Am I dooming my future children?

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electric_warrior

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Lyra- fine, quite pretty really
Maes- will have head shoved down toilet

My top choices are Lauren for a girl and Gabriel for a boy (although GAY-briel might not go down too well)
 

neoptolemus

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I have an uncommon name (mainly because it's foreign) and have been on the recieving end of some pretty silly, and some fairly creative insults (the most annoying of which succeeded the release of the film Finding Nemo because my name sounds irritatingly similar to Nemo). It's also frequently mispronounced by people reading it.

Nevertheless you get used to these things and I've always quite liked my name.
 

standokan

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Well, names only matter once, when you meet a person, when you actually get to knew the person, names become trivial.

Also, you and your wife are awesome for naming your son Maes.

edit: also at a younger age it might be a problem but as long as the names don't rhyme with piss or butt you're fine.
 

Zantos

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Children will find something to pick on them for. If it's not the names then they'll just pick up something else about them, vicious bastards.
 

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Foxblade618 said:
Another thread has brought up the issue of parents giving their children easily taunt-able and generally goofy names. My question to you all is this: am I dooming my children to the same fate by giving them uncommon names (Daughter: Lyra; Son: Maes - - yes, my wife and I are super nerds)

Also; any of you giving/or gave your children unique names?


EDIT: Maes is pronounced Mays
I don't think you're dooming your children. Those are some pretty cool and unique names. They can be pronounced by people and would definitely get them a little bit of attention. They might get picked on a little by bullies, but bullies would try to find a way to pick on anyone by attacking their name, regardless of what it is. It's the names that are waaay far off that you would have to worry about, such as Space Cadet or something...

Also, I like the name Lyra. Maes isn't bad in my opinion but it sort of sounds like 'maze' to which people may get confused.
 

SinisterGehe

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Believe or not children will bully your children no matter what their name is. You can't doom your children anymore than you can protect them from being bullied, they will be bullied no matter what you try.
 

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DeadSp8s said:
Your avatar amuses me greatly, just letting you know.

OT: Probably not. Your children will grow to respect and even be proud of the names you gave them, even if they are a bit eccentric. This is, of course, if you teach them the proper notions to be supportive of their given names. So other children will make names. So?

They're just jealous of your offspring's awesome names.
 

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I think Lyra is a beautiful name, go for it.

I'm by no means ready for kids but I want mine to have original names. I'm thinking Isla for a girl's name (that's "eye-lah", not "is-luh").
 

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HumpinHop said:
Probably not. Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda, so Maes isn't horrific by comparison.

I plan to name my son after Deathwing, so in class he can say, "My name is Neltharion and MY HATRED BURNS THROUGH THE CAVERNOUS DEEPS"

I tip my hat to you good sir.
My son will be named either Khan or Krum....... or maybe that's not a good idea, because that will be ridiculed to death. BUT Nicolas Cage has a son named Kal-El, so i don't find it that bad. I guess i'll just name my child Alucard, regardless of gender.
 

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To those with the great hate for Maes as a name, because it's too strange or too eccentric or too hard to pronounce - and there seem to be quite a lot - I see your point, but I disagree. In fact, I believe, now that I've seen some of these posts that most people will simply think he is named after the greatest baseball player in the world (Willie Mayes - the spelling difference probably wont even register). So I claim victory. And yes, it would be awesome if he became a brigadier general like is actual namesake.
 

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Foxblade618 said:
Another thread has brought up the issue of parents giving their children easily taunt-able and generally goofy names. My question to you all is this: am I dooming my children to the same fate by giving them uncommon names (Daughter: Lyra; Son: Maes - - yes, my wife and I are super nerds)

Also; any of you giving/or gave your children unique names?


EDIT: Maes is pronounced Mays
Maes? really?

You do realise he's going to be spelling that to people over the phone for the rest of his life. Not to mention having every other bugger mispronounce it when they're reading it off a list or whatever.
 

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Ever since I played Bioshock, I not only loved the character Sander Cohen, but I also loved his name. I thought it would make a good name. My last name is Jeanson so I sort of pictured naming my son (if I have one, this is hypothetical) Sander Jeanson, or maybe Sander Cohen Jeanson (Cohen as his middle name). Kind of worried that he may be called Colonel Sanders or something, but I think Sander Jeanson doesn't sound terrible. You also gotta worry about initializing, for instance, my initials are DJ, and while that doesn't really cause any problems, you'd be surprised how many people point it out and how un-clever it actually is. SJ or SCJ wouldn't be too bad of initials. I would never name my child with a B letter though, because obviously their initials would be BJ, so you sort of have to think of the initialism as well.

In terms of names, I think as long as you're not trying to be clever and just reference something, if you honestly like the name and it's something that sounds good both as a first name and as a first and last name, then I think it's okay. With Maes, the pronunciation may be an issue, but when I read it I initially assumed it was "Mays", so I don't think it's too bad. Lyra I assumed was "Lie-ruh", but I could almost see people saying "Leer-ruh". As for people teasing them, I think it's harder to tease unconventional names because you don't hear them as often so you don't really have preplanned taunts. You also don't want to taunt them because their name is just so bad ass.

I think back to Seinfeld when George Costanza wanted to name his hypothetical daughter "Seven", and while it's borderline a bad name, if I knew someone named Seven, I wouldn't even want to make fun of it because it's such a different name. I think there's honestly too many Matts and Georges and Stevens, we should think outside the box a little bit. I don't think the origin of the name really matters. Look up your name in the name dictionary, what does it mean? Mine means Lord of the Ocean, and I have a huge fear of large bodies of water, even lakes make me feel unsettled. So, my name is sort of ironic. Does it really matter if you got it from a book series, or an anime, or a video game? It's not like you're going to dress them up like that character and hope they grow up to be that person; you liked the name from something so you chose it. What, I can't name my child Chris just because Chris Redfield is a character from Resident Evil? All of you people who say it is a bad idea to name your child after something you love are ridiculous, unless it's a name that is terrible, like Turd Sandwich because you watch a lot of South Park. If it's a legit name, go for it!

Wow, wall of text. TL;DR: Naming a child after a character from something is perfectly fine, can I name someone Chris even though Chris Redfield is a character? We need more creative names anyways. Think about their initials, you don't want them ending up with the initials "BJ". I think Lyra and Maes are fine names, both can possibly be mispronounced but I think they'll do fine.
 

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Foxblade618 said:
Another thread has brought up the issue of parents giving their children easily taunt-able and generally goofy names. My question to you all is this: am I dooming my children to the same fate by giving them uncommon names (Daughter: Lyra; Son: Maes - - yes, my wife and I are super nerds)

Also; any of you giving/or gave your children unique names?


EDIT: Maes is pronounced Mays
I don't think Lyra is too bad, though I do now know its origin, but I think Maes would be good cannon fodder for kids elementary school kids. Especially with how close it is to "May," a girl name. Plus, as another person pointed out, you need to be absolutely positive you want the origin of your son's name to be a Japanese cartoon character who gets murdered halfway into the first season.

Also, even though I do know of Maes Hughs, when I first read it I pronounced it "Mah-ehs" in my head. And nobody will ever, EVER spell his name correctly. They will always spell it "Mays." Every time. And he'll have you to thank for all the time he has to waste spelling his name out to people, and having documents misspelled. And he will always be that kid whose name the teacher always mispronounces on the first day, so he's got to properly say it for the whole class to hear. Every. Single. Year.
 

Blow_Pop

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well IF I ever have kids(and that's a big IF) I will name my kids something completely geeky......but that's just me. I got teased growing up so naturally my kids should as well...And damn it they WILL learn respect.....