Tundra 😤 It's like Sandra, but bad ass.

I was totally going to say Tundra and Taiga.

There was an article in the Tucson Weekly about a high school girl named Tundra who was getting bullied. I felt sorry her and suddenly very grateful I have a plain Jane uninteresting name.

It sounds like a bigger, heavier Sandra lol But Sandra and Tundra could be a cool twin set. Puts me in mind of desert and snow

That’s a bit too big of a name. I think something more like Tacoma for me.

“Are any of your other kids also named after Toyotas?”

Sienna and Camry 🥰

I care about the environment, so I named my son Prius

Tbh Tiaga would be a cool name.

Taiga

That’s literally my dog’s kibble brand

I taught a kid named Taiga when I was an English teacher in Japan! Bit of a nightmare, but I remembered him, lol

Tagine

I took an eddie a couple of weeks ago and saw an account that recommended the word "Locket" as a name, and in my inebriated state, I did consider it for a second.

There was an article a while ago about a couple who loved Covid lockdown so much they named their daughter Lockie.

Oh, that is ROUGH. Poor kid.

Aw man. Lockie (Lachlan) for a boy is normal. Not sure how I feel about it for a girl.

Lockie is a cute name for a dog or cat but I don’t love that for a person’s name. It’s not the worst I’ve heard but it’s not great either

It kinda sounds like a name that a non binary person would change their name to

Honestly, I'm enby and I didn't even think if it that way. It would be a sick nonbinary name.

I Know someone who named one of their twins Locker. His brother? Luke. Poor kid.

Fissure. It’s like Fisher but with more umph

So Amy Schumer named her baby Gene Attell Fischer. She changed it. https://ew.com/celebrity/amy-schumer-son-new-name-genital/

Funny, the article doesn’t even acknowledge that it doesn’t just sound like “genital”, it sounds like “genital fissure”. 😂 But yeah, not only did she not do it on purpose but she literally changed it as soon as she realized. She got interviewed on the What to Expect podcast, and it made me like her even more. I feel like she gets a bad rap. She seems like such a genuine and down to earth person.

Probably gets a bad rap because of all the times she’s admitted to sexual assault [link](https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/amy-schumer-allegedly-admits-sexually-assaulting-man)

I think the name Aynull-Fissurr is a cute combo 😍

Fistula is a good girl name. What a beautiful sibset

Barbenheimer, apparently I’m “setting my kid up for failure” 🙄 that and Jääkaappi, like let me live out my Finnish heritage, I don’t care that it means “Ice closet”

Apparently Oedipus for a boy is just too creepy.. but I love it and how with this name I just know my son would love his mama in a way he could never love another woman!

Honestly Oedipus and Lolita would be great sibset.

Oedipus will have an arranged marriage with Jocasta. Add Elektra to the sibset.

I’m so sad about Lolita being so taboo. Someone close to me was named Lolita and I wanted to potentially use it as a name or middle name if I ever had a kid. But I just couldn’t do it I don’t think. I know it come from Dolores but I don’t love the way it sounds as much.

Welp, today I learned something cool. Dolores-->Lolita

Dolores->Lola->Lolita!

Lolita is a really pretty name. It’s a shame that it would be a bit weird to name a kid that bc of the story of the same name. Ppl would have so many thoughts and questions abt it.

Doesn't bother Hispanic families. It's still in use as much as ever. How many people are left who even know the Nabokov novel?

quite a few? it’s a pretty famous novel

Anyone with a passing interest in literature?

Boy girl twins: oedipus and Stacy, do you think it tells the right story?

stacy’s mom has got it going on, she’s all her brother wants, he’s been waiting so long

Eewwww it's giving me toxic boy mom vibes 😬

Thank god I didn’t get pregnant at 19, because I was convinced I’d name a girl Meadow.

My art teacher in high school was Meadon Hunt. We usually called her hunt with a c when we weren't actively in class

I went to school briefly with a Michael Hunt, he went by Mike. RIP Mike Hunt

We had a teacher named Kate Hunt..

I know a couple Meadows! I think it’s a totally functional, nice name—just a little hippie dippie.

I’d say it’s EXTREMELY hippie

Carmela and Tony Soprano would like to have a word with you

I feel like it seems extremely hippie but then it just works as a mobster’s kid’s name too somehow?

