Which naming trend is your least favorite?

[Colleen27]

I'm not a fan of the made up spellings/names, apostrophes, and the like. I think it makes a rather unflattering statement about the parents and puts the kid at a disadvantage (right or wrong, it is hard to imagine taking a L'emone or a Oleo seriously in a professional setting).

I'm also not a fan of super-trendy names, even when they're names that I'd otherwise find attractive, like many of the recent top 10 for girls (Emma, Sophia, Abigail) simply because when I was a kid, there were so many Brians in my brother's classes that he had to go 3 letters into our last name to get to a unique identifier. DH repeatedly suggested Samantha or Ashley for our youngest. At DD's end of the year Brownies ceremony, I pointed out to him why I refused - in a troop of 19 girls, they have 4 Ashleys and 3 Samanthas!

 

[georgina]

Also... while we're at it, I hate the new trend of naming little girls "grandma names".... They CAME BACK!!!

Gee, my grandmas (born in the 1890's) were named Sarah and Elizabeth. Are those OK with you? I used different old family names for my kids - Margaret and Hannah. They're all grandma names to me.

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

Oh gracious, don't get me started...my students have some really special names...love the kids...the names, not so much :

Super similar siblings:
Leroyeisha and Leroyneisha
Rudolphus and Adolphus

Weird apostrophes'''':
A'Miracle
A'Precious

Names that mean food:
Lasonja (an Italian specialty)

The "we all end the same" names:
Shontavious
Rodrevious
Kentavious
Ertravious
Hartavious
Dontravious (no, this is not a joke!)

I could go on...and on....and on...

 

[Cindyluwho]

There was a study done on unusual names a few years ago. They found that folks looking for a job had a harder time if their names were hard to pronounce or hard to figure out how to pronounce or hard to spell. European, Eastern European, even Arabic were fine as long as they were easy for the person hiring to pronounce and to spell.

In other words, Oleg would be fine but Leikiesha wouldn't get a call.

edited to add: My father's name is Irp. My Grandpa's name was Irp and my brother's middle name is Irp. My husband was terrified that we'd end up having a boy and I'd name him Elvis Irp Reid

 

[imabrat]

Love that movie.

LOL I thought that when I first saw it too!

Names that mean food:
Lasonja (an Italian specialty)

Really?
My heritage is Spanish, more specifically Catalan. Whenever we speak Catalan, every girl has a "La" in front of her name. Thus, my name, when someone refers to me, is "La Sonya/Sonia/Sonja". Just thought it was a weird coincidence.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I actually like the old fashioned names trend. Miriam is a beautiful name.

I'm sure people will think I'm a nutcase because I plan on naming my children after literary characters provided my husband is okay with it. I've always said I want my first daughter to be Ananda, a name I read in a Swiftly Tilting Planet (fourth book chronologically in the Wrinkle In Time series).

 

[Fintastic]

Kre8tiv spelling annoys me.

 

[jewjubean]

Gosh I work in a restaurant doing togo orders and you wouldnt believe the crazy names I've seen.
La' Precious
Surge
Mercedes
and the best for last there's a kid I graduated with-Starbucks-He's a pretty cool kid too.

 

[ToddyLu]

My real name is Lucretia...most people think I am African American based on that name and think it is funny when they find out I am a 40 year old blonde white woman. I have grown to love my family name (great grandmother was Lucretia Fredonia Willoughby Meeks). Thank goodness Mama and Daddy didn't go there.

My favorite all time weird funny name is --Formica Dinette

There was a student last year in my clinic named Candida--like the yeast rash--we were in a wound care clinic. It was hard to keep a straight face but with a name like Lucretia, who am I to judge?

 

[Buckalew11]

My 15yo DD is Hunter. She has always loved her name. I gave her a pretty, feminine middle name just in case but she likes her name. After 15 yrs., I have learned people either love it or hate it. Except my MIL. When we told her the name, she about had a stroke! She said, "Maybe you'll change your mind." However, when Hunter was a toddler she said, "I was so leery of her name but now I can't imagine her being anything other name."

My sister sees a lot of the apostrophes all over names right now. I think I hate the untraditional spellings the most. I have a hard time deciphering them!

My sister's weirdest was Orangejello. (Or an gelo) True story, I swear. I have told it here at least 10 times but 'tis true.

 

[mybestieismickey]

I went with extra letters, mostly because I hate that people now assume that you have extra letters. I swear, when I go to restaurants or anywhere else that they ask for a name they write down Aimee. Are all those letters necessary. It's just Amy. Plus it will save you time and ink!

I'm also not a fan of strange names, just for the professional factor. I don't know that I would hire a lawyer with a name like Orangejello.

My mom taught adult school for years and literally had to talk a pregnant student out of naming their kid Myecstasy . Don't know what she finally decided on, but I don't think it could have been worse...

 

[MoniqueU]

Where is the ebonics choice? There is a little girl on an amber alert right now and I read the name but have no clue how to say it. Her last name is buchannen but the first and middle names are so weird and off the wall you can't make sense of them.

 

[Mommy2Jameson]

I'm a NICU RN, so over the years, I've seen a lot of "original" and "creative" names. These are some of the highlights:

Also, way too many Miracles and Nevaeh's (Nevaeh is heaven spelled backwards...we get at least one a month). Ugh.

