What Happens If Parents Don't Give Their Baby a Name? 

That ad was a tad too intrusive. It’s a joke that’s cool I get it, but I’ll unsubscribe if you continue to do them like this.

first time i ever felt like i wanted to buy something advertised trough youtube only to find out it was reserved for America and Canada. 😔🧐

@@TekniskM Really? Whenever I see a company force a 3 minute ad on a youtuber then I feel they're a disgusting company and feel I'd never buy from them

How do you name your child Abscondita?

dyslexia is a terrible affliction. I initially read that comment as "Check out Mack Weldon and don't forget to use the porno code" I often need to read things a few times

Right? Thank god for the 10 second skip function

@@marker2468 Eh, I hover my mouse over the red line and usually I get a thumbnail showing what's coming

@Scott Whatever Just give it up. Dont you think you should pay for this great content?

I got 6 ads in the most recent TopTenz video 🤷‍♂️

@Scott Whatever I don't understand your point. Your refusal to support content creators with ad revenue is the reason that we have in-video ads. By denying creators the revenue they deserve through ad money they are forced to resort to things like this. Its your choice whether or not to contribute to people that create content for you, but you're literally advocating for not supporting them and then complaining that they need to find additional revenue streams to continue making content for you.

Shockingly that’s a way to say Kyle apparently

a teacher: how should I pronounce your name? ( some suggestions like zexi, zixi...)🤔 xaex12: Kyle. teacher: 😶

@@Script.Doodles Apparently it's X Ash A Twelve". According to Elon Musk himself.

Rachel Taylor is it?! I thought I read somewhere that it’s just another way to spell Kyle

@@Script.Doodles Nope, definitely not Kyle according to Elon.

“Come here _______! Oh _______ you’re walking! Open your mouth ______! Eat _____!”

@@minvi152 how do exclaim silence?

@@lowleypeasentmr.l8836 By being a chad.

@@lyly_lei_lei makes sense.

B: give up :'V

Tbh joining the military to piss of your fucked up hippie parents is so much the essence of what hippie culture was about, he just reversed it in the most funny way.

