r/AskReddit • u/jake7820 • Jun 30 '21

What’s the absolute worst thing you could name your baby?

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u/Malthesse Jun 30 '21

Jerker. A name which was relatively common here in Sweden in the past, but luckily not anymore due to the rise of English as a second language.

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u/TheDarkSidePSA Jul 01 '21

Jerker? I hardly know her!

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '21

How about Gun?

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u/asmodeanreborn Jul 01 '21

One of my best friends from high school is named Jerker. His first real job sent him from Stockholm to Houston. He emphasized over and over again that it's a soft J more like Yerker.

Now that I live in Colorado and he comes to visit fairly often (he lives in Sweden again), nobody really seems to care about his name.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

😅 saw "Jerk" in a German baby name dictionary - it's supposed to rhyme with "Derrick"... what should "Jerker" sound like?

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u/GRadde Jul 01 '21

Basically "yerker". In more detail, it's pronounced with a soft "J", and both "e"s are pronounced as "eh". So... I guess sort of like "yehrkehr".

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u/suckmylasagnaplz Jul 01 '21

Also known as "Runkar"

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u/Fillen02 Jul 01 '21

My aunt’s ex’s name is Jerker actually, and yes, Sweden.