Woman Tells Pregnant Friend Her Baby Name Is 'Ridiculously Stupid'

We may think that some names are popular and sweet at the given time of our pregnancy, but we also need to think forward about how that name may impact our children down the road.

More and more, moms are looking for "different" names for their babies. These moms hope that when their children reach school, they can stand out from the crowd and be one of three kids with the same name in their class.

Currently, Liam and Noah are ranked as the top boys' names in the U.S., while Emma and Olivia are the top girls' names.

It's becoming more common for parents to change up the spelling of a well-known name so that it still has that unique twist to it.

Who do we lean on to be our sounding boards when it comes to naming our kids? Our parents? Our significant other? Our friends? How would you feel if your friend told you that what you wanted to name your child was absolutely stupid?

She started the post by explaining that her friend, who happens to be her roommate, is pregnant with her first child.

"My roommate (24f) is a big Game of Thrones fan. She’s pregnant with her first child right now. She decided to name her baby, ‘Arya,'" she said.

"When she asked my opinion of this name, I said I it was a good name with a good meaning (Arya means noble in Sanskrit), but a lot of people have named their kids Arya/Khaleesi/Sansa because of the popularity of GoT and it might be a little too common, not that it is a bad thing," she told her friend.

"The next day, which was yesterday, she said she’s found a way to name her baby ‘Arya’ and not have it be associated with other Aryas running around or the show. How? She said she wanted to spell it as Aughreighyah. I did a double take reading that word too, but apparently people are supposed to read it as Augh-reigh-ya or Arya," she said.

"She asked me how I felt about it and I told her that, frankly, Aughreighyah looks ridiculously stupid and she should just go with Arya. She got kinda upset and said that she and her partner came up with this only because I told them that the name is very common. I said that having a common name is better than having a confusing name."

She asked Reddit if she was an a-hole for telling her friend the name's spelling was stupid.

One person decided to make a wordplay on the name Arya.

"Ask her 'Arya being stupid?' ... I'll be here all night," they commented. Other people chimed in saying things like, "It never ends: Arya having a stroke, Arya parents related, etc."

"...that poor child will have to spell her name for everyone, and correct people mispronouncing it," one user said. With this in mind, they said the friend was right to say the spelling was stupid.

"My name is a different spelling of a relatively common name (one letter difference). I’m 20 and still constantly correcting people on the spelling of my name. It’s exhausting," one person said.

"I like my name, but it's like this and it gets very, very annoying having to spell and pronounce my name every single time I talk to someone," another user said.

"Aariya and Ariya are also Sanskrit spellings that aren’t similar to GOT that doesn’t look as ridiculous as what [the pregnant friend] thought out," they said.

They determined that the Reddit user was not the a-hole for telling her friend her opinion.

"Normally you’d be the a-hole but A) that’s a stupid name, and B) she asked your opinion," one commenter wrote.

What do you think? Was this friend in the wrong?