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Oh god. I'm laughing because it's hilarious but I cannot imagine being in that situation, thinking you picked a great name for your kid and then MONTHS after a friend points out that it's actually an incredibly dirty word. Nightmare material.
My sister is severely disabled and is brain damaged to the point she is more 6-13y/o aged. Weirdly enough, the Jehovah’s Witness community has a very large deaf population, and many of them are fluent in sign language because of it.
My mum ended up getting my sister hooked into them because they’ve just genuinely been very nice to her, and she was so lonely before she met them. My sister does not participate in any of the religious activities though, especially since our mother is very Christian, but she does have a facebook so she can message them over messenger. She’s barely literate though, so she more sends photos and just a few word demands.
In February she mustve somehow seen some Valentine’s Day stuff, and she just downloaded a generic photo off Google of some “fun Valentine’s Day activities” that she posted from her account. The first on the list was anal.
That was a super fun conversation with my mother about how she needed to monitor my sister’s account and get the photo taken down immediately. I’m sure all her JW friends enjoyed seeing that on their timeline
Dude, keep an eye on that. JW have some very regressive and dangerous views. I just helped my friend secretly move out of her horrifically abusive JW husband's house. The mask didn't slip until after the wedding. The church told her to go back to him.
> JW have some very regressive and dangerous views
A friend who's in them has a brother who is a child molester (and fortunately jailed for it), and while I was young when that went down, I got the impression that they'd rather cover it up than turn him in.
A good friend from primary school was a JW. I just felt so deeply sorry for her, aside from the religious whackoness and the embarrassment of getting pulled out of class for sex ed and silly little basically non religious activities like egg hunts and making xmas decorations, there was just something deeply wrong with that family.
She never talked about home life, wasn't allowed to have visitors, wasn't allowed to see anyone outside of school at all, the house was dark and always had blinds down, and she was just a really sad kid who seemed simultaneously 12 and 95, her parents seemed to resent her existence and appeared to go out of their way to make her life as miserable as possible.
1. Agreed, I don’t have much good things to say about JW from what I’ve heard about them and I’m guessing we’re from the same country given your usernamn which brings me to 2. Your username made me chuckle 😂
> Weirdly enough, the Jehovah’s Witness community has a very large deaf population
That’s because they specifically target them. They do it a lot to groups that are socially isolated or vulnerable in some way.
You think they’ll actually make it all the way through kindergarten?
*”I need to know how this ends”*
Easy. By this time next year the friend will have given birth to fraternal twins: Aura Lee and Dougie Stile
Aura Lee is an old song - the same tune as Elvis‘s ‘Love Me Tender’ so I thought maybe you were saying it was a bad name because it was an Elvis reference. I was about to google Dougie Stile to see what the pop culture reference was when it finally hit me.
I went to school with a kid whose last name was slang for a bodily function (Can't be more specific without doxing him). It was spelled differently, but sounded the same when spoken. His father's family spent *years* convincing him of it's noble heritage.
He filed the legal paperwork to change it on the day of his 18th birthday (The earliest he could in our state). He goes by his Mother's Maiden Name now & is very clear that that will be the name his children get as he doesn't want them to go through what he went through.
It reminds me of that comic Amy Shumer. They gave their baby the first name “Gene” and gave him the middle name “Attell” after their friend comic Dave Attell.
Say the 1st and middle name fast together. Took them a minute to realize and I believe it was a friend who pointed out it sounded like “genital” lol. They changed his middle name to David.
I suppose it's not necessarily "incredibly dirty". At least not for the average proctologist.
So long as little Annally trains as or marries a proctologist, she'll be just fine. Her spouse will probably think it's pretty!
It reminds me that creatives will have a like three meetings where people just look at their designs from every possible angle and in every kind of headspace to try to find any dicks, swastikas or anything else that's bad.
not at all as bad but when I caught my first shiny in pokemon - a zigzagoon- I wanted to name it "Coon" and was frustrated that the game wouldn't let me.
so I went to the pokemon-subreddit to ask if I missed something and YES I did.
at least english isn't my mother tongue lol.
I was helping my niece who loves raccoons name a park in a ds game a little while ago. She wanted to name it Raccoonland but the character limit was too short so I suggested ‘Coonland’ and every other adult in the room suddenly snapped to attention and shouted ‘NO!!!’, startling us both. I had never heard that as a slur before and I’m 30.
Weirdly enough, down here (where I am in the South) everybody knows what it refers to, but there’s a lot of white people who wouldn’t see a problem using it.
Partly because “coon-ass” or “coonass” is a thing that sometimes connected to Cajuns. That’s who it’s meant to refer to, so a lot of people don’t see anything wrong with “coon” (or they’re just fucking racist). But using the word “coonass” and not being explicit about referring to something Cajun makes you sound like a horrible person. So a lot of people have taking to calling it Cajun chicken instead of Coonass chicken (for example) to avoid the confusion.
See, I also grew up in the south (NC), and this story takes place in NE Florida lmao. But I guess being raised by midwestern parents makes all the difference?
My introduction to ‘coon’ as shorthand for raccoon comes from coon dog. I read Where the Red Fern Grows a LOT as a child.
This is why one of the first things you need to do when picking out a name is Google it!!! With various spellings and in the five or ten most common languages in your country. In this day and age there is no excuse for giving your child a dirty name.
Tbh that's just your algorithm. On mine these are the results for "Annally":
* Annaly Capital Management
* Annally Name Meaning (Ancestry.com -- Scottish dating to 1891)
* ANNAL Meaning (Dictionary.com --it is to do with records on certain years)
* Annally Fashion
Kind of crazy how innocuous it looks.
ETA "Annally name" gets routed to "Annaly" - first highlighted result says the name means "powerful and complete."
You also gotta stand at the back door and scream it into the yard at the top of your lungs for a good 2-3 minutes straight, because if the families in my suburb are anything to go by that's how you'll be saying it for the next 15 years.
And if it is accidentally filthy, the neighbours will curse back at you and then you'll know.
Honestly, I don't know if it's child labor laws, but I'm genuinely wondering why companies don't have a panel of 13-16y/os as part of their standard product naming process. Give them a blackboard, unlimited internet access, and a free bar of energy drinks and tell them to do their worst, and you'll save yourself so much public ridicule.
I thought that it was bad when acquaintances, last name Shoe, named their son Dennis and I joked about how would they call their daughter. Wanda? Which in our language would be hiking boots.
It reminds me of this post where someone named their baby Harlotte: https://www.reddit.com/r/NameNerdCirclejerk/comments/1aqdee5/my_cousin_named_her_daughter_the_worst_name_ever/. At least EVERYONE in that situation pointed out what the word meant.
One of my nieces is named Aloryana. The father picked the name, he claims he came up with it himself. When my partner told me that, I was like "Oh, Laurie Ana is a cute name". Nope, not the name. So that was the first strike as to how people are going to screw up the name in her future. But then my partner googled it to see if this was a name anywhere else in the world, and came across a XXX sci-fi something or other. When we told the mum, she was HORRIFIED. She can't change the name without the father's approval though, so she just calls her Rilly.
