Aight, my turn

My name is Stephanie. I was born in the United-States. However, when my parents divorced, I went with my mother to her hometown : Quebec City, in Canada. Quebec in a french province in Canada, so I was raised in french.

In french, they write “Stéphanie”, with an accent. My name does not have one, since it’s in english. Simple enough, right? No biggy?

If only. My school years have been TERRIBLE for me. So fucking terrible. I’ve been bullied non-stop, did nothing less than 6 different schools just for primary school. Because we moved, yeah, but because I was bullied so much. Main reason I was bullied? Yep, my name.

Every new year, I would walk up to my teacher and tell them “My name doesn’t have an accent on it, can you scratch it up?”. And then the teacher, jokingly, would almost shout “Oh, so it’s STE-phanie!” and, of course, that would give the cue to the other students to start calling me that.

I’ve been through all of it. The nicknames, the face-spitting, being called “a fake canadian” (I have both citizenship), even beating.

At some point I BEGGED my mother to change my name. I screamed at her desperately asking why she hadn’t named me Elizabeth instead (it was the other option they had).

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Since I finished High School, people are okay with it, adults are definitely more mature. I named myself “Steph” on Facebook so people wouldn’t dishonor my name but putting an accent on it, or pronouncing it any other way. Steph is Steph. Adult life is easier. But I hate it when someone calls me “Stephanie” instead of “Steph”. My name doesn’t bring me positive feelings, never has. I learned to love it, to love the “unique” part of it, but I get stiff everytime I hear my mother or even my boyfriend calling me by my full name.

But now my friends are starting to have kids. I’m a cosplayer, so I know a lot of other cosplayer, otakus and such. The amount of people giving fucking japanese name to their white kids is slowly disgusting me (I don’t mind the japanese name, they are wonderful, but think of a little white girl named Sakura? Parents just sounds so “weebo”). A girl I know named her daughter Layza-Fay. She’s fucking french canadian and gave that frigging name to her daughter. That little girl is going to get bullied so fucking hard in school because of that.

I get that parents want their children to be unique, it’s normal. Every child is unique to its parents. But why can’t parents just fucking THINK about the name they’re going to bestow their child? They should give obligatory-class about that alone. At LEAST give the child another, more usual name, so you can call it both names at home and let it use the more usual one in school, or until they’re old enough to decide which one they want to use. (For example, I quite like the name Yuuki, which is japanese for snow, but if I ever give it to my daughter, she’s probably gonna be name “Amy Yuuki [Surname]”. )

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So, you’re asking if it’s alright to have named your kid Lucifer. My personal answer to this, from my personal experience, is definitely a “No”. I don’t even want to get to the religious part of it, the bullying experience is enough. I hope you’re ready for all the tear sessions that will come your way when you kid comes back from school, every day. Because that’s what happened to my mother, and it’s surely what will happen to your kid.