My pet peeve is the Finnish name “Yrjö”. It comes from the Greek name “Geôrgios”, which means farmer, but nowadays the word “yrjö” means vomit. ‘Unique spellings’ like some “Everleigh” also drive me crazy.

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Elon

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Donald

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Adolf

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Adolf “Trump” Musk 🤢

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My great grandfather was born before the name was a no no and was named Adolf. When he came to the US he changed it to Allen.

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It’s a perfectly good duck name.

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Wabbit season!

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Francisco

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I’d rather go sans Francisco.

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Greg

By some strange alchemy, all of my friends seem to know a person named Greg that they dislike. It’s become a bit of a meme that if someone mentions the name, others will just grumble in “Fuckin’ Greg”

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(╯_╰”)

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Also Steve. Ive never met a Steve who didn’t have a screw loose.

Stevens are fine. Just Steve.

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Project Steve has enshrined the name for me as one of glory.

Also Steeve deserves recognition. (Rock and Stone In the Heart!)

Wikipedia reminds me there are plenty of notable Stephen Millers than the one for whom I specifically hold contempt.

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My own. It just doesn’t roll off the tongue with my last name very well. I get tongue tied and sound like an idiot giving a fake name.

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Don’t be too hard on yourself, BallShaped. It’ll be alright.

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Kevin. I have never met a good Kevin.

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Maybe they kept leaving Kevin behind on purpose in those Home Alone movies.

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Kevin is literally the stand-in name for uneducated/lower classes children here in Germany. There’s literally been an article in Der Spiegel “Kevin is not a name, but a diagnosis”.

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I had source amnesia on this one, thanks.

My kid has a Kevin friend who is Too Into Sonic. Need I say more?

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I came here to post this. Glad to see it’s where it needs to be.

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…If you’re Kevin Day I’ll make an exception, even though we haven’t met.

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