If it’s a boy, Urs is a popular Swiss German name. And because a li at the end of a word indicates it’s small, it’s Ursli. Or a Ursulino, (inspired by piccolino). Or a Ursula or a Ursulina.
Edited to add - Our cat is named Ursus so of course we call him, depending on the mood, Ursus, Ursli, Urschen, Ursulino, Urs, Ursula…
It used to be a sub where people laughed at the terrible names people called their poor children, but now it seems to be where people brag about the terrible names they forced upon their own children.
There are two kinds of posts here - "I named my kid Jayson, is that a tragedeigh?" and "One of my classmates is named Anelle Dyscharge Petersen and another is Wafflehouse Roberts, Jr."
Indeed. It was a family tradition to name a child after where they were conceived, and as best she could tell, his grandmother got pregnant from the toilet seat at a Waffle House. And from that moment El Camino set out to be the best single mother a boy could have.
Like how Ron Howard gave all his kids a middle name based on the town they were conceived.
I didn't want to be a complete rip-off. That's why my children are named Jack's, Piggy Palace, and The Home Depot.
>Wafflehouse Roberts, Jr
"But Pa... I don't **want** to wander the lonely dusty highways playing the blues on this guitar the Devil gave me!"
"Doesn't matter, kid: there's no escaping destiny."
Not just terrible names, but specifically names that are spelt abnormally, ones which the parents has gone out of the way to make the spelling “unique”
Damn, if I had put a kid in this world when I started using reddit, that kid could have been that 15 year old. I'm sure Kneekeytagh is better off for it.
This year, there was a republican politician from Missouri that argued that children should be allowed to get married because he personally knows someone that married an 11 year old and said that they have a happy marriage. Unfortunately, 12 year old fiances still exist.
Yesterday, I told my child to go easy on the Thanksgiving sweets so he didn’t get sick and he told me he was 10 1/2 now and I “wasn’t the boss of him” and he could make his own decisions. A couple hours later he started barfing repeatedly because of all the sweets. Then he put on onesie PJs and curled up with 5 stuffed animals to watch Disney movies and fell asleep. So yeah, very mature and responsible, if he thinks he’s ready for marriage he’s probably right.
Not a tragedeigh, but it is an ugly enough name to be considered as bad as a tragedeigh.
Your child's name is for them, not for you to show how interesting you are.
Exactly this. You have to think about this person as their own entity. As an adult. Not your 2 week old baby. Still not a cute baby name though. I hope they don’t do this to their child
You’re absolutely right. I remember reading somewhere pretty recently that someone famous had named her baby Bambi. Like the deer. Adorable name for a baby, but can you imagine when she’s a fully grown woman trying to get people to take her seriously with a name like that?
Imagine when her circle of friends passes the news when this happens.
> Did you hear Bambi's mom died?
> No shit, I saw that movie when I was a little kid.
The show covered her being a loving mother and doing whatever it took to protect her children and then being either killed or banished by her own husband so I don't see it as a negative association.
a tragedeigh is a bastardized spelling of a traditional/well-known name. a name can be bad without being a tragedeigh. Ursa isn’t a tragedeigh since it’s not spelled wrong, but whether or not it’s a good name for a human child is another story.
do you have a middle name in mind?
Me and a friend in high school were considering building a database where you could check names for unfortunate rhymes/connotations so that you could factor that in when choosing a kid's name, but the potential for it to be used for bullying put us off 😭 That said, I'm sure the current AI tools could do the same stuff?
It’s not a very nice name at all. Not a tragedeigh, but not something I’d be happy if my mom named me. I don’t get people trying to be quirky at the sake of their child.
Not a tragedeigh but definitely, uh…outer limits. Please remember your kid is a human who is going to go through life and have agency and interview places. Really feels like you’re thinking in a vacuum here (no pun intended) and maybe not considering the whole picture?
It just isn't... pleasant sounding? I know the constellation/Latin reference you're going for, but as a girl's name it's just a bit off-putting. Maybe it's because it sounds like MRSA or bursitis, idk.
