Additionally, what name would you never give to your kid ? And why ?

  • Elaine Cortez
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    77 months ago

    If it was a girl, Elaine, but that would be weird because that is my name! 😂

    I’d never give them any names that they could be picked on for. So no unusual names such as X Æ A-12

    • Call me Lenny/Leni
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      47 months ago

      That’s not weird. Both my mom and me as well as a girl I help with are all Tinas (one Celestina, one Valentina, and one Christina).

      • Elaine Cortez
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        57 months ago

        It’s interesting how Tina is a diminutive of many other names. This happens with its masculine counterpart Tino too, such as Tarantino, Costantino, and Martino. The diminutive of the name Elaine is Lanie, it’s not exactly the same but similar enough!

        • Call me Lenny/Leni
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          It does? I’ve never seen someone called Tino before.

          I’ll say it does get confusing though. A lot of people use “Tina” (which is short for my post-adoption legal name too, though only for spelling) and so when there’s a “message for Tina” or “order up, Tina” when a food order is ready, everyone who is there stands up. Doesn’t help that not only is there a Celestina (my birth mom), a Valentina (me, hence also being “Leni” to some people), and a Christina and Constantina (the sweet kids who imprinted with me, like pseudomom status), but also a Clementina (grandmother) and an Augustina (great grandmother) and it was a pain, for example, sorting through paperwork when my maternal grandfather passed.

  • @joe_archer@lemmy.world
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    67 months ago

    I wanted to name my daughter Fenchurch, but my wife wouldn’t agree. Daughter is 16 now. Still call her Fenchurch.

  • I heard that it is supposedly forbidden in my country to name a child “Satan”. I live in a pretty progressive/ not very religious country, so I find that absolutely moronic. I would totally ask if it was possible to assign that as a second name.

    And even though my low low bar, I would probably never name my child after any brand, place or food item. Names that sugest stupidity are also off the list.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    7 months ago

    I really wanted to name my daughter Ceilidh, but my wife would not stand for it. I was even willing to compromise down to Ceili! She also objected to Cadence and Victory.

    Somehow got her to agree to Gynhwyfar and Clothilde and Yetska, though.

  • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    27 months ago

    I will name my kid what I want to name them - part of my desires when choosing a name are to pick something they won’t hate.

  • Truffle
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    17 months ago

    Some people have this tradition to name their kids after x or y relative, I would never do that.