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My pet peeve is the Finnish name "Yrjö". It comes from the Greek name "Geôrgios", which means farmer, but nowadays the word "yrjö" means vomit. 'Unique spellings' like some "Everleigh" also drive me crazy.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a perfectly good duck name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Duck season!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Adolf "Trump" Musk 🤢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My great grandfather was born before the name was a no no and was named Adolf. When he came to the US he changed it to Allen.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hayden Brayden Jayden Kayden etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Raiden is acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any name that's a "unique" spelling of an ordinary name.

Names that are just adjectives in English, usually "uniquely" spelled too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean "Uniqueleigh"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, yes I did. I just couldn't bring myself to write it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Kevin. I have never met a good Kevin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Kevin is literally the stand-in name for uneducated/lower classes children here in Germany. There's literally been an article in Der Spiegel "Kevin is not a name, but a diagnosis".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I had source amnesia on this one, thanks.

My kid has a Kevin friend who is Too Into Sonic. Need I say more?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they kept leaving Kevin behind on purpose in those Home Alone movies.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was a kid we had a family friend (old man) named Gaylord. People would try to say it Gaylrd and he would correct them: "No, it's Gay Lord." It was the 90s and it made me uncomfortable as that was a popular school yard slur.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love it when people own their name like that. Who cares what others think, it's part of who you are and you should not be ashamed of that.
I was born with a very old-fashioned name myself and tried to hide it for the longest time. Even my parents only called me by the abbreviated form. Took me a long time to accept that name and take pride in it, but I'm glad that that I did. It's part of me and I don't care what others think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I don't know if I really hate a name, but everyone I have ever met named Becky has been mean right from the instant I meet them.

I have no beef with the Rebas, Rebeccas, Rebekahs, and Beccas of the world. Just Becky.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curiously I'm mistrustful of boomers named Ron or Don and variants thereof. Current events in the US figure into this bias.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My own. It just doesn't roll off the tongue with my last name very well. I get tongue tied and sound like an idiot giving a fake name.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Don’t be too hard on yourself, BallShaped. It’ll be alright.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhhh yeah this one. Fuck Brent and everything Brent stands for.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

After everything in mystery of the druids, I wouldn't trust a Brent either.
Link for this fascinating game

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never met a girl named Bobbi that wasn't a flaming asshole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Dang it, Bobby!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exception: Bobbie Draper

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greg

By some strange alchemy, all of my friends seem to know a person named Greg that they dislike. It's become a bit of a meme that if someone mentions the name, others will just grumble in "Fuckin' Greg"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also Steve. Ive never met a Steve who didn’t have a screw loose.

Stevens are fine. Just Steve.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never met anyone called Gary who wasn't an idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Karen. You know

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My own name, Robert. It's so boring and there are Roberts everywhere.

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My own first name Mark, Firstly it is supposed to be spelled Marc as according to my mother I was named after Marc Bolan but they wrote it with a K on the birth certificate. Secondly it just doesn't feel like it suits me, I have no idea what alternative I would pick though. Maybe I just don't feel comfortable being called by my name no matter what it is :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ain't never met a Jake that didn't rub me the wrong way

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should quit letting Jakes rub you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thankfully it's been many years since a Jake rubbed me any which way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any of the 2 syllable names ending in -er. Hunter Asher etc.

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I've worked with two women named Janice and both of them were difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adolph, mostly because of one guy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine telling people your first name is Gunner or Major and expecting them to take you seriously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Jenna. Probably because the only Jenna I've ever known was super obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shelly is one of the grossest names to my ears but I have no idea why.

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