DADS NAME THEIR KIDS AFTER MISTRESSES & EXES, A LOT MORE THAN YOU THINK

Earlier this week, Instagram model Sumner Stroh alleged that she not only had an affair with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, but that a few months later, he messaged her asking: “I’m having another baby and if it’s a boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You ok with that?” So, who would name their child after a woman they were messing around with while their wife was pregnant? Apparently, a lot of people. In the wake of the Levine story, many women tweeted saying that they, too, had been named after their dad’s exes, “the other woman” or old crushes. Dana Omari, the woman who helped “break” the Levine story, received messages from women who said they had similar name origins.
– “My mom and her sister got named after my grandpa’s mistresses,” one woman told Omari.
-“I’m named after a mail lady who my grandfather thought was so good looking. I’m named after my grandpa’s wannabe mistress,” another wrote.
– One woman’s father told her, “You’re named after my ex, but your mom doesn’t know.”
– A woman named Susanne said, “For the first six weeks of my life, I was Jennifer ― until the paperwork came in and that wasn’t my name after all. He named me after his ex-girlfriend.”
– A woman named Muliya: “When I was born, my mother had no clue that my dad registered my name as ‘Muliya,’ my father’s first love. She was furious, of course, so much that she gave me a different nickname, forbade anyone in the house to call me by my actual name and has still never called me by my ‘actual’ name.
* I guess that’s why my dad named me [if you’re a man] Linda.
* All you ladies out there named Cher or Charo or Oprah or Reba might want to have a talk with your father.
* It could work the other way, too. I wonder if this is why my mom was so insistent on naming me Kanye.
* PHONE TOPIC: Are you secretly named after your parent’s ex?