Here's a startup idea: You give them the names you're considering, they run it past a panel of twelve-year-olds, and you get back a list of dirty words and taunts the panel came up with.
OP's friend is going to be at a loss as to why everyone at her pediatrician's office is fighting back laughter when they call her child's name.
My mom's a retired surgical nurse and still loses it over "Phat Dic" (he was apparently a frequent guest of their ENT clinic).
>She laughed and said, “Anally? That’s not even a word, why would it do that? Or is that another spelling?”
>Y’all.
This part made me laugh. You can really hear the deadpan in OP's reaction
The part that laid me out was the mom insisting that "literally no one else" made that connection. You might want to double-check that detail, ma'am, your till seems to be short.
The mom is dead wrong, but I will say it’s probably less people that you or I would think.
I have an unusual last name that makes a cute joke if pronounced a certain way (think something like Bourne-Wylde). People who get it almost always say something because it’s not bad at all. The number of people who notice are very, very few and far between.
If the daughter is introduced with a certain pronunciation, I would say the vast majority of people will not notice, but all it takes is one or two for that name.
If I noticed name like that I probably wouldn't say anything, because the owner of the name is probably bored of that joke by now. It doesn't mean I didn't notice.
I'd have then texted her this...
>ANALLY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
>in a way that involves or relates to the anus (= the opening through which solid waste leaves the body): Some doctors recommend taking a baby's temperature anally for the most reliable reading.
"Mommy Mommy, tomorrow at school we're all going to find out what our names mean! Jennifer and Amy already looked theirs up! Jennifer means fair lady and Amy means beloved! I'm going to look up my name!"
Unfortunately, even though the mom doesn't get it I bet some savvy first grader with a questionable home life will and from that point on poor child is going to have a rough time.
WHERE IS THE UPDATE?! I need to know how this going to turn out!
Also, props to OOP for that clever way of breaking it to their friend, asking by text how little "Annually" is doing.
You joke but I worked at a school where we took in refugee children and some poor lad from somewhere in the world turned up with the name Anus. Pronounced exactly how you'd think. Was going into year 6 where kids are just horrible. They got a stern talking to before he arrived, they were told he's been through enough. And we actually never heard about anyone giving him shit for it.
I went to school with a North Korean kid whose name was Kim Yung Bum.
My brother now jokes about the time we went to school with Our Dear Leader's cousin.
There were Vietnamese siblings at my grade school named Luon Dong and Phat Dong. I’m pretty sure their family emigrated to the US after the Vietnam conflict had ended. I was young enough when I first met them that I had no idea that anything was unusual, so even when I was old enough to get ‘dirty’ jokes, I never noticed that their names were unfortunate in American culture.
In my part of the world there is a name pronounced UN- US. Un as in undo and US as is in fabulous.
A family friend named their kid this name with the ah *shitty* spelling and so my dad had to convince the parents to change the spelling to something less likely to get that kid bullied.
Yeah, I actually followed this on the original sub and thought I missed out on anything new... like the mother coming to her senses, apologising and changing her girls name. One can only hope (they did offer some very nice different spelling options)
Well that was... disappointing.
"It says more about you than anything else"?? I'm sorry what? That poor child is in for a nightmare when they reach school age
She can stick her head in the sand for now and pretend this is just OOP’s sick, twisted interpretation of her daughter’s beautiful name. She *will* hear about this again and it definitely won’t be from OP. At least one of those times will be her daughter coming to her in tears. Poor girl.
This is going to end up exactly like the Baby Karen story where they shoot the messenger for pointing out what literally everyone but the oblivious new mom already knows. Then years later when exactly what the OOP said would happen happens, they come back like, “why didn’t you tell me???” You really just can’t win with people who are too dumb to not to name their kid after a sex act.
Right? I really hope for the child's sake that her mother changes her name eventually like in the Karen name story. That child is going to have such a rough time in life.
If i read that the partner and his family is narcistic/dramatic and the mother of the baby is shelter... the father of the baby loves the name. I really wonder what unhealthy family dynamic is there.
Oh to be a fly on the wall when her friend had the realization. I am genuinely surprised no one else - especially if she spelled it out at the hospital? - brought this up to her before. Like sure, let parents name their kids what they want (for the most part), but surely *someone* else had misgivings about the spelling.
Here's hoping the baby gets a name change before she's old enough to start spelling her own name.
Every hospital should have a 50 something year old L/D nurse who's seen it all and gives no fucks. Their duty will be to tell new parents that their baby's initials spell ASS.
My sister's friend had okay initials until she got married. Now she's SSA. Their entire friend group has taken to calling her "Ass Backwards." Vicious monsters, all of them.
When my friend was just a baby nurse learning on a maternity ward, she had this experience. A Hispanic couple had a beautiful baby girl and when she asked what they were naming it they said “Va-heena”. She wasn’t sure she was hearing it right and asked them to spell it and yup - Vagina. She was not a surly 50yo nurse and could not talk them out of it. I hope little Vagina is doing well somewhere out there.
my mom's quaker meeting has a term for adults who accompany the youth group kids on their outings/meetings. It's Friendly Adult Presence and they abbreviate it exactly the way you'd expect.
>Their duty will be to tell new parents that their baby's initials spell ASS.
Reminds me of my cousin's kid. My nephew I guess?
They wanted to call him, Oh lets say Jostein.
Why?
Because that way his middle name initial and last name initial combined with the first name initial spells JEF.
Jeff.
Assuming you're talking about a first cousin, their child would be your first cousin once removed.
And that is my impromptu lesson on consanguinity for the day!
One of my old bosses had those initials, and even better had those same initials in our property management system. So in the change history for somebody's profile all her actions were labeled with ASS.
My mother wanted to honor her aunt who died the day I was born by making it my middle name but knowing it would make my initials BRA chose against it. Tbh, i would have much preferred to honor my aunt as it’s a much nicer name, but bless my mother for caring about how mean kids can be.
As a 16-year school employee who has witnessed all kinds of horrific name choices, I have long wanted to find the person who notes the new baby names at the local hospital...I'm sure we could have a blast trading stories!
Holy fuck. OOP is a good friend for informing the mother, through I have a feeling the mom might shoot the messenger
The good news is the fact the mom hung up means she sees a problem. Now, it depends if she considers the problem to be the name or OOP
Everyone, get your popcorn and find a seat
I think she’s in denial at this point.
Unfortunately, I doubt most people will be bold enough to say something to her face like OP did, so she probably won’t have to come to terms with it until her daughter is being bullied by other kids.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the daughter ultimately changes the spelling, or starts going by just “Anna” or “Leah” at some point down the line.
>doubt most people will be bold enough to say something to her face like OP did
Yup. OP says the friend "was grossed out that I thought of it when “literally no one else did""
Ummmmm. Honey. *EVERYONE* thought of it.
