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De Evolution posted...

I'm aware some names "mean" those things. It doesn't make them any less fucking stupid as names. Like I said, I have an extremely uncommon name and I'm not doing that to my kids. Our last name is uncommon as is last thing they need is a silly first name like Wolf or Ocean. Doesn't matter if it means something else it's not a good name. Just because Toro means bull in Spanish doesn't mean I would name my son Bull. Lots of names have meanings and are actually decent names on their own. Reina means queen. Laila/Layla means night. Luna means moon. Those are all good names.

Again, though, Wolf is literally a name.

De Evolution posted...

And the Norse stuff just reminded me of one of the other names she chose was Ragnar. What the fuck?! We're black first off, I'm not naming my kids for white mythological heroes have some damn pride at least.

Ragnar isn't a mythical hero. Technically, Ragnar Lodbrok was a real person. He definitely had some stories told about him, though. It was an incredibly common name, though. When I hear it, I think of two of the central characters from Bernard Cornwall's Saxon Stories, and that's probably why I like it so much.

But I totally get your point in that case. I'm incredibly white and imagine if I named my child a traditional Ghanian name, for example, it would probably be seen as pretty ridiculous.

De Evolution posted...

But yeah I'm sorry but every single one of those names is stupid as fuck. I truly don't understand the mindset of people who give their kids dumb weird names. It baffles my mind that people are that fucking stupid to not realize what they're doing to their own kids who have to live with the idiotic name they chose.

Again, things like names are pretty fluid. There was a time that people were named Gaylord. Times change, people change, and every name is new the first time.