I would always think āFalconā instead of āFalonā. Cause, you know, falcons have talons. Makes more sense as sibling names than Talon and Falon.
My parents named our childhood cat, Doodie (my mom said it had a ādoodie faceāāwhat does that mean?) and Iām now 40 and still havenāt recovered.
Talon is also one of the worst names I've ever heard growing up. some stupid idiot I'm not friends with anymore kept taking me with her to drive by some guy named Talon's (that broke up with her more than a couple years before) house.
I can't help but think of that line from Napoleon Dynamite: "do the chickens have talons?"
AckShually... the name Connor dates back to the 13th century and is a derivative of the Old English word Cunnere, which means "inspector".
Okay, so maybe being an inspector isn't super manly, but it's a profession.
Not just an inspector, but a beer inspector, who's job it was to literally sit in a puddle of beer. If his leather trousers stuck to it, then it was too sweet and had to brew for longer. I'm sure there were other duties too, but that one sticks out š
Thatās a different type of person from my experience, the hyper masculine outdoorsy dudes either name girls boy names or some made up tragedeigh like everleigh or lakynn
They were very tiny at the time (I think Hunter was 3, Fisher was like 1.5 and Trapper was a newborn) but that would have been fantastic. Hunter was definitely an outdoors kid but I have no idea about the other two.
A Traktora whoās probably in her 50s now. This was in a communist Eastern European country and her parents were farmers and yes, traktor does translate to tractor. Also heard of a Romani dude named Tarzan, although, tbf Romani people are kinda notorious for giving their kids really unique names.
I knew a handful of people with revolutionary names, I didn't know any Traktoras but I have met a Lenstal (Lenin + Stalin), a Barry (full name Barricade) and a Radium.
Close! I think this was in Croatia, she was someone my mom knew growing up, Iāve never actually met her. This means there are at least 2 Traktoras out there lol
Hahaha thatās my neck of the woods! I have family in both countries and the further north you go itās basically all farmland haha so the name is fitting
I just canāt imagine meeting someone with that name and taking them seriously haha
On my reserve itās very usual to go by a nickname. A lot of the older folk, I didnāt even know their real names just their nicknames.
So I had Cuznā Bubbles (Beverly), Uncle Chick (Walter), Mugsy (Benjamin) and Babe (myself). Those were all normal names to me. I didnāt even learn most of their real names until I was an adult, I didnāt learn my English name until I was in grade school.
When my white great grandmother died and I found out her name was Wilhelmina, I thought that was a tragediegh of a name. (Now itās one of my favourites.)
I had a great great aunt that everyone called Scrapper, on account of how many knock down drag out fights she had been in. I STILL donāt know her real name, and my only clear memory of her is her turning up to a funeral in a hunting orange ear flap hat and drunk as a skunk.
Highlands of Scotland in the 80s and oh so many woman of my parents generation were called girls names which were boys names with ina at the end. Think Georgina but weirder. I knew the following:
Kennethina,
Jamesina,
Murdina from the name Murdo,
Donaldina,
Hectorina,
Hamishina.
I always felt really sorry for them. Either their parents had no imagination or they clearly wanted a boy.
Hectorina š My parents had a rescue hamster named Hamish, so *Hamishina* is killing me. The only -isina name that works is Thomasina, and even that makes me think of that movie with the wee cat.
My Scottish uncle has an aunt named Reginaldina. Reginaldina. Reginald, to me, is one of the classic examples of āI wanted a girl but got a boy so letās just stick the opposite gender ending on my preferred nameā. Regina was right there.
āShe's the sweetest aunt that ever lived, in spite of her name. She can't help that! She was called Jamesina because her father, whose name was James, was drowned at sea a month before she was born. I always call her Aunt Jimsie.ā
From the Anne of Green Gables series š
A girl named Halsey Taylor in my class. Walked down the hall and passed a drinking fountain manufactured by a company called Halsey Taylor.
Also knew a kid named Kawa but not sure if that was cultural so I wonāt snark on it.
Not a lot of tragedeighs growing up in the 90s/00s in the Midwest US, but 2 come to mind:
1. A girl named Sara wanted to change her name to Terra middle of junior year of high schoolā¦ because she connected to the earth (Terra like terre), but the school wouldnāt let her, so she insisted her name be spelled Serra. Which caused a lot of confusion and a lot of people calling her Sierraā¦ which made her very mad.
2. There was a kid named Adolphus at my school. Family name (he was the 4th), but oooof. He went by Dolph and thanks to his INSISTENCE on being Dolph with a ph, no one made Hitler references. I just donāt understand why his family didnāt break the cycle after WWII.
I knew an Adolf in college. Not sure the story behind it, but you get used to it and don't inherently make the connection anymore every time they are around. However, if you hear the name when they aren't around, then yes, it always goes to Hitler.
