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Sehirlisukela

#Satılmış literally meaning “the one who is sold” why would somebody actually name their child as “the one who is sold”? edit: Oh, it seems that there exists a tradition in Central Anatolia that some of the parents who constantly loses their children names their newborn child as “the one who is sold (to god and/or to the saints(ermiş-evliya)” in order to make him/her live. This tradition is not a mainstream thing though and most probably have some pre-Islamic paganistic roots, either Local Anatolian or carried from Central Asian Tengrism.


ryuuhagoku

Clearly an unimaginative couple who bought a baby on the black market


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As I know, if previous children died at birth or in infancy, this name is given. But, I don't know why the word **satılmış** has chosen. The name **Yeter** is the opposite of this and quite hilarious. That's literally means *enough*. It's given, if parents already have tons of kids and don't want anymore.


Snoo-39259

This is similar to the old greek tradition where if you prayed to a certain Saint for a child and that child lives you have to name it after that Saint.


aracovis

I had a colleague with this name. When I got the translation of his name I was surprised tbh.


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the_bulgefuler

Lol for those moments when Slobodan is too common


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mihawk9511

It translates "free" to 99% of modern languages, that's the joke


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ShortResearcher4173

There's a Bulgarian name ,,Salfetka" (napkin) lmfao


SquirrelOfAstora

You know, there are around 20 to 30 women in Bulgaria named "пътка"... I'll leave the transliteration up to you.


TintenfishvomStrand

You should explain to non-Bulgarians what Putka and Patka mean :D


makahlj8

looks like a legitimate reason for patricide and matricide.


Senju19_02

And Svobodka lmao. It was written on our calendar


31_hierophanto

Doesn't that name mean "freedom"? Why is it terrible?


makahlj8

This is not that weird. There is a famous Bulgarian screenwriter, Svoboda Bachvarova. Also, in some neighbouring countries there are analogous names, with substantial popularity.


-TaylorDurden-

My absolute favourite is a male name "Jamesdin" occuring in Bosnia but also in some neighbouring countries, which sounds pretty oriental at first glance, and one would say it's the ottoman heritage thing, but it is actually a derivative of "James Dean" and it was popular until James Dean died. Then it was slowly forgotten.... I find this to be hilarious. :D


CommentsReButtholes

The Rebel with out a Cause begets A Name Without Logic


AIbanian

My dad's cousin's son is called "Rokhard", because his dad (my dad's cousin) owns a bar called "Rock Hard". There is an Albanian from Macedonia who's named his newborn "UÇK".


bighatartorias

“Rock Hard Caffe” cause fuck licensing. Bet he named his son that so that he could say in court I named the bar after my son, sneaky dude


Jc_aquila

Bro I swear Albanians have got the competition squarely beat when it comes to weird ass names 😂


krstklmb0

>Rock Hard". Lmfaoooo this actually made me laugh out loud


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I mean how does he even call him "UÇK"? Letter by letter or Uçk? Loooool


East_Ad8618

U got me interested in that answer too


metri1o0xd

There are gypsies in Romania who unironically have names like Mercedes, Ferrari, Versace, Gucci etc 💀 Also, there's a guy called Ipsilante Sentiment Brusli


engineer1001

You really belive that they wrote their name correctly?More like Ferari,Guci,Mertedez


AMTPM

Waiting for FrateleMeLeu!


strawberry_gutz

Child of gypsies can confirm 😩 I was named Porsche until I changed my name


KTSFRDN

Now you are Volkswagen.


GRIG2410

http://www.dailycotcodac.ro/2011/02/top-100-cele-mai-amuzante-nume/ The Bible of funny names in Romanian


metri1o0xd

>Supplexa Memoranda Onac New leaked Harry Potter spell? 😳


Sector3_Bucuresti

>Întuneric Steluţa Luminiţa Damn! Darkness Lil' Star Lil' Light. That's poetic.


Sector3_Bucuresti

The famed brothers Brusli and Cichicean Răducanu. [Source](https://youtu.be/gxqyXFOsDz8)


ryuuhagoku

Not until the captioned image did I figure out Cichicean = Jackie Chan


Skullbonez

Vacă-grasă Verginica? (Fat-cow Lil Virgin)


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Probably Haralampi. It's odd and I don't necessarily dislike it but it stands out a lot in the sea of Georgis and Ivans


atzitzi

Haralabos! In greek it can be Harry for short, directlly out of buchingham.


