Godmother criticizes mother for naming her daughter Ghiuliyette: ‘Why ruin such a beautiful name by including letters that don’t belong there?’

My sister has an unusual spelling of her name. Well, it might’ve been considered unusual 20 years ago, but with the recent increase in parents naming their kids all sorts of absurd things, it’s pretty conventional. She spells her name with a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K’ for one of those conventionally K names…Kaitlyn, Katherine, …
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‘I think both are just trying to overpower the other one at this point’: Wife wants to name daughter ‘hippy name,’ is shut down by traditionalist husband

Names are incredibly important. They’re your first impression of someone- the first thing they’re going to associate with you. We all have associations with names, good and bad. For example, I could never trust someone named Bridget, but I have good things to say about every Gloria I’ve ever known. Johns are extremely hit or …
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‘I can’t help but feel guilty for breaking the tradition’: Parents discuss the burden of passing down the ‘family’ name

Are you ‘you’ or are you just the third or fourth of that first matriarch or patriarch of your family who started this vain «tradition?» 

The Most Baffling Baby Names from Around The Internet

What’s in a name? It contains far more than just our government-recognized identity. Have you ever met a Jeff that really feels like George? Or a Katherine that could never be a Katy but is definitely a Kat? Names have powerful association and are not to be doled out recklessly. I’m all for naming your …
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Nerdy Parents Name Their Daughter After ‘Konan’ From Naruto, Gets Eviscerated By Family

It’s no secret that Millennials are known to name their kids weirder things than Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before them. I have close family friends who named their daughter «Kaylyn» instead of «Kaitlyn» because they didn’t think a CEO would be named «Kaitlyn.» They might’ve been onto something there. For all intents and purposes, …
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Teachers Share Student Names That Correlate With Bad Behavior

I still remember the names of the problem children from my elementary school. There was this kid named Parker who, in the middle of my 3rd-grade teacher talking about math, asked her if there was a guy inside of mascot costumes. I think he knew there was indeed some guy or lady inside of all …
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Redditors Share Seemingly Normal Names That Are the Most Unfortunate in Other Languages

Names can be tricky things. They are one of the first metrics that other people use to judge us, and it’s not like we needed any more reasons for that to happen. As if there wasn’t enough responsibility placed on parents, choosing what to name a kid can really make or break how they experience …
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20+ Overly Unique Names That Are Nothing Short of a Tragedeigh

How time flies. The infamous «chalkboard mom» who became a meme for showing off all the bizarre baby names she had considered for her daughter now has an 11-year-old girl who she recently showed off to TikTok. Laikynn seems to be doing well (it seems like they added in the i post-production) but not everybody …
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High-Achieving Mom Names Her Kids ‘Stanford’ and ‘Yale,’ Is Too Stupid To Understand Why That’s a Bad Idea

Growing up in a town where everybody expected their kid to attend an Ivy League school is a wild experience I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with wanting your kid to succeed, but putting constant pressure on them to be the best usually does nothing more than make them …
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People Share The Dumbest Baby Names They’ve Ever Heard

Many people think that stupid baby names result from modern hubris. Foolish young parents give kids names that they won’t grow into and will be the reason for their career failures later in life. However, we’ve always had slightly silly baby names. My dad was born in the sixties, and his middle name is literally …
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