Which naming trend is your least favorite?

[HelenePA]

All starting with the same letters. My friend has 3 sons and I often mess up the names..

I mess up all the time and they are my kids all with the same letter.. Yes stupid trend we started but now I couldn't picture naming them anything else. Okay maybe Anthony.. I found a new name for him today but I'm not allowed to change it..

 

[justjudy]

I used to teach kindergarten, and the little girls who had traditional boys' names really wanted to have "girl names". My sister's students have included "Mona Lisa" and a name pronounced Fe-ma-lee......get it? The child's name was "Female". Her mother read the bracelet on her newborn's wrist and thought the hospital had named her child for her

My mother was a librarian in an elementary school and had the same thing -- only they pronounced it Fe-mahl-yah. Maybe they added an apostrophe to it!

 

[Sinderelli]

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.

My aunt's name is Mercedes- pronounced MER-ce-des. Her granddaughter was named after her, with the nickname Sadie. I love it!

The name "Mercedes" is very popular in Spanish speaking cultures. When pronounced with an accent, it sounds nothing like the car

 

[OK!]

I also always liked the name Ananda. However, I could never name my children that. I just keep hearing that line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "The dog?! You are named after the dog?"

It is a pretty name, but my first thought would be that someone had made a typo and the girl's name was actually Amanda. That could just be me, though.

 

[Bluestars]

I don't really mind common names, unusual names, or unique names. It's the spelling that annoys me. I have no idea why anyone would intentionally spell a name in such a way that nobody will spell it correctly.

I can understand how some names have several different ways to spell them, but I am talking about the intentional misspelling of a name. Annoying.

 

[ShootingStarMom2]

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[MelanieC]

I voted none bother me - Why should I care what someone else names their kid.

 

[christineann]

Mike Tyson's little girl (may she rest in peace) was named Exodus. I find that to be a very unusual name.

There was an email floating around a few years ago that was a link to the actual Rivals recruiting board (football). Florida State listed a recruit named "Yourhighness ________".

 

[Colleen27]

Well we've had lots of q's about his middle name, Marshall. It was my grandfather's middle name which he went by instead of his first name (Carl). A ton of people have asked us if we named him after Marhsall Mathers. For real? No, we didn't.

We have a Cameron on the way. A lot of people have asked us if we really like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. We do, but that's not why we picked it. It is the name we liked for boy or girl so we would just have changed the middle name.

People come up with the dumbest questions about names, don't they? I've actually had people ask me with a straight face if I named my oldest after Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, and more than one person has asked if I named my youngest Katie (Katherine) after Kate from Lost (the inspiration was actually one of my favorite books - Gone With The Wind).

The nice part about my middle child is that I don't get those questions - no one can think of another Shanna that I might have named her after! There were a couple years when she was a preschooler, though, that she thought the Shanna Show on the Disney Channel was just for her!

 

[Inigo]

Hmm.

Well, if someone came up to me and said, my name is "Shi-von", I certainly wouldn't know to spell it Siobhan. How on earth did anyone get that pronunciation out of that spelling?
It screams to me that someone just made up the name and said this is how you spell it. It's really not much different to me than trying to spelli Daisy as Daaiishmiy.

If someone wanted to me spell that name, I'd be pronouncing it as Si-o-ban. .

Siobhan is Gaelic, or Irish.

It was one of the options for our DD (we both have Irish in our family histories), but we figured few people would know the proper pronunciation, so we switched to Sara Emily. And we still have to correct people who cannot spell either name!

 

[Sparx]

i hate:
extra letters
made up names
weird spellings for "uniqueness"
painfully popular names (matthew, ashley)
names starting with "C" and "K" (keri, carrie, carry, carrey, karrey, cathy, kathy, cathrine, katherine, caitlin, caitlyn, katelyn, etc!!) i only hate this one because its SO annoying trying to spell it when someone says the name, and i'm sure that if your name is katherine, you've had to spell it a million times. why put a kid through that.