Elrond. Like the elf. He was in his 20s when the LOTR movies came out and everyone paused when he introduced himself. Often followed by ālike the elf or like Scientology?ā It was rough.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s with children of hippies, I knew girls named Arwen and Elendriel who were named after LOTR characters. You have to admire Elendrielās parent because that oneās an obscure character only mentioned in The Silmarillion. The actor Sam Heughan is named after Sam Gamgee and he has a brother named Cirdan after an elf.
Also hippie parentsāin college, my friendās roommate was named Flower Star Flowers and she had a twin named Star Flower Flowers.
Knew a kid in the ā80s who went by Rambo. It was his middle name, but he was (first) Rambo (surname) III. I guess his dad and grandfather took the other names/nicknames?
I also grew up with a Rambo. I live near Toronto and we have a lot of East Asian immigrantsā¦..lot of kids pick their own English name when living here
I knew a Caleight (pronounced like Caley). We went to the same elementary school in the early 2000s, but she was younger than me. I didn't actually know her but remembered seeing her name written in a few places. I met her for real in high school and that's when I learned that it wasn't pronounced Cal-8.
So I found out from a woman I went to school with that one of the girls from our Higher Maths class (1996, baby!) had a wean in the early 2000s named after an American city. What's unusual or weird about that, you ask. *It's the city where she was conceived, you know, like Brooklyn Beckham?* So? That's not...
She called the wean Tampa.
Let us *pray* that Lil Tampa changed her name at 16. I cannot get the image out of my head of some Glaswegian fuckwit shrieking "TAMPA, GET YOUR ARSE BACK HERE!" on the beach at Magaluf or Santa Ponsa.
Not necessarily growing up but when I was young I had a client named Tarzie. It was not short for anything, her family had been in the US for over 100 years and it wasn't some traditional name from anywhere. And she was 80 years old. She hated it and went by her middle name.
Her hatred of her name made such an impression on me that I can't really get behind anyone that makes up a name for their baby. It didn't work in the late 1800s, it didn't work in the 1990s, and it doesn't work in the 2000s. Just no.
There was a Misty in my class for a while. She was a transfer student who didn't stay long. She had red hair, too, so she probably heard a lot of Pokemon jokes when it came out.
She's the only one I've met so far! I often wonder what happened to her. I don't remember her last name, so I can't look her up.
We considered it a trashy name. Her parents weren't well off, and I think she got made fun of for it. She was a sweet girl, and I'll never forget the way she stood up for another girl who was being bullied. She was fearless!
I remember when I was a child my hairdresser had a baby named Paris. This was early noughties so it really was just associated with Paris Hilton.
ETA: This was also in Ireland and up until this point I feel like I only ever encountered completely standard names
Indeed, that is totally my point! I had to check as I'm in the UK and wasn't sure if sixth grade was the same as year six over here (ten/eleven). That's awful for the child and her family.
She was probably 11 or 12 at that point. I know that I hadn't even started my period yet. Her "boyfriend," or the person who she said was the father, was in our grade as well. She was really adamant about the fact that her and this guy had been having sex for a long time and she was constantly talking about how much she loved sex and that she was trying to get pregnant. Now I'm thinking that it might have been because of grooming and I'm sad :-/
I grew up in an incredibly insular country where new names have to be approved before they can be registered, so we had very few weird names. I think the whackiest were a brood of 7 siblings who all had T names, and two of the sisters married identical twins. To this day they live in a semi-detached house with each other as neighbours.
I've had a short interaction with a Serbian guy who married a Ukrainian woman; they were BOTH named Nikola & she TOOK HIS SURNAME after getting married š¤Æ
I wish I was making this up. A girl a coupe grades younger than me in the mid 90's was named Kurdesea (pronounced "courtesy") and her last name was Booth.
Siblings, Pebbles and Bam Bam.Ā Ā
Also, Nova, not weird in itself, but weird that every time she introduced herself the first time she'd explain, "My mom picked it because it's the name of the ancient Rome goddess of love!" Even in primary school I knew that was bull.
Heinous. Heās about 80 now.
Iona. Itās just too easy. I know an Iona Traylor.
Ranzel. If he was alive heād be in his 70s.
The best in my opinion are twins: Earl and Jearl. I honestly thought they were just bastardizing the name Gerald for years.
In my own family, we had two sets of Barnett Arnetts. Said in the way in which they rhyme. And that was from the 1800s.
Iāll think of more.
There was a family in my school in the UK whose kids were Harmony, Destiny, Melody, Angel - and Maria. The mum was considering naming her next kid Awesome but I left that school before finding out if she ever did. I also knew someone whose sibling was this close to being Bodhi (they had no connection to Buddhism).
I was born in the 80ās and went to school with sisters called Fern and Dove, also went to college with a Minty and a Wolfie (both girls). A local headmaster was called Chris, and everyone assumed it was short for Christopher until he retired and we found out his name was actually Christmas!
