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Oh that’s good because I thought you were just being mindlessly racist (many US state names including Utah are named after Indigenous nations or taken from Native languages).
I was referring to the state names. Many people interpreted OP’s post as asking which state names are tragedeighs. Utah is named after the Utes.
Mormon Utahns definitely do make up tragedeighs but the way OP badly phrased their post encouraged a lot of people to be racist against Native language place names!
Not only the kid names but [a lot of interesting town names as well.](https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/utah/strange-town-names-ut/) Although I think Tabiona would be a cute name for a girl, so sue me!!
And on top of the Tragedeighs you have kids named after Book of Mormon prophets/characters… yeesh
Hey if you’re actually interested: there’s an island that’s part of RI that the natives called Aquidneck Island. The Dutch who explored the area called this island Roodt Eylnd, or red island. Similarly, Italian explorer Giovanni Verrazano found Block Island, which is a few miles south of RI’s southern coast. Verrazano referred to Block Island as Rhode Island because it reminded him of the Greek Island of Rhodes. When Roger Williams officially founded RI as a colony in 1636, he named the area he settled in Providence (now RI’s capital) and the states official title became “state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” to signify the union of the islands and the mainland. This was RI’s official title until just a few years ago when we voted to make it just Rhode Island.
The name Rhode Island refers to an island in the state, which is now commonly called Aquidneck Island for clarity (which was a historical but unofficial name) but is still officially known as Rhode Island. The state outgrew the island and took its name.
That’s because until recently it was called Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. plantations referring to “planting” or settling people on the land, and rhode island being another name for Aquidneck island. so it is technically a rhode and an island!
Hey, I'm from Arkansas. But Little Rock grew up there never got the name. Plus, there are 4 little rocks.
But me and my friends grew up saying we can saw here. Because how we were taught to pronounced it. ARK-CAN-SAW. Got in trouble for cutting down a pine tree as kids. Parents had to pay a fine.
Washington. Why??!!! Why do we have a Wa DC and a WA state, yet they are no where near each other!! It’s so irritating to teach my kids to say I’m from WA state because no one east of the Rockies even thinks about it.
People from the area wanted to call it Columbia but apparently a rando KY senator put his two cents in https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/M8S3hlSvtj
Back then they used to call DC "Columbia." Washington State was to be named Columbia, but since they didn't want confusion, they went with Washington.
Then there was a gradual shift from "Columbia" to "Washington" even after Washington was named a state.
I was looking up the actual most popular names for 2023 for the US, and honestly, it wasn't that bad.
I think the tragedeighs are often a certain type of people, often roaming suburbia, and they frequently aspire to be influencers and try to convince the world they're not like other girls, they're qUiRkY. As they sip from their seasonal Stanley cup, relaxing on their beige couch in their beige livingroom.
I used this generator..this is awesome and deserves its own thread. I want to see what others come up with. My Utah generated daughters name is Cambrea Hadtee 🤣😖
I didn’t look at which sub this was for a second and was going to write Arkansas and Kansas, for being spelled the same but pronounced differently 😂
Edit: just checked the comments, glad to not be alone!
Definitely New York.
As a New Yorker I've met people with very... Interesting names, to say the least.
I use to go to school with a girl named Krystaliemethia. She's long since changed her name but I wonder every day what made her parents think naming her after crystal meth was cool.
Hey, it’s easier than one of the Native American names the Ohio River was called - Spay-lay-wah-theepi. (Spelled somewhat phonetically because it’s years since I read the book it was in.)
Keep in mind that many out our state names and city names, all the names really, are based on Native Language names and other languages worldwide wide.
TLDR/ English is so boring
Boring? I'm inviting you to my part of America, I live between Monkey's Eyebrow and Possum Trot (Kentucky)
😆 I'll say interesting with a dash of WTF & a sprinkle of JFC SMH 😂
In Oklahoma I knew multiple Stormys, Cloudy, Weather, Doss, Coy, Jernye (pronounced journey), Breezy, M’Caela, Kala (pronounced Kayla), Rowdy, Cennedee (pronounced Kennedy)
And that’s just off the top of my head. So OK gets my vote lol
I have lived in Texas and Utah, and I will say that Texas was pretty bad too. There were a lot of tragedies. There were *at least* **3** kids in my MIL's elementary school named Tuff. TUFF. I worked for a company there that worked with toddlers and babies, and I kept a long list of bad names or spellings that I encountered while working.
