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  • I don't like names that are too common but anything too far out there is a big no for me too. My least favorite name is probably Neveah. That is just terrible.
  • kat1114 said:
    I honestly don't know why I don't like it. Part of me thinks it's because I have a friend on FB that overshares about her daughter who happens to be named Aubrey.
    Audrey sounds nice, but not Aubrey.  To me it sounds made up (though I am not sure if it is a "real" name or not) and I also just think of Amber's daughter from Teen Mom.
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  • I guess I dislike super common names; there would always seem to be at least two Sarahs, Ashleys, and Emilys per class when I was a kid and I guess I don't get why anyone would want to name their kid a name that is so so common.  Also:
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  • doeydo said:
    Audrey sounds nice, but not Aubrey.  To me it sounds made up (though I am not sure if it is a "real" name or not) and I also just think of Amber's daughter from Teen Mom.

    It is a real name. I don't know any babies named Aubrey but I know tons of adults with the name. It's actually pretty common around here and has been for years.
  • I don't care for super common names, and am upset that Aiden is so popular because I loved that name at like 16.  Growing up I knew (not exaggerating) eight Matthews and several Jennifers, so super popular/common names are a no.

    Kreative spellings are the worst to me - Madyson, Jaxxon, whatever.  Congratulations, people will forever misspell your kid's name and it's probably going to be pretty annoying for them.  FI also has a long Polish -ski name, so any additional difficulty for the kid just seems cruel.

    I really dislike Rider/Ryder, or most names that are also just a word in the English language, but that's for a different reason:  My last name, which is of German derivation, is also a noun in English.  Fully grown adults STILL poke fun at it.  So, this is a PSA that if you give a kid a name that is also a word, there is a good possibility others will make comments on it for a really long time.  Just think of all the possibilities with Ryder.

    Also, my three initials likewise spell a noun (I have a vowel middle name).  I can't get things monogrammed because it would just look like a random word.  We use our initials at work too, so I get called by this word at work.  FI and I are trying to avoid vowel middle names because of the potential word factor.  Just something to think about. 
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  • I'm on board with hating super common names- anything in the top 10. Right now it's Emma, Sophia, Olivia, Madison and those all make me want to barf. I guess it's not the name itself, just the fact that it's SOO popular. I swear to God, I know 9 Emmas under the age of 4. 

    I can't stand names that are "southern". Sorry if that's offensive to anyone but I know some babies named Sawyer and Paisley and I just hate it because it screams country music awards and mason jars! 
    I always hated juniors- the kid should get his own fucking identity. 

                                                                     

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  • mrsdee15 said:
    I don't care for super common names, and am upset that Aiden is so popular because I loved that name at like 16.  Growing up I knew (not exaggerating) eight Matthews and several Jennifers, so super popular/common names are a no.

    Kreative spellings are the worst to me - Madyson, Jaxxon, whatever.  Congratulations, people will forever misspell your kid's name and it's probably going to be pretty annoying for them.  FI also has a long Polish -ski name, so any additional difficulty for the kid just seems cruel.

    I really dislike Rider/Ryder, or most names that are also just a word in the English language, but that's for a different reason:  My last name, which is of German derivation, is also a noun in English.  Fully grown adults STILL poke fun at it.  So, this is a PSA that if you give a kid a name that is also a word, there is a good possibility others will make comments on it for a really long time.  Just think of all the possibilities with Ryder.

    Also, my three initials likewise spell a noun (I have a vowel middle name).  I can't get things monogrammed because it would just look like a random word.  We use our initials at work too, so I get called by this word at work.  FI and I are trying to avoid vowel middle names because of the potential word factor.  Just something to think about. 
    My sister's and my mom's initials are / were MAD.  They love it.

    Growing up, there were 4 Kristen's in our grade.  And since we were all in Honors classes, we were often in the same class.  So we got used to it.  I spent K-12 with one of them.  She was Kristin E and I was Kristan D.  We often sat by each other when we were ordered alphabetically, which made things really fun.  At our 10 year reunion, we greeted each other as such because that's what we were called for so long.
  • My sister's and my mom's initials are / were MAD.  They love it.

