…out of interest: what are your childrens names dropzone?
Mary, Michelle, and Lisa. Mary after my grandmother, Michelle is my “junior,” and Lisa was named after a squirrel (never let a four-year-old name your children or your squirrels), but we didn’t tell any of her classmates.
I wouldn’t pronounce it “nausea” - I’d pronounce is with the emphasis on the -zia part, which makes it quite distinct. I didn’t get the joke until you explained it, in fact. Just because people in Chicago have a weird accent doesn’t mean it’s a bad name. Maybe the parents were hoping he’d leave.
And in northern Nigeria, “Zachary” is the local word for penis. So what?
Maybe it’s not the kid’s parent’s fault you pronounce things weird. Clint and clit sound way more alike than that pair. You calling Clint Eastwood a pussy?
Edit: EastWOOD. The guy’s name is practically a porno.
As I said above, I am from Chicago (born and raised) and I have a Chicago accent ( 
) and I would not pronounce the words the same. If I had not heard dropzone mention the word nausea in relation to this name, I wouldn’t have thought of it at all. Like I said, I would have guessed the name was pronounced with a long i (eye) sound with an emphasis on the last syllable.
But responding to the OP, I don’t think the hospital staff has or should have any responsibility in picking names for children born where they work. What if their taste in names is even worse than the new parents?
Not to compare with Dick Lugar!
To be fair there was an article a while back about parents who had named their children Aryan Pride and Hitler as first names, one would hope someone in official capacity at least tried to talk the parents out of using their children as trolling proxies. Just to move away from hating different names to pretty clear malicious intent on the parent’s part.
And at least the only time I dealt with the issue in my life with my own son, no one from the hospital was involved in naming him at all(they did ask what his name was and it appears on documents etc) but as for the legal and official paperwork that was handled by us long after we left the hospital.
Why? Just so they could tell themselves that at least they tried? Obviously the parents knew exactly what they were doing and that almost everyone would disapprove. Plus these parents were looking for confrontation anyway (as evidenced by the cake fiasco that first brought them to public attention) so you’d just be giving them what they wanted.
As someone who used to deliver babies (which I assume makes me a former Obstetric worker), I kept my mouth shut about whatever mom was naming the kid, unless asked. Even then I kept my comments light and non-judgemental.
I opted to battle about demonstrably important things, like getting the damn kids vaccinated.
All I can say is that I’m glad I decided not to call my son “Nimrod” - a perfectly common Israeli name, but one I doubt the OP would have approved of
I think it’s pretty awful to name your children something that will make them a target of bullying. I was best friends with a boy whose last name was Fagg. That wasn’t easy for him. He actually uses his middle name as his last name now. Granted, that’s not his parents’ fault, but he got teased mercilessly.
I also know a girl who was adopted by her stepfather. Her last name went from being Decker to Uslabar (“You-slobber”). For a 12-year-old that was tough. She got mocked a lot.
There’s a famous piano competition named after its founder, Ima Hogg. That’s an AWFUL thing to name a kid. Life’s hard enough with the last name Hogg. Why throw Ima on the beginning of that? What did the kid do that was so horrible?
A lot of last names are bad enough themselves. Why create extra misery with easily mock-able FIRST names too?
So, while I disagree with the OP in Nazia being an embarrassing name (most kids have no idea what the word ‘nausea’ means), I do think parents have a responsibility to try to avert potential future bullying, including choosing names that are hard to mock.
Of course, kids are creative, and can find all kinds of difficult-to-prepare-for ways to mock a name. Still, it’s pretty jacked-up to name your kid Shithead (pronounced “Sha-THEED”), as an example.
The fact is kids will make fun of whatever you have. I got mocked incessantly for my name, and only because it’s ethnic and different. When I was a kid I would have liked a name like Michelle but it was not to be. Now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Well they’re pretty doggone creative, I’ll admit that.
I remember working hard at age 22 to think of a name for my soon-to-be-born daughter that was COMPLETELY unmockable. It was a real concern during the naming process. Call me crazy, that’s just how I am.
You can’t completely control it, though. Imagine being a kid named “Jason Voorhees” when the first Friday the 13th movie came out.
And Fucktong means pumpkin in Thai. I’d have no issues with anyone calling their daughter pumpkin, but would it be ok for a parent in Chicago to name their little girl Fucktong? I think that borders on child abuse.
My name was fairly common (there were three or four girls with it my year), but I was teased for it, too. If kids want to make your life miserable, they will.
It really doesn’t matter what you name your kid, they’ll find a way to make fun of it. See the Louis CK clip for a quick explanation
You can’t spell “Nazia” without “Nazi.”
I seriously wonder if that would be a more likely cause for teasing than the “nausea” thing.
Nah, that’s only one that parents and grandparents who watched Bugs Bunny cartoons would laugh at. Quietly. And without feeling a need to explain to their kids.
“What a nimrod! What a maroon!”
(shrugging) Popular culture is what it is.