Teachers: What names are you sick of?

[evilqueenfan]

In our town, we have a young lady named Sammer (her dad's name is Sam) but it is pronounced SUMMER (like the season). Very strange.

 

[sbsteel]

In our town, we have a young lady named Sammer (her dad's name is Sam) but it is pronounced SUMMER (like the season). Very strange.

I should hook her up with a guy I went to high school with named Tammer. He went by Tom.

 

[scrapquitler]

I teach first grade. One year, I had 2 Christopher, 2 Chris, 1 Stephen, 1 Steven, and Ashley, Alyssa and Alicia. . .I was tongue tied and confused all year!!

One year my son's dance class (only boy with about 15 girls) had three Alyssas, one Alecia, one Alicia, an Alexandra and an Alexis. If you said "Ally" they all answered.

 

[wdwgirl03]

I teach first grade. One year, I had 2 Christopher, 2 Chris, 1 Stephen, 1 Steven, and Ashley, Alyssa and Alicia. . .I was tongue tied and confused all year!!

haha, that just reminds me of when I was in second grade. I was one of 4 Sarahs and I think there were 3 Marks and 2 Aarons.

 

[scrapquitler]

Or how about the names that are pronounced one way by everyone, but the person whose name it is wants it pronounced differently?

Someone I know whose name is Marcia wants everyone to pronounce it
Mar-see-ya

That reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Marge buys the Chanel suit and goes to the country club. The women's names are pronounced "Robert Ah" "Sue Zahn" Patry She Ya" and "Eliza Beth" and "Kah Rin" (rather than Roberta, Susan, Patricia, Elizabeth and Karen)

 

[IdesOmarch]

My next child I will now purposely name him/her a very weird name with an even weirder spelling just to annoy his/her kindergarten teacher, how about:

Gohhonn (Pronounced Jon). For a boy.

ILLesseebath (Pronounced Elizabeth) for a girl.

I like Frank Zappas kids names: Moon Unit 1 and Moon Unit 2.

His inspiration almost made me go with "Portable Inflation Device" for my first child, but I decided in the end against it in the fear he/her would be picked on by other kids.

If I were truly cruel I would have named her that with a weird spelling:

Porttedible Enphlation Deevise

 

[scrapquitler]

I don't like the names where it could be a boy or girl either...
My sister though is a Toni... My mom didn't want to have a boy name and girls name. She was either going to be a Toni or a Tony...

Same as me. I'm Tracey, but if I were a boy, my name would have been Tracy. It's a family surname (Tracy), and Tracey in all the various spellings was pretty common in the late 60s when I was born. The funny story is that my grandparents were on vacation when I was born and my parents called the hotel to leave a message for them, and the message was "Tracey has arrived" but when the hotel manager gave them the message, they kept asking him, But how is the name spelled?? and he wasn't sure so they didn't know if I was a boy or a girl.

 

[laurie31]

I dislike Nevaeh....the whole "heaven" backwards thing...

Pronounced Nevayah

I find it amusing that the parents seem to think they are the first ones to come up with it, when there are tons of them out there.

Along with Miracle, A'miracle, and Precious.

And yes, the -aiden boys are going to take over the world!

 

[Talking Hands]

Some names I hope don't come up again for me are Xavier, Marquis, and Josue. All trouble.
Common names around our school are Juan, Jorge, Josue, Jose, and Carlos for the guys.
Jessica(Yessica) Yesenia, Vanessa, Xiomara and Marie/Maria for the girls. Very Hispanic population.

One of my favorite students is named Kayla. Then there are the names like Chiquta, Quanisha, Quintavia and the like. Yikes! I actually had one young man that I was never able to pronounce his name. He told me to call him Mike.
Had Giovanni, Jenesis/Genesis, Brain (pronounced Brian), Grettel, and Male.

Give me a few plain old Jane, Ann, Sarah, Kevin and Matthew for a change please.

Even my name is a problem. It is Lisabeth but pronounced Lisbet and usually ends up as Lisa. But what irritates me the most is when I spell it out correctly and the clerk types it wrong. Hey, I spelled it for a reason and I do know how my name is spelled and it is not ELIZABETH.