    Growing up, there were 4 Kristen's in our grade.  And since we were all in Honors classes, we were often in the same class.  So we got used to it.  I spent K-12 with one of them.  She was Kristin E and I was Kristan D.  We often sat by each other when we were ordered alphabetically, which made things really fun.  At our 10 year reunion, we greeted each other as such because that's what we were called for so long.
    I love that.  If it's a word, at least it's a fun word.
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  • How do you even pronounce Nevaeh? It looks like 'Never' but saying AH instead of ER.
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  • I hate Kash/Kashton. Why are you naming your child money.
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  • edited January 2015
    I have a youneek spelling. ONE freaking letter in my full name is different from "normal spelling". My name has NEVER been spelled right. (Of course, I also shorten it to Cait, which is more youneek than my full name... so. There's that.)

    I won't be giving youneek spellings to my kids, BUT (this is awful, probably worse than youneek) I still to this day want to name potential kids after beaches on 30A - Alys Rebecca or Grayton William. They'd go by middles, because those are the normal ones. Grayton William would work the other way (William Grayton) but Rebecca Alys doesn't work as well.

    FI probably will not allow this. It's probably a good thing.

    I don't like the 80s names. Jennifer, Jessica, Britney/Brittany/Brittney. Sorry if you have one of those, but they just sound sooooo dateddddd to me.


    I have noticed that boys' names don't get the youneek treatment quite as often, at least not the classic ones. Jaxon can die in a hole though.

    Esstee that is the best gif ever.

    etf paragraphs. Don't know what's going on with the size. Draft was saved from my computer to mobile so I'll blame the phone.
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  • What's wrong with Clara and Milo?
    Sorry, I was gone for a while. There was a cow named Clara in a book I had when I was a kid, so it will always remind me of a cow. There was a movie I was obsessed with as a kid with a dog named Milo plus I dated a guy who had a dog named Milo, so that name will always remind me of a dog. A cow and a dog.

    Probably also doesn't help that the mother of Clara is an unbearable, constantly angry, mega bitch and has been mean to me my entire life. I think I'd hate any name of anything she chose. Just my own weird thing.
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  • @hellosweetie1015 IDK -- I found this one earlier and I'm pretty excited about it: 

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  • amelisha said:
    But now instead of Sarah/Ashley/Emily (my classmates were Heather/Jessica/Jennifer), a few years ago they were all Madison and McKenzie and now they're all Olivia/Charlotte/Lucy. Girls' names are super susceptible to trends, so what was common in your childhood isn't common at all for kids now. My name, for example, was in the top ten for years when I was little and now it's barely used at all. Or in my mom's generation, everyone was Sandy and Susan and Brenda and those are very uncommon now.
    Yeah this is really true- a lot of the names that people are listing as so overwhelmingly common actually don't seem that way to me since I think they had phased out slightly by my childhood (I'm 23 so I'm figuring I'm probably a bit younger than most- I'm talking about the Ashleys and Sarahs and Jessicas- I really only ever knew two people at most with these names).  A lot of people on here have mentioned liking Charlotte which I LOVE but is definitely going to be one of the ones 20 years from now that people are like "That name is SO common, why would anyone ever choose it?"

    I guess the way I look at it I see a big difference between popular/trendy and traditional, though sometimes it can be a fine line with certain names.  I'm sure everyone mostly tries to walk the line between popular and too out there but to me I'd always want to air on the side of more boring and traditional- when someone has a plain name I usually assume it's a family name, which I can get on board with.
  • esstee33 said:
    @hellosweetie1015 IDK -- I found this one earlier and I'm pretty excited about it: 

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    This makes me evil cackle with glee.
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  • @esstee33 omg that's great! DH and I just laughed at that gif a solid ten times in row! 

                                                                     

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  • esstee33esstee33 member
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    edited January 2015
    I have a youneek spelling. ONE freaking letter in my full name is different from "normal spelling". My name has NEVER been spelled right. (Of course, I also shorten it to Cait, which is more youneek than my full name... so. There's that.)