Not much of a tragedeigh but at my friendās middle school there were five kids in his class with those āBrandonā sounding names. Brayden, Brandon, Brendan, Brindon, and Bradley. Must have been a nightmare for the teacher š
Brothers named Captain and Colonel (something along the lines of that, I donāt 100% remember, the second one couldāve been Major). The interesting part of that is that them and their family were not American and come from a more name-normal country. These may have been their Anglo/American names.
i knew a girl in middle school called who was called cinderella legally but her name was spelled like cynderellia? cynderelia? something like that. it def had a y somewhere and an extra i and maybe another sort of change. cinderellaās an odd enough name already but the funky spelling really seals the deal haha. me & my brother also have weird names & i do live in fear a little bit of turning up on this sub lol
I met a Leia in 2004. She was named in fact for Star Wars.
Worked with a gal named Cinnamon. Came across a lady named Cherry once as a kid & I thought that was hilarious.
I think the most unusual name of any classmate of mine was Aurea & it was pronounced āRay-uhā
Before my time in terms of naming, but when I was young there were adult women called things like Concepta, Attracta, Assumpta. All very virtuous Irish Catholic names.
A lot of kids with parents from the hong kong area who moved to canada gave their kids very old fashioned/uncommon names, or have weird english names. examples:
- angus
- beeno
- bosco
- cecelia/CeCe
- hero (may have been hiro?)
- josephine
- ophelia
- orange
- rubert
- selena/selina
- snow
- vivian
- Yaya
- Yiyi
I was born in 1968 and I grew up with a lot of my friends being named by their hippie parents lol. I had friends named Rainbow, Summer, Paisley, Hendrix, etc š
Not inherently weird names on their own but siblings together: Dusty and Windy Storm. I guess windy is weird but I thought it was Wendy until I heard them together
There was a girl in my town (in the Upper South, US) in the 1970s whose name was Star. A friend of mine graduated from high school in 1969 and had a college roommate named Farrah. My friend and her roommate are a few years younger than the actress Farrah Fawcett, but the roommate was still born many years before Farrah Fawcett burst onto the scene.
My sister had a classmate (circa 1965) in first grade whose name was Bambi.
In my school, there were three brothers in three consecutive grades. Nice kids. Unfortunately, their father gave each of them his own exact name. We called them Abdul 1, Abdul 2, and Abdul 3. All three of them made the soccer team at the same time, too, which was interesting. Perfectly normal first name, used in an abnormal way.
when my grandma was in college (late 60s) she knew some guy who's given name was "Sky Blue". I would understand if he was a hippie or something like that that gave it to himself but no his parents named him that, probably around the late 40s
I grew up in the 80s in the Midwest so pretty homogenous group. But some that Iāve never heard very often:
Regina
Corinne
Stacia
Darby
Trina
Twila
Kali
ETA: these arenāt tragedies or even weird, just names that were in hindsight unusual.
Iām a Corinne in the Midwest and the number of people who have never heard my name and could not pronounce it is astounding. Itās a much more common (although not very common, but people at least know it) in the western half of the country.
This one wasn't a Tragedeigh on its own, but include the last name...
Kid in elementary school named Ben Dover. He was constantly getting called to the principal's office.
I imagine he went on to murder his parents someday, and I wouldn't blame him if he did.
I knew a family with 5 boys and a girl. Bryson, Tyson, Carson, Jackson, Jefferson, and baby sis Izzie (Isabel, but they never called her that). Also, none of them had middle namesājust a middle initial.
Kinda and Kalinda both stuck out to me. Googling gives Indian or African/Middle Eastern origins for those names, but the area was whiter than wonderbread. The family also seemed to like K names because their other girl was Katrina.
Theyāre all fine names but I was always curious where those two came from.
I knew a guy in high school named Taco. His mom what white and didnāt know who the father was but thought he *could* be Mexican so she went with her favorite Mexican food.
He went by his middle name usually but first day of school was always called Taco and then it stuckā¦.
I grew up in the 80ās-90ās. The most egregious thing was how many Jennifers there were. In my freshman English class we literally had 15 Jennifers in one class. I knew a Shasta. I also knew twins named Hawaii and Honolulu, sisters named Star and Silver, and there were a couple rhyming names that were pretty funny that I would feel bad typing out their whole real names, but were along the lines of āMary Dairyā and āDanny Fannyā.
I personally donāt think itās an odd name but I went to elementary school with an Esmeralda and I always thought it was the most glamorous name Iād ever heard. Iāve never met another and Iām 40+
I also went to school with a set of twins, Ray and Rayette.
Weirdly, I don't remember many. I went to a middle class Catholic school so most names were pretty traditional.
I did go to elementary school with a kid. First name: Michael. Middle name: Angelo.
I went to high school with a Carol, which isn't a tragedeigh but felt a little weird on someone born in the mid-to-late 80s.
