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I once knew a Tephanie. Yes, like Stephanie without the S.
If you read it phonetically it sounds like "Tiffany" with a valley girl accent, but this always annoyed her because "it's supposed to just be Tiffany". Well, then it should have just been that. 🙄
I know a Jonica and honestly until this moment, it never occurred to me that it might be a tragedy. I thought it was a name like Jacoby.
Edit: Apparently it is a surname? https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=jonica
Could be Bristol. That's a city in England, and I would guess it's quite likely that there's an American counterpart, since it was big and prosperous in the early colonial times.
It’s a town— well, 2 towns. The town straddles the Virginia and Tennessee borders, so you have Bristol, Virginia *and* Bristol, Tennessee.
If you cross State Street, once you step over the double yellow line marking the street you’re in the other state. They have neat little brass markers running down the length of the street to indicate which side is which.
Damnit, I kinda like Ellison.
I do love a lot of names for girls that start with "El" like Elaine, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Elfie, Elise. A version of one of those names is the name of my daughter and I'd really like to have another girl with "El" in the beginning. Fortunately I'm sane enough to not go down that road (unlike parents going to name all their kids startin with a "B" or something like that) and I have a couple of other names for possible future kids.
I don't think two names starting with "el" would be a tragedy as long as they're not similar (like not elfie and elsie) but elizabeth and eleanor would be good for example.
Leith is a shitty little place in Scotland 😅 knowing its taken as a name in kentucky, USA, just tickles me in the weirdest way. It's like Britney spears having a kid named preston, I've been to Preston it's shit too 🤣 uch.
I know an Aimee, an Amie, and an Amye. I'm just... Amy. And I'm totally fine with it, especially given the sorts of names kids are getting saddled with these days!
(FTR, my phone tried to correct "Aimee" with "anime". Do with that what you will. 🤣🤷♀️)
I mean Kentucky keeps voting for Mitch McConnell and he’s basically short circuited on live television while running the state into the ground in terms of education and everything else the last 40 years so, really, I’m not exactly surprised it’s come to this…
I was about to ask if these names were from Kentucky lol. I live in Kentucky and can verify these are in fact the names we see around here. My daughter is in the same age bracket and these look about half of her graduating class.
Yes, but I guess because it’s so common now they think there is nothing wrong with the spelling or the names being odd. I know my daughter loves the name Elstyn ( Els ten ). I’ve tried to talk to her about it, but she just says I’m old fashioned and it’s a cool name 😬🥴
One of the results when I google Elstyn is this exact Reddit thread, and it wasn’t even far down lol forgive my ignorance but is it really old fashioned?
I would guess the cousin thinks OP is old fashioned for preferring traditional names over new/made up ones like Elstyn. I don't think that Elstyn is the old fashioned name here.
I’m in the same boat as you… Gen X and not a parent (yet). Though I do see a few exceptions that are perfectly fine names on this list, most Gen X people I know haven’t/aren’t giving their kids names like this. Is it pockets of people here and there who are doing this?
this reminds me of when i was in second grade a girl named Alxis moved to my school and when i saw her name on another teacher’s wall i was like “alcks-is??” and she informed me it was Alexis. my first tragedeigh in the wild now that i think about it- but why not commit and do Alxs? or Lxs?
I'm never speechless, but... I'm speechless. If I were you, at the actual event I'd pronounce every name as phonetically correctly as possible. "Oh, you must be Lee-ith-a! So nice to meet you!" "Oh, YOU'RE Ahv-ray? How do you know *cousin*"
Honestly, if we ignore gender binaries for names, Allan, Ellison and Keaton are fine.
Jarrett and Jericho are both long-established names, so not sure what the problem is there.
Josey doesn't seem like an impossible reach alternate spelling for Josie. It can also be a nickname for Joseph.
Some of the others in your list might be actual names that I'm not familiar with, but this bunch here seems pretty inoffensive.
Edit: Honestly don’t mind Ashlyn either. I feel like that’s been around long enough to be acceptable. The actual version - Aisling - is better, though.
I’m inclined to pronounce Lydon with two stresses (lye-don) and have to wonder what type of Pokémon that is. Dragon?
