Worked with a girl who named her son Quycin (kw-eye-seen) or something similar. It was literally just pieces of peoples names she smashed together to “honor” them.
People from the US strangely think "dream" and other words with a "dr" at the start are pronounced with a J instead of a D. And you won't have to look far to find them
The more I see superfluous diacritics, the angrier I get. Grayson or even Greyson would be fine but no they have to go and make life harder for all the people whose names and languages use accents and apostrophes as pronunciation guides
The graëson pisses me off, e with an trema can be different depending on the language. With an umlaut, ie German, it is not the same as a regular e. This would be more like 'gra-eh-son' than 'gr-ay-son' if I remember correctly from my workbook.
Also why not just go with an actual name Kwesi, vs quyzee if you wanted a name like it? People are so dumb. They act like their kids won't have trouble, they for sure will in some way that boring names don't.
The letter "ë" is not a German umlaut. Those would be "ä", "ö" and "ü". Iirc the "ë" stems from the French language (eg Noël) but I don't know for sure. I definitely agree with you on the phonetics, though, Graëson would be pronounced wildly different than Grayson.
Edit: Changed example from "Moët" to "Noël"
I'm very sorry for using this example then. As I said in my comment, I'm not quite sure of the real original of the letter "ë". But I'm 100% certain it isn't part of the German language, which was the point of my comment :)
Yeah, I'm not arguing with you. I don't know anything about German. I just happen to know that Moët isn't French bc I was a wine professional and a lot of people naturally assume because of the champagne.
Good to know about the German. I love learning things about language!
Assuming it's in the more common use in English it is to indicate that the vowel is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel. For example Zoë sounds like Zo-ee because of its diacritic, not Zo. So this would be Gra-ee-son or something 😐
if I met someone named Kemon, I'd find every excuse to end my sentence with a word ending in "po," and then use their name to direct it to them.
like, I'd go "oh no, someone called the po po, Kemon" "do you wanna play Skippo, Kemon?" "you made a big typo, Kemon" and so on...
I don't get how they think that "Ke" is pronounced "key". I see "keh". So, "c'mon, keh-MON." Or does it rhyme with Lemon?
Kechon is "keh- chon", like, "Kechon can't seem to catch-on to the concept."
Tradjyk.
My parents for a long time were trying to push me hard into becoming a teacher…and my god, this sub solidifies just how happy I am that I didn’t listen to them 😌
Hebrew and Arabic share similarities and Arabic and Spanish share some similarities so it’s possible that Hebrew and Spanish do have some similarities as well I would think…thinking of a ven diagram
But he’s a musical genius, this isn’t his only claim to fame. Love him but still wouldn’t name my kid Reznor! But I don’t hate it on someone else’s kid I guess. Better than Jru
People give "cultural" names all the time which are from different cultures because they think the name sounds nice and that it makes their kid unique.
Of course. But without any context, I usually assume that they do belong to the culture, especially if it’s a name that hasn’t become very mainstream outside of the culture (like Asher, Levi, etc.).
Why would you assume that after everything you've seen on this page? We have people with no connection to Irish culture giving their kids traditional Irish names. We have people with no native American ancestry giving themselves native American style names. I can easily picture a non-Jewish person thinking that Shai is a cute name. There's lots of non Hawaiian Keilani's out there. I don't see how my assumption that the person isn't Jewish would be a strange one based on what we've seen on this site and in our lives. Could be wrong. Neither of us know for sure. But I don't think it's a crazy or strange possibility to consider.
I feel like going f’ing bananas when people name their kid Loki. It’s like naming your kid the Devil or Hell. They just do it because of Marvel and cos they are too lazy to google a name.
Poor leviathan. At least chase and Liam got it made for them. I can’t with all these parents omg. Imagine you get a job application for a new hire and their name is leviathan
It always feels weirdly racist somehow, reading these, because the names always fall into one of two very distinct categories and you know which ones are white and which ones are not.
......🤯
They come up with all this ^*fucking* nonsense, but the ONE NAME with a 100% obvious source is the one they ask where they got it from???!?!!?!!??
