Mildred

Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1073 points – 4 months ago

Edit: alt-text: Reddit post in r/TrueOffMyChest

Title: my friend just transitioned but I found out she's naming herself Mildred. I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?

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Since I am not from the western hemisphere, I find it difficult to understand what is wrong with the name. Is it just that it sounds bad? Or any other reason?

This excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article for the name abstractly summarizes it nicely.

It reached the rank of the sixth most popular name for girls in the United States in 1912 and maintained that popularity through 1920, but then its popularity dropped quickly afterward.[2]

The name Mildred was very common about a hundred years ago, but never really at any other point since. If you see the name Mildred without seeing the person in question your first thoughts will be that they are extremely old. That's really about it.

It has several negative sound associations to me: mildew, dread, mild. It sounds stale and bland.

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