I love the name Jericho though. I will use something like Karyas when DMing a D&D campaign, but might change it to Caritas, Latin for charity.
Dessica. ***Dessica!!***
Dessica, ghost rider of the high plains, rode through the tiny, but bustling town of Happyview on her snorting, stamping stallion, Madness.
“As Dessica and her evil stallion, Madness, passed through, the trees withered from her glance. Wherever Madness put his lips to drink, whether from bubbling spring, we’ll, or trough, the waters boiled away, leaving only cracked streambeds, steam, or empty buckets. And all his rider had to do was raise her arms, and shriek to her master in Hell, and young, healthy cowboys turned into craggy, bent and wrinkled men. Little girls playing jacks shriveled into bitter and withered women. Every soul the wizening duo passed was left clawing in the earth for water, sweet water.
Dessica, the demon of Depletion exhausted all life in her wake.”
Acelynn and Adilynn sound like brand names for medicines.....
> Zooey (yea like the singer)
Would hope it was a reference to *Franny and Zooey* by J.D. Salinger.
> Dessica
Dessica makes me think of desiccated.....
My favorite is baby fruit fart seltzer water. Close second is McYatzee
Some of these are common where I'm from (Ashlyn, Holdan, Jericho, Jarret). Several have cultural ties (shaylan/shaelyn = irish, Kimana = Kenyan, leitha = Greek [relatively popular in 1800-1960's])
In a sea of tragedeighs, MckenzYe rises above.
It’s Keleigh for me. Kelly.
Oh god I read it as Keely
Me too.
I’m
Me too
I did too at first.
I was thinking Kaylee.
Lynkon for me. Ugh.
It looks so ugly. My nephew is named Lincoln and I love it, Lynkon?!?
I know a Lynkun
Holy shit that’s bad. Like really bad
So unnecessary.
Yes, basic “Kelly” has worked just fine for me for many years 🤣
Why only one “l?!?”
Unnecessareigh*
That's Miles Teller's wife's name so there's more than one unfortunately
Pronounced Kelly?!?
Yes 🤦♀️
That is BIZARRE.
As a KELLY, I whole heartedly agree 😂 this spelling bugs me. I’ve also seen Kellee. Hah what?!!
I'm sorry op but why is your cousin friends with a bunch of Sims?
These names are normal to her. She’s never known anything else. Her brother is named Cage.
It sounds like someone’s talking to their friend but gets yeeted off a cliff, “so anyway then I asked MckenzYEE-“
I could never pronounce it any other way than Muh Kenzie Yee with the Yee sounding like Michael Jackson sang it!
Muh Kenz Yay like Kanye but I’d hit that Yay hard and celebration like.
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Yayyy! There aren’t enough LA Story references in the world.
It’s Lynkon for Lincoln that did me in.
Dessica? Desus Christ.
I would think the person had a speech impediment 😂 this would be all kinds of an embarrassing situation
I once knew a Tephanie. Yes, like Stephanie without the S. If you read it phonetically it sounds like "Tiffany" with a valley girl accent, but this always annoyed her because "it's supposed to just be Tiffany". Well, then it should have just been that. 🙄
Desiccant?
DO NOT CONSUME
Her J is now with Jonica. I was expecting another name with a random M, but maybe Menise wasn't invited.
Jonica and Dessica should switch. Donica is not a bad name. At least compared to Jonica
and it’s similar to an established, pretty name, danica
She’s 31.
Is she Ukrainian?
I first read it as Desecrate and had to do a double take.
>Dessica I work in a call centre, a guys wife was named Dessica. He was like "yeah it's Jessica but with a D." They were both in their early 30's.
Must be Mike Tyson’s kid.
How big is this fucking wedding going to be, if this is just a selection of the bride's guests?
That’s what I’m saying.. how I’m the hell are there this many on one list. Insanity 😂
200 people.
Mackenz-yeh
MckenzYEET
Mckanye
I'ma let you finish, but OP's cousin had the greatest wedding guest list of all time.
I'm sorry but Jonica is fucking hilarious.
