Teachers: What names are you sick of?

[cheermom1]

Well my DD has a very unique name and I'm not posting it here because I want it to stay that way .

fine be that way so there!

 

[Robindianne]

Kamryn, Cameron, Camryn, and more versions of the same.

 

[starwatcher]

Sick of Ashley and Emily.

I am sorry about that but my emily is named for her great grandmother. I know some are named emily cause it is popular but it was my grandmothers name and I wanted to honor her

 

[Scornelius]

While it seems more widespread, it's really no different than the Sonya (Sownya, Sawnya) thing in the 70's. Oh, and remember Sheri and Cheri?

I'm a Sonia, and I've never once seen a Sownya or Sawnya. Only Sonya and Sonijas. I love my spelling.

This little one is going to be a Dawson. I spent a lot of time on this website trying to find a name that wasn't growing in popularity. Every kid I know who has been born in the last 5 years has either been an -aden (Braden, Graedon, Kaden, Aiden), Brianna (Breana, Briana, BreeAnna) and 2 Ariels. It's the Jessica and Jennifer epidemic all over again!

 

[novajeanjellybean]

I don't know if its just around here but Jalin is very common (boys and girls with multiple spellings). Good thing they're all pronounced the same. I, BTW, am named Nova and people are constantly calling me Nora. Then after I spell it, I am still called Nora like there is no way possible that I could be named Nova---frustrating.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I am a children's librarian, so I see many kids names in the course of my work. The most common female name right now is Lily - we have 5 of them in storytimes at my last count! And they are all age 2.

I live in town that is WASPy with many affulent (or live like you are affulent) people, so of course, the most common boys name is Aiden (or some spelling variation of it). If you see a young blondish boy around town, chances are his name is Aiden. What is it about that name that everyone gravitates towards it!

In the elementary/middle school, the common names are Luke, Jack, Ryan and Connor. For girls, it's Kaitlyn, the Kylees and all variations (Kiley, Caylee, Calie, Kyleigh, etc), plus lots of Emilys, Emmas, Megans, and Graces.

The name Madison was never huge here, probably because we live right near a town called Madison. But when I go to Disney, every girl aged around 5 is named Madison. You hear it everywhere - you really do!

And I think soon the Avas will take over the world and be the next Madison.

For a good read about naming trends, the book "Freakonomics" has a chapter all about this. It follows the theory that the affulent/high class people latch onto a name and start using it. After awhile, the "common folk" hear it enough and start using the name too, to make their child be perceived as higher-class, unique, and special. But once the name is sufficently used by the "commoners", the affulent prompty abandoned the name, never to be used again by them! And then the affulent start picking up on new names to use, and when the "commoners" start using it too, that name gets abandoned, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.

Of course, obviously this is not true for every name or every circumstance!! And I am NOT saying this is right either (not starting a class war here! And I am no way affulent anyway! ), but just throwing the very general theory out there from a book I read. Interesting stuff.

 

[kaylajr]

If I have one more Kayla, Kayleigh, Mikayla, Mikyla, I might scream. I've never had a Tyler that wasn't an absolute dickens.

Okay I haven't read the whole thread but just had to comment since my name is the first one listed

I have been a Kayla since 1971
When I went to school most of my teachers couldn't pronounce it correctly

No one had ever heard the name
It was really cool ( to me at least) to have a name that unique.

Growing up if I heard someone say "Kayla" I knew they meant me
now I hear it everywhere....Kinda miss when it was just "mine" LOL

 

[VolvoManiac850]

Names I am sick of hearing:

Sophia (and all variations thereof)
Isabella/Isabelle
Olivia
Jaden (and all variations thereof)
Aiden (and all variations thereof)
Riley (and all variations thereof)
Halle/Hallie
Aoife
Skyler (and all variations thereof)

NAMES THAT I LIKE: Mike/Michael, Robert/Rob/Bob/Bobby/Robby, William/Will/Bill/Billy, James/Jim, David, Martin, Andy/Andrew, Steve/Stephen, Sean/Shawn, Aaron, Justin, Carlos, Jason, Brian/Bryan, Chris/Christopher, Don/Donald, Joe/Joseph, José, Paul, Carl/Karl, Luke, Pete/Peter, Chester, Barack, Alex/Alexander, Pat/Patrick, André, Matt/Matthew, Ed/Edward/Eddie, Sarah, Lauren, Anne/Ann, Elizabeth/Liz/Beth, Victoria, Ellen, Mary, Ruth, Angel (and any foreign variants thereof), Christine/Christina, Catherine/Katherine (just not those goofy "y" variants), Jen/Jenn/Jennifer, Linda, Karen, Pamela/Pam, Patricia, Hillary, Emily, Emma, Rachel, Holly, and Stephanie

 

[Briarmom]

I know for a fact that very people have my name because they is always misspelling it. It is not Alfreda. If call that one time I will scream. It's La Freda and I have never met any with may ever. Depending on what mood I am in I will not answer you.