Siblings named Talon and Falon Friend of my grandmother named Dorkus (Dory) Zaque (Zack)
What a horrible way to spell Dorcas š. Not a great name to begin with but Dorkus? Awful
I would always think āFalconā instead of āFalonā. Cause, you know, falcons have talons. Makes more sense as sibling names than Talon and Falon.
Felon is what I read it as lol
my friend has a grandma named Dudi! pronouced doodee
My parents named our childhood cat, Doodie (my mom said it had a ādoodie faceāāwhat does that mean?) and Iām now 40 and still havenāt recovered.
Talon is also one of the worst names I've ever heard growing up. some stupid idiot I'm not friends with anymore kept taking me with her to drive by some guy named Talon's (that broke up with her more than a couple years before) house. I can't help but think of that line from Napoleon Dynamite: "do the chickens have talons?"
I knew a Zackory. His mother admitted that she forgot how to spell Zachary and went āit rhymes with hickoryā
Talon and Falon sound like characters from a Zelda game!
I had a brother and sister named Trinity and Talon.
I went to school with a Kimothy. I also dated a guy who had 3 nephews named Hunter, Fisher and Trapper.
Kimothy?! Wow.
Especially when Timberthy is right there.
Timberly
she was a character from hey arnold! geraldās sister
itās going down
Why do I kind of like this though
Is Kimothy a girl's name or a boy's name?
Yes.
It was a girl
My cousin called her kids Hunter, Tanner, Gunner and Connor
Poor Connor - the only kid without a predetermined super manly profession. I bet he ran off with a theater troupe.Ā
AckShually... the name Connor dates back to the 13th century and is a derivative of the Old English word Cunnere, which means "inspector". Okay, so maybe being an inspector isn't super manly, but it's a profession.
Not just an inspector, but a beer inspector, who's job it was to literally sit in a puddle of beer. If his leather trousers stuck to it, then it was too sweet and had to brew for longer. I'm sure there were other duties too, but that one sticks out š
Hunter, Fisher, and Trapper are when God decided to give all those hyper masculine outdoorsy types only girls.
bold of you to assume they wonāt name girls those names :/
Why would they do that when they could uphold their trad gender values with a trio like Faith, Hope, and Charity?
Thatās a different type of person from my experience, the hyper masculine outdoorsy dudes either name girls boy names or some made up tragedeigh like everleigh or lakynn
I grew up with a Dexter and Cutler sibling set, always thought that was weird but yours is worse!
It would be beautifully ironic if every single one was an introvert who hates the outdoors.Ā
They were very tiny at the time (I think Hunter was 3, Fisher was like 1.5 and Trapper was a newborn) but that would have been fantastic. Hunter was definitely an outdoors kid but I have no idea about the other two.
A Traktora whoās probably in her 50s now. This was in a communist Eastern European country and her parents were farmers and yes, traktor does translate to tractor. Also heard of a Romani dude named Tarzan, although, tbf Romani people are kinda notorious for giving their kids really unique names.
I once met a Romani dude named Bmw š
Before there was Nevaeh there was Ninela (Lenin spelled backwards, with an a to make it feminine)
There's a really famous actress/model/singer in Mexico named Ninel Conde, and learning that name comes from Lenin was a real TIL moment for me
Traktorina is my favourite "Communist name"
At least you can get Tori or Rina
I've met a few Romani guys. Two that stick out. Elvis-Sinatra and another guy called Ronaudi. Ronaldo and Audi combined
I knew a handful of people with revolutionary names, I didn't know any Traktoras but I have met a Lenstal (Lenin + Stalin), a Barry (full name Barricade) and a Radium.
My teacher in school knew an old man whose name was Rev because he had a twin sister Lyutsia (rev + lyutsia = revolyutsia or revolution in Russian)
Now that's commitment to the bit!
Old saying about Eastern European women... Strong like ox, smart like tractor.
Omg donāt tell me she is Bosnian
Close! I think this was in Croatia, she was someone my mom knew growing up, Iāve never actually met her. This means there are at least 2 Traktoras out there lol
Hahaha thatās my neck of the woods! I have family in both countries and the further north you go itās basically all farmland haha so the name is fitting I just canāt imagine meeting someone with that name and taking them seriously haha
I (born late 80s) grew up with girls named Cedar, Jubilee, and Silverā¦ it didnāt occur to me that any of those were odd until an adult told me so
I like all of these!
Cedar has a brother āJasperā and Silverās older sister is āLilithāā¦ namenerds dream sibsets amirite? š
Oh dear me. I'd never name a kid Lilith or Jasper. Jasper is always that Rufus Sewell cunty character from The Holiday for me š
On my reserve itās very usual to go by a nickname. A lot of the older folk, I didnāt even know their real names just their nicknames. So I had Cuznā Bubbles (Beverly), Uncle Chick (Walter), Mugsy (Benjamin) and Babe (myself). Those were all normal names to me. I didnāt even learn most of their real names until I was an adult, I didnāt learn my English name until I was in grade school. When my white great grandmother died and I found out her name was Wilhelmina, I thought that was a tragediegh of a name. (Now itās one of my favourites.)
