Which naming trend is your least favorite?

[jrmasm]

I did. And I see a big difference in saying your opinion on trends in general and attacking specific names. Don´t you?

Please. I agreed with a pp that mentioned what popped into her head when she read an unfamiliar name. Hardly an attack.

I think saying a name is boring is much ruder than saying a name reminds you of something.

And for the record, no one named Thomas in my family.

 

[dogluva]

I did. And I see a big difference in saying your opinion on trends in general and attacking specific names. Don´t you?

Then why mention a specific name at all? She mentioned "Thomas" and that is MY son's name. It is ok for her to start it and call my son's name "boring" but I can't give my opinion on her children's names?

Ok, I apologize for the other remarks (genetic thing). That was rude.

 

[Freyja]

Two wrongs don´t make one right

 

[jrmasm]

Two wrongs don´t make one right

 

[The Orchid]

I know a Richard Rider (last name is spelled differently to protect the innocent) and if you know the nickname for Richard it's actually very funny

I know an Eckhzayvyhurr and a Vhirraunnekkah. Yes they are brother and sister. What a hot mess. I know a Le'mon and an O'Range (like Lay-mawn, and Oh-rawnj) and they are also Bro and Sis.

I LOVE "ghetto" names. Add "isha" after almost ANY word and you get a ghetto name, try it. It works.

I bet over the next few years as all these kids come of age, courts are going to be inundated with young adults trying to change their names to something normal, if nothing else so they can get a freakin' job! Seriously, as some posters have pointed out, nobody is going to hire people with those difficult to decipher names.

If you were a manager at Walmart, would you want to hire somebody and have them walking around your store with a name tag that says, "Hi, I'm OrangeJello, how may I help you?"

 

[marivaid]

One of my friends was into pageants and she'd always tell me when she'd ran into kids with uncommon names or spellings. I never knew there were so many way to spell Savannah, Mackenzie or Cassidy. The "weird" (as in uncommon, no offense intended) names that stood out to me were El'Agance (Elegance), Jahna'Bonet (creeeepyyyy), and Droffil-C (her dad's name is Clifford).

Closer to home there's one trend that drives me batty, it's people here using American nicknames for their kids' names. They don't seem to understand that Americans use nicknames for everyday life but their kid has a "real" name on the paper. Back in school I remember brothers named Teddy,Tommy and Timmy. Very cute for a kid but kind of silly once the "kid" reaches 30. One of my best friends at work is Jimmy, he's 24 and already thinking of changing his name because no one takes him seriously when he applies for jobs. In the meantime he spells it Jimi so that it at least seems like there's a story behind it...

The other day in my store a woman comes up to me asking to call her (lost)son to the front desk. What's his name ? Ortheus. For once I wasn't worried that half a dozen kids would show up.

 

[DisneyWalle]

I can not stand the made up names or the ones with extra letters. When I did my student teaching - I dreaded calling roll. The kids always knew whose name was going to get butchered. Some names I couldn't even begin to pronounce so I called them by their last name - and when I couldn't pronounce that - it was Miss S or Mr. M

They always knew who I was talking about.

 

[Darsa]

Ugh, my poor daughter, with one of the easiest names possible, has got to make sure to spell her name when people need it, since "Jennifer" is now spelled EVERY which way... And we picked that name because it would be easily spelled!

Aaand, DD (who is only 13) and her "boyfriend" have already decided what they're going to name their children. If they are to get married they'll both have the same initials, JAC. So they've decided that their child will be Julianne OR Jackson, middle name April or Arthur, so that the initial trend continues. Sheesh.

 

[onelilspark]

My name is Kelly.

Yup. Plain old boring "Kelly." Do you know how many ways you can spell Kelly? Let's see, there's Kelli, Kellie, Kelley, Kellee... I could continue. "How do you spell it?" "With a 'Y.'" "'E-Y' or just 'Y.'" "Just 'Y.'" "Oh, ok."

I've always been partial to the name April Mae. But I'd NEVER do that to my kid. And Christian Alexander. I might do Christian. I like that one.

 

[OK!]

You wouldn't believe the # of times his name has been mispronounced that way at school, Dr's, and so on. She really appreciates it when someone (like you ) knows that it's pronounced like Shawn.

I never hear it anymore, but when I was younger ('80s), I knew a couple of boys whose names were spelled Sean but were pronounced "Seen," FWIW. I don't know if that was a temporary trend or what.

 

[NotUrsula]

Just to prove your case, I had no idea how Siobhan was pronounced until this thread. From reading it, it "sounded" like "Cee-o-ban" in my head. I'm still not 100% sure at this time how to pronounce it. Is the it "Shy-von" with a long "i"/"y" sound or "Shi-von" with a short "i" sound?

Short i. I'm racking my brain to think if there is ever a situation where i is pronounced long in Irish when it is not the first letter in the word, and I can't think of any. When standing by itself the letter I in Irish is almost always pronounced equivalently to the I in "wish"., though in certain parts of the country it sounds more like "ee", just because of the accent.

Also, ftr in light of my above statement, "Irish" is not an Irish word; that is what people from elsewhere called the country and its people. In the native language the country is properly called Éire (air-ih), the language Gaeilge (gAy-lik or gwAle-yuh, depending on where you ask), and the people "na Gaeil" (the gale.) Irish was not originally written in the Roman alphabet, so it is transliterated rather than just translated; that throws in a lot of complications.

In Irish, "bh" is equivalent in sound to the English language "v".

