Naming Children These Days

[DubCoffman62]

I'm starting to notice that more and more people are abandoning traditional names and starting to invent names and giving them cute spellings. For example, a facebook friend of mine named her two girls Jayda and Blayze. It seems that everyone has to come up with something unique for their kid. What ever happened to Ruth, Helen, Gertrude, Betsey and Margaret? I've notice too that for boys names like Ethan, Dylan and Aidan are popular. I never knew anyone by these names when I was younger.
Anyhoo, just an observation.

 

[jlb1705]

For example, a facebook friend of mine named her two girls Jayda and Blayze.

The only three jobs you can get with those names:

• Stripper
• Welfare recipient
• American Gladiator

FWIW, this isn't a new thing. I work with college students, and some of the names I encounter are astounding. The number of spellings for the name Lindsey/Lindsay/Lynsey/Lynsay/Lyndsee/etc. (a name that didn't even exist 40 years ago as far as I can tell) would put many people in a perpetual state of facepalm.

Asshole parents think it makes their child unique. YOUR CHILD IS NOT SPECIAL.

 

[buxfan4life]

I knew a kid in elementary school whose first name was Lemon.

 

[buckeyebri]

I knew a Harry Legg in elementary school. Now that is just wrong...

I like how some folks take traditional names and add prefixes and\or suffixes to them now as well.

 

[DubCoffman62]

The only three jobs you can get with those names:

• Stripper
• Welfare recipient
• American Gladiator

FWIW, this isn't a new thing. I work with college students, and some of the names I encounter are astounding. The number of spellings for the name Lindsey/Lindsay/Lynsey/Lynsay/Lyndsee/etc. (a name that didn't even exist 40 years ago as far as I can tell) would put many people in a perpetual state of facepalm.

Asshole parent think it makes their child unique. YOUR CHILD IS NOT SPECIAL.

I encountered a Cindy recently that spelled her name Cyndi and a Megan that spelled it Meghign.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

FWIW, this isn't a new thing. I work with college students, and some of the names I encounter are astounding. The number of spellings for the name Lindsey/Lindsay/Lynsey/Lynsay/Lyndsee/etc. (a name that didn't even exist 40 years ago as far as I can tell) would put many people in a perpetual state of facepalm.

This guy suggests that you go your own way.

 

[zwem]

Once knew a guy named Wilson W. Wilson. Take a wild guess at his middle name.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Once knew a guy named Wilson W. Wilson. Take a wild guess at his middle name.

Woodrow?

Not nearly as awesome as Major Major Major Major.

 

[scooter1369]

Once knew a guy named Wilson W. Wilson. Take a wild guess at his middle name.

I think I know him

 

[buckeyebri]

Stripper - Candi

 

[Gatorubet]

I knew a kid in elementary school whose first name was Lemon.

I knew a girl in h.s. named (phonetically) Oh-rahn-jay.

Orange.

 

[BayBuck]

Interesting statistic I read a few years back in a study on African American names:

Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among every baby, white and black, born that year in California. (There were also 228 babies named Unique during the 1990s alone, and one each of Uneek, Uneque, and Uneqqee; virtually all of them were black.)

http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/

 

[DubCoffman62]

I knew a kid in elementary school whose first name was Lemon.

So when he had birthday parties did the invitations go out reading "Lemon Party"?

 

[scooter1369]

I knew a girl in h.s. named (phonetically) Oh-rahn-jay.

Orange.

We're Florida boys. We went to school with Shaniqua, LiQuita, Sjohn, Shaquita, Cashinja, and Jaquari. Some of the names I saw growing up cracked me up. Even more fun to watch old white male teachers pronounce them

 

[DubCoffman62]

Interesting statistic I read a few years back in a study on African American names:



http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/

Yes, the black community comes up with some very unique names for their children. I remember one time someone was talking about Anfernee Hardaway and theorized that perhaps the parents wanted to name him Anthony but were so drunk it came out "Anfernee".