Baby names

[cgcw]

Jenzebelle,

I would have had a Lillian if I was blessed with a girl. To me it's a very elegant name.

 

[Denine]

We have an unusual last name. It was difficult to come up with a first and middle name that fit with our last name. I scoured internet sites and found Kaleigh. My middle name is Kay, so it was a play on that. I had never heard it before. By the way, her middle name is Anne and we always call her Kaleigh Anne.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the picture of the girl and her name was Kaylee-Anne.

The name Ashley bugs me for some reason.

 

[Kallison]

I work in a middle school and we have a ton of Emily's. I actually like that name.

Some names I think are cute on kids but people forget that they kid is going to be a 40 year old executive one day, I just can't picture the name "Hunter" as a serious grown up name. Another too cutesy boy name for me is "Tyler" also anything ending in a Y - Ricky, Bobby, Andy for men.

 

[browneyes]

My middle name. Whatever that is.

 

[4greatboys]

There are really not to many names I dislike...although I did hear one on another parenting website....a little boy named Titus.
My boys are spaced out--15 yrs, 12 yrs, 3 ys and 9 months. I have 2 traditional names: Michael & Matthew and 2 "newer" names: Evan and Connor.
I dont like names that are just so off no one has a clue what they are.

 

[Sandy51]

I am also a teacher. On my 7th grade team of 115 kids, I have 7 Justins, (4 in one class), 4 Zacharys, 1 Chelsea, 1 Chelsay, I Lindsay, 1 Lindsey, I Shanna, 1 Shana (both pronounced Shayna), 2 Lees(both boys) 3 Daniels, 2 Amandas, 2 Hannahs, 3 Sarahs, 3 Adams, 3 Matts, 2 Tiffanys, 2 Jordans (1 girl, 1 boy) 2 Meghans, 2 Coreys, 2 Travis, 3 Ashleys, and 2 Stephens. Whew! No wonder I come home talking to myself!! I really don't dislike any names.

Sandy

 

[Jenzebelle]

Thanks cgcw
Lillian was my Great-Grandmother's name. She was a very elegant lady and is sorely missed.

 

[Amzey]

When I worked at daycare this summer, one of the babies' names was Kileigh. I mean, even Kiley or Kylie wouldn't be SO bad but the way they spelled it, uggh. In terms of people my age, I know countless Sarahs, Emilys, and Jennifers. Also lots of Michaels and Daniels.
There's a boy in my Italian class named Skyler, he's 22 - pretty surprising for someone to be that old and have a name like that, I'd expect a person named Skyler to be 2, not 22.
I've found that New Yorkers tend to be trendier in their names than people on the Cape do. The kids I babysit for here are named Spencer, Riley (female), Graham.. then there's also the traditional Anna and Rachel. On the Cape I saw a lot more names like Mary, lots of Rachels, Robert, William, Emily, etc.

For my own kids I want something semi-unique - not like Jennifer of Katherine but not like Madison or Jaden or whatever. My personal favorite is Lia for a girl. I had a friend Lia at camp and I love that spelling, it's the Spanish/Italian way. Or maybe venturing into trendy, but I like Ella and Lucy too. Boys names are so much trickier.. Ethan maybe?

 

[tiggerlover]

To start I have to say I love the name, Tyler.

I do not like names with the really unusal spelling and that are just, IMHO, odd. Something that just came to mind is Trenyce and Bettis from American Idol. Others that I have seen that I don't like are Damaris, Travious, Kaell and I am sure there are plenty more.

I know two pregnant women and some of the names they are kicking around are more traditional, Katherine, Michael, Jacob and Thomas.

BTW, ChefBilly, your Katherine is adorable!

 

[Nutsy]

Every second girl over here seems to be a Jessica or an Amy

My boys thankfully have a name that is not one of the "IN" NAMES.

JADYN & LACHLAN

 

[CamColt]

LOL Amzey! had I had a girl, she should have been Kylie(the simple way)

 

[scarlett873]

that site was hilarious...i'm working on pg 2...
chefbilly...your katherine is a doll!!

had you asked me this 6 years ago, i wanted unusual names for my kids...like bailey for a boy or a girl...

but since you've caught me now, my tastes have definitely changed!! DH and i are going with more traditional names, i guess. he really wants elizabeth for a girl and all of our boys will have the first name of matthew (DH's name) but will be called by their middle names. it's a tradition that has already been started and that's something that we will continue. and for middle names...our girls will have 2 middle names...i have 2 middle names and DH loves that...my middle names come from grandmothers/godmothers...and we will give our first born daughter both of her grandmother's names...

whew...did that make sense?

names that bug me? ashley, jennifer, allison, sarah, christy, mike, chris...i grew up with way too many of those...my stepdaughter is a jessica...i still like that name! no offense to anyone with those names!!

oh yeah...my former sister in law...she has 3 kids...their names are alysia mercedes, Kurtis DeShaun (DeShawn), and taylor marie.

