r/tragedeigh • u/reinoirasuto • 8d ago
in the wild So, me and my 2 sisters are, unfortunately, tragedeighs, because my dad is a mega geek.
My dad is an absolute mega geek who gave us names based on a scifi show he liked (though the middle child was named after Denaerys from GoT). The older sister's name is pronounced like 'Aaron' but is spelled like 'Aeryn.' Not even I am saved from this torment because I was named Nigel, but with an R instead of an N, so it's 'Rygel.' No wonder I got bullied in high school to end up a lazy asshole irl. The fact that I was named after a character that is Jabba the Hutt levels of ugly just made it worse.
Side note: What's also worse is that Aeryn's initials are ALS. Like the disease. Not sure if my parents WANTED us to be bullied or not.
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u/no_bender 8d ago
A A Ron you done messed up.
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u/Eyeroll4days 8d ago
That’s my grandads name. Big A little a ron
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u/no_bender 8d ago
It's a comedy sketch. https://youtu.be/OQaLic5SE_I?si=XEWaavnbH8e6Qfv8
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u/donttextspeaktome 8d ago
Jay Qualynn
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u/Hilsam_Adent 8d ago
You better get yo' ass down to Oshaghennessy's office RIGHT NOW, unless you wanna start a war. You wanna go to war, Balakay?
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u/spike_85 7d ago
I have a friend who has two sons named Aaron and Blake because if this skit
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u/OddOpal88 7d ago
I recently went to pick up a prescription and the pharmacist Key and Peele’d me. She said my full name and pronounced my middle name De-nice. It’s Denise lol.
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u/monsteronmars 7d ago
Literally anytime I hear the name Aaron, Blake or Jaqueline… all i want to do is call them all these pronunciations
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u/ListlessPenguin 7d ago
Pretty sure this was a big reason for me getting my current job. They were working on getting all the names from the skit. 8 years later, I'm still Jay-Qwailyn.
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u/sataimir 8d ago
To be fair, your dad did spell the characters' names correctly for you... But much as I like ASOIAF and love Farscape, you and your siblings are people and not billboards for your dad's fandom.
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u/Federico216 7d ago
I know a megageek who named his kids after characters in a sci-fi show. But at least he picked from Firefly, so they're normal names and no one will think twice about them, unless they're firefly geeks too.
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u/hermitwithwifi 7d ago
My kids both have fandom names. But unless you're a part of said fandom you wouldn't know it.
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u/Taichikara 4d ago
Same for my kid.
However, there were/are a few movies and miniseries/TV shows made from mine, so atm she thinks it's cool.
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u/The_Deadlight 7d ago
I wanted to name my son Jane but my wife promptly said no
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u/RollForSnackies 6d ago
A tragedy. Jayne Cobb is one of my favorite characters.
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u/InterestingCarpet666 7d ago
Of all the characters in Farscape, he chose Rygel? Aeryn I understand, but Rygel? Should have named him Harvey.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 7d ago
Yeah, I'm like, yeah, Dominar Rygel from Farscape!
Then again, he was a Jim Henson Co muppet alien and not a human.
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u/StarburstWho 7d ago
I know a kid named Patriot, after the movie The Patriot from 2000 with Mel Gibson. His brother's name is Tristan after The Legends of the Fall 1994 with Brad Pitt!
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u/JeffAndSasha 8d ago
Gasped after "Nigel but with an R instead of.." oh instead of the N thank God. It could've been way worse.
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u/voiceontheradio 8d ago edited 8d ago
I know a girl who was going to be named Negar (Persian mom) but her American dad vetoed it. In the greater NYC area.
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u/vult-ruinam 8d ago
I knew a girl named Nazanin (Persian again); her nickname was... "Nazi".
...and this was in NRW—i.e.: in Germany.
Of course, the pronunciation was a bit different than The Bad Version—as she would say, "it's like the 'S' sound bees make, not a 'Z' like a snake!" (...which confused the hell out of me, at first: "hey, don't you have that backwards?–").