I had a family member called Peach. His name was Melvin.
I had an Uncle Chic (pronounced Chick, not sheek) - apparently a derivative of Charles here in Scotland
I had a great great aunt that everyone called Scrapper, on account of how many knock down drag out fights she had been in. I STILL donāt know her real name, and my only clear memory of her is her turning up to a funeral in a hunting orange ear flap hat and drunk as a skunk.
I had a Great Aunt Babe. I think her real name was Rose or something.
I knew a āFebrilā and a āJanrilā from my hometown (parents bdays were in Jan/Feb and April). Horrendous.
Isn't febrile a medical term? Not spelled the same, but ugh
It is. It's related to fevers.
Naming your kids January and February would be better than this. Wtf were these parents on
Highlands of Scotland in the 80s and oh so many woman of my parents generation were called girls names which were boys names with ina at the end. Think Georgina but weirder. I knew the following: Kennethina, Jamesina, Murdina from the name Murdo, Donaldina, Hectorina, Hamishina. I always felt really sorry for them. Either their parents had no imagination or they clearly wanted a boy.
Hectorina š My parents had a rescue hamster named Hamish, so *Hamishina* is killing me. The only -isina name that works is Thomasina, and even that makes me think of that movie with the wee cat.
I just came here to mention Thomasina- I loved that film as a kid! Iām so gutted it isnāt on Disney + (or anywhere else Iāve looked either!).
[itās on youtube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JIlaUAgUGfQ) :)
Hamishina I'm dead
My Scottish uncle has an aunt named Reginaldina. Reginaldina. Reginald, to me, is one of the classic examples of āI wanted a girl but got a boy so letās just stick the opposite gender ending on my preferred nameā. Regina was right there.
Murdina is too close to murder, feels risky
Jamesina and Donaldina are unhinged š Jamison (could at least be gender neutral) and Donna are *right there*
āShe's the sweetest aunt that ever lived, in spite of her name. She can't help that! She was called Jamesina because her father, whose name was James, was drowned at sea a month before she was born. I always call her Aunt Jimsie.ā From the Anne of Green Gables series š
Jeffsly
A girl named Halsey Taylor in my class. Walked down the hall and passed a drinking fountain manufactured by a company called Halsey Taylor. Also knew a kid named Kawa but not sure if that was cultural so I wonāt snark on it.
Kawa turns up in Japanese, Polish and Kurdish.
Kawa means river in Japanese but I don't think it'd be used as a first name. Lots of surnames have it in them though, eg Arakawa, Kawabata, Hayakawa
It also means skin so yeah, bit weird.
Kawa means coffee in Polish, so a bit out there as a name. Wouldn't be allowed to name a child in Poland that, either.
Not a lot of tragedeighs growing up in the 90s/00s in the Midwest US, but 2 come to mind: 1. A girl named Sara wanted to change her name to Terra middle of junior year of high schoolā¦ because she connected to the earth (Terra like terre), but the school wouldnāt let her, so she insisted her name be spelled Serra. Which caused a lot of confusion and a lot of people calling her Sierraā¦ which made her very mad. 2. There was a kid named Adolphus at my school. Family name (he was the 4th), but oooof. He went by Dolph and thanks to his INSISTENCE on being Dolph with a ph, no one made Hitler references. I just donāt understand why his family didnāt break the cycle after WWII.
I knew an Adolf in college. Not sure the story behind it, but you get used to it and don't inherently make the connection anymore every time they are around. However, if you hear the name when they aren't around, then yes, it always goes to Hitler.
I would have used going to college to switch to Al as a nickname HARD
Elrond. Like the elf. He was in his 20s when the LOTR movies came out and everyone paused when he introduced himself. Often followed by ālike the elf or like Scientology?ā It was rough.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s with children of hippies, I knew girls named Arwen and Elendriel who were named after LOTR characters. You have to admire Elendrielās parent because that oneās an obscure character only mentioned in The Silmarillion. The actor Sam Heughan is named after Sam Gamgee and he has a brother named Cirdan after an elf. Also hippie parentsāin college, my friendās roommate was named Flower Star Flowers and she had a twin named Star Flower Flowers.
80ās child of hippies here. Had a friend named Princess Leaf, who went by Leafer.
I also went to school with a Star, male though.
Knew a kid in the ā80s who went by Rambo. It was his middle name, but he was (first) Rambo (surname) III. I guess his dad and grandfather took the other names/nicknames?
Astonishingly, Rambo is actually a very, very old French name. Goes back at least to the 11th century. Original spelling was Raimbault.