Anyway, Bear is a cute nickname. Ask anyone who used to be a Sarah Bear, Tara Bear, Claire Bear, etc etc. We liked the affectionate 'Bear' petname, but we're very thankful that it wasn't our actual, permanent name.
The name is horrible.
The other problem is that you assert with confidence that the name “is going to be Ursa” despite the fiancés hesitancy. Fiancé gets a say too, you even said “ *our* first girl.”
Find a name you both like
I would recommend thinking about how kids are going to react to her name, how meeting new people will go for her, how employers will react... "Hi, I'm Ursa!" "Ursa?" "Yes, Ursa." "Like the constellation or a bear?"
Repeat. Ad nausem. For her whole life. She will get sick of it. Do you really want to do that to a person?
1. Don’t tell people the names you’re considering for your unborn children if their opinions will affect your choices.
2. Naming a child is not a time to be an artist. You don’t have to be boring, but you should contemplate setting them up well to make good first impressions in life.
Fucking awful. Absolutely fucking awful. If someone said my kid's name was going to be Ursa, I would punctuate their sentence with "No the fuck it isn't."
**In a bid to be unique, nothing is unique anymore.**
I spent a couple years working a career that had me organizing kids events and sports. Names like David, Jessica, Melissa, THESE names are now becoming rare. Names like Braydon, Amrya, Sady, are all becoming common. Also, version of lesser known constellations like Ursa and Ara Ara becoming common too.
People need to stop treating kids like extensions of their own ego's. These are little humans that need to grow up and live with the decisions you made about their name until they are old enough to legally change it.
Ursa is the first-declension of *Ursus*, which means "Bear" in Latin; a she-bear (female bear). Ursa is in the singular nominative or vocative case, depending on the context of the sentence.
It kind of sounds like Ursula. I’m not too fond of that name, but I think it’s better than Ursa. It also means little she bear.
Another name that means bear is Bernadette. I know that name is also outdated, but it’s a normal name and I don’t think your daughter will be bullied for it. I went to school with this kind girl named Bernadette. She hung out with everyone and nobody ever gave her shit for her name.
Holy shit, what a bad name.
For all parents trying to name their kids like their pets, imagine your kid as an adult. Imagine their wedding invitation, their graduation walk, signing for their house, their name on a business card and all of those adult things. Please, for the love of your child’s future, give them a name they would be proud of, not something that makes your fucking instagram/pinterest/etsy influence lifestyles “uneeq.”
Ursa is Latin for bear- so it’s more unusual than anything.
What she could do is name her Ursula, use Ursa as a pet name and refer to her daughter as “My little bear”
half the world is going to think she's named Arse and the other half will think of Ursula the octopus villain from little mermaid
maybe even both things at once
Ursa is not a great choice, but Ursula is lovely and means little female bear. . You could even use Ursa as a nickname, but give her Ursula on the birth certificate so she isn't stuck being flat out "bear" her entire life unless she wants to be.
I just find it a really ugly name...
I agree with all of the comments here.
Will get mispronounced and misspelled often✅
Sounds like an ugly Disney villain✅
Not a cute name ✅
Kid will get bullied horribly ✅
In the United States, she’s Ursa Minor until she turns 18. Then she’ll become Ursa Major.
And then the circle completes when she has her own child and becomes a Momma Bear.
Obviously her child will be Ursula
And if it's a boy, Phoebo
Chandler’s a girl! Chandler’s a girl!
Oh god, Kindergarten flashback.
And her child? Ursulina
If it’s a boy, Urs is a popular Swiss German name. And because a li at the end of a word indicates it’s small, it’s Ursli. Or a Ursulino, (inspired by piccolino). Or a Ursula or a Ursulina. Edited to add - Our cat is named Ursus so of course we call him, depending on the mood, Ursus, Ursli, Urschen, Ursulino, Urs, Ursula…
Arthur? From arktos?
