A Reddit user recently went viral after expressing regret about naming her daughter “Shaide.” She writes, “I feel like I made bad choices because I just told my daughter how we came up with her name, and now she hates me. When I was 22, her dad and I were laying in bed right after we found out we were having a girl. We were trying to think of names. I looked over at a lamp and jokingly said, ‘What about Shade?,’ and for some reason, he loved it. It kind of stuck, so I named her that, except I spelled it ‘Shaide.'”
Social media reacts …
“Well, telling a kid they’re named after something totally mundane does kinda remove the mystique from an unusual name.”
“You might want to follow up with something like it’s a beautiful sounding word with a lot of mystery and depth; it’s just that the lamp brought that word to your mind.”
“My mom saw my name on a toilet paper dispenser at work.”
“Curtains would have been a good name: That would have given her closure. And whenever she had a tough time, she could just pull herself together.”
“You had no common sense. How you came up with the name is ridiculous. Why you stuck with it is perplexing.”