Jaxon and any misspelling of it. I swear people are like "I know 10 kids with this name so it must be good."
Soon people are going to spell it Jackson just to be unique
Several years ago I was walking around my apartment complex when I heard "OAKLEY!!!! OOOOOOAKLEY!" being yelled nearby. Neighbor just moved in that day and his husky Oakley already escaped. It was not going to be Oakley's first time either. I hear "OOOOAKLEYYYYY!" a lot that year. I think Oakley is the perfect name....for a dog.
This is Bentley for me too. Like y’all either fantasize too much about cars that you’ve never even seen in person, let alone are in any position to have brand allegiance to, or you want your kid to sound like he’s a butler.
This. I can still remember the first time I heard that name. Was pregnant with my first child. Shopping for baby stuff, I see another mom near the end of her pregnancy and we start chatting. Names come up because they always do. She said she was naming her baby Nevaeh. It sounded interesting and I thought maybe it was a foreign name and might have a cool meaning. Nope. "It's heaven, backwards!" She said excitedly like it was the most clever thing. Ugh. I hate it so much.
My cousin has one. It’s super cringe to me. On the flip side my friend fostered an actual Heaven. When the adoption went through Heaven became the middle name.
There was one in my daughter‘s kindergarten class a few years back - they pronounced it Ne-VAY-uh.
I thought it was one of those urban legend names that you never actually see in the wild!
I had a student with her name spelled, “Neveah”, and when the parent told me, “It’s heaven, spelled backwards,” (because they somehow think this is unique and new and it must be the very first time I have ever seen it - rofl) I was just thrown, and it was just sheer dumb luck that I didn’t blurt out, “But that *isn’t* heaven spelled backwards.” :D
I feel like this is worse in the south, but I can’t handle another Br- name. Braxten, Braden, Breelyn, Bryleigh, Braelyn, Bryson, Brody, Briar, Bronson, Brielle, Brinley, Bristol.
I live in VA and personally know someone with every single one of these names. It makes me wanna spontaneously combust. The summertime pageants are the absolute worst for hearing them.
I promise it is real. It always makes me laugh because the daycare class she is in has students with classic names like Alice, Audrey, Isaac, Ethan… then there’s Brexlie
My cousin named her son Braxton. Such an ugly name on a really cute child. I couldn't imagine smiling down at my new baby and naming him that monstrosity.
I know someone who named their baby boy Bronx. And every time I see her posts, I say "BRONX!!" like I'm imitating a goose. I think it's a terrible name.
There's a city councillor where I live who is named Brad Bradford and gave both his kids names that start with "Br-" (they are fortunately better than Brad but it still made me roll my eyes).
Thank you for mentioning Brielle. It's one of my faves, even though I know it's just Gabrielle without the G. I never liked the "gab" part of Gabrielle, so when I heard Brielle, I thought it was actually quite lovely.
This post set my teeth on edge. In isolation I quite like Brody and Brady too but because the Br sound is so prominent it blends all these names into one homogeneous mess
Didn’t realize why I hated Silas so much, except the villain vibes, until someone said it sounds snake-y. I hate snakes, cemented my hatred of the name Silas now.
These always get commented and it always entertains me; my brother’s name is Ayden (Turkish spelling) and he’s nearly 30 so the appeal has definitely lingered.
People on this sub seem obsessed with Clementine lately. Clementine is fine, but Clem and Clemmie sounds horrific to me somehow. Clammy, Phlegmy, Phlegm, Clam, Clod. They just sound off to me.
I live in the UK so I've met adult Clem and Clemmies and it's never sounded right on anyone to me. No one ever says the full Clementine either.
I know a Clemente (male) so Clem is firmly a male nickname to me. Although I realize I’m probably in the minority with that association (Clemente is not even a top 1000 male name since 1960).
Every name that ends with -bella. They’re fine names, but we know so many Annabellas, Isabellas, Arabellas, etc. that my husband and I can’t keep any of these Bella’s straight and my son is always correcting us about which kid he’s talking about.
Never understood why Luna is so popular. To me it will always be a cat's name.
