Baby Names that have been done to death

[agentpleakley]

There were twins born in our area a while ago. Last name Mann. First names..Douneida and Douwanna.

Oh my


There is a death row inmate with the first name Gdongalay -- is this a real name? How the heck do you even pronounce this name? No wonder he turned to crime.

 

[Piecey]

My husband goes by his middle name, but has the same 1st name as his father. When we got our 1st credit report as a couple, we had all these loans listed! Oops-they were charged to the wrong Vernon. My son has dh's middle name, but his own 1st name. Just makes things easier.

Yeah, we have two boys names in our heads. The first uses my late FIL and BIL's middle name (which is actually my husband's grandfather's first name) as our middle name- Aaron.
The second uses my brother's first name as a middle name. However, my brother doesn't use his first name- he goes by his middle name.

Our girl name, I THINK, is Cassidy. Thank goodness it's not on here!

 

[clarabelle]

OK I am going off track for a minute
Teva girl every-time I see your siggie I want to jump through the screen and sniff that baby's head.
So cute!!

I don't think people care that much about what other people name their kids -It is just a conversation piece.
Also -I was called by my middle name and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. It has caused lots of minor problems through the years

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

On another forum I visit, a woman was determined to name her daughter "Miichael".

I don't see that as TERRIBLY unusual..but then again, my parent attend church with a couple who named their daughter "Michealann".

And Bosco? That's the name of Betty Boop's doglike pal. Not the actual dog, his name is Poochie. The OTHER doglike thing..stands on two legs and usually wears a bowler hat.

When DH and I were dating, I worked in the shoe dept of a dept store. My boss had two kids--a boy named Cash Money and a daughter named Dollar Billia (or Billya..something like that). She wanted them to feel 'rich' so she gave them 'rich' names.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I'll take a traditional name any day. One which identifies the gender right off the bat!

DS had three "Jordan"s in his class in first grade. Yup, Jordan A., Jordan S., and Jordan R. Two were boys, one was a girl.

When I grew up, Mrs. Jordan lived next door. To me, that is a surname.

 

[tevagirl]

OK I am going off track for a minute
Teva girl every-time I see your siggie I want to jump through the screen and sniff that baby's head.
So cute!!

I'll sniff for you.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Our youngest is Luke too. I love the name.

We have a Megan, and as common as Megan is, most people mis-pronounce it too. We pronounce the Meg part of Megan with the short e vowel sound as in Meg and Peg, but many people pronounce the Meg part with a long a vowel sound as in Maygan. My DD is nine now, and she is beggining to notice the difference. I have heard her correct her friends several times. She will say, "My name is Megan not Maygan."

That's another problem also. And a big reason I decided against Julia for a girl. Too afraid of those that pronounce it Jul-i-a as opposed to our pronouncing it Jul-ya. Now I work with a Jul-i-a, and I really have a tough time saying it.

 

[december]

One year I had 3 Courtneys in class-all were boys.

dd9's best friends are Keli and Kelly. Keli is known as "Keli with an i" and Kelly is known as "Kelly with a y". That is what everyone has called them since K.

I also know a MichaelAnn.

And a Tequila (in my son's class).

 

[Pin Wizard]

I was in the supermarket once and heard "LEVI! MERSAAAAAAYDES! CHARDONAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! GET OVER HERE!!!!" Good grief - Levi, Mercedes AND Chardonnay?!

I can't imagine. I would have turned and looked if I heard those names in a store.

My dad's secretary's name was Mercedes.

 

[CathrynRose]

my friend had a dog named Bosco

Bosco. Wasnt that George's pin number? LOL!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

When you read a birth announcement for a new baby and its a name that has been done to death along with a middle name that's been done to death, do you automatically see the parents as dull? I do, and I don't like it...trying to find out how abnormal I am. What say you?

Yes, and also when a parent spells their child's name cutesy or phonetically, the first thing that pops into my mind is that the parent didn't know how to spell the name correctly.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

I named my first daughter Emily not knowing that it was the #1 name for like 3 years running. I wasnt happy about it, but truthfully, I haven't run into another baby Emily yet!

 

[Pin Wizard]

I'm a Jennifer so I know all about common names. We really debate doing Brayden. Thought it was to common so we went with Brady Austin. What is your Brady middle name?

I know someone whose kids are Hannah, Austin, and Katie. With two traditional names, I really wonder where Austin came from. Hmmmmmm...I'd guess family somewhere along the way.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Yes, I feel that way, too, unless it's a traditional name (Thomas, Charles, Sarah, Elizabeth, etc).

 

[december]

I keep reading how common Aiden is, but I don't know a single Aiden!

 

[bekkiz]

I don't care at all what someone chooses to name his/her child and can't figure out why others care so much.

I think you're right, but at the same time, many studies have been done where applications to schools and jobs are submitted. They have equal qualifications, but one has a more or less "normal" name and one has an unusual (often ethnic, but sometimes just weird spelling) and the applications with "normal" names are the ones getting called back. People need to realize that, unfortunatly, society is judgemental and there's not much we can do to change that in the short term. Choosing names that are way out there can be very detrimental to a child's well-being over the course of their life.

One example of a study: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_6_103/ai_97235741

A thread like this might help save some poor soul in the future.

I had a just awful, terrible middle name. It's not even a word, it was an exclamation, and it was not a sad day when I got married and chucked that thing right out the window. I just thank my lucky stars it was a middle name and not a first name. I would have been a much different, and probably a lot less happy, of a person.

 

[Liberty Belle]

OMG! Someone acutally named their kid "Calamity!!" How horrible. That's like naming your precious child "Avalanche" or "Misery".

Maybe she was misheard and the daughter's name is Amity - a pretty, old, English name.

 

[Scurvy]

I don't see that as TERRIBLY unusual..but then again, my parent attend church with a couple who named their daughter "Michealann".

I wouldn't find "Michael" to be too weird. Unusual, but I've known other female Michaels. It's the deliberate typo - the double i - that I think is awful. That poor child is going to have to explain that it's intentional over and over . . . at least until she changes it as soon as she hits 18.

 

[hulagirl87]

I'm an Amy. and I've never been the only Amy anywhere I've gone. It's always been Amy and my last initial. all through school and my first couple jobs and now I work in a small group of 5 people and my supervisor's name is Amy! sigh.... come on now! At least my last initial changed last year when I got married. got to spice it up a bit

Yesterday my husband and I were talking about baby names. I'm not one for anything outrageous, just not anything that you hear all the time. You don't want your kids to get teased, you just want them to like their name and not have to correct anyone on how to spell it or how to pronounce it for the rest of their lives!

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

We have the Aiden/Braden/Caden/Hayden/Jayden thing EVERYWHERE in my neighborhood. I cringe when I hear that on a new baby just because there are soo many.

I named my son Micah though, and I had never in my entire life met a Micah until I chose that name for my son last year. Not only that but I adopted him at age 2 so I had 2 extra years to know what the popular names for his age were before naming him. But even still since naming him Micah I have met no less than 7 Micah's... 4 of them his age. Craziness.