Tyga - thoughts? How do you imagine the parents to be?

Not a fan of this spelling at all and I think it would cause endless mispronunciation/misspelling, but I actually quite like Tiger!

I love the name Tiger. Dh vetoed it though. He vetoed all my interesting suggestions.

I doubt you got 250 applications for a role as lawyer. Whatever the role, discriminating on the basis of names would fall within the remit of one of these:

Northern Ireland - Fair Employment & Treatment (NI) Order 1998
Scotland, England and Wales - Equality Act 2010
United States of America - Civil Rights Act of 1964

Other jurisdictions have similar legislation.

I have a hen called Tyga, she is striped like a tiger and lays very white eggs. She is named after a female character in the children's novel 'Halo' set in ancient a Greece. So the name had nice associations for me but I wouldn't give it to a human, they might carry it off if they're lucky to have lots of charisma but otherwise it's s burden.
Dh's colleague called his baby son Wolf which is bad enough, though dad is built like the proverbial brick latrine building so no-one is going to argue and if the soon takes after his dad he'll be fine. I think Tyga is as bad.
Bear Grylls pulls his name off ok, lives up to it and did it, but then it was a nickname that stuck which I think it's the camp this kind of name should stay in, cos that's giving the poor kid some big boots to fill.
Can't she call him John, Tyga as a nickname if he suits it?

I often only ever hear the name and somewhat unclearly (after school activity assistant working in a noisy sports hall) and not see it written down so I would tend to assume this was Tadhg and write it thus, or possibly Tiger, and I'd wonder if the parents are golf fans. If I got to see it written down I'd just be so grateful that the management had given me a class list for a change I really wouldn't have time to judge the parents. And frankly, I couldn't care less what a colleague or manager is named. What matters is if they do their job.

It's not snobbery to think this is a totally awful name.

Tiger as a name is pretty bad although probably just about manageable, but an invented spelling of it is worse, the fact it is after a rapper is even worse and the fact the rapper has a dubious history with underage girls is the final nail in the coffin.

Dreadful

I don't like it but I prefer traditional. I always put myself into the mind of recruiters etc - could you imagine hiring someone called tyga for a corporate position, a lawyer etc? My old boss filtered out people with silly names or just ones she hated, we would get 250+ applications for each position so couldn't interview everyone!

Leaving the spelling aside, why is it acceptable for girls to be named after things but not boys?

Iris
Willow
Honey
Poppy
Autumn

All fine

Tiger
Fox

Deemed dreadful/naff/chavvy

Terrible.

First thought was Amanda's store from Motherland. I wouldn't know if it was pronounced Tiger or Tigger (I'd assume the latter). Tbh I think it's better than Fox which seems to be an acceptable name. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear it.

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It’s awful. I would imagine baby tyga has a heavy gold bracelet on his poor little wrist and the mum looks like a Jeremy Kyle reject.

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Tyga is quite well known among the younger generation, and I think he will stay fairly known (unless you think the Kardashian/Jenners are going away anytime soon…)

I like it

Tyger honey dew whatsit is a stupid name. Sorry, but it is. It doesn't suit him. (Would it suit anyone?).

I guess Blake was on it with the whole Tyger thing so you could argue it's vaguely classical.

Tyga is even worse.

When I see made up names or silly names, I often think how sad for the child. Realised some years ago that a number of people form ideas about the person with the name not the parent. First time was about 20 years ago when we had a new tax director start at work (large multinational). He had one of those make up names. People were snickering before they even met him. He wort was when a new legal director started and she had a very frilly sounding name. No one took her serious. She sadly often ha little battles to do just because of preconceived notions of her name Terribly wrong thing of these coworkers to do.

Are they religious? Apparently in the rapper's case it's an acronym for "thank you, God, always". Depending on the local accent whereever they live, people hesring it will probably think it's "Tiger" anyway.

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Well, it's just stupid, isn't it? And all the moreso because the namesake is Tyga the rapper. I mean, why him??

I wouldn't be bothered by Tiger though.

I would assume the parents were young and had a very low education level.

I would assume they were illiterate.
I don't like Tyger but at least it's got some credibility as a word (William Blake etc). Tyga is just horrific.
I'd also assume it was a girl as that ending in a misspelling is normally an attempt to feminise a word.

There's the Irish name Tadhg/Tighe which sounds a bit like Tiger, although I have so say I would find it a bit odd if used by someone with no Irish ancestry. Miles better than Tyga though.

Bit of an idiot, delusions of cool, utterly self-absorbed. Reminds me of a long lost colleague who called their kid Rocky, those three words describe her perfectly too.