That's hilarious. Glad he rocked it. Not sure how to feel if this is a bad thing or a good thing, since every kid would handle this differently, so I definitely understand his parents' perspective. And to be fair, a lot of people DO hate their (legal) names. I heard that when people hate their name, they're disproportionately more likely to suffer anger and psychological issues, and commit violent crimes compared to people who are fine with their names. Well, calling someone something they don't like is INCREDIBLY disrespectful and akin to insulting them, which damages people, so that's no coincidence. Names can either make us, or break us. And it definitely doesn't help that there's an increasing number of people (not only celebrities, but yeah, they're the worst offenders of this) giving their kids ridiculous names, or at least ridiculous spelling, as if they're trying to force their kids into hating them from an early age, like Elon Musk's kid, some kid whose parents sued an airline company over an employee at the counter pronouncing their kid's name wrong (it was spelled Abcd; it's pronounced "ab-sid-ee," which doesn't sound like a winner, either), some parents who named their kid Collin but almost spelled it as "colon" because they wanted to give it a more "unique" spelling (thank goodness the nurse told them what a colon was before they marked the birth certificate), a mother who almost named her newborn daughter "latrine" because it's "a pretty word," etc. People don't look past the baby stage. Imean, if one's name sounds like a joke (or at least spelled like one), they're going to face a lot of suffering that could've been avoided, starting with bullying at school, to having trouble getting hired for a job. Personally, I would've handled this with good humor, because I actually really wish my parents did me that favor, too, since I've always HATED the name they'd forced onto me (first off, I'm not cisgender! So that's incredibly insulting to be called by a non-unisex, non-genderblender name. Secondly, I wasn't planned, so they picked whatever name was the most popular in my birth year for my biological sex, and they did likewise with my sister; my sister's cisgender and also okay with her name. It's always confusing growing up with so many other people in our age group with the same first name, like which one of us is being addressed? I want to be called [ ], but everybody says it has to be by our LEGAL names or diminutive form of them to avoid "confusion"), but my mother believes in being "proper" (including being a heteronormative crusader) and explodes abuse on me when I politely ask her to not call me by this name, knowing full well that I hate it and always had even as a very little kid (and never responded to that name, something she still complains about; you'd think she'd take that hint by now). She rages about that her father saw her as a son rather than a daughter (though in her culture, I'd consider that a privilege) and gave her a boy's name, which she's always hated, which might explain why she explodes in anger that I hate the "pretty" name she gave me and insist on being called an "ugly" name (that she INTENTIONALLY mispronounces, which I know she's doing to try to guilt trip me, because it's only one syllable, unlike the one listed on my legal documents, and simple to pronounce and spell), and my not identifying as the gender I was born as, because that was denied her and she probably doesn't want that same denial of our gender for her own kids, but doing the opposite is a narcissistic approach, too, since either way is denying our own selves in favor of what the parents want, not to mention hypocritical. I. Am. Not. HER! She just can't get that through her head! She refuses to accept who I am, that I have different tastes and preferences than she does, as well as the fact that I'm just a non-conformist by nature (yet she DELIBERATELY continues to call me/refer to me by the WRONG NAME (i.e., the one she imposed on me). Every. Single. Time, which I clearly heard her do literally just a few seconds ago from the other room (and then scream at me and say that I "don't know how to communicate" when I protest this and ask her not to call me that), as if trying to force this name would make me submit and accept this false version she expects me to be (that only ever proves counter-productive. And, yes, no surprise, I have anger issues, like pretty much all people who hate our birth names do but can't get changed for whatever reason, with being called this name always being my biggest Berserk Button). Also no surprise that she and I utterly resent each other and how turbulent our "relationship" has always been, with having me being the biggest thing she regrets in her life, and she's very open about it, which is both infuriating and hurtful. I asked to change my name as a kid, but, of course, protests from the family and how "dumb" and "ungrateful" I am for rejecting it. And changing one's name as an adult is so MUCH more difficult to do, and they can deny you for any reason (my documented history doesn't help me much, smh), not to mention that it's very expensive, so, obviously this hasn't come to any fruition as of yet. Job applications, and anything requiring legal documents/paperwork/ID is particularly difficult and a humiliating process on top of it (which is why I currently don't have either a valid photo ID nor a job, and have no plan of getting either UNTIL someone helps me finally get my name LEGALLY changed; all the jobs I'm actually qualified to do require name tags, which I was forced to wear for my old job, and it has to be our full legal name, the HORROR), because I have to explain myself Every. Single. Time. Only for the other person to STILL call me by the wrong name literally a second later, because it's not even close to the one that has me listed as, not even as a "nickname," and continually requesting to be called a drastically different name is a Red Flag for employers, since this brings out the worst in me (and even when I try to restrain my rage, my face automatically turns red when I get mad, which I have no way of hiding my displeasure when this happens, since I'm light-skinned and my face turning red shows). Terrible for the relationships department, too, since I obviously introduce myself by the name I chose, that fits ME, but eventually, people always find out what my so-called "real" (birth/legal) name is, when my family or someone from my past ignores my request and they call me by the wrong one, anyway, and all of a sudden I'm being red-flagged as a "liar" and not potential partner material, because if I couldn't be "honest" about something as simple as my name, what CAN I be trusted about? (Makes sense, though). But when I (albeit reluctantly) add (albeit the diminutive form of) my dead name when introducing myself by my chosen one (to avoid the previous conflict), people literally ignore what I said and would refer to me by the WRONG name, which is so disrespectful and degrading/emasculating, so I would rather use my chosen name and risk being accused of being a "liar" than start some drama with others calling me by basically an insult, because how people would react to this would be a perfect test for me on who I could trust. I mean, nothing wrong with the name itself; it's just not ME. My mother chose it because SHE wanted it, but didn't know she could change her own name, so wanted to have it through me. Doesn't work that way. This is another reason why I never want kids of my own. Naming is a gamble, because nobody gets to pick and choose who their kids get to be, so won't know who they end up getting. Because of the way I grew up, I prefer taking this "hippie" approach, too, not giving my kid a name because I want to give them that choice when they've figured out who they are and what fits them, yet at the same time, this could also damage them because maybe the kid might think that their parents didn't love them enough TO give them a name. (Charles Manson was literally named "no name" at birth, and we all know how messed up he became). Sorry this is so long, but giving someone a name against their will is a serious topic, because it deals with our very essence, and most of us are likely to be stuck with ours for the rest of our lives (I hope not me) because changing it is very complicated and expensive.

@@phatcat3705 Hmm, long text but good for you.

