I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
‘Whatever you want’ would be a terrible name
Yep, the government would say no to that name.
The downside is, neither can any adult. I think the first name limitations should only apply to kids; legal adults should be able to change their names to whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. It could only hurt themselves after all
Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
Sure it was Caileigh?
Jup, Caileeh for sure.
I once worked with a Kaylee, but she pronounced it Kali, like Cali-fornia, or Kali-mah…
Took me a month to get that sorted in my head.
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.
You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you
I do :)
Ashley spelled Ashleigh
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
…what kinda hash?
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Why did I read that in Napoleon Dynamite’s voice?
Brownie
like a sha-512 for example, if you are not familiar with the concept. go ahead and google it :)
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
That’s what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood
There are a lot of reasons why musk should be (and soon enough will be) jailed, this is one of them. This is child abuse, literally
In the USA, rich people are quite obviously above the law, so no, I don’t think he will.
What makes you so confident?
“Breighdone” (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven’t brain-bleached yet.
My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.
yeah that’s literally a HIPAA violation lol
esp if the spelling is that unique, it’s definitely identifying info
It probably would get her in some hot water, but a first name alone is a gray area. It becomes a definite violation if it’s combined with health information, even as simple “a baby was born here with the name X”. If she just says “I saw a name spelled X” then it may not be a violation of the law, but the hospital would probably still can her for it.
La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I’ve seen
I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow La-a is so much worse.
Found an interesting snopes article about that.
Seems the article is from 2008, and the La-a I know of was in pre-k in ~2015, so it seems someone named their kid based on the legend.
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
I’ve seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I’m assuming it was real.
Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can’t recall if the girl was black or not but I don’t think she was.
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as lea without the dash
The dash don’t be silent
T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
T’Fanny sounds like the name of a Vulcan stripper lol.
“Live long, t’werk that t’fanny, and prosper 🖖”
Worst lap dance in the quadrant … yeah right it was scientifically measured and performed
Fkn lol!
Hope she never goes to Britain…
How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?
Nah they’re called “bum bags”
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
Oh dear lord no
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I’ve first heard it, I’ve never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we’re all running into the same Abcde and there aren’t just hordes of them out there.
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
This is actually a tuff name
Not so much the spelling, just… I went to school with a girl who’s father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada… they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee
Her name was “Dollarina”
That name is a trajideh.
Literally the “why did mum name me Rose” meme.
Dollarina Cappocino
Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
Looks like its the name of a Daedric lord or something.
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don’t hold their punches.
I once met a girl called Xinhergi
Who thrived on late-night energy.
She’d moan and she’d grind,
With a very keen mind
For positions defying liturgy.
This has to be a muskspawn.
There’s a girl in my kid’s class named Eighmee. Pronounced “Amy”. I thought it was weird but there’s a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
Eighew! Ouarew?
