Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.

I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.

Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I'd follow that baby into battle.

I'm all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?

Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.

I heard so much racism/making fun about black names growing up, but like, white people names are some of the absolute goofiest shit I've ever heard.

I'm not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??

Triniteigh

This one makes Jesus cry.

i'm so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child

Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,

Do these parents not realise that they are naming real humans that will also be adults one day? Like, just imagine a grown-ass woman named "Brexleigh".

Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon

It's a child not a vanity plate

What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as "Allison" or "Ashley"

• Ashlie
• Ashlee
• Ashly
• Ashleigh
• Ashlea
• Ashli
• Ashely
• Ashlei
• Ashleah
• Asheleigh
• Ashelie
• Ahshlee
• the list goes on and on and on

No amount of vowels is going to make your kid's name stand out when at the end of the day it's the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.

Mötley might be weird but it's at least unique.

Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.

There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill'ionaire.

Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.

I've always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.

My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh

You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me Raddix isn’t straight fire?

If I had been named Triniteigh I would have legally changed my name as soon as I was old enough. That's an atrocity of a name. Some are so funny they circle back around to something that would at least be interesting to have as a name (Raddix Zephyr is dumb but in more of a fun way, and I would genuinely not mind being named Leviathan), but Triniteigh is just so, so bad.

People really took "video game name genrator" to the real world.

Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65

Why would you name your kid that

Leviathan is awesome. I'd trade that for my common but bad name.

Agreed. Mötley can stay.

As someone whose name is an odd spelling that is close to something more conventional, life can be taxing. I'm not saying that there isn't room for creativity or fun/romantic name choices here. But Triniteigh's Parents are setting their kid up for a lifetime of bullying and inconvenience, followed by the shock of their kid going to the courthouse at 30 to undo things.

Madden Raige.

Lmao. Accidentally named your kid into a contract with Khorne.

To be fair, Leviathan is a banger middle name. Plus you can be called Levi for short :)

Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao

I give it about a 98,5% chance, that the ones wanting to name their kid "Mötley", have no clue how "ö" is actually pronounced.

Whenever I read Mötley Crüe I have to think of this:

When we finally went to Germany, the crowds were chanting, “Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh! “ We couldn’t figure out why the fuck they were doing that.

Source

Mericka is 1000% getting bullied in every single grade

Sigurd Atreides sounds cool enough but they went and jazzed it up.

Did r/tragedeigh make the jump yet? If not this would be a good first post

My sister named her baby “Ecks-Fourmerlee-Twittre”

What, there's a misspelling of Lae'zel but no Kerlack? Boo!

..or maybe someone suggested Karlach and she didn't include it because it's a list of BAD name suggestions 🤔

raddix.

Where my radix sort homies at?

leazel sounds like a pokemon ngl, it's kinda sick.

I refuse to beleive Madden Raige is real.

Coyote Bao is pretty badsss actually

Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides - I literally laughed my ass of. "SFWA, don't touch that". Once I heard a mom calling her little "Riddick", I couldn't control myself either. My daughter had a little chubby in her class, his name was "Maxxx", yeah, with three "x". (Wasn't there a comic or something called that way back??) I maybe shouldn't laugh so loud, our daughters second name is "Galadriel". But our names were so boring.

My first name is pretty uncommon for girls, but I am the only guy I know bearing my first name. I get misgendered a lot that way. Nobody who reads it pronounces it correctly. Nobody who hears it spells it correctly. It's frustrating sometimes.

I am comfortable disclosing that my middle name is Michael. It narrows my identity down so very little because it was the most common English boys name every year from 1961 to 1998 and was a top 10 boys name every year from 1943 to 2004.

So common is it that the Japanese punk band Peelander-Z made a song in 2009 called "So Many Mike," poking fun at the phenomenon.

So to avoid confusion, I use my middle name when I'm out.

Is Mötley's last name "Crüe"?

Leazel sounds like a fine name ngl, but others lol

Didn't some celebrity just name their kid Raddix?

I just Googled it, it was Cameron Diaz.

When I hear Raddix, I think Raditz from DBZ.

Edit: Wait, Leviathan? Oh, so does this mean the name Behemoth is back on the table?

