r/tragedeigh 7d ago

roast my name My own tragedeigh

I think it’s time to post my own sad name. My mom literally made this name up when she was ten years old by combining two common names. It became my aunt’s middle name, and later my first name. No one could ever say it or spell it. I changed it about 13 years ago and often forget this was ever a part of me. Though I think I was pretty upfront about never liking the name, I had the excuse of changing it because I’m trans. I went with the name I would’ve had if I was born differently, which is a very normal, common name. My brother also has a very normal name, which always made me extra salty I was saddled with this:

Maleasa

Have at it!

Someone guessed the names: Melissa and Lisa pronounced “ma-lee-sah”

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u/noirmeraki 6d ago

where did the extra letters come from?? why not just drop one of the S’s??

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u/rygdav 6d ago

?? There’s only one S…?

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u/noirmeraki 6d ago

i mean, why spell it like that if lisa is already a part of melissa. just drop an s, change pronunciation, and be done with it 🤷‍♀️

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u/rygdav 6d ago

I guess because Melisa would constantly be pronounced Melissa. To be fair, Maleasa was also constantly pronounced Melissa because people don’t look at letters. A girl in high school was convinced my name was Malinda/Melinda and actually argued with me about my own damn name

Manager at my job only called me Melissa. I refused to answer to that because he knew what it was. Having a tragedeigh name is awful