I teach pre-K and I have so many kids that has same name that I am confusing. Can people name there kids something normal.

I'm confused by your post. Your name is La Freda?

In my son's Kindergarten class there are 3 Jessicas= and the other class has 2 of them and the third class has 1.
So out of about 25 girls there are 6 named Jessica!
When my son is talking about something a girl did and I ask which one he always replies "Probably one of the Jessicas"

Good grief! My name is still popular! I hate it. Hate hate hate.

It's traditionally a boy's name, but it's been taken over by the girls in recent years.

Yep. Just like Hayden, Jayden, Ashley, Lindsay, Laverne, Madison, Taylor, Sidney, Avery, MacKenzie, Claire, Bailey, Jordan...I could go on and on.

 

[Alyssa88]

My little sister's name is Kaitlyn. She is 16 and knows one other Kately. She knew a catharine and katherine, who went by caty and Katie. When she was little we called her Kaity. After running into a few others though, she became "Kay", lol.

Its my fault she is stuck with the name. I named all my dolls Kaity when I was 4, whcih is when they had her. Guess the name stuck on them

My cousins wife spells her name just like mine -alyssa, yet she pronounces it Alisa.

I did know one other Alyssa . . . And she had my middle name too!

 

[Green Tea]

I hate the weird spelling of names and also the trendy, poofy sort of names. But this surprised me. My sister is a teacher and when I was pregnant, she told me to not name a boy Matthew or Christopher because she had never had one of those names that wasn't a hellion.

There was one old fashioned, classic boy name that both my DH and I liked, but then she said we couldn't saddle a kid with that because people would make fun of him.

I listen to my sister too much.

 

[mlynn]

I hate the weird spelling of names and also the trendy, poofy sort of names. But this surprised me. My sister is a teacher and when I was pregnant, she told me to not name a boy Matthew or Christopher because she had never had one of those names that wasn't a hellion.

There was one old fashioned, classic boy name that both my DH and I liked, but then she said we couldn't saddle a kid with that because people would make fun of him.

I listen to my sister too much.

Now both my cousin w/boys named Matthew were a little on the wild side.
But my nephew Christopher is the niciest boy now preteen you could ever meet. My girls love him and he will take the time to play any game they want. He is just a nice kid. All 3 of his boys are great Ialways ask him how he got the easy kids and my aren't.
I have a Rebecca and a Ashlyn. Now everytime I hear about an Ashlyn it goes with "it's the name that is why they are so sneaky" and that is my daughter to a tee.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

My boys are Dante and Erik. Erik is often misspelled as Eric. We purposefully chose the "k" ending because we wanted the Scandinavian form of Erik rather than the French Eric. My ancestry is Italian and my wife's is Scandinavian, and we thought it would be fun to have names that tied to each ancestry. We never hear of any other Italian Dante's though. It seems to be popular as an African American name.

 

[Liberty Belle]

My boys are Dante and Erik. Erik is often misspelled as Eric. We purposefully chose the "k" ending because we wanted the Scandinavian form of Erik rather than the French Eric. My ancestry is Italian and my wife's is Scandinavian, and we thought it would be fun to have names that tied to each ancestry. We never hear of any other Italian Dante's though. It seems to be popular as an African American name.

I had a student (white, with dark hair - possible Italian heritage?) with the middle name Dante.

 

[elismom]

First Ds I named Alexander very hard name to learn to print in JK
Second DS was Eli very easy name to learn to print
My ds Eli is in grade 9 he nows 14 girls named sarah he is good friend with at least 6 of them
I always have to say . What one of the sarah's are you talking about

 

[golfgal]

My son (Tyler ) goes out with a Devyn.

DD's boyfriend is named Devin.

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

I have a friend from college with this name.

I HATE the GOOFY spellings for name and THEN the parents that get mad if their child's name is misspelled. Sorry, you created that problem when you named your child Ayshleigh, Cyndyee, Allyssion, Conner, Mychyal, etc.

I have 7 boys on my basketball team, 3 of them are named Nick, 2 of them have a last name that starts with a D and the 3rd starts with a B. You can't even use Nick D.