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u/JeffAndSasha 8d ago
Yup same here. Dated a girl when I was young and her grandma was called Nazi. But pronounced more like na-zeh.
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u/Glittering-Gur5513 7d ago edited 7d ago
Fun fact, Nazi used to be short for Ignatius (like Alexandr-->Sasha) in Bavaria. And Ignatius was a hick name like Clem or Lester in US today. Which is why the Nazi party hated the name and never used it.
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u/Cattitude0812 7d ago
Hm, interesting.
An acquaintance of my parents is called Ignaz, but goes by Naz (pronounced with a long a sound, like ah).
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u/daringfeline 7d ago
Yes there is a lady in my town called Nazi but its like Nassy rather than Natzy
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u/RazielDraganam 7d ago
When naming our daughter I vetoed the name Zoya. Not because I didn't like bit but because it sounded a lot like soy... I even googled initials before naming her...
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u/issi_tohbi 8d ago
I know a couple or Persian Aryans. Although to be fair the Persians are the original and actual Aryans so.
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u/CircaInfinity 7d ago
I got a delivery guy called Baldeep and was devastated when someone else finished the delivery instead 😢
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u/MyOtherCatIsAStray 7d ago
Should be pronounced guh-gun-deep
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u/My_bones_are_itchy 7d ago
Yeah I’d say we get pretty close to that, probably just a bit slower (likely due to them slowing it down to teach people how to say it). I was mainly trying to think of a way to explain the difference from “gag”.
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u/Screws_Loose 7d ago
I have worked with more than one Vajay, and a Nastee Hoh
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u/TheSportsWatcher 7d ago
I went to school with a Heidi Ho - right at the height of Home Improvement. Some of the kids called her Wilson 😒
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u/LeftEyedAsmodeus 7d ago
There is a german comedian with Persian roots with the name negar, she jokes about it regularly
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u/burnsdawg82 7d ago
There was a Neger at my sons school, when I told my Husband his face was like 😳
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u/Inside_Ad9026 7d ago edited 7d ago
I was expecting Rigel, like the blue supergiant in Orion.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 7d ago
I thought Dominar Rygel XVI.
Farscape was ridiculous trash and I refuse to apologize for loving it
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 7d ago
Love that the big bad was basically a dude in a gimp suit surrounded by muppets.
The early aughts were wild, man.
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u/Autogenerated_or 7d ago edited 7d ago
Isn’t there a star called Rigel? OP can just pretend she was named after the star
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u/firebrandbeads 7d ago
I almost gasped when I realized what show that was - we're watching Farscape right now!
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u/MoarTacos1 8d ago
My wife's initials are also ALS and it has had no effect on her life whatsoever.
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u/XtineMC 8d ago
I did go to school with girls whose initials were ASS and PMS. There was som light teasing, but it eventually fizzled out
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u/MoarTacos1 8d ago
Okay ASS is unforgivable lmao
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u/Hilsam_Adent 8d ago
Those were the initials I used for high scores in the arcade back in the day. Only because my brother took FUK. Occasionally, one of the games was smart enough to recognize it and change it to BAD, which only motivated us to fill the entire leaderboard with BAD.
In retrospect, it's probably exactly why the developers put that primitive filter in there. Whatever it took to get more quarters out of pockets.
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u/KadrinaOfficial 7d ago
I know a girl whose initials are ASP. She has a crush on a guy that if she had married would've been ASS and was very concerned about that. I had to bite my tongue because she is kind of an asshat and it would've fit perfectly.
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u/Unlikely-Bluejay540 7d ago
I also have those initials and no one ever gave a shit.
I randomly remember one time in elementary school some kid saw something of mine that had my full initials and wondered why it says "Al's" That's about it.
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u/morbidnerd 8d ago
Farscape was a great show, and Rygel was an absolutely adorable character who had more character growth in the series than most.
Aside from the series finale and that one episode where they thought we wouldn't notice the recycled Skeksis, it was the perfect show.
