A new mother on Reddit community r/AITA posted: 🗣 Am I the a**hole for naming my daughter after a "verb?"
She originally chose the word/verb: 📛Embrace as her daughter's name. She loved Embrace because it was unique and thought it would convey her daughter is loving and open to change. But upon sharing the name idea 
— she got backlash from family and friends saying Embrace could be 'embarrassing' for her future daughter and it wasn't a good idea.
The mother posted an update on her daughter's name and shared she chose another name instead: 📛Amara.
"After some discussion and advice from my immediate family and some friends, we decided to name our baby girl Amara instead. Everyone seems to love the name (including us ofc) so that's good and we're set on Amara, but if we decide to choose something else we still have until August because my daughter was born on June 13th and our country gives you 60 days to register the baby after its birth."
Hmmm... 🤔 I don't think the mother was the a**hole but her family and friends were. 😒 Yes Embrace isn't a conventional, 'normal' first name but it's not a downright bad, shocking or inappropriate name either. The mother liked Embrace originally. That's all that matters. She settled for Amara and that sucks. 😞 I hope she chose/chooses Embrace as a middle name at least.🤞🏾 I personally like Embrace over Amara. 🤷🏾♀️ It's prettier, softer and I love that it's a word name. I don't like Amara at all (outside of the meaning: 'grace'). 🙅🏾♀️
The author of the piece: She Named Her Daughter After A Verb And Her Sister Roasted Her Over It While Pointing Out She's Setting Her Kid Up To Get Bullied asks at the end of the article:
"Have we reached a point where verbs belong on birth certificates?"
Yes! 👏🏾 I don't understand why it's such a big deal when parents want to name their children something out of the norm of a Jane or John. 😏 Everyone loves a classic name, even I do and I even sometimes like 'boring' names. 😱 But there's more than enough names in the world to name a child beyond Olivia and Liam. 🙄 Whatever name a parent wants to name their child, no matter how offbeat/strange/unique it is (outside of actual 🚫illegal names📛) — they should be able to do so without judgement. 😌
