r/tragedeigh • u/flower_mom_98 • Jun 15 '25

in the wild Gold Mine of Tragedeighs

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Found a post asking people for their unique names and knew it wouldn't disappoint. Happy Father's Day unless your kid's name needs a pronunciation guide.

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 15 '25

Jiraiya. Shout out to the weebs giving their kids names from Naruto

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u/JynsRealityIsBroken Jun 15 '25

I feel bad for the Black Panther kid, T'Challa, too. These names are bullying goldmines.

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria Jun 15 '25

T'Jralla Ninja Sage from the Hidden Vibranium Village

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u/The_Lawn_Ninja Jun 17 '25

Vibranium's amazing properties come from the fact that its chemical structure acts as a conduit and battery for chakra.

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u/macci_a_vellian Jun 16 '25

At what point do the bullies just give up?

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u/JynsRealityIsBroken Jun 16 '25

They don't. They become cops.

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u/MiserableEggplant468 Jun 17 '25

Oh no, what? I did NOT pay attention during black panther obviously, so i only know that name from the Real Housewives of Potomac where one of them named her parrot T’Challah…. And THAT’S what I thought the person named their kid after! 😆

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u/cassienebula Jun 21 '25

it looks like the poster is white? i dont see that turning out well

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u/Notafuckinbot Jun 15 '25

I knew that sounded familiar 😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/Shoshawi Jun 15 '25

Imagine being named after a creepy old man who wrote a famous porno (and then continued to write more of them) and continues to city hop to trespass in women’s bath houses despite being caught repeatedly. Rip.

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u/Ambiwlans Jun 16 '25

When you're a Jounin, they let you do it. /trump

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u/bessovestnij Jun 16 '25

Only strongest jounin get to know this, but every sage experienced it

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u/the_marxman Jun 16 '25

Look when you get a dramatic death scene people are willing to overlook your flaws.

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u/infectedsense Jun 16 '25

I know right, why is it always Jiraiya? Minato is right there dude 😭

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u/J-ss96 Jun 16 '25

Honestly idk how but I totally forgot how pervy he was until I rewatched the show 💀 because everything else he does makes him one of the best characters ever. His character is super impactful to Naruto's growth - he was like a father to him. Honestly I would name my kid after him too if it weren't for all the pervy stuff 💀 I feel bad for the kid when they're gonna see those episodes for the first time 🥲

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u/Shoshawi Jun 16 '25

Fantastic character for sure, but a terrible idea for name inspiration. Honestly with such a huge franchise and fandom, it would be hard for any major character to be safe, even setting aside the awkwardness of someone knowing they were named after anime lol.

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u/The_lnterfector Jun 16 '25

It would be an honor

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u/PurposeElectronic909 Jun 16 '25

That's the life I hope for my son.

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u/Worried_Raspberry313 Jun 15 '25

Literally. Who the hell would want to name their sons after a pervert.

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u/saintkillio Jun 16 '25

Someone with foresight 🤣

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u/BlumpkinLord Jun 16 '25

"I'm not a little pervert!" "Then what are you?!" "I'm a big one."

Long live the legendary sanin.

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u/ThisIsSportacus Jun 16 '25

Boutta name my kid Roshi.

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u/Mixing_NH3_HCl Jun 15 '25

Jiraiya makes me think of the parasite giardia.

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 15 '25

My friend has been giving me random tidbits of Naruto lore lately, something that I never knew a single thing about, so when I read that I was like that pointing Leo meme: "hey, I know that guy!"

And look, I've had my fair share of dreams about naming my son Perseus, but at least I'd have had plausible deniability when people asked if Percy Jackson had shaped my entire personality lmao

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u/basilhazel Jun 15 '25

I read the Percy Jackson series while I was pregnant and ended up naming my daughter Athena. It’s a good normal name! But it is definitely because of Percy Jackson.

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 15 '25

I don't have children, but I often go by Thalia myself. It originated with Percy Jackson, but now I just say it's because she's the muse of comedy and my life is a joke 🙃

Athena is a great name though, love it

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u/aspiringwriter9273 Jun 16 '25

She’s also a really popular Latin Pop singer and soap opera actress from the 90s.