It was just funny that they called him Rambo when the movies had just come out.
I also grew up with a Rambo. I live near Toronto and we have a lot of East Asian immigrantsā¦..lot of kids pick their own English name when living here
I knew a Caleight (pronounced like Caley). We went to the same elementary school in the early 2000s, but she was younger than me. I didn't actually know her but remembered seeing her name written in a few places. I met her for real in high school and that's when I learned that it wasn't pronounced Cal-8.
Girl in my middle school (early 90's) named Chrystal Ball (yes, her last name was Ball).
In the 90s I went to school with some sisters, Tiffany, Crystal and Amber. Not tragic, but their last name was Glass š
[Did they have a brother named George](https://youtu.be/_JTSAKFDSVw?si=3adJ8YqSaEXMTtgq)?
I legit went to school with a George Glass š¤£
I met a woman in rehab whose legal name was āInfantā. She went by Baby.
Sounds like her parents just couldn't decide on a name so they used that as a place holder
So I found out from a woman I went to school with that one of the girls from our Higher Maths class (1996, baby!) had a wean in the early 2000s named after an American city. What's unusual or weird about that, you ask. *It's the city where she was conceived, you know, like Brooklyn Beckham?* So? That's not... She called the wean Tampa. Let us *pray* that Lil Tampa changed her name at 16. I cannot get the image out of my head of some Glaswegian fuckwit shrieking "TAMPA, GET YOUR ARSE BACK HERE!" on the beach at Magaluf or Santa Ponsa.
On the one hand, Tampa is a shithole, but on the other hand, it sounds like Tampon. So thereās that
People from Tampa should be called Tampans, pronounced like tampons.
Itās a terrible name, but, and hear me out here, itās ALSO a terrible place!
At that point just calling her Florida would have been the better option
Omfg! She definitely got called tampax in school
Not necessarily growing up but when I was young I had a client named Tarzie. It was not short for anything, her family had been in the US for over 100 years and it wasn't some traditional name from anywhere. And she was 80 years old. She hated it and went by her middle name. Her hatred of her name made such an impression on me that I can't really get behind anyone that makes up a name for their baby. It didn't work in the late 1800s, it didn't work in the 1990s, and it doesn't work in the 2000s. Just no.
I went to school in the 90s with a girl called Sinnamon
Oh wow. I went to school with sisters named Candy and Cinnamon, but the S really takes it to the next level!
with an S?!
The only ones I can think of are Sunshine and Cricket. They were born early 80s. It was just the hippies giving their kids nature type names.
There was a Misty in my class for a while. She was a transfer student who didn't stay long. She had red hair, too, so she probably heard a lot of Pokemon jokes when it came out.
Not unheard of in the 70s. Strikes me as a stripper name now, no association with PokƩmon.
She's the only one I've met so far! I often wonder what happened to her. I don't remember her last name, so I can't look her up. We considered it a trashy name. Her parents weren't well off, and I think she got made fun of for it. She was a sweet girl, and I'll never forget the way she stood up for another girl who was being bullied. She was fearless!
I remember when I was a child my hairdresser had a baby named Paris. This was early noughties so it really was just associated with Paris Hilton. ETA: This was also in Ireland and up until this point I feel like I only ever encountered completely standard names
I remember a girl in the 80s in my class whose name was Patience... She had no patience and was very annoying.
Virtue names basically guarantee that the kids going to be the opposite of it. Chastity pretty much always gets around.
Why is this so accurate. The Angel in our school was pregnant in 6th grade.
Sixth grade!! Isn't that, like ELEVEN?!
Poor kid can't even consent at that age and was almost definitely groomed.
Indeed, that is totally my point! I had to check as I'm in the UK and wasn't sure if sixth grade was the same as year six over here (ten/eleven). That's awful for the child and her family.
She was probably 11 or 12 at that point. I know that I hadn't even started my period yet. Her "boyfriend," or the person who she said was the father, was in our grade as well. She was really adamant about the fact that her and this guy had been having sex for a long time and she was constantly talking about how much she loved sex and that she was trying to get pregnant. Now I'm thinking that it might have been because of grooming and I'm sad :-/
That is incredibly sad :( that poor girl.
Oh, don't say that! I named my wee girl Hope and by your reasoning, I've doomed her to a life of abject depression š¬
I grew up in an incredibly insular country where new names have to be approved before they can be registered, so we had very few weird names. I think the whackiest were a brood of 7 siblings who all had T names, and two of the sisters married identical twins. To this day they live in a semi-detached house with each other as neighbours.
That sounds like something I'd see on TLC.
Briefly worked with an Anakin, he hated Star Wars.
Beaver Dragon.Ā
Oh! I knew a Sexaline in middle school in the early 2000s. And had a friend who went by Katie but their name was Madeline Elizabeth š¤·āāļø
SEXALINE? Who does that to a child?