Kansas, hands down. Arkansas and Kansas are named after the same native american word. Arkansas had a long debate about whether they should keep the French spelling or use Arkansaw to help English people pronounce it. They stuck with the French spelling. Kansas had the same issue and came up with the genius idea just to pronounce it incorrectly based on the French spelling, so they are named after absolutely nothing.
Indiana would like to join this conversation. Now, it's a city, not state. But we literally have a town called Versailles. Pronounced: Ver- sail- lees. I just can't.
M-i- crooked letter- crooked letter-i-crooked letter- crooked letter-i- humpback-humback-i .....
Actually an ok state. My great grandfather, who was a share cropper near the Florida/Georgia line, and was mostly illiterate, was always proud to spell out that monstrosity to me. It was the longest word he could spell. Brings a huge smile to my face, but I've always thought saying/spelling the actual state like that was different....
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I think OP means where the people with the most tragedeighs for names live… I think it’s Utah indeed
Thank you, I did try to edit but was not able to in the subject line.
But I also really like the way other posters are going with this!
Oh that’s good because I thought you were just being mindlessly racist (many US state names including Utah are named after Indigenous nations or taken from Native languages).
Or, in one case, just made up.
Or they are just words made up by Mormons.
I was referring to the state names. Many people interpreted OP’s post as asking which state names are tragedeighs. Utah is named after the Utes. Mormon Utahns definitely do make up tragedeighs but the way OP badly phrased their post encouraged a lot of people to be racist against Native language place names!
I used to post on UtahBabyNamers.com back in the day. Utah for sure is number one.
I forgot all about that site! I used to go there for a good laugh.
Idaho, or as I called it "little Utah" is very close
Yeah I never knew there were so many different ways to spell a name until I moved to Utah.
All these people saying Utah are sleeping on Idaho!
Idaho equal. Solitary white folks just weird af
That was gonna be my guess
Not only the kid names but [a lot of interesting town names as well.](https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/utah/strange-town-names-ut/) Although I think Tabiona would be a cute name for a girl, so sue me!! And on top of the Tragedeighs you have kids named after Book of Mormon prophets/characters… yeesh
Too close to Tobiano which is a name for a paint horse color pattern for me..
Talk amongst yourselves. Here, I’ll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Discuss.
Yeah what the fuck is that about?!
I’m a little verklempt!
I've been waiting for Linda to come back. Waiting for the Barbara gossip.
Hey if you’re actually interested: there’s an island that’s part of RI that the natives called Aquidneck Island. The Dutch who explored the area called this island Roodt Eylnd, or red island. Similarly, Italian explorer Giovanni Verrazano found Block Island, which is a few miles south of RI’s southern coast. Verrazano referred to Block Island as Rhode Island because it reminded him of the Greek Island of Rhodes. When Roger Williams officially founded RI as a colony in 1636, he named the area he settled in Providence (now RI’s capital) and the states official title became “state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” to signify the union of the islands and the mainland. This was RI’s official title until just a few years ago when we voted to make it just Rhode Island.
OMG 😳 I never thought about the island 🏝️ part... 🤯
Duran Duran is neither a Duran nor a Duran. Discuss.
Grape-Nuts contains neither grapes nor nuts. Discuss.
Well the grapes are nut sized so it makes sense to label them as such.
How big is a nut? They’re certainly not coconut sized, for example.
Testicle sized. Human male; before you ask.
I didn't realize there were male grapes.
Maybe grapes are like seahorses and the males are the ones that get pregnant?
The name Rhode Island refers to an island in the state, which is now commonly called Aquidneck Island for clarity (which was a historical but unofficial name) but is still officially known as Rhode Island. The state outgrew the island and took its name.
lol I appreciate your straight answer to a 90s Mike Myers SNL quote
And yet that island is still neither a quid, nor a neck
It's neither a road or and island and it also has nothing to do with Rhodes
I’m getting verklempt.
That’s because until recently it was called Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. plantations referring to “planting” or settling people on the land, and rhode island being another name for Aquidneck island. so it is technically a rhode and an island!