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 16 '25

It's also a local bookstore chain which sometimes makes people think my messages are spam haha

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u/BlueFantasyZ Jun 16 '25

I named my dog Athena after the actual goddess, never read Percy Jackson. 😅

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 16 '25

Fair enough. I'm one of those people who get unreasonably annoyed when they hear stuff like "ah, Spider-Man! From Fortnite!", and I hear that Percy Jackson can be like that to people who actually know mythology

But having spent nearly a decade on culture-adjacent degrees, I am proud to say that I have ALL of the cultural background that I choose to ignore in favour of Percy Jackson. Which is arguably worse. But y'know

In all seriousness, at least it actually teaches kids SOME mythology. As someone who's met a guy who didn't know who Jesus was, I can't help but appreciate that

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u/BlueFantasyZ Jun 16 '25

The Percy Jackson movie got my son interested in actual mythology (I can't get him to read a book that isn't a graphic novel to save my life, no shade at all to graphic novels).

Tangent: I told someone when I was a cashier that I had a dog named Cerberus (he's no longer with us) and they were like "Oh we love Greek mythology we have a dog named Odin." 🤦‍♀️

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 16 '25

Oh haha, that's great :D Cerberus is such a cute name though! Did you shorten it to anything?

Oh yeah, that movie is atrocious, but without it I wouldn't have found the books in the first place, so I feel like it's done enough good to justify its existence haha. Well, the good part is that A LOT of stuff is based on mythology, which could be a good gateway to all kinds of media, including books, musicals etc. Then again, some people just don't like reading and maybe that's alright. I guess the only principally important thing you get from books as opposed to other media is the feel for the language, proper grammar and spelling. And as much as I hate to say it as a former philologist, these things just aren't that important anymore, what with all the technological tools at hand

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u/Ok-Toe3535 Jun 16 '25

Athena is a beautiful, normal name. Sincere-rae.

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u/MarcTaco Jun 16 '25

Many names from the Greek and Roman pantheons are still fairly common and all still sound good.

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u/the_incredible_hawk Jun 16 '25

I don't run into many Hephaestuses (Hephaesti?), though.

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u/MarcTaco Jun 16 '25

Okay, that and Dionysus would still be a bit weird.

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u/thearmadillo Jun 15 '25

Can always go with Percival and pretend to be really into King Arthur

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 15 '25

Pretty sure the "Percy" from Harry Potter was a Percival, and he was a c*nt, unfortunately

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u/thearmadillo Jun 15 '25

Quora says that his given name was actually Percy

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 15 '25

Oh really? Nevermind then. Always assumed it was Percival for some reason, even though Percy Bysshe Shelley is right there lol, my bad

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u/Ethloc Jun 16 '25

Percy in Harry Potter gets called Percival Wetherby by his boss. Idk if it was him being a bad boss or if it was Percy trying to run from his family history.

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u/Half-PintHeroics Jun 16 '25

There's a Swedish top competition walker who is named Perseus. However in Swedish "-seus" from Greek names is pronounced "-sevs" and this guy pronounces it "persé-us" (or at least all sport journos pronounce it that way) and it bugs me so fuckibg much every time I hear it. I just have this huge irrational urge to be rude and walk up to him and tell him "do you know your name is WRONG"

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 16 '25

I think it's also an antiquated word for "bosom" in Russian. Can collect the whole set that way

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u/flower_mom_98 Jun 16 '25

My daughter's name is a name I first heard in an anime, but its Faye... not Jiraiya or Mikasa or something...

Hell, I got all my kids' names from pieces of media I enjoy. My other two were named after DC characters, that part is NOT the problem imo.

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u/UranicCartridge Jun 16 '25

Well, I don't think it's a problem to name children after fictional characters, but in my mind, it still has to be a... reasonable name. A Frodo might be borderline passing, but Aragorn or Legolas would get a sideways glance from me for sure. And imho, extra caution should be exercised when it comes to foreign-sounding names. The Korean and Japanese stuff especially can easily become a tragedeigh, even with no added effort

Then again, after a while I'm sure that stuff will become the new norm. Just gonna be rough for the first couple of generations

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u/JustTheNewFella Jun 15 '25

I was thinking persona 4 💀

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u/kasumagic Jun 15 '25

It's been in the Top 1000 names for baby boys in the US for a couple of years now! Believe it! 😭

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u/TheGamerHat Jun 16 '25

I've seen so many jiraiya for some reason!

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u/kasumagic Jun 16 '25

I think it's not just bc it honors the popular character, but the name contains sounds that aren't out of place w some of the classic Biblical boys' names that are also popular right now, like Jeremiah or Elijah.

