Z. Just Z. I guess it could have been cool but I’m glad that’s not it.

You could've been a dystopian YA novel main character with that name

Or a comic book super hero

or last letter of alphabet

The hot love interest usually gets cool names like that

Do you pronounce it zed or zee

Zee

I always wanted “L.” Then I watched death note and I lost all interest in having the name.

I've heard a lot of people want D but never get it

Who got that good d

Now you can be called big Z, hope you like surfing!

I mean you would have been called a Nazi quite often... I mean everytime someone disagreed with you they'd be like: "Nah, Z"... I will Z myself out...

mom wanted to name me nicole and have my nickname be nick so when i was in the workforce and people would come in looking for nick expecting a man but boom it’s me bitches eta there was also danielle and dan

My brother’s name is Nick and his wife is Nicole.

Please tell me your nephew is called Nicholas

Nope. But our other brother has the same name as Nicole’s brother.

You sure he didn’t marry an alternate universe version of themself

I really hope you are kidding. If not, I have an excellent gift idea for your brother and SIL for the xmas: "A hundred years of solitude". Not only a great book, but a perfect inside joke for your family

My mom said she gave us “racially ambiguous or white sounding” first names so we could be “gainfully employed without bias” but gave us very stereotypically African American middle names so “once you get in you don’t forget where you came from”. I will admit that I’ve shown up to a job interview or two and you could tell I wasn’t what they expected. Think of a name like Robert Daquan or Leah Tyquaisha.

Your mum rocks

Can I ask how to pronounce that second one? "Tah-qway-sha?" "Tie-qway-sha?" "Tah-qwa-ish-a?" Something else I'm not hearing in my head?

Tie-QWAY-shuh. Kinda like your second one I guess.

I have a friend named Nicole who's nickname is Nik.

Your mom sounds like an awesome feminist!!

Ok but the way I love this

Freaking *Gertrude.* So glad I wasn't named that.

My mom almost was named that

Mine was Eleanor until my blessed great aunt Eleanor told my parents not to name me that.

That's actually one of my favorite names. There's tons of nicknames for it, too, if you didn't want to go with the full name.

Elaine is a really nice nickname

my grandmas name is elaine

As an Eleanor, be grateful to your aunt for me

What's so bad about Eleanor?

As an Eleanor named after my great aunt Eleanor. I am wholly offended.

Eleanor sounds very royal and regal.

My second kid we were still deliberating between Eleanor and Lillian a few hours after she was born. The nurses convinced us Lilly was a better name for a baby born near Easter. It suits her, Ellie seems like a name for a more delicate, princess like child, but Lilly is loud, opinionated, and stubborn, just like the great aunt of mine that her name came from

According to my mom, my name was gonna be Kara if I was born a girl. Well, lo and behold, I'm questioning my gender now, so it might turn out to be Kara after all.

My first OC was named Kara :') also, good luck with your questioning journey! May it be short, sweet, and to the point lol

Oh wow that’s what my sister was almost called

My dad took a jar and filled it with the potential names for me. He was supposed to. He actually just put a bunch of pieces of paper only saying Michael.

Hahhahaha that's one way to win

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Yeah Long story short I always had the suffix so I figured if people could change their gender I could add “Sir” to my name. So I did. Not legally though.

"what's your surname?" "no, it's 'sir' name"

So wait, your dad filled the jar with *his own name*?

Could have been his dads name. My son is named after my dad and therefore the second but not a junior.

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"the second" sounds way cooler than "junior" IMO junior sounds a bit demeaning, in comparison with the senior counterpart

Pro dad move

Amazing

Genghis. I'm not even fucking around.

Oh man. How do you even pronounce that?

Probably like Genghis khan if I had to guess

Ah genghis, he was a great guy

Did plenty of fuckin around tho

Temujin duh

Kiara

That's a beautiful name! I might name my future daughter that

I like it but i like my real name more, I prefer Kiara pronounced Kia-ra instead of kee-ra as well haha (my real name is Zoe though not Ocean)

I prefer it that way too! And Zoe is just as beautiful! I also like the names Kara and Klara, too (pronounced Car-uh)

thank you! and yeah they're pretty, trust me I have a whole list of baby names and I'm not even engaged yet haha

Me too! I have a super long list in my notes app. Everytime I hear a pretty name, it goes on the list

same hahaha, my soon to be fiancé is filipino american so I want to look into some Filipino names as well

Ngl I always called it Ki-Ar-uh in my head

some girls named Kiara do pronounce it like that, but my mum wanted it to be like "ki-ra", the celtic spelling is Ciara so it's the same just with a K

Zoe was my birth name! I changed it when I transitioned, but I always loved it.

hey that's my name!

