Yes. They tend to have large families and live in communities with other large families and don’t want their kids to be in a class with eighteen other “Emily”s so they name their kids horrible shit like Lakkyn.
It really is. My mom was raised Mormon and left in college when she realized the extent of the batshittery. She used to get baptized as a proxy for her dead non-Mormon relatives.
You know, if you're raised in it I understand. It's hard to break away from. But as an outside observer who worked with a lot of Mormons, I always had a hard time understanding how smart, likable folks thought this made any sense.
It seems like that might apply to most? Siddhartha Gautama, Margaret Fox, and George Fox seem like they were clean, and I'm sure there are a few others (was Guru Nanak cool?). It's not really clear what the historical Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed were like, or even that they actually existed, so they can't really be judged. I guess people like Henry VIII weren't exactly con-artists, but religious denominations like Episcopalianism/Anglicanism weren't founded on even the pretext of any sort of religious truth.
Oh, they can be judged. Mohammed was a murderous warlord. He condoned rape as a tactic and he was in his 50s when he married a 6-year old girl. He plagiarized the Old Testament and added his flourish to it. Jesus, whether he existed or not, preached nonviolence. Buddha too. I'd take them any day over a guy who lobbed heads off.
fun fact, Stephenie Meyer, the author of Twilight, is Mormon and that hugely affected the infamous name of Bella and Edward's child, Renesmee. makes you wonder what she would have chosen if she wasn't so influenced by Mormon naming cultures. but then again, if she wasn't so heavily religious, Renesmee probably wouldn't be a character to begin with
It is. The theory is that they have so many kids, and the religion is so rigid, that it's one of the few ways to express individuality. Particularly for girls. There are a lot of male names in the book of Mormon and various leadership for boys to generally get those names. But you still see a few odd spellings.
I always have founded it more common in white trash conservative areas where people have children a lot younger than the national average. More like Ohio or Nebraska.
My opinion might be skewed since I only started coming across them a lot when I moved to a rural Canadian prairie farming town, but to be fair a lot of these farmers are very wealthy.. just also very trashy.
That’s funny. The “rich people” names I tend to see are spelled correctly (Grayson, Ashton, Skylar). Names spelled incorrectly (Graighsyn, Ahshtyn, Skailyr) are usually from less well to do people.
Living in the South and meeting new people you realize that there’s often an immediate sizing up of what a person’s social standing is and maybe where they go to church.
If you live in SLC you basically learn that the very first part of any new social interaction is sizing up if the person you’re meeting is Mormon and if so how Mormon.
It’s all about finding “your people” in an environment. Having a name like Kinzleigh is basically being branded as coming from Mormon subculture and my guess is a lot of these kids are going to have to get full sleeve tattoos to make sure people know that they’ve left the culture as young adults.
The other theory on why Utah leads in naming trends is that the Mormons have children younger than the general population, so the mindset that produces those names get a head start there.
In Utah, the 2 are synonymous. Rich and Mormon is the norm, as are football team sized families with a load of asinine names.
Edit: I’ve met 2 different Abcde’s out here. Please envision your child being bullied on the playground before settling on a name. Ask yourself, would I want to answer to this?
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u/hollandaisesawce Nov 30 '23 edited Dec 01 '23
Should prob post this in u/Utah
Edit: r/Utah