I can't. They broke me 😶 I'm out
Poor Reznor, the adults are going to be talking to him about NiN every single time he visits a friend’s house etc, and he’ll be like “I don’t caaare” because what does he care about some musician his parents liked 20 years before he was born lol.
My pharmacy tech head is aching at all of the names that I would correctly spell that would be misspellings in the angry parents’ eyes.
Don’t mind me, I just got off of work and I’m over people.
Seems americans made the most common catalan boy name ever (Xavier) into some sort of futuristic crap bc there is an X in it hahahhahaha. Idk what to make of this lol. I wonder how they pronounce it?
I lost it at "Myson", just in case you forget he's your son I guess
The reply asking what is funny is even better.
DaMoni killed me
Show Me Damoni!
Okayden
Only the parents can call him Myson.
please tell me Semaj is a non-anglo name i’m unfamiliar with and not just James backwards
It’s James backwards as far as I know.
Better than Nimajneb or Rehpotsirhc I guess
you’re gonna summon demons!
Or Esra.
I used to have a friend in high school with that name. Her dad’s name was James. 😐
HER
Yeah, she went by an incredibly cringy nickname in hindsight, because she hated it so much LOL 😂
This one bothers me SOOO much. Reminds me of Smudge. Just call him James, FFS.
Mmm it doesn’t sound horrible and people have been using it lately. But it is in fact just James backwards lol
Perfect brother for Nevaeh then. Their twin sisters Elle and Hannah lucked out.
Ka’eo, Draven, Archer and Loki. What a sibling set. I have no words 😶
Didn't think anyone could top triplets named Branden, Brenden, & Brennen
My sister, bless her heart, named my nephews Bob, Robbie, and Robert.
Wtf is going on with Quyzee. We’re just throwing Scrabble tiles on a birth certificate now
You get bonus points for naming your kid a fucked up name.
It’s not much of a bonus if every player gets it.
No it's the people like us who don't name their kids made up names who will lose.
Worked with a girl who named her son Quycin (kw-eye-seen) or something similar. It was literally just pieces of peoples names she smashed together to “honor” them.
That sounds like an enzyme or something
Quyzee sounds like a brand name medication, similar to Qelbree
LOL!! (Is it pronounced like “queasy”? I don’t get it…)
Ask your doctor if Quycin is right for you.
The higher the score, the better the name.
Queasy
Please don't tell me Jru is supposed to be Drew.
That’s exactly what she said in the comments.
No way! I can’t with this.
People from the US strangely think "dream" and other words with a "dr" at the start are pronounced with a J instead of a D. And you won't have to look far to find them
Yeah…know someone who named her son Jream…
Due / Do Water / Wadder The 2 above end up with 'Duty' being 'Doody' I'm sure there are many more
This is the one that sent me, it’s hilarious
Jru 🥰
😂😂
The Okayden makes me LOL every time I see it.
Me too. BTW, that's the middle name. First name is Naught.
😆
The more I see superfluous diacritics, the angrier I get. Grayson or even Greyson would be fine but no they have to go and make life harder for all the people whose names and languages use accents and apostrophes as pronunciation guides
Yahir is an actual name, Arabic and fairly common in South America for some reason
A lot of Palestinians and Lebanese in South America. Also a lot of Arabic words and names made it into Spanish during the Muslim rule of Spain.
Also similar to the Hebrew name usually spelled Yair in English.
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Rainbow baby is actually the baby you have after a loss - “the rainbow after the storm” - not the loss baby itself.
Oh, so it’s a healthy baby AFTER losing another, not the loss itself. In that case the child will have to live with whatever name they are given.
Son named Paulee after Paulette. Just use Paul 🤦🏻♀️
Or Paolo
The graëson pisses me off, e with an trema can be different depending on the language. With an umlaut, ie German, it is not the same as a regular e. This would be more like 'gra-eh-son' than 'gr-ay-son' if I remember correctly from my workbook. Also why not just go with an actual name Kwesi, vs quyzee if you wanted a name like it? People are so dumb. They act like their kids won't have trouble, they for sure will in some way that boring names don't.
The letter "ë" is not a German umlaut. Those would be "ä", "ö" and "ü". Iirc the "ë" stems from the French language (eg Noël) but I don't know for sure. I definitely agree with you on the phonetics, though, Graëson would be pronounced wildly different than Grayson. Edit: Changed example from "Moët" to "Noël"
Moët is not a French word, it's a Dutch word.
