A young girl feels “like a Disney villain” after her best friend used the “horrible” baby name she had jokingly suggested for her first-born.
The woman revealed that her friend had come to her for guidance and asked her which of a long list of names she preferred.
On the list was the name Oliver, which has been the most popular name among Australian parents for a decade.
She replied that that name was her favorite, but that she would spell it Aulliver. Then the friends “laughed” and the conversation moved on.
Then the baby arrived.
‘She gave birth, she made an announcement on Facebook. She had called him Aulliver, sorry, boy. “I didn’t think she would do that,” she wrote on Reddit.
A young girl feels “like a Disney villain” after her best friend used the “horrible” baby name she had jokingly suggested for her first-born.
Hundreds of people shared their own cheeky suggestions that were taken too far.
‘I did something similar… I suggested a middle name that would make the child’s initials something that would make a high school kid laugh. They accepted it,’ said one.
Another woman admitted she was so fed up with her sister-in-law asking her for her list of girls’ names that she told her she only had one: ‘Shit.’
The name means ‘shit’ in Spanish and was a joke, but then his sister-in-law started using it in the hospital.
‘They went by that name, but guess what? Their OB/GYN speaks Spanish and informed them exactly what that name was,’ he said.
Others remembered people they had known with even worse names.
“I knew someone named Mary Conde (which translates to ‘f*ggot of’ if read as ‘Maricon de’ in Spanish,” one woman said.
‘Anyway, she met a really nice guy who she was very happy with for many years. The problem was that Spanish-speaking naming conventions meant she ended up with the full name ‘Mary Conde Plazas,’ which is ‘F*ggot of the Town Square.’
Another woman revealed that her nephew spelled Oliver the same way.
“They named their son Aulliver because her and her husband’s names start with A,” she said.
“For some reason, it almost bothers me more that they often shorten it to Aullie,” he confessed.
Others said the prank gone wrong made them feel like messing with their own future friends.