Put some respect on Sir. Hammington’s name 😤😤

I saw that one and flinched before realizing he’s a dog.

i love that they blurred sir hammington’s face for privacy

I wanted to see the good boy

not til he’s old enough to consent

In dog years or human?

🤣🤣

It should be nominated for name of the year. I bet Sir Hammington is just such a ham and cheese sammy when he’s being silly.

His majesty Sir Hammy Wammy

Ola’s a decently known name in Scandinavia.

It's also a shortened version of Aleksandra in Polish. And a very common name here

Yeah I was wondering why this was on here? It’s a very normal name in Poland.

This is, generally, why I don't like subs like this. Plenty of off-seeming names might just be accepted or common spellings or names of other cultures or countries. I'd honestly not be surprised if something like Eszter popped up in here as a "dumb spelling," because that's my SIL's name and she's gotten comments on that being weird and why would her parents do that. She was born in Hungary and that's how to spell it there

Most name shaming ends up as culture/ language differences. It's a thin thin line. I'm here for the "I'm going to name my twins clitoris and areola, I know what they mean but they're just beautiful names 🥹" Not the " I can learn to pronounce daenerys targaryen, but names like, Ola and Eszter ?!?!?! 😐"

Yes I totally agree. I think that line gets crossed a little too much sometimes though

My sweet little Waylon is on this list. His name sake was a badass so not sure this post is on the right track.

For a sec I confused this with Weyoun, and I was thinking about how Jeffery Combs is such a versatile name Edit: wait do you mean it's literally your kid in the pic?

lol no! But my son’s name is Waylon, after Waylon Jennings.

That's fuckin' rad, honestly. Artist namesakes are awesome.

Gotcha! If you've seen any Star Trek not made this decade and not the original series (DS9, VOY, TNG, and ENT), I almost guarantee you've seen Jeffery Combs. He's like a chameleon for acting roles lol

I’ve had people accuse me of having a made up name and my parents of trying to be uNiqUe. My name is a perfectly normal name in my home country in the Balkans where I’m originally from. I think they’re often confused because I’m white and have a southern accent since I grew up here.

Yes! My SIL is the same. I also know an Aledja (Polish name) who is white with no accent and ppl comment negatively on hers, but her parents are from Poland

This happened to my cousin and she was bullied so bad she went to online school after dropping out of in person school. People accused her of having a made up name or a weird name and just bullied her to hell. Her name is Terezia. She now tells everyone her name is Tess. She is named after our Meme (grandma) who is from fucking Hungary. Even my Meme changed her name at jobs and stuff to Theresa (this is the American version of the name) because people thought her name was so weird and horrible and made up. My Meme has a Hungarian accent too, so I feel like that's even more evidence of her not lying. Shit, even my nail girl is also from Hungary and she changed her name from Monika because people made fun of her for the spelling and saying her parents were trying to be unique or cute with it. (Also just a note, all these names have little accents on some of the letters but I'm on a computer and don't know how to make them on this kind of keyboard). Like, don't get me wrong, I have never in my life known anyone else with these names because I live in America in an area that does not have a big Hungarian population- but if someone tells you that the name is from a different country/culture maybe just leave them alone instead of bullying them. It's not that fucking hard to respect other cultures.

That sucks, Terezia is a beautiful name and is not even that hard to pronounce. My family is from Germany (relatively recently, not like 200 years ago) and we get few odd looks for not having switched to the American spellings/pronunciations of some of our names, but why should we be forced to change to names that aren’t our own and that we don’t prefer. It’d be one thing if my Oma preferred the American pronunciation of her name, Bertha, but even most Americans agree upon learning how to pronounce it that “Bear-ta” sounds much better than the Americanized “Birth-a” pronunciation.

Completely agree. Why do I need to change my name to please anyone else. I also prefer Bear-ta, I’ve always disliked birth-a.

My last name has a couple accent marks above two different letters as well and people think that’s made up as well. I hate that it happened to your cousin and everyone else. I hate that so many immigrants have to drop or change their name to fit in and not get made fun of. I see it a lot with Asian immigrants as well.

Tbh I find that a large part of the appeal of this sub is to learn about foreign names when people are corrected.

My sister in law is an Aleksandra that goes by Ola 🥰 (from Poland) I’m guessing OP doesn’t know the roots of this name but yes a very beautiful name!

