No products in the cart.
YSK picking a proper name for children is crucial & can be life-changing, don’t take it lightly, don’t pick stupid or “fun” ones 35
Why YSK? According to studies, picking names have a long-lasting effect on children’s lives as they grow up. They can even affect school admissions & employment.
A child’s name is not a social statement or a cool experiment, it’s permanent & goes to become part of their core identity & self-worth.
Our names can shape our psyche & are reminders of how much our parents care about us. It can vastly hurt or improve life experiences.
​
**Further reads:**
* [https://deepenglish.com/lessons/names-affect-childrens-future/](https://deepenglish.com/lessons/names-affect-childrens-future/)
* [https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/hello_my_name_is_the_importance_of_giving_your_child_a_good_name](https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/hello_my_name_is_the_importance_of_giving_your_child_a_good_name)
* [https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/out-the-ooze/202010/why-the-choice-your-childs-name-matters-so-much](https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/out-the-ooze/202010/why-the-choice-your-childs-name-matters-so-much)
Update: To make it simple, maybe at least ask ourselves three simple questions before choosing a name:
1. Would other children use it for bullying? Does it rhyme with a vulgar word?
2. Would it cause legal ramifications for the child in future?
3. If they apply for a job, would the hiring company assume it’s a prank resume based on the name? Will you take somebody with that name seriously when they are 20, 30, 50 & 70 years old?
Update 2:
I am an immigrant myself, with a non-English name which luckily is not hard to pronounce. But I have been thinking about my potential children’s names for a long time. I have narrowed it down to a list of names with meaning both in English & my origins; this way, hopefully, they will have a choice.
I wish some one would have explained this sooner. I probably wouldn’t have named my son Reddit Shitpost Smith
Chalupa Batman will never be an astronaut
I know of a woman named Jeffrey. Her dad’s side of the family had a long history of naming all of the first born child Jeffrey, and all of the first born children were boys. She was the first born child and her dad refused to break tradition.
I tell you, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue
I used to have a client named Debbie Downer. Well Debra but went by Deb.
We need more Bort license plates in the gift shop!!!
I’m a claims adjuster so I see a lot of weird names that grown adults have named their children. Most recently, First name: Electra, Last Name: Carr. Electric car?!
A set of twins were named Rowdy and Ryatt (Riot). Like I can’t even.
Or even giving normal names really odd spellings. I’ve seen someone spell Kasey/Casey as “Kaicee” or “Kenadie” for Kennedy, so on…
Excuse me, but Chrishell was so named because she was delivered by a man name Chris at a Shell gas station, and now she’s a Netflix star.
Thank god she wasn’t born at an Arco.
Shoutout to my man [Dovahkiin](https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-17-bethesdas-skyrim-challenge-accepted-parents-name-baby-dovahkiin), who got his parents free Bethesda games for life!
I had a friend who wanted to name his son Harley. Which wasn’t bad, but his name was David. His thinking was, his friends will see his son and say “hey look that’s Harley, David’s son”
So you are saying I should not have named my son Abrodolph Lincoler.
What a let down. And here I was hoping to create a morally neutral super leader.
“I’m naming my son Goku because it’s epic!!!”
I worked with this costume designer once: [Marychris Mass](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0557060/).
Let me introduce you to Frederick Ulysses Calvin Kavorkian, and his brother Donald Ian Christopher Kavorkian.
Saw this post years ago about a kid named Blazen Keif. I always wonder what happened to him. Hey Blazen Keif. If you see this reach out.
Just found out my old roommate named her kid my name….. we lived together for about 8 months 2 years before she got pregnant. It’s name is “Queen *my name* Crown *last name*” 😳😳😳😳😳
Like the guy named batman bin suparman. Had his picture saved on my computer back in high school like a decade ago. Turns out he was arrested for stealing heroin
I have a name that has been mispronounced more times than it’s been said correctly. I gave my children names that are not unique because of my experience
Set for success: Max Power
I have an aunt named Emmer . Last name Jensey. As soon as she could she got married and took his last name . She never talked to her father after he told her he did it on a dare.
The tale of Streetlamp LeMoose:
http://theabsolutebestofreddit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mr-streetlamp-le-moose.html
I heard of a family that named their three kids Rocky, Stoney and Pebbles. In that same town is a guy named Flash Flood.
I’m a guy with a largely feminine name in the English speaking world. People wonder why I have a “girl’s name” until I tell them it has a Welsh origin.
X Æ A-Xii
TIL: OP’s name is Gilbert
I don’t have a dumb name but it’s not an English name and growing up in America i grew to hate my name because no one can ever pronounce it or spell it right 🙁
I like my name because it’s unique and simple, but it’s a bastard to spell. Paired with a very polish last name, I’ve made peace with being referred to incorrectly.
Meanwhile, my young relative is named after a Harry Potter character. He was adopted and neither of his parents have read Harry Potter.
Yeah, fuck that. I have 5 names (because the first letter of each name spells out my mom’s name), and it’s a bitch to fill out government forms. If my name was longer by a letter, it wouldn’t fit on my driver’s license. My names are Arabic, too, so it’s quite unique in my country (Philippines).
Also, my nickname is derived from my first name, but it is a common Japanese girl’s name (but I am a man) which is unique for my country, too.
Sometimes I just give out an alias when ordering at Starbucks just to avoid the hassle of spelling out my nickname.
My mom named me after her hippy friends daughter…I’m a man named Lyric. I’ve gotten shit for it my entire life.
I knew a guy named Bud who named his kid Wyzer. They’ve both been to prison.
My parents gave me a unique name. I fucking hate it. Nobody can spell it, nobody knows how to pronounce it, and nobody understands what name I’m telling them when I introduce myself. They should have just named me Cheryl or some shit like that. I’m changing it soon.
My former co-worker has a born again Christian friend who used to live a wild lifestyle.
During that wild era he had a son he named “Crunk”
That is all.
I attended kindergarten with a boy named Spartacus. We called him Sparty. My parents thought he was my imaginary friend until they met Sparty and his parents at pickup. This was over three decades ago, and it still makes me smile.
My parents picked a name for a cute little OshKosh bowl cut wearing child of the 80s and didn’t think about my future. I hate my fucking stupid little kid name
So…
Wife and I made a list of all the favorite names we would like for our upcoming child. Added up a little over 20 names.
Next, we went out with some of our best friends for dinner and drinks. Took the list to show them and said: “Here it is. Now, let’s fuck around and mess with all of these for a few minutes, as if we were the bullies. Make jokes. Rhymes. Offenses. Anything you can think of. Let’s have at it and have a good time.
For the next good part of an hour, we launghed, and joked. Finding out how each name could be the target of attacks and offenses from other kids. That was so much fun. This exercise effectively discarded all of the worst choices.
By the end of the night, the list narrowed down to maybe 3 or 4 choices. When the time came, closer to delivery, it was an easy decision.
Today, 12 years later, I actually sometimes regret that I can’t find any good rhymes for her name. It’s hard to fit it into a song or a poem. But I’m so happy that any of her friends at school can’t either.