@@michaelchance6125 eh, thanks? I guess. Not sure if you meant that as a compliment or not, but I'm not sure how any of this is "good" for me, so I'm confused what is the "good" part. 😅

@@phatcat3705 only losers get bullied its not rocket science im a loser popular kids were jus naturally popular their names dont matter a kid with the name butt munch could be cool if they were just very likeable

Me too would they just choose their own name later in life

@@alexreinhardt671 it was a joke

That's just every day life for my sims.

Then they will star in a Netflix polish movie

Nice name, my daughter has the same name, your hired

I can understand not wanting to name a kid until after they are born, gotta look at them and figure out what kind of name would fit But I cannot understand how someone wouldn't at least have a list of names already

@@Deathnotefan97 right. That's what I'm saying.

Right? Like I'm not planning on having kids ever but even I have some names in the back of my head.

Deathnotefan97 sometimes when you get pregnant literally everything including your tastes in names and styles changes. Even if they have lists there’s no guarantee they’ll still like those once it’s time to pick a name. Or sometimes the ones they pick don’t fit the kid or sometimes family will also make fun of people for what they name their kids and that tends to cause people to hesitate as well.

To be fair, I go by my non-given name because it took my parents so long to figure out what name to give me.

You are required to in the UK

That sucks. I was born with no birth certificate as far as I been told. But at least, a got a name by one of my uncles. When your born in a small refugee camp, with no written documents, it's hard. But for me at the time in the 80`s, we had some photo to proof as a document, until me and my family moved to the USA, though. Lol.

That shits hard to get normally. I lost my wallet as a teenager and it was hell trying to prove I was who I was when I had no damn ID. the only saving grace was that we ordered duplicates of my birth certificate when I was a baby and after being sent from line up to line up they finally gave me a temporary id... I cant imagine going through that without even a name... I wish you hope and patients. you dont have a fun battle to fight

@@Stettafire You are required to in Australia as well, doesn't mean everyone does. I've met adults who's births were never registered. It's hell for them.

@@dwarfbunni My state stopped accepting hospital-issued birth certificates in 2011. I moved back to the state in 2014 and tried to get a driver's license but couldn't because I didn't have a state-issued birth certificate, and I didn't have a valid driver's license (I moved back right as my Nevada one was expiring) to prove my identity to get a state-issued birth certificate. It was a nightmare... And the driver's license building was about a 15-minute drive from the state records building, with no bus route 😩

who were their parents? the berenstain bears?

@@molls127 somebody who didn't know that boy babies were called 'son"

ImaBlack1969 they didn’t change it?

@@koibubbles3302 Nope. They were always Uncle Boy and Aunt Daughter.

@@ImaBlack1969 Hey? I just had a thought; you said 'great uncle and aunt', how long ago were they born? Do you know of their circumstances?

Truth!

Big brain

Tygr of culture, I see 👏

Lol ol

Lol

Was his last name Focker?

LMAO What in the actual fuck! :D

Gaylord Perry was a ball player

Gaylord was actually a fairly common name once upon a time. It's... uhh... not so well received anymore for some reason.

@@osmium6832 : _Oh,_ it gets _worse..._ Gaylord is a _family_ name, so someone who only half of the relevant info could think the family used to claim to be the feudal lords of the homosexuals.

I want my future son to be Caleb. Not too common, but not strange.

@@jadethegamermc and send him to Caleb City?

I like Damien,Blake,Aaron for my future son And Mabry,Ayla,Resse for my future daughter.

@@jadethegamermc Whatever you do, don't ever name your children Yesterday or Tomorrow. Had two friends who were brother and sister who had those names. They were always eavesdropping into conversations that they were not even a part of whenever they heard you talking about either yesterday or tomorrow with your friends. Needless to say, when they became of age and off from under their parents rules because they wouldn't let them change their names, they had their names changed. If their parents ever, from that point forward ever tried to call them by their birth names, they wouldn't respond. And their parents would get angry as if determined and persistent to get them to change their names back to their birth names. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't F#&%)!^ respond to you either or anyone else for that matter once I had my named changed to something different, if you ever named me that; I witnessed what those two went through growing up. It was absolute torture to them, because they always thought everyone was talking about them whenever they heard the words yesterday or tomorrow in a conversation, and knew everything else everyone was doing the next day or had done the previous day. They knew everyone's entire lives when it was never any of their business lol.

In Brazil we have a how bunch of terrible names for kids, some try to emulate American artists but written wrong, bits of songs, in extreme cases there are people called by the name of objects like "carimbo" which mean "stamp" and some other kinds of things. Unfortunately it happens more often than you may think

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You've met a la-sha too... how many are there?

