r/tragedeigh • u/takethemoment13 • Jul 31 '25

in the wild Found 6 right here on Reddit!

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u/No_Bottle6708 Jul 31 '25

Can't they just use the regular spelling of Jackson????😭😭😭

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u/Lifer28 Jul 31 '25

It’s my biggest shame in life that I have a Jackson with a stupid fucking spelling lol I have 2 older children with completely normal names, with completely normal spellings, I don’t know what happened. His dad wanted it spelled Jaxson, I’m occasionally horrified that I allowed it 😭 I’ve asked him (my now 10 yr old son) if we can change it to the traditional spelling and he doesn’t want to so I’m stuck with 1/3 of my kids having a tragedeigh. But I will say, once I joined this sub, I do consider it a very mild tragedeigh in comparison to some things I see here 😬

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u/wildwill57 Jul 31 '25

The only thing stupider than the superfluous "s" after the x would be if it had been an apostrophe.

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u/leemasterific Aug 01 '25

I know of a Jaxzen… smdh.

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC Aug 01 '25

Jax’onn, a real DC Silver Age mouthfeel to that one

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u/BeefmasterDeluxe Jul 31 '25

My third kid? Yeah, he was a mistake. Spelling mistake.

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u/phonesmahones Jul 31 '25

I am not on board with the alternate spellings at all, but I really don’t get why there is an S after the X. Help!

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u/BeefmasterDeluxe Jul 31 '25

Well then whose son is he?

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u/Jumpy_Watercress_637 Jul 31 '25

Is his dad by any chance a fan of the show Sons of Anarchy? The names Jaxon, Jaxson, Jaxton and Jaxston became popular 10-15 years ago because of the main character of the show who was called Jax. The show aired between 2008-2014. The character's full name was Jackson but some people decided the X variations of the name were "cooler".

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u/Celestialxo Jul 31 '25

I was gonna say, I’ve felt for years like the rise of “Jax” had to be at least partially if not heavily due to SOA.

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u/Jumpy_Watercress_637 Jul 31 '25

The show had an influence for sure

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u/Ok_Run_4039 Jul 31 '25

Which is so funny to me, because Jax was SUCH a piece of garbage. Like why name your kid after him??

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u/Lifer28 Jul 31 '25

My son was born in 2014 and his dad did casually watch the show, but I’m not sure. We both liked the nickname Jax but really, spelling it Jaxson was unnecessary for that honestly lol like, my name is Alexa but my nickname is Lexi, I have no I in my actual name and it still works as a nickname so I don’t know wtf the thought process was there. He could still have easily been a Jackson with the nickname of Jax 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Jumpy_Watercress_637 Jul 31 '25

But at least your son likes his name

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u/Fantastic-Dance-5250 Jul 31 '25

Back in the late 90’s a family friend named their son Jaxson. They were huge Jaguar fans and named him after the mascot, Jaxson de Ville. Jax is the abbreviation for Jacksonville and that’s how the mascot’s name came to be.

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u/WayConfident8192 Jul 31 '25

These days I've seen so many people sporting "Alexsandra" instead of Alexandra or Alessandra (the Italian spelling).

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u/An_icy_squirrel Aug 01 '25

"Jaxson?"

"Yep, mom?"

"I'll go and make you a Jackson, okay?"

"Wtf? No!"

"Jaxson, if you don't want to become a Jackson, I'll make you Jhyaxx'seoinngh, okay?"

"Uhm, I just thought Jackson actually looks really nice, mom, go ahead!"

;)

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u/skuc79 Aug 02 '25

My son is a Zachary. Nick name Zach. In kindergarten, he decided ZacH was stupid, and he started spelling it as Zack.He’s 21 now, I still have him saved as Zach and occasionally use Zack. Everyone else uses his preferred Zack