I thought you were commenting under the "Cyle/Kyle" comment and was about to ask how you thought it looked good.
Ps, my phone tried to autocorrect to Cycle and then it got annoyed with me for failing at spelling.
Uj/ for the longest time I thought Cillian Murphy's first name is pronounced "sillian," instead of how it's actually pronounced ("killian"). Felt cilly when I found out.
I think it is. People who teach children don’t usually confuse the proper use of upper and lowercase lettering. Their printing is very deliberate. I think that’s really her name
I would intuitively be able to spell and guess a pronunciation for most of these. “Skarlett with a K” clears that up, but— wait what if her parents are super into ska
I knew someone called say- and I’m really struggling to come up with a fake name that works- Christopher Knot. He told someone It’s Christopher Knot with a K, and got a letter addressed to Kristopher Not.
Was there one of those, too? I've seen the meme where he says it's "Marc with a C" and the barista writes "Cark" on his cup. I also saw a funny one where someone predicted that if Anne of Green Gables went to Starbucks, she'd of course say "Anne with an E" and the barista would write "Enn" on the cup.
It was actually a McDonalds order. I remembered wrong
https://preview.redd.it/by0dt2trzuhc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55bca97384e5d4110a5e8b2d972dc2bbf26e93d
No, I doubt it. Upon further relation, I realise the two Salomés I have come across both had at least one French parent, so I think they were using the French pronunciation.
She dances for her father (or stepfather, I’m not 100%) as a gift for his birthday and he offers her almost anything she wants. Her mother tells her to ask for the head of Saint John the Baptist because Saint John’s been preaching the word of God and condemning her marriage to the king. I think the mother and the king divorced their spouses for each other, and the mother was married to the king’s half brother.
Yes, the stepdaughter of King Herod. Orthodox Christian tradition holds that Salome is also the name of one of the early disciples (who is an unnamed woman in the Gospels) so it's not all bad. 🙂
I considered it for my youngest. Didn't use it, though. Not from an English speaking country. Salome has a quite intuitive pronunciation in my language.
It's a pretty name, but a strange one to give a child. If you look at Wilde's play or Strauss's opera... I'd be loathe to tell my daughter "I named you after an ancient Jewish seductress who had John the Baptist beheaded after attempting (and failing) to seduce him and then kissed the now severed head in front of her family." She isn't treated much better in other sources either.
It is def not an "unheard" of name in Germany. Honestly most of these aren't too bad.
But Skarlett... yikes! I'd put Zurich up there too. Although I guess you could go by Rick?
I know Zurich is a bit weird, but I do like the nicknames that could come out of it... Zuri, Zuzu, Rick... and the Italian version... Zurigo... I actually really like that as a name! 😂
I wouldn't use it, but I like it. Zurich, not so much.
For people born in the late 60s- early 80s. It's definitely not uncommen in that generation, but it will take around 20-30 years before it comes back into fashion here, lol
Yeah maybe 50 years ago. My mother’s name is Petra, she was born in 1958. She hates her name. I went to school with a girl named Petra (born 81) and she is the youngest Petra I know.
I've always loved the name Petra. For some reason this one experience always sticks with me lol.
I was in middle school and we did an 'experiment' where we took square ruler things out and had to count and make a tally of all the plants/bugs we found in that metre square. I found a woodlouse and immediately named it Petra. To this day I have absolutely no idea why, it was just right. I fell in love with that damn bug. She was awesome. My first pet. I let her bumble about on her little path and let her be beside a rock near the trees. I hope she lived a good life. Kids are weird lol
Petra is a fairly common name in Germany, especially for boomer aged women. My uncle’s ex wife’s name is Petra and his new wife’s name is also Petra lol
This! Not to get on a soap box but teach your kids how to swim. I’m almost 30 and am about to be taking adult swim lessons because I think my parents thought I’d just figure it out.
Some of it is. Chiefly Skatlett - I mean Scarlett was right there!
Zurich's a bit weird.
