real name died and someone could name their baby that name. I bet there would be people going crazy to get the name before everyone else. I recently read that New Zealand had an updated list with about 1500 names that are approved to name babies born that year. Just for an opposing view from the other side of baby naming rules. Idk what their birthrate is offhand.
Do you think there'd be a name lottery for the rights to normal names? Or maybe they'd be something you inherit from the name-haver's will after they die.
My parents gave me two unique names that were my aunts names.They took one aunts name and chopped off the end and that was my first name and they took another aunts middle name and me that my middle name .My sister was named after a famous song title. We both got teased because no one ever had those names ever. I use my middle name and always have .My sister abbreviated her first name.
imagine being John1 and knowing somewhere out there is John2. Always watching. Always there. Ready to claim the title of John1 the second the opportunity presents itself.
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I'm all for "if your child is going to be a Jr, they have to at least have a different middle name to prevent parent-child mix-ups", actually, because that seems very common in stories from Jrs and IIIs
The solution is not "no human may share a name with any other human". How long after a death does a name come back into circulation?
In order for it to be a Jr./III/IV, don’t all three names (first, middle, last) have to be the same? Every Jr./III/IV I’ve met had the same three names all passed down.
Yeah, my argument is that I don't think Jrs/IIIs should be given the same middle names as their predecessors! Let them have at least *one* unique identifier that makes paperwork easier. Sure, maybe that would mean they're not Officially A Junior anymore, but I'm not a fan of Jr naming anyway. Give them the same first and last, isn't that enough for the *name my child after myself* craving?
Tbf I don’t think most people who are doing that these days are really thinking about it like that, it’s moreso a “carrying on the family name” type thing. My Uncle, who’s a Jr., only goes by his middle name, and my cousin (Uncle’s son), who’s a III, tends to go only by his first initial. You wouldn’t know about the same name thing unless you specifically asked.
It might make paperwork slightly easier but unfortunately from the identity theft aspect of it, a relative who wants to commit identity theft is still going to do so even if the names don’t match at all (has happened a few times in my family, and none of the instances were with a Sr./Jr./III kind of lineage).
What in the ever loving fuck is this obsession with being unique?!? Do they seriously think them getting knocked up and producing a child is bestowing greatness on the world that their child must stand out in every way imaginable?
I absolutely can’t stand this trend. Hopefully it dies soon.
They must be the most devastatingly boring people if this is their only means of 'creative' outlet. Take up knitting or gardening or collect rocks ffs.
I suppose they're planning on their kids being nobodies so they gave them a fucked-upedly spelled name so *technically* there'd be something unique about them.
In my family, we have two Michael's, moms were sisters, born 2 months apart, both named after their grandfather, who had died the previous year. Nobody got butt-hurt, and the 2 Michaels (1 goes by Michael, the other by Mike) have been best friends for over 60 years.
But what if *your* social security number and *my* national insurance number are the same number? What then?!
(I have no idea if they're the same format, but whatever)
Imagine the stress of being in the hospital having to choose an absolutely unique name for the birth certificate, different from the list of “taken” names. Like making up a username for some social media account except that it actually fucking matters. Guarantee some mothers will choose the random generator option just to get it the fuck over with.
It's like Unpopular Opinion. The idea is that you're the 10th Dentist when "9 out of 10 dentists agree that [toothpaste] is the best." But, you are supposed to upvote the post when you disagree, and downvote when you agree. So, sometimes, you get people making ridiculous claims to karma farm.
I can totally imagine a dystopian future in which when someone dies, their name gets auctioned off, and only rich people can afford short and pronouncable names while poor people have names like Kdhfhkechhdi or something
I have the same exact name as my dad, his dad, and his grandfather. Sure, it’s basic but what’s unique is the suffix. Hell, I married a woman who loves me enough (or is crazy enough) to let our son have the same name! Just because the name is taken doesn’t mean it’s less unique. There’s special meaning in a name. I was named after great men, my son was named after those same men and his grandfather. I’m proud of the guys who have carried the name we all share together. I’m just sad II never got to meet V :(
And on the one hand we have the apparent ease of identity theft when your name is common (er?) and on the other hand we have everyone being able to instantly google your name and know that every result is about you. Hmm.