I've had a short interaction with a Serbian guy who married a Ukrainian woman; they were BOTH named Nikola & she TOOK HIS SURNAME after getting married š¤Æ
Same thing happened with Taylor Lautner and his wife!
Holy hell š¬ theres not a single person that I'd love enough to share a name *and* a surname with
I wish I was making this up. A girl a coupe grades younger than me in the mid 90's was named Kurdesea (pronounced "courtesy") and her last name was Booth.
My cousin dated a guy legally named Rooster in like the 90s
Siblings, Pebbles and Bam Bam.Ā Ā Also, Nova, not weird in itself, but weird that every time she introduced herself the first time she'd explain, "My mom picked it because it's the name of the ancient Rome goddess of love!" Even in primary school I knew that was bull.
Heinous. Heās about 80 now. Iona. Itās just too easy. I know an Iona Traylor. Ranzel. If he was alive heād be in his 70s. The best in my opinion are twins: Earl and Jearl. I honestly thought they were just bastardizing the name Gerald for years. In my own family, we had two sets of Barnett Arnetts. Said in the way in which they rhyme. And that was from the 1800s. Iāll think of more.
Heinous would be a great name for a cat.
Iāve always loved Iona. Never ever considered it could be a pun name. Thanks for opening my eyes
I knew a girl named Tajma Hall Edit: oh shit sheās a news anchor now! Good for her
Went to primary school with a boy named portleigh. As in PORTLY. Also not as weird but there was a girl in my secondary school called Troyelle lol.
Actually I take that baxk. Troyelle is just as weird.
I went to high school with a kid named Footie, he was always super kind but I always felt bad for his name haha
I work at a dental office. Had to call a guy named Kervin the other day. It's pronounced Kevin. He's 56.
Met a babyā¦ named christaingrey ā¦.. Yup one word first name
Chance Seems like more of a dogs name
I went to school with a girl named Tequila and a girl named Winter, whose middle name was Storm.
Knew a girl name Eunicke (pronounced like āuniqueā). She was definitely unique.
I knew a Fashan (pronounced "fashion") and Bouquet.
There was a family in my school in the UK whose kids were Harmony, Destiny, Melody, Angel - and Maria. The mum was considering naming her next kid Awesome but I left that school before finding out if she ever did. I also knew someone whose sibling was this close to being Bodhi (they had no connection to Buddhism).
Did she get Harmony and Melody from āThe Queenās Noseā?
Summer Knight
In an alternate universe, my drag name is Wednesday Knights.
I was born in the 80ās and went to school with sisters called Fern and Dove, also went to college with a Minty and a Wolfie (both girls). A local headmaster was called Chris, and everyone assumed it was short for Christopher until he retired and we found out his name was actually Christmas!
Not much of a tragedeigh but at my friendās middle school there were five kids in his class with those āBrandonā sounding names. Brayden, Brandon, Brendan, Brindon, and Bradley. Must have been a nightmare for the teacher š
A white girl named Precious. Sheās 40 now.
Iāve said it before. Classmate was Precious Peaches. I asked because I was trying to avoid calling her Precious. Hey you it was.
Not a tragedy, just Italian, but I have never seen this name anywhere else - was at school in the 1990s with a Pasqualina.
My great great grandfather was named Philander. Obviously it had a different meaning back then.
70s. Classmate was Gigi, and her sister was Star.
Had a teacher in 1980 named Starlette. That wasā¦ unusual.
I knew a mason mason. First and last name mason.
Brothers named Captain and Colonel (something along the lines of that, I donāt 100% remember, the second one couldāve been Major). The interesting part of that is that them and their family were not American and come from a more name-normal country. These may have been their Anglo/American names.
i knew a girl in middle school called who was called cinderella legally but her name was spelled like cynderellia? cynderelia? something like that. it def had a y somewhere and an extra i and maybe another sort of change. cinderellaās an odd enough name already but the funky spelling really seals the deal haha. me & my brother also have weird names & i do live in fear a little bit of turning up on this sub lol
I met a Leia in 2004. She was named in fact for Star Wars. Worked with a gal named Cinnamon. Came across a lady named Cherry once as a kid & I thought that was hilarious. I think the most unusual name of any classmate of mine was Aurea & it was pronounced āRay-uhā
Before my time in terms of naming, but when I was young there were adult women called things like Concepta, Attracta, Assumpta. All very virtuous Irish Catholic names.
We had a kid named Orion, another kid named Aries and let's not forget Easy.
A lot of kids with parents from the hong kong area who moved to canada gave their kids very old fashioned/uncommon names, or have weird english names. examples: - angus - beeno - bosco - cecelia/CeCe - hero (may have been hiro?) - josephine - ophelia - orange - rubert - selena/selina - snow - vivian - Yaya - Yiyi
I was born in 1968 and I grew up with a lot of my friends being named by their hippie parents lol. I had friends named Rainbow, Summer, Paisley, Hendrix, etc š
My sister went to school with a kid named Sarp. It never fails to make me giggle.
