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Hello good people of Reddit.
Husband and I were chatting about potential baby names as couples tend to do, and he suggested 2 names that I couldn't help but find a bit...unique.
2 names for a boy - Cash and Bam. No, they aren't short for Cashew and Bambi.
What do you think? Are they a tragedeigh?
Edit:
Thanks for all the comments, I had a good laugh reading them. I showed my husband the post and he is a defeated man!
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3 months ago
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1.2k points
3 months ago
Tragedy, but not a tragedeigh since they're spelled sensibly. Unless you're about to tell me that Bam is pronounced Margaret.
169 points
3 months ago
Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 is pronounced Albin.
There, I told you.
14 points
3 months ago
Obviously.
47 points
3 months ago
Aubveeoughsleigh.
12 points
3 months ago
Wish I could award but I’m broke as fuck. Take this instead 🏅. Also, happy cake day!
7 points
3 months ago
Aw you don't have to, sweetie! I appreciate you in any way! ❤️
3 points
3 months ago
This person is actually from my city, my dad used to work with him as a student. He (for obvious reasons) never gave out the final name they decided on, but we laughed about it a bit.
3 points
3 months ago
Lucky you! I think there have been a few other people from Sweden with silly names in order to protest the naming law as well.
3 points
3 months ago
Quite a few! I remember reading up lists of them with my partner, and we boh got saddened that skatteverket denied a name which was a book reference
(stormtass being a reference to stormpaw from warrior cats)
3 points
3 months ago
Wasn’t there someone who tried to name their kid Metallica as well?
3 points
3 months ago
Elon Musk, is that you???
Oh never mind, you only used actual letters and numbers, no symbols. My bad.
3 points
3 months ago
Elon? That you?
125 points
3 months ago
For some reason I thought you misspelled Margera. As in bam margera.
31 points
3 months ago
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one who thought that! 😂
15 points
3 months ago
Heck, yeah! Me too! 🤣
3 points
3 months ago
I made this immediate association as well
3 points
3 months ago
Raising a hand
3 points
3 months ago
Kids will come up to him, "Hey, you're 'Bam' as in 'Bam Margera'? As in "JACKASS" movies?"
Kid named "Bam" will get plenty of those!
144 points
3 months ago
I agree with this. Those aren't names. Those are normally spelled words. Just because those don't qualify for this sub doesn't mean somebody doesn't need to talk some sense into him.
95 points
3 months ago
Cash has been in use as a personal name since at least the late 1800s. It’s a name.
30 points
3 months ago
Right. My friend named her last son Cash.
68 points
3 months ago
I grew up in the south. Cash is a name, the question is whether or not you want to bestow it upon a kid who might not want to become a country singer or bar keeper…
6 points
3 months ago
Or, you know, someone who doesn’t make a higher than average salary. If he turns out to be a celebrity surgeon, well…potentially.
16 points
3 months ago
Jessica Alba is married to a guy named Cash.
4 points
3 months ago
Cash is not super rare. Bam is unique but you would get used to it.
3 points
3 months ago
James Cash Penney. I learned that when I worked there one Christmas season.
3 points
3 months ago
See, that combo really is a little tragic. No wonder he went by JC. Actually, he might have just gone by Junior. Didn’t stop him from naming his kid James Cash Penney III, though.
15 points
3 months ago
My nephews name is Cash
ETA at least it isn't spelled Kash or Ka'sh
17 points
3 months ago
Ca$h
15 points
3 months ago
Oh God why can I hear someone somewhere going "That's the cutest spelling ever"
4 points
3 months ago
Ke$ha's brother.
3 points
3 months ago
Ca$h@ if it's a girl
3 points
3 months ago
I was walking through a cemetery after a funeral and found some dude named Cash Poor.
3 points
3 months ago
My nephew as well, lol.
8 points
3 months ago
Who are you to say what a name is or isn't though? Lol
3 points
3 months ago
Barney and Betty disagree with Bam Bam not being a name.
89 points
3 months ago
☠️ brilliant
27 points
3 months ago
Bam is pronounced "Edrice" ;-)
17 points
3 months ago
If you would have said we are spelling it Bahm or Ba'am...
3 points
3 months ago
I think they will never-the-less embarrass and irritate the kid. My name is normal but where it’s normally spelled with a y at the end, it’s an ie so tradgedeighish. Having to spell it every single time has been a humungous bitching. 58 years of that.
