I was watching Teen Mom and saw this gem

whitsy

They have a chat thing on the right hand side when you watch episodes online (DON'T JUDGE ME!), and I was like whoa. How weird when we were just discussing that name yesterday. Is this a new trend?

whitsy

DANGIT.

My picture isn't showing up

It was a chat thing where these girls were saying their baby's names, and one girl said her baby boy's name was Aryan.

MyUserName1

...of course.

And did the OP of that thread ever decide on a plan of attack?

chelseamb11

I know an Aaryan (pronounced ahr-ee-ahn).  His family is also from India.  I don't think it's that bad though because the spelling and pronunciation are different.

But yeah, I do side-eye anyone who wants to name their child Aryan.

whitsy

My page is alllll messed up. I'm seeing a ton of crazy wingdings on the right.

MyUserName1

God, I hope so, Edie.

And Whit, I've got it to.  Tons of random junky characters. 

chelseamb11

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[QUOTE]My page is alllll messed up. I'm seeing a ton of crazy wingdings on the right.
Posted by whitsy[/QUOTE]

me too. if you try to go to tk.com it just takes you to that green update page. so they must be doing updates.

Kate61487

me too with the wingdings

ErinG93

My cousin has a daughter named  A'Reian. Pronounced R-ee-awn. The Aryan thing is pretty uh, interesting...

MyUserName1

I hate apostrophes in children's names.  I used to work in an elementary school where approximately 40% of the kids names had random silent consonants or apostrophes.

Gabrielle76

I'm seeing the crazy gibberish too. 

Also  When the eff did Teen Mom start again? I'm up through season 3, is there more now?

whitsy

I don't get apostrophes. Don't people know that if you put an apostrophe in there, you're signaling a letter was removed? It's just so random and another crazy attempt for parents to have unique names.

MyUserName1

Well, generally yes, but there's plenty of very common names that are verbs or nouns...

John.

Rose.

June. 

Jasper.

Bill, etc.

But in SPIRIT, I agree with you (:

MyUserName1

Whit, honestly, I don't know that they DO realize that, unfortunately.

whitsy

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[QUOTE]I'm seeing the crazy gibberish too.  Also  When the eff did Teen Mom start again? I'm up through season 3, is there more now?
Posted by Gabrielle76[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure what season it is, here's what I've been catching up on:

<a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/teen_mom_2/season_2/series.jhtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.mtv.com/shows/teen_mom_2/season_2/series.jhtml</a>

MyUserName1

I know someone who named their kid Journey, except they spelled it Jurnee.  ugh.

chelseamb11

We have some family friends that named their daughter Je T'aime (which is I Love You in French)...  They call her Temmy for short, but still...

Kate61487

I was looking at baby names last night (just indulging the baby fever a little, haha)  and I honestly don't know how anyone ever names a child.  It's so freaking hard!!

It doesn't help that, on principle, I won't re-use a name that is a current, living relative.  At least not someone we're close to and see often.  As it is we have a sophie, sophia, and sofia between our families.  I don't like repeats; it gets confusing....

MyUserName1

Yeah, I like names that are uncommon but not "unusual"

I only once knew another girl with my name, but it's not a weird name, just not popular.  I like that.

FI's family has at least two of each male name.  But it becomes things like "John" and "Johnny" or "Bill" and "Little Bill" and no one is usually too confused

Kate61487

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[QUOTE]Yeah, I like names that are uncommon but not "unusual" I only once knew another girl with my name, but it's not a weird name, just not popular.  I like that. FI's family has at least two of each male name.  But it becomes things like "John" and "Johnny" or "Bill" and "Little Bill" and no one is usually too confused
Posted by MyUserName1[/QUOTE]

Yeah Sophia is on my side; H's side has Sophie and Sofia so I guess technically they're different because of the a so it's really only difficult for us, haha.  It doesn't help that Sophia and Sophie are only a few months apart in age and were both flower girls in our wedding; so sometimes I switch them accidentally...

whitsy

I'm not having kids, but if I did, I'd name them something stupidly simple like Bob.

Wait, not Bob. Because if you know my last name, that would not be good. Maybe Joe.

Gabrielle76

I am annoyed that I spent my whole winter break watching Law and Order reruns when there were Teen Mom's. 

As for names, has anyone else been seeing really contrived , and I mean really contrived versions of common names? My checkout lady at the grocery store last week was named "Meyghann" pronounced "Megan".

Kate61487

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[QUOTE]I am annoyed that I spent my whole winter break watching Law and Order reruns when there were Teen Mom's.  As for names, has anyone else been seeing really contrived , and I mean really contrived versions of common names? My checkout lady at the grocery store last week was named "Meyghann" pronounced "Megan".
Posted by Gabrielle76[/QUOTE]

I've seen loads of those; and I can't imagine how obnoxious it would be to grow up with that.  As it was I have spent my whole life spelling my first name because there are several normal spellings and that was annoying enough without it being totally out of left field.

jemmini6

Did you guys see that post on C&T last week where the girl wanted to change the spelling of her first name to be more uneek?  I'm not sure if the way she had it spelled in her username was how it is already, or what she wanted to change it to, but either way it was dumb...Kymburleigh. 

Uneek spellings of normal names are one of my biggest annoyances as far as kid's names go.  Ugh...

kinsey0628

I am also passionately annoyed w/ "misspelled" names.. it's just so ANNOYING.. not cute or different or fun, just ANNOYING.  I know an Emilee... awkward.

I really hope we get an update on "aryan"  The crazy thing about that, to me at least, is that it DOES totally sound like it could be a popular name... it's right up the alley SOUND-wise with all the Jayden, Hayden, Cayden, Braden, Aria... and all those sounds... so in that sense, the parents were just going w/ that trend... I hope.

This is DEFINITELY a case where someone needs to point out to them what it REALLY means... that's even the same spelling.. I had to google it to be sure... YIKES.

[Deleted User]

Haha, I won't be naming my future kids anything that a current family member has. It's bad enough that my sister and my cousin (only 6 mos apart in age!) are named Elizabeth. Though that's a function of my mom & aunt loving the same name.

Mine is less common among people my age. It was something like the 2nd most popular baby name for girls.... in 1923.

And I definitely think you can have an uncommon name without having a stupid name. I used to work with a little girl named Princess. THAT was stupid, I'm sorry. She's a child, not a dog.

alynne1113

Urgh I have a friend who named her kid Journey, another fb friend named his kid Tretcherous and call him Tretch awwwfulll...

kinsey0628

I want to bring back Barbara, Linda, Kathy, Carol... all my mom's friends' names.

morenachica110

I bet I can't beat you guys. The maintenance guy at my job just had a baby with his wife. What did they name her?

Pepsi. No shiit. It was going to be Pepsi Cola, but they went with a family name for the middle name.

Weiiiiiird.

Gabrielle76

Pepsi?!?!?!?!?! 

Did they get her playskool's MyFirstStripperPole? Because that could really give her a head start. 

Rockerchick842

H's niece is named Aryan. No special pronunciation or spelling, straight-up Aryan. Needless to say, we don't really like her parents.