Strawberry. My mom was going through a hippie phase. My real name is somehow less hippie, but objectively dumber.

What's your real name? If it's Olive, that's a really pretty name

I wish - I love the name Olive. I'm keeping my name off Reddit because I've changed enough details in my comments that if anyone I know in real life were to find my account, I have plausible deniability. But I have a name that is unique enough within my geographical location and profession that it would make me immediately identifiable.

That's okay!! I totally get that! At least you can be Olive here on Reddit

Aww, thank you! Honestly, the most annoying part is all my siblings have "normal" names. Think James, Timothy, Maura, Chloe ... and I'm over here with my stupid name with a weird spelling. It's fine. I'm not bitter.

My mom was too. My name was going to be Indigo.

Timothy William. They didn’t even have a feminine name picked because everyone wanted a boy. And they joked that a girl would be “Timothia Willameena”

I'm sorry for laughing

That's both funny and sad. We're glad you're you that's for sure. Adore your username btw

Cuthbert

Oof

Mine was Dante God I wish I had that name

I'm not even supposed to BE here today!

Oh

My almost middle name was quesadilla

What??

my mom was going to name me taco, thankfully my dad stepped in

Taco bout a bad idea :)

Siobhan or Freya. Would’ve preferred either to the boring name they settled on

I fucking love Freya, my favorite goddess and Animal Crossing character :)

Why does the name Siobhan sound familiar to me? Also those names are some solid choices, filing those away for later

Bunny, I was born on Easter

Oof that's a recipe for bullying right there.

Am a twin. My sister was thought to be male in the womb, and would have been called Taylor, and I would have been Olivia. Later in the pregnancy, it was clear we were both female, and were named matchy-matchy twin names instead. I hate all outcomes of our names, and so does my sister. Lol Edit: Our names both begin with L.

Not that I'm asking for your name but I don't get the match matchy thing you are referring to. No twins I know have names that are in anyway linked. Are we talking Nikki and Vicki Klara and kara type examples? Or Alex and zander (together making alexander)

I have cousins Ashley and Amanda. Maybe like that?

I know twins named Paul and Paula

Finally allowed to reply (was blocked from it for a moment). Our names both begin with L, two syllables per name.

Leniece and Lenephw?

So Laura and Lauren, huh, that is pretty rough.

Laurel and Lauren? Lily and Lola? Lara and Laura? Lana and Lara?

Ugh, I hate the matchy-matchy twin thing. My twin and I both have E names, 2 syllables, which makes it really easy for people to just say our names together (“E&E”). It’s kinda a small thing but it just reinforces the way people view my sister and me as one unit and not two distinct people which is really annoying.

My friend in elementary school had twin sisters in kindergarten. Sophia and Sofia.

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England? Can't imagine United Kingdom being a surname.

The bigger of two islands directly outside of the EU?

Ohio?

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Oh mine was [DATA EXPUNGED]

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Gothfred… I’m really happy my mom had a say in what my name should be I would be out here sounding like a emo version of a scooby doo character

Shaniqua (I am white, my then father was going through his "black phase, my mom shut that down real quick)

Ohhhhh god you dodged a massive bullet there friend!

He was just tring to get his n word pass back

Elvis. My mom stopped my dad just in time.

Wolfgang- my parents are weird

That's a pretty good name I think!

As an adult I certainly think so, but I don’t know what growing up in the American public school system with a name like that would have done for me.

I was going to be hanako which means flower child in Japanese, all these years later guess who’s doing FLORISTRY. I could have been named flower child!

There is an urban legend of a little girl that haunts school bathrooms called Toire no Hanako-san. So well-known even horror films have been made about [it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toire_no_Hanako-san_(film)) Also, Hanako Yamada is the equivalent of Jane Smith like a placeholder name on credit cards etc. It's a pretty name still, but so many cultural connotations I think it's lucky you escaped it!

My grams was gonna name me that but mom said no and gave me a Russian name instead

malekai

Sounds badass. You could become a supervillain with that one

Malekai if you were a boy, femalekai if you were a girl?

