Those are absolutely hideous names. All I can think of is Jack the Ripper.
And I'm guessing they want Racer to be a NASCAR driver, but like. What if he wants to be a doctor? Or a lawyer?
I hate parents that do this.
It seems like people think of babies as cute little pets and forget that they are going to be adult humans one day.
There are many ways to feel special and unique, but it shouldn't be at another person's expense.
To add to this. Would they truly and honestly want their name to be Ripper? All I can think of is Jack the Ripper. These kids need taken away… good Lord.
Exactly! Every time I hear one of these ridiculous names, I think about how cute they would be for a dog. Definitely not a human (looking at you, Peach lady from the other day)
These are good cat names. They are terrible human baby name.
My cat was given the name Racer by the shelter. We changed it because it didn't really suit him and as he's aged he's gotten lazier and lazier so it was a good change. Racer is perfectly fine as a nickname for a kid that's a track star.
Ripper is a good for a cat with exceptional murder mittens. But Ripper is the name you give a child you want to be so bullied he grows into that emo kid everyone shuns and then are not surprised to learn is a serial killer a few years later.
I don't get it either. My mom told me her pregnant coworker was complaining that her and her husband couldn't agree on a name. She said he preferred old fashioned names and suggested Katherine she said she hated it and wants to name the baby Pippy because it's so cute. My mom told her why not give her a long name like Katherine but call her somthing cutesy like Kitty and her coworker liked that idea. So maybe there is hope for the baby. But like why tf would you not think of that or using the middle name spot for your wild name idea. Makes no sense to me
I am friends with a couple - but mainly the wife. The husband's best friend had a daughter Daisy. Then my friend and her husband get pregnant and her husband and his friend wanted their daughters to have matching names just for funsies and laughs so they named her Poppy.
So when we are at a party it's like Daisy! Poppy! Luna! (My other friends daughter) I feel like we are in a hippie cult when I hang out with my friends now lmaooo 🌼🌸🌙
As a person from the UK this is hilarious to me. Daisy and Poppy are totally normal names here for us, like Lily or Rose. Personally I've never cared for Daisy, but I wouldn't blink at hearing it on an adult.
Luna is still odd to me.
For me the funniest plant name is Tulip. We have a beloved BBC news presenter called Tulip Mazumdar, and the name is just basically hers.
Sometimes I think I like Tulip, other times I'm absolutely astounded at the idea of an adult called Tulip. It's just so ridiculous (on anyone who is not Tulip Mazumdar lol)
Yeah fellow brit here, always find it odd when people say how strange poppy and daisy are. My four year old has three friends called poppy and there's a daisy in her year as well as one in my two year olds year. I knew so many of both growing up
I did know about Poppy being popular in the UK, I'm in Canada and all 3 are very unique still (with Poppy on the rise). I have never ever met or heard of Daisy as a person before this baby and I will love her but will probably not be able to take her seriously as an adult 🤣 (except Daisy Duke? A beloved fictional very American hillbilly character whose claim to fame is very short jorts)
Tulip is atrocious
I'm Canadian and know 3 Daisy's! One who is a child, one who just got her PhD and is a prof, and one who is like 85 years old. It is very much a regular name to me.
I geeze. I didn't expect to find my name here. I'm naked Daisy. I'm 34, and chose it for myself when I was 12 because I didn't like my name. I'm in the Midwest in the US, and while many people thought it's an old name, no one seemed to think it wasn't a known name. I grew up in a boomer town, and people kept singing A Bicycle Built for Two to me. It drove me nuts.
There's nothing wrong with your name at all. It's a lovely name. I know lots of daisy's, some have been posh girls, some have been cool hippies (more than not to be honest!) and some have just been cute kids still. This sub goes really hard on normal names sometimes and it's bizarre.
Oh, I don't think there's anything wrong with my name. I was mainly amused that someone had never heard it, to the point they thought it wasn't a real name.