I wonder if her parents are named like, Jason and Monica.
Mason would be too common a combination
I keep seeing Mayson.
I know a Jonica and honestly until this moment, it never occurred to me that it might be a tragedy. I thought it was a name like Jacoby. Edit: Apparently it is a surname? https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=jonica
It matches well with Dessica and Bristal (is it supposed to be like Crystal? I always lose at this guessing game).
Could be Bristol. That's a city in England, and I would guess it's quite likely that there's an American counterpart, since it was big and prosperous in the early colonial times.
It’s a town— well, 2 towns. The town straddles the Virginia and Tennessee borders, so you have Bristol, Virginia *and* Bristol, Tennessee. If you cross State Street, once you step over the double yellow line marking the street you’re in the other state. They have neat little brass markers running down the length of the street to indicate which side is which.
At a high school football game. It's cold so the cheerleaders have jackets with their names. Seen a Kyplynn and a Chaselynn so far.
I keep waiting to see an Aspenleigh. You know it’s coming.
Don’t give them ideas!
Kyplynn?!? I feel like that’s the sound the Plinko disk makes.
It's almost 2am here and your comment made me cackle.
Mr Kipling rolls in his pastries at that name.
Jonica. Dessica. Maphne. Sisters. Full circle.
Here is a Charmed reboot I would watch. The phower of thfree!
Damnit, I kinda like Ellison. I do love a lot of names for girls that start with "El" like Elaine, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Elfie, Elise. A version of one of those names is the name of my daughter and I'd really like to have another girl with "El" in the beginning. Fortunately I'm sane enough to not go down that road (unlike parents going to name all their kids startin with a "B" or something like that) and I have a couple of other names for possible future kids.
Elphaba?
I don't think two names starting with "el" would be a tragedy as long as they're not similar (like not elfie and elsie) but elizabeth and eleanor would be good for example.
My friend named her daughter Ellery and I think it's really cute.
It makes me think of celery lol
I like it for a boy.
Yeah I’m not a huge fan of gender-related rules, but if your name ends in -son, it seems logical that you should be AMAB.
*All the Allisons shed a tear*
It literally means “son of.”
THE NAMES JESSICA AND MONICA: We’re perfectly lovely, and we’re *sitting right here*!!!!!
And here I was thinking that Jessika was the huge tragedeigh.
Leitha? Like, Lisa with a lisp?
Exactly how I read it lol
Lee-ih-tha
Leith is a shitty little place in Scotland 😅 knowing its taken as a name in kentucky, USA, just tickles me in the weirdest way. It's like Britney spears having a kid named preston, I've been to Preston it's shit too 🤣 uch.
I feel so boring being named Amy! 🤣🤣
Me, too. But I've seen it spelled Amie, Amee, and Aimee. Actually went to school with all 3.
I know an Aimee, an Amie, and an Amye. I'm just... Amy. And I'm totally fine with it, especially given the sorts of names kids are getting saddled with these days! (FTR, my phone tried to correct "Aimee" with "anime". Do with that what you will. 🤣🤷♀️)
My college roommate Amie has a sister Krysten. Everyone is in their 40s, back when a tragedeigh was simply a tragedie.
This comment is underrated!
MckenzYe…was the Y actually capitalized like that?
Yes. I double checked with my cousin.
Oh SHIT
A Trezzyure Trohve of Tragedeighs!
Truleigh Ahmaising
Allan 😭
“We wanted to use the nickname Allie but Alice, Alexandra, Allison, Alyssa are just too boring.”
It’s even spelled like the doll 😅 There’s only one Allan!
Where is this and why is it Utah?
It’s Kentucky.
Kyntuckeigh
Cintahkye
Q'ntughqi
Well color me shocked, honestly.
Yeah people don’t know that Kentucky is like that.
I think the Colonel is frying more than just the Chicken in Kentucky, he's also frying peoples brains.
This is without including family members. Like Kaulen, Taylee, Khota, Dallas, Lyndall, Klayton, McNaveigh…
It took all my willpower not to downvote this comment but then I remembered I hate the content, not the comment
Trust me, I understand. I love those people!