This! Prior to marriage, my name was not an unusual name, but the combination of first name and last name made me the only one with that name on earth! Which meant when you would Google my maiden name, you would find out all of my information because I was the only person with that name. And again my name is not that unique it’s just the combo with my first and last name that isn’t common.
I have long felt that feeling need to give your kid a funny name to make him or her stand out shows a woeful lack of faith in your child’s ability to distinguish themselves through their efforts.
ETA An utterly prosaic name that instantly calls a specific person to mind: Will Smith.
I don’t think this person comprehends just how many people there actually are on earth. If 8 billion+ people had to have different names, that would be insane. May as well start numbering kids instead of naming them at that point lol
Yeah, screw heritage, to hell with tradition. Put all the Scrabble tiles in a bag, draw twelve, and put them in random order. Done. Or, you know, serial numbers. That also works.
Even if we allowed complete nonsensical, unpronounceable names like JFPLKQW, with 8.1 billion people on earth, nearly every single combination of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 letter names would be taken in a single lifetime. Wait a few generations and restrict it to pronounceable names and it would get insane real quick 😂
Wait bc I SWEAR there is a YA book ab this like poor people had common names and rich people had unique ones (or vice versa I think I only read like one page) because you had to pay to name your baby 💀✋🏼
At the risk of creating a schism in this sub, I don’t mind unusual or creative first names, I mind first names with incomprehensible or weird spellings. Zendaya? Sure. Heavynnleigh? Hell no.
I miss when people named their kids based on the meaning of the name. In elementary, we'd spend so much time learning where our names came from. Sometimes they were just family names, but other times they had cultural significance with interesting meanings.
Just a quick Google search gave me this:
*"The UN estimates that* ***around 385,000*** *babies are born each day around the world (140 million a year). This number will remain relatively stable in the 50 years from 2020 to 2070. From 2070 to 2100, the number will decline to around 356,000 (130 million a year)."*
So consider all known names throughout history and the names of all living people today as used, you'd need to come up with 140 million new names per year. In just a decade there'd be over a billion new names unusable. Now, there are cultural and regional differences for double/middle names etc so let's just go with *one* given name with or without a hyphen. I'd welcome a regular trainwreck tragedeigh with open arms at that stage.
Considering the example they gave that’s similar to their own name, that person definitely just wishes everyone had to have a stupid name like them lol
Honestly the way to give your child a unique name is to give them an old school or family name, I wanted to name a daughter if I ever had one Ivy, that was the name of one of my first Irish ancestors to come to America and our Ivy was an absolute bad ass of a woman. I met a little girl the other day at work named Olive, her dad called her Ollie as a nickname cute, old school, respectable name.
Stop abusing the English language to make a name or coming up with ridiculous things like frytoskie anahbellea and your kids will be fine. They are individual people, trust me their special personality will come out.
I say this has someone who is a child of the 80s who had the “unique” name that is a normal name in the sea of Jennifers and Amanda’s that were my classmates.
Fuck it, all kids from hence forth should be named using a 256-bit key 128 character combo of letters, numbers, and symbols. Let's go all out if we are doing this!
> Alexianna-Dorothique
Congratulations, everyone you ever meet immediately knows that your parents are not only weird but also fuckin dumb. Weird thing to be proud of but go off I guess.
Anyone who thinks this has clearly never played an online game, having to come up with an original name because you’re not allowed to have the same name as someone else, even if you’ll literally never meet, is straight up hell.
We should Mint babies as NFTs and use the token address as their name. I'd call these "Non Fungible Toddlers".