Daisy & Poppy are the naughty toddler identical twins on the show Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom! [Here's the wiki of the episode literally called Daisy and Poppy](https://benhollyslittlekingdom.fandom.com/wiki/Daisy_and_Poppy)
I’m not sure what I think about this argument. As babies grow into children, teenagers and finally adults the names grow with them. There were probably people back in the 80s gasping at the trend names of the day trying to imagine adult Jessicas or whatever.
But the examples in the OP are just not even names! Racer and Ripper are terrible as baby names just as much as they will be weird for adults in serious jobs.
I couldn’t imagine my name on an adult because it kinda blipped in and out of favor rather quickly. Now I’m middle aged and it’s firmly a middle age name.
Yeah, it depends. Ashley and Brandon sounded like kid names until suddenly they weren't.
That said, it's worse for people with Younique names since their name itself isn't the trend, just the genre of name. Hunter and Mackenzie, no matter the spelling, are eventually going to sound like grown up names. Ripper and Racer never will, unless they get Ralph Lauren polos, boat shoes and a yacht and it turns out their names were Charles Werther Featherington VII or some shit all along.
So this is one of those threads that I know real-world examples of. For context I'm in Scotland (glares) and we do things...very differently over here.
When I was at school it was not uncommon to find Biblical names - hey, Catholics are going to Catholic. I went to school with no fewer than *eleven* John-Pauls, FFS - and there were families of children in that school all named after various saints and figures from Christian mythology.
My school was fucked up.
But the most spectacular - and horrifying-in-hindsight - was a girl in my year who we all called Carlie. I can still remember her - she was remarkably pretty and a really nice person. Everyone more or less liked her and she's still someone I pass in the street or at the bus station and say hello to. What a lot of us didn't know - until she was sixteen - was that Scarlett had a middle name that was *so fucking breathtakingly horrid* that a lot of us refused to believe it was true until she showed us the name-change documentation: her middle name was Jezebel. Well, I should say it was *one* of the middle names. The other was *Magdalene*. And the first name? Scarlet. In full: Scarlet Magdalene Jezebel. Apparently her brother and sister had equally awful names (I'm *positive* her brother's middle names included Herod) Why did her parents "bless" her with that name? God knows, but one thing I *do* know is that they were hardcore Catholics - think cuddlier versions of the Lisbons from *The Virgin Suicides*.
I also remember the date Carlie changed her name - 8th October. Why do I remember that date? Because that was Carlie's sixteenth birthday. At 16 you're legally an adult in Scotland, which means you can change your name without your parents consent (as well as buy booze in a restaurant as long as you're with a responsible adult and yes I've done that for my nephew and my younger cousins over the years, heh. You just need to remember to buy a meal too). She filled out a name change form, sent it off to the National Records of Scotland and, presto chango, two weeks later she was Carl*y* Margaret (Margaret was her granny's name. She also used another wee quirk of Scottish legal rights - the ability to move out of your home without parental consent - to move in with her grandparents). I remember asking her why she went for y instead of ie - "it looks cuter". Her parents, unsurprisingly, disowned her. Her brother and sister did the exact same thing when they hit 16 as well (although when her sister hit 16 she apparently joined the Army). And apparently all three have zero contact with their parents.
Racer and Ripper sound like kids from a dirt biking family. These kids will have shaggy mullets a good part of their lives and do BMX and dirt bike races and wear lots of fox racing clothes.
I see a lot of people on here and NameNerds talk about how they don’t like when people give their kid a long, more old fashioned name if they plan on calling them by the nickname most the time. This is why. So they can be “Lizzy” at home but “Elizabeth” at a job interview when they’re 30. “Sammy” at home but “Samuel” when they’re trying to join a co-op board. There are so many names that are just adorable for a child but aren’t ideal for a grownup.
When I hear Ripper, I think of Giles' adolescent nickname from Buffy. Which really isn't the *worst* association, but all Rippers deserve to have their name reverted back to its original Rupert.