 

[njmom47]

I am not a teacher but I too have a Tyler (born in 1995) but he is a reallllly good kid and always has been.
http://www.weddingvendors.com/baby-names/popular
This is a great website btw! Dd2's name has been popular since the turn of the century. Ds is fascinated by dh's name (Michael) being #1 for years and years! Dd1 and my name, eh, not so much.
ETA-My brother and nephew are Michael as well...and that is the name that gives us trouble in our family!so we agreed if our baby was a boy, he would NOT be named Michael!

 

[Pig Pen]

My 3 yo DGS was visiting recently and we went to the playground and met a little boy named Aiden. Later we talked to another family who was fishing nearby and their son was named Aiden too!

My grandson is named Raleigh (not too common yet).

 

[TinkPirateMom]

I like more common/old fashioned names for boys but am okay with different names for girls, not sure why.

Morgan Taylor
Timothy James, we call him TJ because DH is Tim and it's just easier.

 

[BrerMom]

I'm not "tired" of any name in particular, but the first thing I do when I read my class lists is to see if there are any duplicates in any class. Since I have ~180 students per year, I'm bound to have duplicates; I just hope they aren't in the same hour.

On the first day of school, I take "pronunciation notes," especially if there is an unusual spelling, an ethic name that's unusual to me, or a nickname. I use these for me, of course, but I also incorporate my notes into my folder for substitutes. I've received so much positive feedback on this courtesy. Many have said I'm the only one that has done this for them.

 

[minkydog]

I knew someone who had twins. She was determined that she wanted the twins to be independent and she was adamant that they not have rhyming names. So she named the boys James and Timothy. Within a year, they were Jimmy and Timmy.

 

[Brownsfan317]

I have 2 nieces named Emilyn (pronounced "emi" and then "lyn" if that helps!) and Maely (Mae-Lee). I absolutely fell in love with the names because I think they are unique but not too weird. We call Maely "Mae" sometimes and Emilyn is our "little Emee."

The OB doc that delivered me wanted me to be named after him. His first name was Frank so he suggested Francesca. My parents hated it! So they named me Krista and cannot find a darn thing with my name on it!! LOL I actually think now as an adult Francesca would be cool because it is not common and I could have been called "Frankie" for short. Plus, I am kind of tomboyish anyways.

 

[Poohbug]

I had serious misgivings about naming my son Aidan. DH and I have a difficult time agreeing on baby names as it is, finding a name we could both live with for our third son was tough.

I hate going to the doctor because there is always an Aidan or Hayden or Cayden in that waiting room.

Oh well, if things get really bad I can always call him by his middle name. The name I originally picked out but DH didn't like.

 

[krcit]

My son's soccer team a couple of years ago had: Kaelen, Kayla, Cullen, Collen, Keelan, Colleen and Colin. My husband, the coach, started calling them all 'Nancy.' They thought he was hilarious! He'd say..."all the Nancys run laps" or "all the Nancys wear white" for the scrimmage.

 

[teacup princess]

As long as we're talking names, we're about to name our daughter (due in a couple of weeks) a not too popular name for our area so before I spring it on the family I'd like to get some opinions to see if it "annoys" anyone. The baby, a girl, will be named "Denver Abigail". I didn't see it mentioned on here although someone mentioned not liking "place" names. We're actually not naming it after the town. It is a combination of my two grandmothers first names. I believe Denver was a popular old time Irish name back in my grandmother's time. So let me know what you think. I have thick skin and I'd rather find out if it's annoying now rather than later.

 

[teacup princess]

I had serious misgivings about naming my son Aidan. DH and I have a difficult time agreeing on baby names as it is, finding a name we could both live with for our third son was tough.

I hate going to the doctor because there is always an Aidan or Hayden or Cayden in that waiting room.

Oh well, if things get really bad I can always call him by his middle name. The name I originally picked out but DH didn't like.

I regret naming my son Caden. I thought I was being original at the time, never realized all these "aiden" ryming names would be so poplular.

 

[sbsteel]

As long as we're talking names, we're about to name our daughter (due in a couple of weeks) a not too popular name for our area so before I spring it on the family I'd like to get some opinions to see if it "annoys" anyone. The baby, a girl, will be named "Denver Abigail". I didn't see it mentioned on here although someone mentioned not liking "place" names. We're actually not naming it after the town. It is a combination of my two grandmothers first names. I believe Denver was a popular old time Irish name back in my grandmother's time. So let me know what you think. I have thick skin and I'd rather find out if it's annoying now rather than later.

In all honesty, I like Abigail Denver much better. If Denver didn't have any meaning to you, I'd ask what other names are on your short list.