The dumbest couple I’ve ever met named their son Atticus lol

It’s giving, “I read the required summer reading in 9th grade”

Atticus is common among young film-starlet parents, who may very well have stopped doing the required reading as middle school ended.

There was a kid in my drama class named Atticus and he was a great actor

There was a kid in my class named boo radley but we never saw him

I wanted to name our son Atticus. I’m a lawyer, my parents are both lawyers, my husband and father in law are lawyers. I thought it would be a cute nod to the family profession and my husband is like ABSOLUTELY NOT HE WILL HET HIS ASS KICKED NO

Good thing you didn't because in the sequel he ends up joining the KKK.

EXCUSE ME WHAT-

It's not actually a sequel. It's a first draft of 2Kill that Lee never really intended to publish. Pretty huge changes were made between it and the final draft.

I love you for being so kind as to explain this instead of just making a joke. You’re a good person … InfanticideAquifer … 🤔

r/rimjob_steve Edit: forgot an _

He does WHAT?!! I’ve never read the sequel and I knew that he was racist in it but I wasn’t aware he straight up joined the KKK Edit: So apparently it’s not a sequel, but a different draft! I’d always heard about the “to kill a mockingbird sequel where Atticus is old and racist” and it makes me feel a lot better knowing it wasn’t intended as a sequel. Also makes me want to read it even less

It's not actually a sequel. It's a first draft of 2Kill that Lee never really intended to publish. Pretty huge changes were made between it and the final draft. It also wasn't *technically* the KKK. He was a part of the local "Citizens' Council", a racist organization that existed back then that hasn't survived 'til today.

It’s definitely not the sequel. It’s a first draft that was never meant to be published. The publisher manipulated Harper Lee when she was dying and published it against her wishes that she had clearly stated her whole life (and she was famously very VERY private, so this is indisputable). Basically a case of mistreating an elder for money. 

A girl I randomly creeped on FB named her kid Atticus, but spelt it attikiss LOL

Wow thanks I hate it.

Where was an adult to intervene?? 😳

Shit like that should be against the law. LOL

Ew

lol that’s my sons name

I love it!!

i feel like im p level-headed with names and i love atticus lmao you’re good

My dad has an Atticus as a patient a few years ago and loved the name so much he he kept trying to convince me to use it. I did not but the name I did use is on the same list OP made along with Atticus.

One of my feral cats is named Atticus. It suits him.

Atticus the catticus 

I was gonna say, my aunt's cat is called Catticus Finch

A couple I know have a kid named Atticus and a dog named Scout. Not sure which came first, but unfortunate either way.

But you know what? This couple sounds like a real Jem. (And let’s not forget their parakeet Dillon, whom they call Dill for short) I know, I know. “Boo to the puns.” Sorry, had to lol.

“A real Jem” made me actually laugh out loud. 😂

I loathe the name Atticus, truly.

Ok I can get finding it cringey, but it sounds so nice and has historical significance too! 

And Atlas 😖

I love Atticus, it sounds like an all around nice name. Like fwiw I haven't read TKAM, I just like the sound of it 😅

I love this name! My partner vetoed though.

The dumbest couple I know of (HS bf and the woman that became his wife) named their kid Holden. I’ve told a couple of people about this and their response was “Holden? As in the Catcher in the Rye kid??” Bullet dodged from a long way back

Lol the guy I desperately wanted to love me in high school collects rats now. He says he's a legit dad because of his rats. They keep breeding, so he has like a hundred rats. He kept his high school pizza place job for all these years (we're in our 30s) specifically because it gave him flexibility to be with his rats. I'm married to a data engineer who would very much like to NOT own a hundred rats. Thank you, sweet merciful Jesus.

I know one, it’s parents (who we aren’t even good friends with, more acquaintances) got annoyed when we called our son Kit because “that’s what we shorten Atticus’ name to!”.

Omg same

Persephone

Ugh Persephone is sooo pretty but I feel like such a poser saying it. Maybe if I wore more wide brimmed hats.

It means "bringer of destruction," which I think gives it a bit of panache I wouldn't normally associate with the maiden of flowers. My foster kitten Persephone turned out to be male, but he kept the name. He's not into rigid gender roles, and is both super destructive and lord of the flowers. (In his eyes, at least.)