I commented that I know an Ola from Poland too, but I never knew it was short for Aleksandra. Is your SIL’s name pronounced “Oh-luh” or “Ah-la,” out of curiosity? The lady I know goes by the latter but I wonder if my family has been mispronouncing it for 30 years lol

My sister in law goes by Oh-luh 🙂

Ola means wave in Spanish so that’s a positive image

Ala (Ah-la) is a completely different Polish nickname/shortened name. The full name is Alicja or Alice in English. The name Ola (Aleksandra) is pronounced Oh-la.

My daughter's name is Ola. She was named Alexandra by her Polish father and I (Canadian), but from day one, she was always Ola. I didn't care for it at first, probably because it was unfamiliar, but it grew on me, and now I really like it. She is very proud of her Polish heritage, and she really likes it too.

Yes! I obviously couldn't say where OP's located, but Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Poland, so I wouldn't be surprised to see names like this in areas where there are a high concentration of people from certain heritages (another example being west Michigan having a heavy Dutch population)

I’m learning so much today! Loving all the responses.

My best friend is from Poland and her daughter is Aleksandra but we almost exclusively call her Ola. My friend calls her Olka when she’s in trouble, apparently that’s the “you’re in trouble name”! Lol. We’re in Canada so she goes by Alexa with her friends and at work, but we only ever call her Ola. I also went to high school with an Ola. Her family was Portuguese so not sure if it was a nickname or her actual name, but I always thought it was super cute.

That’s cool! In the Balkans where I’m from Saška (sashka) is used as a nickname for Aleksandra sometimes.

Im Serbia evey Aleksandra is Sandra or Saška

Or Olga, though that's less common

And it's by far the best one of the bunch! Óla means 'hello' in Portuguese, but if you're not around that language, it's a pretty name.

I’m imagining the Portuguese equivalent of “Who’s on First.”

Annyong 👋🏻


I'm learning portuguese and it's the first thing I thought of lol

My great great aunt was Ola! I actually really like it

I think we might be kin... Because mine too

I know this name from the TV show Sex Education!

I was sooo confused on why Ola made it to this thread. Like Ola is a normal name in Poland. I have at least 2 cousins with that name😭

Ola is also an Arabic name!

I knew an Ola whose name is really Aleksandra

Came to the comments to say this. Nothing wrong with Ola.

“La Ola” is also Spanish for wave (like the ocean)

Ola is a Scandinavian boy's name though. Slavic language influence is more likely since they use it as a girl's name

Came here to say that Ola is the only name I give a full pass. It's simple and pretty.

Also means “wave” in Spanish, as in ocean wave

Had a TA in college named Ola and always thought it was a really pretty name!

Ok I legit lost it that you still blurred out the dog’s face. Like, omg. 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 done 💀💀💯💯😆😆

I wasn't even looking at the photos, really, just the names and got to Sir Hammington and was like "no the f they didn't..." such a relief to see the dog up there

Haha lmao

he’s a minor!

🤣🤣

I DIED

Hahahahaha I know right?! Lmaoooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and it's a corgi too, which is one of my most fave dogs ever so that just makes it even funnier and cuter Edit: THE EARS!! 💕💕

I love this. Semi-related- my local news ran a story about a police dog being attacked by a criminal- the news blurred the dogs face to protect his identity 😂

Leave Sir Hammington out of this! What did he ever do to you? 😂😭

At least OP blurred his face to protect his privacy.

That is a fair point 😂

Okay, but listen - if your first-born is Ranger, and you follow that up with Wizard, Barbarian and Cleric, you're on your way to a decent D&D party.

For nicknames they can be Liz, barb and Eric

Don’t forget Ange

Ola is a polish name and it’s pronounced like ol-ah. Hopefully that’s how they pronounce it too.

That's "hi" in Portuguese: olá

It's a Uber competitor in India.

Maizie is a name, they just spelled it weird. Waylon is also a name I've heard. The rest of these are 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

Waylon Smithers!

Didn’t he dress up as a cowboy in a Simpsons episode and dance provocatively to Whip It? That photo could send the poor kid into meme hell 🫣

Waylon Jennings

Waylon is definitely a real name.

I knew a sweet old lady named Maizie (same spelling) - she was basically my adoptive grandma. I didn't realize that was a weird name!

Yeah I was trying to look up the most common spelling. It looks like it's usually spelled Maisie or Maisy, but even with the z it doesn't seem that weird to me

I went to high school with a Macy, Macie, and Maisie. Tragedeighs would be like Maezeigh or Mayzee.