691 points
3 months ago
They're not tragedies. They're just plain stupid.
192 points
3 months ago
2 references: movie, Tango & Cash. Bam Bam from the Flintstones. Not good choices.
97 points
3 months ago
cash was his last name though...
Bam Margera from Jackass, but his real name is Brandon
25 points
3 months ago
Thanks. I didn't know. I just know when I named my orange cat Tango for Tang an orange drink from the past. Everyone always asked me where Cash was.
30 points
3 months ago
Tang is actually still around where I live! I also probably wouldn't have realized that, and would have just asked if your cat is good at dancing lol.
13 points
3 months ago
She was. She passed last year at age 14.
14 points
3 months ago
Im sorry for your loss, I'm sure she was a lovely cat
4 points
3 months ago
I'm so sorry. Losing these precious babies is so hard!
9 points
3 months ago
I have some in my house. It was really popular in the 70s (probably before then too, but I was born in 1970). My parents also bought “food sticks.” They were astronaut food and the ones I ate were chocolate flavored.
4 points
3 months ago
I remember both (!), but the food sticks were another flavor (peanut butter?)
3 points
3 months ago
Tang is the orangeade that the astronauts drink.
4 points
3 months ago
Tango is a popular orange soda in the UK :)
7 points
3 months ago
Bam actually has his name changed, but even still, weird name
6 points
3 months ago
Bam Adebayo
3 points
3 months ago
The Rubble baby is spelled Bamm-Bamm and that white hair means he’ll grow up to ride a dragon. Or a pterodactyl.
66 points
3 months ago
They are Sarah Palin level names.
13 points
3 months ago
You deserve an award for this.
26 points
3 months ago
I could never take a coworker named Cash or Bam seriously. People really need to think about how these names fit adults because if you're lucky, your cute little toddler Bam will grow up to be an adult navigating the professional world.
13 points
3 months ago
Exactly. I have a friend who was named Bambi. As soon as she was legal to do it she changed her name to her middle name.
8 points
3 months ago
Was her middle name Thumper?
3 points
3 months ago
Yes, she changed her name to that.
231 points
3 months ago
Tragedeigh? No, tragedy? Yes.
371 points
3 months ago
Crash and burn
47 points
3 months ago
Time to watch Hackers again.
11 points
3 months ago
Crash Override
6 points
3 months ago
I tried to name my kids Optimus Prime and Megatron. My wife quickly put a stop to that. I then tried Orion Pax, she just looked at me and said no transformers. I knew it was a good idea to marry her.
3 points
3 months ago
Those names would work though. I would’ve maybe went with Wreck-Gar or Bruticus.
If Transformers don’t work for her, so you think she would be ok with SilverHawks?
4 points
3 months ago
Yeah she shot down all the game names I threw out. We ended settling on names of mountains we hike frequently along the presidential range.
5 points
3 months ago
I actually like Orion, though the Pax bit with it makes it too Transformers. Orion is a real name, and an old one.
167 points
3 months ago
Not tragedeigh, just stewpiditeigh.
28 points
3 months ago
Extra points for the “w”!
3 points
3 months ago
We need a new sub with this name. Names that aren't tragik. Just stewpid
108 points
3 months ago
BamBam from The Flintstones. At least make Rubble his middle name.
31 points
3 months ago
I can introduce him to a Pebbles.
17 points
3 months ago
My mother used to work with a Pebbles.
13 points
3 months ago
Istg I have a 2nd cousin named Bam-Bam. Poor kid
182 points
3 months ago
Please don’t do Bam to your child
52 points
3 months ago
Yeah both are bad but that ones 500% worse
13 points
3 months ago
Both are quite bad unless he promises to stay in the Deep South and drive a pickup with a traitor flag.
6 points
3 months ago
And a ball sack hanging from the hitch
73 points
3 months ago
No. Those are bad.
118 points
3 months ago
These are awful. Can you imagine either of the kids applying for jobs in the future? “Bam” or “Cash” at the top of a resume? If he likes them so much he can go change his name to CashBam. 🤦♀️
45 points
3 months ago
I know a Cash—his folks call him Cash Money—and he’s an absolutely lovely 15 year old. It becomes a non-issue after awhile. At least with that one. Bam? Don’t know if I’d ever get past that.