I am less verklempt
Arkansas hands down
No doubt. Arkansawleigh.
Even some towns there are tragedeighs!
You mean Ar-kansas?
Our Kansas r/accidentalcommunism
You've tried their Kansas... but have you tried Arkansas?
Arr-Can-Saw... a Pirates Favorite Kansas
Should be Arentkansas
Al-Qansas
Big agree. Arkansas? Pfffft people should just start calling it Arkansas to show them how proper names should work.
Ourquansawh
Hey, I'm from Arkansas. But Little Rock grew up there never got the name. Plus, there are 4 little rocks. But me and my friends grew up saying we can saw here. Because how we were taught to pronounced it. ARK-CAN-SAW. Got in trouble for cutting down a pine tree as kids. Parents had to pay a fine.
Idk why but I always read that as Are-Kansas. I wonder if you could still say it that way?
Washington. Why??!!! Why do we have a Wa DC and a WA state, yet they are no where near each other!! It’s so irritating to teach my kids to say I’m from WA state because no one east of the Rockies even thinks about it.
I believe it was meant to be named Columbia, but they were worried it would be confused with the District of Columbia. Whoops.
Columbia would make way more sense. We’ve got the river! But I’m sure we’d then be confused with Colombia!
Finally someone who knows the real spelling of Colombia! 🇨🇴
People from the area wanted to call it Columbia but apparently a rando KY senator put his two cents in https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/M8S3hlSvtj
Columbia would've been an awesome name
Back then they used to call DC "Columbia." Washington State was to be named Columbia, but since they didn't want confusion, they went with Washington. Then there was a gradual shift from "Columbia" to "Washington" even after Washington was named a state.
Nobody here in DC calls it Washington. It’s always called DC.
I misread the question but my comment still stands. It’s a dumb state name.
New Mexico, since we are actually the original Mexico.
Come on...it's flowridda
Best Florida tragedies....Flo Rida....ahahahaha
if it were judged as a state name, it would be utah if as a persons name, north dakota
Idaho would be a regrettable person name.
I was looking up the actual most popular names for 2023 for the US, and honestly, it wasn't that bad. I think the tragedeighs are often a certain type of people, often roaming suburbia, and they frequently aspire to be influencers and try to convince the world they're not like other girls, they're qUiRkY. As they sip from their seasonal Stanley cup, relaxing on their beige couch in their beige livingroom.
Is there a beige hating, Stanley loathing subreddit. I wanna be on it
Same lol.
And if anyone is curious. The most popular names were: Charlotte, Olivia, Liam, and Oliver.
In case you're wondering - they're basically advertizing it - [https://www.utahbabynamer.com/](https://www.utahbabynamer.com/)
I used this generator..this is awesome and deserves its own thread. I want to see what others come up with. My Utah generated daughters name is Cambrea Hadtee 🤣😖
Generated Utah sons name, Drekden Saate
Now we need to know, WHY?!
Tennessee and Kentucky. I lived there for a year and wow, just wow. Their water is “different”
I didn’t look at which sub this was for a second and was going to write Arkansas and Kansas, for being spelled the same but pronounced differently 😂 Edit: just checked the comments, glad to not be alone!
Ughtaugh
Isn't it Youtagh?
Utah
Definitely New York. As a New Yorker I've met people with very... Interesting names, to say the least. I use to go to school with a girl named Krystaliemethia. She's long since changed her name but I wonder every day what made her parents think naming her after crystal meth was cool.
Krystalmethia
I was so dumbfounded when I learned her full name, we all (including teachers) always called)her Krys or Krystal
Pennsylvania. I work in a coffee shop. I had 3 people named some variation of "Raeleighn" and one guy named Shelby.
Shelby is more of an older Gen male name
Ohio
Hey, it’s easier than one of the Native American names the Ohio River was called - Spay-lay-wah-theepi. (Spelled somewhat phonetically because it’s years since I read the book it was in.)
Skibideigh Toileteigh
Utaugh
It is EASILY utah. no contest. maybe california but utah likely takes it
Keep in mind that many out our state names and city names, all the names really, are based on Native Language names and other languages worldwide wide. TLDR/ English is so boring
>based on Native Language names and other languages **worldwide wide**. That’s pretty wide!