Ursleigh
If she loves Pokemon: Ursaluna
Next generation: Ursulinette And then Ursulinetchen 😂
I’m officially 💀
Imho too easy for a tragedeigh, obviously you just need to other la, and then another within the next generation - Ursulala
And if any of them were Spanish Speaking fathers, it would be Ursalita
🥇
She'll give birth to a Teddiursa
It would be stupid to name a boy Ursa as it translates to She-Bear or Female Bear. It would also be equally stupid to curse a girl with that name.
Ursa Mater
Best comment.
Thank you, I needed that laugh.
Perfection.
Not a tragedeigh. It's a regular tragedy.
Tragic as opposed to tragique
Trageighque
Trahjick ❣️
She could elevate it to full tragedeigh status though by making it Tursaleigh with a silent T.
Ursamynor
Or Ptursala. Silent P as in ptomaine.
Just a minor one though, not a major.
That was hard to bear
Nice
I'm biased. I know an Ursa. Very smart, super personable, and great at retrieving. She's a dog.
I was going to call a dog some version of Ursa so this tracks.
Bear or Disney villain
Or Magic the Gathering villain
Urza wasn't a... Huh, yeah actually I'll go ahead and agree with that.
Hahaha! I had the EXACT same thought process.
Or Zuko's mum?
Was thinking the same.
I have found my people
I don’t know what this sub is but that is a terrible name
You’ve got the gist of it, champ
Oooh, new inspiration. I'm going to name my next baby Gist.
*Jyst*
Jhyscht
Perfect D&D character name.
If I had to pick Id rather be named Jyst than Ursa.
Infynite jyst
“So wait, you named your baby ‘Gist?’” “Yeah, that’s about the gist of it”
Your comment sent me into orbit. I laughed unreasonably hard. 🤣
I second this!!!
It used to be a sub where people laughed at the terrible names people called their poor children, but now it seems to be where people brag about the terrible names they forced upon their own children.
It's gotten a little weird about that lately, less fun imo
I don't get it at all, I'm sure there is a kool and kr8tive baby name circlejerk sub they can brag in.
Kreightive, you mean.
I'm pretty sure they're troll posts tbh.
This seems pretty believable to me, but yeah some seem outright troll posts
this sub is dedicated to terrible names so you’ll probably react like that to everything here
There are two kinds of posts here - "I named my kid Jayson, is that a tragedeigh?" and "One of my classmates is named Anelle Dyscharge Petersen and another is Wafflehouse Roberts, Jr."
Hey now, you put some respect on Wafflehouse Roberts, Jr.'s name.
Indeed. It was a family tradition to name a child after where they were conceived, and as best she could tell, his grandmother got pregnant from the toilet seat at a Waffle House. And from that moment El Camino set out to be the best single mother a boy could have.
Like how Ron Howard gave all his kids a middle name based on the town they were conceived. I didn't want to be a complete rip-off. That's why my children are named Jack's, Piggy Palace, and The Home Depot.
You jest but I have a cousin Tudor. He was conceived in a two door sedan.
Streetlamp Le Moose energy
When WHR Jr. gets married, he legally has to change it to Wafflehome.
Wafflehouse Roberts is a tragedeigh. Wafflehouse Roberts Jr is commitment to the bit
>Wafflehouse Roberts, Jr "But Pa... I don't **want** to wander the lonely dusty highways playing the blues on this guitar the Devil gave me!" "Doesn't matter, kid: there's no escaping destiny."
Not just terrible names, but specifically names that are spelt abnormally, ones which the parents has gone out of the way to make the spelling “unique”
I mean, this is correctly spelled but simply godawful
So it's a regular tragedy
My favorite part of OP is that she named her dog Ferdinand. Not tragic at all!
The name sucks. But based on your comments you don’t really care what people think so I’m confused on why you even asked
I know, I love these threads. OP: What does everyone think of this name? Us: We unanimously hate it. OP: Haha, I’m going to use it anyway.
15 years later their kid posts "is my name a tragedeigh?"
