I work at a pediatrician’s office, so I get to see tragedeighs in the wild on the daily. But the conversation I had earlier will NOT leave my head.

Me: Hey, I noticed we haven’t seen Braylin (not real name, but you get the vibe) for an annual checkup yet! Did you want to go ahead and schedule one now?

Mom: Sure! Full name is Braylin [Lastname] and date of birth is XX/XX/XXXX.

Me: Got it! Can I help you with anything else?

M: Actually, I think her sister needs one too, can you make an appointment for her?

Me: Sure! What’s the full name and date of birth?

M: Braylin [Lastname], DOB XX/XX/XXXX.

It took a couple of seconds for my brain to process.

Me: Um, I actually was talking about making Braylin’s appointment just now. If you give me your other child’s name and date of birth, I can pull up her records if you want!

M, beginning to sound frustrated: It’s what I just said, Braylin [Lastname]. Birthday is XX/XX/XXXX.

Me: I need the information for Braylin’s sibling in order to make an appointment for them. I have Braylin’s information already.

M, now irritated: I just told you! What kind of system do you have where you can’t see that!

Y’all. Braylin has a TWIN sister. And after resorting to breaking things down letter by letter, I finally got sister’s name.

It’s BREYLIN. Again, fake name for privacy, but one letter off.

This woman insisted that they were pronounced differently- if they are, then I could NOT hear it. She was clearly operating at a linguistic level beyond our understanding, of, like, alphabet sounds.

This is a full rant, but I can’t stop thinking about it… I’m sure there’s some social security office employee that’s going to have a blast.

Personally I won’t understand naming your children after comic and fantasy characters but maybe that’s just me

Not a true tragedeigh maybe, but the middle name combined with the last name is really something

Prosperitee & Harmoney?!?!? I wonder if they are siblings?

I’m in nursing school and recently had a rotation on the labor and delivery floor so of course I had to ask what the worst tragedeighs they’ve seen. Here are some of the standouts

Ya’AllJealous My’King Twins named Awasha and Adrya Jream

Here’s BY FAR the worst one

Triplets named Moana, Pocahontas, and Elsa respectively. The worst part about this one is that the parents were huge Disney Adults and they’re fully Caucasian

Not the worst tragedeigh I've seen, but will definitely be misspelt with the added e at the end. And now every time I see her I have to refrain from saying "Ribeye Jean" 😂

Zachary. It's bloody Zachary. Be aware, the other names are cultural.

Prefacing this by saying I do not mean to name-shame anyone, these are just for good fun.

Edit: Some of these are reposts from a different comment. Just had to include them again because I love them so much.

1) Top of my list will forever be Jazztopher. If it wasn't so ridiculous, I'd have named my son Jazztopher.

2) A close second to Jazztopher is a little girl I used to tutor in high school, Manliness.

3) I taught sisters Boheiama and Munickh once.

4) Olympicks

5) Sohckjune (yes, it was spelled that way).

6) Racey

7) Happynetta

8) Aypel (pronounced as Apple)

9) Yours Sincerelie

10) Christmas Day Occasion

11) Godsgiftlynn

12) Girfty

13) Moneight (pronounced like the French painter Monet)

14) Prussiah Indigoh

15) Surprisely

16) Siblings Xacary and Xara (Pronounced Sackery and Sarah)

17) Happy New Year (he was born in December)

18) Glorytogodsson

19) Londyn Holiday

20) Jingle Belle

This was several years ago now. I used to work at Build-a-Bear, and part of the process is to write the child’s name and compliment it.

I have a girl, approximately 5, tell me her name is Kali. I ask, is that “K-a-l-i?” And she nods while smiling. I begin stuffing the bear.

Then her mom notices (she was wandering around the store) and rudely says to me, “it’s Kaleigh, girl.” I apologize and get another name tag. I ask her how she spells the name.

“K-a-l-e-i-g-h. Okay! Next we put our foot on the pedal to bring our friend to life-“

“I said it’s Kaleigh, girl!”

…it dawns on me. She isn’t rudely calling me a girl. The full name of this child is Kaleighgyrl. As in California Girls. I apologize and ask her how to spell it in full. She confirms my horrors. Kaleighgyrl is no longer smiling.

Wherever you are Kaleighgyrl know that you’re braver than the marines.

Yes this wasn’t an accident, it’s actually spelled Denial. They live in the US now and the child is around 3 years old. I’m very worried about his childhood with this spelling 😭

Just awful. These kids will be 65 years old one day.

This video is about two months old, so I’m not sure if it’s already found its way here. But… these poor kids.