r/NameNerdCirclejerk

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I am a millennial and consider chat speak to be a highlight of English vocabulary and as such want to name my future children with tribute names. Please help. (Plz hlp)

Being a millennial, I obviously don't want to associate myself with the super unique elon musk try hard naming. So I need help creating appropriate tribute without losing their identity.

Some ideas I have had:
Ayeff Kay (AFK)
El mayo (LMAO)
Roffell (ROFL)

My husband and I are being blessed with a fourth little one! We are so fortunate. But we are having horrible trouble with names.

The two of us love to have a little drink at the end of the day to cool off from work, and we want our angels to be our respites from this world, too. (Try being a mom of three boys - L O L!) So, we named our sweethearts Tito, Jack, and Daniel (J&D are twins).

My husband thought Mary or Jane would be sweet but I don’t want to be inspired by the devil’s lettuce. I thought Bailey would be adorable, but he reminded me that anything Irish goes against our Protestant values. Morgan was briefly on the table, but I don’t want our little girl to be a captain — women aren’t meant to be leaders.

Any thoughts? God bless you all 🇺🇸🙏

I hav we an older girl named juniper and am now pregnant with my second I’m struggling to find something that I love as much as her name something funky and spunky but not overdone I loved birdie or Goldie but my partner was not a fan of either I suggested Rudy thinking it was cute and would be a good set up for the nickname rue and we both like it and are thibking ofcommiting to it I’m thinking Rudy Louise for the full name but I saw some threads of people thinking Rudy for a girl is awful I don’t want to doom my child :’) tjoughts and opinions?! Be honest!

All of these youneek names people are coming up with these days, and century old census results are beating them there

My sister and I were talking of names for our future babies. For girls, she really likes boy names. Her top three are Evan, Tyler, and Elliot. I lean more towards names like Dahlia, Melody, and Sloane. She likes most of my names, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around a girl named Clark or Miles. We domt have drastically different tastes, just in these few areas, it would seem. I don't mind it much, and of course I would love her and her kids unconditionally. Just wondering what yall think.

so my youngest (672 weeks) has been calling the future baby barthy as we've decided on the name bartholomew, however hes recently switched to shit 🤦 guess i have to consider horseshit as a name which i dont love. any recommendations?

My adult daughter is named Reina ( pronounced Ree Na). She gets called Rayna often. When she was a child the pediatrician told her it's not her fault her parents can't spell. Is it an unusual pronunciation?

My husband and I love to eat! We are quintessential foodies and the first to try any new restaurants in the area. I’d like to think we have somewhat sophisticated taste as well.

Because we are both food lovers our baby naturally has to be named something totally unique and food related. It should sound appealing and have options for spelling to make it stand out from the rest. Here are some examples of what we are thinking but if you have suggestions we are very much open to hearing them!

Arugula— we especially like the spelling Ahroogoolah

Kale

Shallot - very pretty for a girl

Veal (Kale Veal sounds like a good strong first and middle name)

Jambalaya— Jammie or Bala are great nicknames

Coqauvin

Bakery

Garlicka— especially for a girl

Croissant

Ham

Pierogi

My girlfriend and I (lesbians) love talking about baby names. Both of us are white and, for the sake of making sure a baby wouldn’t grow up without the representation and cultural belonging it should have, would plan on using a mostly white sperm donor.

Both of us speak Spanish, took courses in college, and have spend time in Spain and Puerto Rico. I’m also a Spanish teacher. Additionally, we’re interested in potentially living abroad in a Spanish speaking country at some point with kids.

For this reason, but also just because I love some of these names and think Latino people are really good at naming their kids, we have several Spanish sounding names in our list. I don’t know for sure if the kids would grow up fluent in Spanish, but we’ve thought about using immersion to teach them from a young age. I’m sure they would at least speak a little bit, even if I don’t commit fully to one parent only speaking Spanish.

Anyways, the main question is, would it be offensive to use these names or too much like we would be “trying to act Latina”?

The list of a few of our favorites:

Marisol (Mari/Sol)

Mayreli (May)

Elio

Luz

Milani (Millie)

Esmeralda

Violeta

Nayeli

Also to keep in mind that their white family members who speak no Spanish would need to be able to pronounce the name or nickname.

Romesco

This isn't the worst I've seen by any means, but there are just so many parts of this that amuse me. And as a side note, have we forgotten what continent the country of Spain is in?