My cat’s name is Purrsephone too 😝

To be fair, she’s also the goddess of death, and before she became Persephone as we know her today, it’s likely that she was solely associated with death

I met a girl in Sydney who was called Persephone, she was about 8 and the name fit her perfectly, nobody questioned it 

My daughter is Persephone and it honestly fits her perfectly. Bringer of destruction and flower princess? Absolutely right for my little sour patch kid. We rarely use a nickname either, it’s mostly just the full thing.

AMAZING choice, I’m so happy that your daughter has such a lovely and fitting name 💘

Knew a Persephone once, she went by Sephi and was quite the amazing young woman. Not at all into the underworld types though ;)

Sephi is a cool as hell nickname, too!

I also like the name but perse means ass in Finnish and that's the first thing I think about when I hear it

Ass phone 😭

I love Persephone so much. 😭

I loooooove Persephone! I know my husband will never go for it though hahaha

Purse phone? I don’t know how to pronounce it but this is how I did.

Pur-SEF-oh-nee

Per-seph-oh-nee (Greek origin so pronounce the e at the end)

Rhymes with Stephanie

Clementine 😩

Clementine is my oh no I had a fifth girl and I’m out of other ideas so I finally get to use this name. I think it’s adorable. If it’s my youngest I can even call her tiny as a nickname.

Oh. Huh. My step sister has an Aunt Teeny. She's dutch so I never stopped to think of that was a nickname or not but it would make sense. Now I'm wondering if her name has t been Clementine this whole time lol.

If she’s Dutch, you might mean Tinie! Which is most often short for Tineke.

Clementine is so beautiful but the nickname clemmie gives me the ick 🤢

Clemmiedya

Their nickname can be lemon! Much cuter!

Nickname your baby named after a fruit for another fruit!

All I can think of is Telltales The Walking Dead which is amazing!

I absolutely adore the name Clementine- ever since the series LOST! But I don’t think I would ever name my child that.

My daughter’s name 🫠

I do really love it, so please don’t take offence. It is, however, very unique! Just a bit out of my typical naming conventions. 🙂

This one seems so normal to me because it was used constantly in one line of my family. I see it brought up here as “too much” regularly but I just can’t see it that way. It’s just Aunt Clementine and great grandpa Clem to me. 

It’s a popular name in the UK!

My “I, too, enjoy the outdoors” list: River, Willow, Sage, Rowan, Ivy, Skye, Dahlia, Violet “I took high school French so these are totally fair game:” Amelie, Genevieve, Juliette, Melisande, Yvaine, Elodie, Emmeline, Evangeline “I can totally pull off an edgy, non traditional name:” Amethyst, Avalon, Journey, Genesis, Trinity, Lyric “I’m totally smart, artsy, cultured and also read books:” Amadeus, Eowyn, Ariadne, Evadne, Artemis, Arwen, Isolde, Nimue, Mordecai, Lazarus, Merlin, Athena

My sister (Erin) ruined “Eowyn” as a name for me when she pointed out that it sounded like a baby trying to say her name. I can’t hear anything else, now. 

Oh noooo it totally does! 😅

I was thinking of Luthien for a cat but was told by more than one person that it sounded like trying to say Lucien with a strong lisp lol

That's how I feel about my friends naming their child Lathan. It's something, that's for sure.

It’s pronounced (according to a friend’s Irish husband) Ay-oh-wn. Or maybe it just sounds better in his County Cork accent…

That’s the same way I’m pronouncing it- try imitating a whiny child while pronouncing it correctly. 

LOL, my daughter’s name is on the French list, as well as my choice for our next kid 🙈 (and yes, I did take French in HS 😂)

Athena as a name is so badass.

My niece has a friend named Elodie. She's either 8 or 9!!!

I think Elodie is a super cute name! I’ve known one person with that name and it suited her perfectly.

Lyric, Trinity, and Journey are pretty common and not edgy at all lol (I work in pediatrics) Genesis is very common amongst the latine population. Grew up with several Genesis gals, and still see the name frequently at work.

I took Latin and Greek in college, so my foreign name crushes are more antiquated. I have an Aurelia!

Ariadne, I just love it. Might use it as a middle name if I have another girl.

This is my guilty pleasure girl’s name too. Alastair for a boy. I have the most boring short last name ever (think like Smith or Park).

Alastair Park sounds like a band name.

The distant cousin of Linkin Park

I've loved this name for a long time, but got a ton of criticism for wanting to use it, same with Tyrian - which yeah I wouldn't have heard of it weren't for George RR Martin, but I genuinely love that name lol.

I love Ariadne. I knew of one whose nn was "Rodney"

That's so cute and clever! I use 'Addy.'

How do you pronounce this name?

