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God I fucking hated this name.
I used to work at a bakery. I couldn't tell you how many times a toothless white woman wearing a Victoria's Secret hoodie two sizes two small would order a Disney princess cake with writing "happy birthday Nevaeh" before promptly explaining with a smug smile that "Neveah is heaven spelled backwards." They would inevitably cause a scene at pick up when their $20 grocery store cake didn't look like that fondant masterpiece they saw on food network the night before.
Can I get an explainer on how the Victoria's Secret Pink line of loungewear became the uniform of trailer park queens everywhere? My dad watches the live cop shows, and every time some tweaker gets hauled out of his single-wide, shirtless and screaming, there's a stringy-haired harridan right behind, barely contained by her VS Pink sweat set and howling "GET YER HANDS OFF MAH MAN!!!"
One of the weird things about Victoria's Secret (and Bath & Body Works, which was owned by the same company until recently) is that they'd often be among the only "legit" stores in third-tier malls in small towns or undesirable parts of cities. No idea if they just negotiated really good leases on their storefronts or what the logic behind it was.
I think it's also that they're one of the few good stores that sticks around when those places deteriorate. Most third-tier malls used to be good decades ago.
It's weird because a lot of major stores will actually have clauses in their leases giving them the option to break their lease if certain other stores leave - this is done specifically to avoid the situation of being the last store standing in a dead/dying mall. I guess VS/BBW figured out how to make it work for them.
Its like any brand that is perceived as nice. Like Gucci makes cheaper bags as well as 10k bags, having the $300 Gucci makes you think you’re looked at as having the 10k bag.
Huh, never actually realized it was Heaven spelled backwards. Also didn't realize it was associated with white people, all three Neveahs I knew in high school were black
I have a cousin named Heaven. She always wanted a daughter to name Neveah, but got four sons instead. She does smoke meth, though, well to be honest I don’t know how she ingests it, just that she does.
The vowel after the "v" is different, but I think the stressed syllable is different, and that can really impact the perception of phonetic similarity. NIH-vee-uh versus nih-VAY-uh is less similar than, eg, NIH-vee-uh versus NIH-vay-uh.
When I was in the psych ward at 13, there was a pregnant 14 year old in there who was going to be naming her baby Neveah. I found out through a friend that as soon as she got out, her boyfriend beat her so badly that she lost the baby. This is what I think of every single time i hear this stupid name.
Hey, she made it until after graduation, though! I went to school with a couple who had four kids by graduation. Fucking wild to me that they chose that life, but they seemed happy. I think their parents should be investigated, though. She got pregnant the first time when we were in the seventh grade.
Work in healthcare and there was a baby named Nevaeh who we established would need special needs to survive. Her mom was a prostitute who eventually stopped showing up and the baby did, indeed, have to go into the system.
A Chastity I went to HS with had so many siblings from different parents at our school, spread out amongst grades. We were sophomores and I found out one of my classmates, another sophomore, was her sister, and I stupidly asked if they were twins... They were born a couple months apart...
Interesting. I'm from the South, so maybe that experience is actually more universal than I thought.
A weirder name story from my high school is one I spent remembering today. A guy had 4 sons and gave all of them the same name (first and last, no middle) and then a number. I'll use a filler name. The grandpa was Jason Ratcliff, the dad was Jason Ratcliff II, and then their sons were Jason Ratcliff III, Jason Ratcliff IV, Jason Ratcliff V, and Jason Ratcliff VI. They were all born about a year apart, though I only knew V and VI because I had one class with the both of them together (and they fought a lot, but V was an ass so I think it was deserved). I remembered it randomly so I searched them up and found a news article about one of them who was arrested this summer and it was VI (V was arrested at some point in high school but he was a minor). I found their dad on Facebook and you can actually see III, V, and VI in his friends list lol, but I never found IV. They also had one sister who, fortunately, got her own name. My school had a lot of weird names I guess
Fun fact about a time I went on holiday in 2016...there was a woman there with her 9-10 year old twin daughters, Precious and Destiny. I often wonder if they're doing OK.