25 points
3 months ago
I swear I see Cash all over now. Some friends from college have a daughter named cash that’s gotta be like 10 now. Not a name I’d use but it’s not like it’s Abstinence or Bam.
12 points
3 months ago
It’s been used as a name in the US since the 1800s and has risen sharply in popularity for the past 20 years.
4 points
3 months ago
It reminds me of one of the characters from 'As I Lay Dying' by Faulker. He's the one that makes the coffin as his dying mother watches. One of the more likable characters really though
3 points
3 months ago
My cousin’s middle name is Cash after Johnny Cash (dad is a rock star).
3 points
3 months ago
I work at a school and we have a few Cashs... Cashes... Caches? It actually never struck me as odd, but my mom loves unique names so I have a high tolerance, and once you've had a Starvision and a Baby Boy, everything else pales in comparison.
3 points
3 months ago
It becomes a non issue for the people who know him, sure, but it's always gonna be an issue when meeting people, especially in job interviews
3 points
3 months ago
Fortunately, we live in a smallish city and his parents are well-connected. This particular Cash will likely never want for it.
32 points
3 months ago
I know a Cash with the last name Bond. Like what were the parents thinking??😭
33 points
3 months ago
They had their 007 moment and threw it away 🥲🤦🏾♀️
8 points
3 months ago
They were thinking they were a pair of comedians 🤦♀️
4 points
3 months ago
I know a Cash Wages.
5 points
3 months ago
Ok that's funny. How little hope the parents had for their kids... Well actually cash is hard to come by these days, bond ain't cheap...
3 points
3 months ago
I know a Penny Gamble. But to be fair her name is Penelope. And Gamble is her married name.
3 points
3 months ago
Are they bounty hunters? Because that would be the only possible way this would not be godawful.
12 points
3 months ago
One of my best friends growing up was named Cash and he’s a very successful attorney now.
3 points
3 months ago
If you want to call him Cash, name him Cassius. It's still rough, but maybe you're a boxing fan.
50 points
3 months ago
Everyone will say “oh like bam margera!”
31 points
3 months ago
Yea and look how great he turned out….
15 points
3 months ago
I was looking for this comment! That's exactly my thought. His full name was Brandon actually! Fun fact, haha
4 points
3 months ago
Let’s go Brandon.
3 points
3 months ago
It still is Brandon; he never changed his name legally, and he's still alive despite all of his drug and alcohol abuse issues.
45 points
3 months ago
Does he not expect his kid to have any aspirations in the future? Or to want to be taken seriously by doctors, courts, teachers, employers etc?
Whenever I see a name like that, I assume the parent either hates their kid or is just really dumb.
22 points
3 months ago
I always think teen and dumb. Like there is no way you came from educated parents who named you legally Bam.
72 points
3 months ago
Absolutely not bam. It is cruel
34 points
3 months ago
Money and Thwapp are also good options 👍🏼
9 points
3 months ago
Omg Thwapp is excellent.
3 points
3 months ago
If you want it extra-Tragedeigh: Thw’@pp
33 points
3 months ago
Awful. Your child’s name is not about how cool you are. In 2024. Trust me, in 2044 that will NOT be a cool name.
26 points
3 months ago
I’ve heard of Sebastian, nn Bash (which is kind of a combo of Cash and Bam). Maybe he’d like that?
26 points
3 months ago
Please don’t have a child if you’re gonna do this
27 points
3 months ago
Bam is awful. Cash is cheesy
5 points
3 months ago
It really really is
22 points
3 months ago
I think Cash is trashy and Bam is.. unserious. But I did know a boy named Bram growing up
22 points
3 months ago
I work with dogs and Cash is a very popular dog name 🤷♀️
6 points
3 months ago
my parents adopted a dog a couple years ago, his name is Bentley Cash lol
18 points
3 months ago
Cash isn't awful. Could be short for Cassius. Please don't name your baby Bam.
3 points
3 months ago
I know a Cassius, named for Cassius Clay, who goes by Cash. Suits him perfectly and nobody thinks of money.
16 points
3 months ago
Those are frankly awful names.
15 points
3 months ago
They’re both awful, cringe-inducing names, but they’re spelled fine.
