Submitted 3 weeks ago by lilcutie24@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
No. Kids won’t be able to pronounce it, teachers won’t be able to pronounce it, job interviewers won’t be able to pronounce it, medical personal won’t be able to pronounce it, etc.
Every single one of these moments is avoidable, and no amount of these moments is worth ‘having the kid with the interesting name’.
I’m an adult and I don’t even know how the fuck to say it.
I have never heard the name before.
There’s your sign. The other is whether 95% of people can confidently pronounce it correctly up on reading it.
Just my personal opinion, but your name should be something you feel happy with and should not depend on whether it will be easily pronouncable by others. Different names will be vastly more easy/more difficult to pronounce in different places if the child ever moves to a foreign country, so this is kind of unpredictable to begin with.
Just my opinion, but your name is exclusively a label for other people to call you. If you don’t like it, you can literally ask to be called anything else, but how other people will be able to pronounce it or not should be at least some small percentage of the thought process. Especially considering that children can’t pick their own names when they’re born
If no one can pronounce your name, you’re not going to be happy with it … No one likes having to correct everybody, constantly, on how to greet them
Right, but outside some edge cases, what is going to make you happy about a name is (1) not having to correct everyone about pronunciation/spelling constantly (2) not constantly being confused with someone else. Sure, if you are Indian and move to Argentina, you’ll run into the first problem anyway - but at least it won’t be a constant problem in your childhood.
But it you are naming a person, the name should be common enough that everyone knows how to say it and spell it (in the top 200 or so baby names), but not so common that they will be confused with their peers (not the top 10).
That’s true, but children are like little predators waiting for anything to make your life miserable. The first time a teacher stumbles on your name, that’s your entire identity for YEARS. How happy are you going to be with your name after that?
Depends. For getting teased by other kids? Absolutely.
At least marco is a common name where people won’t bat an eye if you were named that
I’d probably still blink as normal but yeah the name wouldn’t strike me as odd
He’s an old Celtic God, god of the wild and the likes. It’s likely to be a sticking point for bullies in schools honestly. Which sucks because by all accounts he was kind of a bad ass.
It depends on the region and culture you were born into, but I’m gonna have to lean toward no since I can’t personally find any evidence that any other person has ever had this name. It’d make it hard to find shirts and stuff that already have your name printed on them
American of Russian and Swedish descent, but yeah
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but not being able to participate in name-based targeted consumerism is the worst reason I can possibly think of to argue against having a unique name.
I really can’t see any benefits to the kid in saddling him with a name like that.
Your father might be a witch.
From what I get, the name is so bad, that when creating your character you choose to be born as a girl and transition latter so you would-be called Marco. Looks like you knew before being born that the name was bad 😂
well its an unique name, I haven’t heard it before!
Horned Demon and Marco Polo jokes aside, I say run with it. As much as millennials get crapped on for choosing weird names they’ve at least suck to it and I’d hope it would make room for more names. It has meaning to you, go for it.
Every kid will get picked on for their name at some point.
Honestly fuck what these other people are saying, I have a hard to pronounce somewhat unique name and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love my name. Not saying I was never picked on for it, quite the opposite, but it’s not like being named Brandon / Braeden / Braydon would have changed that.
Yes, your child will not be bullied and everyone will think extra highly of them. It also reflects positively on you as a parent and highlights to everyone how your particular kid is more special than others.
I wouldn’t think so, mostly because it’s long and not straightforward to read/pronounce.
I find my parents approach to naming to be quite reasonable : Give a short and easy to pronounce/understand first name, and a more creative/interesting and longer second name.
Short names generally make things easier, and about half of the people I know that have long first names (3 or more syllables) have adopted a shortened version of their name or an unrelated nickname for everyday use.
Steffie instead of Stephanie, tini instead of christine, Ulli instead of ulrich, johan for Johannes, max for Maximilian…
Anything that is not Jack or Ted or Phil or Chris or Mike or Jordan or Justin or Jason or Larry or Pete… Is good
Bleurgh!
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a good name for a baby born with horns protruding from its head.
Aeao@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn. Reading this too late to help my horny boy. He gets mocked relentlessly at school for his horns and the name I gave him. I named him Tiny-penis. Which in retrospect I can see how young boys might mock that name.