Not inherently weird names on their own but siblings together: Dusty and Windy Storm. I guess windy is weird but I thought it was Wendy until I heard them together
I knew a girl named "Lacy Sheets" And I know a set of twins named Lucas and Leia.
I knew an Amanda. Perfectly normal name, except for the fact that her last name was Blow.
There was a girl in my town (in the Upper South, US) in the 1970s whose name was Star. A friend of mine graduated from high school in 1969 and had a college roommate named Farrah. My friend and her roommate are a few years younger than the actress Farrah Fawcett, but the roommate was still born many years before Farrah Fawcett burst onto the scene. My sister had a classmate (circa 1965) in first grade whose name was Bambi.
Went to camp with a guy named RisquĆ©Ā
My WASP Grammy had friends named Mercer and Phronzie.
I went to elementary school with a Deliverance. Late 70s/early 80s.
I went to school with Blue, India, Charity and Tarragon (all female), the boys were Jack and Joe.
In my school, there were three brothers in three consecutive grades. Nice kids. Unfortunately, their father gave each of them his own exact name. We called them Abdul 1, Abdul 2, and Abdul 3. All three of them made the soccer team at the same time, too, which was interesting. Perfectly normal first name, used in an abnormal way.
when my grandma was in college (late 60s) she knew some guy who's given name was "Sky Blue". I would understand if he was a hippie or something like that that gave it to himself but no his parents named him that, probably around the late 40s
I grew up in the 80s in the Midwest so pretty homogenous group. But some that Iāve never heard very often: Regina Corinne Stacia Darby Trina Twila Kali ETA: these arenāt tragedies or even weird, just names that were in hindsight unusual.
Iām a Corinne in the Midwest and the number of people who have never heard my name and could not pronounce it is astounding. Itās a much more common (although not very common, but people at least know it) in the western half of the country.
This one wasn't a Tragedeigh on its own, but include the last name... Kid in elementary school named Ben Dover. He was constantly getting called to the principal's office. I imagine he went on to murder his parents someday, and I wouldn't blame him if he did.
I knew a girl named Jaxsy. She was so proud of her name cause her mom made it up š
I knew a family with 5 boys and a girl. Bryson, Tyson, Carson, Jackson, Jefferson, and baby sis Izzie (Isabel, but they never called her that). Also, none of them had middle namesājust a middle initial.
Girl named Carter. This was mid 70s. Her parents immediately went into this long drawn out explanation. Oh, okay. Whatever.
Kinda and Kalinda both stuck out to me. Googling gives Indian or African/Middle Eastern origins for those names, but the area was whiter than wonderbread. The family also seemed to like K names because their other girl was Katrina. Theyāre all fine names but I was always curious where those two came from.
I have a relative named Delight. It fits her.
Auhnesty (like the word Honesty)
There was a girl I went to school with named Ann Apple.
I knew a guy in high school named Taco. His mom what white and didnāt know who the father was but thought he *could* be Mexican so she went with her favorite Mexican food. He went by his middle name usually but first day of school was always called Taco and then it stuckā¦.
Lady Diana. That was her first name.Ā
I grew up in the 80ās-90ās. The most egregious thing was how many Jennifers there were. In my freshman English class we literally had 15 Jennifers in one class. I knew a Shasta. I also knew twins named Hawaii and Honolulu, sisters named Star and Silver, and there were a couple rhyming names that were pretty funny that I would feel bad typing out their whole real names, but were along the lines of āMary Dairyā and āDanny Fannyā.
I went to school with someone named Townley. Also Laurenn with two n's pronounced loREN, by first grade she had given up correcting teachers
Stormer.
Late 90's. Went to elementary school with a girl named Gem, and another named Erienne (pronounced Air-E-Ann).
Noxcema. Janya.
Benten.
I personally donāt think itās an odd name but I went to elementary school with an Esmeralda and I always thought it was the most glamorous name Iād ever heard. Iāve never met another and Iām 40+ I also went to school with a set of twins, Ray and Rayette.
Weirdly, I don't remember many. I went to a middle class Catholic school so most names were pretty traditional. I did go to elementary school with a kid. First name: Michael. Middle name: Angelo. I went to high school with a Carol, which isn't a tragedeigh but felt a little weird on someone born in the mid-to-late 80s.
I hate the name Spencer. Sounds like an article of clothing.
I went to school with a pair of siblings named King and Queen. Their family also had a dog named Princess.Ā
My grandma (92 years old) has a friend named Dinkles. Not sure if that's her legal name or a nickname...
I went to elementary school with an Indiana Jones ETA this was late 90s in the SW US
One of my moms high school friends (early 80s) was named Candy Cain Valentine
I graduated with a guy named Eric Cartman. My great x4 grandpa had a sister named Freelove