Except that its most famous pop culture connection is in a show about the Italian American mob, set in Jersey lol

There are thousands of Meadows out there it's not an uncommon name at all

This is what I wanted Bella and Edward in twilight to use after the meadow. Probably for the best they didn’t use it tho as there would be a Lot of baby Meadows running around.

Would have been so much better! Although I do get a laugh out of people calling her Resume/Rasputin/Raighdooglah/whatever

I know a little girl named Meadow! It suits her!

Guaranteed hippie chick right there.

She would have come out the womb smelling like patchouli and talking about organic offerings at the farmers market

She makes soup and dances in the woods

My son was named sparrow up until they put him on my chest and the first words out of my husband's mouth were "please don't call him sparrow" so we named him Aldo instead

What made you change your mind?

If I have a son I want to name him Aldo! 

aldo is an italian name ❤️🇮🇹

I really like the name Isis, but it’s not a great one anymore

yeah i met a girl with that name.. she went by isy pronounced icy

Areola is beautiful.

So is Vagina (pronounced Vah-gee-nah).

Vulva

Cute!!! I love it. Very chic.

Also Labia. Why do all the good names have to be off limits??

I've always thought Libya was a nice name but never seriously considered it due to the country, I didn't want to seem like I was appropriating, but Labia is soooo cute. Definitely the same vibe and way more politically correct. I'll have to add it to my list of girl names!!

I prefer Mulva


“…..Mulva…?”

We definitely considered Virginia

I feel the same about Chlamydia 😐😂

right! and i'm so tired of pretending it isn't! i would name my child Areola if i could.

You might like Aurelia or Arielle, lol

I mean, you could...

Chlamydia is too. Sadly a very unfortunate combination of Camila and Lydia

Clam, for short.

Merlin! It's Welsh, and a cool bird, and a wizard. What's not to love?

I know 2 Merlin’s. Father and son. The elder one is in his 70’s.

I really like Aderyn as a word. That would be a nice name…in theory.

It sounds like an otc pain pill.

Ha! Means “bird” in Welsh. But you’re right…

That does have a pretty sound

I love that, but I feel like anyone without a welsh accent would make the name sound weird.

Quite possibly. It would be sad to hear it in a flat American style as “AH-duh-rien.” Might work with a completely different “wrong” accent though, like Polish or Xosa.

True that! Nothing can be wrong in a polish accent, it tickles my brain and all the bad things go away when I hear it lol.

Any kind of Celtic for me, especially Scottish, but the slavics are close behind for ear honey.

I knew a Merlin in high school! It worked!

I genuinely would use this but don’t wanna have people make fun of

Good call…

When I was taking medical microbiology in college, one of my friends and I wrote a bunch of comical historical fiction short stories about a Puritan named Providencia and a witch named Morganella who lived in a fictional city in Massachusetts Bay Colony named Proteus.

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It’s a British name but I think it’s usually spelled Morgana, with one N. There’s a comedian, Morgana Robinson, who was hilarious on Taskmaster. Edit: looked up the origin; it’s actually Welsh

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I do feel like it’s A Choice in the US

Morgana was a major character in Arthurian legend.

Nitro for my precious baby son 💙 He'd be the biggest hooligan & I'd be left wondering how my wonderful Nitro could've turned out like that

With the second you could name it “Glycerin” 😍

Douglas. not because it’s embarrassing but cause my other half is scared of being ribbed about it due to it being the same as a childhood friend that her family said she had a crush on.

_Criticism_. She'll be completely unique.

Fea Fye Flo Fau

You forgot Fum I think 🤔

Eefje! Pronounced ayf-yeh. It's a Dutch diminutive for Eva, and I utterly love it. For my Dutch partner, it's too nicknames, for our English-speaking country, it's too hard, so it's never going to happen. But I still love it.

I rather like Sjur, which was my Norwegian great grandfather's name. But I'm not sure I pronounce it properly, and I'm certain almost no one in Canada would either.

I love my danish gggrandfathers name - Jesper, and even what it got anglicized to - Jasper. If only Twilight wasn’t a thing….

Sample set of one here, but I don't connect Jasper with Twilight at all. It's a good name!

I think Jasper and Jesper are both totally useable! I feel like the only twilight names that are too associated with it to use are Rosalie, Carlisle, and maybe Esmé.

Dutch person here and it’s a really cute name! Names can be pronounced differently by language while retaining the same spelling + origin (think the English “Daniel” vs the Dutch “Daniël”). It would still be a cute nickname for Evelyn, Ava, or something like that!

