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Bad, bad baby name

A FB friend just announced that her daughter was born this morning. I was all excited until I got to the name...

Rhaegyn 

No joke. And sadly there were several "love the name" comments. I had to sound it out about three times to realize what it was. Yikes. 

Oh, FFS.

Re: Bad, bad baby name

  • Help me out. WTF is that supposed to be?? For some reason I keep seeing phlegm lololol.
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  • imageESDReturns:
    Help me out. WTF is that supposed to be?? For some reason I keep seeing phlegm lololol.

    Oh good, it wasn't just me then. It's supposed to sound like Reagan. That spelling is just...absurd. 

    Oh, FFS.
  • That is god awful.
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  • imagekcgrl:

    That's just plain mean. 

     

    Ugh, right? That poor girl will have to spell and pronounce her name every.single.time she meets someone new. 

    Oh, FFS.
  • That name looks like it would be pronounced "ragin'" to me....like ragin' mad. Sorry :(
  • Before my phone zoomed in I was scared there. I thought it was a terrible butchering of my name.
  • hahahahhaha.  OMG.  Poor baby.

     

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  • I just looked it up, cause I was interested, and World of Warcraft came up...I think it's a name of a character.
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  • It's not the name of a character. It's the name of someone's character, meaning that it would be less like naming your kid Spock or Luke Skywalker and more like naming it broccolitree. Which I wholeheartedly recommend.

    I constantly threatened to name our kid Arthas, which would be a legit, though awful, WoW name.
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  • imagebroccolitree:
    It's not the name of a character. It's the name of someone's character, meaning that it would be less like naming your kid Spock or Luke Skywalker and more like naming it broccolitree. Which I wholeheartedly recommend.

    I constantly threatened to name our kid Arthas, which would be a legit, though awful, WoW name.

    I'm a little sad you didn't.

    We named our cat Geralt as in the main character from the Witcher series.  Our future children are in serious danger of being named after our D&D characters.  Fortunately we name them thinks like Arianna and Rowan... so only a little eyeroll worthy until you discover the source.

  • There's going to be a lot of "hey you's" in these kids' futures.  Then the special snowflakes will get all butt-hurt because no one can remember their name or how to spell/pronounce it.  I hope they remember to thank their parents!
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  • Oh for shiits sake. Why?! 

     

  • imageInterrobang:

    Oh for shiits sake. Why?! 

     

    SERIOUSLY. How do people think any of these names are a good idea? 

    I really doubt our future POTUS is going to be named Jacksynn Blayze or that Rhaegyn has a chance at the Nobel prize. Think about how these things sound people!

    This is why my "Are you smart enough to take your kid home from the hospital?" test would have the birth certificate attached to it - if you name your kid something like this, you get automatically put in the "No" pile.

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  • I think people lie a lot and the "love the name" comments were just that.  I have to believe that so I don't lose faith in too many people! :-)  I was showing BF someone's baby on FB the other day and it's a very, very early preemie I think.  Everyone said how beautiful she is.  I think people feel like they have to say that.  I'm sorry but it was not beautiful.
  • That is awful.  Poor baby.   DH has a weird spelling of a common name (Kristopher instead of Christopher), and then our last name is a doozy.   It's a real pain in the a$$ to have to spell the first and last name every single time.  

    One of the contestants on the Biggest Loser this season is named Chism.  It sounds like a place I want the Kardashian family to fall into. 

  • I saw that Donny, but being a 12 year old boy I immediately started calling him Chism the J*sm in my head.
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  • imagebroccolitree:
    I saw that Donny, but being a 12 year old boy I immediately started calling him Chism the J*sm in my head.

    Did you also think he looked like Ralph Macchio?   I mean, Ralph Macchio if he had consumed the Cobra Kais?

  • imagedonnycornelius:

    imagebroccolitree:
    I saw that Donny, but being a 12 year old boy I immediately started calling him Chism the J*sm in my head.

    Did you also think he looked like Ralph Macchio?   I mean, Ralph Macchio if he had consumed the Cobra Kais?

    snicker snort

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  • imagedonnycornelius:

    imagebroccolitree:
    I saw that Donny, but being a 12 year old boy I immediately started calling him Chism the J*sm in my head.

    Did you also think he looked like Ralph Macchio?   I mean, Ralph Macchio if he had consumed the Cobra Kais?

    OMG, dead on both counts.

    Oh, FFS.
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