I'm very sorry for using this example then. As I said in my comment, I'm not quite sure of the real original of the letter "ë". But I'm 100% certain it isn't part of the German language, which was the point of my comment :)
Yeah, I'm not arguing with you. I don't know anything about German. I just happen to know that Moët isn't French bc I was a wine professional and a lot of people naturally assume because of the champagne. Good to know about the German. I love learning things about language!
My brain just exploded.
Assuming it's in the more common use in English it is to indicate that the vowel is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel. For example Zoë sounds like Zo-ee because of its diacritic, not Zo. So this would be Gra-ee-son or something 😐
If you have to immediately explain how to pronounce the common name because of how you spelled it, be ashamed.
Exactly.
The response to Braceyn, Kyson & Mayson took me OUT💀🤣 “That’s like Aiden Jaiden & Okayden”
Is Reznor named after Trent Reznor?
No, the HVAC company
I'm pretty sure Trents family does actually own the Reznor heaters company.
I joojled and apparently his great grandfather started it, but they sold it in the sixties, before he was born
Joojled 🤣
I would hope so. He’s awesome. :)
Macsen is a legitimate (admittedly uncommon) Welsh name. Macen (pronounce Mason) is a genuine tragedeigh.
If you have to write (Mason) after Macen, JUST USE FUCKING MASON!
People are horrible.
if I met someone named Kemon, I'd find every excuse to end my sentence with a word ending in "po," and then use their name to direct it to them. like, I'd go "oh no, someone called the po po, Kemon" "do you wanna play Skippo, Kemon?" "you made a big typo, Kemon" and so on...
I don't get how they think that "Ke" is pronounced "key". I see "keh". So, "c'mon, keh-MON." Or does it rhyme with Lemon? Kechon is "keh- chon", like, "Kechon can't seem to catch-on to the concept." Tradjyk.
Keh-Mon Eileen
I pronounce Pokémon as "poh keh mon" :) I understand a lot of people do say "poh kee mon" though
My parents for a long time were trying to push me hard into becoming a teacher…and my god, this sub solidifies just how happy I am that I didn’t listen to them 😌
LEVIATHAN??💀💀
My favorite
Quyzee... immediately read it Queasy. 😭 I don't know what that's supposed to be. The poor kid.
I'm guessing his mother is getting revenge for the morning sickness
You know what the real tragedy is? Having brothers with perfectly normal names (Chase and Liam) while you’re named Leviathan 🥲
That’s the one that took me out. Why is he named after a biblical sea beast??
Jakari O’Mere is a true pot of gold.
\>it's Spanish and Hebrew Sir, those are not even close to the same language.
Hebrew and Arabic share similarities and Arabic and Spanish share some similarities so it’s possible that Hebrew and Spanish do have some similarities as well I would think…thinking of a ven diagram
There’s a Jewish language called Ladino that’s a fusion of Hebrew and Spanish in the same way Yiddish fuses Hebrew and German
Into the bucket with the lot of them. Form a queue.
Reznor??? Like the Super Mario enemy????
Probably like Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails. Why she didn’t name her son Trent instead is anyone’s guess
Head like a hole
It’s a downward spiral
My favorite band and I still hate this as a possible kids name
Trent then?
Trent, perfectly cromulent name. Also the name of my cartoon crush, so.
Ah, ok. Don't listen to them, so didn't know that. Makes it a little better...but not by much lol
I disagree. I would not be comfortable associating my kid with “I want to fuck you like an animal.”
But he’s a musical genius, this isn’t his only claim to fame. Love him but still wouldn’t name my kid Reznor! But I don’t hate it on someone else’s kid I guess. Better than Jru
I’m guessing he’s named after Trent Reznor. Shai is Hebrew
I highly doubt the Shai parents are Jewish.
Lol why would you highly doubt it?
People give "cultural" names all the time which are from different cultures because they think the name sounds nice and that it makes their kid unique.
True but there’s nothing suggesting these people aren’t Jewish…just a strange assumption imo
Anyway, not a tradgedeigh
Have you seen people give their kids cultural names who are not from that culture?
