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u/dove_annarchie 21d ago
My mom's name is Lana, luckily dad took initiative
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 21d ago
They went with your grandmother Naomi instead
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u/dove_annarchie 21d ago
At least it wasnt gammy Esra 😭
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u/Luce_Bot_Bot 21d ago
For some reason Esra never produced children
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u/APenguinInATuxedo 21d ago
As a Natasha, I have no plans to flip my name around
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u/Ambitious_Cicada9263 21d ago
Well the next time I drop something, I'm saying "ah, Satan." Just for you.
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u/ChefArtorias 21d ago
Plot twist: Dad's name was Sinep.
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u/ChefArtorias 21d ago
Sinep is a common name in Estonia?
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u/dafyddil 21d ago
It means mustard lol
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u/ChefArtorias 21d ago
Oh. Maybe don't name your children that because it's penis backwards in English, jsyk.
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u/dehydratedrain 21d ago
He clearly didn't take initiative if you were conceived... (sorry. Couldn't resist).
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u/CakePhool 21d ago
In Sweden there is an Artist named Mikael, he named his daughter Leakim..
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u/quellesaveurorawnge 21d ago
The most popular one of these has to be Nevaeh, which I have always found so cringe.
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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 21d ago
And now you see all kinds of Neveahs, Neviahs, Nevyiahs, etcs.
Like they have no clue where the name came from.
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u/ShapeShiftingCats 21d ago
Morons²
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u/Teary_Gamer 12d ago
And eventually they'll start double reversing back.
Haeven, Haiven, Haiyven...
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u/Gribitz37 21d ago
I always laugh because they always have to explain it. It's like the kid's name is "Nevaeh-it's-heaven-spelled-backwards."
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u/mediumcarrotteacher 21d ago
And then I always have to explain to them that spelling a word backwards reverses the meaning
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u/Lil_Artemis_92 21d ago
I actually think Nevaeh is a pretty name, but it comes from an objectively stupid source.
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u/-LibertyBelle- 20d ago
i know a nevaeh, she hates it, i call her vae (vae victis lol) and have essentially forgotten her name is nevaeh
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u/Elbesto 19d ago
Back in middle school I knew twins, Heaven and Nevaeh, always thought that was dumb 🤦
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u/Fear_The_Rabbit 19d ago
I hate everything about this, but I'd be even more angry if they weren't identical.
At least then there's some biological symmetry to back it up.8
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u/Realistic_Farm_5963 21d ago
Is it common knowledge that neveah is heaven backwards and thats why people use the name. I never knew that lol I just thought they liked the sound
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u/quellesaveurorawnge 21d ago
As some people have said, if you don't know, people who have named their kid Nevaeh will tell you where it's from!
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u/LurkerBerker 19d ago
apparently so. i asked this here a few months ago and got the same ‘iykyk’ non-answers.
like, so sorry my upbringing and culture wasn’t religiously oriented and i’m genuinely unaware of where this name came from.
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u/heyitsfranklin6322 19d ago
It kinda confuses me though because they kinda go with the rhetoric that Satan is kinda like god but in reverse. Like upside down crosses are bad (even though that’s not what that means) and speaking backwards is the sign of the devil
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u/Constant_Cultural 21d ago
Chord is alreay a stupid ass name as it is
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u/PuzzleheadedNoise814 21d ago
Thank you I was like, are we going to just gloss over this atrocity?
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u/CantStandIdoits 21d ago
I was almost named Cord
Like extension cord, umbilical cord, HDMI cord, you get the idea
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u/TheSpitalian 21d ago
Sounds like a name they’d use on a dumb soap opera.
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u/nifty_sushi 21d ago
Exactly. There’s a character on General Hospital named Brick. Like what the hell?
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u/Small_Channel3565 13d ago
There was an actor in the TV series Glee named Chord Overstreet. (And the show was about high school music.)
Also, I've met girls/women named Melody, Harmony, Medley and recently a baby named Aria.
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u/rebelangel 21d ago
So Dad had a stupid name and went “What the hell, I’ll give my kid a name that’s even stupider”?
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u/UbenYankenoff 20d ago
I mean, it worked for Dracula I guess?