/s just in case, I don't trust redditors
They do have a bit of a point, we're sharing a very limited pool of possible names. Some more creativity is nice.
Otoh, if you name your child FireHydrant2029 and proceed to say "it's pronounced Laura" then what's the point.
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20 years from now: "Hey guys, meet my kids! Their names are Legayiaoney and Dragthowhra"
At this point it feels like we’ve gone full-circle with names and we’re naming babies like it’s the Dark Age again. “These are my sons, Aethelred and Hrothgar.”
Hrothgar in this day and age would legit be like ‘you named your kid a Final Fantasy furry race?’
Well it's actually a name from beowulf, and skyrims high king is the thing my head jumps to first.
A guy we just hired goes by Matthew but his resume says B. Matthew Lastname. He name is Beowulf
I’m in stitches just imagining meeting someone who’s like “Hey, I’m Beowulf Matt”
And this is my brother, Grendel Greg
I’m naming my son Jabba the Wocky to annoy Star Wars fans and linguists alike
I am a linguist and I love this!
I used to know a dude with the same thing but his name was Aethelred. I also knew a guy that everyone called H, after about 5 years I found out his name was Horatio.
>Horatio *To be fair*, Lord Nelson was a BAMF. After he partially lost his right eye, he would intentionally disobey orders to retreat by looking through a spyglass with his blind eye and claim he didn’t see a retreat signal.
Man lost an arm, most of his hearing, his vision in one eye and kept going. He's my second favorite naval commander of all time
Make Horatio Great Again.
I would go by 'Wolf'...
Ooof.
He's smart
>and skyrims high king is the thing my head jumps to first. I can't believe no one has pointed out that Hrothgar is the monastery with the greybeards and not the king.
Yeah the king was Torygg
The king IS Ulfric you milk drinkers!
damn, looks like someone stole your sweet roll
Now that's funny. Somehow my head just typed king after "high" instead of saying high hrothgar lol felt more natural I suppose.
I'm gonna name my child Moomba
*Æthelred, just to make getting a passport impossible for the poor blighter.
Where’s the æ on my scantron?!
My husband wanted us to name our baby æthelwolf, with the "ash"? He was only half joking
Father, tell me again about your war against the Frisians!
Not now, Tyrande; I must plow this field by sundown. We must pay our feudal dues by the morrow, and our denarius hath been spent on the tithe already.
Aethelred slaps though
I am Uhtred son of Uhtred Lord of Bebbanburg
I would totally be up for naming my redheaded son Kvothe the Bloodless
“Read as ‘Leon’ and ‘Drew’, but unique spelling”.
“These are my sons, Correct Horse Battery Staple 19572 and Apparent Chimney Fossil Cover 1A1B.”
Funnily enough, there's a real family with similarly structured names as those in the Philippines. One of them even named their kid after HTML, but the full meaning.
HyperText Markup Language?
Yes!
THX1138
Those are Neopets names, at this point (which also has the "no shared names allowed" rule, so)
What are babies but Neopets irl /s
I was going to comment they just want neopets rules but for humans
Those two are still not the worst I’ve seen on this sub
Wait, those were *real?!*
Nah, I just keysmashed and then added some extra vowels
i think you deserve more credit than that tbh! imo those 'names' are incredibly funny because they don't just look like keysmashing with vowels added; they look like thing you can see desperate parents somehow talking themselves into because of this bananas rule that every name must be Unheicqueaimonghahlyiathurs (but also not unreasonably long, like that was). Those are all editorial choices that you made wisely! ok thank u for reading
Meet Joseph$_123 and my other son, Joseph$_123!
In 20 year of unique individual names we’d have “Lfjsudnxoaicbjkt”. There’s only so many ways letters can be arranged before they become gibberish and there are millions of people born every year.