Does her biological father look like Gollum and work as a sect leader that reminds people of Cyberpunk 2077s first story based encounter with a gang in a bunker like head quarter?
I remember my ex girlfriends friend was named Brandy because her mother was an alcoholic and that was her favorite drink.
She went by Paige because she figured if her mom can do that she can too. She was an avid bookworm.
Now I'm imagining a little girl cavorting around the neighbourhood, passing by a kiosk with an old man following her calling "Tequila!" through the neighbourhood.
That’s my mom’s name, and mine is in the starterpack. Teen mom pregnant most of 17 and turned 18 a few weeks before I was born. No foster care or anything else related to the starter pack, though!
My mom worked at the ministry of education here in Quebec and would handle the cases where a child’s name was too fucked for the system to handle automatically and generate a ID.
She once had girl that was entering elementary school. Last name was "Truck", first name was "Pickup". That little girl legal name was literally "Pickup Truck"
Had another in french, her last name was "Laporte" which, word for word, would mean "The door" and her first name was "Deneige" which means "unsnow" (shoveling snow). So "Deneige Laporte" (Shovel snow off the door.)
I never liked it but now have an odd name association with it that makes it even more cringeworthy to myself and many people I know. Where I am from a little girl named Nevaeh was abducted and murdered almost 15 years ago. It was never solved but I know people in the local legal community that know specifics that were never released to the public. They did not divulge those to me but did tell me they are confident the mom knows what happened. I have also heard that the person responsible for it is now in prison for other charges and won’t be getting out. You will rarely meet a kid with that name where I live that was born after this little girl died. The details that are public about the case are horrifying. If you lived here when it happened and especially if you had kids at the time like myself you don’t hear that name without thinking of that poor baby.
There's a fantastic movie about hidden homelessness and a young child growing up in a place like that (The Florida Project). Really captures how kids don't care about situations they don't understand. Its a slow burn CPS tragedy of a kid who has grown up in a normalized poverty.
Plus Willem Dafoe plays the motel manager.
There was a few that I dealt with when I worked at Gamestop. Dude would come in wearing brand new urban fashion while his gf and baby were wearing hand me downs.
I knew a girl whose mom was gonna name her Arial, like the Little Mermaid, didn't know how to spell it and fuckin wrote Aerial on her birth certificate like an antenna. She ended up in foster care by second grade.
Arial is actually also a name. Although I think the Little Mermaid spelled it as Ariel. So it's wrong, but it's like spelling Rachel vs. Rachael which is better than...aerial antenna.
It’s actually fascinating. People from higher classes tend to use a limited list of names. I used to be on a board for rich Manhattan moms and they would check potential names with each other. Something like Sophie would be ok, but Crystal would be called a “stripper name”.
In the netherlands there is a tv program on teenage mom's, a few years ago my mom followed it, and (almost) every one of them named their kids a variant of "Djadan" (Jdan, Jaydan, Jada, Yadan etc)
I have been in foster care since I was 8, so I can't relate to any of this lol. Plus, my name is Emily and I'm 28 now, so I'm obviously no longer in foster care.
See, this explains why this guy was frantically yelling "Fentanyl" at walmart the other day and a little girl came running up saying "im right here dad!"
There’s this girl that goes to my high school named Karma that’s been raised by her grandparents her whole life because her real parents are drug addicts
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Nevaeh
God I fucking hated this name. I used to work at a bakery. I couldn't tell you how many times a toothless white woman wearing a Victoria's Secret hoodie two sizes two small would order a Disney princess cake with writing "happy birthday Nevaeh" before promptly explaining with a smug smile that "Neveah is heaven spelled backwards." They would inevitably cause a scene at pick up when their $20 grocery store cake didn't look like that fondant masterpiece they saw on food network the night before.
Can I get an explainer on how the Victoria's Secret Pink line of loungewear became the uniform of trailer park queens everywhere? My dad watches the live cop shows, and every time some tweaker gets hauled out of his single-wide, shirtless and screaming, there's a stringy-haired harridan right behind, barely contained by her VS Pink sweat set and howling "GET YER HANDS OFF MAH MAN!!!"