@@kmitchell8323 Three that I know of.

@Darth Karnagge that's it I'm voting for an asteroid. 😑

I really like that doctor. 👍

My maternal grandmother's name is Johnnie Q (the Q doesn't stand for anything. Her middle name is Q). She was mostly called Johnnie. Occasionally someone would call her Johnnie Q. She named her youngest son Johnny. You normally don't hear of a boy being named after his mother.

Oh so she's a fairy? that's so cute

My ex husband's grandmother was named Johnnie. I thought it was cute. I've actually had a few elderly female patients with that name.

@@tyneriddle7149 that's terrible! Who does that to their kid? What name did she go by?

Those are some lazy parents. No offense.

@@sleesullivan2796 None taken, more forgetful than lazy. They didn't realize the mistake until they were enrolling me in school.

@@unnamedmale3093 That's bad, almost as bad as neglect.

@@sleesullivan2796 haha that's a great party story!

Lol

Robin Goodfellow The IRS is interested in your SS number, birth date, and if Larry is your legal name as used on all your official papers, then Larry. Your story sounds like an urban legend.

@@653j521 Definitely could be. It was second or third hand information by the time it got to me. Maybe even further than that.

Good for Larry. He found a way to cheat the system

thanks for saving me 19 mins

Student Account you're welcome ;)

Thank you

Not so. My late girlfriends birth certificate had no first name only a surname.

@@carjaroo I guess you don't care about the 99% of other content on this video then

Agreed. That's a shame for countries that allow parents to literally name their child anything. Some parents push it

Totally disagree. While it's a great rule of thumb, it's too open ended. An official has to decide, apparently they've even rejected the name "Nemo" because there was an uptick after the movie came out.

I think you cannot define it well enough though for it to be a law. naming your kid "Ho" seems so clear cut as humiliating, right. But Ho is pretty common chinese name.

@@aroseprince cultural/traditional reasons is a valid reason I think but then there's parents naming their children abcd, drug. Nope

@@irrelevance3859 but who is to say whose cultural traditions (or any other reasons for that matter) are valid? When my mom was born, the attending hospital staff wouldn't allow her mother to name her Deirdre (pron DEER-dra) for 4 days because in their minds, it was just gibberish, a made up word.

Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine named one of his sons Jermajesty. Sort of a play on Your Majesty.

a kid in my school is named Master Phakin Saetan or Master Saetan

teachers call him master

*claps*

Thyst1 lmfao

That's... interesting.

Just saw this. I have a aunt who was not named at birth. They just called her 'Lady'. A year later they drove thru Henrietta, Okla. Grandpa really liked that name. So, that's what they named her. Didn't hurt that grandpa's name was 'Henry'.

Apperently, they do not. But I like to keep assuming thay everyone *else* knows that nazis are bad. And I hope they do.

Is that an incorrect assumption?

@@potato_the_pig5757 Unfortunately

Sane people in America know that as well.

You know what assuming makes you...

EyeHeartShantel oml 😂

Lmmfao, watch Family Guy all the time and didn't know that.

I approve . . .

Hahaha that’s hilarious.

i thoutht it was Megan...

I knew a family with several sons, all named John. They would always be referred to by both first and middle names-John Clint, John Samuel, etc.

That's alot of kids and mouths to feed. Reminds of my sister, which sits at 10 kids. Lol.

Ha ha

Bada tssshhhhhhh

My partner's family uses 5 male names, each of them get one for their first name, a different for the middle name. So my FIL's first name is my partner's middle name. My partner's first name is one of his brother's middle name. That brother's first name is another brother's middle name... I thought my family had it confusing with all of us just having the same initials

Exactly! I came here wondering how a person would act if they were, somehow, never given a name or nickname. Would they assign themselves a name?

That's what I'd like to know too! Like how much does a name contribute to your identity?

In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five. Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family. A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely. Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name. If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name. If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names. My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win. Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes" So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:( So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition. So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth. It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.

@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 I'm so terribly sorry that that happened to you. It wasn't right, and I agree that it was an insult, not just to you, but to everyone who follows those traditions. However, I would like to point out that that doesn't answer the question being posed. What I was wondering, at least, and what I think the original commenter was wondering as well, is how would an adult think of themselves if they were never given a name or nickname. It would be nearly impossible for this to happen naturally, I'm sure, because it involves no-one ever referring to them by the same thing twice before the age of adulthood (or at the very least late teens). Even if that was someone's family tradition, I would still be interested to know how they thought of themselves before having a name. Thank you for sharing your story. It was very informative, and I appreciate knowing it. Again, I wish Florida hadn't been so cruel to you.

