Baby Names that have been done to death

[kelliness2]

That is so funny, when I worked at a pediatrician there were siblings named Xavier and Javier. We had to tell the Mom when she made appointments over the phone to SPELL the names because they sounded so much alike and had birthdays in the same month (they weren't twins)! We got sick of misunderstanding her and pulling the wrong chart.

My mother had the same problem when my sister and I would go to the pediatrician! We were both born in the same month but my older sister was Kathryn (called Katie) and I'm Kaitlyn (called Kelly). My mother has since apologized for calling me something so different from both my first and middle name, but my parents loved the name Kaitlyn and thought it would be weird if they had a Katie and a Kaitlyn (later in life we found a family that actually has two daughters named Kathryn (Katie) and Kaitlyn).

Just like everyone has said before, it is a REAL pain to go by a name that is not your real name. On the first day of school EVERY year you have to speak up and tell your teachers that you don't go by Kaitlyn, you go by Kelly and you usually get a weird look and the question, "Is Kelly your middle name?" My mother originally thought I could always go by Kaitlyn when I reached the professional world. I'm now in my second year of law school, and am considering it, but it is so weird to suddenly start going by a name no one has called you your entire life.

 

[jas_mom1]

We named our kids Ashlyn and Brady. I don't think those are to out there. I don't feel like they are over common. Just perfect for us. Even though I hear more and more Ashlyn

My daughter is Ashlyn also. She's 6.5 years so we used it just a little before you. I've never met another Ashlyn in person....just on message boards! I think the name is nice and original but not "out there."

Our son is Jason and would have been Ashley if he was a girl (born in 1999.) I'm so glad he was a boy! I don't like the name Ashley now. Ashlyn fits my daughter perfectly!

Dianne
P.S. Love the name Brady....especially coming from MA and watching Tom Brady!

 

[golfgal]

My Aunt's husbands name is Dane. I've never heard it anywhere else.

There are a couple "Dane's" in our area.

 

[aprilvaca04]

My name is Denae. My maiden name is German and 13 letters long. I moved almost every 2 years as a child, and spent much of that time pronouncing and spelling my name for every person I came across.

I did not want to do that to my kids. Their names are Hannah and Emily - very popular, I know. Emily will be known as Emily B. her entire school life. But it's o.k. I love the name and it fits her perfectly.

Denae

I have an Emily H. and I have to totally agree, I have always loved the name and could not ever see her being anything but our Emily

 

[mjkacmom]

My DS 19 is Bradley... not sure if it was popular then but he doesnt have any friends by that name and I dont remember him going to school with any.

My DS6 is Jack, he was named after my father .. who was born in 1925. While I adore his name, I am so tired of being asked, if he is Jackson or Jaxon. Both are cute ... but not my boy lol. Even though I was going "old school" with my child's name, it does seem to be popular now.

Next child we have ( God willing) will be Dax or Amelie.
Neither seem to be popular, but I do know children/ adults with those names.

Im not a fan of made up spellings of name, but see them alot.

Ds10 is Jack (actually John Douglas, for both grandfathers) - we went with Jack because we thought John would be too popular!

 

[cathyce2]

Friends of ours named one of their daughters Lorelei. Her father may let her date when she's 30. I like the name; my dad would call me that sometimes as a sort of term of endearment. It's similar to my name, but Laura is pronounced LAW-rah, not LORE-ah.

Finally! Someone else who knows how to pronounce my DD's name! It's Laura, LAW-rah.... not LORE-ah and it makes me crazy when my inlaws mispronounce it. She is nine so it's not like they haven't heard me pronounce it corrctly a million times. Ok, thanks for indulging my rant.

 

[EMom]

Oh, and around here, the trend (with the Stepford-wives-type moms, anyway) is use their maiden/family names for their kids - I know of one with last names for both the first and middle name, and the other one has a normal first name and a last name for his middle name.

It's a very Southern thing to use the mother's maiden name for the son's first or middle name. (Especially if it's your first son and he's not going to be a junior.) This is not a new tradition by a long shot. I know 50, 60, 70 y.o. men named after their mother's maiden name. If we'd had a boy, it was DH's idea for the boy's middle name to be my maiden name.....He insisted. And yes, DH's oldest brother's middle name is DH's mother's maiden name. My uncle, who was born about 1920, got his first name from his mother's maiden name. There's a 50/50 shot that if I'd had multiple sons, I'd have gone further up the family tree and used my mother's or grandmother's maiden names as middle names.

So maybe the Stepfords have glommed on to the idea, but the tradition goes back a looooong way and is seen as a way to honor the mother's side of the family. Look in many family trees and you'll see this practice dates back centuries. The way I see it, my son would have been getting my DH's surname. It's only right that my side of the family get a nod as well. DH agreed 100%. In fact, he was the one who brought it up. But, no boys for us, so no mother's maiden name.

 

[Liberty Belle]

It's a very Southern thing to use the mother's maiden name for the son's first or middle name. (Especially if it's your first son and he's not going to be a junior.) This is not a new tradition by a long shot. I know 50, 60, 70 y.o. men named after their mother's maiden name. If we'd had a boy, it was DH's idea for the boy's middle name to be my maiden name.....He insisted. And yes, DH's oldest brother's middle name is DH's mother's maiden name. My uncle, who was born about 1920, got his first name from his mother's maiden name. There's a 50/50 shot that if I'd had multiple sons, I'd have gone further up the family tree and used my mother's or grandmother's maiden names as middle names.

So maybe the Stepfords have glommed on to the idea, but the tradition goes back a looooong way and is seen as a way to honor the mother's side of the family. Look in many family trees and you'll see this practice dates back centuries. The way I see it, my son would have been getting my DH's surname. It's only right that my side of the family get a nod as well. DH agreed 100%. In fact, he was the one who brought it up. But, no boys for us, so no mother's maiden name.

And not necessarily just mother's maiden name, either. Any surname in the family tree is used.

 

[EMom]

And not necessarily just mother's maiden name, either. Any surname in the family tree is used.

Indeed. I do think the mother's maiden name is preferred by many. But as I indicated, I would have readily climbed the family tree and used surnames other than hers. We became "stuck" with one from the 1700s until 1900s, so it probably would have been a clear choice. And it's a lovely Scottish name. My grandmother broke the male line on that one. I would have like to have seen it passed on.