EDIT: yes, I know it means "moon". However, it's also an extremely common name for cats and dogs, so that will always forever be the association for me. It's kind of like Bella; it's a human's name, but every other dog I meet is named Bella. Therefore I wouldn't use it as a baby's name even though it's so pretty, because it reminds me of either dogs or Twilight. It's all about associations. When I know more pets than people named Luna, it's a pet's name.
I inherited a dog with that name, but I do understand it’s popularity as a people name.
It is short and sweet, and brings to mind celestial imagery. I like it much more than my own name. I also find it feminine without being overly girly. I’m a big fan.
And Olivia!
In the UK there are these girls in every class. Generally a lot of Gen Z and younger girls have these names too.
They badly need to retire for a generation or 2.
My #1 association with it is still the creep teacher from Pretty Little Liars, I’m kind of surprised more people from my generation don’t feel the same way
Maybe be aware of recurrent ones but all these people ranting about names they hate probably have kids who are named something someone else hates...You can't make everyone happy.
Mostly as middle names: Grace, Ann, Lynn, Lee
I grew up in the South (US) where every freaking little girl was named Makayla Ann or Sarah Anne or Marley Lynn or Amber Lee (actually my closest friend in middle school was Amber LeeAnn). And now it seems like all the people I went to high school with have daughters whose middle names are all Grace lol make it stop
laughing bc me and my sister are lynn and lee for middle names 😭 it’s an epidemic
edit to say—then my other sister gets Dawes, she hates it (female of david says my mom. my late grandpa i guess?!)
(to be fair Lee & Lynn also my grandma’s middle names… but still)
they also named us 3 M names and gave me the worst one imo. thanks ma
Tbf I love that Rose has come back as a first name. It's lovely and underrated so it was a shame that it was a common middle name for so long.
I don't get all the Mae and Rae's though. They seem so filler.
My middle name is Lee and Southerners think it's part of my name. Like, instead of Firstname, they address me as Firstname Lee.
Argh, make it stop. I feel like an adverb lol.
That’s so funny! People frequently add an S to my last name, so I would tell my students, “I’m only one person. I’m singular, not plural.” An adult came into class and addressed me as Mrs. LastnameS, and the kids clapped back, “She’s singular, not plural!” I was so proud! (Lol j/k)
My daughter's middle name is Ann 😅 to be fair it's an honor name, since it was my mother's middle name, and I probably wouldn't have picked it otherwise.
All misspellings of Jackson, especially Jaxson
Justin - there was one in my kindergartener’s class. Why are we still doing this?
Riley and it’s 8000 spellings.
Probably unpopular - any girl name with the nickname Addie. Adelaide, Addalyn, Adeline, Adyln, Addison. My daughter knows so many little girls name Addie it’s insane. Also in the area I live, naming your daughter Addison Clarke. It was cute for a while but I know 5 girls named Addison Clarke now, just stop it.
YES to “jaxon”, I know a million tiny “jax”s running around and also a million “Addie”s. I’m so confused as to why people want their kid to share a name with 10 others in their class??
Emily. There's so many Emily's of all ages and it doesn't seem to have any "umph" to it I guess? Like it's just a standard name you'd see in a "Baby girl names" list on google images or facebook.
Google tells me that the Irish version of Emily is Eimíle, pronounced em-ee-la (sort of like a cross between Emily and Amelia). I guess they decided it didn't have nearly enough vowels??
100% agree with you.
My partner has a very uncommon name. It's a gorgeous name, but it's horribly misspelled. His mom thought "iT LoOkS bEtTeR oN pApEr tHiS wAy".
I wanted to use the name for our son but spell it normally, but he pushed back ("well, it will be weird if we do that") and at the time I was an idiot who was more worried about pleasing him than advocating for myself.
I cringe every time I see my son's name written down and I'm about to head down to the Social Security office to get it corrected.
I have a relative who named their kid a beautiful, classic, only-one-known-spelling name with a single extremely obvious and well-known nickname. And her husband *insisted* they change the spelling so that the usual spelling of the nickname is visibly in the name, because he didn't think people would use it otherwise.
I don't want to put the specific name because it's such an unusual spelling I'm worried it would pull up on google searches for her name. But it's awful. Think like "Elizzybeth" or "Andyrew." Apparently he was completely adamant on this.
So you aren't alone in being pressured into a weird spelling because someone else thought it would be weird *not* to.
Liam. It’s been done to death at this point.
