If you’ve ever tried to hide your face after a friend or loved one tells you their truly heinous baby name pick for the first time, then you probably can relate to one woman on Reddit's situation. But the thing is, the name her friend picked wasn't the problem — it was the unusual spelling she wants to go with. According to the Redditor, her roommate is a HUGE Game of Thrones fan. But it isn’t mom-to-be's fangirl moment that’s driving this Redditor crazy: It’s the twisted way she thinks she should spell it.
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As the Original Poster explained, her 24-year-old roommate is pregnant with her first baby.
Like any GOT fan, she wants to name her baby Arya. You know, like the fierce Arya Stark?
“When she asked my opinion of this name, I said [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,” the OP wrote in her post on Reddit's Am I the A–hole forum.
The very next day, her roommate came up with a 'fix' so the name wouldn’t seem too much like everyone else's.
“She said she wanted to spell it as Aughreighyah,” the OP wrote.
The OP was shocked — “I did a double take reading that word too, but apparently people are supposed to read it as Augh-reigh-ya or Arya.”
It's then that the OP made her fatal mistake — she gave her roommate her honest opinion.
She told her roommate that “frankly, Aughreighyah looks ridiculously stupid and she should just go with Arya.”
And yeah, her roommate did not take the opinion in stride.
“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,” the OP continued. “I said that having a common name is better than having a confusing name.”
Now she wants to know if she was too harsh.
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Some very truthful commenters had to agree with the OP — the name was not good.
“Ask her 'Arya being stupid?' … I'll be here all night,” one commenter joked.
Someone else agreed, writing this: "You should not give your kid a name that looks like it could be a Welsh town."
"Normally you’d be the a–hole but A) that’s a stupid name, and B) she asked your opinion. NTA," a third person added.
Other people, however, thought the OP needed to back off.
"You can’t just make her choose a name you want," one commenter wrote in. "Besides, Arya sounds like a lovely name. I’d only step in if it was just gibberish or offensive. Arya is not offensive."
"You're The A–hole because you brought this on that kid by criticizing Arya for being too boring. Arya isn't boring, at least she's not naming the kid something boring like Emma. Why don't people just leave well enough alone?" a second commenter added.
A third person put it this way: "YTA for making her doubt herself from her first choice making her go for the dumb way of writing it. Telling her it’s too common was just rude and not your call."
In the end, the OP didn’t want to rain on her roommate’s parade.
“You’re right. I was a bit harsh,” she wrote later in the thread. “I’ll apologize. Someone suggested Aria or Ariya as alternate spellings; I’ll suggest those spellings too. Ultimately, it’s up to her what she wants to name her kid.”
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