'My friend is giving her baby an ugly name and I'm devastated for the poor kid'
Many people often don't like the baby names their friends give their child, and that's exactly the case for one woman has shared her 'heartache' after hearing what her friend wants to name her baby girl - claiming it's "ugly". She explained how her mum-to-be friend has become "obsessed" with a certain name and wants to give it to her daughter, believing it's the perfect moniker.
However, she thinks it's an "ugly" name, saying it reminds her of a "ugly flower hag". She has taken to Reddit to ask users of the tragedeigh thread, a word used to describe a "given name that has been deliberately misspelled or completely made up to appear more unique than it actually is", how she can convince her friend to rethink the name.
She said: "Help! My friend is obsessed with this tragedeigh name for her soon to be due daughter. She wants to name her daughter Agantha. Yes, not Agatha. Agantha.
"She read a book that had a character with that name and fell in love. I personally think the name is so ugly. It sounds ugly. Like an ugly flower hag. Help me convince her it's a no."
Commenting on her post, one user said: "Honestly, I understand how reading it looks like a pretty name, but saying it you get stuck on the N like peanut butter.
"I think Agatha is a pretty name, but people who have it often don't love it, and I can imagine a baby named Agantha resenting it even more."
Another user added: "Agnatha are jawless fish. It will probably get misspelled that way at least once."
A third user said: "That name reminds me of Agnatha. The word "Agnatha" refers to a superclass of jawless fish in biology.
"It comes from Greek words meaning 'no jaws'. This group includes lampreys and hagfish, as well as various extinct forms.
"Essentially, Agnatha is a taxonomic grouping of vertebrates that lack jaws, distinguishing them from other fish groups."
One more user added: "It's bad. It's really bad. She could name a baby Agatha, name her Anne, name her Agnes, she could name her Agatha Anne Agnes [last name], and not sign her daughter up for a life time of going 'no, it's Agantha' and go by Aggie forever anyways."
Another user said: "Agatha is such a beautiful name. Agantha is not. There's a reason a fictional character bears the name; it doesn't work so well in the real world.
"Also, I wouldn't name things based on books. Take a look at Niel Gaiman: brilliant writer, for the longest time was well-respected in the literary world. Now? Not so much. Same thing happened to JK Rowling. Not all writers are weird, but it can always happen."
A final user said: "Agantha sounds like a disease. It sounds heavy. It sounds like a Godzilla-universe monster name.
"I immediately hear school children teasing ' Agantha Giganta!' We beg your friend not to name her beautiful baby girl this. It would be cruel."
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