worst baby name trend

tct1219

i can't stand the aiden, brayden, jaden names.

[a distant cousin recently named her daughter aydan

her sister had a baby just after and named him trayden... awful]

what do you think is the most horrible baby name trend?

 

edit: not a trend, but i also can't stand when people choose adjectives for their babies first names, especially when the last name is a common noun. example: i've known dusty barnes and sandi cox.

mrsmel

anything with a random y stuck in the middle.

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Oh, so many:

the -aden trend
Extraneous Ys (what did AEIOU ever do to you?!)
misspelling common names to make them more yooneek
boys' names for girls (I'm looking at you, Elliot)
using surnames names that aren't from your own family
place names

andrea922

While i don't care for Jaden/Brayden, etc I wouldn't lump Aidan into that group. Aidan has long been an Irish name that has been used, and isn't, IMO, trendy, just more popular right now.

franciscaz

I can't just choose one:

Making up a name and insisting it isn't made up (Jarson)

Horrendous mis-spellings (Alyvia or Alizabath)

Sticking a Y into it for cuteness (Iryeland)

Giving very common boy names (Bryan) to pretty little baby girls

Naming your baby after a celeb baby (Apple or Mowgli)

I could probably go on but these are the worse for me!

 

smismar

Oh there are so many! 

The -aden phenomenon really bugs. 

Surnames for given names if it's not from your family - especially for girls.

I think the one that irritates me the most is using masculine names for girls.  I hate unisex and mix-gender names.  Leave the boys' names alone!

Uneek spellings and random y's.

Place names (London, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Denver, etc...)

Nicknames for given names.  Your kid isn't going to be a child forever - give them a real name!!

franciscaz

smismar:

 Oh, and the nicknames for given names.  Your kid isn't going to be a child forever - give them a real name!!

How could I forget that horrendous trend.  I still feel bad for a girl I interviewed one time named Katy.   I did hire her and she was fabulous but she told me it was really hard being young, out of college, and stuck w/a goofy name like that.  She said everyone just assumed she wasn't taking her apps seriously

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*francisca*:

smismar:

 Oh, and the nicknames for given names.  Your kid isn't going to be a child forever - give them a real name!!

How could I forget that horrendous trend.  I still feel bad for a girl I interviewed one time named Katy.   I did hire her and she was fabulous but she told me it was really hard being young, out of college, and stuck w/a goofy name like that.  She said everyone just assumed she wasn't taking her apps seriously

Ditto; this is a huge one for me.  Can't believe I forgot it!

tct1219

andrea922:

While i don't care for Jaden/Brayden, etc I wouldn't lump Aidan into that group. Aidan has long been an Irish name that has been used, and isn't, IMO, trendy, just more popular right now.

if you look at my post, i put aiden with an E, to me aidan is a real name and aiden is just a trendy new spelling.

cathy_and_matt

Like other people have said, misspelling a common name to make it more individual or unique.

Why saddle your kid with a name that he/she is going to constantly having to be correcting people on the spelling of? I just don't get the point. 

Erin Mary Ackerman

the trend I hate.. The I'm 2% Irish or Welsh, live in America, and really want to play on my heritage, therefore I will name my child Saiorse or Ceindrych

The children sound like extras from "The Mists of Avalon"

bad bad bad

rebus82

BrahimBride:

the trend I hate.. The I'm 2% Irish or Welsh, live in America, and really want to play on my heritage, therefore I will name my child Saiorse or Ceindrych

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THIS! Between DH and I, our son will be a fairly decent chunk Irish and Native American, but I wouldn't name him Cillian or Cloud. I understand heritage, but FFS, there is a point where it just looks/sounds stupid.

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I hate the boy names for girls. I was raised with a pseudo-masculine "neutral" name and it was annoying enough. But when someone ignores the neutral part and goes straight to boy names for girls (Elliot, James, Ryan) that's just obnoxious.?

star678

The "pick a letter or two and then add -ayden" trend.

Ayden

Brayden

Cayden

Dreyden

Grayden

Hayden

Jayden

Kayden

Payden (actually saw this one... pronounced Payton)

 

GiniMcGlothin

My name is Virginia, but I go by Gini.  I hate having to correct the spelling of my name on a daily basis.  My kid will have an easy to spell name and what we name them is what we will call them.

ajclemons

go to utahbabynames.com

 You'll get a kick out of all of the interesting concoctions there!

LVila

I agree with all the trends...

And I'm adding two names to the "aden" trend:

Zaden

Raden

I honestly know two poor little boys stuck with these names.

EmmaRain

Here are the ones that drive me nuts...

any random sound with -ley on the end is an instant girls name (Kinley, Brinley, Riley, Briley, Kiley, Miley, etc.)

any random sound with -lyn on the end is an instant girls name (Braelyn, Katelyn, Brooklyn, Ashlyn, Carlyn, Marlyn, Harlyn, Brinlyn, Haylyn, Jaylyn, etc.)

the -den/-ton names (Brayden, Caden, Hayden, Payton, Preston, Weston, etc.)

newportbride715

I hate the -ee trend- Caylee, Kacee, Rylee, Carlee, Emilee.... too childish looking IMO.

I love the name Aidan, it is a classic Irish name- but I do think it has kind of been ruined by the -aden trend that followed it.