Here are some of the names from the hospital baby photo website for our old town:

Taeden
Makayla
Neomy
Jaxson
Andraela (I don't even know how to pronounce this one)
Jaxon
B.J. (he'll never get teased for that one)
Cerenity
Adhiambojudith--born to Sara and Joe (little girl with blond hair?)
Nevah
Haeden
Paisley
Jaxxson
Danyka
Rayleigh
Crimson Blaque and his twin Cayden Blayne
Jazmin
Khloe
ESPN (yes after the TV Station)
Vylotte
Cash
Taylin
Talon
Kaydience
Daisy

These are just a few of the more interesting ones

 

[disneyjunkie]

Maybe it's just the area I'm in?

I think you're right.

I was so sick of Chandler, Ryan, Madison, Carson, Morgan, Payton, Preston, Brandon, Taylor, Tyler.... When I lived in Raleigh, NC.

I moved back to NY 8 years ago. In those 8 years I've only had one student with any of those names.(Ryan)

Now that I don't hear those names year in and year out, I love them. If I have another child, I would use one of those names. The chances of my child running into another Chandler or Madison in our area is slim to none.

The 8 years that we lived in NC, we only met 2 other boys with my son's name. There are hundreds of boys named Tyriq (my son's name isn't spelled this way) in our section of Brooklyn and just as many spellings.

In Raleigh his name was unique, here it's common and plain.

It seems to be popular as an African American name.

I came very close to naming my son Dante but my sister talked me out of it.

 

[Briarmom]

Here are some of the names from the hospital baby photo website for our old town:

Taeden
Makayla
Neomy
Jaxson
Andraela (I don't even know how to pronounce this one)
Jaxon
B.J. (he'll never get teased for that one)
Cerenity
Adhiambojudith--born to Sara and Joe (little girl with blond hair?)
Nevah
Haeden
Paisley
Jaxxson
Danyka
Rayleigh
Crimson Blaque and his twin Cayden Blayne
Jazmin
Khloe
ESPN (yes after the TV Station)
Vylotte
Cash
Taylin
Talon
Kaydience
Daisy

These are just a few of the more interesting ones

Yuck.

Here's are some on my hometown's website:

Abigayle (I, too, despise the 'Kreeee8tiv' spellings)
Dillyn (of course this is a girl, because if you add a y to a name, it makes it girly)
Ashtyn (oops. I was wrong. This one's a boy)
Hudson
Torstyn (??? a boy)
Shylinae Symone (girl)
Audrina Dream (someone's read VC Andrews!)
Aeyana Kilikiki (girl....)
Thailer (boy)
Newaehrose Sherree (I'm sure this is misspelled, and is, in fact the super-popular name Nevaeh. I have nothing nice to say about this name)
Reino (boy...does this rhyme with Drano?)
Brayon Abel Rabbit Head (I really hope this is a Native American)
Mylee Rose (Yey! A Miley Cyrus fan had a baby!!)
Kiefer
Beautifull (really?)
Briseis (girl, I don't know how this is pronounced)
Kynsli (girl)
Jazlyn
Talley (boy)
Lincoln (boy)
Miryilyn (what the hell?)
Syleena

Wow. Just wow.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I teach a sport in the evenings and we've told the kids (and its somewhat true) that nicknames are common among the players (becuase in the sport were consistently identified by our near inpronounceable last names). So whenever we get a number of kids with the same names or hard to remember names, out come the nicknames. It becomes so prevalent that no one in the class really knows what the kids real names are. In fact, we held a tournament for several of the classes last week and one of my older kids came in and signed up with his name and I was wondering who the heck it was. So then I looked up and oh, of course, that's Bono. Later in the tournament someone said, "Hey, do you know Gareth?" To which I responded, "Yes of course, but his name's Bud."

B.J. (he'll never get teased for that one)

DH is a BJ. It's a nickname his family stupidly saddled him with. He used to hate it, got teased mercilessly in school and tried to change his nickname. He found out that was basically impossible. By the time he got to college he'd accepted it and embraced it and ultimately it's made him a stronger person.

Besides, at least that kid knows how everyone's going to tease him. Meanwhile, you have kids like me with no obvious jokes in our names and which result in great tween creativity. My maiden named rhymed with a portion of the male anatomy.

 

[MM27]

This one of the things I love about teaching in a diverse setting, is that we very rarely get repeats in the same class.

Some of the kids that I've had over the past 9 years:

Osereme
N'Ayasiah
Jihad
Chisom
Pekens
Rock
Al'Tarik
Al'Jamier (many of the boys names that start with Al' like to just be called by the second half of their name)
Talita
Jagjot
Marquise-Marcheese-Markeese

Not really names that you would see repeated much, although we do get repeats in our school of some of these.