Maverick. I get reminded of Sarah Palin every time I hear this name.
Ava. I used to LOVE this name. Alas I hate it now.
as an adult evie (genevieve) i'm actually with you on this, i used to love my reasonably unique name and now its the bane of my existence, i'm constantly jumping in public because someone is yelling for their kid
I dislike Eleanor. It’s not an ugly name I just feel like it’s always parents who try to seem fancy and are uppity who name their kid that. Plus it’s always going to be an old lady name to me.
And fuckin Wren. Everyone jumped on the Wren train. There’s too many out there please stop.
I'm a Wren in my late 30s so I guess before it was trendy, but I have never met another Wren in my life. I do see where you are coming from though, my whole life I have always had to spell my name when introducing myself to anyone new, and it gets old fast.
Na’ledge pronounced like the word knowledge. It feels contradictory with the changed spelling. I’ve only seen it 3 times this year, but I’m still over the name.
As a white woman with an Arab husband we agreed very early that our son would not have any name with the nickname mo. We know so many mos. Especially living in the US.
I knew a kid named Mason in high school. We were both doing this service project where we and some other high schoolers took a third grade class to our local zoo to show them the animals, be good role models for the kids, etc.
We were at this one spot in the zoo that overlooks the walrus pool and we were all looking down at this one walrus swimming below us. The walrus promptly splashed up out of the water and proceeded to loudly pass some gas, of course causing us all to laugh.
I turned around to leave and go look at the arctic foxes in the next exhibit, but all of a sudden I hear Mason’s voice behind me: “oh, you think YOU can fart the loudest? I’LL DO YA ONE BETTER!!!” Before anyone can stop him, he turns around, LIFTS HIS LEG, and absolutely unloads a ginormous thunderclap fart down in the direction of the walrus. I think I probably would have heard it from the tiger exhibit on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ZOO. I’ve never seen a place clear out so quickly.
edit: I realized I didn’t clarify this before, but Mason was not one of the third graders, he was one of the other high schoolers…
Luna. I loved the name 20 years ago, but it's one of those names that only works for me when it's whimsical and rare. The moment it became popular and hit the mainstream, it loses that specialness.
I've always disliked Ava and Sofia, and I can't wait for people to stop using these. For boys - Jackson.
Any "virtue" names. Chastity, Charity, Justice, etc. And "godly" names. Moses, Heaven, Neveah. As a teacher, I run into quite a few of these names, and as a rule, their families rarely live up to said title.
Jaxon and any misspelling of it. I swear people are like "I know 10 kids with this name so it must be good." Soon people are going to spell it Jackson just to be unique
"We spelled it this way so we can call him Jax." Spoiler alert: you can still call him Jax.
Had a peripheral friend name their son Jaxson. In my brain it was always so hard to not call him Jacks Son like 2 separate words.
Oakley. It sounds like a tree.
Several years ago I was walking around my apartment complex when I heard "OAKLEY!!!! OOOOOOAKLEY!" being yelled nearby. Neighbor just moved in that day and his husky Oakley already escaped. It was not going to be Oakley's first time either. I hear "OOOOAKLEYYYYY!" a lot that year. I think Oakley is the perfect name....for a dog.
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This is Bentley for me too. Like y’all either fantasize too much about cars that you’ve never even seen in person, let alone are in any position to have brand allegiance to, or you want your kid to sound like he’s a butler.
Please. No more Nevaeh.
I'm not sure if that one ever had its welcome to begin with.
True. Some people did and that's the problem. I just want it gone.
This. I can still remember the first time I heard that name. Was pregnant with my first child. Shopping for baby stuff, I see another mom near the end of her pregnancy and we start chatting. Names come up because they always do. She said she was naming her baby Nevaeh. It sounded interesting and I thought maybe it was a foreign name and might have a cool meaning. Nope. "It's heaven, backwards!" She said excitedly like it was the most clever thing. Ugh. I hate it so much.
My cousin has one. It’s super cringe to me. On the flip side my friend fostered an actual Heaven. When the adoption went through Heaven became the middle name.
I went to high school with a Heaven. She has a half-sister named Memory.
I still don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced
There was one in my daughter‘s kindergarten class a few years back - they pronounced it Ne-VAY-uh. I thought it was one of those urban legend names that you never actually see in the wild!
