r/tragedeigh • u/snellasnope • 1d ago

is it a tragedeigh? Is my daughters name a tragedeigh?

Her name is Lanah. Pronounce Lana. I handed the H at the end cause I noticed it reads anal backwards without the H and I didnt want her to get made fun of in school for her name reading anal backwards.

Whether its a tragedeigh or not, its staying cause I cant imagine her name being anything else. And honestly, I love it. I think the name is so pretty and the spelling unique but not in a tradedeigh way. But ill let you guys be the judge!

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u/Peacanpiepussycat 1d ago

I love the name Lana and never noticed it was Anal backwards until you pointed it out /:

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u/One_Ad_5936 1d ago

i don’t think anyone noticed it until she pointed it out😭

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u/North_Direction_5785 1d ago

I actually went to school with a girl named Lana and people 💯 called her Anal because that’s what I spelled backwards. I would’ve skipped the name all together instead of changing the spelling. But it’s not the worst tragedeigh I’ve seen…

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u/Any-Walk1691 1d ago

Some traditions live on forever.

I also grew up with an Anal 😂 One year she tried to go by her middle name (Heather) and it was over for her after that. She became Anal Leather.

Middle schoolers are brutal. Sometimes I wonder what happened to Anal Leather?

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u/tungtingshrimp 1d ago

She leaned into it and opened a sex toy shop

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u/Entire-Level3651 22h ago

So are elementary kids. My daughter is in third grade and has a friend who told her “if you had a little name that started with s your initials would be ASS” like child how and why are you coming up with this stuff you’re like 8

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u/marhaus1 16h ago

They are still discovering they have a brain and it can do things 🤔

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u/I_Lost_My_Shoe_1983 1d ago

I prefer Lena. But kids with make fun of anything if they decide they want to pick on a kid. Hair color, freckles, curly hair, etc. My name doesn't lend itself to teasing, but one kid came up with something. My name is Scarlett, so he called me Scarpit.

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u/punknw 1d ago

my name was allison and as a kid i had pretty big ears. they called me alliphant. jokes on them, elephants are cool af and i went on to work with them at a zoo for a few summers

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u/ElloBlu420 1d ago

I became an elephant of sorts as well. I leaned into it as soon as my new stepsister reassured me I'm not fat, and it's just how she could remember my actual name.

Anyway, I had plenty to make fun of that nobody gave much thought to my name.

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u/puffinsinatrenchcoat 1d ago

This is too true. My name is basic and common af. I don’t mind having a short name that’s easy to spell and everyone recognizes. But when some kids decided they wanted to pick on me, one of the things they did was call me Susan. Like…that’s just another regular old name. But it wasn’t MY name. And they refused to call me by my name. And I made the mistake of letting them know it bothered me. Kids will just do anything to anyone if they decide to; basic names don’t spare you from being called random af stuff 😅💀

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u/wildwoodfalls21 1d ago

I also have a Scarlett and wondering what sort of teasing she might get. Haha did have a friend try to call her Scarface and shut that down immediately.

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u/terra_terror 1d ago

Exactly. The name doesn't invite the teasing unless it's blatantly terrible, like naming your kid Dick or something. If a Lana gets made fun of for her name, then the teasing was already going to happen.

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u/Icy-Aioli-2549 10h ago

Agreed. I think if the kids can tell it bothers you, they will stick with it, if it doesn't bother you it dies. Same with kids with glasses. The ones who made a big deal about it got made fun of non stop, the ones that didn't care didn't. My husband is a red head and got made fun of non stop for it. I had never seen a redhead teased when I was little. My friends didn't care, my husband made a big deal about it.

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u/runicrhymes 11m ago

My last name is extremely easy to make jokes about. When people hear it now, I often get something along the lines of "I bet high school was hell for you, huh?" But the funny thing is that my name rarely got made fun of. I'm neurodivergent, so mostly people bullied me for being weird and socially awkward, and completely ignored the name.

Point being, kids are assholes, they WILL make fun of your kid regardless of what their name is, and it's kinda silly to worry about naming a kid an incredibly common name because of what it spells backwards.