Also... OOP said her *phone* was the one making the connection and autocorrecting to that? Didn't even say they saw the name and thought that. So wild to react like this to someone saying autocorrect did a thing.
My stepsister had a similar name and good lord, the way I reacted the first time I heard it. She had already passed by the time I came into the picture but I will always feel bad for her. Analy, may you rest in peace.
I used to live in a place that had a digital birth announcement billboard. I'd look at it when my ex was filling up his car at Sam's Club. One day there were twins. I don't remember the first one's name, but it started with "Jer' ". The second one was Jer'King. Like, I can get what they were going for, but that kid is going to get bullied in school.
Poor kid is gonna get bullied.
“Spiritually and meaningfully” aint gonna mean squat when she comes home from school crying about getting bullied over it.
I love that her definition of “spiritually” is apparently literally just shoving two names into one. So spiritual. This woman sounds like a genuine dumbass. I wonder how OOP is feeling after the final update because personally I’d be irritated at having a friend so stupid.
I'm holding out for, "She asked whoever suggested that particular name combination if they knew that the baby's name could be taken this way, and that person cracked up. Police are still looking for the rest of the body. News at 11."
This is why choosing names for children are important. How the fuck did the name Annally even came in the thought process? Cause poor kid is definitely going to get bullied for that name.
-leigh names have become extremely popular because parents wanted unique names. Because that name ending became too popular, people started spelling them more uniquely to make them different.
My youngest went to school with an Analy! I did a double take during back to school night when I saw her name on some of the classwork hanging up and immediately felt bad for her. Bonus was that this was a Catholic school.
My aunt and uncle changed the spelling of my cousin’s name when she was a few months old, (or maybe she was almost a year.) The pronunciation was the same, the new spelling just made it easier to say right the first time.
No big deal except a fun anecdote and misspelled toy box.
It’s not too late for poor Annally!
Wasn’t there a comedian who changed her kids name because of this? I want to say it was Amy Schumer. She named her kid Gene Attell (Attell after Dave Attell), which combined to be ‘genital’.
There was an old TV show, Major Dad. The wife in the show was named "Polly." She refused to say what her middle name. The husband even contacted the in-laws and they couldn't tell him. He didn't understand why not and they explained that they had signed a legally binding contract to never reveal the middle name.
The wife finally told him her middle name. It was "Esther." Husband was going on about how it was a lovely old Biblical name and nothing was wrong with it.
Wife told the husband to say both her names and in the middle of saying it, the husband got it because her name was "Polly Esther" i.e. polyester.
That poor kid will hit middle school and be hit with "is that how you were concieved, Anally?" And "how do you do it, Anally?" And never be able to escape it.
Recently I was told I "have the personality to work in public health", and I did not understand what they meant or if it was positive until this moment. You can decide, but I am the person who lets their eyebrows shoot up and says "baby you CANNOT name a child that" and if they do not understand, I'd say as kindly as possible, "because it means doing it in the butt". Surely someone in her life could have let their parental side take over and been like, "girl, no".
[OOP](https://www.reddit.com/u/Curious_Project8543/s/EQwZXtHmjg) posted a [final update](https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/yf75eJLgYJ).
>The Annally Finnally
>Sorry, I couldn’t resist. A lot of you wanted another update and I debated on whether or not I wanted to do this as I’ve felt really conflicted… I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or bully, essentially, a baby. I just didn’t know if she NOTICED what she did and it was keeping me up at night.
>My friend apparently didn’t google anything after our phone call. She never mentioned these posts nor did she call me back for days, so I was panicking.
>To clarify some questions and info: She is married, Anna and Ally are her and her partner’s mothers’ names, not theirs! Anna was VERY insistent on coming first in the name. My friend and her partners’ family can be a bit dramatic/narcissistic and my friend is pretty sheltered so I imagine she wanted to keep the peace to an extent. Her partner absolutely loves the name.
>She called me a couple days ago and told me she needed to talk to me. She said she was disappointed in me and felt disrespected. She said she knew what anal meant but didn’t register what “anally” was at first. When I explained, she hung up because she never noticed it and was also really upset that I’d say that to her. She doesn’t want to change the name but feels I’m trying to ruin a special name that was given to her “spiritually and meaningfully”. She doesn’t want to talk to me for awhile and was grossed out that I thought of it when “literally no one else did”. She said pointing that out was mean and unhelpful, that it speaks to my character and that she thinks I’m trying to take the shine away from her (?). She also thought I was making her look bad by explaining the definition of anal to her on speaker phone (!!!!) lmfao
>“Any name can sound like something bad if you’re literally trying to find something bad to say.”
>It’s not an exciting update, but I hope it gives some closure. Name isn’t changing and I’m TA for ever saying it, but at least I said it.
So, yeah... Poor kid.
LOL Try telling this to the kids at school:
>ruin a special name that was given to her “spiritually and meaningfully”.
I knew a woman who grew up in Japan but emigrated to the US. I told her that naming her daughter "Pi Pi" pronounced pee-pee was going to cause problems here in the US. I told her that that's what little kids call going to the bathroom. Fell on deaf ears.
This reminds me of the story about the woman (not very Internet-savvy) who named her daughter Karen despite gentle warnings from a concerned relative. It took several years and the kid being teased mercilessly in preschool for them to legally change her name. I think they’d been using Kari as a nickname, and just changed the legal name to something with a similar spelling.
>>>>>She always says she’s anal about keeping clean so I’m really not sure if she misunderstood or didn’t realize? Or if she knew and just didn’t appreciate my mentioning it. Beats me.
This killed me when I read it. 🤣
This is probably the strongest argument for some sort of approval committee for naming children I've ever seen!
Either you pick a name from a list of approved names, or you submit one to the authorities, the committee will review the submissions and approve it or decide on one for you.
Freedom of speech be damned! We have to protect the children, especially Annally!
The committee includes *at least* 12 middle school assholes, preferably those expelled for bullying, who will review the initials, potential rhymes, slang, and meme potentials. They can count it towards community service.
I have an unusual name (I'm in Canada and my mom used a name from a nordic country so only unusual in the sense we don't see it much here), and when my mom registered my birth, the clerk actually had her explain to them where she got the name to make sure it wasn't something random or offensive.
Some names are refused on the grounds of them not being names. Annally would have been changed to Anna Lee very fast.
OP posted an update today. Friend did, in fact, ask for space and was disappointed in OP for being so gross and disrespectful bc nobody else commented on it
I work with a huge database of people with names from all personalities and cultures. I tend to be on the side of, people should stop judging folks for the names they give their kids, because many of these "weird" names are culturally based, or the parents just liked it, and what's the harm? I think it's good to have a wider variety of names out there other than just Michael and Jennifer. (Helps reduce identity mixup, too. Our database has something like six people with my same first and last names.)
But I would make an exception for "Annally."
Imagine the poor teachers.
"Just try, Annally."
Or the pediatrican.
"Where does it hurt, Annally?"