LMS05

GiniMcGlothin:

?My kid will have an easy to spell name and what we name them is what we will call them.

Ditto. If I see a name I like, but isn't obvious how to spell or pronounce, I take it off the list. Example: Caitlin, Katelyn, Kaitlin, etc.. I love this name, but I feel like there are too many ways to spell it and it will be annoying to always have to spell it for people. ?

Lexi0402

can we add names that end wish -ayson to this list?

Mayson

Grayson

Brayson

 

FFS

newportbride715

BrahimBride:

the trend I hate.. The I'm 2% Irish or Welsh, live in America, and really want to play on my heritage, therefore I will name my child Saiorse or Ceindrych

The children sound like extras from "The Mists of Avalon"

bad bad bad

 

Just curious then.. where do you draw the line? Does a parent have to be from said country? Grandparent? Only 100% ancestry? Have to have visited said country? Speak that language? And, where do you draw the line from American and not so American, re: names? Is John American enough? Is Sean? Aidan? Are there different levels of acceptance depending on the region of the US you are in? Or what country culture your ancestry is?

KappaUCF20

newportbride715:

BrahimBride:

the trend I hate.. The I'm 2% Irish or Welsh, live in America, and really want to play on my heritage, therefore I will name my child Saiorse or Ceindrych

The children sound like extras from "The Mists of Avalon"

bad bad bad

 

Just curious then.. where do you draw the line? Does a parent have to be from said country? Grandparent? Only 100% ancestry? Have to have visited said country? Speak that language? And, where do you draw the line from American and not so American, re: names? Is John American enough? Is Sean? Aidan? Are there different levels of acceptance depending on the region of the US you are in? Or what country culture your ancestry is?

 

Thank you!  That's exactly what I was thinking.  As someone who is of more than 50% Celtic descent and whose family immigrated from Wales, I take offense to what that poster said.  Why should I dismiss a name that holds a lot of meaning to me simply because people are too stupid to spell it or pronounce it correctly?  If I were to cross every name off my list that people were too dumb to spell or pronounce, there wouldn't be a single one left!  And IMHO, a name like Saoirse is much more beautiful than half the names I've seen posted on this board. 

Probably the trend that bugs me the most is using traditionally masculine-sounding names for girls. Hayden is one that really irks me, but that's just my personal preference. 

foundmylazybum

I am actually beginning to think the most annoying baby name trend is pregnant women with too much time on their hands with nothing else to think about other than to make fun of baby names and be judgmental.?

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mZoe

I hate this trend of naming your child after a place. Brooklyn, Phoenix, London, Paris, Madison, Bronx. Madison is a street and Bronx and Brooklyn are boroughs where I live. The woman who is two floors down from me in our complex has sons named Manhattan and Azur.

I also don't like these "you-neek" spellings of names, with random letters squished in where they don't belong. It's extremely tacky and makes you look illiterate.

still_a_bride

Definitely boy names for girls.  It's gotten to a point where we can't use many boy names because they're too "feminine!"  I think there's already a shortage of good boy names, I hate that people are narrowing them down even more!

justgnat

LOL! My DH is insisting on Traedyn for our daughters MN. I DISPISE it. But if it gets me the first name of my choice I can deal. Compromise right? Plus...if she hates it she can always do what I did and drop her awful MN when she gets married. (Take that DH.)

ttmccoot

*starcrossd*:

The "pick a letter or two and then add -ayden" trend.

Ayden

Brayden

Cayden

Dreyden

Grayden

Hayden

Jayden

Kayden

Payden (actually saw this one... pronounced Payton)

 

I know of a ZAYDEN. Seriously?

GettinNervous

Place names is my #1 annoyance. Next is probably Mc or Mac names. McKenzie McKayla Mackenzy or whatever. Then there are the cutesy names like Rylee or Caylee. Cute for a baby, but what about in a boardroom?

It doesn't bother me when people do it, but I wouldn't pick a very generic name that is very common. My kids have names that are not unusual, not popular, but they are the only ones in their daycare with those names. And you would probably all know how to spell them.

At the beginning of this thread, someone mentioned the name Katy. I don't think that's bad. Am I missing something?

gotchagomo

Hey! Let up with the "boy's names for girls" thing! My name is my father's name and it's VERY masculine and I was born WAY BEFORE all the trendy baby-naming thang took off (41 years ago!). People remember it. It has helped in business. It has spawned numerous nicknames, all of which I love also. It is a beautiful thing for a daughter to be named after her dad--so special. I am still upset that I did not choose to go this same route with my daughter--she is exactly like her daddy!

 As for the "extra Y" thing--right there with everybody on that one! It is hideous! It looks like the parents couldn't spell!

Emie28

ttmccoot:

*starcrossd*:

The "pick a letter or two and then add -ayden" trend.

Ayden

Brayden

Cayden

Dreyden

Grayden

Hayden

Jayden

Kayden

Payden (actually saw this one... pronounced Payton)

 

I know of a ZAYDEN. Seriously?

Ooooh! I can do you one better! I know a Xaeden pronounced Zayden!

::shudders::

gotchagomo

At the school where I teach, we have a Alxzndr--no joke! Kid is 14, mom just turned 28--you do the math to figure out just how/why she came up with that spelling.