Nameberry's featured list today

lifeonthehill · November 2014

Holy terrible.

https://nameberry.com/list/79/Boy-Names-for-Girls

I just had an old college friend announce she was naming her baby Avery on FB. I got all excited because at an early ultrasound they were told boy. Apparently the tech was wrong. It's a girl.

ETA: Spelling

mylittlekitty · November 2014

I can't bring myself to look at the 2nd or 3rd pages. Gary? Douglas? Claude? That list is awful!

LtlAngL · November 2014

I feel so bad for those poor little girls with atrocious names whose parents follow these suggestions. I hope they at least have enough sense to give them a normal middle name to fall back on.

pblge · November 2014

Holy hell. That whole site needs to burned down. I would consider calling CPS for anyone who named their sweet little girl Gary or Barry.

Just kidding...sort of.

lifeonthehill · November 2014

mylittlekitty said:

I can't bring myself to look at the 2nd or 3rd pages. Gary? Douglas? Claude? That list is awful!

I didn't bother with the 2nd or 3rd pages either. I don't want to lose my breakfast.

lifeonthehill · November 2014

Joy2611 said:

I looooooooooooooooathe Nameberry.

I read this as love. I was appalled at you until I re-read it. Haha.

4N6s · November 2014

Sigh.

sadie890 · November 2014

I just can't even.

NerdyLucy · November 2014

Well, shit.

leahmary82 · November 2014

Ugh. I can get behind boy name nicknames, like Charlie for Charlotte or Jo for Josephine, but wow. Most of those names would be soooo ugly on a girl! Was Nameberry always that bad, I feel like when I was looking at it for names a few months ago it wasn't that asinine.

lifeonthehill · November 2014

leahmary82 said:

Ugh. I can get behind boy name nicknames, like Charlie for Charlotte or Jo for Josephine, but wow. Most of those names would be soooo ugly on a girl! Was Nameberry always that bad, I feel like when I was looking at it for names a few months ago it wasn't that asinine.

I just pick through it to see what I want. Some of it is good though.

CMSAV · November 2014

Wow. That list is a mess. The theme didn't surprise me but the names they chose did. Gross. Especially annoyed with Ira-- just because a name ends in a certain sound doesn't make it feminine. Boo.

Zimger · November 2014

Gross

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t loves r · November 2014

Idani said:
I guess at least they didn't include "alternate" spellings. But seriously WTF.

Oh, but they did. Look at Aiden. Eta: Aidan. Whoops

zylime · November 2014

Hahahaha this list cracks me up. I have never been able to jump on the "boy names for girls and girl names for boys" bandwagon. This list just confirms my hatred for crossover names. Bleh!

MrsPDX · November 2014

mylittlekitty said:

I can't bring myself to look at the 2nd or 3rd pages. Gary? Douglas? Claude? That list is awful!

This is me, I stopped after Gary and Douglas. Poor children...

Helenahhandbasket · November 2014

Go home, Nameberry. You're drunk.

MoFree · November 2014

In what universe are Douglas and Roy(which means King) girl names. Contrary to the author's opinion, it is awfulness, not cool.

I'm waiting for an article about the hippest boy names: Emma, Lily and Abigail.

queenbone · November 2014

Holy effing shit!

Curtis? Gary? Ira? Doug? Tim? WTF is wrong with them?

chapstix7 · November 2014

I would judge the parents of little Timothy very harshly.

stahlop · November 2014

I actually have a female Aydin this year, SMH.

I've actually known two girls named Barrie (this spelling). One is my age (late 30's) and the other would be in her late 20's now. Also both Jewish, I just thought it was an acceptable Jewish female version of Barry.