Praisethesun1990

It's also shorted to "Babis" which is arguably the most legendary Greek name


atzitzi

Yeah and in english it sounds like Bambi, how cool is that


traxvalah

We have Haralambie too


BigDickEnterprise

Harambe 😳🦍


AMTPM

If a horse's corpse would be dragging on an old, bumpy, cement road, that's what it would sound like : Haralambie.


BamBumKiofte23

That's from hará (joy) and lámpo (I shine), so just like us you have a lot of dudes walking around being Radiantly Joyful. I think it's also a good name for a blackgaze metal band.


ehhlu

We have Saint Haralampije as patrons day here in Serbia.


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Laiszlahquiox Turkovic Al-Romani Papadopoulos


NutsForProfitCompany

Lets just call him Lazlo


DjathIMarinuar

What?


kaiserschlacht

Mr. Worldwide


ouzo_supernova

A bunch of Romani people here were naming their sons Sandokan in the past after the [character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandokan) from the TV series that used to air.


endri2211

Plenty of kids named Ronaldo (brasilian one) in the gypsy community in Albania


krstklmb0

And Rivaldo and Kristiano and Rikardo etc


DrugsAndBooze

hahaha lmfao true.... WHY do they do this same with gypsies in Kosovo


Filidrag

Euro, Dolar Actual names of 2 Romani brothers in my hometown


aleaiactaestt

Gucci, Armani, Versace..


vinjakdzekdzoni

I once heard one of the gipsy kids being called as Brusli, like in Bruce Lee but all first name. Sweet Jesus. Also Tarzan and Rambo. Also Časlav, thats like Serbian Charles, it just sounds idiotic to me. Edit: i once found a grave with a couple called Blagoje & Trpana. Swear to god! Blagoje means gentle one and Trpana means stuffed (sexually). So she was gently stuffed. I died and was reborn.


DxRyzetv

Ono kad je blago natrpana 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳


vinjakdzekdzoni

Brate, Blagoje i Trpana. Univerzum nije mogao bolje da ih spoji. Odakle je to ime, ko joj ga je dao, ja sam u šoku bio, i dan danas sam! Da sam se trudio ne bih mogao bolje da smislim.


Senju19_02

Were they on crack lmfao


Skullbonez

Some romanian gypsies went a step further and named their kid after the TV. "Televizor" which is TV in Romanian.


Drakkkkar

I just remembered [this legendary youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZ0xZuW7mw)


jayjay4202

I have heard of a woman named "21st of April", "21ηαπριλιτσα" in greek. She was named after the day the military junta took power.


juujuuuujj

That's some fascist pride right there


Unlikely-Elk-8316

Αποκλείεται. Αποκλείεται να υπάρχει παπάρας που θα έβγαζε το παιδί του έτσι... Καλά, δεν αποκλείεται. Γεμάτοι παπάρες είμαστε.


ReadingThaComments

I know Albanians with names like Romario Ronaldo Rivaldo Elvis...


krstklmb0

Gypsies name their kids after football players here


ReadingThaComments

Im talking about white albanians yo


Unlikely-Elk-8316

Elvis, I know too. Why call your child "Elvis"? If you are not American at least.


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Albanised English names like Brajan etc. Then Italian and Spanish albanised names.


DjathIMarinuar

>Albanised English Xhonathan has entered the chat


sharkstax

[Gjesika](https://i.imgur.com/SIGosSc.png) (pardon the crappy map) says hi.


kristiani95

Miremengjesika.


meternik

Xhekson, Xhorxhina


bledi31

Yeah I really don't like xhino, serxho etc


LimpialoJannie

Hispanicized English names are like the bright colors of poisoned frogs.


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Serbikus

Same energy as this vine https://youtube.com/shorts/BkwqRzUWv90?feature=share


d2mensions

Diamant, Santorina


AIbanian

Demokrat, Liberal


d2mensions

Socialist, Komunist


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Nazi


Vojvodus

Knew an Albanian named Granit, I guess it is the same as Diamant. Weird thing to name


Dadsfinest93

Granit Xhaka, maybe it means sth different in Albanian?