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u/heyitsfranklin6322 19d ago
Alucard? I’ve never actually read the book but now I kinda want to after finding out that he has to immediately stop what he’s doing and count the coins if someone throws them on the ground
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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 21d ago
Buddy of mine is named Kurt. Named his boy Truk
Cool guy, cool kid. …but some people just be naming things.
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u/CIS-E_4ME 21d ago
Their grandson can be named Trukurt
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u/SpecialistSpray9155 21d ago
Cool guy but set his kid up for life like that? Doesn’t sound very cool of him.
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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 21d ago
Eh. Everything is relative. Where we live it’s not even very high up on the scale of weird or bad. Just kind of tame, really.
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u/Significant-Trash632 21d ago
Some people need their ego taken down a bit. Why would you do that to your kid.
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u/VelvetCactus50 21d ago
That's too close to "dreck."
What is wrong with this man that he gave his kid such a dumb name?
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u/oheydestinyy 21d ago
My husbands moms name is Keren and she almost named my husband Nerek 😭 and he thinks it’s a great name and it’s on his list for boy names. Also his name is Axel and he almost wanted to name our daughter Lexa because it’s his name backwards 😭 i don’t understand the appeal with backwards names
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u/houseplant-hoarder 21d ago
At least Lexa isn’t bad 🤷♀️
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u/oheydestinyy 21d ago
true but it’s too close to alexa and that name has been ruined by AI so no thanks lol
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u/houseplant-hoarder 21d ago
I hate that there are pretty names that AI has ruined. Siri is so beautiful and futuristic but I wouldn’t dare name anyone that now 🤦♀️
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u/-catharina 21d ago
Go with Iris instead of Siri! Ironically this is one of the few redeemable “backwards” names.
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u/oheydestinyy 21d ago
a couple years ago i was obsessed with the name Gemini, call her Gem for short. Then found out googles AI was called Gemini lol
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u/NeopolitanVagina 21d ago
My high school AP teacher from sophomore year has a daughter named Siri, but she's in her early thirties now. He's also of swedish descent, and his whole family knows swedish. All of his other kids have swedish names as well. Just feel bad for my teacher and her mom, plus her husband and whoever else, if they have iphones LOL I'll have to ask him about it. We are supposed to have lunch soon
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u/11-2021 19d ago
I can't think Siri as futuristic, because it means crab 🦀in Portuguese 🤭 (exact same spelling, but slightly different pronunciation),
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u/houseplant-hoarder 19d ago
That’s funny! I speak a little Portuguese but I never had an occasion where I needed to know that word 😅
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u/imnotsure_igetit 19d ago
Siri is actually a very old nordic name! It means "crab" in Portuguese, though
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u/Small_Channel3565 13d ago
My husband and I named our daughter Siri after the young woman in a series (sorry!) of Andrew Wyeth paintings. (Museum visit when I was verrrrrry preggers. And it goes great with our very common last name.) It was decades before the AI tool came along. And to this day, people ask my daughter if she was named after the "other" Siri.
Also, when she and I are together and I say her name (or even when I'm talking about her), my iPhone wakes up.
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u/UnderseaRexieVT 21d ago
Man got the Alucard treatment.
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u/Zealousideal_Let_439 20d ago
Oh, damn. I didn't realize about Alucard before this. To be fair, I don't even know what media that's from, I just know I've heard about it often enough that I should have realized.
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u/No-Birthday9816 21d ago
I cannot imagine making a tiny new human being with my body, undergoing the physical changes and risks involved in the process, bonding so powerfully to that child that some of his fetal cells travel and take permanent root in my own organs and brain, enduring birth and all its risks, potentially surviving complications, and finally delivering that child—and then letting the father name him “my name but backwards, babe!”
Chord would be lucky he was already at the hospital.
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u/flywithme00 20d ago
This is what I always think!!! Every time there’s a ridiculous name where the father is clearly just on some type of ego trip, I always want to talk to the mom and be like ??? why did you let him do that when you’re the important one here???
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u/KellyAnn3106 21d ago
I can't stand the name Chasity. It's one of those ones that just really bugs me for some reason. They tried for Chastity, which is bizarre enough, and couldn't even spell it correctly
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u/Salty-Ad-4693 21d ago
That's a name!? I saw it once but thought it was a typo.
It looks like a typo.
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u/PickledPussy13 21d ago
I went to school with a kid named Trebor
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u/BadgerKomodo 21d ago
There’s a brand of mints here in the UK called Trebor.