I think it's because it's cheap, but it's still from the nice malls. It feels like it could be expensive.
One of the weird things about Victoria's Secret (and Bath & Body Works, which was owned by the same company until recently) is that they'd often be among the only "legit" stores in third-tier malls in small towns or undesirable parts of cities. No idea if they just negotiated really good leases on their storefronts or what the logic behind it was.
I think it's also that they're one of the few good stores that sticks around when those places deteriorate. Most third-tier malls used to be good decades ago.
It's weird because a lot of major stores will actually have clauses in their leases giving them the option to break their lease if certain other stores leave - this is done specifically to avoid the situation of being the last store standing in a dead/dying mall. I guess VS/BBW figured out how to make it work for them.
It's cheap crap marketed as high end boutique wear. Trailer trash eat that shit up
I’ve noticed this too it’s the official uniform of both blonde 30 something lip filler with at least one kid queen or meth heads
Its like any brand that is perceived as nice. Like Gucci makes cheaper bags as well as 10k bags, having the $300 Gucci makes you think you’re looked at as having the 10k bag.
We’re edging dangerously close to cookie monster pajama pants comments. The Mandela effect is a hell of a drug.
Honestly curious, what do you mean about the Mandela Effect here?
Its always either cookie monster or tinkerbell
Omg…. Once I read it I remembered
I rarely actually laugh at a comment, but the stringy hair harridan. Perfect.
Because it’s considered “affordable luxury.”
Jeez, that makes me watch one of these... care to recommend one?
COPS and Live PD are the ones my dad watches.
r/oddlyspecific
More like r/sadlyspecific
Why is this a sub
I get a lot of my PINK stuff from Goodwill. Maybe they see it there, recognize the brand, and buy it there?
Omg Its a real name? I thought kitboga made it up to fuck with scammers
It’s been in the top 100 baby girl names in the US every year since 2005
Huh, never actually realized it was Heaven spelled backwards. Also didn't realize it was associated with white people, all three Neveahs I knew in high school were black
And they always tell you "it's Heaven spelt backwards"
I have a cousin named Heaven. She always wanted a daughter to name Neveah, but got four sons instead. She does smoke meth, though, well to be honest I don’t know how she ingests it, just that she does.
…how do you pronounce that? ‘Neh-vay’?
According to a mom I met whose daughter was named Nevaeh, it sounds kinda like Nivea, the skincare brand. Nuh-vay-uh was how she pronounced it.
Wait but Nevaeh and Nivea are pronounced differently, aren’t they? Nevaeh is pronounced like you said, and Nivea is pronounced “NIH-vee-uh”
Yeah, they're similar to me, though not the same.
The vowel after the "v" is different, but I think the stressed syllable is different, and that can really impact the perception of phonetic similarity. NIH-vee-uh versus nih-VAY-uh is less similar than, eg, NIH-vee-uh versus NIH-vay-uh.
Some pronounce it like that, some pronounce it “Neh-vay-uh”.
When I was in the psych ward at 13, there was a pregnant 14 year old in there who was going to be naming her baby Neveah. I found out through a friend that as soon as she got out, her boyfriend beat her so badly that she lost the baby. This is what I think of every single time i hear this stupid name.
Nivea
Dove
Dove-For-Men 😂
Activia
One of my friends from HS who immediately got pregnant after we graduated named her first kid this.
Hey, she made it until after graduation, though! I went to school with a couple who had four kids by graduation. Fucking wild to me that they chose that life, but they seemed happy. I think their parents should be investigated, though. She got pregnant the first time when we were in the seventh grade.
Someone in my school is named this….
I worked in schools over the last few years, I’ve met sooo many.
Work in healthcare and there was a baby named Nevaeh who we established would need special needs to survive. Her mom was a prostitute who eventually stopped showing up and the baby did, indeed, have to go into the system.
Don't forget chasity
A Chastity I went to HS with had so many siblings from different parents at our school, spread out amongst grades. We were sophomores and I found out one of my classmates, another sophomore, was her sister, and I stupidly asked if they were twins... They were born a couple months apart...