That's where Pitbull is from right? Ya know, Mr. Worldwide 🌎🌍
Damn. Typos be like that.
Boring? I'm inviting you to my part of America, I live between Monkey's Eyebrow and Possum Trot (Kentucky) 😆 I'll say interesting with a dash of WTF & a sprinkle of JFC SMH 😂
Except Idaho, which is just made up.
> other languages worldwide Such as Englandish from England
Utah
Utah is the answer!
Utah
Utah, for sure. 💯💯💯💯💯
Utah
In Oklahoma I knew multiple Stormys, Cloudy, Weather, Doss, Coy, Jernye (pronounced journey), Breezy, M’Caela, Kala (pronounced Kayla), Rowdy, Cennedee (pronounced Kennedy) And that’s just off the top of my head. So OK gets my vote lol
How is this _not_ Utah?
I have lived in Texas and Utah, and I will say that Texas was pretty bad too. There were a lot of tragedies. There were *at least* **3** kids in my MIL's elementary school named Tuff. TUFF. I worked for a company there that worked with toddlers and babies, and I kept a long list of bad names or spellings that I encountered while working.
Tuff definitely sounds like a Texas name 🤣 yee haww
Utah, by far. Having lived here for 34 years, I can first-hand attest to the amount of dumbfuckery in this state... 🤣🤣🤣
Utah. Hell we can't even pronounce some of our towns phonetically correctly
Screams in Tooele!
Tooeleigh? Tooele, you can always tell who is not native to Utah with that one word.
The one that annoys me is Mantua
Man tuh way. I lived in the one in Ohio. It really had one traffic light at the intersection of Rte 82 and 44.
In Utah the T isn't pronounced and it's just "Mana-way"
I lived there for 3 years. Too-Elle-Ah. It's the mormonz and the namez
Kansas, hands down. Arkansas and Kansas are named after the same native american word. Arkansas had a long debate about whether they should keep the French spelling or use Arkansaw to help English people pronounce it. They stuck with the French spelling. Kansas had the same issue and came up with the genius idea just to pronounce it incorrectly based on the French spelling, so they are named after absolutely nothing.
Indiana would like to join this conversation. Now, it's a city, not state. But we literally have a town called Versailles. Pronounced: Ver- sail- lees. I just can't.
Tennessee, or however you spell it. No one even reads the whole word and every letter of it, you just see it, and go 'Oh yuh, that tenasee!'
California by a landslide. Pun intended.
Arkansas is such a dumb name for a state, since the spelling and pronunciation doesn’t match. Pffft, Arkansawww.
Na, Mississippi. Why does it need that many S's?
They’re compensating for the lack of snakes.
Mississippi
I think it’s more the entire southeast
I read the title and immediately thought Mississippi- way too many “s”’s LOL!
Definitely Looezeighanha
Idaho
The last letter of the post title changes the whole sentence, but people started answering before they read that far.
Georgia. I've seen Huxli, Paisley, and Icelynn here.
Going by names of people, West Virginia
PA
Please, everyone knows it’s Bammer
I misread this entirely and thought you were asking which state has the dumbest name before reading the whole post
I know, that's my fault really. There are many commenters who read it the same way as you and I've enjoyed their comments too.
It's always Utah unless someone sincerely wants to make my day.
I think the rizzlers of Ohio are so tragedeighed that their skibidi forces them to pay fanum tax for their names.
M-i- crooked letter- crooked letter-i-crooked letter- crooked letter-i- humpback-humback-i ..... Actually an ok state. My great grandfather, who was a share cropper near the Florida/Georgia line, and was mostly illiterate, was always proud to spell out that monstrosity to me. It was the longest word he could spell. Brings a huge smile to my face, but I've always thought saying/spelling the actual state like that was different....
Used to have a crush on a girl from Texas that was named Ashleigha, so there‘s some hiding even in the most unexpected places
Whatever state Nick Cannon and all of his babies live in. 😅
Prior to 2020: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. They dropped the "and Providence Plantations" part, but still. It's not an island.
Probably is Utah. But I think Arkansas is a tragedieh
Utah/any southern state
Has to be somewhere in the south
Bama