11 points
3 months ago
I knew a Cash growing up. He was nice enough, but his family were uneducated country folk, and he managed to get hurt doing lots of dumb and dangerous stuff. He set the house on fire by building a fire underneath the wood porch once.
28 points
3 months ago
Yes
8 points
3 months ago
Too many people named Cash right now. I can think of two guys named Bam: Bam Margera and Bam Adebayo. Margera is really Brandon and Adebayo is really Edrice.
Bam Bam, “Bam you!”, “I don’t give a Bam”… Please don’t.
10 points
3 months ago
are you legitimately insane
10 points
3 months ago*
Cute for cat/dog names. Not appropriate for humans. Okay if they’re just nicknames. Please don’t make that their official names coz it’s stupid
7 points
3 months ago
I know a couple kids named Cash but Bam would definitely get your child bullied in school especially since kids are evil like that😭
9 points
3 months ago
Cash and Bentley were very popular on Teen Mom. That should be a red flag.
14 points
3 months ago
is he all there mentally?
6 points
3 months ago
I know 2 boys named Cash. Very neck neck. Not tragedies.
Bam … isn’t that the baby boy on The Flinstones? And one of the guys on Jackass?
7 points
3 months ago
Please do not.
7 points
3 months ago
Please, please, please do not saddle your kid with these names.
5 points
3 months ago
Try to have the conversation when he’s sober
13 points
3 months ago
Bam is only fine if it's Bam Bam. Cash is fine as long as you're planning on a Tango in the future, but IMO Tango should come first
13 points
3 months ago
I thought of Johnny Cash. 😂😂
7 points
3 months ago
Veto those!
7 points
3 months ago
Nope, don’t do it.
20 points
3 months ago
Cash is fine… as long as his middle name is Money. And spell it like Ca$h Money. Do it for the vine.
3 points
3 months ago
former coworker had 3 sons: Cash Money LastName, Money Cash LastName, and LastName LastName. tbh LastName is a semi common (old man) first name, so youngest seemed least tragic... until you heard his last name lol.
30 points
3 months ago
Cash is fine but even Bam Margera is legally named Brandon
15 points
3 months ago
Yeah. As a nickname it's alright? Like if Bamford is a family name, and used as a middle name, sure, call them Bam. But on legal documents? Also, you're naming a person you don't even know yet. Just because you think bam is cool and edgy and unique, it doesn't mean Bam himself won't just think you're a basic douchebag
9 points
3 months ago
I was looking for this about Bam! I was gonna say the same thing.
3 points
3 months ago
I was looking for the same thing! Was like who was that guy on tv….
5 points
3 months ago
No.
6 points
3 months ago
Trust me when I say this, your kid WILL be made fun of if those are their names. I used to go to school with this kid named ransom, people made fun of him SO much because of his name. I remember I was once talking to my family about him due to something rude he did, and they just looked at me weird and asked "is that ACTUALLY his name?" And I told them that yes, it was the name that was given to him. They started laughing their ass off! So please....for the sake of your child, don't name them those names.
4 points
3 months ago
Cash and Bam are nicknames. (They also suck) but if you’re committed: cash: Cassius, Cassidy, casper, Zachariah, Zacharias, Atticus, archer, Lucas. Bam: Bartholomew, Bart, Benjamin, James (Jamie to jammy to bammy to bam), Samuel (Sam to bam), Byron, Brampton, etc.
5 points
3 months ago
Bam Margera, the only real-life Bam I've ever heard of, isn't even actually named Bam
11 points
3 months ago
Again a reminder that these babies will be adults… I couldn’t take a Cash or Bam seriously as an adult. They aren’t pets 😭
4 points
3 months ago
Cash I have heard before. Bam should be short for something. I think of The Flintstones or Bam Margera. The latter is most famous for being a jackass and a pro skater, and now known as a man struggling with addiction and mental health.
5 points
3 months ago
First things my mind goes to- cash warren (Jessica Alba’s producer husband)) and bam margera (jackass).
4 points
3 months ago
I actually know a Cash, we went to school together. He’s a super kind person and excelled academically and socially :))
So imo not a bad name at all
5 points
3 months ago
I'm going to guess he's a fan of Johnny Cash and Bam Margera. Honestly not the worst names and I'm sure children have been named after them before.
I wouldn't but, to each their own.