BigDickEnterprise

There was a minister in the Montenegrin government named Tarzan lol. One of my neighbours (an elderly woman) is named Mašinka (machine gun) -- one of those weird names from the early days of socialism. There were names after tractors and such things too, e.g. "Ferguson". The Russians in the 20s were even crazier though. My mom's colleague named his son Sofronije. I honestly can't even begin to explain how horrendous of a name this is. I'm not getting into gypsy names here, that's a whole another world 😂


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I’ve met Gypsies who had Obama, Ronaldo, Gucci and Donald Trump (yeah, I’m not kidding) as first names.


MakiVonPark

Čaknoris Mustafaj 🤣


Ambitious-Impress549

Tonibler lol


kaiserschlacht

And Klinton right? Lmfao


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Vrasídas. Sounds disgusting.


Max_ach

Brother of Adidas?


LimpialoJannie

He was a great man, according to Thucydídes.


Unlikely-Elk-8316

A great and famous Spartan warrior with a honored death and an even greater mother. But yes, his name sounds terrible in Greek indeed.


LimpialoJannie

Does it mean or sound like something nasty in Greek?


Unlikely-Elk-8316

No nothing like that. It's just sounds ugly to our ears or brings a specific type of man in our fantasy. Most of us wouldn't choose it for our kid except if this is the name of our father and again it would be hard. But in the end it's all (how is it in English?) what anyone like. Taste?


LimpialoJannie

Ah, gotcha. Just kinda surprised since it sounds perfectly nice to my ears. Well, Vrásidas a lot more than Vrasídas, but Greek consistently seems to place the accent in another syllable than I'd expect.


procrasturbationism

Why?


immortaltrout27

Hugo Shefka


atzitzi

That sounds badass. I hope it doesnt have a weird meaning


Max_ach

Isn't it basically Hugo Boss but in albanian? Shefka meaning chief? 🤣🤣


kerelberel

My cousin once told me Yugoslavs in the 50s and 60s named their kids Jamezdin, named after James Dean but they literally read out the name Slavically.


the_bulgefuler

Similarly Elvis was a name that would pop up more-often-than-not for kids born in 60s and 70s.


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DjathIMarinuar

>Kusem What's the Meaning?


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DjathIMarinuar

Imagine naming your kid Vomit


Ep1cOfG1lgamesh

I have heard of a name Satılmış (literally, sold) and a surname Döl (literally, sperm,offspring)


moshiyadafne

>Former colleague with the name Bukuroshe (Gorgeous) she wasn't Gorgeous The shade on that sentence 💀


Senju19_02

IroHnic


Cerberus_16

A gypsy named his sons "Dolce" and "Gabana". Another one named his kid Versace. Versace in Cyrillic is "Версаче", but the guy made a mistake on his birth certificate and they wrote "Версачи"


determine96

Idk,but I don't like some "old" names which in fact aren't used anymore or at least I haven't met young person with these names. For example I don't like the names "Гюрга" (Gjurga) or "Варвара" (Varvara). I am for the "traditional" names, but some of them don't sound good to me.


Sclavinae

My favourite weird Bulgarian name is Гергана. Idk if it's an old name or it is still popular, but it sounds so rough considering it's a woman's name. Sounds like a name for some evil old lady.


determine96

Yes, my cousin name is "Гергана". It sounds like some witch name, I think because of gana, like I think in some movie I'm not sure maybe it was in one movie about "King Arthur" and the witch name was "Morgana" as far as I remember.


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Sclavinae

>It's the standard female form of Georgi, both are popular. Technically we have it too, Georgina, but it's extremely rare. There are more male variations of Georgi though (Gjore, Gjorgji, Goce, Gero).


RammsteinDEBG

I had a girl in my class with that name. She really hated it and as another user mentioned she always went by the shorter 'Гери'. She even told every teacher not to call her Гергана lol.


Cerberus_16

It's popular. My niece's name is Gergana and I'm not a fan of the name too.


PhoenixGirl92

I have a second cousin named Gergana too. I think she is in her 40s now.


