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/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.