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
Huh. I didn’t know Brooklyn meant that. 5 year old me was definitely a fan of naming my Barbies “Brook”, so I’ve suffered a lack of taste since the beginning it seems 😂
Haha bruh that’s aight. I’m actually a treasure trove of traits to make fun of!
Fortunately I’m child-free so no human ever has to bear the weight of my creative naming conventions…only my D&D/RP/Video Game characters have to suffer.
ok so uh, how the fuck do you pronounce the one with the X though? breckslee, or braelee.
Rocklyn is in a similar vein imo. Although in that case, they’re both concoctions of what are individually bad names. Brayden, and haley. Rebecca, and whatever the fuck else terrible name you wanna pick.
Funnily enough, I was talking with my kid yesterday how my parents almost named me Levi and was joking how I could just force people to call me Leviathan instead.
Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn’t though, that’s some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.
If someone in central Europe named their kid that way, that would be a give-away for a nationalistic/conservative ideology. Though Atreides obviously is from Dune lol
london would be the equivalent to america though. And i mean, in some capacity, that is kind of a name, miss america for instance. Still pretty silly to use because it’s a bad name but wouldnt the equivalent here be memey slang? Or is that lisbon, im not EU pilled. Lisbon is a terrible name honestly.
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "… the third’!
Of all the names on the list, Leazel is absolutely killing me. Everytime I think it I’m laughing again. A little disappointed but you’re probably right - it’s meant to be Lae’zel.
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
And this, kind people of Lemmy, is why these names are bully-bait. Grade-schoolers are gonna figure that one out in the first week, and these kids are gonna go home in tears. Doubly so if the teacher is an idiot, and points out the odd spelling while taking attendance (the kids probably wouldn’t know otherwise).
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.
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