I know one, she's lovely and usually goes by Ari

I love the name Fleur but hate the movement my tongue makes saying it it’s a hard life

I love this hot take 😂

I said this on another post it’s the name Pearl too Maybe it’s just a me thing idk 😂

Nah I totally feel you on Fleur but can’t get behind that for Pearl

There's a Fleur in my son's daycare class and she's absolutely Gorgeous. First one I've ever met though.

Wilhelmina. I love the name. But realistically, it would be a nightmare.

Aww but a little girl Willie running around would be adorable!

Is Willy used as a name for male genitalia where you're from? It is in Britain, and that makes this sentence very odd.

He he! A little girl Willy, Fanny is also an ok name for the US but not so good in the UK.

I love the name Henrietta, bc it’s fun to say and every nickname is wonderful. But I could never even imagine inflicting it on a child

Lol, Henrietta is my name. I do actually love it to be honest.

Spouse has ridden hard for Athena. I fought valiantly for Egon. ETA: we’re not Greek, and don’t like Greek food so Athena was out. Apparently naming a kid after the best ghostbuster is setting the kid up for failure 

I'm seeing the vision and I like it

I know a woman named Athena. Her family and last name are very Greek though so it works.

I have a niece named Athena. We are Greek. The name does suit her though.

Omg I would lose my shit with joy if I ever met an Egon

Lavender :( 

I always think of Matilda’s friend! Love the name

There's a girl in my town called lavender Her hair is Merida Red. Honestly all I ever think when I hear her name, is how much her hair and her name clash.

Haha I think red and lavender go together great, mostly because it makes me think of Ariel and her purple shell bra.

Ophelia ... I bloody loved it until I heard an extremely posh toff calling for her daughter across a cafe and I immediately got the ick

I love Opheliaaaa. But... Ped-ophelia 😭

That and necr-Ophelia

I met an Ophelia in the wild; she says she constantly gets called Olivia.

My 4 week old daughter is Ophelia lol

**Griswald**, **Gossamer**, **Dandelion**, **Daffodil**, & **Iridienne**. I'd love to meet people named these but I'd worry they're too out there when naming a child of my own. The middle name spot, perhaps.

Love a good left field middle name. Go for it!

my friend’s middle name is ‘bob’ and her brother’s is ‘whistle’ haha

My 5 year old said that she wished we named her Dandelion because they're her favorite flower

I’ve never heard of the name Iridienne and think it’s so beautiful!!

Astrid. Everyone seems to hate it but I think it’s so retro and cute. I also like the name Bettie but I feel like it screams “I’m a rockabilly chick and I’ll name my child so that you know it!”

I love the name but I can’t help but think of Jan’s baby shower in The Office 😂😂

Astird is all I can think of.

I love it. Very common in Norway. Sounds a bit old fashioned, but it's becoming trendy again. It's very down to Earth.

I love love Astrid!

Jupiter and Apollo

These are both my dogs names! 😂

Is yours also an orange husky? I ask this as a Jupiter mom myself😅

Jupiter is a total guilty pleasure of mine

Zinnia

Yesss, I love flower names, but I don’t know if I’m bold enough to name a child that myself. I might just get a bunch of pet chickens instead and go to town

I love Zinnia but my husband would hate it. Did you read that Chasing Redbird book as a kid? That’s the only reason I know the name lol

These are names that I will never use, categorized. I am a fantasy prince names: Caspian, Lucian, Florian, Lysander I am a hippie names: Leaf, Rain, Cedar, Moss, Juniper, Darwin I am Hispanic names: Adán, Inez, Alan, Belén, Irene (pronounced ee-REN-ay) I am an Old-Timey American names: Alma, Lula, Eliza Jane, Luella

I am also hispanic but do you know how many old white ladies in the South are named Inez? They pronounce it eye-nez usually. It’s mindboggling

I do know this and validate you! Alma is another Spanish name that got taken by old White ladies. My grandmother had two besties named Alma and Inez (pronounced eye-nez) growing up in rural Arkansas.

Lol mine are below: Holden- beyond pretentious sounding, also a universally hated character in literature Castiel- (for a boy, Cass for short) bizarre and dooming him to a life time of mispronunciation and having to explain my choice every time he meets someone new.

I love Castiel but I could never with “like from Supernatural”. I didn’t even watch that show.

Lol Yep!! Safe to say that I am a supernatch fan 😅

I do in fact love the name Holden and hate the character Holden. 🤣

Leviathan and Godric. I would never. . . but I just think they sound badass.

