Few subjects stir stronger opinions than names: too unique, too old-fashioned, too trendy. In Tennessee, Danielle Remp drew national attention after saying she would let her 16-year-old daughter change hers.

“She gets made fun of for it,” Remp, 35, wrote on TikTok . “I said yes no questions asked.”

The internet, of course, had plenty of its own questions, starting with what kind of name would make a teenager want to leave it behind. The answer was Dixie, the name her father had chosen when she was born in 2008. These days, she prefers to be called Skye.

In a joint interview with her mother, Skye said she had been the target of constant taunting. “They call me things like ‘Dixie Dust,’ or ‘Dixie Normous,’” the soft-spoken high school junior told TODAY.com.

“They just give it all sort

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