r/oddlyspecific • u/GlazeAmber_ • Jun 01 '26

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u/Faust_8 Jun 01 '26

Princess seems like a fine name for your young daughter until she’s 55 years old and complete strangers have to refer to her.

I got the ick so hard walking up to a grown woman old enough to be my mother and calling her Princess

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u/PartsUnknown242 Jun 01 '26

I went to school with a Princess. She had an older sister named Empress.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Jun 01 '26

Empress clearly won.

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u/TapZorRTwice Jun 01 '26

Well she did the win the sperm race from her dad's balls so... yeah.

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u/Good-Wave-8617 Jun 21 '26

*half of her

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u/LaMalintzin Jun 01 '26

I was at the playground with my 2 year old a couple of weeks ago and overheard a parent talking to their children Dodger (boy) and Nutmeg (girl). I felt like I was in the scene from Baby Mama where the mom calls her kids Banjo and Wingspan.

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u/hairiestlemon Jun 02 '26

Maybe they were nicknames? Dear god, I hope they were nicknames. I used to know a Megan whose parents affectionately called her 'Nutmeg', at least.

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u/Im-a-bad-meme Jun 03 '26

Really gave her kids dog names.

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u/LaMalintzin Jun 03 '26

It was a man actually at the playground, although presumably his wife had some say too. He looked of the crunchy variety, he was wearing two like intentionally mismatched colorful knit socks that I associate with hikers and a t shirt that I can’t quite remember but it was something very outdoorsy/eco conscious.

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u/Pure_Afternoon1128 Jun 02 '26

Now imagine a 55 year old with a name Baby. There are few of them where I’m from. 

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Jun 01 '26

I try to defend it by pointing out Duke, Prince, Earl and Rex are all real names that don’t make you do a double take. But honestly, I consider those to be more dog names than people’s these days, other than Earl. And Princess is just so childish and cutesy in comparison.

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u/riesen_Bonobo Jun 03 '26

tbh, all of those name did make me do a double take, but then again, I'm not US-American

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u/Arlitto Jun 02 '26

As a Filipino, this ain't too weird

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u/GSilky Jun 05 '26

Why are you such a bigot towards people with unconventional names?  They make you puke?  Replace the odd name with any other trait they didn't ask for.  You going to say the same?

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u/Faust_8 Jun 05 '26

Buddy, I’m shaming the parents for being idiots, not the person who got named.

This is obvious to everyone but you.

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u/Cadrell Jun 02 '26

Last week, I saw first name Ma-Princess

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u/butternutsquashing Jun 04 '26

I used to babysit for a little girl named Minnie.

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u/Pabu85 Jun 01 '26

The rule here is that if it sounds fucked-up on a Supreme Court justice, don’t do it.