@@caileyrookids I was called boy for the first few years until I reached the age of five, I am a boy so I did not really notice or care about not having a true name at the time as one was not needed. I knew my father and mothers voices and if they called to me the other children knew it was not there parents but mine by the tone and sound of the voices of the ones calling.... I turned out fine not having a name at a young age. I was just one of the boys and my sisters were just one of the girls. You will get a name some day, whether you want it or not, whether you chose it or not. Not having a name at a young age gives you the freedom to chose who you want to become, it is not a detriment. If anything having a name early on and being stuck with it forever ties you to one mindset and leaves you no moniker to shed as you go from child to youth to adult. Each phase in your life is a new beginning, a new chance to change, grow and better yourself with all the lessons you have learned in each stage of your life. Unless you do not separate them and hold on to all of your baggage. That can lead to people always feeling that they have been a failure, even though as a child or young adult they may not have had many options or room for personal growth. Then as they become an adult a whole new world of opportunity's opens up. Yet they hold their old name and all it's failures, feeling they will just fail as they always have, but with a new name and new opportunity, they may feel more emboldened to venture forth and MAKE a name for THEMSELVES. One they can call their own, one they earned, one they have cultivated.

Thank you

Thank you!!

Thank you

Was also gonna do this but you saved me the time :) Thanks

I love how you choose the timestamp to be 3.. 2... 1. I almost expected a rocketship to blast off somewhere just counting down those numbers. 😂 But thank you!

I wish that was my name.

And start a weird cult

The state being Israel and the nocturnal hallucinations being Mohammed's.

Organon The state being Denmark and the nighttime hallucination being A dream.

Iceland is against foreign names too, I think

@@VicereineKillbride That's stupid, Its your child you should be able to name your child whatever you want. It's your child not there's.

@@BayMaxAcademy Yeah, I don't think the law is because they're trying to be mean, lmao. Pretty sure it's because most of their databases aren't equipped to process characters, sounds, and symbols from other languages. Same reason that when a Russian move to the US, the name Иван would become the name Ivan. Or the name Оля becomes Olya. It's for practicality purposes most of the timr

HrhMk it’s 2019 bro beside government technology is 7-10 years Ahead of the public so your argument is invalid.

If I met a Russian called that until they gave me a pronunciation I'd call em squiggles

You were three years old. At that age, stability is of HUGE importance, so being told something contradictory can be traumatic (plus being teased about something as personal as your name). When I was either 3 or 4, I misunderstood a headline read out from a newspaper (it was about a WAC, but I thought it was wax), and had hysterics. One of the joys of childhood:(.

that’s disgusting. dying young gives no one any right to deprive him of a name. honestly, that is depraved.

That's horrible. I hope you are doing okay now. That's disgusting who would do that. Even if he past away that doesn't mean he isnt any less human!

Hospitals usually call all babies some form of baby boy/girl until the parents come up with a name.

I saw somewhere where the mother was Mexican or something and thought the baby's name was femali like female with thelast e sound like an e

I knew a girl named lady

I used to tutor a girl named Baby

i know a girl named lady

@Amanda Miranda In which country? Never in my life I have heard it.

I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't watching Vsauce lmao

S. Truth Lmaoooo. Love that song

Actually the song was not written by Johnny Cash, is was written by Shel Silverstein. Yes, that Shel Silverstein.

@@barrishautomotive Shel hung out with Johnny and surprisingly even David Allen Coe. Shel loved some of those more vulgar songs Coe made

@@junkiejackflash Shel wrote some of those vulgar ditties. Check out his own LP's

I was called baby for 6 months too! Though for me it was because my parents were horrendously indecisive 😂

I’m sorry to laugh. Smh

WOW! That's like something out of the X-Files ...creepy😨😨😨

Muahaha I’m deleting you! Some day you will be completely gone! Jokes besides, this sounds absolutely creepy.

What do you go by

only if the child's middle name was Ofnine could that be an acceptable reference.

@@piffling2238: That then would b a kind of altered cross-reference between ST Voyager and The Handmaid’s Tale. Nevertheless, it could work.

