• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Utah moms need to remember. One day, Brightlynn, Ayngylle, and Keighleigh will be 90 year old patients, playing gin rummy in a nursing home.

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    3 days ago

    Peruvians take this to another level. There’s a professional soccer player named Osama Vinladen, and his brother is Sadam Huseín

    There’s a town mayor election where the candidate Lenin lost to…eventual winner named after THAT Austrian artist

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    3 days ago

    She’d love Germany. Those names would be illegal over here.

    Then again the law also explicitly states that you can name your kid any name that’s normal for your heritage. I guess that means an American would be able to name their kid Kitchenaid because it aligns with their traditions.

  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Oh boy… These are real people.

    1. Drink Water Rivera: Very refreshing take on nomenclature but quite bland 8/20.
    2. Macaroni 85, Spaghetti 88, and Sincerely Yours 98 Pascual: As if someone stopped them from naming their kid after pasta because the username is already taken. 66.67/10 because they didn’t commit all the way.
    3. Covid Bryant: Not quite Black Mamba, not quite the Black Death but still 8/10 or 24/30.
    4. Abcde Aeiou: Very educational A+/10
    5. Captain Philip Ines: Not quite the super soldier 19/40.
    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      To be fair, Marijuana is an actual name, it’s not what weed was always called, and it was often used as the preferred name by the US government because they wanted to characterize it as a Mexican racial trait.

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    4 days ago

    I remember reading about some girls literally called ‘undesired’ on their language :(

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      3 days ago

      I mean, I’ve met girls called “Chastity” which is weird as fuck if you think about it for half a second.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s naming them for a supposed ‘virtue’ it may be hoped they possess.

        Same deal as naming girls Grace, Charity, Faith etc. All are ‘virtue’ names.

        I personally dislike it, but it’s pretty well-established.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah I get the trend but naming your kids “doesn’t fuck” is just weird

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Parents use these names because it’s the pique of their cleverness.

    There is a clear socioeconomic divide between those who do and do not do this and it is exactly what one expects to to be.

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      4 days ago

      My last name is Browning, like the gun manufacturer (distant relation). I used to joke that if I ever had boy/girl twins I would name them Colt Winchester (boy) and Biretta Glock (girl). I nearly got Colt for my youngest, but there were too many kids named Colton around.

      I also really wanted to name my first son Charlemagne. This was because back in high school when we studied the Holy Roman Empire all the girls in class were talking about how Charlemange was such a beautiful sounding name. I figured that he’d have to put up with some shit growing up, but it would all pay off because not only would he wind up with a name that people loved to say, but he’d also be resilient and hopefully with a solid sense of humor.

      My wife vetoed this nearly as soon as the ring was on her finger.

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        4 days ago

        Jesus christ you’re awful with names for your kids.

        I hope you two didn’t choose the name that has the beautiful meaning of “lightbringer” and end up naming one of your boys “Lucifer”

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            2 days ago

            Here’s an idea, one should not name kids after characters considered bad or evil. EVEN IF IT COULD BE INTERPRETED MULTIPLE WAYS.