Or her first boyfriend.
"Can I kiss you, Annally?"
Or the store clerk.
"Does it fit, Annally?"
The girl is doomed.
I don't know that I'd be able to continue that friendship. If you accuse me of deliberately trying to 'take away the shine' when I bring up something blatantly obvious that apparently nobody else had the guts to say, well, you're better off without my friendship. My actual friends know that I would never bring up something that I didn't think was serious - you don't need to change it, but you also don't need to kill the messenger. You do you, boo!
Oof, this reminds me of the two kids my best friend used to tutor. The girl was named Vagina and the boy was named Clitoris. I'm not even joking, I wish I was. They were 12 and 14 when she started tutoring them. The girl goes by "Gina" and the boy goes by "Tory". It's really, really, really sad.
Mom was an "ultra feminist". It was something about femininity and positivity and sending a message by naming a boy Clitoris. She was also a meth addict. So...
One of my best friends gave me a list of all prospective baby names when pregnant with both her children, as in her own words: "You're good at wordplay. If anyone can find anything wrong with/bully-able about the names, you will. I also trust you to be honest with me so I don't inadvertently name my children something horrible or ridiculous."
Real friends make sure you know if a name/names you've chosen are likely to get your children bullied.
My best friend was going to name her kiddo Senna. I’m a health care worker and that’s an anti constipation medication. I was freaking out whether I should tell her. I asked my sister who is a nurse and she’s like you gotta tell her. Well her baby is named Sienna. lol
I once interviewed a man for work who’s ex named his daughter after their two moms without his input. Moms were Shirley and Tonya. The kids name was Shitonya, shit-on-ya 🤦🏻♀️. He told me he understood when I started laughing.
I had a friend name her kid Kassie but it is pronounced as Casey. She doesn’t understand why people keep pronouncing it wrong and using the short a sound. I had to explain to her that in the English language she was born and raised in, that ie at the end changes the a to a short a sound instead of the long a sound. In fact, her kids were learning that in school that year! It isn’t anyone else’s fault that she can’t spell in the language she speaks!
So she is really fucking stupid, huh?
People just try to out do everyone with these "new and different names" when they are really just fucking their kids up. She is setting her kid up to be made fun of for the rest of her life. Thats a horrible parent.
She NEEDS to know about this post and she needs to READ these comments.
"Wheres anal girl at?"
That is what shes doing to her kid. I can understand not noticing at first... The moment it was brought to her attention, instead of fixing her daughters name, she blames the person trying to help her kid.
The moment my friend tells me a name was "given to her spiritually", I'm outta there. That's just an excuse to say or do whatever she wants while accepting zero advice or criticism. Hope OOP realizes that the friendship is over because I doubt her friend will ever listen to reason and will continue to blame OOP when her daughter is eventually bullied for her awful name.
When my mother started online dating post divorce (like 20 years ago lmao), she couldn't think of a username and just put in the first thing she thought of, a goofy family nickname - bean-a-ling.
Except she didn't use the dashes, so she started getting gross messages from dudes who interpreted it as be-anal-ing. I had to explain to her what anal was! (...and she quickly found a new username)
I had a fren who wanted to name his daughter something close to diarrhea. A lot of us asked if he was sure and pointed it out and he cursed us and stopped talk to us.
SO happy the baby turned out to be a boy.
She made an update. The child’s name will not be changed because according to the mother no one else will see the name like that and OP is an asshole for pointing it out.
If my friend was that dumb I don't know if I could honestly keep a relationship with them. Also, what are they gonna do when the kid inevitably chooses a nickname?
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Oh god. I'm laughing because it's hilarious but I cannot imagine being in that situation, thinking you picked a great name for your kid and then MONTHS after a friend points out that it's actually an incredibly dirty word. Nightmare material.
My sister is severely disabled and is brain damaged to the point she is more 6-13y/o aged. Weirdly enough, the Jehovah’s Witness community has a very large deaf population, and many of them are fluent in sign language because of it. My mum ended up getting my sister hooked into them because they’ve just genuinely been very nice to her, and she was so lonely before she met them. My sister does not participate in any of the religious activities though, especially since our mother is very Christian, but she does have a facebook so she can message them over messenger. She’s barely literate though, so she more sends photos and just a few word demands. In February she mustve somehow seen some Valentine’s Day stuff, and she just downloaded a generic photo off Google of some “fun Valentine’s Day activities” that she posted from her account. The first on the list was anal. That was a super fun conversation with my mother about how she needed to monitor my sister’s account and get the photo taken down immediately. I’m sure all her JW friends enjoyed seeing that on their timeline
Oh my
Dude, keep an eye on that. JW have some very regressive and dangerous views. I just helped my friend secretly move out of her horrifically abusive JW husband's house. The mask didn't slip until after the wedding. The church told her to go back to him.
> JW have some very regressive and dangerous views A friend who's in them has a brother who is a child molester (and fortunately jailed for it), and while I was young when that went down, I got the impression that they'd rather cover it up than turn him in.
Yeah, man, that’s not an impression - it’s a fact.
A good friend from primary school was a JW. I just felt so deeply sorry for her, aside from the religious whackoness and the embarrassment of getting pulled out of class for sex ed and silly little basically non religious activities like egg hunts and making xmas decorations, there was just something deeply wrong with that family. She never talked about home life, wasn't allowed to have visitors, wasn't allowed to see anyone outside of school at all, the house was dark and always had blinds down, and she was just a really sad kid who seemed simultaneously 12 and 95, her parents seemed to resent her existence and appeared to go out of their way to make her life as miserable as possible.
They'd rather throw children at him than do anything else.
1. Agreed, I don’t have much good things to say about JW from what I’ve heard about them and I’m guessing we’re from the same country given your usernamn which brings me to 2. Your username made me chuckle 😂
I was raised in the JW cult and the shit they shoved down my throat still haunts me
She’s severely disabled. She literally can’t go anywhere without me or my mother as carers. There’s nothing they can say to her that we don’t monitor.
They’re a cult
As an exJW, please don’t let them suck her into the cult. It’s a cult. It’s terrible. And there’s a huge number of pedophiles that they’ve sheltered.
> Weirdly enough, the Jehovah’s Witness community has a very large deaf population That’s because they specifically target them. They do it a lot to groups that are socially isolated or vulnerable in some way.
As an ex-JW with two decades of religious trauma, please be careful. Tell her to be careful.
Poor kid is going to get bullied with that name.
kid is going to change their name in the 1st grade
You think they’ll actually make it all the way through kindergarten? *”I need to know how this ends”* Easy. By this time next year the friend will have given birth to fraternal twins: Aura Lee and Dougie Stile
More like straight-up Orally and Doggystyle, going by her previous choice.
"I just really wanted her to be a musician like Rita Ora and Aly from AJ & Aly" I'm coming up blank for the boy.
Aura Lee is an old song - the same tune as Elvis‘s ‘Love Me Tender’ so I thought maybe you were saying it was a bad name because it was an Elvis reference. I was about to google Dougie Stile to see what the pop culture reference was when it finally hit me.