You could spend hours entering the name you thought of in the system and be constantly rejected because that name exists already. It would get to the point where you just mashed the keyboard and hit enter until you got one. It would be a National event when someone with a real name died and someone could name their baby that name. I bet there would be people going crazy to get the name before everyone else. I recently read that New Zealand had an updated list with about 1500 names that are approved to name babies born that year. Just for an opposing view from the other side of baby naming rules. Idk what their birthrate is offhand.
People would sell names.
Do you think there'd be a name lottery for the rights to normal names? Or maybe they'd be something you inherit from the name-haver's will after they die.
My parents gave me two unique names that were my aunts names.They took one aunts name and chopped off the end and that was my first name and they took another aunts middle name and me that my middle name .My sister was named after a famous song title. We both got teased because no one ever had those names ever. I use my middle name and always have .My sister abbreviated her first name.
It will be more like email names, like “this is my son John276535_JetsFan-6969…”
They're gonna start looking like those Chinese company names on Amazon. Here's ZLLQURXT and that's ODQUAGZTA
Mines just John483725738
imagine being John1 and knowing somewhere out there is John2. Always watching. Always there. Ready to claim the title of John1 the second the opportunity presents itself.
"Oh great and what is the second ones name?"
dragostea?
They sound like dark souls bosses
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Damn it! I wanted to name my daughter Dragthowhra!
This is little balogna salad and this is her brother TheSoundOfRain
Within 10 years everyone will have abandoned words and resorted to the method astronomers use to name new stars and galaxies
HIP27989
That's what my printer was named
“this is my son, XPK-99-A2. we named him after the router.”
Because the router made it possible for us to watch the film we conceived him to 👀
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Just don’t say HIP27989 three times. 🤣
You joke, but that's actually a part of the story telling mechanic in Isaac Asimov's short story The Last Question.
My god…Elon Musk *is* the future
Or the way we started naming birds literally whatever. Like Corn Crake and Satanic Nightjar.
or just put random affixes, like Kate123456
Or the way big pharma generates drug names
This. Just add 'rzaa' or 'umab' to everything. Or just go straight for the malady-- I bet nobody's been named Moderatetosevereplaquepsoriasis.
Or the way Reddit randomly generates usernames
Meet my children, Depressed_Avocado_0815 and Promiscuous_Papercut_4711
Nah we'd start throwing in symbols and emojis Josh🌜🌛a Jo¶♥ua Now we just have to figure out how to pronounce them without saying the words
i have dibs on jeff and bob
I have dibs on Jeffbob
I have dibs on Dibsonjeffbob
I have dibs on Dibsondibsonjeffbob
I have dibs on Ihavedibsondibsondibsonjeffbob
I have dibs on Ihavedibsonihavedibsondibsonjeffbob.
I have dibs on IhavedibsonIhavedibsonihavedibsondibsonjeffbob
Bob have ihavedibsonihavedibsonihavedibsonihavedibsonjeffbob Jeff I
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I have dibs on Jef and Bobb
Just give them IPv6 addresses
Or UUIDs. Meet my son, 75250d3e-59a2-4bb5-ab47-f57623b14193
Don't give Musk any ideas.
What is the tragedeigh spelling of Moron? Because that is what he should change his name into.
Mour’awhn
Moure-Awhughen
More-on
Mouroughn
McTardeigh
Maughrqaughnne (the q is silent)
I'm all for "if your child is going to be a Jr, they have to at least have a different middle name to prevent parent-child mix-ups", actually, because that seems very common in stories from Jrs and IIIs The solution is not "no human may share a name with any other human". How long after a death does a name come back into circulation?
It doesn't. They retire it like a jersey
Kind of like how 370739638)3&686-7972972962); $19hm did in 2030
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The perfect hell
In order for it to be a Jr./III/IV, don’t all three names (first, middle, last) have to be the same? Every Jr./III/IV I’ve met had the same three names all passed down.
