[ SECRET POST #5822 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5822 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I think fannish parents are far better off putting fannish names as a middle name. Then the kid can disavow it if they want to or embrace it if they want to, but no one else really has to know.

[(Anonymous)]

That’s smart. I kind of forget that middle names are a thing in many places.

[hey_hey_hey]

What if their full name is something like Aerith Strife Smith or some shit?

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I know three people who named their kid Jean-Luc and those kids are in their thirties now and seem well adjusted.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooof, frustrating from a HIPAA perspective. Like, there’s really no way to anonymously vent about someone’s name.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure there is. Say they saw it in birth announcements or on Facebook

[(Anonymous)]

I always feel bad for the parents who coincidentally give pop culture names to their children. 'Elsa' is apparently a common one - I've met not one but two families that had to deal with the fallout of having grandmothers and in turn granddaughters with that name. On a related note as far as unfortunate names go, I also knew a Donald Trump who had to legally changed his name a few years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

I know a Richard Nixon who would have been born around 1965, but his parents didn't change it later!

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Germany. I know an Adolf (old friend of my parents, the name hasn't been allowed here anymore for obvious reasons for a long time). He went by a very, very different name for most of his life.

[hey_hey_hey]

You weren't one of the nurses in that "ick" TikTok, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry, I think we can all guess you've seen your share of Khaleesi names.

[(Anonymous)]

People's names are public information though? That's how they compile the most popular baby names? You can download the top 1,000 names and can request all the names.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

[(Anonymous)]

right? like...do they still post birth notices in whatever passes for a newspaper these days? it becomes public rather quickly. not sure HIPAA would apply...

[(Anonymous)]

but... that page specifically says: "To safeguard privacy, we exclude from these files certain names that would indicate, or would allow the ability to determine, names with fewer than 5 occurrences in any geographic area."

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? I find it much more depressing to go to school and university and work and everywhere else and meet a zillion people whose names are so ordinary that I all but have to take pictures of them and attach notes so that I can remember what completely generic boy-name or girl-name this particular one happens to have.

It especially sucks when a name was so popular that you've got five men or women in the same whatever and they wind up with nicknames and name variations because otherwise we'd all waste a lot of time on "right, so-and-so, but which one?" That's not better for people's self-esteem than having a really uncommon name.

So, I love it when I meet people who are legit named things like Ambrose and Anastasia and Sephiroth and - bless - Lucius. I'm sure there are a lot of things I would hate about your job, but I think knowing about more fandom names would not be among them.

(I'm less enthused with the older practice of giving little girls more whimsical but at the same time more frivolous names than boys ... things like Brandy and Candy and Savannah.)

Also, there are a lot of fandom names that people don't conclusively register as fandom names, because they're also common names. Those don't do me any good, because I don't care WHY their parents named them Luke, or Thomas, or William. But it seems rather unfair that the vitriol is saved for the ones that don't have a recent history of real-world people who bore their name before they did.

All of that said, I think employer's notions that it's okay to threaten their employees with dire consequences for not keeping what they see and hear on the job a complete secret is bullshit. You should be able to go home and vent. You should be able to come here and go into enough detail that I'm not having to guess at what you mean.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t care what people name their kids as long as they use the standard spelling. FOH with that Destinnee and Jaxxsin shit.

[scissorsevered]

I think fannish names are pretty cool as long as they aren't super outlandish to the point where it would cause shit for the child. I remember this story about a guy and his wife who named their son Arthur after the character from Red Dead Redemption.

I'm laughing a little just imagining.

[(Anonymous)]

"There was an Alicent today, but at least it's not another Rhaenyra."
"Groot, seriously, they named the kid Groot."
"That makes six Elevens, do you think I should do something special if I'm there for five more?"
"Well, if you're going to name someone after an Elf, Arondir is a lot better than some."
"FFS, why would you even think about Grogu?"

[(Anonymous)]

I had a kiddo named Clark in class and I'm pretty sure his middle name was Kent. That kind of thing is cute imho, and easy for the kid to ignore if they aren't a fan. Naming your kid something like Mxyzptlk is just mean.

[(Anonymous)]

My last major job had myself and another coworker who were nerds. She one day left a printout on my desk of a cover sheet with a client's name on it - "Duncan MacLeod" - with the words "There can be only one!" written on it.

[larathia]

Working in a library causes much the same "my gods, if your kids murder you for naming them that later on, I would absolutely acquit them".

Some dipshit in my town named their poor daughter Catti-brie. From the mother fucking DRIZZT novels. I mean bad enough a fandom name, but such...horrible books on top of it. Like, that poor girl is going to know every goddamn marty-stu-wannabe fanboy she meets FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE just by how they react to hearing her name.

[greghousesgf]

It's just as well I never wanted kids. All my fandoms have really inappropriate names associated with them. I wouldn't call a kid Ringo, or House, or Gollum, or Beavis....

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a teacher and I've had some kids with relatively common names spelled in unique ways (sometimes with no vowels), but I've never had a student with an obvious fannish name. I once had three Isabellas and wondered if the parents were Twilight fans, but there's no way to really know.

[(Anonymous)]

My surname is Summerfield, and I have no regrets about naming our daughter Bernice-Surprise. She seems fine with it.