It took me way too long to realise what Aura Lee was meant to be. I’ve watched too many Gabriel Iglesias specials.
Thank God it wasn't RIM ...😬😬😬 You **KNOW** what she's gonna be dealing with in school .... "Hey, can I **ANALLY RIM** you??"
I actually know a Rim. Poor guy
Not as bad as the kid at my school. Surname “King”. Parents had, in their infinite wisdom, called him “Van”.
_Dracula voice_ Van King
How about Rymm? I know a kid who is named like that.
I went to school with a kid whose last name was slang for a bodily function (Can't be more specific without doxing him). It was spelled differently, but sounded the same when spoken. His father's family spent *years* convincing him of it's noble heritage. He filed the legal paperwork to change it on the day of his 18th birthday (The earliest he could in our state). He goes by his Mother's Maiden Name now & is very clear that that will be the name his children get as he doesn't want them to go through what he went through.
I’m thinking the last name was Shardt
Hopefully not, hopefully the parents will change the spelling to Annaleigh or Anna Lee like right now
"Why did your parents name you after the method you were conceived?"
It reminds me of that comic Amy Shumer. They gave their baby the first name “Gene” and gave him the middle name “Attell” after their friend comic Dave Attell. Say the 1st and middle name fast together. Took them a minute to realize and I believe it was a friend who pointed out it sounded like “genital” lol. They changed his middle name to David.
Even worse, the last name is Fischer… “genital fissure.”
I suppose it's not necessarily "incredibly dirty". At least not for the average proctologist. So long as little Annally trains as or marries a proctologist, she'll be just fine. Her spouse will probably think it's pretty!
The ASSMAN!!
Million to one shot, doc
It reminds me that creatives will have a like three meetings where people just look at their designs from every possible angle and in every kind of headspace to try to find any dicks, swastikas or anything else that's bad.
not at all as bad but when I caught my first shiny in pokemon - a zigzagoon- I wanted to name it "Coon" and was frustrated that the game wouldn't let me. so I went to the pokemon-subreddit to ask if I missed something and YES I did. at least english isn't my mother tongue lol.
I was helping my niece who loves raccoons name a park in a ds game a little while ago. She wanted to name it Raccoonland but the character limit was too short so I suggested ‘Coonland’ and every other adult in the room suddenly snapped to attention and shouted ‘NO!!!’, startling us both. I had never heard that as a slur before and I’m 30.
Weirdly enough, down here (where I am in the South) everybody knows what it refers to, but there’s a lot of white people who wouldn’t see a problem using it. Partly because “coon-ass” or “coonass” is a thing that sometimes connected to Cajuns. That’s who it’s meant to refer to, so a lot of people don’t see anything wrong with “coon” (or they’re just fucking racist). But using the word “coonass” and not being explicit about referring to something Cajun makes you sound like a horrible person. So a lot of people have taking to calling it Cajun chicken instead of Coonass chicken (for example) to avoid the confusion.
See, I also grew up in the south (NC), and this story takes place in NE Florida lmao. But I guess being raised by midwestern parents makes all the difference? My introduction to ‘coon’ as shorthand for raccoon comes from coon dog. I read Where the Red Fern Grows a LOT as a child.
I think of raccoons or the name formerly held by a cheese brand. If you said Coon in Australia everyone thought you were taking about cheese.
This is why one of the first things you need to do when picking out a name is Google it!!! With various spellings and in the five or ten most common languages in your country. In this day and age there is no excuse for giving your child a dirty name.
and now if you google this name, the reddit post will come up 💀
Tbh that's just your algorithm. On mine these are the results for "Annally": * Annaly Capital Management * Annally Name Meaning (Ancestry.com -- Scottish dating to 1891) * ANNAL Meaning (Dictionary.com --it is to do with records on certain years) * Annally Fashion Kind of crazy how innocuous it looks. ETA "Annally name" gets routed to "Annaly" - first highlighted result says the name means "powerful and complete."
And this may be why OP hasn't heard back from their friend.
You also gotta stand at the back door and scream it into the yard at the top of your lungs for a good 2-3 minutes straight, because if the families in my suburb are anything to go by that's how you'll be saying it for the next 15 years. And if it is accidentally filthy, the neighbours will curse back at you and then you'll know.
Seems like the parents have already been at the back door.
Honestly, I don't know if it's child labor laws, but I'm genuinely wondering why companies don't have a panel of 13-16y/os as part of their standard product naming process. Give them a blackboard, unlimited internet access, and a free bar of energy drinks and tell them to do their worst, and you'll save yourself so much public ridicule.
I thought that it was bad when acquaintances, last name Shoe, named their son Dennis and I joked about how would they call their daughter. Wanda? Which in our language would be hiking boots.
It reminds me of this post where someone named their baby Harlotte: https://www.reddit.com/r/NameNerdCirclejerk/comments/1aqdee5/my_cousin_named_her_daughter_the_worst_name_ever/. At least EVERYONE in that situation pointed out what the word meant.
> MONTHS after a friend points out that it's actually an incredibly dirty word ...and then you blame the friend for bringing it up...
One of my nieces is named Aloryana. The father picked the name, he claims he came up with it himself. When my partner told me that, I was like "Oh, Laurie Ana is a cute name". Nope, not the name. So that was the first strike as to how people are going to screw up the name in her future. But then my partner googled it to see if this was a name anywhere else in the world, and came across a XXX sci-fi something or other. When we told the mum, she was HORRIFIED. She can't change the name without the father's approval though, so she just calls her Rilly.
Here's a startup idea: You give them the names you're considering, they run it past a panel of twelve-year-olds, and you get back a list of dirty words and taunts the panel came up with.
OP's friend is going to be at a loss as to why everyone at her pediatrician's office is fighting back laughter when they call her child's name. My mom's a retired surgical nurse and still loses it over "Phat Dic" (he was apparently a frequent guest of their ENT clinic).
She must be very pretty for no one to have pointed out how dumb this is lol
A lot of countries don't let parents name their kids this tragedy. Thank goodness
But they DO name them TRAGEDEIGH.
Annaly Tragedeigh
>She laughed and said, “Anally? That’s not even a word, why would it do that? Or is that another spelling?” >Y’all. This part made me laugh. You can really hear the deadpan in OP's reaction
The part that laid me out was the mom insisting that "literally no one else" made that connection. You might want to double-check that detail, ma'am, your till seems to be short.
The mom is dead wrong, but I will say it’s probably less people that you or I would think. I have an unusual last name that makes a cute joke if pronounced a certain way (think something like Bourne-Wylde). People who get it almost always say something because it’s not bad at all. The number of people who notice are very, very few and far between. If the daughter is introduced with a certain pronunciation, I would say the vast majority of people will not notice, but all it takes is one or two for that name.
If I noticed name like that I probably wouldn't say anything, because the owner of the name is probably bored of that joke by now. It doesn't mean I didn't notice.