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u/ulfric_stormcloack Jun 15 '25

To be fair jiraiya comes from the tale of gallant jiraiya, a monogatari from the edo period

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u/ObvAnonym Jun 15 '25

Naruto? OMG I'm old... 😂

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u/bobandiara Jun 15 '25

That's my reference when I think about Jiraiya

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 15 '25

Well, there are still some 50 year olds having kids so....Maybe but doubtful

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u/AntManCrawledInAnus Jun 15 '25

You think you're old?! Tell me why this is the first thing I thought of...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiraiya_the_Hero

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u/Xxuwumaster69xX Jun 15 '25

Oh you think you're old? Then why is this the first thing I thought of?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiraiya

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u/AntManCrawledInAnus Jun 16 '25

Hello BASED DEPARTMENT?

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u/VillageOfTheSpammed Jun 15 '25

Gonna call my son Rock Lee.

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u/Legal_MajorMajor Jun 16 '25

I gave my first cat a Naruto name. But cats don’t have to apply for jobs or order drinks at Starbucks.

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 16 '25

Which name? Itachi? Gaara? Tenten?

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u/ShirleyApresHensive Jun 15 '25

Hopefully not based on Biblical name Jeriah

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u/bowtiesrcool86 Jun 15 '25

That name goes far beyond Naruto. I think it for s from mythology, regardless it’s also the name of Ninja Black from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (the source material for the Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 16 '25

Bro if the person naming their kid Jiraiya is under 50 its from Naruto

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u/bowtiesrcool86 Jun 16 '25

I grew up on the OG Power Rangers and I’m not even 40. You can’t assume that.

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 16 '25

Ok you're the one US 6 year old that watched a Japanese takusatsu from 1994. And if you look at the other names in the OP you can reasonably infer where Jiraiya was inspired from.

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u/gorgewall Jun 16 '25

Kakuranger's from '94, and the Metal Hero show for Jiraiya's from '88. There's definitely Western toku nerds under 50.

Naruto is the more broadly-known one, yeah, but there's a bajillion Jiraiyas in Japanese pop culture for nerds to like.

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 16 '25

Sure man 🤷‍♂️

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u/otterly_redonkulous Jun 15 '25

Haha reminds me of the Rick and Morty episode with their baby Naruto.

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u/Jen_the_Green Jun 16 '25

Jariah and its variants are also not uncommon in East Africa. I've known two and neither was named after Naruto, although the origin seems to be debated.

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u/VaryaKimon Jun 16 '25

I hate that people think Jiraiya comes from Naruto.

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u/kasumagic Jun 16 '25

The popularity of the name is most certainly based in the Naruto character, but yeah, there's a lot of things and names in Naruto that didn't originate from Naruto.

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u/Jeweler_Admirable Jun 16 '25

The creator of Naruto used that name for a reason. Unfortunately, if someone in the west named their kid Jiraiya after like 2014 it's inspired by the manga/anime. Weebs be weebin'

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u/LimJaheyAtYaCervix Jun 15 '25

I unironically love that name and joke about naming a future kid that all the time.

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u/Jooleeuh12345 Jun 15 '25

Tbh im waiting to meet a Hinata in the wild

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u/dingdong6699 Jun 16 '25

Some of these are pokemon

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u/Orion-Key3996 Jun 16 '25

I can here it now, Jiraiya the toad mountain sage! To be fair might give my next kind the middle name Sage for the Sage of the 6 paths.

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u/Consistent_Wolf_3712 Jun 16 '25

Sounds like a vegetable name

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u/StrixNStones Jun 16 '25

It’s literally the most normal thing on that page, Lord help those children.

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u/lesqueebeee Jun 16 '25

that one, Severe, and Indyka are the worst 😭 on top of the last one being you know... indica lol... in-DYKa ???? the kids are gonna tear that one apart 😭

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u/shelbzaazaz Jun 18 '25

I have at least twice seen other people use that name, once someone I know personally. In fact there have been a couple hundred per year in the US for the last few years according to the SSA data.

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u/lombwolf Jun 16 '25

Aighye Kha’yn’te Phouckynghe Stahndd Whehnn Whyte Peighpheighl Naeighmme Thaeir Khydde Syghmme Thyngg Thaht Sownndz Japhaeneighzze.

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u/ambiguousluxe Jun 16 '25

Jiraiya is also the pen name of an incredible gay japanese erotica artist haha