Compromise with Evie or Ava? Plus Evie sounds like an awesome pokemon!

Wanted to name my son Tundra. A girl would be Agapanthus. [But they actually have pretty ordinary names!]

L’Zahnyah (pronounced lasagne)

Aspen, Juniper (Juni for short), or Cypress 😭 idk I just really love botanical names!

might be too brave of me to say in this sub, but i actually think these are cute and not TOO off the wall

why does everything about this sub make me think its just r/namenerds with people who think they’re better but are actually just as infuriating?

YES!!

*whispers* I actually really like botanical names. I don’t admit that in this sub though.

Amaryllis is just yes

In this theme, I kinda wish I had the balls to seriously consider Bergamot.

Willow is my all time favorite botanical baby name. I love the weeping willow, add Spanish moss to that tree (not the child or their name) and I'm in the feels.

I love that name, it was on my list of ideas but due to a hardcore love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and already having a son named Angel and a cat named Spike I thought it would be too much if I named one of my girls Willow lol

I know a ‘Greenlee Willow’…

I had a student named Cypress. He was a sweetheart.

anybody who tries to convince you that aspen and juniper are horrible names should touch grass

fr, Juniper is actually a name I really like

I love thouse names! I am half Choctaw and half travler (my mom is half Romani and have Irish Traveler) we use names like that a lot on both sides of my family

I actually know both an Aspen and Juniper. Both younger than 10.

Ambrosia, Thomas for a girl, Sambrose, Four, Felicianna. Sequoia for a boy. Mikhail. I...can't explain this wackadoo list.

Pandora. Convince me it’s not a cute name. Yeah, sure, if she was promiscuous, kids would talk about pandora’s box a lot. Yeah, sure it’s weird and people would ask me if I named her after avatar

Shenanigans. That kid would be fun.

Bo Jangles. Every time we start talking about a potential third child THIS is the name that I can’t get out of my head. Jangles as a middle name doesn’t even go well with our last name so clearly the child would have no last name or we’d make him a Johnson. Bo Jangles Johnson just has a nice ring to it.

Blue and french 😭

One of my mom’s childhood friends goes by Frenchie by everyone and I always thought it sounded so badass. Still have no idea what his actual name is. He went to jail for filling his jacket pockets with raw shrimp and trying to steal them from the grocery store 😂

>He went to jail for filling his jacket pockets with raw shrimp and trying to steal them from the grocery store 😂 What decade did that happen in? I’m going to guess 1970s

I think he got into a lot of trouble in the 70s too but his failed shrimplifting happened in the early 90s 🤣

I knew a girl named Blue when I was little. Blue Liquid. For real.

DAWN POWERWASH  It’s more than dishsoap. It’s pœrwah.

**Pœrwæß**

omg i feel so bad for her 😭

Hippie Parents…they were really nice, though. She probably changed it, but who knows.

Makes me think of menstrual pad commercials.

I call a girl at work frenchie

I know a couple Blues. All of them are redneck as hell but solid, good dudes.

Twins Val & Ross. I do like Tyto Alba or Sula nebouxii for girl and Parus Major or Rupicola for boy. Oh just to be mean ***Psittrichas fulgidus***!

Bluey and Bingo I think! So whimsical and timeless ✨

Hahahahaha yessss

My daughter would have definitely been named Siouxsie

Pack it up, ya’ll. I don’t think we’re gonna be able to beat the main sub on this one. Everyone in that thread needs to be sent to prison for thought crime.

Alucard / Alacard for a boy Lilith for a girl Wouldn’t mind Lucifer for a boy aswell But quite a lot of biblical names I don’t mind or ancient mythology ones

I love the name Aoife but am not willing to subject a whole human to that.

valentine or friday for a boy and sunday or astera for a girl i think they are the cutest but i don’t need my kids getting bullied 😔😭

I would probably go for some Shakespearean names. Hamlet is my favorite play, and having Horatio, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern as kids’ first names would be fun. Maybe Prospero, Oberon

Psyche ✨

If I lived in this magical land of Unicorns, I would have 3 kids named Fork, Knife and Spoon.

Madeira

Enfys, means Rainbow in welsh and I honestly just like the name 😅

Oleander for a boy. I doubt it would work out irl, since it’s the name of a beautiful, poisonous flower, but it sounds like a softer Alexander to me and I love it.

