No doubt Texans love their cowboy boots, but probably none more so than Kailee Zak, a woman from Central Texas.
She recently revealed online she would be naming her forthcoming baby girl after the popular bootmaker Lucchese.
The spelling would be different, her child would be named “Lukacey,” but the different spelling wasn’t enough to quell strangers on the internet for clowning on her choice of name.
“The second I shared it on TikTok, people started weighing in,” Zak told TODAY.
TikTok comments from people questioning the spelling, while others offered reminders that “we’re naming babies who will one day be adults.”
A few slipped in pop culture jabs (“Okay, Renesmee”) or predicted the girl would grow up to go by “Kacey.”
Zak also shared that even among family, feedback to the name was “mixed.”
Sak says that Lukacey isn’t just a name, but a reflection of her story.
She was pregnant with her son at 17-years-old while still in high school.
It was then, while living at home, that Zak entered her “Western influencing era,” where Lucchese cowboy boots quickly became her signature.
“I know it sounds silly, but those boots are just so meaningful to me," she says.
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