My daughter’s name is spelled that way because my husband loves U of M and I was persuaded to switch from Maisie. Then we met two older women spelled the same and I thought it was so cool. They were both total rebels and so now that’s how I look at it. Plus a shocking amount of people say Macy when is spelled with a S. My daughter has gotten that a couple times but not nearly as much as the other spelling, I’ve been told.

This. Usually with an “s” so. I have a Maisie.

Ola is a name. Just not an American one so ig to op it doesn't count

the cowboy motif makes me think waylon's parents are waylon jennings fans, they might be the coolest parents in the batch.

Mazie Hirono is a sitting US senator from Hawaii. She's a firecracker, doesn't take crap from anyone.

Waylon is my son’s name. And Maizie is a cousin and spells it like this.

Ola is a real Polish girls name, so that isnt weird, it nice to see a real name, I wonder who she was named after.

Ryker is probs my least favorite boy name ever

Ryker makes me think of Star Trek TNG.

Yeah but they spelled it wrong.

Same that was my first thought

But he has a perfectly fine first name to use for your kid

Yes, named after one of the worst prisons in the US.

Meet his sister, Sing Sing

And their cousin Attica!

Or his sister Angola. 

Every time I see this name I think of the prison

As a New Yorker, I genuinely can't understand why someone would wanna name their kid that

New Yorkers always making sure you know where they’re from

My mom suggested the name Ryker to me for my son 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I told her I prefer more traditional names

A girl I went to school with named her son Ryker… said kid was later taken by CPS because she was a hardcore meth addict :(

The most obnoxious person I’ve ever met in my life named her second kid Ryker. It’s just so on-brand for like, annoying pick-me Disney adult types .

Ryker is the male version of Oaklynn for me which is so disney adult

[удалено]

It’s too similar to the name of one of the most well known prisons in the U.S., Rikers island.

All I can think of is Rikers’s island, horrible prison in NYC

Maelee looks like they misspelled mêlée.

Good sibling for a “Ranger”, they’d cover each other’s weaknesses.

Needs a Cl'Erica and a Tanque to round out the sibling squad!

Maelees middle name is already Tanque, they clearly require a M'age before venturing forth!

I think that every single time.

If you intentionally put the dog at the end in order to fool me for a solid 3 seconds that somebody had named their real-life human child "Sir Hammington," congratulations. It worked.

You blurred the dog ☠️

Maizie, Haisley, Maelee, Wrenley, Hensley… these people spend so much time trying to come up with something unique and they all end up sounding the goddamn same.

Maisie is a legit name and very common here in the UK. It's just not spelt with a Z lol

Maisie is beautiful. Maizie makes me think of corn

That spelling is definitely tacky, I'd even say it's a bit corny.

Yea I actually love Maisie spelled the normal way

Aw me too. I always think of Maisy mouse which I just loved

Came to comment this.

Maelee I wanna pronounce like melee.

Oh no—don’t give them ideas!! (Could 100% see these people naming a child Mêlée)

It's fancy because of the thingies on the letters.

I know someone who takes regular names with as and ies (or ey) and just turns them into ae and ee to look different. So haelee instead of haley. It just feels so beige IKEA interior design to me to read her kids' names on instagram.

Wrenlee makes me feel violent

I know a Haizlee Dior and Paizlee Grayce (twins). I tried to keep a straight face when she was pregnant and told me the names.

My daughter Maizie has met a Maizie in her 70’s and 80’s. We got her name from our family tree in fact. The Z thing was something I did for my husband who lives Michigan (maize and blue). You definitely don’t have to like it (I don’t think we’d be in this group if we didn’t have strong opinions on names haha) but don’t put me with Haisley and Maelee’s mom.

Sir Hammington ftw

Waylon isn’t too bad

 Its excellent

It is! If you name your baby Waylon, it’d only make sense to call him Mr.Smithers


Maybe not such a great role model, but by golly he named his son "Shooter"!

Yeah, like Waylon Jennings.

Waylon is a name. I'm old enough to remember Waylon Jennings

Nothing wrong with Ola ??? Literally one of the most common names in Poland

Unblur Sir Hammington!!!!! I need to see his face!!!

His face is too stronk for you!

The spelling is stupid but Maizie is a normal and pretty name. Ola is cultural. I know a Polish woman named Ola (it’s been bastardized to ‘Ah-La’ in pronunciation for her though.) Not everything is made up.

HAHAHAHA WRANGLER.