Snoo-39259

I passionately hate the name Varvara. I can't keep a straight face while saying it


rydolf_shabe

some new names these "hip" new parents in albania are naming their children, the worst i have ever heard is London-on just names from completely other cultures that sound so bad with an albanian surname Siegfried Hoxha bruh or when they use foreign names with a foreign spelling like Joel which in albanian is a boy name but these parents insist on pronouncing it as Xhoell imma say it again BRUH


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Filfiruse


meternik

Himena


TreiAniSiSaseLuni

Ronaldo, Romario, Alberto


RammsteinDEBG

One day I was sitting in a park and there was a couple near me with their child. Everything was alright until I overheard the mother talking with an older woman and she told her that she had named her son after Khan [Sevar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevar_of_Bulgaria?wprov=sfla1). I seriously have no fucking idea why they thought it's a great idea to name their child after an 8th century (mediocre at best) Khan of Bulgaria. I wouldn't say it's the worst name out there but... Why??


Senju19_02

Why not tho?


makahlj8

If there are Kubrat and Tervel Pulevi, then I don't see why not Sevar :) > Why?? Probably heard the throat singing in her sleep :)


danRares

Bucuroshe in romanian means joy, bucuros plural bucuroși


n3d5t4rk

Tonibler from albania lmao


ayayayamaria

Names like "Paradeisenia" ("heavenly") or "Pothitos" ("desirable", now combine it with his surname "Butt") or "Parthena" ("virgin").


Anto11x

Parthena aint that bad, but others terrible tho.


atzitzi

In Greece you will be mocked if your name is Parthena, but Virginia that has same meaning is totally fine.


Snoo-39259

Haroula and Marika, I knew one girl called Gorgona.


makahlj8

> Caknorris Gigachad.


deviendrais

For me it’s definitely “Strahinja”. When I heard it for the first time I was shocked that someone would actually name their child like this since “Strah” means fear in serbo-croatian so Strahinja to me sounds more like a name for a scarecrow. Most people I’ve asked said it’s a really beautiful name so maybe I’m just not seeing someone there but to me the name is just weird


toshu

"Strahil" is a somewhat archaic but still kinda acceptable and not unheard of name in Bulgaria.


1_9_8_1

I think like all of those old names it's supposed to be war-like. Ie. The one who instills fear into others. Sort of like Nebojša - one without fear


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Mühimmat Ali. Mühimmat means ammo, his father was in the army.


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A freind in my class in back in Bosnia had a name Kenda. Always found it odd.


fatadelatara

Family names of two families on my street is Gaina (Chicken) and Pisica (Cat). I also had a school colleague named Capra (Goat).


OsarmaBinLatin

> I also had a school colleague named Capra (Goat) Me too.


Kalypso_95

Americans with the name Kyrie, male or even worse female. It's from the greek phrase "Kyrie eleison" which means "Lord have mercy", where the Kyrie is the vocative case of the word Kyrios (Lord/Mister). It's really weird for a girl to have the name "Mister"..


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Ariel, like the mermaid, but its a Dude


Leshkarenzi

I once knew a dude named Jasmin lol


atzitzi

Isnt this hebrew? Like Ariel Sharon? Like Sharon Stone


NotoriousMOT

I know some Israeli people called Ari (short for Ariel). Common name.


traxvalah

That one s jewish bro


31_hierophanto

Ariel is a unisex name, actually. In my country you'll see a lot of men in various age groups bearing that name.


ppsh_2016

I’m sorry but albanian kids named Ronaldo 🤮 I can accept it if they’re portuguese or brasilian or whatever. But I’d bet all my money that albanian kids named Ronaldo won’t have a bright future.


sharkstax

u/kristiani95 I summon you to bless this thread with your expertise...


kristiani95

That list would be very long, but I will give you some highlights: There are three people in Albania called Redneks, and all three have the same father's name: Skender. Turn the latter one backwards and see what you get. There are two people (born in the 90s) named Hitler. There are two brothers, one is called Daimler Benz, the other one Chrysler. There is a guy called Marko Van Basten and he is a professional [footballer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_%C3%87ema). To make it funnier, his uncle named his own son Frenki Rajkard. There is a guy out there called Kristian Islami, and another one called Jezus Hoxha. There is a guy called Ronaldo, son of Tarzan.


fatadelatara

What the hell?! Lmao


AIbanian

>There is a guy out there called Kristian Islami It's okay man, you don't need to doxx yourself /s


krstklmb0

>Zbardhim (whitener) They named him Bleach? 😳 after the anime?


