Interesting childrens names

[lisajl]

Ok---just want to know what people are naming kids these days.

My Dh's nephew and his girlfriend just had their first, a girl. They named her Payton Rain.

Interesting...I thought...

His niece has a daughter named Hayden.
His other nephew's daughter name is something close to Hayden.
Can't remember, we never get to see them.

Anyone have interesting names to post?

Lisa

 

[RangerPooh]

DD name is Caolyn, and no it's not a typo! If pronounced correctly it would be Key-O-Lynn. But to simplify things it's pronounced K-Lynn.

Most people can't pronounce it and think that we misspelt Carolyn .

 

[LeCras]

Friends of our named their daughter Teigen (pronounced Tee-gen). DH loves it, I'm not so sure.

Charlotte

 

[ktpool]

DD name is Caolyn, and no it's not a typo! If pronounced correctly it would be Key-O-Lynn. But to simplify things it's pronounced K-Lynn.

Most people can't pronounce it and think that we misspelt Carolyn .

Please don't take offense at this question, but I have always been curious as to why parents name their children something they know going in that the child will have to fight mispronounciation and misspellings thier whole life? I think it is just uncomfortable for the person on both sides. I understand the need to be unique, but it can be carried too far.

Anyone?

 

[Disney_1derland]

Well, right now if you're hot and heavy into baby naming (we are, see counter below ) The trends are wide but ever popular are Celtic names, names with 2 syllables ending in an -en or -an sound, and re-spelling popular names.

We are not big into the re-spelling trend but we decided on dd#1's name but dh couldn't stand that the word Mad would be in it, so she is Matalyn. dd#2 is Charlotte and #3 is still up in the air, but is a boy and most likely will be Corbin.

 

[dawgsgirl]

I work at the local welfare office. Don't get me started!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Please don't take offense at this question, but I have always been curious as to why parents name their children something they know going in that the child will have to fight mispronounciation and misspellings thier whole life? I think it is just uncomfortable for the person on both sides. I understand the need to be unique, but it can be carried too far.

Anyone?

I totally agree.

 

[KelNottAt]

I've got Douglas Chatham and Elizabeth (Betsy) Marjorie. Nice, simple, pronouncable.

As someone who grew correcting the spelling of her own name (Kelley), I swore I would never curse my kids with something unusual.

 

[ktpool]

I work at the local welfare office. Don't get me started!

I create user accounts for a large company as part of my job and I can't tell you how much this cost industry...re-working, verifying, making sure it is not a typo...uggghhhh.

 

[icebrat001]

I think it's wrong in a mean way type of wrong for parents to name their children interesting names with odd spellings that no one can pronounce.

My parents named me Malaysia, however, it's not spelled like that, I am so not even going to type the spelling here, but I get called all kinds of names.

When I change my name to add on Dear SO's last name, I am correcting my first name.

 

[tink&cinderella]

How about "Justintime" - Not kidding!!!

Tink&Cinderella

 

[sajetto]

One of my parents' friends is an OB/GYN. Over dinner last week he told all of us that a woman 10 years ago heard the word "placenta" and initially named her daughter that. Luckily, Jim, the OB told her what the word meant and she changed her mind.

Can you imagine what they kid's life would have been like if that name remained???

 

[transparant]

Being in the *birth* business I get to hear all kinds of names. Recently I've had clients name thier babies -

- Pace - baby boy (pronounced Pach-ay). It means Peace in Italian.
- Haygan - baby boy
- Meara - girl
- Frithjof - prounced Fritch-if. A boy - norweigen name.
- Quain - boy
-Merrick - girl
- Aspen - girl (I really liked this name)
-Maddox


I get stranger boy names than girl names.

 

[bballmom56]

Please don't take offense at this question, but I have always been curious as to why parents name their children something they know going in that the child will have to fight mispronounciation and misspellings thier whole life? I think it is just uncomfortable for the person on both sides. I understand the need to be unique, but it can be carried too far.

Anyone?

I have one of those kind of names and I wish it was not that way. I'm sure my parents didn't think it would be that difficult, but it has been. I vowed to only give my children names that are recognizable and gender specific. They are both very happy with their names. The only thing I can say is that I can tell who REALLY cares about me by the way they address me. Even when they hear me say my name, many pronounce it differently. Drives me nuts. My DH's brother never got my name right (even though his kids did - always made me smile that they knew my name correctly and he couldn't be bothered )

 

[icebrat001]

Being in the *birth* business I get to hear all kinds of names. Recently I've had clients name thier babies -

- Pace - baby boy (pronounced Pach-ay). It means Peace in Italian.
- Haygan - baby boy (this name isn't too bad)
- Meara - girl
- Frithjof - prounced Fritch-if. A boy - norweigen name. (what in the world!)
- Quain - boy
-Merrick - girl ( I like)
- Aspen - girl (I really liked this name) ( I like)
-Maddox ( I like)


I get stranger boy names than girl names.

Thanks for sharing

 

[kdibattista]

One of my parents' friends is an OB/GYN. Over dinner last week he told all of us that a woman 10 years ago heard the word "placenta" and initially named her daughter that. Luckily, Jim, the OB told her what the word meant and she changed her mind.

Can you imagine what they kid's life would have been like if that name remained???

I thought I heard that somewhere else before too

 

[Longsx3]

When looking for names we wanted unique but not something difficult, we named DD(9) Savannah Mary-Grace. When my Mom heard the name she told me she didn't care for it, and I told her I could name my child anything I wanted and she would have no room to talk...since she named my DSis Divine Carlese, LMAO. Fast forward to this past xmas at WDW my Mom says how fitting DD's name is for her and that I really did good picking her name out, I just giggled. I don't think she remembered the earlier conversation.

 

[kathy387]

I know people who have named their boys Taj, Blaze, Bison & Tiger. These are from 2 different families......it certainly sets them apart and everyone knows exactly who it is when their names are mentioned!

 

[Blondy876]

My oldest is Madison Rose and my youngest is Teagan Rae (both girls). Both are of Irish origin, which is why we choose them. My dh's family is Irish.

 

[THE HAT]

when i was pg with ds, dh and i agreed that we would give him a very simple, family tied name.no nicknames, no misspellings. we had both grown up with easy to pronounce names but, never spelled right, or able to find our name the correct way on anything.
i am Wendie (the IE instead of the Y comes from my mother who is nancIE)
and dh is Kris (yep take a simple name like chris and mess with it)
soooo ds is Ross...(that is my dad's middle name) the only thing that is different for ds is that he has 2 middle names, my husbands middle name first, and then ds's fathers middle name next. (this way we had no hurt feelings)