@lcyw20hahaha LMAO😂😂

Help my name is nine and seven is trying to eat me

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@@crazy4orlando2 excuse me, what?

@@TonyMacaroni69_ My ohone was being an a hole and I couldn't get out of the comment screen and ai thought if I Tyler something it would work but it didn't. So i shut it down and forgot to go back and delete it. To be fair the random characters my phone pocket typed would have been even more confusing. Sorry.

Of course, these days, parents might have given the child the name "baby boy" on purpose!

Michigan’s weird af let’s be honest

@@cockroachcor3 I live there and can confirm

I would refuse to call a child by that name and would have made the parents or the child give me a suitable name to call him by. I have had small children tell me they wanted to be called different names, but I always go by what the parent's choose and it's never been a problem short of when kids want the Americanized name their previous (and too stupid to say it correctly) called them. Latino children have it rough sometimes.

My legal name is Baby Boy...

That actually has happened before. Two Americans named their child "Adolf Hitler" (as firstnames) - and it's completely legal in the US. In America, you couldn't name your kid R2-D2, but you could name it Adolf Hitler.

@@lobeliaowl2482 that's so fucking messed up

Only occasionally.

@@TodayIFoundOut Apart from other names i like the name "Wichita" {as a girls name}. 👨‍🏫🙋‍♂️ 👨‍💻🇦🇺 🤱✍

Today I found out that Simon Whistler wears short shorts.

This happened to my grandpa. Her birth certificate said, "baby girl." When she was in her 80's it made getting a passport difficult.

I had a teacher whose birth certificate read "baby boy *insert surname here*"

My original birth certificate says Baby Girl but my parents and I had it legally changed to Melissa, which is what they called me, when I was 15.

My mom's original birth certificate says Baby Abbott. She was adopted and adopted parents had her name changed and such so we didnt know because we didnt see her birth certificate until a few years ago.

Yep. Same thing with my Grandpa who had to have his brother Daniel go to court to testify to his identity as the correct "baby boy".

My father's firth certificate had his name & his gender mixed up. Nothing ever happened.

My Dad was given the middle name NoMI, no middle initial.

My dad found out when he went to college that his name was Baby Boy Green.

My husband went to war in Viet Nam 5 years, using a hospital issued souvenir certificate. We had a crazy time getting his birth certificate so he could join the local reserve 10 years later. Someone in charge of deciding who should be in the reserves discovered the mistake. He and I married young and he used his military ID to prove he was old enough to get married, a few years before we found out what that original certificate was. lol !

My mother's name is Baby Girl Wyatt. Then her mother decided to name her after her bunk mate in prison, Alicia.

A hospital nurse filled out some papers to get my younger brother registered in the county he was born in. When my parents got his birth certificate his last name was listed as: EGGS. That wasn't our family's name, but close to it.

My friend has a cousin named Tangerine. Former neighbor named his son Seven.

I knew a full grown woman who insisted on being called Rainbow. That was so strange

What happens in those countries, when a person is named after a long line of people with the same name ? Like a person who is the 3rd or the 6th person in the family with the same name. .

Was his father a Greek god-killing machine with a beard, by any chance?

@@maskoblackfyre Who's now starting a new career in killing Norse gods, might I add?

lol, me too.

Me too

same here

Was looking for this comment. Same.

What do you mean, this isn't Michael?

amal zuhair hey, vsauce, michael here. what are fingers?

Same

😂🤣😂🤣

I don’t actually know Latin, but isn’t this what the Romans used to do, with names like Septimus and Octavius?

I have a cat named Seven. He's named after my brother but that's just a nickname.

My youngest sister also has this name. At least my parents were "original" enough to change the spelling a bit: Sevyn

My friend was ewalu which means 8 in Hawaiian.... he was the 8th sibling lol

@@sybillestahl8646 The coworker's parents were born in the wrong generation :D

HinduHillbilly Same 😂😂😂

😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

ive never been witness to it before this, fitting conditions

yeah.... parents shouldn't be able to do that

One of my mother's friends did give her kids names but if the kids decided that they wanted to be called something else as they got older, then that would become their name. She has like 9 kids and I don't know all their names but I do know that one is now called Bear and another is Baby.

