Mom claims she was sick of people mistaking her daughter for a boy so she just calls her in boy’s name whenever they are out.
Sierra, who has a TikTok account named @Lewwni, reveals that she ended up calling her daughter with a boy’s name after she claims that people kept mistaking her for one.
She shared that her toddler’s real name is Swae Nomi. But because little Swae doesn’t like to wear bows or headbands, strangers have often referred to her as a boy. She then came up with the nickname “Earl”.
In one of her clips, the mom explained it by saying: “People are very confused as to if you’re a boy or a girl and what your actual name is. So, let’s just clear this up. I’m the mother, better known as Lewwni. This is Swae. She is a girl. Her real birth name, the name I gave her after I hatched her, was Swae Nomi.”
She went on to explain that Swae’s nickname is “Earl”, and revealed just how the moniker came about. She said: “She doesn’t really keep bows or things on her head so we just didn’t put them on her.”
“And when we go out people would be like, “He is so cute!” And we got tired of correcting them so we just came up with the name Earl. So, we’d be like, ‘That’s our Earl, that’s our Earl boy,” she added.
The said clip was captioned with: “hope u enjoy ur time here. it gets weird but it’s fun, i promise… i think.” And since being posted, the video has racked up 814,000 likes and 4,100 comments.
The video went viral and a lot of people being in the same situation were quick to share their thoughts with one of them saying: “People think my son is a girl all the time because he has a lot of curly hair. Didn’t know curls = girls.”
A second user commented: “The amount of times my son gets mistaken for a girl is just tiring at this point lol no matter what he wears.”
“Everyone thinking our 2-year-old is a girl because he has beautiful curly black hair. Now I’m gonna have to find a nickname,” a third penned.
Another person added: “My sister looked like a boy when she was a baby and as a toddler, she saw a baby picture of herself and said, “that’s a bald-headed baby boy!”
A few viewers couldn’t help but share their confusion saying: “Her full name to me will always be “Swae Earl Swearl.” Another wrote: “Yep, that’s our Earl… It’s short for girl.”
A third commented: “This has to be the best explanation of a baby’s nickname I’ve ever heard.”
A few others also admitted they’d been forced to do the same, as one person said: “My daughter always got called a boy, there’s no point in correcting strangers (in my opinion) so I get it.”
While another admitted: “As a baby, I had no hair for so long and so many people would tell my parents “he’s so cute” and so after a while, they’d say “thanks his name is Alex.”
Although, someone said that: “Swae Nomi is the cutest name I’ve ever heard in my life.”