My baby mama & I were ‘annoying hippies’ and gave our kid a ‘mystical’ name – I’m no longer a ‘wook’ & now I regret it
A FORMER flower child and his hippie baby mama are having some regrets about the unique name they gave their daughter.
They thought it sounded pretty cool at the time — but since growing up a bit, dad says he feels “bad” sometimes, even though his daughter is “rocking it.”
Redditor Godzillajrjr explained the moniker in a post on the social media platform.
Together, the couple named their child something with “mystical” connotations.
The father did express regret now that he’s not a “wook” — a slang term for hippie.
He also explained that while the name is often associated with a popular series, the inspiration came from spirituality.
WHAT WAS THE NAME?
He and his partner bestowed an unusual name upon their little one when she was born.
“My hippie baby mama and I named our kid Eleven,” he said.
“This was before the Stranger Things came out. We thought it was mystical, beautiful, cool, and unique — and we were annoying self-righteous hippies.
“I always figured she’d want to change it but she’s in middle school now and still rocking it.
“She says, ‘At least nobody forgets my name.'”
He added that although he’s received some support for the name, he ultimately regrets it.
“We were at a pool several years ago and a young man comes up to me [and] said, ‘Is your kid’s name Eleven? That’s my name.’
“He had only ever met one other in his life, he was also a child of hippies from Kentucky.
“I feel bad sometimes and constantly get asked what the deal is with her name.
“And a lot of people are bad at time, so they’ll ask me if she is named after the show, or a lot of folks assume she adopted it after the show.”
Eleven is a fictional character from the Netflix series Stranger Things, which premiered in 2016.
“Anyway it’s definitely something I regret now that I’m no longer a card-carrying wook, but I also love my kid and her weird name is part of her story,” he added.
“[I] won’t be mad if she starts going by Elle or something, though.”
He also explained his reasoning for choosing Eleven — mysticism.
“The number 11 is in numerology a ‘master number,’ I don’t know what that means,” he said.
“In Kabbalah it symbolizes moving through the 10 Sephorah of the Tree of Life and returning to the beginning, a completed spiritual journey.
“There was a bunch of stuff about 11:11 being a symbol of alignment with the galactic winds or some s***.
“There’s a book about it and lots of people were talking about it in our new-age-y circles at the time. You had to be there.
“Yes, great song by the Dead which just further confirmed the properness of her name for us.”