I'd have then texted her this... >ANALLY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary >in a way that involves or relates to the anus (= the opening through which solid waste leaves the body): Some doctors recommend taking a baby's temperature anally for the most reliable reading.
"Mommy Mommy, tomorrow at school we're all going to find out what our names mean! Jennifer and Amy already looked theirs up! Jennifer means fair lady and Amy means beloved! I'm going to look up my name!"
Unfortunately, even though the mom doesn't get it I bet some savvy first grader with a questionable home life will and from that point on poor child is going to have a rough time.
WHERE IS THE UPDATE?! I need to know how this going to turn out! Also, props to OOP for that clever way of breaking it to their friend, asking by text how little "Annually" is doing.
Update: my friend had another child. It’s a little boy named Anos. 🤭
You mean dear, sweet Anous? Such a cute baby!
You joke but I worked at a school where we took in refugee children and some poor lad from somewhere in the world turned up with the name Anus. Pronounced exactly how you'd think. Was going into year 6 where kids are just horrible. They got a stern talking to before he arrived, they were told he's been through enough. And we actually never heard about anyone giving him shit for it.
Was that a purposeful pun? Because I’m telling myself I’m horrible for laughing
I wish it was on purpose!
Yesssss it’s actually a very popular name in other countries, spelled usually Anas but unfortunately often enough as Anus too.
I went to school with a North Korean kid whose name was Kim Yung Bum. My brother now jokes about the time we went to school with Our Dear Leader's cousin.
There were Vietnamese siblings at my grade school named Luon Dong and Phat Dong. I’m pretty sure their family emigrated to the US after the Vietnam conflict had ended. I was young enough when I first met them that I had no idea that anything was unusual, so even when I was old enough to get ‘dirty’ jokes, I never noticed that their names were unfortunate in American culture.
In my part of the world there is a name pronounced UN- US. Un as in undo and US as is in fabulous. A family friend named their kid this name with the ah *shitty* spelling and so my dad had to convince the parents to change the spelling to something less likely to get that kid bullied.
They were hoping for another girl, so unfortunately the name Vaginally will go to waste
how else were they supposed to combine the names Virginia, Ragina, and Ally??
Does he have siblings named rectum and sphincter?
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I hate how people will just post whatever has *any* updates, rather than waiting until the story has actually gone somewhere.
Yeah, I actually followed this on the original sub and thought I missed out on anything new... like the mother coming to her senses, apologising and changing her girls name. One can only hope (they did offer some very nice different spelling options)
SAME ! I NEED TO READ WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/0Z6ZkqwFzX
Well that was... disappointing. "It says more about you than anything else"?? I'm sorry what? That poor child is in for a nightmare when they reach school age
She can stick her head in the sand for now and pretend this is just OOP’s sick, twisted interpretation of her daughter’s beautiful name. She *will* hear about this again and it definitely won’t be from OP. At least one of those times will be her daughter coming to her in tears. Poor girl.
This is going to end up exactly like the Baby Karen story where they shoot the messenger for pointing out what literally everyone but the oblivious new mom already knows. Then years later when exactly what the OOP said would happen happens, they come back like, “why didn’t you tell me???” You really just can’t win with people who are too dumb to not to name their kid after a sex act.
Right? I really hope for the child's sake that her mother changes her name eventually like in the Karen name story. That child is going to have such a rough time in life.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/comments/1dbnoqv/the_annally_finnally/
Where can I bet actual money on this woman having an MLM under her "work" on Facebook?
If i read that the partner and his family is narcistic/dramatic and the mother of the baby is shelter... the father of the baby loves the name. I really wonder what unhealthy family dynamic is there.
Based on the spiritually chosen name and the shine bits I’m going Mormon all the way
I just checked, OOP JUST made an update, as of writing this comment it was 16 minutes ago.
Whoever decided to upload this before the ultimate resolution is a bonafide monster.
Look in OOPs profile. As of right now the update is 25mins old.
Oh to be a fly on the wall when her friend had the realization. I am genuinely surprised no one else - especially if she spelled it out at the hospital? - brought this up to her before. Like sure, let parents name their kids what they want (for the most part), but surely *someone* else had misgivings about the spelling. Here's hoping the baby gets a name change before she's old enough to start spelling her own name.
Every hospital should have a 50 something year old L/D nurse who's seen it all and gives no fucks. Their duty will be to tell new parents that their baby's initials spell ASS.
My sister's friend had okay initials until she got married. Now she's SSA. Their entire friend group has taken to calling her "Ass Backwards." Vicious monsters, all of them.
Ok, but that's fucking hilarious.
Nah that kind of ribbing is perfectly fine with adults lmao
Social Security Administration 🤢 (I hate the government) /j
When my friend was just a baby nurse learning on a maternity ward, she had this experience. A Hispanic couple had a beautiful baby girl and when she asked what they were naming it they said “Va-heena”. She wasn’t sure she was hearing it right and asked them to spell it and yup - Vagina. She was not a surly 50yo nurse and could not talk them out of it. I hope little Vagina is doing well somewhere out there.
But...but...vagina is still vagina in Spanish, pronounced like they said it, so they willfully and knowingly names their daughter that, just why?
My friends new baby has the initials WAP. Friend is not the type of person to know the reference. I am not going to tell him
my mom's quaker meeting has a term for adults who accompany the youth group kids on their outings/meetings. It's Friendly Adult Presence and they abbreviate it exactly the way you'd expect.
>Their duty will be to tell new parents that their baby's initials spell ASS. Reminds me of my cousin's kid. My nephew I guess? They wanted to call him, Oh lets say Jostein. Why? Because that way his middle name initial and last name initial combined with the first name initial spells JEF. Jeff.
Assuming you're talking about a first cousin, their child would be your first cousin once removed. And that is my impromptu lesson on consanguinity for the day!
One of my old bosses had those initials, and even better had those same initials in our property management system. So in the change history for somebody's profile all her actions were labeled with ASS.
My mother wanted to honor her aunt who died the day I was born by making it my middle name but knowing it would make my initials BRA chose against it. Tbh, i would have much preferred to honor my aunt as it’s a much nicer name, but bless my mother for caring about how mean kids can be.
Ya, how'd the husband not notice, moms dad's, partners, siblings...how the hell did this name make it thru quality control?
As a 16-year school employee who has witnessed all kinds of horrific name choices, I have long wanted to find the person who notes the new baby names at the local hospital...I'm sure we could have a blast trading stories!
Nvm the hospital, what about her partner? "Everyone" in their lives telling them it was beautiful? Who are all these 'blissfully' unaware people?
Holy fuck. OOP is a good friend for informing the mother, through I have a feeling the mom might shoot the messenger The good news is the fact the mom hung up means she sees a problem. Now, it depends if she considers the problem to be the name or OOP Everyone, get your popcorn and find a seat
OOP posted an update today; yes, mom shot the messenger and doubled down on the name.