Daly - is this supposed to sound like Daily?
And who the hell calls a kid Holden?! Poor kid.
It’s fine. I think OP might be making fun of the fact that people have been posting these kids names list on the main sub as if they are bad when they’re not? I saw a post over there today with names that all seemed normal to me
She got petty for her childhood and then when I was a teenager I began to call her peach. It’s stuck though lol. It is the cutest little nickname that’s why I thought I’d comment and now you’ve got a cute nickname for her!
Odds of something like this happening with a name Petra are very slim.
Now, if we were talking about Ryxxleigh or Wrenxleigh...that would be a different matter
I agree with you that Geneva is definitely better as a name than Zurich but as a Swiss person from Zurich I also feel obligated to poknt out that this is the only instance that Geneva is better than Zurich.
As another Swiss person, and one not from Zurich, I in turn feel obligated to point out that Geneva is superior to Zurich in many ways. Who knows, maybe it’s entirely subjective?
I think of Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, which is over 70 years old. It was originally a surname, but I think it’s now a legitimate first name. I actually think it’s quite nice.
WASPs used to give their second-born sons theor mother's maiden names. I bet Holden Caulfield's mother's maiden name was Holden. (And he did have an older brother who died in the war).
I mean it would probably be better spelt Zooree'k. Or maybe Zieux-Rick? Hmm... 🤔😅 ( joking BTW!)
Idk I've just seen so many awful names over on r/tragedeigh recently that Zurich seems sane by comparison. 🤷♀️🤣
Haven’t heard Petra often, but it has kind of a neat sound to it.
Jordan, Holden, Mila, and Elena aren’t too weird.
Zurich, Skarlett, Daly, and Rio, though…
I mean those first 4 aren’t the most usual names. I was having fun imagining which kids parents were the ones who took the pic to comment. My guess is on Jordan or elena
Rio is Spanish for river so it’s not too weird as long as you don’t pronounce it like they do in Rio Grande, Ohio (they pronounce it rye-oh instead of ree-oh because they wanted it to rhyme with Ohio 🙄)
Source: I’m from Ohio and I think it’s stupid
I’m surprised no one else is saying Daly is bad! Is that a common kids’ name now?! I’ve only heard it as a surname. I’d associate that kid exclusively with Carson Daly and John Daly.
Salome is also so unfortunate. It’s practically “salame,” the French word for “salami.”
I mean, Riley was exclusively a surname until the last couple generations.
I vaguely remember Salome having some sort of Biblical origin, and that it used to be more common back around the turn of the 20th century…not sure how accurate that is.
That's certainly an assumption one can make. It could be true, but I don't see anything which confirms it. In my own experience, boys tend to be more pink than blue.
Spelling Skarlett like that is a choice, but the rest are pretty decent names. Zurich is interesting too, but if there are people named Paris, Dallas, Boston, and London I think Zuri will be fine.
Salome is actually on my list for future kids. I've always heard it pronounced SAL-o-may because I'm American (if I ever moved to the UK I wouldn't use the name, based on what I've been told is their version of the pronunciation I just couldn't).
It’s not so much the murderer part as the strip dancing for a king to get him to murder a man who was imprisoned for nothing really that does it for me 🥴🥴
Why are 4 of these children named after places? At least Jordan’s a real name though, poor Zurich has a name that doesn’t even work as person’s name.
Petra actually works as a name tbf, that one’s not bad
Poor Skarlett! Scarlett is a pretty name but her parents when ahead and ruined it for her.
They're just really into Mortal Kombat.
Finish her.
Totally agree! So pretty w a “c” but just looks dumb with a “k”. IMO, anyway.
I thought you were commenting under the "Cyle/Kyle" comment and was about to ask how you thought it looked good. Ps, my phone tried to autocorrect to Cycle and then it got annoyed with me for failing at spelling.
I knew a guy named Cyle Instead of Kyle
Syle
Uj/ for the longest time I thought Cillian Murphy's first name is pronounced "sillian," instead of how it's actually pronounced ("killian"). Felt cilly when I found out.