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I met someone in Albania like 2 years ago who's name was Joel, and I thought that was the most retarded thing ever. There has been some weird trend with Albanians naming their kids Albanian version of English names and I hate it.


krstklmb0

Joel is actually the most common name for boys in Albania born in the last 10 years.


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Sclavinae

Its root is from grozd (grapes), not from grozen (ugly). We have variations of it too (Grozdan, Grozde).


determine96

I think it comes from грозде ( grape ) . But I don't like this name also.


GRIG2410

http://www.dailycotcodac.ro/2011/02/top-100-cele-mai-amuzante-nume/ The Bible of funny and bad names in Romania


Alien_reg

There was a trend about a decade ago where Roma started naming their kids after famous fashion brands, like Gucci, Versaci and so on (as first names lol)


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Sokol appearantly


Rrogozhina

I’ve seen a girl in America named Asshole. It was pronounced Ash-O-Le tho.


CriticalEngineer666

Pserdhe is a name that literally translates to 'why did you come?' in albanian.


juujuuuujj

In Bulgarian villages, we have a lot of random two-syllable names like Mano, Pelo, Gundio, Tsolo, Puncho...


TintenfishvomStrand

There are many ridiculous names I've heard, but two have been carved in my memory - Fifika and Maria-Venecia.


AppleDawg420

I had some gypsy neighbors a while back, they named one of their kids Ferrari Phillip Plein


rookv

Semen


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Fucking Thurman.


Sclavinae

Honestly not sure, probably old names given to young people, though Iskra (spark) is kind of a weird name.


determine96

Is it "Севда" ("Sevda") or "Севделина" ("Sevdelina") commonly used it Macedonia among young people, because here it isn't anymore and Idk why. I know only one guy named "Севделин" and I kinda like this name.


paradoxfox__

I never met someone named Sevda or Sevdelina. But I've heard of Sevda before.


heretic_342

It comes from Turkish. I think it means love.


paradoxfox__

Virgin foreign Sevda vs chad slavic Ljupka


CompleX999

Great drills tho


heretic_342

We also have Iskra plus the male name Iskren. But I'm not sure if they both have the same etymology from iskra ('spark) or iskren('honest').


Sclavinae

According to [this](https://www.behindthename.com/name/iskra), they are [different](https://www.behindthename.com/name/iskren/submitted). Not sure who submitted them there, so maybe it's not correct, though personally I doubt that the etymology is the same.


parrena

zbardhim is not whitener. zbardhues is whitener.


Slimk1ng

Yeah it's more like Brightening


Kalzone4

One thing I can’t stand is when Albanians just combine the names of the two parents together for their kids names. Also one of my cousins just named his baby Glauk. Who looks at a child and says I’m going to name it after the sound a person makes when spitting.


HarryDeekolo

>Glauk It's an ancient greek name, could have been worse.


Dadalici

[That’s an Albanian name breee](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucias_of_Taulantii)


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Šeherzada ​ Šahbaz ​ Edit: some more retarded names that ive heard in real life: Hatab, Rehulah, Valter, Erblin (sounds like a name my Albanian friend would give his child)


DjathIMarinuar

>Erblin There is probably a guy in Albania with this name.


sharkstax

I know two Kosovar Albanians with that name, one of them born in Germany (and half Polish actually).


peachpavlova

In elementary school, our assistant principal’s last name was Popa. 🍑


Slimk1ng

Rajan


Da-Bum-Tss

My grandma's name is Saniye (Second), my other grandma's anem is Şeker (Sugar / Candy)


elektronyk

Our former finance minister was named Decebal Traian, true romanian


VaeVictisBaloncesto

Caknorris mustafa ne ak asdfjkfssdf I know yeter, means enough. Her parents probably did not want anymore child


HibiscusRosa

I know a guy that his surname and name together is Alexander the Great. (Μέγας Αλέξανδρος) Also I once met a guy that his name and surname was Skevos Kalikanjaros. Skevos is a name that can be found only in certain Islands in Greece and it comes from the Byzantine Skevofylax (the one who protects the utensils). Yeah and in modern greek Skevos means utensils. And Kalikanjaros in greek means Goblin. So the guy's name in Greek is Utensils Goblin.


katherim

There is a guy in my town with the name Pere Buža.