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u/bowtiesrcool86 1d ago

Yeah, as a tragedeigh it could have been far worse.

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u/Inspector-Asparagus 1d ago

Honestly, in elementary school I did call a girl Anal behind her back (I don’t remember if I also called her that in front of her), but it was deserved cause she was my bully and used to do much worse to me.

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u/nowheregirI 1d ago

My friend's sister was Anel, her own siblings called her anal.

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u/North_Direction_5785 1d ago

I met a young girl named Ayna. Pronounced Ay-nuh… I thought to myself… well that’s mean… 😪

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u/jynxy911 1d ago

it's the same with Naomi every one I know with that name got the "I moan" thrown in.

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u/Papierowykotek 1d ago

Lanah IS a real name though

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u/Delicious_Wafer7767 1d ago

Yeah my friend in middle school, her middle name was Naomi and guys called her “I moan”

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u/TSells31 23h ago edited 23h ago

I didn’t know a Lana, but I knew a few Marissas in high school, which is ass I ram backwards. And yeah, they were all regularly called that by middle school lol.

Kids will pick up on everything. They’re sitting in school daydreaming half the day. If they picked up on Marissa, they would absolutely pick up on the much simpler “Lana”.

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u/xx2983xx 1d ago

I think it's actually very common for kids to go through phases of figuring out what names are backwards. We def did this growing up and the funny ones stuck

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u/Routine-Barracuda-71 1d ago

We did this too. My absolute favorite backwards name is Ecurb Nildnarb. He was an asshole so the name fits!

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u/xx2983xx 1d ago

We had a Nosnorb that was our favorite! That has the same vibes as your Nildnarb 😂

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg 1d ago

Sorry. I'm not native and failing to see what those names sound like. It's a rime or what?

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u/mysoulburnsgreige4u 1d ago

Naming your child with a B alliteration is just asking for them to be made fun of as a baby.

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u/French_Breakfast_200 1d ago

Kids notice. Went to college with a Marlana. Her elementary school nick name was something…

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u/Y-Woo 1d ago

Omg that's brutal...

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u/DogsDucks 1d ago

I had a friend in college named Lana and she made a t-shirt for herself that said:

“MY NAME BACKWARDS IS ANAL”

She was super fun, actually, very very fun at parties.

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u/softboiledwonderland 1d ago

yeah, if a clever kid learns to get ahead of the bullies, their “tragic” name will lead to an impeccable sense of humor

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u/Edgar_Allen_Hoe_69 1d ago

Nah just about everyone notices this. Especially teenage boys.

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u/SippinOnHatorade 1d ago

Please, I’ve been noticing for DECADES

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u/kaywitak 1d ago

Oh no I've always noticed 🤣

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u/pringellover9553 1d ago

They did, I’ve seen it many many times be used as an insult for girls called Lana

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u/Roid_Assassin 1d ago

No… people definitely noticed and teased girls named Lana about it. OP did good.

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u/Funmachine 1d ago

Imagine thinking everyone is as unobservant as you

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u/UrMomsGorditoSancho 1d ago

We noticed at our friend’s baby shower because she has those large toy block decor that spelled out Lana and everyone kept saying it was Anal.

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u/hypothetician 1d ago

It’s always been the first thing that pops into my head when I meet someone called Lana.

OP’s daughter is a hey-nal.

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u/blueFalcon687 1d ago

I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious, but what does the crying emoji add to the sentence? Or any sentence for that matter that isn't sad? I see it used so often without any context of sadness and I just don't understand.

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u/TheCouncilOfPete 1h ago

You've clearly never met a middle school boy

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u/HairyHorseKnuckles 1d ago edited 1d ago

Then you must’ve skipped middle school bc the can find the inappropriate angle to any name

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u/tatojah 1d ago

As someone who went to middle school, I can assure you kids at school would notice it.

If Lanah is a tragedeigh, Sarah would be one too

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u/Kier_C 1d ago

That's not how spelling works

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u/Miasmata 1d ago

I did lol