 

[Fintastic]

Uggg, I hate that one too, mainly because Siobhan is (traditionally) a beautiful Irish name that I'd have loved to use for one of my kids but has become a ghetto fad with a million different spellings that I wouldn't dream of using for that reason alone. And I HATE all the phonetic spellings. They just scream "too ignorant/uneducated to learn the proper spelling" to me.

Same here. "Siobhan" is the correct way to spell it. It's a pretty Irish name that's been ruined by people who don't know how to spell it.

Extra letters really annoy me too. My little sister is Rebeca, with one 'C' because honestly, what purpose does that extra 'C' serve?

A phoenetic one.

 

[FarAway<3]

Extra letters and apostrophes.

I've also know people with names such as Unique (or U'Nique), Heaven, and Princess. I hate those names more than anything.

 

[blissventure]

Same here. "Siobhan" is the correct way to spell it. It's a pretty Irish name that's been ruined by people who don't know how to spell it.

Absolutely true. And along the Irish lines, I have a neighbor that named her son Sean. She has had to just get past cringing when his name is called out, "SEEN". Ugh.

 

[Shelton123]

Same here. "Siobhan" is the correct way to spell it. It's a pretty Irish name that's been ruined by people who don't know how to spell it.

A phoenetic one.

Siobhan is my favorite name ever. Sha-von is how it's pronounced.

You know what I hate? EVERYBODY ON THE DISCOTHEQUE
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strange Stereo Total reference not recognized by anyone. Probably.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Absolutely true. And along the Irish lines, I have a neighbor that named her son Sean. She has had to just get past cringing when his name is called out, "SEEN". Ugh.

Seriously? I see Sean spelled that way many many times. I would never consider pronouncing it "seen".

 

[blissventure]

Seriously? I see Sean spelled that way many many times. I would never consider pronouncing it "seen".

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.

 

[ArelysAdriana]

This is the special ed teacher in me talking (Anyone who has experience with Wilson reading or a similar program will understand this response

There are six types of syllables in the English language, including open and closed syllables. When dividing up Rebeca into syllables it would look like this: Re be ca. The first e is a schwa (uh sound) which happens on unstressed open syllables. The second e would be pronounced the long way (ee) because it is an open syllable and bears the stress, and the last syllable is also a schwa since it is unstressed.

The second c serves as a buffer letter, closing in that syllable so that the e says "eh". So it would look like this: Re bec ca. (When dividing syllables you divide between two consonants unless they are digraphs).

So in the case of a name like Rebecca, the second c does serve a purpose, it's not just there for decoration.

A phoenetic one.

Thanks for the English lesson

I probably should have mentioned the one 'C' is the Spanish way of spelling it.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Thanks for the English lesson

I probably should have mentioned the one 'C' is the Spanish way of spelling it.

No need to roll your eyes. Didn't realize that Rebeca was a Spanish name. You said you didn't know what the purpose of the second C was, we responded assuming you meant the English name Rebecca. Sorry for trying to be helpful.

 

[NHdisneylover]

People come up with the dumbest questions about names, don't they? I've actually had people ask me with a straight face if I named my oldest after Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, and more than one person has asked if I named my youngest Katie (Katherine) after Kate from Lost (the inspiration was actually one of my favorite books - Gone With The Wind).

The nice part about my middle child is that I don't get those questions - no one can think of another Shanna that I might have named her after! There were a couple years when she was a preschooler, though, that she thought the Shanna Show on the Disney Channel was just for her!

People always seem to want a name to have a reason behind it don't they?
DS is Rio. We have gotten repeatedly asked two questions:
1. Do we love Duran Duran and did we name him for the song (uh, no--he does love the song about "him" though--but he gets it is really about the city thus "HER name is Rio")
2. Did we name him for River Phoenix (becuase Rio is the Spanish word for river of course).
We just happen to like the name. That seems to be too much for some people