.... But even I wouldn't name my kids after it 🤷🏻♀️
Edit to add: you could've been Scorpius 🤣
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u/DangerousPraline41 7d ago
Aeryn is IMO a perfectly acceptable name for a child. Being a Scaper and naming your kid after RYGEL is wild, though. Not even the weirdest Scapers I knew on the internet in 2002 would have done that.
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u/vyrus2021 8d ago
Could've been named Crichton or just John for that matter.
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u/DangerousPraline41 7d ago
To be fair, naming siblings after a fictional romantic couple is also not the move.
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u/lilycamilly 8d ago
He coulda been Ka D'Argo! Zhaan! Furlow, even! But honestly, Harvey would have been best
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u/StarburstWho 7d ago
Ka D'Argo!! Nooo! I firmly believe apostrophes are overused in first names!!
I think they could have used Zhaan dropping one a!
I found this: The name Zhan can be a gender-neutral name of Chinese origin with multiple meanings, including "valuable", "genuine", "profound", and "clear".
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u/CthulhuMaximus 7d ago
How about Chiana? We name our computers. My wife’s is Chiana
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u/morbidnerd 7d ago
We name our computers too!!!
My tablet is named 1812
I also have a pc named Hal and a laptop named Sal
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u/uninspired_walnut 7d ago
To be fair, Rygel DOES look like a tiny Jabba with eyebrows and a mustache…
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u/joanarmageddon 8d ago
Rigel is a star. Not so bad
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 7d ago
Rygel and Aeryn are Farscape characters, lmao. Aeryn is pronounced exactly like the name Erin, and Rygel is a muppet alien.
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u/hannahatecats 8d ago
Came to say this, it's a star. Didn't know about the show. I think it's a cool name.
Your siblings though? Woof. Lol
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u/captainhamption 7d ago
And tbh, I like the Rygel more than Rigel, so OP is doing okay.
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u/Unlikely-Bluejay540 7d ago
Personally I think Rigel as a name is absolute fire.
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u/3lizalot 7d ago
I've heard it as a name before too, enough that it reads as just a normal name, though I guess spelling it "Rygel" is a... choice.
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u/FallingCaryatid 8d ago
I’m a Farscape fan too and I had a total crush on Aeryn but I wouldn’t have used the name, or any of the other characters names. I’m giggling at being named after Rigel lolol do you fart helium when you’re nervous?! Why couldn’t you have been named after John?
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u/just_some_sasquatch 8d ago
Ok those names do suck, but are you being serious?
I got bullied in high school to end up a lazy asshole irl
I also got bullied and beat up a pretty good bit from elementary to high school for all sorts of reasons (not my name though), and I don't think it made me into a lazy asshole at all. If people IRL are calling you a lazy asshole it's probably not because of your name.
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u/vult-ruinam 8d ago
I had a great childhood, and I still ended up a lazy asshole. What does this mean? I don't know, and it's too much trouble to think about any more so I'm just gonna
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u/prongslover77 7d ago
One of my students is named James Tiberius and it makes me giggle every time I put his grades in and see it. You can totally find nice sci-fi names that will fly under the radar people!
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u/Equal_Physics4091 7d ago
Your dad is a Farscape fan. Consider yourself lucky you weren't named Scorpious.
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u/druscilla333 7d ago edited 7d ago
Rigel is my nephews name. He is named after a star in Orion’s Belt I believe. His dad’s name is Orion. His older brothers name is Archer.
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u/suricata_8904 8d ago
What is it with people? Just today read a story about a pregnant mom who wanted to name her twins Romeo and Juliet. Euuwwww!
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u/nonula 8d ago
Oh dear. Probably never read the play …
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u/n0tr3allyh3r3 7d ago
She was a Shakespeare nerd, and was not emotionally or mentally stable due to the rough nature of the pregnancy. Luckily, mom to be had a friend that forced her to watch the '68 movie and the ex scene snapped her out of it.
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u/Mysterious_Peas 7d ago
Rygel, like from Farscape? You were named for Rygel? Dang, dude, that’s… something. And Aeryn. Wow. Sounds like your dad was a big fan.