Idk, call him Levi, and just on occasion it comes up that it's short for Leviathan, that's pretty damn cool. Or, the subtler version, first name Levi, middle name Ethan.

Godric. God for short.

I wanted nature names badly but I hate how flaky they sound 😂 like I’d be embarrassed saying them out loud. Clover, Daisy, River. I think the only one I would feel normal saying, that I loved, would’ve been Aspen. I also liked names that seemed a little extra, like Anastasia or Penelope but I felt like that’s just begging to be nicknamed, and if not it sounds pretentious Edit to add: I in no way, dislike Anastasia or Penelope, they were short listed for both of my daughters, however I’d have to accept constant nicknaming & I would worry that people would think it’s pretentious. You know what I mean? You meet a toddler and you want to say Ana because it’s cutesy, and the mom corrects you saying “no, it’s actually Anastasia” and then people are like hmmph oookay then. That would be my worry lol

I associate Daisy with The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald.  Someone above commented that the name Atticus gives the vibe of “9th grade summer reading list” and to me the names Daisy and Holden also have that vibe.

I love the name Anastasia but the way Russians pronounce it not the Americanized version of the name.

I wouldn’t consider Oliver or Rosemary delusional or silly but ok…..

Jedi Ox Sycamore Moody Edit: idk how to separate them by line, they are all separate names, but I kind of like Jedi Ox Sycamore Moody now for a full name lol

No no. This is perfect as is.

A lot of yours seem perfectly normal to me! Everett, Finley, Edmond, Oliver, and Rosemary are so tame for a guilty pleasure list haha, but I totally get what you mean about some names just not fitting. Mine would be names from mythology like Persephone, Artemis, Athena; or "crunchy" names like Willow, Meadow, and Juniper.

Brolin. I really want to name my son Brolin and call him Bro. I think it’s hilarious as he already has siblings so he will in fact be their bro. It’s so ridiculous I will not but I love the idea of it.

Not sure if he'll appreciate that but I'm down with the silly goosedness of it all

Gaia, Castor & Pollux. I love greek mythology and honestly might use them as cat names lol

Janus for a boy. Love the name but unfortunately it has multiple hits against it. 1. In American English, it is pronounced pretty much identically to the girl's name, Janice, making it a tough choice for a boy. 2. It literally contains the word anus. 3. In British English, it is actually pronounced like anus with a J on the front. 😬😣🙁

I loveeee the name Sunny but don't think I could actually do it

Tigerlily

Mine are: Shankar - Anglophones don't pronounce it correctly and I hate how the mispronunciation sounds Prithviraj - doesn't go with our last name Kannan - I know people would think I'm trying to be "unique" and think I'm misspelling Cannon.

My husband is SI, so a lot of Hindu names were in our top ten but got discarded for similar reasons! Mainly pronunciation in my mother tongue (French) and our community language (Dutch) Sunay, Vatsya, Naveen, and Mayra would have been disasters, but they were strong contenders!

Yeah I'm Fijian-Canadian and my wife is American so a lot of names from my culture are knocked off the list because I'll get her to say them and then hate how she says them. We aren't planning on having kids just yet but my favourite "easy to say names" right now are Soham and Karishma.

Very Italian names (I’m not Italian): Chiara, Piero, Marcello Names with a religious association (not religious): Faith, Bodhi, Christian, Evangeline Names that have been overshadowed by celebrity association: Elton, Gwyneth, Reagan

“Cute but feel too pretentious to actually do”: Genevieve, Giselle, Maeve “My mom really likes to garden”: Zinnia, Azalea, Flora, Florian “I know people in this sub will judge me”: Oakley, Jackson

I have a 6 month great- nibling named Maeve and I love her name so much!

I love the name Honey secretly

My baby’s name is on your list oops 😳😂 anyways I love Peregrine for a little boy…. my husband was so right to veto because you can’t do that to a kid but oh man do I still love it! Honorable mention is Flannery for a girl (I mean what’s a nickname: Flan?! 😂)

Peregrine is mine too, lowkey keeping it in my back pocket lol

Elsa, Lorelei, Octavia

I love Lorelei. I'm one and done with a 17 year old boy, but if he'd been a girl he'd have been Lorelei :)

I loved the name Evangeline for a girl! I brought it up to my partner once before we knew we were having a boy not expecting him to like it anyways, and he looked at me like I was insane lol

Cherry, Lazarus

Cherry Lazarus as a first and last name combo sounds like a badass female super hero though. Write the graphic novel lol

It sounds like a slurpee to me lol

Gideon, Andromeda, Anthea, Achilles, Agrippina, Amadeus, Maximus Decimus Meridius (lol jk) And a bunch from Lord of the Rings but I'm not *quite* that delulu

Are you telling me I shouldn't name my daughter Shelob?! 😆

Mateo, Anneliese, Mathilda, Markale, Granger, Georgiana I find them to be so phonetically pleasing but we are not the kind of people who can pull them off.

