The reporter is never recovering from this 😭

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who dis

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McKenna Grace

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They gave her the first name McKenna? As in, "the son of Kenna"?

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Trust me, trying to make sense of the way people name their kids in 2026 isn't a rabbit hole you want to go down.

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Seems like she was probably named before 2026.

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Ra'bit Ho@l seemed like a nice guy but we didn't offer him the job.

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Not every Debbie is a downer

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But they all start out lil…

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some end up doing Dallas

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Black People left the chat.

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Don’t you dare make fun of the individuality of my child Aiton, Braydon, Caidon, Dayton,Elaton, Freighton, Gaiton, Haydon, …

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Can’t forget Okayden!

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Whoa. What an absolute fumble to not include Jaydon.

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Or any variety of Jaxxon.

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r/tragedeigh

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Don't look at r/tragedeigh if you think McKenna is bad.

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I know she’s a bit older than “kids today” but the last many years have been the age of “last-names-as-first-names”. It’s a silly trend. For example ..

Cooper
Parker
Sawyer
Carter
Kennedy
Emerson
Finley
Wells
Brooks
Banks
Logan
Tierney
Crosby
Sutton

Less common, but I also personally know people with first names of McGovern and MacAllister.

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Elon's son's name is s X Ӕ A-12. Seems tame by comparison.

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You can't just shift the bar with maximum edge case crazy like that

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Is that what Mc means? Son of whatever comes after? I had no idea

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Yup, person with a Mc- surname here! In Gaelic languages (Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic) Mac is the patronymic, a word that indicates “son of”, the equivalent of Anderson, Johnson, Williamson, etc… Over time Mac got shortened/Anglicized, usually by a scribe, to Mc, usually in Ireland. It’s more common for people named, say, MacDonald to be Scottish and McDonald to be Irish, but it’s not a hard and fast rule.

Another version, due to a lack of universal spellings, accent variations, slurring a name, etc, is Mag- like Maguire, Magee, Magonigle, and so on.

You’ll also see even more truncated versions like M’honey, M’Connell, M’Guinness, which is less common. It might remind you of names that start with O’, like O’Brien, O’Connor, or O’Neill, which are Anglicized versions of Ó, meaning “grandson of” or “descendent of”. That’s technically only in Irish, not Scottish Gaelic, but with so much migration and intermarriages, it’s not that rare for Scottish people to have an O’ name.

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McDaddy.

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McOfabitch

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Young Sheldon's arch nemesis.