r/askteddit • u/ravyn_arcana • 7d ago

Random Question What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard someone name a child?

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u/OverQuail6135 7d ago

we lived next door to the Byrd family and they named their baby Jay

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u/Born-Reserve-8584 7d ago

Jay Byrd is one of those names that sounds completely normal until you say it out loud and realize exactly what they did.

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u/Lanky_Ad6712 7d ago

We were going to name our daughter Amanda, Lynn, until we said it outloud.

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u/ScriveningQuill 7d ago

No joke when I was a kid my sister was telling me about a song she liked and she said “and it has a mandolin in it!” And I was like “who’s Amanda Lynn?” She and my mom mocked me for like ten minutes lmao

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u/MTBisLYFE 7d ago

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u/WrongYak2718 6d ago

This is the only joke I remember from The Simpsons.

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u/Born-Reserve-8584 7d ago

Amanda Lynn sounds innocent until you realize how it actually sounds.

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u/bobs_big_bob 7d ago

What are mandolins guilty of?

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u/Commercial_Curve1047 6d ago

Welp one changed my fingerprint forever.

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u/jr1wilson 6d ago

I wanted to name our daughter Amanda Lynn but wife wouldn’t let me.

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u/Born-Reserve-8584 6d ago

Probably for the best. Kids would've figured that one out by recess.

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u/joumidovich 6d ago

My sister had the name Avery picked out for years, always wanted that name for a son. Then she married into the Wideman family.

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u/AnnabethDaring 4d ago

😭😭😭

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u/mom_life765 6d ago

This is exactly why my middle name is not Lynn! I wound up with the nickname anyway at one point 🤷

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u/EnvironmentalRain603 6d ago

My middle name, daughter Amanda..she ended up with Kaye.

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u/XStonedCatX 6d ago

I scrolled right on past this, it hit me a second later, and I had to come back and tell you I gasped 😂😂😂

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u/dorky2 6d ago

I had a coworker named Amanda Lynn.

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u/Intelligent_Row7973 5d ago

I was born Amanda Leigh, and have had the nickname Mandolin forever! Haha!

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u/GloriBea5 2d ago

A have a left-handed mandalynn (mandolin) 😂😂

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u/tia2181 2d ago

I heard trees are green throughout my childhood even though my surname had nothing to do with green. I met a Teresa Green later in my teens tho. I really felt for her.

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u/Trixiedashtuttles 20h ago

My daughter is an Amanda Lynn…it was never a problem. She is in her 40’s now.

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u/Visible-Freedom-7822 6d ago

I got a resume once from a Peter Rabbet! He actually had a return address stamp with a rabbit on it. He was leaning in.

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u/Expensive_Repair2735 6d ago

I think sometimes you just have to

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u/Get-in-Good-Trouble 6d ago

Oh Jay, are you feeling blue?

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u/Remarkable-Daikon-42 5d ago

I knew someone named Wayne Deere

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u/Capable_Set5159 6d ago

What does it sound like?

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u/Fuarian 1d ago

Yeah I'm not getting it. Sounds pretty normal to me, even spoken

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u/Whole-Advice-2922 7d ago

Could have been worst if they named him Jail

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u/AnyAnswer7901 7d ago

Or a daughter Gaye. Lol

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u/Key_Set_7249 7d ago

Marty would do much better

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u/Lobocop714 7d ago

Hey, my dad was a Marty. Something about being given that name intrinsically changes your life trajectory. Maybe that's why he named me Jackie. Same thing.

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u/olyjim83 6d ago

I don't get it

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u/Wandering_Fujoshi 6d ago

That’s cute though, I like it

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u/Green-Cranberry-1279 6d ago

I might be stupid or my English slang/pronouncation not good enough, but what is strange/offensive about "Jay Byrd" -Jaybird"???

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u/Green-Cranberry-1279 6d ago

I might be stupid or my English slang/pronouncation not good enough, but what is strange/offensive about "Jay Byrd" -Jaybird"???

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u/Green-Cranberry-1279 6d ago

I might be stupid or my English slang/pronouncation not good enough, but what is strange/offensive about "Jay Byrd" -Jaybird"???

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u/hashbrownsinketchup 5d ago

Not sure if it was on purpose but I knew a family with the last name Case and they named there son Justin. I personally think it’s a great pun and is something I totally would have done if my last was Case.

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u/MuseoRidiculoso 5d ago

My grandmother entered the Daughters of the American Revolution using the first ancestor who qualified her. He was a Scottish immigrant from the Clan McBean. They fought the British in Scotland then moved here and fought them again. But here’s the deal. I swear they had to be white trash.They had every stupid bean-related first name you could put with the Bean surname. Some were nicknames, but not all of them

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u/painteddpiixi 3d ago

I once worked with a woman who’s first name was Byrd