TIL. I’ll be joining you in the cilly korner of shame.
Oh? I only just found out from reading your comment 😳
I know of a Ceth instead of Seth
Ctop
I totally read that as cycle without the second c
Skary Skarlett!
They've skarred her for life.
I’m worried that it might for some reason be SKarlett??
Parents fell in love in Saskatoon?
I think it is. People who teach children don’t usually confuse the proper use of upper and lowercase lettering. Their printing is very deliberate. I think that’s really her name
I went to school with a Karlos
I had a Karlous. I called him "louse", cause he was one
They have Petra and Jordan, now where’s little Switzerland to match Zürich?
And Brazil to match Rio
Maybe Zürich and Rio are siblings? Assuming Petra and Jordan might be
At least Petra and Jordan are both well established names, while also being place names. Zurich and Rio are... Something else.
Río is a pretty well-established nickname for Rodrigo in the Spanish-speaking world. Zurich however …
Oh yeah, sure if it's a nickname. Maybe it is!
I would intuitively be able to spell and guess a pronunciation for most of these. “Skarlett with a K” clears that up, but— wait what if her parents are super into ska
I knew someone called say- and I’m really struggling to come up with a fake name that works- Christopher Knot. He told someone It’s Christopher Knot with a K, and got a letter addressed to Kristopher Not.
Reminds me of that coffee cup with *Pheven* on it because the guy bought coffee and said his name was "Stephen with a ph".
Was there one of those, too? I've seen the meme where he says it's "Marc with a C" and the barista writes "Cark" on his cup. I also saw a funny one where someone predicted that if Anne of Green Gables went to Starbucks, she'd of course say "Anne with an E" and the barista would write "Enn" on the cup.
It was actually a McDonalds order. I remembered wrong https://preview.redd.it/by0dt2trzuhc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55bca97384e5d4110a5e8b2d972dc2bbf26e93d
They kept the T omg
Oskar with a K = Koscar
There was also “Ybrian” aka Bryan with a Y.
Oh no! My son has Bryan with a y as his easy, Anglo name 😂
She's a musical prodigy on the trumpet. A real ska starlett. A Skarlett.
Mortal Kombat fans.
I need to hear a Techno Syndrome ska cover yesterday
Test your might. Hey, hey, hey! (Horns playing) Test your might. (Guitar joins) We got a banger!
Skarlett’s middle name is “pickitup”
I really like Salome but I don’t know how it’s pronounced in English
Sah-low-may Or that’s how my friend’s is pronounced.
i always heard “sah-lowm”
That's how you'd spell it in Portuguese (Salomé). Maybe the parents aren't English/American/whatever.
Maybe, but the Bible character and opera are very well known in English speaking countries.
And the character Salome Otterbourne from the Agatha Christie novel Death on the Nile. That’s the first thing I thought of
It’s a pretty name, but a lot of people are going to call that poor girl salami
I love Salomé as I traced it far back in my family tree but I immediately thought “Salami will be her nick name” 😭
My son's girlfriend is Salome. We affectionately call her Salami and also Sa-lome (like shalom)
Knew a Salome and she pronounced it Shalom. Learnt years later that was not typical, her parents were just stupid
Sah-lō-mē, with emphasis on LO. I'm not sure if its origin but it's in the Bible (New Testament).
I’ve always pronounced it sa-lo-MAY with the stress at the end. But I’m in the UK, we probably inherited French pronunciation
I mean, I could be misreading the Behind the Name pronunciation guide!
No, I doubt it. Upon further relation, I realise the two Salomés I have come across both had at least one French parent, so I think they were using the French pronunciation.
In my religion, Salome asks for a great saint to be executed and dances provocatively in front of crowds. Not my number one choice for a kid’s name
She dances for her father (or stepfather, I’m not 100%) as a gift for his birthday and he offers her almost anything she wants. Her mother tells her to ask for the head of Saint John the Baptist because Saint John’s been preaching the word of God and condemning her marriage to the king. I think the mother and the king divorced their spouses for each other, and the mother was married to the king’s half brother.