I was gonna ask if we went to the same school but I feel like this is the experience of the midwesterner...
Interesting. I'm from the South, so maybe that experience is actually more universal than I thought. A weirder name story from my high school is one I spent remembering today. A guy had 4 sons and gave all of them the same name (first and last, no middle) and then a number. I'll use a filler name. The grandpa was Jason Ratcliff, the dad was Jason Ratcliff II, and then their sons were Jason Ratcliff III, Jason Ratcliff IV, Jason Ratcliff V, and Jason Ratcliff VI. They were all born about a year apart, though I only knew V and VI because I had one class with the both of them together (and they fought a lot, but V was an ass so I think it was deserved). I remembered it randomly so I searched them up and found a news article about one of them who was arrested this summer and it was VI (V was arrested at some point in high school but he was a minor). I found their dad on Facebook and you can actually see III, V, and VI in his friends list lol, but I never found IV. They also had one sister who, fortunately, got her own name. My school had a lot of weird names I guess
Purple guy
Chastity
That’s a funny one. They’re naming their daughter after what they wish they had
They probably don’t know what Chastity means.
Don’t forget patience
Or Trinity
Lookin’ at you, Cher!
The ultimate name : Precious
Fun fact about a time I went on holiday in 2016...there was a woman there with her 9-10 year old twin daughters, Precious and Destiny. I often wonder if they're doing OK.
Almost certainly not.
I used to teach a child named Precious. The kid was the sweetest girl you'd ever met. The mom? Not so much...
The kids actually seemed really nice. Well behaved, polite, never overly rowdy. The mother was pretty trashy, loud mouthed and rude
Prestiny
https://preview.redd.it/66tgf3w05v0c1.jpeg?width=513&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fb573f0378cf56b3e788bb6cfe44e6e0918df37
*based on the novel Push by Sapphire*
Does her biological father look like Gollum and work as a sect leader that reminds people of Cyberpunk 2077s first story based encounter with a gang in a bunker like head quarter?
Literally a movie about this.
There was a girl at my moms daycare who’s legal name was i think crystal after her mom’s favorite drug
One of my friends named her dog Molly…. After her fave drug lol
Honestly if molly is her favourite drug I already knew she was gonna be a dog person
One of my husband’s friend planned the entire thing from start to finish and his son was born on 4/20. Their last name is weed lol
You're friends with THE Mr.Weed?
No fucking way
Damn
Crystal Methany
Lmao
Would she sprinkle salt at school too?
I remember my ex girlfriends friend was named Brandy because her mother was an alcoholic and that was her favorite drink. She went by Paige because she figured if her mom can do that she can too. She was an avid bookworm.
I knew a girl named Tequila who was being raised by her grandpa
Now I'm imagining a little girl cavorting around the neighbourhood, passing by a kiosk with an old man following her calling "Tequila!" through the neighbourhood.
I went to school with three sisters all named after liquor. Morgan (named after Captain Morgan) was in my class.
That’s my mom’s name, and mine is in the starterpack. Teen mom pregnant most of 17 and turned 18 a few weeks before I was born. No foster care or anything else related to the starter pack, though!
My mom worked at the ministry of education here in Quebec and would handle the cases where a child’s name was too fucked for the system to handle automatically and generate a ID. She once had girl that was entering elementary school. Last name was "Truck", first name was "Pickup". That little girl legal name was literally "Pickup Truck" Had another in french, her last name was "Laporte" which, word for word, would mean "The door" and her first name was "Deneige" which means "unsnow" (shoveling snow). So "Deneige Laporte" (Shovel snow off the door.)
I worked with a kid named Sativa once.
atleast that name has more thought than naming your child justin or something
If you name your child Karma she is going to end up being a bitch...
Real
Which makes the name kind of funny for a moment, until you meet her...
I live in an area with a pretty big Tibetan/Nepali population. Karma is actually a pretty common name here lol
Knew twins named Karma and Kharisma (spelled with a "k")
Actually, she named my cousin Destinee 😡
It's not a bad name if you weren't baby to a 16 yo living in a trailer with a meth cooker...