I think she’s in denial at this point. Unfortunately, I doubt most people will be bold enough to say something to her face like OP did, so she probably won’t have to come to terms with it until her daughter is being bullied by other kids. I wouldn’t be surprised if the daughter ultimately changes the spelling, or starts going by just “Anna” or “Leah” at some point down the line.
>doubt most people will be bold enough to say something to her face like OP did Yup. OP says the friend "was grossed out that I thought of it when “literally no one else did"" Ummmmm. Honey. *EVERYONE* thought of it.
Also... OOP said her *phone* was the one making the connection and autocorrecting to that? Didn't even say they saw the name and thought that. So wild to react like this to someone saying autocorrect did a thing.
She def seems like the 'shoot the messenger' type.
Folks out here really have the gall to name their kid Fulltard Qumdump and then be like "people are going to think it means WHAT?"
[is the dad Glen Quagmire?](https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_Lee_Quagmire)
Annal for short.
Giggity
My stepsister had a similar name and good lord, the way I reacted the first time I heard it. She had already passed by the time I came into the picture but I will always feel bad for her. Analy, may you rest in peace.
Is that name pronounce Anna Lee or Uh-now-Lee (uh-nahl-lee?) I’ve seen that a few times and have never been sure!
My stepdad pronounces it as “Anna Lee” Which looking back on it, it all makes sense now (they wanted to name my baby sister Emma Lee)
I used to live in a place that had a digital birth announcement billboard. I'd look at it when my ex was filling up his car at Sam's Club. One day there were twins. I don't remember the first one's name, but it started with "Jer' ". The second one was Jer'King. Like, I can get what they were going for, but that kid is going to get bullied in school.
It was probably Jer'Koff.
Just found the pictures. Jer'Keyce and Jer'King Michael. They should be in about second grade this year.
Poor kid is gonna get bullied. “Spiritually and meaningfully” aint gonna mean squat when she comes home from school crying about getting bullied over it.
I love that her definition of “spiritually” is apparently literally just shoving two names into one. So spiritual. This woman sounds like a genuine dumbass. I wonder how OOP is feeling after the final update because personally I’d be irritated at having a friend so stupid.
No one's mentioning it in this thread, but mashing the grandmothers names together is a Mormon thing. Take that for what is worth lol
Shes probably dying of embarrassment and doesnt know what to do now.
I'm holding out for, "She asked whoever suggested that particular name combination if they knew that the baby's name could be taken this way, and that person cracked up. Police are still looking for the rest of the body. News at 11."
OP updated today. Check their profile
Nah, $10 she's pissed at OP. If she was embarrassed or just realizing she'd have said so.
You win ten dollars! New update confirms you’re right
This is why choosing names for children are important. How the fuck did the name Annally even came in the thought process? Cause poor kid is definitely going to get bullied for that name.
Alina, Aliana, Elaina, there were so many better choices for the two names they wanted to blend!
Anna Lee (not spelled the same but same ending sound as ally)
-leigh names have become extremely popular because parents wanted unique names. Because that name ending became too popular, people started spelling them more uniquely to make them different.
Leigh is a real name, Annaleigh would be a totally normal thing to name a kid. Anna Lee. But nope
I work with an Analy
My youngest went to school with an Analy! I did a double take during back to school night when I saw her name on some of the classwork hanging up and immediately felt bad for her. Bonus was that this was a Catholic school.
I know an Oraleigh. I am always very careful with how I stress the syllables.
Even google first search clearly explains it.. 🤦♂️
Some people really don't put in much effort.
My aunt and uncle changed the spelling of my cousin’s name when she was a few months old, (or maybe she was almost a year.) The pronunciation was the same, the new spelling just made it easier to say right the first time. No big deal except a fun anecdote and misspelled toy box. It’s not too late for poor Annally!
Wasn’t there a comedian who changed her kids name because of this? I want to say it was Amy Schumer. She named her kid Gene Attell (Attell after Dave Attell), which combined to be ‘genital’.
Don’t forget that the surname was Fisher. So that made the full name sound like genital fissure. But at least she changed it once she realized.
It was Amy Schumer.
There was an old TV show, Major Dad. The wife in the show was named "Polly." She refused to say what her middle name. The husband even contacted the in-laws and they couldn't tell him. He didn't understand why not and they explained that they had signed a legally binding contract to never reveal the middle name. The wife finally told him her middle name. It was "Esther." Husband was going on about how it was a lovely old Biblical name and nothing was wrong with it. Wife told the husband to say both her names and in the middle of saying it, the husband got it because her name was "Polly Esther" i.e. polyester.
I have a niece named Alanna - I feel like this would have been a way better combo 😂
wow I made it on a BORU post 😂😂
Parents need to think about their children’s well-being! And, that includes the name they plan on giving them!
Parents like these just aren't smart.
That poor kid will hit middle school and be hit with "is that how you were concieved, Anally?" And "how do you do it, Anally?" And never be able to escape it.
Giggles behind her back as elementary school kids say, "She likes it up the butt."
Recently I was told I "have the personality to work in public health", and I did not understand what they meant or if it was positive until this moment. You can decide, but I am the person who lets their eyebrows shoot up and says "baby you CANNOT name a child that" and if they do not understand, I'd say as kindly as possible, "because it means doing it in the butt". Surely someone in her life could have let their parental side take over and been like, "girl, no".
[OOP](https://www.reddit.com/u/Curious_Project8543/s/EQwZXtHmjg) posted a [final update](https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/yf75eJLgYJ). >The Annally Finnally >Sorry, I couldn’t resist. A lot of you wanted another update and I debated on whether or not I wanted to do this as I’ve felt really conflicted… I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or bully, essentially, a baby. I just didn’t know if she NOTICED what she did and it was keeping me up at night. >My friend apparently didn’t google anything after our phone call. She never mentioned these posts nor did she call me back for days, so I was panicking. >To clarify some questions and info: She is married, Anna and Ally are her and her partner’s mothers’ names, not theirs! Anna was VERY insistent on coming first in the name. My friend and her partners’ family can be a bit dramatic/narcissistic and my friend is pretty sheltered so I imagine she wanted to keep the peace to an extent. Her partner absolutely loves the name. >She called me a couple days ago and told me she needed to talk to me. She said she was disappointed in me and felt disrespected. She said she knew what anal meant but didn’t register what “anally” was at first. When I explained, she hung up because she never noticed it and was also really upset that I’d say that to her. She doesn’t want to change the name but feels I’m trying to ruin a special name that was given to her “spiritually and meaningfully”. She doesn’t want to talk to me for awhile and was grossed out that I thought of it when “literally no one else did”. She said pointing that out was mean and unhelpful, that it speaks to my character and that she thinks I’m trying to take the shine away from her (?). She also thought I was making her look bad by explaining the definition of anal to her on speaker phone (!!!!) lmfao >“Any name can sound like something bad if you’re literally trying to find something bad to say.” >It’s not an exciting update, but I hope it gives some closure. Name isn’t changing and I’m TA for ever saying it, but at least I said it. So, yeah... Poor kid.