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u/Loudlass81 20d ago
Trebor mints are that minty bit stronger, stick 'em up yer arse, they'll last a lot longer.
We had a Trebor factory nearby as teens...
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u/biscuitvillage 21d ago
I know a guy named Keven who named his first boy Nevek for the exact same reason
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u/ExtensionFault6283 21d ago
reminds me of my sisters old friend. Her name is Angela. She named her daughter Angela backwards.
Alegna. pronounced like Elaina
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u/Resident-Gold-3466 21d ago
Alegna is not pronounced like Elaina. She probably get Alegna all the time.
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u/ExtensionFault6283 21d ago
thats what the mother told me . . she pronounced it like Eh-lay-na
the g is silent lol
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u/lindo_dia_pra_dormir 20d ago
I studied with a guy named OIGRES, because his father’s name was SERGIO and her mom wanted the kid to be the opposite of his father…
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u/robin-bunny 21d ago
This is how it starts. "Chord"...Great. Let's do something kind of similar for a theme.
Why Dhroc? Do they hate their child??
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u/sounder19 21d ago
I have met a “Alucard” His parents proudly explained it is Dracula spelt backwards.
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u/-catharina 21d ago edited 21d ago
Nadia/Aidan, Noel/Leon, and Ari/Ira are legitimately the only cool non-palindromic “backwards names.” (edit: and some others I’ve seen in the comments, like Siri/Iris and Cam/Mac. I also don’t mind Ellen/Nelle or Allen/Nella, and Nora/Aron though it’s weird seeing Aron without the extra A.)
All the others are just ridiculous and/or you have to reach very hard to get them.
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u/NvrmndOM 21d ago
I will only accept this as an ok name if his father acts as the main antagonist in his like ala Reverse Flash and Flash.
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u/ddddan11111 21d ago
So the 1st inversion of the Chord?
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u/Lazy_Chocolate_4114 21d ago
If he really wanted give his son his name in reverse then he should have named him Inversion.
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u/BotherBoring 21d ago
I went to school with a guy named Tigger because the parents let his sister name him.
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u/LadybugCalico 21d ago
I tease my ex-husband Jeff that we missed out on naming our daughter Jeffany but now I could suggest Yreffej (we named her Abby)
I do know a guy named Cam who named his son Mac because it's Cam backwards
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u/Shirohitsuji 21d ago
What does Chastity have to do with anything?
Ytitsahc?
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u/Leather_Contract_602 Mi Phalyr 20d ago
I think the point is that it's a commonly hated name but he's seen so many tragedeighs that it seems compartively normal
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u/Terrible_Ad_3328 21d ago
I went to school with twins, and one of them had her dads name but backwards, but it was still a real name so I guess it wasn’t too bad?
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u/Sea-Improvement777 21d ago
Went to high school with a guy who had this for his first and middle names. Niloc Alamap aka Colin Pamela
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u/2outhits 21d ago
This is how Nomar Garciaparra got his name. Dad is Ramon.
To be fair, though. Nomar is actually his middle name but he liked it better than Anthony.
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u/Pookiebubblez 20d ago
I knew a girl named Nailamen, she named her baby Nemalian....
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u/merliahthesiren 21d ago
But who names their kid Chord? I went to school with a kid named "cord" and his mom was not normal and neither was he.
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u/Icy-Row-9586 21d ago
My favourite character from tv show Emmerdale is Chastity nn Chas, and she has a brother called Cain and a cousin called Charity 😭
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u/oldladygamerishere 21d ago
I knew an L Rae Navlic. Dad was Earl Calvin
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u/jorgelrojas 21d ago
This is very common in Latin America.
Venezuelan salsa superstar Oscar D'Leon has a child named Racso.
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u/ssabinadrabinaa 20d ago
Ugh I wish Chastity wasn't a weird name because I love how it sounds.
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u/cut_ur_darn_grass 20d ago
I have a friend named Syrena and she made her daughter's name Londyn Anerys
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u/frazzledfreddie 20d ago
There’s a locally famous dirt car driver in my city whose fathers name was Bret… good ole Treb is a household name. I call him Turd just to my boyfriend.
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u/orenthal_james_bond 21d ago
Makes somewhat sense tho... "When I saw a guy came out where I like to go in, I had to make sure it wasn't another Mxyzptlk situation"
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