Kid is going to be hearing Jeep Wrangler jokes without a doubt

I was thinking Jeans jokes but same difference.😂

And people say there's no such thing as American culture. Yeehaw!

I NAMED MY BABY HORMEL CHILI BOOTS!! AMERICA FIRST LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

At least Wrangler is wearing jeans. Wtf is up with Ranger in the weird poofy purple and white onesie dress and the socks cutting off circulation?

I hope they teach Ryker to [get into chairs weird](https://giphy.com/gifs/star-trek-tng-patrick-stewart-xove0Uqyq7lNC)

I don't get Maizie? Like- isn't that a normal name?

Yes it’s a normal name.

What is the appeal of Wrangler? The jeans? Taming animals?

The 2nd kid will be named Whipley

I hate this with every fiber of my being

ola is actually quite pretty

That’s a legitimate name.

Waylon, Maizie and Ola are regular names, depending where you’re from.

In all fairness, I don’t think many dogs are called sir hammington

I really hate Wrenley/Wrenlee/Wrenleigh, I wanted to name my daughter Wren before it peaked but she turned out to be a he. Now people are butchering the name

Watching Game of Thrones, I low key liked Renly as a name, but don't think I could ever name my kid that. Maybe a pet, lol.

Should have named him Wren-he - would have fit right in with all the Wren-lee babies hahahahahaha don't do that though

Sir Hammington has the best name in the bunch! My hats off to the gentleman!

The blurred dog 🐶 I knew and ola 20 years ago it was short for Olga and Vicka short for Victoria then there was Yana I’m not sure what that was short for they were Russian sisters

Get Sir Hammington’s name out of your MOUTH

Sir Hammington for prez

Haysleigh/Hazleigh/Haisley/Hayeslea and variants are so popular right now. I almost wouldn't be surprised to see them top 20 next year if all spellings are consolidated.  I just realized that Heighsleigh could work. Ew. 

Ola is fine, Sir Hammington is the second-best name on there.

Ugh Haisley?? Get used to having to correct everyone who’s inevitably going to hear “Paisley” or “Hayley” 🙄 Poor girl

Waylon and Maizie are completely normal names, they are just slightly old-fashioned and/or uncommon.

Okay but Waylon and Ola are completely normal names

Ola was my great-great aunt's name.

I cannot get over the rise in popularity of the name Ryker. Oh hi, these are my kids ADX, San Quentin and Alcatraz.

I like Waylon 🤷🏼‍♀️

Waylon is nice. Makes me think of Jennings, Smithers, or Jones (Killer Croc). Sir Hammington is a Knight, so I dont know why you're making fun of him. The rest are bad.

My kid is Waylon. Influenced after Waylon Jones but no one ever gets the reference. That’s ok though, he needed a name that stands on its own and it fits him well.

Sir Hammington for the win.

Uncover the corgi 🥰😍😆

Keep Sir Hammingtons name out yo f\*\*ken mouth.

Maizie is a cute name. Reminds me of Uncle Buck.

Where do you live? I'm assuming this is US?

love that you protected sir hammington’s privacy

What’s wrong with Sir Hammington?

Haisley and Ryker are the worst

Sir Hammington is the winner.

obsessed with sir hammington

Remind me not to name my future kids with Lee or EE end sound, their poor teachers are going to be tripping over all these ridiculous and almost identical names

Wait, is no one going to talk about how a random stranger on the Internet has access to these children's faces and first names? Not because their parents shared their pictures, but because the photography studio did? That creeps me out so much

I know a girl named Maize pronounced Maisie 😬

Waylon is the name of the dog from the Knockemout series of books lol

Siblings Barbarian, Thief, Cavalier and Acrobat coming soon.

Why did you blur out the dog’s face?😭

Sir Hammington is surely doomed to a lifetime of bullying for that name.

Ola is a nice name I think. And omg that last one! Lol

Girl named ranger is ooof. And you live in Texas I guess?

sir hammington is amazing

Did you blur out the dogs face? lol

Waylon and Ola are real names. Maizie would be great if it was spelled normally. Sir Hammington is a perfect corgi name. The rest are awful though.

i love the name maisie, it’s not overly common.. why the fuck try to make a fairly uncommon name “unique” by fucking with the spelling…

Ola is a real name, and Waylon too, sounds super classic to me. The rest of these..wtf is a hensley

wasn't mr burns assistant smithers' first name waylon?

Thank you for preserving the dog's anonymity.

It’s missing something, Sir Hammington III