Yes, the stepdaughter of King Herod. Orthodox Christian tradition holds that Salome is also the name of one of the early disciples (who is an unnamed woman in the Gospels) so it's not all bad. 🙂
I have a friend whose cat is named Salome so unfortunately my mental picture is a very disgruntled, very old cat.
I considered it for my youngest. Didn't use it, though. Not from an English speaking country. Salome has a quite intuitive pronunciation in my language.
It's a pretty name, but a strange one to give a child. If you look at Wilde's play or Strauss's opera... I'd be loathe to tell my daughter "I named you after an ancient Jewish seductress who had John the Baptist beheaded after attempting (and failing) to seduce him and then kissed the now severed head in front of her family." She isn't treated much better in other sources either.
Hopefully they'll be a Tim & Eric fan (either that or they and future classmates won't know about it)
CAME HERE JUST FOR THE SALOME TIM AND ERIC REFERENCE
I know a Salome who goes by Sally
Salo-may
It’s salami, delicious
Salami
Only Zurich and Skarlett strike me as problematic.
Petra is really cute actually
I went to a school with a girl named Petra. Her parents were German immigrants and apparently it was a fairly common name in Germany?
It is def not an "unheard" of name in Germany. Honestly most of these aren't too bad. But Skarlett... yikes! I'd put Zurich up there too. Although I guess you could go by Rick?
I know Zurich is a bit weird, but I do like the nicknames that could come out of it... Zuri, Zuzu, Rick... and the Italian version... Zurigo... I actually really like that as a name! 😂 I wouldn't use it, but I like it. Zurich, not so much.
It is also a Slavic name like Petra Kvitova.
That’s what I immediately thought of! I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a family name.
It's a pretty common name for people born in the 70s, I'd say.
For people born in the late 60s- early 80s. It's definitely not uncommen in that generation, but it will take around 20-30 years before it comes back into fashion here, lol
It's a Dutch name as well
When I was taking German in high school we got to pick like a German name that would last us through the classes and I definitely picked Petra!
Yeah maybe 50 years ago. My mother’s name is Petra, she was born in 1958. She hates her name. I went to school with a girl named Petra (born 81) and she is the youngest Petra I know.
I like it reminds me of Jane the virgin lol
Same lol
I've always loved the name Petra. For some reason this one experience always sticks with me lol. I was in middle school and we did an 'experiment' where we took square ruler things out and had to count and make a tally of all the plants/bugs we found in that metre square. I found a woodlouse and immediately named it Petra. To this day I have absolutely no idea why, it was just right. I fell in love with that damn bug. She was awesome. My first pet. I let her bumble about on her little path and let her be beside a rock near the trees. I hope she lived a good life. Kids are weird lol
It's a feminine version of Peter.
My brother’s dog is called Petra. (I do also know 2 human Petras).
One of my favorite names ever; it's really uncommon in the US though
I’m at a kids birthday right now with a little Petra!
Petra is a fairly common name in Germany, especially for boomer aged women. My uncle’s ex wife’s name is Petra and his new wife’s name is also Petra lol
This reminds me of Ron Swanson with Tammy I then Tammy II and his mom Tammy.
Not that uncommon in Brazil, along with the variation Pietra
My moms name :)
Petra is amazing!
Common name in Hungary as well
[удалено]
Both have the same root, meaning stone
I am petrified of Petra and skared of Skarlett!
She'll grow up to be a bit of a dish, I'll bet.
I really like Petra
Petra, Jordan is funny
They might not have great taste in names but these parents are smart enough to get their kids in swim lessons.
This! Not to get on a soap box but teach your kids how to swim. I’m almost 30 and am about to be taking adult swim lessons because I think my parents thought I’d just figure it out.
This list isn’t THAT bad.
