# White People's Funny Names for Children **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 30, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308 "2018-11-30T02:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/1 "2018-11-30T02:29:49Z")
Parent’s name their daughter Abcde. To make it worse “Abcde lives with epilepsy”. If it were capitalized, I’d assume that “Epilepsy” is her sister. But that is not the worst part. Some asshole Southwest Air employee makes fun of the name and **posts a photo of the boarding pass** online [Southwest Airlines apologizes for employee laughing at 5-year-old passenger named Abcde](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southwest-airlines-apologizes-employee-laughing-5-year-old-passenger-named-n941766). SW made some mealy mouthed apology, but it looks like the employee is not fired. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/2 "2018-11-30T02:43:38Z")
I’m sorry. That’s not a name. Naming your kid Ab-city or however you say it, is asking for trouble. That kid will be mocked her whole life. Inexcusable. My middle daughter gave both her boys unusual names. I warned her. They get grief and mispronunciation constantly. It’s sad really. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/3 "2018-11-30T02:45:12Z")
If you name your kid ‘abcde’ then you deserve to get laughed at. I wouldn’t laugh at the kid though. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/4 "2018-11-30T02:46:27Z")
Reminds me of that joke (or was it a real event?) about the elementary school teacher querying her student, name Internet, how her parents chose that name. The student said she was named after the princess, you know, Princess “Marie Internet”. Oh, and “Abcde” is, according to the story I read this morning, supposed to be pronounced as “Ab-sidy”. Well, parents; perhaps you should’ve spelled it “Absidy” instead. None of that, though, justifies any of the crud the airline personnel pulled. ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/5 "2018-11-30T02:47:36Z")
The worst part is that she is no longer first in line after Aaron joined her class. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/6 "2018-11-30T02:49:36Z")
Sorry, but it’s A-A-ron. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/7 "2018-11-30T02:57:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Oh, and “Abcde” is, according to the story I read this morning, supposed to be pronounced as “Ab-sidy”. Well, parents; perhaps you should’ve spelled it “Absidy” instead. Sounds like a horrible portmanteau of “subsidy” and “abscess.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/8 "2018-11-30T03:00:48Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Sorry, but it’s A-A-ron. [In case anyone’s wondering…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw) Hilarious. “You done messed up, A-A-ron!” ETA: Does anyone remember Big Bird singing “Ab-cadef-gi Juklemenop-quir Stuv-wixyzzz”? And not sure what it means… But it’s available as a baby name! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/9 "2018-11-30T03:17:53Z")
I don’t like Nevaeh, you know heaven spelled backwards. Just dumb, and overdone. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/10 "2018-11-30T03:20:12Z")
> [@digs](#): > > [In case anyone’s wondering…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw) Hilarious. > > “You done messed up, A-A-ron!” That skit ruined the name “Aaron” for everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/11 "2018-11-30T03:21:34Z")
> [@digs](#): > > ETA: Does anyone remember Big Bird singing “Ab-cadef-gi Juklemenop-quir Stuv-wixyzzz”? And not sure what it means… Yep. Had the Sesame Street record album! Even after all these years, I still remember that song. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/12 "2018-11-30T03:25:17Z")
Does the picture of the boarding pass \*actually \*exist? Because I’ve only ever heard this name in the context of urban legends. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/13 "2018-11-30T04:00:41Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > That skit ruined the name “Aaron” for everybody. But it’s made Packers games much more fun. “Rodgers throws and it’s picked off!” “You done messed up, A-A-Ron!” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/14 "2018-11-30T04:03:45Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yep. Had the Sesame Street record album! Even after all these years, I still remember that song. Me, too. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/15 "2018-11-30T04:04:23Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yep. Had the Sesame Street record album! Even after all these years, I still remember that song. me too. and color me surprised that white parents have just now run out of variations on Aiden, Jaden, Jayden, Braden, Braeden, Bryson, Graydon, Grayson, Kaden, Kayden, etc. there was a case this past year where some shithead teenagers killed a guy by throwing chunks of concrete off of a freeway overpass. One of the wastes of flesh was named “Mikaydn.” Which made me think his parents should probably have been sterilized before he was conceived. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/16 "2018-11-30T04:12:33Z")
On the news tonight they said there are over 300 kids in the US named Abcde. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/17 "2018-11-30T04:13:27Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yep. Had the Sesame Street record album! Even after all these years, I still remember that song. I did too, if you’ll count cassette in the mid 80s. They never played the episodes the various songs were from, so I don’t think I’d ever seen the video until someone embedded it from YouTube earlier today. And also obligatory: [Most Popular U.S. Baby Names](https://www.theonion.com/most-popular-u-s-baby-names-1819586596) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/18 "2018-11-30T04:13:31Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Does the picture of the boarding pass \*actually \*exist? Because I’ve only ever heard this name in the context of urban legends. I saw one but can’t find it now; probably removed by TPTB. I always thought a name like this was an urban legend, like the Lemonjello and Orangejello twins. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/19 "2018-11-30T04:14:50Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > me too. > > and color me surprised that white parents have just now run out of variations on Aiden, Jaden, Jayden, Braden, Braeden, Bryson, Graydon, Grayson, Kaden, Kayden, etc. > > there was a case this past year where some shithead teenagers killed a guy by throwing chunks of concrete off of a freeway overpass. One of the wastes of flesh was named “Mikaydn.” Which made me think his parents should probably have been sterilized before he was conceived. I remember a comparable story about a boy named Blaec (pronounced “Blake”). Gee, I wonder why this kid had problems. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308/20 "2018-11-30T04:16:26Z")
Her little sister is called Ella Menopy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-peoples-funny-names-for-children/825308.md?page=2)