I'm a NICU nurse too, so I HEAR ya on the to many Miracles! Seriously, I get that your baby is a miracle, but do you really need to name them that?!?! LOL
The one that we have currently is Myracle (pronounced Miracle) but she wanted her to be different! WHAT?

The best one ever though was KID YOU NOT Imapreciseangle! "I'm a Precious Angel!" Get it? I wish I was lying, but I'm not! LOL

We also had a Sparkle last month. How sweet is that?

 

[NHdisneylover]

I picked all the options which equate to spelling the names in odd ways. It seems parents are often up in arms when someone can't pronounce or spell a child's name on the first time after giving them a different spelling

My least favorite is not up there. I don't know what it's called but someone I know has two little dots above the o in her name.

It confuses my little brain.

That is called an umlaut. It is a common symbol in some languages (including German) and denotes a different pronunciation than the letter would otherwise have. I haven't seen the umlaut used for Olivia here in Germany though

I also HATE it when people don't give twins TWIN names!! That trend kind of bugs me.

So had my children been twins I shouldn't have given them the names I liked and had picked out long ago (gosh I said if I had a boy I would name him Rio years before I had my son) because twins have to have cutesy matching names? I see nothing wrong with "twin names" so long as they are still good as stand alone names, but I can't imagine thinking someone has to use them. Maybe they just like other names. or maybe they do not want their children to feel that their identities must always be totally intwined.

I'm sure people will think I'm a nutcase because I plan on naming my children after literary characters provided my husband is okay with it. I've always said I want my first daughter to be Ananda, a name I read in a Swiftly Tilting Planet (fourth book chronologically in the Wrinkle In Time series).

I don't think you're a nutcase at all. A Wrinkle in Time is a great book I have a literary name and have always liked it. Hadley was the name of Ernest Hemmingway's first wife (my dad is a big Hemmingway fan). He wrote a lot about her and dedicated books to her later in his life (he "wished he had never loved another"--he was a complete jerk to her by the way but she was a pretty cool lady). My middle name is Nicole. My mom took that from the main character in Tender is the Night which was her favourite book she read in high school. I find it odd my mom chose to name me for a charcter who was insane (based heavily on Fitzgerald's real life wife Zelda), but Mom was only 19 when I was born and thought she would name me after someone "beautiful." Anyway, I love books and reading so I love my literary names

ETA - My Joey and my Danny have been the ONLY Joey's and Danny's in their classes since they started school!! Names like Joe and Dan are now becoming 'rare'. It's weird.

The year I taught kindergarten (1994) we had five Dannys out of 24 kids We also just moved out of a house that had 15 year old Dannys living on either side of us (and we rented to a 24 year old named Joe and one of the Danny's older brothers was also named Joey). I know, and have met, tons of Dannys and Joes in the 13-30 year old age bracket. It does seem to be tapering off now though. I guess you just happen to be where there aren't too many others in your town--lucky you (I guess, maye they want kids with the same names--my cousin always loved being one of "The Jasons"--4 in his class from K to 12)

 

[tndisneyfan]

I'm a NICU RN, so over the years, I've seen a lot of "original" and "creative" names. These are some of the highlights:




-The absolute worst....Placenta, for a preemie girl

.

OK please tell me this is a joke. Please.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Where's the choice for "trendy" or something similar? I can't stand the genderless names...Jordan, etc. BTW, the lady next door to us when we grew up was Mrs. Jordan.

 

[Ohiodislover]

I didnt vote because both my girls have names that fit into one or more options but they are not out there like some. They are Makenzie and Jordyn!

I didn't vote either. I have a Madylin, and a Sophie. So I hit the y instead of i, and the nickname. Oh the horror.

I'm with the "why does it matter to me" camp. I think some names are horrible, and other people thought Madylin was a terrible name to give a baby--They even told me so--Oh well

 

[Buckalew11]

I ahve a literary name and have always liked it. Hadley was the name of Ernest Hemmingway's first wife (my dad is a bog Hemmingway fan).

I absolutely love the name Hadley. If I had tried for another baby and gotten a girl, her name most likely would have been Hadley. Your name is beautiful!

 

[Cindy B]

Heres one I hate: (using the same daddy name over and over in different variations)

In my old school I had students in various grades

Four kids:

Jamez
Ja'mes
Jam'ez
Semaj

Yes, the babby daddy was named James.. the Semaj drove me batty!

 

[maznorm]

Mercedes is a real name (Mr Benz and his business partner named the car after the business partner's daughter and Mr Benz's last name). It is also my favourite name (I'm still angry at my husband for talking me out of using it for my daughter), so I may be a little biased about it.

I really dislike boring unimaginative names, like Thomas. Sorry if that is anyone's name on here. It's nothing personal it's just not what I would choose for my child. My husband's name is Michael and his sister's name is Michelle, how hard would it have been to come up with 2 names rather than just use the same one twice. It wouldn't be so bad but their Dad's name is Michael as well, so they didn't even think that hard for the one name they used.

I do think that some people take it too far. I wanted my children's name to be unusual without being ridiculous. My own name falls under this catagory too....Marie-Claire.

For the record my DS name is Phoenix and DD is Seren.