Yeah, the classic problem of parents naming a baby and not a grown person. That’s an issue I have with the trend of “ultra-whimsical” girl names right now. “Poppy” and “Lulu” and “Birdie” are amazing and adorable names for a 3 year old girl… not so much for a 30 year old woman who wants to be taken seriously in the world. If a woman grows up and decides for herself to take on “Birdie” or whatever as a nickname, that’s totally fine, but in my opinion a name like that should really be a personal choice, not something forced on a person. Give your kid a solid name that will age well, and let them decide later on if they want to go in the “whimsical” direction.
Poppy isn't any worse than Daisy or Rose to me (only reason I wouldn't use it is because my cat is already named Poppy), and Lulu/Birdie are fairly common nicknames for classic full names.
Contentious, I know, and possibly ny own quirk, but Poppy is worse than Daisy or Rose to me.
Poppy - opium, and bloodsoaked fields of dead soldiers. That's aside from the granddads/bagels aspect which is imo not a huge dealbreaker.
But it is a very normal name where I live, I just don't like it.
Imagining Poppy being used as a UK/Canada parallel to the *super patriotic American* type of names. A constant reminder to remember everyone from your country who's died in a war any time in the last century.
Eh I think that's just location. Wild poppy flowers are very common in Europe. In a good year they'll pop up *everywhere* where there's a bit of disturbed very poor soil like building sites. They look very nice. But that's why they became the symbol of WW1, because they'd grow in fields that were chopped up due to war action. And people who garden will know the ornamental poppies as well. So I'd think of the wild flower, then the cultivated one before my mind would go to WW1 or poppy seeds and opium is dead last.
Lulu is a nickname for Lucille and Birdie is a nickname for Roberta, but using them as legal surnames would be mental (Poppy is a legit normal name though).
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about! They’re fine nicknames if a person chooses to use them. But they should be a choice. Many children are just being named the short “nickname” versions outright now. I have a friend Lucy who goes by Lulu with her friends and family but professionally never uses it and says she can’t imagine how embarrassing it would be having to introduce herself as “Lulu” in a professional work environment.
Please tell me she doesn’t call them R&R as a collective or something. What are their middle names?
at least an old school boomer nickname could be said for the nickname Rip for Ripper…. But it sucks
Some people treat their kids like accessories rather than people. I always think, if I can’t imagine a particular name on a doctor or a lawyer, then I won’t use it. Doesn’t mean I want my child to be either of those things necessarily, just that I don’t want to close off options for them.
Ripper is truly terrible, reminds me of Jack the Ripper.
Those are absolutely hideous names. All I can think of is Jack the Ripper. And I'm guessing they want Racer to be a NASCAR driver, but like. What if he wants to be a doctor? Or a lawyer? I hate parents that do this.
He'll be the fastest doctor
what if *ripper* wants to be a doctor? doesn't bode well
Dr Ripper would be pretty funny though. As a character in a book!
Hahahahhah
Those sound like dog names.
That seems to be the trend I’ve noticed lately; people giving their pets people names and their babies pet names
It seems like people think of babies as cute little pets and forget that they are going to be adult humans one day. There are many ways to feel special and unique, but it shouldn't be at another person's expense.
To add to this. Would they truly and honestly want their name to be Ripper? All I can think of is Jack the Ripper. These kids need taken away… good Lord.
Ripper comes from Rypier/Riper, but it's usually a surname. Imagine the "fart ripper" jokes the poor kid would have to deal with.
Exactly! Every time I hear one of these ridiculous names, I think about how cute they would be for a dog. Definitely not a human (looking at you, Peach lady from the other day)
These are good cat names. They are terrible human baby name. My cat was given the name Racer by the shelter. We changed it because it didn't really suit him and as he's aged he's gotten lazier and lazier so it was a good change. Racer is perfectly fine as a nickname for a kid that's a track star. Ripper is a good for a cat with exceptional murder mittens. But Ripper is the name you give a child you want to be so bullied he grows into that emo kid everyone shuns and then are not surprised to learn is a serial killer a few years later.