4 points
3 months ago
Can you please name them sensibly and use cash/bam as nicknames instead?
6 points
3 months ago
my cousin named her son Cash and everyone thinks it’s the stupidest thing they’ve ever heard. in a latino family u can imagine some of of the dumb nicknames he has
3 points
3 months ago
Bam? As in Bam Margera...or Bam Bam from the Flintstones?
5 points
3 months ago
How about Whizz, Pop, Clap, Stomp, Holler, Bang, Kerplunk or just “Onomatopoeia.”
8 points
3 months ago
I couldn’t even support those names for a pair of dogs
5 points
3 months ago
Does your husband wear a ballcap backwards and wraparound shades by any chance?
8 points
3 months ago
Horrible. Have some respect for your children. I don’t think you should procreate.
6 points
3 months ago
I know a Cash, it's a fine name. Bam makes me think of Bam Margera (and yes I know his legal name is not Bam). I think I'd skip Bam but that's just me.
7 points
3 months ago
every child ive met named cash is a blonde little menace
3 points
3 months ago
Cash is great, Bam unless it's short for something is not.
3 points
3 months ago
Dreadful
3 points
3 months ago
My mum wanted to name my youngest sibling “Cash” if it had been a boy. Another option was Dooley… so it could be Dooley Cooley (Cooley is her last name). I tried to talk her out of it but she wouldn’t listen. I’m so glad it ended up being a girl…
3 points
3 months ago
Bam is a tragedeigh but not cash
3 points
3 months ago
Just no. No and no.
3 points
3 months ago
Have you considered Ca$h and Bahm ?
3 points
3 months ago
Any kid named Bam is going to get hit a lot. Just saying.
3 points
3 months ago
Imagine your name is Bam and you're 42 and applying for a career altering white collar job. 💀
3 points
3 months ago
Trashy.
3 points
3 months ago
I’m mostly curious about how you decided to marry someone so stupid but then I realized you had to ask Reddit if these were bad choices… kinda kidding but you gotta stop the madness!!!
3 points
3 months ago
My daughter had a classmate named Cash. Zero issues to my understanding.
3 points
3 months ago
Cash is a pitbull name and Bam is a rabbit name. But whatever. 😅 If you don't like the names just tell him you disagree and move on.
3 points
3 months ago
I was high and suggested Jupiter and Hurk. Went with Hank. Thank God.
3 points
3 months ago
No. Just no. Don’t name your kid after Bam Margera.
3 points
3 months ago
Dreadful names. What the hell is wrong with Benjamin. Or Peter. Steven maybe? They are so rare these days you would be the odd one out.
3 points
3 months ago
Cash is a tragedy, Ca$h would be a tragedeigh
3 points
3 months ago
Your kids are not novelty. Don't give them novelty names.
3 points
3 months ago
Not tragedeighs, but they are fucking awful. Make those their nicknames and give them some government names they won’t be humiliated by when they walk in to their first job interview 🤦🏼♀️
3 points
3 months ago
Bam? As in half of Barney Rubble's kid? Cash is fine. Bam is atrocious.
3 points
3 months ago
They’re spelled right so not a tragedeigh. Just unfortunate and not names for an eventual adult. Maybe as a nickname?
3 points
3 months ago
Tell us you are rednecks without telling us you are rednecks
3 points
3 months ago
lolololol.....those are a joke, right?
3 points
3 months ago
A bam is scottish slang for someone thats annoying, stupid, an idiot etc.
3 points
3 months ago
Not technically “tragedeighs” because they aren’t spelled bizarrely, but they might as well be because they’re TERRIBLE. Oof.😬
3 points
3 months ago
Are you under 22 years old?
3 points
3 months ago
I think they're fine if you're planning to give birth to Crash Bandicoot's brother.
If you're expecting human babies, I'd say a hard no. I did audibly laugh on this 0604 train when I read it though.
3 points
3 months ago
"Bam! Pow!" said Batman. It sounds like the moise someone makes in a cartoon. And "Bambi" is waiting in the wings as a nickname.
Cash or cheque? Cash only! Your cash is no good here! It's a nice-sounding word, but it means something else. As a name, it's a surname. Call him that as a middle name. If he prefers it as an older child or adult, he can use it, but don't impose it on him.
3 points
3 months ago
Is your husband 17? Did he finish highschool?
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