Which naming trend is your least favorite?

[resol37]

I like different, but not unrecognizable names. My cousin's kids are Alexa Rae (named after our Uncle Ray who died in 1998) and Connor William. Another cousin just had a son named Cade, but I'm not sure where they got that from.

I do like the name James for a girl, though. Mostly I just adore the name James and would like to be able to use it regardless of the gender of any future progeny. I also like Liv, Sophie (though, that's my cat's name so probably won't be used), and Lucy.

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

 

[Colleen27]

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.

As others have said, it is Irish. Gaelic pronunciations are nothing like English. To me, there is a big difference between looking to one's heritage to choose a name, even if it does result in a difficult to spell traditional name, and just tossing a bunch of letters into a commonly accepted name for the sake of making it different.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

It's Irish, not English. It's a traditional spelling of an old name.

I know it's Irish. In English, that would not be the spelling of the pronunciation of Shi-von. It's the point I'm trying to make. People get upset because people in English can't spell or pronounce Siobhan or Saorse or other Gaelic names and they wonder why. Because the pronuciation of those names are not the English spelling. Yet those same people get upset when other people name their children something like Daaiishmiy.

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!

At least you recognized that most people in the US would have some sort of problem with it.



I really don't care if someone uses the original or old fashioned spellings of names. Just realize that some people might have problems with them. Especially some of the Gaelic names.

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.

It's may be the "correct" spelling of the name, but in English, it's the the phoenetic spelling. No one who doesn't know Gaelic or is not familiar with Gaelic would be able to get Shi-von out of Siobhan.

So, some people liking the name may use a more phoenetic spelling of it.
No different than if Daaiishmiy were the "correct" spelling of Daisy and US people changed it to Daisy instead.

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.

Yeah. I also know to pronounce Sean as Shawn. It's actually a quite common spelling. But I have known people who pronounced it wrong. Again, it's really not a phoenetic English spelling.

btw: I went to HS with a Seanna (shaw-na). I loved her name. But did hear some people try to pronouce it as sienna.

As others have said, it is Irish. Gaelic pronunciations are nothing like English. To me, there is a big difference between looking to one's heritage to choose a name, even if it does result in a difficult to spell traditional name, and just tossing a bunch of letters into a commonly accepted name for the sake of making it different.

As stated. I know it's Gaelic. But understand that people who don't know Gaelic would have no idea how to spell and pronounce many Gaelic names.

So to those that don't know Gaelic, they would think that those spellings are wrong and that someone tossed in a bunch of random or wrong letters.

 

[OK!]

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

And a little prophetic-sounding now, after her tragic accident. Poor little thing.

 

[robinb]

It's may be the "correct" spelling of the name, but in English, it's the the phoenetic spelling. No one who doesn't know Gaelic or is not familiar with Gaelic would be able to get Shi-von out of Siobhan.

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?

 

[dogluva]

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.

I, personally, don't like location names, no offense. But hey, if you can call my son's name "boring" well then. I also don't like your daughter's name (again, no offense). Is it even legit? Too me, It sounds like a poison or a number. If I read it, I wouldn't know what gender she was. It also sounds like you made it up.

My Thomas is far from boring. When I think of someone with his name, I think of handsome, strong and smart. He is all of these things and so was my father who he isnamed after.

By the way, I love Marie-Claire. I find it beautiful and anything but ridiculous.
Your mother has good naming tastes, it must not be a genetic trait.

 

[Freyja]

I, personally, don't like location names, no offense. But hey, if you can call my son's name "boring" well then. I also don't like your daughter's name (again, no offense). Is it even legit? Too me, It sounds like a poison or a number. If I read it, I wouldn't know what gender she was. It also sounds like you made it up.
My Thomas is far from boring. When I think of someone with his name, I think of handsome, strong and smart. He is all of these things and so was my father who he isnamed after.

By the way, I love Marie-Claire. I find it beautiful and anything but ridiculous.
Your mother has good naming tastes, it must not be a genetic trait.

 

[Ember]

As others have said, it is Irish. Gaelic pronunciations are nothing like English. To me, there is a big difference between looking to one's heritage to choose a name, even if it does result in a difficult to spell traditional name, and just tossing a bunch of letters into a commonly accepted name for the sake of making it different.

Oh dear, I didn't mean to start something.

I actually quite like the sound of the name "Siobhan." I'm just really tired of the hundreds of ways of spelling it. It seems every class I'm in has a new and different way of spelling this name.

Having thought about it, I also don't care for "cute" names. Such as "Precious" or "Sweetie." (Yes, I've met children when these names.) I'm not sure if a name can create limitations in a life, but I know I have yet to meet a successful professional named "Precious."

 

[imabrat]

I also don't like your daughter's name (again, no offense). Is it even legit? Too me, It sounds like a poison or a number. If I read it, I wouldn't know what gender she was. It also sounds like you made it up.