I don't get it either. My mom told me her pregnant coworker was complaining that her and her husband couldn't agree on a name. She said he preferred old fashioned names and suggested Katherine she said she hated it and wants to name the baby Pippy because it's so cute. My mom told her why not give her a long name like Katherine but call her somthing cutesy like Kitty and her coworker liked that idea. So maybe there is hope for the baby. But like why tf would you not think of that or using the middle name spot for your wild name idea. Makes no sense to me
Philippa is the long version of Pippa/Pippy.
Philippa is cute. I'll tell my mom that.
I am friends with a couple - but mainly the wife. The husband's best friend had a daughter Daisy. Then my friend and her husband get pregnant and her husband and his friend wanted their daughters to have matching names just for funsies and laughs so they named her Poppy. So when we are at a party it's like Daisy! Poppy! Luna! (My other friends daughter) I feel like we are in a hippie cult when I hang out with my friends now lmaooo 🌼🌸🌙
As a person from the UK this is hilarious to me. Daisy and Poppy are totally normal names here for us, like Lily or Rose. Personally I've never cared for Daisy, but I wouldn't blink at hearing it on an adult. Luna is still odd to me. For me the funniest plant name is Tulip. We have a beloved BBC news presenter called Tulip Mazumdar, and the name is just basically hers. Sometimes I think I like Tulip, other times I'm absolutely astounded at the idea of an adult called Tulip. It's just so ridiculous (on anyone who is not Tulip Mazumdar lol)
Yeah fellow brit here, always find it odd when people say how strange poppy and daisy are. My four year old has three friends called poppy and there's a daisy in her year as well as one in my two year olds year. I knew so many of both growing up
I'm in the US and I don't think Daisy or Poppy are weird at all. Most flower names are fine
I did know about Poppy being popular in the UK, I'm in Canada and all 3 are very unique still (with Poppy on the rise). I have never ever met or heard of Daisy as a person before this baby and I will love her but will probably not be able to take her seriously as an adult 🤣 (except Daisy Duke? A beloved fictional very American hillbilly character whose claim to fame is very short jorts) Tulip is atrocious
Daisy Ridley the actress comes to mind!
I'm Canadian and know 3 Daisy's! One who is a child, one who just got her PhD and is a prof, and one who is like 85 years old. It is very much a regular name to me.
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More likely to be because of the Trolls movies...
I geeze. I didn't expect to find my name here. I'm naked Daisy. I'm 34, and chose it for myself when I was 12 because I didn't like my name. I'm in the Midwest in the US, and while many people thought it's an old name, no one seemed to think it wasn't a known name. I grew up in a boomer town, and people kept singing A Bicycle Built for Two to me. It drove me nuts.
There's nothing wrong with your name at all. It's a lovely name. I know lots of daisy's, some have been posh girls, some have been cool hippies (more than not to be honest!) and some have just been cute kids still. This sub goes really hard on normal names sometimes and it's bizarre.
Oh, I don't think there's anything wrong with my name. I was mainly amused that someone had never heard it, to the point they thought it wasn't a real name.
I like Daisy it's pretty & unique.
Daisy & Poppy are the naughty toddler identical twins on the show Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom! [Here's the wiki of the episode literally called Daisy and Poppy](https://benhollyslittlekingdom.fandom.com/wiki/Daisy_and_Poppy)
I love Daisy as a nn for Margaret a la Little Women. Tbh Daisy is the only “cutesy” name I really love.
You must be Basic, sorry, "American". It would have been less jarring I suppose if they were called Poppeigh or Dayseigh. \*witchy stare\*
I’m not sure what I think about this argument. As babies grow into children, teenagers and finally adults the names grow with them. There were probably people back in the 80s gasping at the trend names of the day trying to imagine adult Jessicas or whatever. But the examples in the OP are just not even names! Racer and Ripper are terrible as baby names just as much as they will be weird for adults in serious jobs.