    I won't be giving youneek spellings to my kids, BUT (this is awful, probably worse than youneek) I still to this day want to name potential kids after beaches on 30A - Alys Rebecca or Grayton William. They'd go by middles, because those are the normal ones. Grayton William would work the other way (William Grayton) but Rebecca Alys doesn't work as well.

    FI probably will not allow this. It's probably a good thing.

    I don't like the 80s names. Jennifer, Jessica, Britney/Brittany/Brittney. Sorry if you have one of those, but they just sound sooooo dateddddd to me.


    I have noticed that boys' names don't get the youneek treatment quite as often, at least not the classic ones. Jaxon can die in a hole though.

    Esstee that is the best gif ever.

    etf paragraphs. Don't know what's going on with the size. Draft was saved from my computer to mobile so I'll blame the phone.


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    Okay, this just confuses me. If you give your child first and middle names, then plan not to call them by first name, why? 
    Why not just name them the name you plan on calling them?
    I'm not being bitchy. Just genuinely baffled. 

    (This happened to my mother, btw. She's been called by her middle name all her life, but legally is still her first name. She's used to it, but always was annoyed by it.)

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    I often wonder the same thing. Like, if you want to call your kid something, just name them that and avoid them having to explain for their entire lives "Well, my name is X, but everyone calls me by my middle name." 

    My stepmom was a Peggy Marie who eventually just legally changed her name to Marie because that's what she went by.

    Man the more I look at the name "Peggy," the weirder it gets. 
  • amelisha said:
    But now instead of Sarah/Ashley/Emily (my classmates were Heather/Jessica/Jennifer), a few years ago they were all Madison and McKenzie and now they're all Olivia/Charlotte/Lucy. Girls' names are super susceptible to trends, so what was common in your childhood isn't common at all for kids now. My name, for example, was in the top ten for years when I was little and now it's barely used at all. Or in my mom's generation, everyone was Sandy and Susan and Brenda and those are very uncommon now.
    http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

    This is a good site to look at name trends. You can look up by year, decade, state, etc.
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  • arrippaarrippa member
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    edited January 2015
    No joke -  I know a couple who named their baby Remedy Jane. While it's not the worst, it is certainly unusual. I know quite a few Jaxons and Jaydons. I dislike those names.
  • http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

    This is a good site to look at name trends. You can look up by year, decade, state, etc.
    Aw hell yes, top 5 of 1982!!!!


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    Funny story true story, there were like 12 or 13 Sarahs in the sorority I pledged. 
  • I can't help but roll my eyes whenever someone takes a normal name and switches a letter to make it "unique".

    Examples:
    - replacing "i" with "y", as in Allyson, Krystyn, Camryn, Addyson/Addisyn, etc.
    - replacing "ks" with "x", as in Jaxon
    - replacing "s" with "z", as in Izabelle

    Actually, you could summarize my thoughts by saying that I dislike pretty much any name containing an unnecessary "x", "y", or "z".
  • I can't help but roll my eyes whenever someone takes a normal name and switches a letter to make it "unique".

    Examples:
    - replacing "i" with "y", as in Allyson, Krystyn, Camryn, Addyson/Addisyn, etc.
    - replacing "ks" with "x", as in Jaxon
    - replacing "s" with "z", as in Izabelle

    Actually, you could summarize my thoughts by saying that I dislike pretty much any name containing an unnecessary "x", "y", or "z".
    Yeah I know this has been mentioned earlier in this thread but I can't stand the crazy spelling for the sake of nothing.

    Like Brittany is an ok name. Breitanneigh is a fucking stupid name.
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  • @ohannabelle and @estee33 Yeah... that's why it's good FI won't have it. Grayton and Alys are the weirder of the pair. I mean, Grayton William and William Grayton both work, so order isn't an issue, I just like William as a middle name more than a first (I don't know my naming processes are weird) and Grayton is weird. Alys is youneek, but really I never intend for a daughter to be a Rebecca or a Becky - Rebecca was my best friend's middle name, and I have always wanted to use it in the middle in honor/memory of her.

    I do appreciate not being ripped a new one for thinking about naming kids after beaches, hahahahaha.
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