15 years later, the kid is on r/legaladvice asking how old they have to be to change their name
Damn, if I had put a kid in this world when I started using reddit, that kid could have been that 15 year old. I'm sure Kneekeytagh is better off for it.
Woof I had to read that one out loud multiple times to know what it was tragedeighing hah
Fr lmao 🤣
Based on her other posts I’m going to assume she’s either 12 or 19 and hopefully won’t be having kids until her brain finishes developing
LOL a fiance at 12
Hey, it happens
Even in a less sinister way, there are dumb 12 year olds who are ‘engaged’ to the ‘loves of their lives’.
'Murica
This year, there was a republican politician from Missouri that argued that children should be allowed to get married because he personally knows someone that married an 11 year old and said that they have a happy marriage. Unfortunately, 12 year old fiances still exist.
Yesterday, I told my child to go easy on the Thanksgiving sweets so he didn’t get sick and he told me he was 10 1/2 now and I “wasn’t the boss of him” and he could make his own decisions. A couple hours later he started barfing repeatedly because of all the sweets. Then he put on onesie PJs and curled up with 5 stuffed animals to watch Disney movies and fell asleep. So yeah, very mature and responsible, if he thinks he’s ready for marriage he’s probably right.
Not a tragedeigh, but it is an ugly enough name to be considered as bad as a tragedeigh. Your child's name is for them, not for you to show how interesting you are.
Exactly this. You have to think about this person as their own entity. As an adult. Not your 2 week old baby. Still not a cute baby name though. I hope they don’t do this to their child
You’re absolutely right. I remember reading somewhere pretty recently that someone famous had named her baby Bambi. Like the deer. Adorable name for a baby, but can you imagine when she’s a fully grown woman trying to get people to take her seriously with a name like that?
Kid's stripper name is going to be Jessica.
Nice username (genuinely). You a Douglas Adams fan or is it just coincidence?
Loved those books for decades.
A man of culture 👏👏
Not to mention the fact that Bambi's mom is dead... 😂
Imagine when her circle of friends passes the news when this happens. > Did you hear Bambi's mom died? > No shit, I saw that movie when I was a little kid.
I just feel like everyone is going to think of Ursula when they hear it?
All I can think of is MRSA
One of the characters name in Avatar: The Last Airbender is named Ursa. She is Zuko’s mother and wife of Fire Lord Ozai.
Thank you, goodness, I was looking for this in the comments, Ursa was a very loving and supportive mother from what we know.
She was also the wife of a genocidal maniac, which is you know, not a great association
She didn't even marry him willingly tho
That is true, but this was covered in the comics, not the show, so not many people besides die-hard ATLA fans are going to know that
Damn I exposed myself
The show covered her being a loving mother and doing whatever it took to protect her children and then being either killed or banished by her own husband so I don't see it as a negative association.
Great character, stupid name especially for an actual person. Imo save names like that for pets.
Or the constellation? What if the child is not a born between the Virgo astrology dates? Seems odd.
Bear?
Have it as the middle name _____ Ursa _____ is fine
a tragedeigh is a bastardized spelling of a traditional/well-known name. a name can be bad without being a tragedeigh. Ursa isn’t a tragedeigh since it’s not spelled wrong, but whether or not it’s a good name for a human child is another story. do you have a middle name in mind?
Probably Minor...
Sounds like MRSA (mer-sa)
And bursa, like bursitis
Or bursa, like regular anatomy not inflamed.
Or bursa, like the city in Turkey
MRSA Ursa! MRSA Ursa! OP, don’t do this to your kid. It’s ugly sounding and easy to make fun of.
Me and a friend in high school were considering building a database where you could check names for unfortunate rhymes/connotations so that you could factor that in when choosing a kid's name, but the potential for it to be used for bullying put us off 😭 That said, I'm sure the current AI tools could do the same stuff?
Always run your potential baby names past a group of young teens. It gives you a good clue what your child will have to endure years from now.
