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HelpRe: Have you ever seen a post or site claiming the wrong meaning of a name?
in reply to a message by Francisinfp5w4
All the time! Tiktok loves doing this, I don't even HAVE Tiktok and I come across all kinds of bizarre clips relating to names from that platform. Not just meanings, but ridiculous claims like "The Name Steve is Going EXTINCT!!!". It's wild.
There used to be these little baby name books you could buy at the grocery store near the cashier. They were cheap mass-produced things, filled with "name meanings" that were sometimes accurate, but often wildly incorrect (but usually beautiful/positive). They were notorious for trying to put a more acceptable spin on more challenging name meanings (hence, Andrea, meaning "man, masculine" is turned into "feminine"). I wonder if lots of these websites are like urban legends, they just regurgitate these baby name meanings originating in these cheap little books that were imported to the internet when it first started. I can't think of where else people would come up with some of that stuff, like "Michelle means "Like a goddess"'. That has "cheap supermarket baby name book meaning" ALL over it.
I miss those books. They were kinda fun. I wish I had kept some.
There used to be these little baby name books you could buy at the grocery store near the cashier. They were cheap mass-produced things, filled with "name meanings" that were sometimes accurate, but often wildly incorrect (but usually beautiful/positive). They were notorious for trying to put a more acceptable spin on more challenging name meanings (hence, Andrea, meaning "man, masculine" is turned into "feminine"). I wonder if lots of these websites are like urban legends, they just regurgitate these baby name meanings originating in these cheap little books that were imported to the internet when it first started. I can't think of where else people would come up with some of that stuff, like "Michelle means "Like a goddess"'. That has "cheap supermarket baby name book meaning" ALL over it.
I miss those books. They were kinda fun. I wish I had kept some.
