Wow!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck

Cannabis Coke is way more badass

And on Wikipedia you can read about Marijuana's farm.

Been taken since the early 90s. I've always been proud of my username/email I've been using since 96. No numbers or anything. (Not this name by the way)

Read the whole thing. That was wild. I think, alone, Weatherby (said together) isn't the worst name I've ever heard but all the rest is cuckoo banana pants. Based on what came out of the court proceedings that woman had some PROBLEMS.

I feel like the most shocking part of all of this is that this woman who is in and out of jail, has 3 other kids, and can't hold down a job for more than a few weeks managed to get a whole-ass trial about this.

This seems rational and thoughtful.

I had a very similar strategy, except I was trying to avoid top 50. I once told a stranger my kid's name and they said "I like it. Unique, but not weird". That comment made me so happy!

Actors are notoriously dumb. I'm friends with a famous person and it's sad when you realize they're usually just surrounded by people kissing their ass and afraid to tell them no, you're wrong. People are so shallow they'll agree with anything if it keeps them in their company. No one is truthful around them. One of the reasons we got along was my "ability" to be real with him, as if that is actually a talent i have or something. Truly sad that people think so much of celebrity when they're just people.

Better than naming her “2” I guess?

Tula works with Tu as a nickname, but just Tu... eh

See you later today Tu Morrow!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/15/sia-divorce-estranged-husband-dan-bernad-spousal-support

of their 18-month-old son, Somersault

Yeah, sounds like a badass bluesman.

She better stay the heck away from Denmark.

I know an Eowyn. And a Beren.

Hopefully she doesn't encounter any bee hunters.

This is a stupid joke about compound meanings in old English.

Did they know Beowulf out was it just a nice sounding name? Because Grendel...wasn't nice.

Do people just hate their children? There's so many good names to choose, just the longest list of them. There's nicknames upon nicknames, but every goddamn child has to have a combination of letters that've never been used before. Look, I'm not saying that everyone should name their kids Edith and Edward, but we also don't need a bunch of Brekinleighlynnes and Jahckxsonz running around. I feel very passionately about this subject. Pick a name that's either been used before (that isn't ass), or at least a name that sounds like a fucking name. I feel very strongly about this subject.

I have some shocking news for you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweezil_Zappa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Zappa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Zappa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_Zappa

A number of traditional names the world over are literally "first son", etc. Not to mention all the names that mean "so-and-so got me pregnant with this one." Normal names are only normal because we're used to them, not because they aren't made-up bullshit.

Do you know about author Naomi Novik's daughter, Evidence?

"Faith" and "Credence" are nice and all, but "Evidence" is better.

Sometimes things dont translate well to English. Like the common Indian surname Dikshit

I had a kid in high school with the same name. It was a normal name in his country. Everyone just started calling him Shitty and he embraced it lol.

This next guy, hes a real poth ead.

We still have about 5 years before the first wave of incorrectly-spelled Khaleesis start showing up at county courthouses en masse.

That spelling of Alexzander a lot of times comes from non American countries (maybe Czech? Unsure)

Look at Alex Lifesons real name lol. I cant spell it

I read this a while ago (scroll down into section II for the graphs) which conducted a survey to see how happy people were with their names. The consensus seems to be that, for the most part, people just want names that don't annoy them constantly. Very common names rank lower than less common names, until the names become very uncommon. More normal or traditional names rank higher than more modern or creative names.

The conclusion I drew was that people want a normal name spelled a normal way, that is not too common. Why? Because if your name is too common, you are always confused with other people (cue saying "Michael" in a crowded room and having 5 people turn towards you). But if your name is too uncommon, people will constantly mis-spell and mispronounce it, so you will constantly either be correcting people or having to ignore it. If you have a common name with a unique spelling, then people will always misspell your name unless you spell it out for them. And of course, if you are named after a sci fi character or a name that rhymes with your twin, you will probably be bullied for it in middle school.

So if you are naming a kid, your best bet is to look through the current common baby names and pick one somewhere between 100 and 1000 most popular, after eliminating weird spellings or names that can easily be turned into mean nicknames. Bonus points if you can tie the name into your cultural heritage or you have an admirable anscestor to name your kid after.

name out every. single. time.

"Czarlanda," I get it. I

Names aren't supposed to be unique. Your whole name doesn't even need to be unique. And when you adda middle-name or two, no matter what basic ass names you've chosen it's gonna be unlikely that anyone within reasonable distance would be named exactly the same.

Thank God my country has a law preventing this type of child abuse

There was a Reddit post I remember where a woman had always wanted to name her son Harry after her grandfather or something, but she'd married a man named Potter, and everyone had to convince her to give him her maiden surname because she thought it was okay to name him Harry Potter if she had a good reason.

"If had a nickel for every person I've met named Abcde, I'd have two nickels. Its not a lot, but its weird that it happened twice"

Hopefully it isn’t short for abecedarian!

You can always change it