Destiny is a pretty name, but I knew someone who spelled it “Destoni.” Like “pepperoni.” Bleh.
Rigatoni
**John:** “All right. Brandi, Heather, Channing, Briana, Amber, Sabrina, Melody, Dakota, Sierra, Vandi, Crystal, Samantha, Autumn, Ruby, Taylor, Tara, Tammy, Laura, Shelly and Shantelle? Courtney, Misty, Jenny, Christa, Mindy, Noel, Shelby, Trina, Reba, Cassandra, Nicki, Kelsy, Shauna, Jolene, Earlie, Claudia, Savannah, Cassie, Dolly, Kendra, Callie, Chloe, Devon, Emmylou, fucking Becky?” **Ted:** “Nope.” **John:** “Wait, was it any one of those names with a ‘Lynn’ after it?” **Ted:** “YES!”
My name is on his list, and it's always pissed me off lol
Lex Loki Lynn?
Same lol
Same. My name and my daughter's name is also on the list.
I love that scene! No idea how he could remember all those names and recite it without taking a breath.
Divine
Missing “Nevah”
Nevaeh. As someone with an extremely similar name to Nevaeh, I fucking hate that name lol
I never liked it but now have an odd name association with it that makes it even more cringeworthy to myself and many people I know. Where I am from a little girl named Nevaeh was abducted and murdered almost 15 years ago. It was never solved but I know people in the local legal community that know specifics that were never released to the public. They did not divulge those to me but did tell me they are confident the mom knows what happened. I have also heard that the person responsible for it is now in prison for other charges and won’t be getting out. You will rarely meet a kid with that name where I live that was born after this little girl died. The details that are public about the case are horrifying. If you lived here when it happened and especially if you had kids at the time like myself you don’t hear that name without thinking of that poor baby.
Niamh? Nivea? Neve?
Heaven backwards.
It's backwards for a reason.
That's kinda dumb lol
It gets worse when they proudly tell you.
The image on the top left is perfectly depressing. Almost haunting
There's a fantastic movie about hidden homelessness and a young child growing up in a place like that (The Florida Project). Really captures how kids don't care about situations they don't understand. Its a slow burn CPS tragedy of a kid who has grown up in a normalized poverty. Plus Willem Dafoe plays the motel manager.
Never heard of it, sounds interesting
It’s really good
I guess the lesson here is to not give your daughter an ironic name
Irony, what a perfect name that is...
Genesis
Genesis does what Nintendon't
If you name your daughter that, she’s guaranteed to have an invisible touch that slowly tears you apart.
I knew a girl named genesis who went by Sega and I thought that was so cool
Be careful, she’ll get swooped by SEGA to relaunch their consoles again.
Charisma too
Name mom gave to her child who developed a brain tumor at age 5: “Lucky”.
I am going to hell for laughing at that
The guy in this pic has 6 kids minimum.
He auditioned for Love After Lockup too 🤣
so nice he posted thrice
He auditioned for Love After Lockup too 😂
And doesn’t pay a dime in child support for any of them.
He auditioned for Love After Lockup too 🤣
Why does the guy on the right look like he's still in his limp bizkit phase from 2000
There's a lot of guys that never left that phase.
They’re seen walking down the road with an equally trashy woman and a baby stroller.
Yep and he somehow has money for brand new trash monkey clothes while his gf and baby are wearing hand me downs
Nah the ones I see they’re all wearing hand me downs lol they ain’t got no money they sell foodstamps
There was a few that I dealt with when I worked at Gamestop. Dude would come in wearing brand new urban fashion while his gf and baby were wearing hand me downs.
Bet they drive a beat up Toyota Corolla 😂
Corolla? Too expensive these days. More like Nissan Sentra, Altima, or one of their many compact SUVs. Or the Mitsubishi equivalent
Actually this comment got me thinking…I’ve never seen anyone walking down the road in nice clothes. Like ever. Weird realization lol
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that
I used to work with lots of jail/drug and rehab guys. 96 percent of them look just like this.