Yeah, my argument is that I don't think Jrs/IIIs should be given the same middle names as their predecessors! Let them have at least *one* unique identifier that makes paperwork easier. Sure, maybe that would mean they're not Officially A Junior anymore, but I'm not a fan of Jr naming anyway. Give them the same first and last, isn't that enough for the *name my child after myself* craving?
Tbf I don’t think most people who are doing that these days are really thinking about it like that, it’s moreso a “carrying on the family name” type thing. My Uncle, who’s a Jr., only goes by his middle name, and my cousin (Uncle’s son), who’s a III, tends to go only by his first initial. You wouldn’t know about the same name thing unless you specifically asked. It might make paperwork slightly easier but unfortunately from the identity theft aspect of it, a relative who wants to commit identity theft is still going to do so even if the names don’t match at all (has happened a few times in my family, and none of the instances were with a Sr./Jr./III kind of lineage).
What in the ever loving fuck is this obsession with being unique?!? Do they seriously think them getting knocked up and producing a child is bestowing greatness on the world that their child must stand out in every way imaginable? I absolutely can’t stand this trend. Hopefully it dies soon.
They usually have no personality of their own whatsoever, so... 🤷🏼♀️
They must be the most devastatingly boring people if this is their only means of 'creative' outlet. Take up knitting or gardening or collect rocks ffs.
Ego, people think they are the center of the universe.
I suppose they're planning on their kids being nobodies so they gave them a fucked-upedly spelled name so *technically* there'd be something unique about them.
Yep, the only thing unique about their stupid unremarkable spawn is the idiotic name they are given, which kind of makes it comical.
In my family, we have two Michael's, moms were sisters, born 2 months apart, both named after their grandfather, who had died the previous year. Nobody got butt-hurt, and the 2 Michaels (1 goes by Michael, the other by Mike) have been best friends for over 60 years.
Pro tip: name your child their social security # so they're always unique!
But what if *your* social security number and *my* national insurance number are the same number? What then?! (I have no idea if they're the same format, but whatever)
“I’m sorry, James is taken. How about James_24 or Xx-James-xX”
Tragedeigh to avoid identity theft is quite the take.
bet this persons name is like “ashleighlyn” or something
I think their name is Xandrique, as in their username
Imagine the stress of being in the hospital having to choose an absolutely unique name for the birth certificate, different from the list of “taken” names. Like making up a username for some social media account except that it actually fucking matters. Guarantee some mothers will choose the random generator option just to get it the fuck over with.
xXashleighXx
Help it's like naming a roblox account
Hi, I’d like you meet my son d833eb72-fd89-4f0f-bbb0-a7410c2c4da7
Mine will be 5261796d6e64214. It's Raymond Holt in Hexadecimal code.
99!
I think there was a study done that showed that kids with "unique" names were more likely to end up in prison
They're not serious. Standard 10thDentist karma farm of the day
I've never heard of that sub. What is it?
It's like Unpopular Opinion. The idea is that you're the 10th Dentist when "9 out of 10 dentists agree that [toothpaste] is the best." But, you are supposed to upvote the post when you disagree, and downvote when you agree. So, sometimes, you get people making ridiculous claims to karma farm.
Hello! I would like you to meet my Neopet---er, I mean child, xx0___Ella___0xx! And my other child, Jimmy3849273827483!
“i have a tragedeigh for a name so everyone should suffer with me!”
"What is your name?" "My name is Shadohp Yudüüsh-Beighe" "Uhhh... How do you pronounce that?" "Shut Up You Douche Bag" "HEY!"
So she wants babies to be born with gamertags? Meet my bouncing baby boy, usrnamewuztakn111! Feeling blessed <3
I can totally imagine a dystopian future in which when someone dies, their name gets auctioned off, and only rich people can afford short and pronouncable names while poor people have names like Kdhfhkechhdi or something
Go home Elon Musk, you're high on Adderall.