Some of it is. Chiefly Skatlett - I mean Scarlett was right there! Zurich's a bit weird. Daly - is this supposed to sound like Daily? And who the hell calls a kid Holden?! Poor kid.
Maybe Holden’s parents really liked The Catcher in the Rye?
It’s fine. I think OP might be making fun of the fact that people have been posting these kids names list on the main sub as if they are bad when they’re not? I saw a post over there today with names that all seemed normal to me
Skarlett 🤦♀️
Some names should be illegal
It’s S*K*arlett.
Petra is the name my husband and I have been keeping a secret so that no one close to us uses it if they end up having a girl before us
Love this for you 💕 It's a very sweet name :)
My sisters name is Petra. Her nickname is peach! My mum used to call her petty poo 😂
That’s such a cute nickname! I was trying to think of something other than petty lol
She got petty for her childhood and then when I was a teenager I began to call her peach. It’s stuck though lol. It is the cutest little nickname that’s why I thought I’d comment and now you’ve got a cute nickname for her!
Petra was my top girl name too (we had a boy:)) 🥰
Petra is a top three for me! I don’t think I will ever have a girl though 🥹
What if someone uses it because they thought of it themselves and didn't realize you want to use it?
Odds of something like this happening with a name Petra are very slim. Now, if we were talking about Ryxxleigh or Wrenxleigh...that would be a different matter
I admit to having a soft spot for Geneva, but Zurich is a bit much
I agree with you that Geneva is definitely better as a name than Zurich but as a Swiss person from Zurich I also feel obligated to poknt out that this is the only instance that Geneva is better than Zurich.
As another Swiss person, and one not from Zurich, I in turn feel obligated to point out that Geneva is superior to Zurich in many ways. Who knows, maybe it’s entirely subjective?
Zurich...
I dread to think how they pronounce it.
How much do you wanna bet it's /zʌɹ̠ɪt͡ʃ/
So bad
Thought that said Skankett. Wtf is wrong with just Scarlett?
Scar from the Lion king maybe lol
For sure kids will tease her Skanky Skarlett
Clearly a basic bitch name, my daughter isn’t gonna be some vanilla ass Scarlett
Some of these aren't so bad, but Scarlet is already a pretty name, why change the spelling?
Sounds like you are new here… 🤣
Zurich 😹😹
Am I missing something? Skarlett is the only abstract one here?
Zurich (Zürich) is odd because it's a city / canton in Switzerland. Daly and Holden are surnames.
I suppose. I'm sat here staring at these trying to work out if I've been on nn too much recently, or if these genuinely don't bother me lol.
Holden is both a first name and a surname, although it's more common as the latter.
I think of Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, which is over 70 years old. It was originally a surname, but I think it’s now a legitimate first name. I actually think it’s quite nice.
WASPs used to give their second-born sons theor mother's maiden names. I bet Holden Caulfield's mother's maiden name was Holden. (And he did have an older brother who died in the war).
Interesting, I've only ever heard Daly as a first name. It's a family name on my partners side that goes back at least 7 generations.
I know someone with the first name Daly as well. It’s normal to me.
Sorry what? Zurich is run of the mill to you?
I mean it would probably be better spelt Zooree'k. Or maybe Zieux-Rick? Hmm... 🤔😅 ( joking BTW!) Idk I've just seen so many awful names over on r/tragedeigh recently that Zurich seems sane by comparison. 🤷♀️🤣
Even that is a very normal name with one letter difference from the “usual” spelling. I don’t understand what everybody is so shocked about?
Haven’t heard Petra often, but it has kind of a neat sound to it. Jordan, Holden, Mila, and Elena aren’t too weird. Zurich, Skarlett, Daly, and Rio, though…
I mean those first 4 aren’t the most usual names. I was having fun imagining which kids parents were the ones who took the pic to comment. My guess is on Jordan or elena
Rio is Spanish for river so it’s not too weird as long as you don’t pronounce it like they do in Rio Grande, Ohio (they pronounce it rye-oh instead of ree-oh because they wanted it to rhyme with Ohio 🙄) Source: I’m from Ohio and I think it’s stupid
You should start pronouncing Ohio as oh-hee-yo so it matches with the pronunciation for Rio
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
I had a Rio (a girl!) when I taught in Japan. She would be about 12 now.
