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tct1219
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worst baby name trend
tct1219
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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.
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Re: worst baby name trend
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
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!
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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
Mes Petit Choux
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. ~ Alice
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)
go to utahbabynames.com
You'll get a kick out of all of the interesting concoctions there!
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.
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.)
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.
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. ?
can we add names that end wish -ayson to this list?
Mayson
Grayson
Brayson
FFS
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.
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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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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.
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I know of a ZAYDEN. Seriously?
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?
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!
Ooooh! I can do you one better! I know a Xaeden pronounced Zayden!
::shudders::