Teachers: What names are you sick of?

[luvmyfam444]

here everyone has a Mary-hyphen name. It's a Mary Claire, Mary Margaret, Mary Paige, something along those lines - everything goes along with Mary.

In dd's classes the repeat names have been Haley, Halli, EMily & Katelyn's.

 

[Green Tea]

As a past Human Resources Recruiter, I know first hand how resumes are discarded due to names....I did not condone this behavior however I could not prevent it. It's pretty sad because half the time the hiring managers didn't get past the names to reveiw the candidate's experience. So for all of you expectant parents out there, please be thoughtful when deciding your babies name!

My daughter's name is Alysia (pronounced like Alicia Silverstone) which is always pronounced Alicia!

I feel the same way about names. I know I shouldn't but I do. My HS son would ride in the car on the way to school. If I heard a name on the radio, I would give a whole spiel about the person, simply based on the name. He was incredulous. He called me a nameist. Like a racist, but with names. I guess I name profile, and he doesn't like it. But, I can see where your HR staff was mentally with the resumes. I am trying to get better. Then I see Le DASH ah and it starts all over again.

 

[mjantz]

AFA names going out of fashion, womens names tend to go out of fashion faster than mens because most people don't want to give their child an 'old lady' name. However, these names can cycle back into fashion once they become someones grandmothers name. I know of at least 3 Lillys & each one, when I commented on it said 'Oh, it was my grandmothers name'. So, while I doubt Hilda will become very popular, I could see Irene or Dorothy making a comeback in 10 years or so.
Boys names OTOH, tend to be a bit more stable because of people wanting to name their sons after family members. There are some male names that have gone out of fashion (How many Chesters under 65 do you know?) but the 'standards' like David, Alexander, James & Matthew will probably stay popular for a long time.

I don't have any names that I just loathe. I have seen an abundance of 'J' names for boys & Jake and Jack have become very popular lately in my area (North Texas). For girls its all over the map but Reese seems to be getting popular as is Natalie.

 

[withay]

my parents named me "Lauryn" and i love it! when i was younger, i hated not being able to easily find barrettes and tumblers with my name on it, but i love it now. i always say "it's lauryn with a y" which is where my screenname came from!


i am in school to be a teacher and one of my teachers in hs gave me her 'biggest piece of advice' which was to beware of students named "princess", "angel", or "precious", because often they're named for something they are not

 

[Jsme]

My name is Selena as you can see it has 2 e's in it. It always amazes me when people ask if I am named after the Latino Singer. Totally amazes me people actually thinks because she was named the same name I have that it is a Latino name. First if she would have lived I am a good 10 years older than her. Next I hate it when people assume that my name is Latino. Nothing against Latino names just it is not a latino name. It is Greek and it means the moon or goddess of the moon. The girl's name Selena \s(e)-le-na\ is pronounced sa-LEEN-ah. It is of Greek origin, and its meaning is "the moon". Mythology: Selena was the moon goddess, sister to Helios, the sun.

My children are MacKenzie which is a family name as is her middle name Cora. Cora is also Greek. The girl's name Cora \c(o)-ra\ is pronounced KOR-ah. It is of English and Greek origin. Possibly a variant of Kore (Greek) "maiden".
My son is Erik. The boy's name Erik \e-rik\ is a variant of Aric (Old Norse), Eric (Old Norse) and Frederick (Old German), and the meaning of Erik is "forever or alone, ruler; peaceful ruler".
His middle name is Nathan. The boy's name Nathan \n(a)-than\ is pronounced NAY-than. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "God has given". Biblical: Nathan was God's prophet during the reigns of David and Solomon.

As far as the High School that I work at we have more of the old names or ethnic names. I get tickled at all the people who name their kids all first names with the same letter.

 

[SnowWhite607]

My niece had a friend named Qilee--pronounced Kylee or however it should be spelled. Our Kindergarten class last year had a little girl named Cennedy, and the subsitututes were always pronouncing it Sennedy. My niece is named Allyson, and while I like the name very much, she is bugged by the fact she can never find anything spelled that way.

I am Allyson with a Y. I never could find anything monogrammed with my name spelled right either. When I was in school though I only knoew one other Allison with an I.

I am a teacher and I have a Tyler also.

Last year I had 2 Rileys and 2 Macy/Macis.

This year I have 3 Joshuas and 2 Maddies (Madelyn and Madison)

 

[almburr]

Im sorry but I cannot stand the name Neveah!

Or names spelled the way they sound. Dakota is not spelled Dacoda!

 

[juligrl]

Why? Why? Why? The person will never find anything with their name on it and will have to spell their name for people their entire lives. That does not sound fun.

That is all.

That's why we do it - less junk to have your kid begging for at souvenier shops!

 

[disneyjunkie]

Im sorry but I cannot stand the name Neveah!

Or names spelled the way they sound. Dakota is not spelled Dacoda!

Tons of Neveah's around here.

It was cute when I first heard it. Not so much now.

 

[portocall]

I tried to name my children "real" names but use names which were not terribly common. Now it seems wherever I go someone is calling for their "Samantha" and I just lean over and apologize to my baby!

My sister just had a baby named "Samantha", because it is not common And my middle sons best friend is also Samantha. I hadn't heard it in forever and now I hear it all the time.

I don't care for Madison, Caitlyn (or any variation), for girls, Zachary or Dylan for boys... my oh my, so many of them here.