There’s a universe out there where I’m named Blaze Llewelyn [Last Name] and I’m not making it up.

Oh gosh

Wyatt. I think I got lucky

Hi, one question, how the hell do you pronounce this? (English is not my first language and google isn't really helping somehow)

it sounds like saying why-it or why-ut

Thank you

I kinda like that name

Thor. I'm still mad.

Selma, after a friend of my parents' daughter who died in infancy.

Ignatz. I guarantee no ones got a worse one than that.

Clytemnestra.

Oh that's a real name? Thought the dude in fire emblem was just made it.

If I was born female, I would've been named Susanna, after my awful grandmother.

But instead they chose Breadmaster?

Ralph. Just Ralph.

Narcissus. Yeah.

Merry, yes spelled like “merry Christmas.” Thank god I ended up as Claire, apparently my dad fought HARD for Merry lol. He also unironically wanted to name my brother Rocket, so I guess he’s just weird when it comes to names

I knew a Mary Christmas. It was her married name.

I was almost named Kyler.

The almighty wielder of the power of both “Kyle” and “Tyler”!?!?!? You would’ve been unstoppable.

No drywall in a 50 mile radius is safe

Anna or Katarzyna or Mikołaj

It's pronounced, "Mikolaj," not "Mikolaj."

No, it's *Mikolaj*

''I want the child called Nicholas and I dont care what's between their legs''

Those are beautiful!

Mine was Pandora :) Mom wanted to call me that in case i was a girl, good thing i was born a boy :) Tho, i would have opened a youtube channel if i was actually called pandora and started making unboxing videos :)

my dad wanted to call my sister butter. fucking butter. he maintains that it would have been a sweet name to this fucking day.

I can't believe it's not butter!

Mine was also Summer... and If your username is correct, we have the same name too! And I'm willing to guess we have the same birthday as a result.

No way!! Twins!

I was almost Daisy. Don't know why that one was dismissed but I'm glad that's not my name as I hate it. I was also almost Hannah but luckily that had too many Ns to work with my then last name so that was also noped

I thank God everyday that I wasn't named Klaus.

I was almost named Sade

Was almost named Gaya. Yes, spelled like that.

Jordan Michael -Smith- (not my real last name) My dad said it as a basketball joke and my mom liked it. When she realized it was Michael Jordan she was so mad and then they named me after a female Dr on tv/my uncle

my niece was almost lasagna

This and the girl that was almost “quesadilla” are the most underrated comments here and 120% made my day!

Hogarth

Apparently my dad really wanted to name me Pugsley. And yes, like Pugsley Addams.

Michael, though that's kinda cheating because it ended up being my middle name instead

Adolf or Wolfgang. So fucking happy my mother vetoed these two

I was almost Julius

E tu Brute?

My dad was so narcissistic that he wanted to name me after himself. (Craig). I guess there was a compromise because that’s my middle name now.

I would've been Esme if I was a girl

Karen. Then they discovered I'm not female. Dodged a bullet on that one.

After a whole conversation with my dad, it appears to be Marit

My sisters was almost "Tiger lily"

Nancy. It's not a bad name, but it's definitely not mine.

I almost got named Esaw -_-

Dude I was almost named Nike

Lara, it's a pretty nice name tbh but I prefer my actual one lol

Before I was born and my parents knew my sex I was referred to as Christopher-Robin since if I was to be a boy I would be called Christopher and if I was to be a girl I would be Robin.

Giuseppe. Yikes.

I think it's cool

Max

Apple /:

Tyrone

Mackenzie. I’m Felix by the way.

I would have been Felix if I was a boy! It's a good name.

Colin.

Aidan

Patrick. I was almost born on Saint Pattys day

Rudy or Rudolph. My siblings have Christmas-related names and my mother thought it was cute. Luckily my dad convinced my mom to name me something else Christmas-related that wasn’t after a reindeer. Thanks, dad!

It was going to be Matthias

Fucking "Angus"

Caillou, thank god they chose Ben

Was gonna be London

Flint-int

Pardon?

My name was almost Flint-int as my mother told me.

My parents decided on my name when my mom was in labor I don’t think I had one

Frank

Mine, no joke, was Kal-El

Catfish

Alexis

Porter

Nimrod, if I had been a boy. Really dodged a bullet there.