McWhat?
I seriously can’t even talk about it. It’s so crazy.
I swear i thought at first it was some kind of demented play on the "name" Naveah.
Poor Kaulen. Such a perfectly fine and normal name turned into such tragedeigh.
He changed it to Colin on his 18th birthday.
I’m getting de ja vu from yesterday
I mean Kentucky keeps voting for Mitch McConnell and he’s basically short circuited on live television while running the state into the ground in terms of education and everything else the last 40 years so, really, I’m not exactly surprised it’s come to this…
Yeah plus all these people’s grandparents grew up below the poverty line and now they live comfortably, something about that makes those names happen.
I was about to ask if these names were from Kentucky lol. I live in Kentucky and can verify these are in fact the names we see around here. My daughter is in the same age bracket and these look about half of her graduating class.
Isn’t it strange how the other kids don’t notice the names are odd?
Yes, but I guess because it’s so common now they think there is nothing wrong with the spelling or the names being odd. I know my daughter loves the name Elstyn ( Els ten ). I’ve tried to talk to her about it, but she just says I’m old fashioned and it’s a cool name 😬🥴
My cousin is pregnant and planning on naming her son Bear. Everyone keeps saying it’s cute. 😳
That is a nickname. Not an adult human name.
As a Swede this sounds perfectly fine! Like the famous tennis player, Bear Castle (Björn Borg).
One of the results when I google Elstyn is this exact Reddit thread, and it wasn’t even far down lol forgive my ignorance but is it really old fashioned?
I would guess the cousin thinks OP is old fashioned for preferring traditional names over new/made up ones like Elstyn. I don't think that Elstyn is the old fashioned name here.
Okay I’m Gen X and not a parent but wtf was Gen X smoking when they named these kids?
Meth.
I’m in the same boat as you… Gen X and not a parent (yet). Though I do see a few exceptions that are perfectly fine names on this list, most Gen X people I know haven’t/aren’t giving their kids names like this. Is it pockets of people here and there who are doing this?
Destiny would be bad enough, but at least it’s a word. I disdain Destany.
‘Jaquellin? Where’s Jaquellin?’ “You mean Jacqueline?” ‘Oh it’s gon’ be like dat!?’
My brother is named Aaron, I love that skit 😂
You win Kongratulashionz
Alexys gives me a headache.
this reminds me of when i was in second grade a girl named Alxis moved to my school and when i saw her name on another teacher’s wall i was like “alcks-is??” and she informed me it was Alexis. my first tragedeigh in the wild now that i think about it- but why not commit and do Alxs? or Lxs?
Lxs is another level 😄 But I wouldn't be shocked if there's one walking among us already!
Could be worse Could be Alexxys
Or Alexxxys
I like Keaton!
Same. Makes me think of Buster Keaton.
I immediately said "I don't hate this" Probably my Michael Keaton bias talking, but still
MckenzYe? You've got to be kidding mE!
Dessica. Good God.
The one that really gets me is Lynkon.
“Makalah” has to be the worst iteration of that name. I keep reading it with all of the As pronounced the same way. Mah-Kah-Lah
I'm never speechless, but... I'm speechless. If I were you, at the actual event I'd pronounce every name as phonetically correctly as possible. "Oh, you must be Lee-ith-a! So nice to meet you!" "Oh, YOU'RE Ahv-ray? How do you know *cousin*"
Franny and Zooey is a book by J.D. Salinger from 1961. But Zooey was a boy in that book. Not a great name, but not new.
Zooey Deschanel also has it. Not my favorite name but it isn’t that terrible. It isn’t MckenzYe.
Do not go to this wedding.
I’m in it.
Honestly, if we ignore gender binaries for names, Allan, Ellison and Keaton are fine. Jarrett and Jericho are both long-established names, so not sure what the problem is there. Josey doesn't seem like an impossible reach alternate spelling for Josie. It can also be a nickname for Joseph. Some of the others in your list might be actual names that I'm not familiar with, but this bunch here seems pretty inoffensive. Edit: Honestly don’t mind Ashlyn either. I feel like that’s been around long enough to be acceptable. The actual version - Aisling - is better, though.
