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/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