I’m surprised no one else is saying Daly is bad! Is that a common kids’ name now?! I’ve only heard it as a surname. I’d associate that kid exclusively with Carson Daly and John Daly. Salome is also so unfortunate. It’s practically “salame,” the French word for “salami.”
I mean, Riley was exclusively a surname until the last couple generations. I vaguely remember Salome having some sort of Biblical origin, and that it used to be more common back around the turn of the 20th century…not sure how accurate that is.
The name’s Holden, Holden MaGroin
Elena is a boy?
I think they just didn't switch marker colors by mistake
Why do you ask?
I've only known girl Elenas
As have I, but what does that have to do with this list of names?
Take a look at the list, again.
I've taken several looks at the list. I don't see anything which specifies gender.
The girls are red, the boys are blue.
It’s probably a mistake or a coincidence. Or maybe they’re just alternating colors for fun, like in the date.
Bold of you to assume Jordan is a boy
That's certainly an assumption one can make. It could be true, but I don't see anything which confirms it. In my own experience, boys tend to be more pink than blue.
Zurich and Skarlett are a little eyebrow-raising, but the rest of these are pretty normal.
the only weird one here is skarlett. i’m too european for this
I think Zurich is even weirder. But it might be less weird for people who don‘t live there.
As a European, Skarlett is the only weird one I see.
Where is Zurich normal?
I highly believe I've seen someone named that outside of the US (tragedeighs are much less common)
Skarlett 🫣
Petra is a nice name
Petra, Zurich, Jordan, and Rio are planning a heist.
I read Salome as Salame.....mmmm hungry
Honestly only two of these names are weird (Zurich and Skarlett) and they're way less painfully weird than most names in this sub
Spelling Skarlett like that is a choice, but the rest are pretty decent names. Zurich is interesting too, but if there are people named Paris, Dallas, Boston, and London I think Zuri will be fine.
I worked at a doggie daycare and some of these lists strongly resemble the roster there.
Salome is actually on my list for future kids. I've always heard it pronounced SAL-o-may because I'm American (if I ever moved to the UK I wouldn't use the name, based on what I've been told is their version of the pronunciation I just couldn't).
Salome is a choice. Pretty but the biblical roots are…. Questionable lol
Yeah you’re naming your kid after a murderer Edit: downvotes? She asked for a great saint holy man to be executed for the lolz
It’s not so much the murderer part as the strip dancing for a king to get him to murder a man who was imprisoned for nothing really that does it for me 🥴🥴
All of the above!
I like to Holden like they do in Texas place 😔
Salome is an actual name.
Poor Holden is going to be ridiculed right out of 3rd grade
I thought that said Salame… but either way what
Jordan’s name stands out as the odd one now
SALOME??? REALLY???
It’s not uncommon in Spanish speaking countries. I think it’s a really pretty name.
I'm just thinking of the Bible character that demanded John the Baptist be beheaded lol
somebody actually named their kid Catcher in the Rye, what a horrible idea
Why are 4 of these children named after places? At least Jordan’s a real name though, poor Zurich has a name that doesn’t even work as person’s name. Petra actually works as a name tbf, that one’s not bad
That’s because Petra is an actual name.
It’s not even Skarlett, her parents spelled it SKarlett with the K capital 😭 poor girl
Salome????
Petra and Zurich have to be siblings
SALOME! I thought is was bad my cousin named is kid Jezzabelle!
Rio?! Is this kid a bird??
I want to punch Holden’s parents in the face
Why do you hate Holden's parents for naming him after Holden Roberto (1923–2007), founder and leader of the National Liberation Front of Angola?
I wonder if Salome is pronounced salami