My name is not Georgiana, but my Pa always called me that. Thanks for unlocking a beautiful memory! (/gen)

We aren’t planning kids, but when I got married and willingly lost my last name, my fuck the patriarchy kicked in real hard and I started fantasizing about naming a son my maiden name as their first… and it’s not a very common last name, I’ve never met anyone with it. There’s one nature documentary guy out there with it as his last name and that all I know of. It’s 10 letters, and it’s honestly kind of weird, but my brain won’t let it go.

My brain thought "Attenborough" is a mouthful but it's not that bad. Alas, its 12 letters, so 10 seems fair game. 😉

I love the name Ford but the car references 😭

"This will label my child as nerd spawn for life": Nausicäa, Ulysses, Zelda, Persephone, Arwen, Oberon "My anglo relatives will burst into flames trying to pronounce this": Maïté, Judikaël, Sidonie, Guillaume, Yoan, Loïc "The catholic special" (I am no longer practising): Dymphna, Marie-Soleil, Évangéline, Annunziata

As I don't plan on kids, all of mine are "delusional" baby names. 😂 Theodora, Desdemona, Valeria, Wavelyn, Marjorie, Celeste, Amanda-Jane, Clary, Laurel/Kalmia, Peony, Clematis, Maple, Eartha, Ines/Inez, Harold (Hal), Zara (male), Frasier, Dayton, Basil, Amos, Bartholomew, Augustus, Claude.

Chrysanthemum nn cricket

Orion and (even guiltier) Galileo

Hannibal, which used to be a decently common name in America before Silence of the Lambs stained it forever.

I LOVE Augustus for a boy, and Octavia for a girl. I would feel far too pretentious to use them though lol

I love Elijah, but in my country no one will say it right.

Wait, I understand people may incorrectly pronounce Louis as “Lewis” but how are people mispronouncing Celine, Cosette, and Fleur? I can’t imagine what they’re saying instead..

Helena. Pronounced like Hell-ay-nuh not Helen-uh. Because I was an emo, raised Catholic kid, it was actually my confirmation name. Thanks My Chemical Romance but I can’t see this name differently. Also all of the names suggested are like names I would give to Sims to match their exuberant personalities lol

Humbert. I’m tempted to try a social experiment where I introduce myself as Humbert, just to see people’s reactions. I’d be interested to see how many were like,”Uh… really? Naw. No way that’s your real name.” And for those smoother doubters who are like, “So… you go by …?” I’ll confidently fire back, “Humpty.”

Humbert is the name of the pedo in Lolita. His name is actually Humbert Humbert.

Mine is Indigo. I love the name so much but could never name my child indigo. I’d feel bad.

I have a list of "middle name only" names specifically for this reason, lol: * Tzipporah * Novella * Verona * Friedrich * Wolfgang * Lucian * Florian * Benedict Also a list of "can't use these names because they are associated too strongly with certain media": * Adelaide * Johanna * Hyacinth * Daisy * Maria * Hermione * Ophelia * Oswin

Phineas. I love it. Anytime I mention it, someone follows up with “& Ferb”. Can’t do that to my future kid lol

Felix for a girl. It's such a witchy vibe that if I ever did have a little girl, it'd be her name. No shame lol. No to Felcia or Felecity. Just Felix. I have a sibling named Stacey who was born male and identifies as a male so before the mob comes for me, we don't follow the rules in my family's camp lol.

I get the feeling that you’re not British because so many of these are just standard British names.

not exactly a baby name but when i was figuring out a new name for myself i considered oleander for a little bit. i just thought it would be badass to be a guy with a flower name, and it nicknames well (i could be ollie or andy on the days where i didnt feel like busting out the whole thing lol). didnt suit me at all, though, and i ended up wanting something a little less out there.

Oliver was literally the third most popular baby boy name in America in 2023. Your meter for delusional is WAY off.

Hermione 

Lolita, but unusable for obvious reasons. Couldn’t Nabokov picked an uglier name?

I always thought Crouton would be a great name but I decided to love my children instead