I'm a 30 year old teacher in the US and I've reached the nadir. I now have more students with unfamiliar Hispanic, Middleeastern, African-American, and hipster white person names than I do "traditional" names. I just spent the past 30 minutes googling name after name so I don't look like an asshole on Day 1 when I fuck up a kid's name. It's that extra mile I need to go so that I don't just connect with them, but also don't get a pissed off parent thinking I'm culturally ignorant or a fucking Nazi (because that shit DOES and HAS happened to me):
This year, every student I teach will have been born after 2003, the year I entered my senior year of high school. I grew up in classes where the most common names were Kimberly, Megan, Matthew, John, Eric... Names like Hunter, Race, Jamal, Maria, Juan, Hope, Maya, Ashanti, Diamond... they were around, but not that common. And names like Athena, Dashawn, Elsbeth, Shaniqua, or anything with an alternative spelling from the usual were absolutely rare and exceptional. Keep that in mind when I go down some of the most frequent or strangest offenders I've seen over the past few years:
>Tre'sor (pronounced like you're saying "treasure" with a french accent)
>Cinnamon
>Jada (pronounced "Shotta")
>Sha'diamond (say it like its spelled)
>Budda
>Steevie
>Chayse
>Saylah (pronounced "shaylah")
>Jelissa (pronounced "shelisha")
>Rohaan (pronounced "ruheen")
>Nas'taya (pronounced "Nuh shay uh")
>Ch'zack (pronounced "chuh zack")
What are some of the strangest names you've come across, Sup Forums?