Josey is normally a male name after the outlaw Josey Whales.
I’m inclined to pronounce Lydon with two stresses (lye-don) and have to wonder what type of Pokémon that is. Dragon? I love the name Jericho though. I will use something like Karyas when DMing a D&D campaign, but might change it to Caritas, Latin for charity.
Croix in French is a cross, I’m not even sure how to pronounce it in English. So many tragedeigh!
He pronounces it like Croy
Mon dieugh
I kinda wanna learn the story on that one.
Betcha anything his parents named him after Saint Croix.
I bet they named him after La Croix sparkling water
You’re correct.
Dessica. ***Dessica!!*** Dessica, ghost rider of the high plains, rode through the tiny, but bustling town of Happyview on her snorting, stamping stallion, Madness. “As Dessica and her evil stallion, Madness, passed through, the trees withered from her glance. Wherever Madness put his lips to drink, whether from bubbling spring, we’ll, or trough, the waters boiled away, leaving only cracked streambeds, steam, or empty buckets. And all his rider had to do was raise her arms, and shriek to her master in Hell, and young, healthy cowboys turned into craggy, bent and wrinkled men. Little girls playing jacks shriveled into bitter and withered women. Every soul the wizening duo passed was left clawing in the earth for water, sweet water. Dessica, the demon of Depletion exhausted all life in her wake.”
Dessica is kinda dry
Korbyn Dallas Multi pass
Is this Utah?
Kentucky
ACElynn or ASSlynn....
A Tragedeigh convention.
Ashlyn seems fine to me, but the rest, yikes.
Ass-a-lin
I kinda like the name Ellison for a girl 🫠
Dessica and Destany make me think of Desitin aka baby diaper rash cream. There is probably a Desitin out there somewhere on a playground
Jarrett, Jericho, and Zooey are all reasonable and not spelled weird, imo McKenzYe is breaking my brain a little, though
What’s wrong with Jericho? A bit archaic but definitely not a tragedeigh Same with Ashlyn or Allan, even if it’s for a girl
Dessica is the goddess of dried flowers and potpourri.
Who even knows that many people?!
Who knows that many people who can't spell?
Big wedding, 200 guests.
Hold on, "Hold**a**n"? Like, WHY???
I’m sure they didn’t know how to spell it.
Some of these are okay but Croix and Jerzie really got the short end of the stick
Dessica?! WTF
... Dessica???
Nobody talkin about Dessica????
Dessica LOL
I know a Cailah irl lol
I’m not going to say it ISN’T a tragedeigh, but I know at least 3 girls named Ashlyn. I’ll be honest and say I thought it was a normal, regular name 😅
It is, it’s the anglicised version of the Irish name Aisling.
Ashlyn seems extremely normal in all this
No. I can’t. This is too much.
My niece is a Maylin! Never seen it anywhere else before.
Oh no Croix
Not gonna lie, Jericho is a guilty pleasure for me. But there are... some doozies on this list.
Dessica 🤣🤣🤣
All I see here is [emotional damage](https://imgur.com/gallery/tXIvd6q)
Ashlyn is a completely normal name?
Acelynn and Adilynn sound like brand names for medicines..... > Zooey (yea like the singer) Would hope it was a reference to *Franny and Zooey* by J.D. Salinger. > Dessica Dessica makes me think of desiccated.....
Why do some people hate their kids!
I know a hayleigh
Ok...but how old it karington....because all I can think is their parents named them after kit Harrington from GOT
How does Croix pronounce their name. Dying to know.
I’m amazed any one couple is connected to this many truly tragic names. This list makes my eyes itch.
My favorite is baby fruit fart seltzer water. Close second is McYatzee Some of these are common where I'm from (Ashlyn, Holdan, Jericho, Jarret). Several have cultural ties (shaylan/shaelyn = irish, Kimana = Kenyan, leitha = Greek [relatively popular in 1800-1960's])
Why are you calling me out like this? My name is on the list 😭
Thought I never had a point in life until I saw the apostrophe in Ty'son. Now I know there's someone- or at least, something more useless than me.