When did...

punkyb2b

Aiden become a girl's name?   Isn't enough that every other boy is named Aidan or Aedan or Aaden etc?

ootmother2

after it was Aydenlol, no clue with these oddball names

MissSarah786

Oh! Guess this name. Ka'Lien Go ahead, try it. How would you pronounce that name? The spelling Aaden for a girl is something I've seen twice.

bbyckes

Sarah,  Kay-Lee-Ann?

MissSarah786

No, but I didn't think of that one. My initial thought was Kayleen or Kaylin. Clue, the Ka sounds like "caw"

tlv204

Please tell me it's Caroline.  Like cawline.

kate51485

I will spit if somebody spelled Colleen like that. Please tell me that's not it.

bbyckes

Please don't tell me it's Collen.

bbyckes

I mean Colleen.

MissSarah786

My sister thought it was Collen, but it's not. It's pronounced Collin. Ka'Lien = Collin Give me a break.

bbyckes

That doesn't even make any sense - at all.

bharnett

lol, thanks MissSarah, you gave me a good chuckle

baby green bird

weird names. i don't get the weird spellings.

kate51485

I absolutely cannot stand the gratuitous use of apostrophes and accents in names. Especially when they use an apostrophe but what they really should have is an accent -- but they're too dumb to know what an accent is. Maybe this is because I have a degree in French, but I just think it makes you look ignorant.

bharnett

I named my first cousin She-ra (yeah, after the princess warrior). What did they expect? Ask a 6 year old, get a 6 year old answer. Said cousin (now 21) has now legally changed her name to Sarah. Ha.

NotNumbers

Seriously, some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

thesuninherhead

bharnett, they actually took your advice in legally naming her She-ra?! holy hell.

bharnett

LOL yeah...hyphen and all. People never really got the reference and just called her Shera (pronounced Sheara). However, my aunt's friend was also on the naming your kid after cartoon characters and named her first born son He-man. Ha.

thesuninherhead

Oh God. Please don't let my H read this. He is still insistent that we should name a son Voltron.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I don't mind "male" names on girls, but I do mind my kid having the same name as 24 other people in their class. Especially if it's trendy (Aaden/Aidyn/whatever) and not classic (Elizabeth/Sarah/John/Michael).

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Oh! My ex-coworker named her son Vegas. His father insisted on it.Of course, her name was Mistie.

kate51485

Why were they asking a 6 year old to name a baby? One of my ex boyfriends was from the Philippines and he had an aunt named Cherry Pie. Seriously.

bbyckes

I think He-Man takes the cake.  That is just irresponsible.

MissSarah786

Sun- Tim wants to name our first son Maverick. Yeah, that kid's not going to grow up to be a douche.

bharnett

Kate -- I was a persuasive 6 year old. LOL. No, my aunt & I were really close way back when. She took care of me when my folks were at work. Guess she thought it sounded cool. )

punkyb2b

Correct me if I;m worng, but isn't it illegal in France to name your kid whatever you want?  I remember a lawsuit a family filed because they wanted to name their kid Chance (which means lucky).  the court said no, it wasnt an appropriate name.I wish the States did that.  We wouldnt have professional adults named Un'iqu'e or Chardonnay and trying to be credible.  I mean honestly, its not cute.disclaimer- if you are from a different country but live here, odd names to the American ears are fine. I had a patient from Asia who's parents named Ray.  I called him Way for a good 10 minutes before I saw his name written.  If you want to name your kid a western name, try one you can pronounce.

thesuninherhead

I don't know about the US, but here names can be vetoed when they're registered to the office of births. it's very, very rare they won't be approved, but if they contain offensive language they do get declined.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Correct me if I;m worng, but isn't it illegal in France to name your kid whatever you want? I know Sweden did that when someone wanted to name their kid Metallica or something. I agree. There should be a panel who tells parents when they're being idiots.Sun - that surprises me, only because AU seems so baby-centric. Don't they pay people $5,000 for having a kid?

thesuninherhead

There's a 'baby bonus' which is essentially a payment towards the baby/tax break for the baby. The reasons for this are economics, though, as the population here is not reproducing at a rate to replace all of the older people here, thus there's concerns about how we'll fare economically with less people to be producing capital. Personally, though, I wish they'd just allow more refugees and international adoption to solve this problem, but that is a matter for a different discussion. I'm not sure why one would take the government's encouragement for having children to mean that Australia would be willing let people name their children after swear words, though? I should also mention that when you look at the spend on children using government funds, it is actually quite minimal in Australia compared to many other developed countries. The baby bonus would really be better spent on parental leave schemes, infant health and early childhood education/support, IMO, in order to ensure that these kids have the best start to life, rather than giving their parents some money which can be spent on whatever the parent chooses.

katiewhompus

Dh wants to name a girl after a boy if we have one. I will slightly sway to a name such as Dani, or Toni, just because I've known some and always thought they had cool names. Then again I hated having "a boys" middle name with Rae (even though its the female spelling) so we'll see.We just had the Schmutzs enroll in our school, twin Schmutzs. In college I had a Barbie Spitz in my club as well.Is Aiden really that popular? I've only ever heard that name used in a scifi book and never in the real world.

SarahPLiz

I know a person who had a baby this week, and named him Nason G****, but they are going ot call him G**** 1- Why name him Nason if you will be calling him G****? (unless its a family name thing) 2- Evertime I hear it I think of Nasonex.. I have also run across grown women in my line of work named Excemcia (Exema?), Aquanita (aquanet?), and Torro. They all make me giggle, but then I feel bad for them because their parents saddled them with such unfortunate names.