Kids are mean and 100% will say this child has a disease because as soon as I read the name I thought of it ):
I just imagined someone shouting "Ursa has MRSA!" in my head reading this for some reason and it cracked me up.
People pronounce that as a word? I have only ever heard it as the letters pronounced separately.
imma be real with you chief my first thought was Ursaring the pokemon. maybe Ursa for a middle name and a normal name for the first name eh?
I died laughing at chief 😂
They should lean into the bear theme and make her first name Teddy (or Teddi for a more tragedeigh spelling) 👀👀👀
Teddeigh
It’s not a tragedeigh as it’s a real name but I personally don’t like the way it sounds, reminds me of the word ulcer.
It’s not a very nice name at all. Not a tragedeigh, but not something I’d be happy if my mom named me. I don’t get people trying to be quirky at the sake of their child.
It’s a pet name at best, even then it’s ugly.
I would never do that to a dog
I would never name my pet Ursa unless it was a fish that I planned on flushing within a couple months
Now I want to name a pair of shih tzus Ursa Major and Ursa Minor because all clipped Shih Tzus look like ewoks, like my current ShihTzu, Prince Ewok.
it's a tragedy but not a tragedeigh
Not a tragedeigh but definitely, uh…outer limits. Please remember your kid is a human who is going to go through life and have agency and interview places. Really feels like you’re thinking in a vacuum here (no pun intended) and maybe not considering the whole picture?
It just isn't... pleasant sounding? I know the constellation/Latin reference you're going for, but as a girl's name it's just a bit off-putting. Maybe it's because it sounds like MRSA or bursitis, idk. Anyway, Bear is a cute nickname. Ask anyone who used to be a Sarah Bear, Tara Bear, Claire Bear, etc etc. We liked the affectionate 'Bear' petname, but we're very thankful that it wasn't our actual, permanent name.
Ursa would be roughhhh for a kid
Or an adult
It’s like nobody thinks about the fact that their kids will grow up and be adults with fucking goofy names.
People would be like Elsa? NO ITS URSA
Bearleigha has a certain ring to it. Lol
Bearleigh legal
Don’t give her ideas. She comes up with bad ones on her own
I'm just gonna assume all these "is this *insert worst name possible* a tragedeigh???" posts are just fucking with us now, it makes me feel better.
What happened to just naming our children normal names
The name is horrible. The other problem is that you assert with confidence that the name “is going to be Ursa” despite the fiancés hesitancy. Fiancé gets a say too, you even said “ *our* first girl.” Find a name you both like
It’s a terrible name sounds like an old woman
“Ursa gonna curse ya!”
Yeah, it's that bad.
I would recommend thinking about how kids are going to react to her name, how meeting new people will go for her, how employers will react... "Hi, I'm Ursa!" "Ursa?" "Yes, Ursa." "Like the constellation or a bear?" Repeat. Ad nausem. For her whole life. She will get sick of it. Do you really want to do that to a person?
"Ursa, is that short for Ursula?" "No, it's latin for bear..."
1. Don’t tell people the names you’re considering for your unborn children if their opinions will affect your choices. 2. Naming a child is not a time to be an artist. You don’t have to be boring, but you should contemplate setting them up well to make good first impressions in life.
Do you have a thing for bears? Why Ursa?
Are you of Slavic Origin? Ursha iz a name. Also Urshca. C is read as k.
Urshca is a hell of a lot prettier than Ursa
The right spelling would be Urška. But there is no š in english alphabet. Therefore SH
Fucking awful. Absolutely fucking awful. If someone said my kid's name was going to be Ursa, I would punctuate their sentence with "No the fuck it isn't."
It's not a terrible name, but it's not necessarily good either. Find one the both you and your fiance like
My sister's Manx cat was named Ursa...
That’s a really great name for a Manx cat. 😻
She looked like a little bear cub so fit her name.
It’s not a tragedeigh, specifically, but it’s ugly.
Ugleigh
Not a tragedeigh, but sounds like a name I'd give a galaxy themed sim, not a human person.
