I love having a weird name – my parents didn’t have one picked out so they impulsively named me after a bus route
A UNIQUELY-NAMED woman has revealed the mystifying story behind her moniker.
She admitted her name was “weird” but she still loves it and gets a kick out of sharing the story behind it.
TikToker (@dollopofyogurtt) quickly took up the challenge when another TikToker asked: “People with cool names, stitch this, and tell me how your parents named you.”
The woman excitedly responded: “I win this one, this one’s mine!”
Even though it was not the TikToker’s first time telling the tale, she was just as exuberant filling in her followers on how she got her name.
“My name is Parnassus, and if you know me, you definitely know this story. And you’ve heard it, like, a billion times, but I don’t really care, I love it, so I’m gonna tell it again.”
With the big reveal out of the way, she continued to explain how her parents pulled Parnassus out of their baby-naming hat.
“So, my parents thought that I was gonna be a boy, and then I was born, and I was not a boy.”
With pronounced facial expressions, Parnassus explained how things only got more pressurizing for the new parents:
“And at the hospital that I was born in, you have to leave the hospital 24 hours after you give birth, so time was ticking,” she pronounced with a buildup in her voice.
She explained that the nurses nudged her parents to finally name her so that the family could leave with their baby girl.
It was when her father took a walk outside of the hospital that a serendipitous encounter led to the name that sealed the deal.
“The hospital was on a street called Parnassus Avenue, and the Parnassus Avenue bus drives past him, and he’s like, hmm, a baby Parnassus… that could be kinda cute,” she said playfully.
Her mom agreed that the moniker was meant to be.
“My mom’s like, ‘I love it,'” said a wide-eyed Parnassus, who also loved that they stuck to the strange name.
“And so, here I am! Parnassus, the girl named after a bus.”
Many of her almost 28,000 followers shared their own strange name stories.
“LOL, same situation. My mom was watching soaps while in the hospital room, and decided, “Okay, Laiken sounds good.” And she wasn’t even a main character of the soap,” joked one follower.
“Haha, nice,” Parnassus responded, as she could no doubt relate.
“Okay, but my name is Crickett, wrote another TikToker with a unique name.