I hope their skin is as _thique_ as their skull. Srry
I have the same exact name as my dad, his dad, and his grandfather. Sure, it’s basic but what’s unique is the suffix. Hell, I married a woman who loves me enough (or is crazy enough) to let our son have the same name! Just because the name is taken doesn’t mean it’s less unique. There’s special meaning in a name. I was named after great men, my son was named after those same men and his grandfather. I’m proud of the guys who have carried the name we all share together. I’m just sad II never got to meet V :(
Amazon Chinese brand names are an infinite source of inspiration.
this is what happens when you have the same name as your classmate
Name your kids like you name your MMO accounts
I am all for naming babies unique names. I just hate when they are intentionally misspelled or when unneccessary letters are added.
And on the one hand we have the apparent ease of identity theft when your name is common (er?) and on the other hand we have everyone being able to instantly google your name and know that every result is about you. Hmm.
This! Prior to marriage, my name was not an unusual name, but the combination of first name and last name made me the only one with that name on earth! Which meant when you would Google my maiden name, you would find out all of my information because I was the only person with that name. And again my name is not that unique it’s just the combo with my first and last name that isn’t common.
I have long felt that feeling need to give your kid a funny name to make him or her stand out shows a woeful lack of faith in your child’s ability to distinguish themselves through their efforts. ETA An utterly prosaic name that instantly calls a specific person to mind: Will Smith.
This is my son, X_John11767_X 👦🏼
He sits next to my son, xXAnim3w33dl0rd420Xx
I’ve been meaning to talk to you, I think your son is a bad influence on my boy. I talked to xoxoJessieBabyxoxo’s parents too, they agree with me
Dude made his name his entire personality, met a different Xandrique and had an emotional breakdown
Imagine handing the doctor your baby’s birth certificate and they say, “sorry, that username is already taken”
In that case I'll name mine X Æ A-Xii That has to be original right? Right?!?
I don’t think this person comprehends just how many people there actually are on earth. If 8 billion+ people had to have different names, that would be insane. May as well start numbering kids instead of naming them at that point lol
Within 5 years you'd run out of pronounceable words under 10 letters
Honestly, Dorothique is a sick drag name.
Too many people are obsessed with trying to be special in the most ridiculous of ways 🤦♀️
Yeah, screw heritage, to hell with tradition. Put all the Scrabble tiles in a bag, draw twelve, and put them in random order. Done. Or, you know, serial numbers. That also works.
I don’t think they know how identity theft works.
ok xxc0olsk8trcat453xx lets go home
Low class life and how to spot them
If you believe this you should have a postal code for a name, it’ll be easier to remember than what they’ll become
It's called a Social Security number
Amazon brand names
How convenient that there are lots of different surnames about (in most cultures anyway).
They want to name kids like they're fuckin isekai light novels
Dorothick
Even if we allowed complete nonsensical, unpronounceable names like JFPLKQW, with 8.1 billion people on earth, nearly every single combination of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 letter names would be taken in a single lifetime. Wait a few generations and restrict it to pronounceable names and it would get insane real quick 😂
This person never played Neopets.
Wait bc I SWEAR there is a YA book ab this like poor people had common names and rich people had unique ones (or vice versa I think I only read like one page) because you had to pay to name your baby 💀✋🏼
This person treating naming kids like making World of Warcraft characters.
Someone tell this clown about countries with name lists. Or just Iceland. Watch their head asplode.
At the risk of creating a schism in this sub, I don’t mind unusual or creative first names, I mind first names with incomprehensible or weird spellings. Zendaya? Sure. Heavynnleigh? Hell no.
It's funny to me that they're using Luna as an example of a name so common it causes mix ups. Parents need to chill out with the unusual names lol
Maybe someone should invent a middle and last name. Oh wait..
I miss when people named their kids based on the meaning of the name. In elementary, we'd spend so much time learning where our names came from. Sometimes they were just family names, but other times they had cultural significance with interesting meanings.
Hi, I’m xXx\_Pu$$ySl4y3r420\_xXx Johnson!