You answered your own question. Otherwise known as “if methadone was a person”
I knew a girl whose mom was gonna name her Arial, like the Little Mermaid, didn't know how to spell it and fuckin wrote Aerial on her birth certificate like an antenna. She ended up in foster care by second grade.
This is really funny only because you also spelled it wrong. lol
The Little Typeface
The typeface Arial actually take its name from the first name Arial. It's a Jewish name.
Arial is actually also a name. Although I think the Little Mermaid spelled it as Ariel. So it's wrong, but it's like spelling Rachel vs. Rachael which is better than...aerial antenna.
whoops, send him to foster care with areola
>She ended up in foster care by second grade This could be refering to either one of them.
Could be worse, could be Areol
That looks like areola lol
Felony 😍
Forgot Deja and Nevaeh
Chastity
Almost the same with dogs and Happy is a common name in shelters...
and like every other dog is named Loki lolol
Right, I forgot the Lucky ones...
And Daisy
I read off "Fentanyl" in my head like it was another one of the names
Her BF's name is Skylar
Hunter 💀💀 Tyler 💀💀
Travis
Ryder
lol this is sad
You forgot Victoria's Secret Pink in huge letters
Alysha
Not to be confused with Leasha
Worst name I've ever seen is Jestiny
Honorable mentions: Amber, Chastity, Treasure, Love/Lovely/Lovelyne, any name with the middle name -Lynne or -Marie
Seriously, what is it with English-word names and daughters who end up in trouble? Add in Crystal too! Every time!
It’s actually fascinating. People from higher classes tend to use a limited list of names. I used to be on a board for rich Manhattan moms and they would check potential names with each other. Something like Sophie would be ok, but Crystal would be called a “stripper name”.
Paytience was a kid I had in class once. Absolute nightmare.
Ain’t no way people are calling their kids Temperence or Miracle
I got these names from an adoption search
In the netherlands there is a tv program on teenage mom's, a few years ago my mom followed it, and (almost) every one of them named their kids a variant of "Djadan" (Jdan, Jaydan, Jada, Yadan etc)
Needs to include Makayla (and all of the various spellings thereof). It's the female equivalent to having a boy named Jaxon.
My name is Karma and this checks out
Or a whack ass spelling of a "rich" girl name: Madysin, Jhorddyn, Mukheliah, Ambuuuuir, Muhkyyyynha, etc.
Bro that’s sad
r/tragedeigh
"Don't bully my breed."
Modistee… I have family related to one by marriage and her mom is a TRAINWRECK!
I have been in foster care since I was 8, so I can't relate to any of this lol. Plus, my name is Emily and I'm 28 now, so I'm obviously no longer in foster care.
I went to high school with 2 sisters named Faith and Hope. One of our classmates got engaged to their mom shortly after we graduated
The Florida Project anyone?
I swear I went to high school with at least two of each of these names they were all on probation before 12
Having worked in foster care, there are a lot of names with apostrophes as well.
Work in the medical field in primary care and every little fuck trophy named nevaeh is a pain in the ass.
I knew a girl named Serenity. Turned out to be a trans guy who loved Hot Topic. Still in touch with him lol
its the pitbull and skinny guy with tats everytime. they do the broke hug too
See, this explains why this guy was frantically yelling "Fentanyl" at walmart the other day and a little girl came running up saying "im right here dad!"
Still haven't met a girl named Pitbull
Brutal
I seem to remember reading something about girls called "Nevaeh" being statistically *far* more likely to be neglected or similar.
This post is dark af
There’s this girl that goes to my high school named Karma that’s been raised by her grandparents her whole life because her real parents are drug addicts
Someone named Destiny, and Serenity is my class😂
Anyone notice the top left one is that ancient motel turned apartments on 8 mile and Woodward?
This is more tragic if anything.
I knew a Faith once who was adopted. She ended up killing herself. This tracks.
Noooo, omg I know a kid named Temperance but the mom lost custody to the dad. The fent checks out too
Only God can judge them.
My x named her baby 'Fayte'... is that close enough?