In my family we follow an ancient tradition of not naming a child until the age of five. Reason being many children would not survive in ancient times and becoming invested in a child by naming it when it could die at any time would cause more suffering in the family. A child that survived five years was past the point where death could come at any time and was far less likely. Then we followed the tradition of naming a child with a childhood name, which would be the child's name until they came of age and where called an adult where the child could then take on there adult name. If male the age of fifteen was when I was able to chose my coming of age name. If female when each of my sisters started menstruating [for my sisters that was ages eleven, twelve and sixeteen they were able to chose there coming of age names. My childhood name was determined by me being fast, good at hiding and out fighting larger kids by out smarting them and using my surroundings to win. Also it is tradition in my family to name the eldest son [If he was born in April] "Vulpes-Vulpes" So until I was five years old I had no name, then at age five I was named Vulpes-Vulpes, then when I came of age I was robbed of my family's childhood name as the State of Florida would not allow for a traditional Pagan name to be used and forced to take on my mothers last name as my mother and father never married according to the courts even though they had had a traditional Pagan wedding. >:( So I was robbed my birth right childhood name by the State of Florida, Insulted by the State of Florida by being forced to take on my mothers name but not my fathers last name as if I was a bastard, even though I know my father and my parents had had a Pagan wedding the State of Florida would not recognize it nor recognize my family's religious practices. Nor would the State of Florida allow me to change my name at the age of fifteen as is my family's tradition. So, it's not about not being able to pick a name for your child at birth. It's about following traditional family naming practices that my family has held to since before most country's even existed.

Just so I can Fing comment I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. What pagan mythology do you follow??

@@lilypadgaming2652 It is more based around Animism as opposed to Monotheism which you are implying. Though to be fair I know rocks and water and air and fire are not alive. The trees, grass, moss on the rocks and animals sure are though.

How did people address her? Miss ? Or with a nickname?

Same thing happened with my daughter kinda. I forget how but her name on everything while in the hospital was "baby girl * insert last name*) We fixed the issue though. I think my fiance was delirious and just kept referring to her as baby girl so they thought that's what it was. The nurses thought it was just a cute name. We fixed it and Venus will be 2 in November :)

@@restricttheopennotes Aww Venus is a beautiful name!

@@PongoXBongo Her first name was Doris, it just wan't on the birth certificate because my grandparents never recorded it. That's why she didn't know.

There was a girl who was a pretentious gothic girl (redundant, huh?) dating a DJ where I was a bartender in the mid 90s in Chicago. He was not a very pleasant dude physically or Personality wise,and around 25 yrs old and he wed the girl (coincidentally named Molly as well, sorry) when she got pregnant with twins) and he learned that her ID was fake. Her name WAS Molly but she was not born in 1972 as he had been, rather but 1980 and was a high school junior. So her sons were born before her graduation and she named them Judas and Lucifer. WTF? I saw the now ex husband in Chicago several years ago and they were in an all boys Catholic high school and he remarried and they had been renamed Jude and Luke. My best friend is the 6th of 7 kids, and the doc told her parents 43 years ago "sounds like a heartbeat of a big healthy boy. He should be here in time for the bicentennial and maybe a few days later. " Her dad owned a bar and her mother was already in like sardines w/siblings in the apartment above, they aged from 3, 7, 9, and 12. So the plan was to start looking for a new home once the new baby, tentatively to be called "John Adam" arrived... a month before the bicentennial, her mom went into labor and instead of the big healthy boy, she had two little underweight girl twins, even the doctor was not sure if they were fraternal or identical, but he had tagged the first child A and her sister was B since she was born almost 21 minutes after. Their dad came in after he closed the bar and the doctor told him that the whole event was for sure complete. She had only left the bar herself around half past eight and my friend was born a few minutes past 1 AM. He was a little bit confused and he looked at the tags and said "A, B. Agatha and Bertha now can we just go home?" They are actually Amy and Beth and I think it was a good couple of months before the family could see they were not identical, though I can not tell them apart on the telephone and we've been friends for 25 years.

First twins born in Oklahoma. Olka and Homa

I went to school with a girl named Euneek.

Molly Patterson we had twins at my school names Diamond and Peaches 😬

Molly Patterson my step-mom is a teacher and has a lot of kids with “unique” names lol. Including: A-a (adasha), Abcde (ab-sih-dee), Da’Finest with her brother Handsome, Minnie Mouse, and I can’t remember the rest lol but there are some crazy ones lol

I was pitted the name Andrea in my city its mispelled a lot and its a common name

Fake Texas and that’s why your username is fake texas very cool

Wow! That’s an awesome name

That is a pretty sweet name.