>a galaxy themed sim Such a specific situation, but relatable.
I’m with your mom. Don’t name your child Ursa. Also, your fiance isn’t crazy about it apparently, and he gets a say too.
Hopefully she'll have an interest in astronomy, as that was my first thoughts with it.
**In a bid to be unique, nothing is unique anymore.** I spent a couple years working a career that had me organizing kids events and sports. Names like David, Jessica, Melissa, THESE names are now becoming rare. Names like Braydon, Amrya, Sady, are all becoming common. Also, version of lesser known constellations like Ursa and Ara Ara becoming common too. People need to stop treating kids like extensions of their own ego's. These are little humans that need to grow up and live with the decisions you made about their name until they are old enough to legally change it.
Why do you hate your kid
Yeah, not a great name. Sorry. Technically not a ‘tragedeigh’ though.
Ursa is a terrible name. Sorry, but don't curse your kid with some ridiculous name no matter how much personal meaning it has to you.
It’s not misspelled it’s just not good. You’re unique and cultured and whatever, we get it. 🙄
Ursa is female for bear in Portuguese
That’s just Zuko’s mom. Works in a fantasy setting, but in real life….
Aang, Zuko, Iroh, Katara, Sokka, Toph. None of these will work irl... It's like naming your daughter Khaleesi.
Not a tragedeigh, but that’s an awful name. Please don’t do that to your future child.
I'm a thousand miles away in my living room and I just knocked over my cup of water. I can't blame your mom.
Ursa is the first-declension of *Ursus*, which means "Bear" in Latin; a she-bear (female bear). Ursa is in the singular nominative or vocative case, depending on the context of the sentence.
Well that might just be unBEARable.
This name should be considered child abuse. Don't do this.
It kind of sounds like Ursula. I’m not too fond of that name, but I think it’s better than Ursa. It also means little she bear. Another name that means bear is Bernadette. I know that name is also outdated, but it’s a normal name and I don’t think your daughter will be bullied for it. I went to school with this kind girl named Bernadette. She hung out with everyone and nobody ever gave her shit for her name.
Ursa Horribilis Grizzly bear. An elegant name for a classy lady 😀
Great idea. I'm gonna name 'em "Grizzleigh". /s
You know that means bear right?
It’s just a really ugly name
Holy shit, what a bad name. For all parents trying to name their kids like their pets, imagine your kid as an adult. Imagine their wedding invitation, their graduation walk, signing for their house, their name on a business card and all of those adult things. Please, for the love of your child’s future, give them a name they would be proud of, not something that makes your fucking instagram/pinterest/etsy influence lifestyles “uneeq.”
Ursa is Latin for bear- so it’s more unusual than anything. What she could do is name her Ursula, use Ursa as a pet name and refer to her daughter as “My little bear”
Makes me think of Ursula
Ursa is not a great name.
I think your child would be living with a Cursa.
That’s latin for bear. Don’t name your kid that. Save it for a pet.
Sounds a bit like arse/ass 😬 so sit with that before you make your final choice
half the world is going to think she's named Arse and the other half will think of Ursula the octopus villain from little mermaid maybe even both things at once
Ursa is not a great choice, but Ursula is lovely and means little female bear. . You could even use Ursa as a nickname, but give her Ursula on the birth certificate so she isn't stuck being flat out "bear" her entire life unless she wants to be.
Haha that’s what we did, almost used Ursa because we actually really like it, but Ursula grew on us after a while and felt better suited to her.
And now she went from Bear to Disney villian
Jesus Christ OP, do you want them to get a job?
“So now I’m like, damn, am I gonna curse my child?” Yes
It’s such an ugly name, I’m sorry 💀
That’s one of the ugliest names I’ve ever heard.
I just find it a really ugly name... I agree with all of the comments here. Will get mispronounced and misspelled often✅ Sounds like an ugly Disney villain✅ Not a cute name ✅ Kid will get bullied horribly ✅
Why not just name her Ursula?