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u/dove_annarchie 16h ago
My mom's name is Lana, luckily dad took initiative
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 16h ago
They went with your grandmother Naomi instead
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u/dove_annarchie 16h ago
At least it wasnt gammy Esra 😭
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u/APenguinInATuxedo 12h ago
As a Natasha, I have no plans to flip my name around
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u/Ambitious_Cicada9263 9h ago
Well the next time I drop something, I'm saying "ah, Satan." Just for you.
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u/ChefArtorias 13h ago
Plot twist: Dad's name was Sinep.
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u/dafyddil 10h ago
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u/ChefArtorias 10h ago
Sinep is a common name in Estonia?
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u/dafyddil 10h ago
It means mustard lol
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u/ChefArtorias 8h ago
Oh. Maybe don't name your children that because it's penis backwards in English, jsyk.
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u/dehydratedrain 16h ago
He clearly didn't take initiative if you were conceived... (sorry. Couldn't resist).
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u/quellesaveurorawnge 16h 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 15h 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/Gribitz37 9h 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 4h 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 8h ago
I actually think Nevaeh is a pretty name, but it comes from an objectively stupid source.
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u/Realistic_Farm_5963 8h 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 8h 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/-LibertyBelle- 2h 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/CakePhool 16h ago
In Sweden there is an Artist named Mikael, he named his daughter Leakim..
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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 15h 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 15h ago
Their grandson can be named Trukurt
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u/SpecialistSpray9155 10h 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 8h 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 8h ago
Some people need their ego taken down a bit. Why would you do that to your kid.
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u/Constant_Cultural 16h ago
Chord is alreay a stupid ass name as it is
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u/CantStandIdoits 9h ago
I was almost named Cord
Like extension cord, umbilical cord, HDMI cord, you get the idea
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u/TheSpitalian 9h ago
Sounds like a name they’d use on a dumb soap opera.
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u/nifty_sushi 5h ago
Exactly. There’s a character on General Hospital named Brick. Like what the hell?
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u/rebelangel 15h 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/VelvetCactus50 16h 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 14h 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 14h ago
At least Lexa isn’t bad 🤷♀️
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u/oheydestinyy 14h 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 14h 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 7h ago
Go with Iris instead of Siri! Ironically this is one of the few redeemable “backwards” names.
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u/oheydestinyy 14h 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 10h 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/biscuitvillage 15h ago
I know a guy named Keven who named his first boy Nevek for the exact same reason
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u/PickledPussy13 14h ago
I went to school with a kid named Trebor
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u/BadgerKomodo 8h ago
There’s a brand of mints here in the UK called Trebor.
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u/Loudlass81 3h 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/No-Birthday9816 12h 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 37m 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 13h 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 10h 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/robin-bunny 13h 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/ExtensionFault6283 12h 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 11h ago
Alegna is not pronounced like Elaina. She probably get Alegna all the time.
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u/ExtensionFault6283 11h ago
thats what the mother told me . . she pronounced it like Eh-lay-na
the g is silent lol
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u/NvrmndOM 16h 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 14h ago
So the 1st inversion of the Chord?
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u/Lazy_Chocolate_4114 14h ago
If he really wanted give his son his name in reverse then he should have named him Inversion.
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u/-catharina 7h ago edited 7h 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/LadybugCalico 10h 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/Gribitz37 9h ago
I know two girls named Semaj. Dad's name was James. 🙄
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u/BotherBoring 4h ago
TWO???
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u/Gribitz37 3h ago
One is mid-30s, the other is maybe 10-11. I guess I should have said a woman and a kid.
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u/Terrible_Ad_3328 13h 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/sounder19 8h ago
I have met a “Alucard” His parents proudly explained it is Dracula spelt backwards.
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u/Icy-Row-9586 14h 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/witchspoon 10h ago
Someone I know distantly had a mom named Caroll she named her son Llorac.
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u/-catharina 7h ago
Carroll is a male name on its own… just ridiculous.
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u/witchspoon 6h ago
I THINK her spelling was due to it being a family name…and she didn’t want her son to have her same name…but yeah name him something real.
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u/2outhits 7h 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/oldladygamerishere 13h ago
I knew an L Rae Navlic. Dad was Earl Calvin
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u/Sea-Improvement777 7h 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/merliahthesiren 11h 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/orenthal_james_bond 10h 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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u/jorgelrojas 9h ago
This is very common in Latin America.
Venezuelan salsa superstar Oscar D'Leon has a child named Racso.
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u/BotherBoring 4h ago
I went to school with a guy named Tigger because the parents let his sister name him.
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