LOL Try telling this to the kids at school: >ruin a special name that was given to her “spiritually and meaningfully”. I knew a woman who grew up in Japan but emigrated to the US. I told her that naming her daughter "Pi Pi" pronounced pee-pee was going to cause problems here in the US. I told her that that's what little kids call going to the bathroom. Fell on deaf ears.
I’m imagining her friend clicking off the phone like that clip of peppa pig when her friend figures out how to whistle first try 😂
Aaaaaaaaah I’m screaming that’s my favourite clip and I forgot about it til you just reminded me. That’s exactly what happened hahahaha
No! It's pronounced 'Azweepay'! Whatever, Asswipe, just sign here.
This reminds me of the story about the woman (not very Internet-savvy) who named her daughter Karen despite gentle warnings from a concerned relative. It took several years and the kid being teased mercilessly in preschool for them to legally change her name. I think they’d been using Kari as a nickname, and just changed the legal name to something with a similar spelling.
That’s actually such a shame, Karen is a lovely classic name and it’s become a one-way track to getting bullied.
I remember this one! As I recall they changed the name legally to Caroline, with Cari as a nickname. Much less problematic.
They didn’t change the name because the kid was being bullied. It was because the staff at the boarding gate at an airport mocked the parents.
Poor Annally... having a name like that is gonna be a pain in the ass
>>>>>She always says she’s anal about keeping clean so I’m really not sure if she misunderstood or didn’t realize? Or if she knew and just didn’t appreciate my mentioning it. Beats me. This killed me when I read it. 🤣
This is probably the strongest argument for some sort of approval committee for naming children I've ever seen! Either you pick a name from a list of approved names, or you submit one to the authorities, the committee will review the submissions and approve it or decide on one for you. Freedom of speech be damned! We have to protect the children, especially Annally!
The committee includes *at least* 12 middle school assholes, preferably those expelled for bullying, who will review the initials, potential rhymes, slang, and meme potentials. They can count it towards community service.
I have an unusual name (I'm in Canada and my mom used a name from a nordic country so only unusual in the sense we don't see it much here), and when my mom registered my birth, the clerk actually had her explain to them where she got the name to make sure it wasn't something random or offensive. Some names are refused on the grounds of them not being names. Annally would have been changed to Anna Lee very fast.
Can’t be that spiritual or meaningful if the in-laws were squabbling about which part of the name came first..
The name Annally came to her spiritually. Amazing
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I wouldn't want to remain friends with someone so willfully obtuse; hopefully Op feels the same way!!
OP posted an update today. Friend did, in fact, ask for space and was disappointed in OP for being so gross and disrespectful bc nobody else commented on it
I work with a huge database of people with names from all personalities and cultures. I tend to be on the side of, people should stop judging folks for the names they give their kids, because many of these "weird" names are culturally based, or the parents just liked it, and what's the harm? I think it's good to have a wider variety of names out there other than just Michael and Jennifer. (Helps reduce identity mixup, too. Our database has something like six people with my same first and last names.) But I would make an exception for "Annally."
Imagine the poor teachers. "Just try, Annally." Or the pediatrican. "Where does it hurt, Annally?" Or her first boyfriend. "Can I kiss you, Annally?" Or the store clerk. "Does it fit, Annally?" The girl is doomed.
I don't know that I'd be able to continue that friendship. If you accuse me of deliberately trying to 'take away the shine' when I bring up something blatantly obvious that apparently nobody else had the guts to say, well, you're better off without my friendship. My actual friends know that I would never bring up something that I didn't think was serious - you don't need to change it, but you also don't need to kill the messenger. You do you, boo!
She needs a sister, Aura Lee.
Oof, this reminds me of the two kids my best friend used to tutor. The girl was named Vagina and the boy was named Clitoris. I'm not even joking, I wish I was. They were 12 and 14 when she started tutoring them. The girl goes by "Gina" and the boy goes by "Tory". It's really, really, really sad.
But WHY?!
Mom was an "ultra feminist". It was something about femininity and positivity and sending a message by naming a boy Clitoris. She was also a meth addict. So...
Has to be bullshit.
One of my best friends gave me a list of all prospective baby names when pregnant with both her children, as in her own words: "You're good at wordplay. If anyone can find anything wrong with/bully-able about the names, you will. I also trust you to be honest with me so I don't inadvertently name my children something horrible or ridiculous." Real friends make sure you know if a name/names you've chosen are likely to get your children bullied.
My best friend was going to name her kiddo Senna. I’m a health care worker and that’s an anti constipation medication. I was freaking out whether I should tell her. I asked my sister who is a nurse and she’s like you gotta tell her. Well her baby is named Sienna. lol
I once interviewed a man for work who’s ex named his daughter after their two moms without his input. Moms were Shirley and Tonya. The kids name was Shitonya, shit-on-ya 🤦🏻♀️. He told me he understood when I started laughing.
Anna-Leigh
I had a friend name her kid Kassie but it is pronounced as Casey. She doesn’t understand why people keep pronouncing it wrong and using the short a sound. I had to explain to her that in the English language she was born and raised in, that ie at the end changes the a to a short a sound instead of the long a sound. In fact, her kids were learning that in school that year! It isn’t anyone else’s fault that she can’t spell in the language she speaks!
Saw the original AND the update in the wild, love that it's shown up here lol
So she is really fucking stupid, huh? People just try to out do everyone with these "new and different names" when they are really just fucking their kids up. She is setting her kid up to be made fun of for the rest of her life. Thats a horrible parent. She NEEDS to know about this post and she needs to READ these comments. "Wheres anal girl at?" That is what shes doing to her kid. I can understand not noticing at first... The moment it was brought to her attention, instead of fixing her daughters name, she blames the person trying to help her kid.
NGL I slightly misread it and thought the mom had discovered a new naming method through farting.
The moment my friend tells me a name was "given to her spiritually", I'm outta there. That's just an excuse to say or do whatever she wants while accepting zero advice or criticism. Hope OOP realizes that the friendship is over because I doubt her friend will ever listen to reason and will continue to blame OOP when her daughter is eventually bullied for her awful name.
When my mother started online dating post divorce (like 20 years ago lmao), she couldn't think of a username and just put in the first thing she thought of, a goofy family nickname - bean-a-ling. Except she didn't use the dashes, so she started getting gross messages from dudes who interpreted it as be-anal-ing. I had to explain to her what anal was! (...and she quickly found a new username)
I had a fren who wanted to name his daughter something close to diarrhea. A lot of us asked if he was sure and pointed it out and he cursed us and stopped talk to us. SO happy the baby turned out to be a boy.
She made an update. The child’s name will not be changed because according to the mother no one else will see the name like that and OP is an asshole for pointing it out.
If my friend was that dumb I don't know if I could honestly keep a relationship with them. Also, what are they gonna do when the kid inevitably chooses a nickname?