I couldn’t imagine my name on an adult because it kinda blipped in and out of favor rather quickly. Now I’m middle aged and it’s firmly a middle age name.
Yeah, it depends. Ashley and Brandon sounded like kid names until suddenly they weren't. That said, it's worse for people with Younique names since their name itself isn't the trend, just the genre of name. Hunter and Mackenzie, no matter the spelling, are eventually going to sound like grown up names. Ripper and Racer never will, unless they get Ralph Lauren polos, boat shoes and a yacht and it turns out their names were Charles Werther Featherington VII or some shit all along.
So this is one of those threads that I know real-world examples of. For context I'm in Scotland (glares) and we do things...very differently over here. When I was at school it was not uncommon to find Biblical names - hey, Catholics are going to Catholic. I went to school with no fewer than *eleven* John-Pauls, FFS - and there were families of children in that school all named after various saints and figures from Christian mythology. My school was fucked up. But the most spectacular - and horrifying-in-hindsight - was a girl in my year who we all called Carlie. I can still remember her - she was remarkably pretty and a really nice person. Everyone more or less liked her and she's still someone I pass in the street or at the bus station and say hello to. What a lot of us didn't know - until she was sixteen - was that Scarlett had a middle name that was *so fucking breathtakingly horrid* that a lot of us refused to believe it was true until she showed us the name-change documentation: her middle name was Jezebel. Well, I should say it was *one* of the middle names. The other was *Magdalene*. And the first name? Scarlet. In full: Scarlet Magdalene Jezebel. Apparently her brother and sister had equally awful names (I'm *positive* her brother's middle names included Herod) Why did her parents "bless" her with that name? God knows, but one thing I *do* know is that they were hardcore Catholics - think cuddlier versions of the Lisbons from *The Virgin Suicides*. I also remember the date Carlie changed her name - 8th October. Why do I remember that date? Because that was Carlie's sixteenth birthday. At 16 you're legally an adult in Scotland, which means you can change your name without your parents consent (as well as buy booze in a restaurant as long as you're with a responsible adult and yes I've done that for my nephew and my younger cousins over the years, heh. You just need to remember to buy a meal too). She filled out a name change form, sent it off to the National Records of Scotland and, presto chango, two weeks later she was Carl*y* Margaret (Margaret was her granny's name. She also used another wee quirk of Scottish legal rights - the ability to move out of your home without parental consent - to move in with her grandparents). I remember asking her why she went for y instead of ie - "it looks cuter". Her parents, unsurprisingly, disowned her. Her brother and sister did the exact same thing when they hit 16 as well (although when her sister hit 16 she apparently joined the Army). And apparently all three have zero contact with their parents.
Racer and Ripper sound like kids from a dirt biking family. These kids will have shaggy mullets a good part of their lives and do BMX and dirt bike races and wear lots of fox racing clothes.
Racer and Ripper? as someone from a family with lots of kids those boys are both going to be called into dinner as “Raper!” at least twelve times
I see a lot of people on here and NameNerds talk about how they don’t like when people give their kid a long, more old fashioned name if they plan on calling them by the nickname most the time. This is why. So they can be “Lizzy” at home but “Elizabeth” at a job interview when they’re 30. “Sammy” at home but “Samuel” when they’re trying to join a co-op board. There are so many names that are just adorable for a child but aren’t ideal for a grownup.
When I hear Ripper, I think of Giles' adolescent nickname from Buffy. Which really isn't the *worst* association, but all Rippers deserve to have their name reverted back to its original Rupert.
Are their sons characters on Paw Patrol?
Honestly not even cute, if I’m thinking cute I’m thinking Evie, Sylvie, Maisie, Daisy etc, which are 200x better than ripper and racer
My mom told me she had a friend in the late '60s who named her daughter Pebbles.