Dallas Austin Excellent

dolst this is how you win life

Also there was the story of the couple who were in a car accident while the wife was pregnant with a mixed gender pair of twins. She gave birth to the twins while in a coma so her brother was asked to name the kids. The brother was known to be a bit of a joker so when she recovered she asked him what he named the kids. "Well, I named the girl Denise" Relieved, she asked, "And my son?" "Denephew"

@@LordDragon1965I approve!

Alan Lambert 😂

Oy ye think ye funny m8? Well does ya?? Cuz ye is!

It's that famous "British Stoicism". Obviously it has it's limits, like when talking about Heath the Nazi. WTF is wrong with that guy?

But is a freaking joy when he does break.

I'm sure there were plenty of takes.

Phoenix Uprising and that was the best one.

I came to the comments to see if anyone else made the same observation!

Todd Ellner But it’s just so funny though 😂

Dude took his sweet time, eh?

On the day I was finalizing mine, there was an 80 year old woman called Anna correcting her certificate from Annie. Everyone called her Anna because it seemed to fit her better and she just had found out she could fix it.

How about "Pretty Boy Floyed?"

@@PongoXBongo He hadn't realized it was still his legal name

Creating, and possibly using.

In a conservative sense, I guess?

@@Kevin15047As a conservative myself, I think I'm qualified to say that no, conservatives don't believe that being a domestic abuser makes someone a "family man."

family oriented violence still makes him family oriented. or perhaps he often was oriented towards his family physically

Then you need to come out of the attic

That reminds me of a old movie about Easter the bunny mom had so many children she ran out of names and started making them numbers

In the order of birth? And why not at least choose the number written out in a different language?

Japanese do this sometimes! Some of their names translate literally to first son, second son, etc

Notice its always the 4th or later child, where they make it obvious they stop giving a shit

Oh shit forgot about that

@@mickcv4554 yeah, there seems to be 3 names ready in parents' mind, but with the later ones they start using some great grandparents/uncle's/aunt's middle name. At least in my country.

@@mickcv4554 omg this is hilarious. I'm the 4th child! They named me Feather btw Fucking Feather. No. There is no meaningful backstory. They just named me that. Oh, and I hate birds.

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My dad's legal first name was Boy until he turned 16 when he legally changed it.

I knew a lady whose grandfather was named Bunch Keys because he was found on the courthouse steps in a basket with only his diaper and and a bunch of keys.

A had a aunt named baby girl

So did I! He went by BJ though, because he was legally Baby Boy Jones

Katrina Rankin BJ doesn’t like much of a better option 😂

My maternal grandmother was a foundling and one of the nurses in the nursery wing was permitted to adopt her. This was in the 1920’s. The nurse named her after the ward nurse who approve her and her husband’s request to adopt her.

Hey there, Baby Boy 😉

I'm pretty sure it was gersha lol

I thought it was because she loves Usher

I’ve never heard of a candy called that

@@thatoneawkwardturtle9550 It's Gesher. Simon just mispronounces it, like many other things.

@@candice_ecidnac British accents aren't very precise.

Name: First Surname: Last

You just blew my mind. Instant cerebral death star. Thank you.

First name: Last Last name: Name

potatomato :p Or Chocolate Von Dinosaur

Chalupa Batman

Im quite sure those names are trademarked so you'd get sued

@@UberAwesomeMan9 You can't get sued for naming a child after a trademark

I wanted to name my nephew Cosmo Chalupa Batman.

Nice profile pic

@@taylorbritt499 thanks lol. It's our channel's logo :-P

@@4thechivostreamsarchive586 is it inspired by the Game Theorists' logo? Reminds me of that one.

@@taylorbritt499 Originally it was inspired by the Xbox Achievement Icon, actually lol. But I can totally see what you mean!

Brilliant!

NO it's a Hospital not a jail people are not required to follow any hospital rules. I got sick of waiting for the Dr to come and discharge me so I told the staff my ride is here if the Dr isn't here in 15 minutes I'm leaving and I did.

Business Blaze

I thought it was Girl McGirlface and Boy McBoyface because the UK was too conservative to use a gender neutral name.

"Object" mc"object"face has got to be the most boomer joke to every grace the internet

@@aidanlevy2841 Guy GayM'GirliBoy better

All boys will be named chad; all females will be karen

Brexit McBrexitface Johnson. Too easy.

i'm also kind of pissed that my parents named me Erick Lee instead of Eric, jeez i don't like my name long