Half of these sound like Elden Ring boss names

I hate that my comments often are about US culture but damn, almost none of them would be legal to give to your child here in Germany

I once met a kid named Odin. Absolute banger of a name.

Dusti Rose sounds like a Sonic Prime character (Rusty Rose)

Okay, but Raddix Zephyr and Leviathan are fucking cool names. Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides could be if you split it among like, two kids instead of one.

These are starting to sound like dark souls bosses

Parents with undiagnosed learning disorders will create children with learning disorders.

These are all amazing FFXIV pc names but not real names

When you pressing random name button 56 times during character generation

As someone with a name that is a slight variation in spelling and pronunciation of a common name, I'm so tired of explaining that don't even correct people about it anymore. Please name your kid something fucking normal.

I highly agree with how they do it in Iceland. There is a list of 3000 or so names that you can pick from, that's it.

Dumb people should not be allowed to pick names for human beings.

Look out for Madden Raige playing EA sports on Xbox Live in about 12 years

This is why I don't have complaints about the naming law in my country

That's a lot of y's

We really need to revive The Name Of The Year bracket. That was a hidden internet gem.

All a bit rich coming from someone named 'Henny '

Sigurd is good but they took it too far with the middle names.

ITT: the very people the xeet is about

"Nayeli Pixie" is definitely a misspelled stripper name though.

Leviathan is just fucking awesome. Imagine some big power lifter dude and he's named Leviathan.

"Cool, but what's his real name?"

"That IS his real name"

Well at least now i have a good amount of names to use in a TTRPG campain

Merricka was someone mishearing her their boyfriend talking about elden ring

I’m guessing that Brexleigh’s parents are British and get their news from tabloid newspapers.

Leviathan seems to stand out.

i cannot imagine the jokes and innuendos that's gonna be made on the kid due to the name.

Mötleys parents called the elder brother Richard

So how many of these people are Mormon?

A lot of these people grew up being called "The Black Kim" or "The Fat Jessica" because there are only so many standard names. Think about what that does your self esteem? All of your experience is summed up as "Fat Jessica" for the entirety of your formative years.

Further, I am one of 15 people in my company with the same first name, and 3 of which have the same first name, last name. I spent easily an hour per pay period forwarding emails to the correct parties.

I get the concept but it's a bit too far.

I work in youth therapy. These are exactly the kind of names I regularly see on admit forms. Not saying it's a direct cause, but theres a lot of coincidences when looking at youth therapy cases as a whole.

I'm going to give you the only name you spelled right on this list! Max Power

I thought "Raddix Zephyr" might've been inspired by the sorting algorithm, but that's not the name of its creator nor the algorithm, which is actually spelled "Radix".

All those -eigh names are pretty funny though. Your kid ain't a horse! It's not gonna neigh!

And I thought my idea of naming my kid Asrah was already pretty out there lol

Hudson-Adonis seems pretty cool. It also isn't spelled retarded.

I see there are people who think they are on a character creation screen while others just don't think at all.

White while, holy grail

Honestly I find most of them pretty cool.

I mean, that's also how now commonly accepted names came into being in the first place.

Ngl, I find some of these Hella cute. But I'm also someone who loves creative/unique names (to a point). I don't like offensive/obvious sponsorship/stupid joke names (the infamous "Ladasha" spelled "La-A" or "Absidy" spelled "ABCDE")

But I think Rocklyn and Brexleigh are adorable names for little girls! I'd probably spell it Brexley though.

Then again, when I was growing up I liked the name "Huxley' as a gender-neutral name for a future child, so, do with that what you will

A dry dick?

tf is so bad about Dusti Rose?

How is Deegan weird? It is an old Irish surname, and it is even spelled correctly.

All these names are awesome, I don’t know what they’re on about

White people finally figuring out what names are for... https://youtube.com/watch?v=63ldknEhOMM

They're only stupid because you're not used to them.

Some names in other English speaking cultures sound wild to us. Why should we care?

God y'all have no chill.

I'd totally get it if you were complaining about terrible misappropriation of foreign cultures... But you're all complaining about the name itself and the spelling. God forbid someone move from a place where that pronunciation is fine, or they want to pay homage to their Welsh grandparent or something. FFS take a look in the mirror, and think about the etymology of your own name.