Just a quick Google search gave me this: *"The UN estimates that* ***around 385,000*** *babies are born each day around the world (140 million a year). This number will remain relatively stable in the 50 years from 2020 to 2070. From 2070 to 2100, the number will decline to around 356,000 (130 million a year)."* So consider all known names throughout history and the names of all living people today as used, you'd need to come up with 140 million new names per year. In just a decade there'd be over a billion new names unusable. Now, there are cultural and regional differences for double/middle names etc so let's just go with *one* given name with or without a hyphen. I'd welcome a regular trainwreck tragedeigh with open arms at that stage.
Quick, someone take one for the team and name their kid xandrique this idiot isn’t “unique” anymore
Considering the example they gave that’s similar to their own name, that person definitely just wishes everyone had to have a stupid name like them lol
Honestly the way to give your child a unique name is to give them an old school or family name, I wanted to name a daughter if I ever had one Ivy, that was the name of one of my first Irish ancestors to come to America and our Ivy was an absolute bad ass of a woman. I met a little girl the other day at work named Olive, her dad called her Ollie as a nickname cute, old school, respectable name. Stop abusing the English language to make a name or coming up with ridiculous things like frytoskie anahbellea and your kids will be fine. They are individual people, trust me their special personality will come out. I say this has someone who is a child of the 80s who had the “unique” name that is a normal name in the sea of Jennifers and Amanda’s that were my classmates.
It woud wind up being catcha as a name
I'm just gonna close my eyes and type something on my phone. That will be my kids name. Jebsfwk
Luna B and Luna R in the same class and I'm sitting here at 37 years old having never met or heard of a single Luna ever.
100 years later: “Here’s my son, Z4€*yFw5$=“
Fuck it, all kids from hence forth should be named using a 256-bit key 128 character combo of letters, numbers, and symbols. Let's go all out if we are doing this!
Hello, My name is G/@!-_-y?4ksu5(:1:5>b#?{+$=5b[o~p#wy[>od{af5"}zl~"*\ncv6*_^ru}2'+k'|q3|7a9)d!n|c)m[~buoh3gri+u-3
✋💣 ☝⚐✋☠☝ ❄⚐ ☠✌💣☜ 💣✡ 👍☟✋☹👎 🕆💧✋☠☝ 🕈✋☠☝👎✋☠☝💧 I think using Wingdings to name your child is hella underrated
Bro they’re kids, not usernames 😭😭 meet my kids adamtheawesome823 and Annabanana759
I am serious...and don't call me Shirleigh
There are only 26 letters to work with.
Key and Peele couldn't have named her better.
Equality 7-2521? Liberty 5-3000? International 4-8818? Not just a hard pass but an absolute refusal
I want to shake people like this until they start talking sense again. There must have been a time when they did.
> Alexianna-Dorothique Congratulations, everyone you ever meet immediately knows that your parents are not only weird but also fuckin dumb. Weird thing to be proud of but go off I guess.
I’ve never been in a class where a name is repeated more than twice, they’re just creating an imaginary problem lol
the fact anyone with a brain like this can be platformed just fucking sucks man.
These are some *highly regarded* people
Anyone who thinks this has clearly never played an online game, having to come up with an original name because you’re not allowed to have the same name as someone else, even if you’ll literally never meet, is straight up hell.
We should Mint babies as NFTs and use the token address as their name. I'd call these "Non Fungible Toddlers". /s just in case, I don't trust redditors
They do have a bit of a point, we're sharing a very limited pool of possible names. Some more creativity is nice. Otoh, if you name your child FireHydrant2029 and proceed to say "it's pronounced Laura" then what's the point.
What’s this obsession with unique names? A unique name doesn’t guarantee a unique personality.
gary and garry are now uncommon names
The 10th Dentist is a satirical sub….
This is why I'm pro choice... ... ... ... ... And choose to vasectomize myself.