Names are pretty regional, I hadn't heard of some of them yet. My kids are the only ones to have their names at our school, but they aren't that uncommon. Same year I had first DS, his name was #1 in three states (Logan), but I don't hear it much here at all.

 

[dislal]

My sister just had a baby named "Samantha", because it is not common And my middle sons best friend is also Samantha. I hadn't heard it in forever and now I hear it all the time.

When we had DD 14 we named her Melanie (How many of those do you know?)

Then when DD11 was born we thought hard to get a good not popular name so we picked Samantha. DUH!!! I wasn't home from the hospital one day and the local newspaper called wanting a picture of DD11 because they where doing an article on popular baby names and guess what Samantha was in the top 10.

When we had DS I knew he was going to be named after DH so Joseph it is, and really there are not many Joseph's in my kids school maybe one per grade so that is not bad.

 

[Vexorg]

I normally go by my middle name of Brian (my first name is the same as my father's, so I ended up with the middle name) and aside from having to occasionally correct someone trying to spell it with a Y (Bryan) it doesn't seem to be much of a problem, nor does it seem to be all that common (although at my last job I shared a cube with another Brian, which initially confused the heck out of the rest of the team.) Oddly enough, these days among people a few years younger than I am, I seem to see a whole bunch of Briannes and Briannas (and occasionally Briennes) for female names, although I'm guessing those names didn't stay in favor for long, since I rarely see many children with those names (either Brian/Bryan or Brianne/Brianna). In fact, my brother has dated two different Briannas now.

As for odd names, I do have a cousin with the given name of Matthew who goes by the name if Tijs (pronounced "Tice"), which is a shortened form for the Dutch spelling of "Mattias". My grandfather (a Dutch immigrant) seems to have a Dutch nickname for every one of his grandchildren. Another cousin of mine has the given name if Michelle, but sometimes goes by Maaike for the same reason.

 

[golfgal]

I normally go by my middle name of Brian (my first name is the same as my father's, so I ended up with the middle name) and aside from having to occasionally correct someone trying to spell it with a Y (Bryan) it doesn't seem to be much of a problem, nor does it seem to be all that common (although at my last job I shared a cube with another Brian, which initially confused the heck out of the rest of the team.) Oddly enough, these days among people a few years younger than I am, I seem to see a whole bunch of Briannes and Briannas (and occasionally Briennes) for female names, although I'm guessing those names didn't stay in favor for long, since I rarely see many children with those names (either Brian/Bryan or Brianne/Brianna). In fact, my brother has dated two different Briannas now.

As for odd names, I do have a cousin with the given name of Matthew who goes by the name if Tijs (pronounced "Tice"), which is a shortened form for the Dutch spelling of "Mattias". My grandfather (a Dutch immigrant) seems to have a Dutch nickname for every one of his grandchildren. Another cousin of mine has the given name if Michelle, but sometimes goes by Maaike for the same reason.

Brian is a very common name around here. DH has 3 Brian's in his office--out of 20 people. There are quite a few Brian's at the middle school and high school as well--but we live in an area that was settled by Irish Immigrants so that could be why.

 

[AtlantaSue]

I used a "different" spelling for my daughter's name, but I honestly didn't think about it at the time!! I wanted to name her after my mom, Jeanie--I looked up variations, and ended up w/ "Jeana Rose" -she goes by the 2 names together. But I was so focused in my mind on it being a variation of "Jean", that I didn't realize how many people would of course assume her name was "Gina."

 

[Tiffer]

I used a "different" spelling for my daughter's name, but I honestly didn't think about it at the time!! I wanted to name her after my mom, Jeanie--I looked up variations, and ended up w/ "Jeana Rose" -she goes by the 2 names together. But I was so focused in my mind on it being a variation of "Jean", that I didn't realize how many people would of course assume her name was "Gina."

Is it not pronounced like Gina?

 

[AtlantaSue]

It is--I was talking about the spelling.

 

[Tiffer]

It is--I was talking about the spelling.

Oh..sorry..I was confused which unfortunately, is not that unusual.

 

[SnowWhite607]

During my counselor days I had 4 girls in my hut named Emily, 3 of those at the same time! We also had a large number of Meredith's... not what I would have expected.

I will *NEVER* name a child Nicole because I have known 4 of them and hated every single one! The name has too much of a negative association. I have yet to come across a pleasant Nicole or a nice Erin.

My worst terror's ever were Marissa, Sharhzade, Jasmine,Tyler, Andrew & Evan.

Though I like the name Andrew... it is probably what hubby and I will use if we have a Boy. I think my current favorite Girl name is Molly (but as a nickname for something else like Amelia).

My DD's name is Molly (not short for anything) and she is 8. So far we hvae not had any other Mollys in her class or her dancing classes.

DH is a teacher too and he had a kid once named Lavoris....like the mouthwash! LOL!

 

[monkey68]

Me and my best friend have almost the same name, but go by the same nickname. We were roommates in college, and people would come looking for us, we wouldn't know which one they wanted. I've called her boyfriend a few times (I was friends with her boyfriend, now fiance, first) and I would have to say "This is not your girlfriend, it's the other one". But it's not a very common name for people our age, just coincidence.

 

[TJ's Mom]

I have had a Brandy Alexander. Every time I called her, I got an urge to go to Happy Hour!

I knew a Staci Stacy.

The worst name I ever had was a Michael Hunt. I swear that is true. He went by Mike. I would never call him with his first and last name. Why would your parents do that??????