- The Bard in Green ( @thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ) 11•4 months ago
My parents were going to name me Heather, but then I was a boy.
When my son was born, I suggested the name Percy to his mother. She was like “Oh, I really really like that!” I was like “Good, then if we have another boy, we can name him Timothy, after your father.” She was like “Aww, that’s so sweet! I know you and my dad get along really well! I like that too! What if we have girls?”
I said “We’ll name them Sage and Rosemary. Then we’ll have Percy, Sage, Rosemary and Tim.”
My son’s name is NOT Percy.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English7•4 months ago
Jack
As an actual name by itself, not the typical John and then using Jack as a nickname for it.
- Tyoda ( @Tyoda@lemm.ee ) 14•4 months ago
… Jack is a nickname for John?
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English8•4 months ago
Traditionally yes, don’t ask me how.
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 3•4 months ago
The TV show Lost just took an a new meaning…
- huquad ( @huquad@lemmy.ml ) English6•4 months ago
My father wanted to name me Inigo. Unfortunately he passed shortly before my birth. On an unrelated note, do any of you have 6 fingers?
- TheImpressiveX ( @TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ) 5•4 months ago
Not me, but for my older brother, my mom was considering the name Chad.
I wonder how that would have worked out, with the memes and all.
- CYB3R ( @FookReddit69@lemm.ee ) 4•4 months ago
I was too young to remember.
- Monkey With A Shell ( @ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ) 4•4 months ago
Jeremiah (was a bullfrog)
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•4 months ago
My narcissist father never had any choice for his first (and only) son other than to name me after himself.
“I know I’m a con-man of a used car salesman wannabe-Yuppie, but I think I’m so fucking special that I need to create a legacy with my name.”
Who the fuck thinks like that?
- MaggiWuerze ( @MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ) 3•4 months ago
My parents bet on my and my sisters sex and whoever won got to choose. My father won both rounds or I would have been called Imre and my sister Inken
- nocturne ( @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ) 3•4 months ago
My uncle wanted my parents to name me Maurice, from The Joker (The Steve Miller Band song, not the over done Batman character).
- FullOfBallooons ( @FullOfBallooons@leminal.space ) English2•4 months ago
Andy, but they decided against it at the last minute. However, my dad’s brother and his pregnant wife really liked the name, and a few months later my cousin Andy was born.
- Underwaterbob ( @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ) English2•4 months ago
My older sister was supposed to get my name, but she was a she. It would have been fairly unique at her age. I came along five years later and got it at the height of its popularity, as a result there were three of us in my grade six class.