I have no idea how I’d feel if I changed my last name. My full name has such a great ring; I couldn’t imagine wanting to change it to something else. But if I was in love and didn’t want to go to the hyphenated side of town, I might do it to have the …
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‘It sounds more like a furniture brand’: Mom-to-be faces pushback for rejecting husband’s absurd baby name
As a parent, one of your earliest and most important responsibilities towards your child is giving them a suitable name. For countless kids, one of their first grudges toward their elders comes from the moniker they received when they were too young to have a say in the matter. It’s a process that no mom …
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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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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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Twitter Reacts to Techno Mechanicus, the Secret Third Child of Grimes and Elon Musk
Baby names have long been one of those areas in which famous people are liable to get a little too, shall we say, «creative». Nobody comes up with a moniker made for playground teasing quite like certain celebrities. In recent years, the most notorious of these has to be Grimes and Elon Musk. When they …
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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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Twitter Gets Rebranded as X, Former Twitter Users React
For the past nine months, being on Twitter has been like riding a rollercoaster — if the rollercoaster was one terrifying plunge after another that seemingly came out of nowhere, and also the tracks were on fire. Ever since Elon Musk assumed ownership of the platform, much of its userbase have been waiting for the …
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Mom’s List of Rejected Baby Names Gets Roasted by Twitter
Those of us with less remarkable monikers probably don’t stop to think about it, but the name we get given is a lucky dip of how ‘creative’ our parents were feeling when we were born. Plenty of people had near misses with names that may have led to a lot more playground bullying, but others …
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Mom’s Absurd List of Rejected Baby Names Gets Roasted by Twitter
Those of us with less remarkable monikers probably don’t stop to think about it, but the name we get given is a lucky dip of how ‘creative’ our parents were feeling when we were born. Plenty of people had near misses with names that may have led to a lot more playground bullying, but others …
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