 

[WilmaBud]

I think baby-naming goes in phases. We tend not to like whatever was common when we grew up. For example, my mom hates the names Emily, Sarah, and Isabel. She thinks they sound like "old-lady" names (which they were when she was young). Not many people my age would name their girls Lisa, Karen, Nancy or Judy because they were common when we were young.

I don't care what people name their kids either. Usually, if I don't like a name, it's because I don't like a person who has that name. That being said, I would never name my child something common like Joe or Michael or Amanda or Jessica. I like my children's names to be unique, but not "way out."

 

[chesirechik]

Growing up with the most boring name - Jennifer Marie - I always swore I would not saddle my kids with any of the most popular names when they are born, like my parents did (I was born in 1980). There was always at least 4 other girls in my class with that name and the teachers would always just shorten it to Jenny, which I HATED!

I really like the name Anna for a girl and Johnathan for a boy. DH LOVES the name Peyton for a girl.

A name I LOVE, but would never use is Edwina.

Names I can't stand: Spencer, Chrissy, David- they just bug me.

 

[Jeafl]

I volunteer in my son's 4th grade class and these are some of the more unusual names

Cameo
Raven
Kayleigh
Moraina
Walter
Spencer (a girl)
Jodina
Albert (though they call him AJ)
Lucy

Then there's Brittany, Britni, Ashli, Ashley, Hannah, 2 Katies and the usual Megan and Meagan.

I don't know how the teachers can keep all of them straight!

The must unusual name that I've seen lately is my neighbor named her daughter La Biancalana Giovanna Pavone, They are calling her Bianca though.

 

[Piglet]

We named my DD Tessa Maye. We were trying for something not to popular but not too weird. It was either going to be Kaitlyn or Tessa. My Doctor that delivered her asked her name as soon as she was born and we told her our choices and decided she was definetely a Tessa. She was definetely right.

In her class they have Shyra, Alengta (pronounced A len ta, didn't have a clue on that one until we asked the teacher how to pronounce it), Mackenzie, Hannah, Abby, Veronica, Jade, Matthew, Colton, JJ (Jonathan), Dalton, Nery (adopted from Guatemala), Chris, Lucas

Melinda

 

[Amzey]

LOL CamColt, those weird spellings definitely get to me.

Wanted to add, the father of one of the kids I sit for here in New York is named Darwin. I was a little shocked to meet someone with the first name Darwin, especially someone in their mid-to-late thirties - is this as weird as I thought it was or is it more common?

 

[MAC3]

Funny when we decided to have a child I never thought the guys got that into the naming of the child....

Dh hated all the names I chose for our child. Up until the child was born we didn't have a boys name choosen. I wanted to name our daughter Julianne. He used to pronoun it wrong (purposely) so I wouldn't go for it.

So I let him name our first child he in turn said I could name our second. I agreed. Funny how things turn out, He chose the name Ashley which I really didn't like so to try to persuade him from choosing it I told him I would spell it Ashleigh.

I feel bad for doing it though as Ashleigh now has to spell her whole name for the rest of her life . We have an unusual last name.

Just for the record We NEVER had a second child for me to name. Live and learn Ladies...

 

[CamColt]

Originally posted by Piglet

In her class they have Shyra, Alengta (pronounced A len ta, didn't have a clue on that one until we asked the teacher how to pronounce it), Mackenzie, Hannah, Abby, Veronica, Jade, Matthew, Colton, JJ (Jonathan), Dalton, Nery (adopted from Guatemala), Chris, Lucas

I get so excited when I hear of another Colton. There arent many around here.

 

[Tess]

You'd really hate my kids' names: Tyler and Taylor! Former a boy, latter a girl. . .BTW, when I named my children--these weren't "popular" names BUT now, holy cow!

It seems, however, that my son's name, Tyler (although we call him Ty) became extremely popular the year he was born--there were at least 2 others in his class in kindergarten (he's going to be 15 soon)--there was our Ty, a Tyler D, and a Timmy Tyler. . . Truth be told, I wanted his name to be ELI, but my husband said nix to that--we compromised, Tyler Eli. . . I guess I should have fought harder. Had he been a girl, he'd have been Courtney Elizabeth.

Now, our daughter (currently 12, approaching 13)--was named after Taylor Caldwell, the author. A year or two after her, I have heard anyway, people were naming their daughter's Taylor after some soap character whose real name is "Hunter". Why didn't they just name their girl Hunter--that's reality, not the soap! Had she been a boy, she would have been Ian Michael. The reason she wasn't named Courtney, our original girl's name--someone my husband couldn't stand, named their daughter Courtney and he couldn't bear the thought of his daughter being named the same as theirs!

But I'm off-topic--the only names I can't stand are those that are clearly "made up", can't be pronounced or spelled, or involve states (Dakota comes to mind), countries, cities, etc., OR if it's a person whose personality I can't stand. . .