 

[kangareaux]

I don't mind either twin or non-twin names. Just don't name them the SAME name with different spellings. Like Catherine and Katherine.

I went to school with twins Yvette and Yvonne. I thought that was pretty.

We went to school with a couple sets of twins:

Christine and Christina

Shane and Shawn

I don't think I oculd name my kids with names as close together as Christine and Christina. I mean, it's like naming them Kate and katy; Hale and haley; Sue and Susy....just too close...

 

[raysnkaysmom]

13 pages....so I haven't gone thru them..

Although none REALLY bother me, I voted giving your children the same first initial....
I have two guy friends (starting with a V and a Q) and they named their 3 children (boys and girls) all names starting with V and Q... they had to get a little creative... SOmetimes I think it's just a bit overboard, but, eh...to each their own

 

[dismom2]

Unique spellings annoy me. Lyam, Leeam, Emmaleigh etc.

To each his own, but this bothers me, too. I just think it makes things more difficult, not only for the child---who has to constantly tell people how to spell his/her name (I'm talking about the traditional names that people used to know how to spell because there was mainly one way to spell the name in the past), but also for everyone else who might spell it incorrectly because they assumed they knew how to spell it. Also, when that child or parents (or anyone else) wants to buy something with that childs name written on it, it's very difficult, and at times impossible, to find that spelling. There's one thing wanting to be unique, but it does have a lot of drawbacks/inconveninces.

 

[NHdisneylover]

For boys I like the aforementioned James, but Rio is starting to grow on me.

Oh, I missed this before My Rio loves his name (he's 10 now). James is lovely as well

One of my friends was into pageants and she'd always tell me when she'd ran into kids with uncommon names or spellings. I never knew there were so many way to spell Savannah, Mackenzie or Cassidy. The "weird" (as in uncommon, no offense intended) names that stood out to me were El'Agance (Elegance), Jahna'Bonet (creeeepyyyy), and Droffil-C (her dad's name is Clifford)..

Was this just a strange coincidence, or was the child young enough to have been named for Jon Benet Ramsey If the child is younger than 12, well then I really have to wonder what the paretns were thinking given the horrific nature of Jon Benet's story

Closer to home there's one trend that drives me batty, it's people here using American nicknames for their kids' names. They don't seem to understand that Americans use nicknames for everyday life but their kid has a "real" name on the paper. Back in school I remember brothers named Teddy,Tommy and Timmy. Very cute for a kid but kind of silly once the "kid" reaches 30. One of my best friends at work is Jimmy, he's 24 and already thinking of changing his name because no one takes him seriously when he applies for jobs. In the meantime he spells it Jimi so that it at least seems like there's a story behind it...

Actaully I know many Americans who have "nicknames" as their full names as well. My uncle Jimmy is in his 70s and he is just Jimmy. I know several Kates, a Tim, a Cindy, a Danny, a Bob, two Joes, an Emi and a Nikki that I am sure those are their given names. There are probably others as well but you do not tend to talk about this all that often.

 

[HelenePA]

I've always been partial to the name April Mae. But I'd NEVER do that to my kid. And Christian Alexander. I might do Christian. I like that one.

Go one step further and you could have April-Mae June. I use to kid around with my mom I was going to name my dd that! For awhile Allison was going to be called April! but not the Mae June part

 

[clutter]

The school I used to work at had a set of twins, Jose-A and Jose-B. Pronounced: Hose-A and Hose-B.

OMG, that's the punchline to a really bad joke!!!!

 

[corndog]

Yes, it is a female name. You can look it up on several baby name websites.

Would love to see this as a tag!

 

[marivaid]

Was this just a strange coincidence, or was the child young enough to have been named for Jon Benet Ramsey If the child is younger than 12, well then I really have to wonder what the paretns were thinking given the horrific nature of Jon Benet's story

I think she was 8 or 9.

Actaully I know many Americans who have "nicknames" as their full names as well. My uncle Jimmy is in his 70s and he is just Jimmy. I know several Kates, a Tim, a Cindy, a Danny, a Bob, two Joes, an Emi and a Nikki that I am sure those are their given names. There are probably others as well but you do not tend to talk about this all that often.

I didn't know that. Most of the people I met were Teddy for Theodore, Jimmy for James, etc.. Either way I'd rather be a 40 year old Tommy than a 40 year old Ortheus

 

[NHdisneylover]

I think she was 8 or 9.

I jsut can't imagine making that choice for a name That poor little girl was murdered on the day my DD was born and the whole thing just still gives me the chills. Why anyone would want such a horrendous act to come to mind for people whenever they meet their daughter is beyond me.

I didn't know that. Most of the people I met were Teddy for Theodore, Jimmy for James, etc.. Either way I'd rather be a 40 year old Tommy than a 40 year old Ortheus

Agreed!!!

Personally, I would prefer to give a child the standard name and just use a nickname as it would give a child more options, but I know not everyone does it that way (and I am not one to talk both of my kids have weird names). The only person who I know WHY their parent chose to use the nickname was Emi. Emi is the age where many girls are named Emily. When you have 4-5 girls in the class with the same name the teacher will often ask each girl to use a different variation (for example I had girls in my 4th grade class going by Jennifer, Jen, Jenny and J.) She wanted her daughter to always "get" to use Emi and thought if there were mulitple Emilys and more than one was called Emi at home her daughte might be asked to go by Emily or Em instead--but is her given name were Emi they would have to let her use Emi. That struck me as kind of far fetched reasoning--but it as her DD and the name fit, so why not I guess