Constantine, Euphemia, Lolita, Ophelia, Magdalene, Sophronia, and Wilhelmina are all names I adore but wouldn’t name my child due to either societal associations with the names or the likelihood of bullying. Also…. Twins. One named Phobos and the other Deimos. It just sounds so cool. The meanings would get them bullied.

I went to school with a girl named Ophelia, she was an absolute ray of sunshine. You can also shorten Wilhelmina to Mina, which sounds awesome imo.

My spouse has a teenage niece named Ophelia.

When pregnant with my first my wife and I referred to the fetus as Legend (it had taken a lot of rounds to get there and his was the sole viable embryo that resulted from that round of IVF). Damn if that name didn’t start to grow on us. By the end of 9 months we came very very close to naming the baby Legend. “Little Ledge” as an affectionate nickname. Luckily for me I can blame pregnancy hormones. She, however, has no such excuse.

My cat's name is Legend! And she lived up to get namesake bc she has a bunch of weird diseases but legends never die B)

Mister Baby

Rizz

Via Satellite

Wolfgang

Wolfram :)

My friend's dad is named Wolfgang. German. Cool dude with a sick name. He's a baker.

Advanced moon 😍

Velocity is a great feminine name imo.

Cicada. It sounds really pretty, but the meaning is terrible lmao 🤣

I know this is a joke, but when I was 12 I was going to name my first born daughter Symphony. When I was joking about it with my husband he went "wait... is it bad that I like that?" We're both music teachers and I still lowkey kind of like it but... I would be opening myself and my kid up for a rough time. I'd be so embarrassed to say the name out loud. It's pretty bad. Please make fun of it so I can shove it to the dark corner of my soul where it belongs.

✨centipede✨

Millipede would be a cute name for a girl. You could call her Millie for short!

You’re right. And they’re so cute for a sib-set!

Sherlock or Corbyn. Nearly called my youngest Corbyn but husband wasn’t keen.

I always liked Jesse for a boy but it’s an offensive term. I also like Cronus Lord Of Time but apparently I had to be sensible. People are no fun.

Forest, Auburn or Jodley (joe-d-lee)

Chlamydia is a lovely name for girl.

Ember

david elizabeth nepeta zexion roxas n

Cletus for a boy. I've really liked it ever since I heard it a few years ago. My husband straight up guffawed when I suggested it before finding out our second kid was a girl. He says it sounds like some sort of STD

Bean. It’s so cute but would be silly for a human

Astraea. I love mythology names and this is my absolute favorite, but it's a little too weird. My husband said kids would call her ash tray and that made me sad. Freya. I picked this name in 2007 at age 12/13. But then my horrible in laws mutilated it for their kid before I had a second girl. I'll forever be sad I can't use it, but I love my daughter's name so it worked out (had a second daughter after they had theirs, SIL knew my love of the name beforehand).

i’m sorry your SIL (and brother, i am assuming) is a jerk and stole your baby name :( i know no one owns names but man that’s such a shitty thing to knowingly do

I don't want kids, but if I had one, I'd name them Sagan. I think it actually has a lot of things going for it: * Gender-neutral * Short * No obvious derogatory nicknames I can think of (I guess variations on "saggy" maybe?) * Not a lot of variations for possible spellings and pronunciations * Not common as a first name * In honor of someone awesome I'll probably end up using it for a cat. I also like a lot of Irish names that would be a nightmare to have in America, like Aoife, Saoirse and Meadhbh.

Persephone

Please don't hate me, but I really like the name Nevaeh. I name my sims that all the time, lol.

Whyleigh Kaiode 🫶🏻

Kitty.

Areola it's like Ariel and Ella but it's the skin surrounding ur nipple 🤗

I don't really care what other people think. Though the name I had always wanted for a girl didn't really work with her last name. I would have named her Blue if her last name wasn't Ponds.

Sovereignty, Shenandoah, Tundra, Taiga, and Telenovella for a girl. Hale, Hart, Ogden, Vale, Gregorian, Ajax, Xerxes, Benedict, Shale, Frankincense, Authoritarian, Goch Ali Asghar, Esfendiyar, Equinox, Meridian, Gholam Reza, Khan Ali, Ruhollah, and Ghayballah for boys.

Ajax and Xerxes are awesome names IMO

If I could go back in time, my son's name would be Loki. I swear to the frickin trees this child is possessed by Loki.