Sorry if any of you are named Brooklyn. I have a somewhat unusual name so I can dig it. But really? One of the most popular baby names?
Maybe it's because I live in NJ, so Brookyn will always be a place and not a person to me. But I massively eye-roll this because it's like, "This borough is trendy! Let me name my kid after this geographical place and maybe she'll be trendy and cool, too!"
What baby names/ trends are you side-eyeing lately? (PS I'm also really tired of Mason. Makes me think of mason jars, and that's just never cool)
"I'm not a rude bitch. I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."
Re: Eye-rolling baby names
I also side eye Nevaeh, and other word spelled backwards names.
I also side eye Bubba, Jim Bob or any other regular name followed by a Bob, Lee or Lynn, Crystal (esp. with a K), Bambi, Candy (esp. with an i), North, Bella, and I'm sure there are others. What can I say, I'm a judgey bitch.
I'm the fuck out.
So I named my little gray cat Idris. Someone suggested I should name a human child that. No. Hell to the no.
Apple still remains stupid. North. Monroe and whatever Roc is short for. Blue Ivy. Moon Unit. A good 98% of gossip fuel fauxlebrity names.
IRL- the twins named Bella and Edward. That's just all kinds of wrong. I'm waiting for the 50 whack job names. Any name that's hipster misspelled or has random ass punctuation. I'm sorry, but Qw"xjuk-!lloinyh^qguizzn is not Sarah.
Live fast, die young. Bad Girls do it well. Suki Zuki.
Because, you know, Camden by itself isn't dumb enough.
'Here let me name my kid after a city in Jersey but jack up the spelling.'
I grew up in a fairly low income area, and heard many names like Laneaqua, Shaneaqua, Someotherform-neaqua, etc. and definitely side eyed those. Sorry if anyone has one of those names, but I never understood it, because it didn't seem unique if all of your friends' names ended the same way. There were also a lot of girls named Mercedes or Porsche...you really couldn't think of something better than your dream car to name your kid?
I'm the fuck out.
I'm the fuck out.
Dear parents, you are not helping your child with these spellings. You are though making everyone who ever comes across your childs names special spelling think that you, the parents, are freaking dumb.
Signed, the girl with teh misspelled name that every English teacher I ever had pointed out how and why it was spelled wrong.
I'm the fuck out.
I'm the fuck out.
Although I heard of someone around here who named her child after a character from Ren and Stimpy.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit that I'm a little bitter because (A) Grace Elizabeth has been my first choice for a baby name for years now and (B) FSIL is beating me to it because she seems to think that having a baby will be like getting a puppy or a new toy, and OMG she just HAD TO HAVE ONE as soon as she got married.
I also eye-roll any last name given as a first name, unless it's a family name.
I'm the fuck out.