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Dr. Marijuana Pepsi wrote a whole thesis on unique names.

Did these casuals even check if xXPussySlayer42069Xx was taken?

One of my favorite court transcripts is Sheppard v. Speir.

The Court:  All right.   Now, do you have some objection to him being renamed Samuel Charles?

Sheppard:  Yes.

The Court:  Why? You think it's better for his name to be Weather'by Dot Com Chanel-

Sheppard:  Well, the-

The Court:  Just a minute for the record.

Sheppard:  Sorry.

The Court:  Chanel Fourcast, spelled F-o-u-r-c-a-s-t?   And in response to that question, I want you to think about what he's going to be-what his life is going to be like when he enters the first grade and has to fill out all [the] paperwork where you fill out-this little kid fills out his last name and his first name and his middle name, okay?   So I just want-if your answer to that is yes, you think his name is better today than it would be with Samuel Charles, as his father would like to name him and why.   Go ahead.

Sheppard:  Yes, I think it's better this way.

When choosing my son's name I had two rules:

1. No super popular top 10 or 20 name. There were plenty of very popular choices that I liked as names. But, I figured let's try to find something at least a little unique for various reasons.

However!

2. They shall not need to spell their name every time they tell it to somebody. This implies a few things, like choosing an established first name people have heard before rather than making something up, and using the common spelling of that name.

A British singer just had a baby boy and named it Forever Sugar. Wild.

At my job, I come across a lot of children's names. So many, that I can actually sympathize with parents who want an odd name. Names are supposed to be a unique identifier, so if you wanna name a kid "Revolution Fighter" or "Czarlanda," I get it. I can certainly find a kid with that name in our databases faster than I can find a "John Anderson" or an "Adam Wu."

What really kills me is parents who name their kids a normal sounding name, but with an insane spelling. I'm talking like "Shelley" spelled "Schelei" or "Alexander" spelled "Alexzander." You're not being clever or cute, you're just going to make your child's life unnecessarily harder as they have to spell their name out every. single. time.

Actor Rob Morrow named his daughter "Tu". "Tu Morrow". Seriously.

Is Vagina an acceptable girl's name?

So many people don't understand that children are people and people have rights. You are responsible for your children, you don't own them. If you don't like that, simply don't have kids.

I could have rocked Whisky Jones my entire life no problem.

It's a child not a vanity plate

As of last week I've now met 2 different people named Abcde, pronounced ab-sid-ee. Nice enough sounding name, but just the worst spelling.

I met a couple who named their daughter Grendel, because they thought it sounded nice.

This is where I bitch about my white people Utah name but I'm not willing to dox myself.

I know someone with relatives in China where they gave their kids nicknames that roughly translate to "first baby", "second baby", etc. They're all middle aged adults now and they're still addressed by the same nicknames. So you have kids listening to their grandparents talk about "second baby" and imagining a baby, but then you meet them and it's an old man.

Yeah, bring back normal, traditional names, like: "Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes" and "Wrestling."

We need to normalize naming ourselves, why should we let someone who doesn't know us yet decide what we should be called forever?

I get you've got to be called something but there's no reason we can't decide something else later.

Worst I've seen: Shithead

Pronounced: Shih-theed

Spelled: Shit head

I do not understand the "no popular names" rule that some parents seem to live and die by.ust be a recent thing too right, I feel like so many people in the past were named after a relative that the parents admired.

I tell parents-to-be not to give their kids fucked-up names; they'll have to explain their name to strangers. And don't give your kid a name with fucked up spelling, they'll only spend their whole life spelling their name to strangers.

And yeah, that's my real name. My middle name isn't any better. But I've come to embrace its uniqueness; it only took 50 years. 😁

I attended my kids award ceremony (he's 10) and there were multiple girls ages 11 and 12 called Khaleesi and I shook my head

There was a kid in my school with the surname Pann. His parents named him Peter...

They know what they did...

I wish I was named kitchenaid whiskey jones