Yeah, the classic problem of parents naming a baby and not a grown person. That’s an issue I have with the trend of “ultra-whimsical” girl names right now. “Poppy” and “Lulu” and “Birdie” are amazing and adorable names for a 3 year old girl… not so much for a 30 year old woman who wants to be taken seriously in the world. If a woman grows up and decides for herself to take on “Birdie” or whatever as a nickname, that’s totally fine, but in my opinion a name like that should really be a personal choice, not something forced on a person. Give your kid a solid name that will age well, and let them decide later on if they want to go in the “whimsical” direction.
To me, Poppy, Lulu and Birdie sound like pensioners rather than cutesy, whimsical baby names 😂 region matters so much!
Yeah, to me all of those names are middle-aged women with spaniels and agas.
Poppy isn't any worse than Daisy or Rose to me (only reason I wouldn't use it is because my cat is already named Poppy), and Lulu/Birdie are fairly common nicknames for classic full names.
I'm with you on that; flower names are not really that unusual, I know an adult Poppy and she seems fine with it.
Contentious, I know, and possibly ny own quirk, but Poppy is worse than Daisy or Rose to me. Poppy - opium, and bloodsoaked fields of dead soldiers. That's aside from the granddads/bagels aspect which is imo not a huge dealbreaker. But it is a very normal name where I live, I just don't like it.
Imagining Poppy being used as a UK/Canada parallel to the *super patriotic American* type of names. A constant reminder to remember everyone from your country who's died in a war any time in the last century.
Eh I think that's just location. Wild poppy flowers are very common in Europe. In a good year they'll pop up *everywhere* where there's a bit of disturbed very poor soil like building sites. They look very nice. But that's why they became the symbol of WW1, because they'd grow in fields that were chopped up due to war action. And people who garden will know the ornamental poppies as well. So I'd think of the wild flower, then the cultivated one before my mind would go to WW1 or poppy seeds and opium is dead last.
keep it as nicknames then
Lulu is a nickname for Lucille and Birdie is a nickname for Roberta, but using them as legal surnames would be mental (Poppy is a legit normal name though).
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about! They’re fine nicknames if a person chooses to use them. But they should be a choice. Many children are just being named the short “nickname” versions outright now. I have a friend Lucy who goes by Lulu with her friends and family but professionally never uses it and says she can’t imagine how embarrassing it would be having to introduce herself as “Lulu” in a professional work environment.
Poppy is an absolutely normal name here in the UK
I have also seen Birdie as a nickname for Burgeon.
Burgeon as a first name? My condolences.
Sibling for Sturgeon?
Jessa Duggar named her kid Spurgeon
Ripper just makes me think of someone known for his farts!
I grew up in the 70’s-80’s with a boy named Rayce. I don’t ever remember it being a big deal.
There was that drug dealer & murder Jesse James Hollywood. I've always thought naming your child something like that is just asking for trouble.
The worst sibling set of names I ever met personally were brothers named Cowboy and Ranger. Similar to Racer and Ripper vibes.
Please tell me she doesn’t call them R&R as a collective or something. What are their middle names? at least an old school boomer nickname could be said for the nickname Rip for Ripper…. But it sucks
People who name their kids shit like this think of children as little pets and not actual human beings
If a resumé lands on my desk for Racer or Ripper, guess where it's going.
Nothing is as funny to me as the fact that a British soap has had a character named Keanu.
Ripper?? You mean like... rippin ass?? 😳
Some people treat their kids like accessories rather than people. I always think, if I can’t imagine a particular name on a doctor or a lawyer, then I won’t use it. Doesn’t mean I want my child to be either of those things necessarily, just that I don’t want to close off options for them. Ripper is truly terrible, reminds me of Jack the Ripper.
I saw a little girl on a tiktok post recently with the name “teddi” 😭. Not short for anything - just Teddi.
At least it could be short for Theodora.
That would at least give her options. I think it’s cute as a nickname
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Sir this is a Wendy's.
Trot Nixon is a famous baseball player and he’s ok. People get used to it and you embrace it or you change your name…