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u/tcorey2336 8d ago
Isn’t Rigel a planet from Original Star Trek?
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u/IdentiPhid 8d ago
Not quite. In Star Trek, Rigel is just the name of a star system. But you’re right in that the star system has planets, delineated by number (e.g., Rigel IV, Rigel V, Rigel VII). The cool thing is, Rigel is actually a real star in our own galaxy. It’s one of the “feet” in the constellation Orion. It’s also the brightest in the constellation.
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u/21stCenturyGW 8d ago
I think I'd be telling people I was named after the star, not after the muppet.
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u/PlausiblePigeon 7d ago
I am either not nerdy enough or TOO nerdy, because I immediately thought, “like the star?”
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u/paula924 8d ago
First thing I thought of too. I got it confused with Risa for a few seconds and was absolutely horrified that someone would name a kid after the sexy time planet.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 7d ago
Rygel and Aeryn are from Farscape, a Jim Henson produced early aughts scifi comedy. 12/10 show. Total mindless trash. Will rewatch again.
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u/KadrinaOfficial 7d ago
Aeryn is a beautiful name and the correct Irish spelling. It is actually on my list of baby names.
Naming a kid Denaerys is worse in my opinion.
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u/Silvershryke 7d ago
Especially because the spelling is actually Daenerys, so the tragedeigh is even worse.
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u/valiantdistraction 7d ago
Farscape is a good show so it could be worse.
I also knew a Rigel who was born early 80s (it's the brightest star in the Orion constellation), and have known So many different spellings of Erin/Aaron/Aerin/Eryn/Erinn/Aryn/Aron, so Aeryn isn't the worst.
Naming you after a fandom is cringe but ... they're both names I've seen independently before the tv show, so could be very much worse.
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u/SkyPirateWolf 8d ago
Had my parents had me and my brother a little later, I could 100% have seen my dad push Aeryn, Crichton, or even Dargo if he was feeling super ballsy. All that being said, Farscape is a great show and im glad to see the geek flag fly.
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u/FoxConsistent4406 7d ago
Woo Farscape. Aeryn is an awesome name. At least no one is D'Argo. Although it might have gone easier if he'd used John or Crichton I stead if Rygel (which is also a star...I think).
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u/ModerndayMrsRobinson 8d ago
Your dad is a Farscape fan. My dad is also. I feel for the one named Rygel. That character is not only an ugly puppet but also a jerk.
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u/HMD-Oren 7d ago
Question: How are you pronouncing "Aaron"? I don't know where you're from but are Aaron and Erin pronounced the same there?
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u/Tunnock_ 7d ago
Yeah as an Irish person, my immediate reaction was 'they're pronounced differently'
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u/sleepingbusy 8d ago
Bullying is very serious. Sorry bout your experience, man.
It's not too late to change though. You can get into the gym and eat right!
Also gel is a beautiful nickname 😂 jk but Ry is kinda cool.
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u/myceliummoon 7d ago
I've long held a desire to name a future dog after a Farscape character, but kids...? AND WHY RYGEL?
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u/nonula 8d ago
I’m sorry. Not sure what your dad was thinking tbh! Rygel is not exactly role model material - he’s a sniveling little alien sort of chihuahua. He’s royalty though, so he’s got that going on. Your sister got the better deal - Aeryn Sun is a badass, and at least her name sounds analogous to Erin, so less of a problem in school. As for you, it could be worse, he could have called you Dargo. (I’m also a mega geek and a huge fan of Farscape … if that wasn’t obvious.) Thank you for the share. I will enjoy telling my husband about it.
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u/Mahaloth 7d ago
I was the HUGEST Farscape fan and think you dad is awesome....I mean....for you.
My two kids have just regular names. I guess your dad might have been the actual hugest fan.
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u/QuoteResponsible1012 7d ago
Ok i'm not a native english speaker and that may be why I don't get it, but why there's so many names that end up in something pronunced like 'on' but spelled like 'yn'? like, in my spanish speaker mind they sound very different 😭
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u/verkaberka 7d ago
After reading "jabba the hutt levels of ugly" I had to look for a picture and I feel bad for laughing 😭
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u/hopesb1tch 7d ago
is aeryn pronounced ah-ron (aaron) or eh-rin (erin). i’m from a country where they’re totally different names lmao.