By the way, I love Marie-Claire. I find it beautiful and anything but ridiculous.
Your mother has good naming tastes, it must not be a genetic trait.

Surely I can't be the only one who finds this absolutely rude?

Just so you know, Seren is Welsh and it means Star. Yes, it is a female name. You can look it up on several baby name websites.

 

[imabrat]

My opinion on the naming thing:

I'm not really a fan of Gaelic names, they're too hard for me to pronounce. One of my closest friends' family is from Ireland. They have everything for Siobhan to Seamus to James. When I first read Siobhan I read it as "si-ob-han". Seamus was "sea-mus". I know of an Eownn, my surprise it was pronounced "owen".

I don't like matchy matchy twin names.

I like old-fashioned names without being too old lady-ish. I would name my daughter Matilda, but I'm not naming her Mable.

 

[robinb]

I, personally, don't like location names, no offense. But hey, if you can call my son's name "boring" well then. I also don't like your daughter's name (again, no offense). Is it even legit? Too me, It sounds like a poison or a number. If I read it, I wouldn't know what gender she was. It also sounds like you made it up.

I had to look "Seren" up. It was the 8th most popular girl's name in Wales in 2008:
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=13670

I had never heard of that name before but it did remind me originally of sarin gas which was used in the Tokyo subway bombing. Sorry maznorm . I'm sure you didn't mean to pick a homophone of a deadly poison for your DD's name. FWIW, I think it's a nice name after I get over my initial reaction.

 

[Freyja]

Surely I can't be the only one who finds this absolutely rude?

Just so you know, Seren is Welsh and it means Star. Yes, it is a female name. You can look it up on several baby name websites.

No, not the only one at all. Extremely rude in my opinion. Sounds very bitter too!

 

[bound2travel]

I have one of the "strange" names but that truly is Mom's fault . My Mom named me after her sister's daughter (13 years older than me). My Aunt had lost a full term baby girl six months before I was born. Since Mom didn't want to put "your Christie" or "my Christie" when she wrote her sister, she spelled my name differently - KRISTI. No one EVER thinks to spell it that way (minimum of 9 ways to spell it). But as one pp mentioned, Mom and I never got upset when someone mispelled it. Unless you are writing me a check or a legal document, I don't care how you spell it.

In fact, my Dad would often mispell it and one of my brothers recently sent me a flip flop keychain with my name mispelled on it. I don't care - its the thought that counted.

I will laugh as some names but not to your face. The most I ask is that the way it is spelled at least "flows" with the way you pronounce it. There was a student in one of my schools whose name was pronounced "ava-ryan". To this day, I can't remember how he spelled it as it was about 11 letter long and didn't start with an "a" or an "e". Also, a friend taught a young man by the name of Stirling Character.

Kristi

 

[dogluva]

Surely I can't be the only one who finds this absolutely rude?

Just so you know, Seren is Welsh and it means Star. Yes, it is a female name. You can look it up on several baby name websites.

My mother was born and raised in Northern Wales. She speaks Welsh. I have visted Wales numerous times and never met a Seren. I asked my mother about the name, she never met one either or heard of it.

I think it is also rude to call Thomas boring. I am sure there are many on this board with this name in their families.

 

[dogluva]

I had to look "Seren" up. It was the 8th most popular girl's name in Wales in 2008:
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=13670

I had never heard of that name before but it did remind me originally of sarin gas which was used in the Tokyo subway bombing. Sorry maznorm . I'm sure you didn't mean to pick a homophone of a deadly poison for your DD's name. FWIW, I think it's a nice name after I get over my initial reaction.

Thomas is higher up. I guess I am not the only one in my mother's country who think it is boring. SOrry, I am very defensive of my child's name (and my brother and father).

 

[Freyja]

My mother was born and raised in Northern Wales. She speaks Welsh. I have visted Wales numerous times and never met a Seren. I asked my mother about the name, she never met one either or heard of it.

I think it is also rude to call Thomas boring. I am sure there are many on this board with this name in their families.

IMO there´s a big difference between saying you think a very common name is boring, and not directing this statement to anyone in particular, and then telling someone that their child's name (specifically) sounds like a poison and that you doubt it´s even legit!

Not to mention the comment on how the good naming taste must not be genetic

 

[jrmasm]

but it did remind me originally of sarin gas which was used in the Tokyo subway bombing.

Me too.

 

[Freyja]

Me too.

But why does that matters, as long as it isn´t the exact name? Lots of names remind me of strange things. I am a firm believer that every parent chooses a name for their child which they like for one reason or another. As long as it isn´t your child, why do you care?

 

[jrmasm]

But why does that matters, as long as it isn´t the exact name? Lots of names remind me of strange things. I am a firm believer that every parent chooses a name for their child which they like for one reason or another. As long as it isn´t your child, why do you care?

Did you read the name of the tread?

 

[Freyja]

Did you read the name of the tread?

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