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What were the names your parents were going to name you that didn't make the cut? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DinosaurSr@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not the answer to your question, but my family had a tradition of passing the same name down for generations (think this is pretty common?). Every other person just ended up going by a nickname, but it was still sooo confusing. Always getting calls for someone else and having to explain that, yeah my name is "abc", but I go by "xyz". I felt a little guilty, but we did not pass that tradition on to our kids.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you haven't read/seen it, the book/movie Holes has a main character who's name is Stanley Yelnats III, after passing down the name from generation to generation.

"Yelnats" is "Stanley" backwards, Shia LaBeouf plays the main Stanley, and it's a fantastic movie from 2003.