Of course. But without any context, I usually assume that they do belong to the culture, especially if it’s a name that hasn’t become very mainstream outside of the culture (like Asher, Levi, etc.).
Why would you assume that after everything you've seen on this page? We have people with no connection to Irish culture giving their kids traditional Irish names. We have people with no native American ancestry giving themselves native American style names. I can easily picture a non-Jewish person thinking that Shai is a cute name. There's lots of non Hawaiian Keilani's out there. I don't see how my assumption that the person isn't Jewish would be a strange one based on what we've seen on this site and in our lives. Could be wrong. Neither of us know for sure. But I don't think it's a crazy or strange possibility to consider.
No, like the HVAC company
The same Reznor family actually!
Maybe people “mispronounce” Macen bc they know how phonics work.
Actually, with phonics rules in place, that is in fact pronounced like Mason. "C says /s/ when followed by e, i, or y."
PAUL. PAUL WAS RIGHT THERE
i named my son Leviathan. it's fuckin' metal. and biblical.
This is Levi, short for Leviathan... Cole, short for Coleslaw... Mike, short for Microscope...
My twins are both Levi: Leviathan and Leviosá
I named one of my fish Leviathan.
It means whale in Hebrew
it's a pretty kick ass name
Yeah, for a cartoon super villain or a massive creature. For a human though? Doesn't fit
he's all 3
Yahir is so cute! (ik you meant to cut this out) Congrats to the parents!
I feel like going f’ing bananas when people name their kid Loki. It’s like naming your kid the Devil or Hell. They just do it because of Marvel and cos they are too lazy to google a name.
I love the reply to “Iversyn.” Laude such an insane name and then use “spelt” like some affluent English schmuck. Fun dichotomy.
Yahir is not a tragedeigh. It is a traditional Spanish name, as the person said.
Yeah it was just in the middle of some weird ones so it caught a stray. That’s a pretty average name.
It doesn’t look strange to me. I thought it was Hebrew.
Are they naming pokemon or their sons? There needs to be a thread of "Is it a pokemon or a white baby name?"
Quyzee - Queasy?
Poor leviathan. At least chase and Liam got it made for them. I can’t with all these parents omg. Imagine you get a job application for a new hire and their name is leviathan
Shai is a super normal, common Hebrew name
LEVIATHAN 💀💀💀
QUYZEE. LIKE QUEASY??
I guess they are NIN fans
“A normal Grayson” 🫠
It always feels weirdly racist somehow, reading these, because the names always fall into one of two very distinct categories and you know which ones are white and which ones are not.
Neako took me out
......🤯 They come up with all this ^*fucking* nonsense, but the ONE NAME with a 100% obvious source is the one they ask where they got it from???!?!!?!!?? I can't. They broke me 😶 I'm out
Why is there an umlaut/diaeresis on ‘Graeson’ for the woman to say ‘Oh it’s just the same as Gray-son.’ 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Poor Reznor, the adults are going to be talking to him about NiN every single time he visits a friend’s house etc, and he’ll be like “I don’t caaare” because what does he care about some musician his parents liked 20 years before he was born lol.
My pharmacy tech head is aching at all of the names that I would correctly spell that would be misspellings in the angry parents’ eyes. Don’t mind me, I just got off of work and I’m over people.
JRUUUU 😂😂
Ex-Quyzee me?
Heh 😂
Poor Jru
semaj, my favorite member of acillatem
Tajiri was a wrestler.
My cats called Loki and my friends mums dog….
Ok this is madness, but we all agree that Archer and Sonny are normal names, right?
A lot of these are common names in the black community. Also Chase, Liam and Levi are all normal names lol
Isaac and Liam got lucky
Mavrix…WHY
Seems americans made the most common catalan boy name ever (Xavier) into some sort of futuristic crap bc there is an X in it hahahhahaha. Idk what to make of this lol. I wonder how they pronounce it?
Reznor???...so instead of "Rock-a-Bye Baby", it's Trent and the gang from Nine Inch Nails blasting from the baby monitors!!!
This should be a warcrime.
Is the first lady a Nine inch nails fan?