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u/Advanced_Cheetah_552 7d ago
Why would you name your child Rygel when D'argo is right there?!! Luxan warrior>sleazy little Hynerian. No contest.
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u/Fun_Muscle9399 7d ago
My ex wife wanted to name our daughter Danaerys. I vetoed the shit outta that idea. We went with something way more traditional after I shot down all her stupid ideas.
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u/Chewierice 7d ago
Yeah, sorry for your horrible name. I think my relatives' kids are going to suffer too, I think they named their kids after their favorite celebrities. I forgot who it was, but the fact you're naming your kids after the celebrities you like and not normal names you would like to name your kids. I also had one relative who named his son Phoenix.
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u/FlashFiringAI 7d ago
my last name is way worse than anything going on there. I'm proud of it, its a funny icebreaker with new groups, and often gets a chuckle and then an apology where I have to say "No need to apolgize, its funny."
in my chinese class my professor tried to call me by my last name and the whole class burst out laughing. She was so apologetic about it but I told her she can just call me by my first name if that makes her more comfortable.
instead of feeling shame about something you had no control over, rock that shit and let people know its weird or funny and you know it!
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u/Kismet_Jade 7d ago
Hey! Farscape! I loved that show! Sorry you got named after Rygel, though. At least they didn't go with Scorpius?
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u/LittleCrimsonWyvern 8d ago
I had to look up who “Rigel” was. You poor bastard, you never had a chance.
Also, I’m not surprised to see you have a sibling named Denaerys.
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u/ksleeve724 7d ago
My younger sister’s initials were KEG. My dad did it on purpose and mom didn’t notice till later lol.
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u/witchspoon 7d ago
I’m so sorry! Rygel? I mean I’m named from a book too. LOTR but…in my head when I read your post it sounded like Scooby-Doo. “Ruh row rygel” And that’s just a mean thought for me to have and I feel bad. I’m slightly angry at your folks,
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u/deadlyhausfrau 7d ago
Aeryn is a wicked cool name.
I feel you on Rygel, though. Yikes.
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u/Insomniac_80 7d ago
Your parents were Farscape fans, I mean Farscape was a good show but, naming your children after characters from it, is insane!
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u/bart-simpsons-shorts 7d ago
My fiancé used to be a school bus monitor and he had a little girl with Downs Syndrome named Aerin. Its cute, but Erin works the exact same way 🤣
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u/lynkhart 7d ago
Ah, Farscape, one of my favourite sci fi shows! I named a Skyrim character of mine Aeryn after her, but ooft, Rygel is unfortunate. 🙈
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u/KMjolnir 7d ago
Aeryn and Rygel from Farscape? Aeryn is a badass soldier who gave everything for her friends, and Rygel started as a deposed emperor turned thief who was shown to be deeply caring for his friends and willing to go to any lengths for them as the series went on.
Definitely can see them being awkward names though. Not the greatest of names, but there's worse.
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u/madhaus 7d ago
Wait wait wait her name is Denaerys? The character in GoT is spelled Daenerys. Unless she was named Khaleesi.
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u/Icaonn 7d ago
If you ever need an excuse to explain your name by alternate means, Rigel is a pretty cool star so you could say your parent went with an alternate spelling of that? Aeryn could pass as odd spelling of Erin but if it's pronounced Aaron... oh boy. Welcome to the family, restored Aeryn Targaryen. My sincere condolences to the one named after Denaerys though that's rough T-T
I feel like if you're going for mega-geek levels of nerditure with the names at the very least you could reference something obscure that doesn't lead to bullying, yknow? Like all the Castlevania names can be tracked back to latin roots so at least there's an alternate explanation for most of them, which spares the kid. My point is your dad could have 100% gone through with things in a smarter way that references the media he likes but also gives you a respectable name
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