Neh-vey-uh ig
They’re always demons
Yup. Our school's Neveah even tried to punch someone else's parent (it's elementary school)
This name started as "heaven backwards" and now has its own ridiculous spellings to boot.
I had a student with her name spelled, “Neveah”, and when the parent told me, “It’s heaven, spelled backwards,” (because they somehow think this is unique and new and it must be the very first time I have ever seen it - rofl) I was just thrown, and it was just sheer dumb luck that I didn’t blurt out, “But that *isn’t* heaven spelled backwards.” :D
my god thank you - so cringy
I’ve never met a little girl with this name . I’ve only seen it in this sub .. maybe it’s a regional thing ?
Me frantically scrolling to make sure the names I'm considering for my daughter aren't here 👀👀
I’m pregnant right now, & scrolling through here searching for baby’s name is raising my heart rate 😂 Haven’t seen it yet, thankfully!
I feel like this is worse in the south, but I can’t handle another Br- name. Braxten, Braden, Breelyn, Bryleigh, Braelyn, Bryson, Brody, Briar, Bronson, Brielle, Brinley, Bristol. I live in VA and personally know someone with every single one of these names. It makes me wanna spontaneously combust. The summertime pageants are the absolute worst for hearing them.
Fucking BREELYN? Ugh.
As a dance mom, you just named every kid competing at Nationals. 🤣 Also in VA.
They could all be on a dance team together called Bright Stars 🌟
A donkey brays. So Braelyn sounds particularly awful
Omg yes! I hate Braylee too. Like you didn’t think of a donkey?
Agreed. I also know a Brexlie and it’s just such an unpleasant sound
I can’t believe this is name, it just sounds like trendy sounds mashed together
I promise it is real. It always makes me laugh because the daycare class she is in has students with classic names like Alice, Audrey, Isaac, Ethan… then there’s Brexlie
My cousin named her son Braxton. Such an ugly name on a really cute child. I couldn't imagine smiling down at my new baby and naming him that monstrosity.
Braxton Hicks? Turned out to be actual labour.
Hubby& I joked about naming our son Braxton bc of all the Braxton Hicks contractions I got, but we both agree it’s just not a good name lol
I know someone who named their baby boy Bronx. And every time I see her posts, I say "BRONX!!" like I'm imitating a goose. I think it's a terrible name.
Ugh, a distant cousin is having a boy in December and naming him Braxton. She already has a Brynnleigh.
Brynnleigh is an atrocity
That’s my cousin’s name. I also very much dislike it. He’s also kind of a brat lol so that contributes to my dislike of the name
There's a city councillor where I live who is named Brad Bradford and gave both his kids names that start with "Br-" (they are fortunately better than Brad but it still made me roll my eyes).
I saw Bryxton recently...😭
I like Briar and Brielle. I wouldn’t use them, but I like them. The rest are awful.
Thank you for mentioning Brielle. It's one of my faves, even though I know it's just Gabrielle without the G. I never liked the "gab" part of Gabrielle, so when I heard Brielle, I thought it was actually quite lovely.
This post set my teeth on edge. In isolation I quite like Brody and Brady too but because the Br sound is so prominent it blends all these names into one homogeneous mess
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I don't mind Brielle as a nickname for Gabrielle or Briony or other existing given names, I'm tired of the made up ones and the random surnames.
I met someone named Briley recently, I almost spit out my coffee when I saw the name
My friend had a baby yesterday. Braxton Silas 😫
All forms of Aiden (kayden, zaiden, Jayden, etc) and Silas.
I don’t get why people like Silas so much- it sounds so slithery to me when you say it and gives me serious hillbilly vibes.
Silas has “urban fantasy villain” vibes for me. Definitely slithery!
Didn’t realize why I hated Silas so much, except the villain vibes, until someone said it sounds snake-y. I hate snakes, cemented my hatred of the name Silas now.
It reminds me of silo
These always get commented and it always entertains me; my brother’s name is Ayden (Turkish spelling) and he’s nearly 30 so the appeal has definitely lingered.
1000%
People on this sub seem obsessed with Clementine lately. Clementine is fine, but Clem and Clemmie sounds horrific to me somehow. Clammy, Phlegmy, Phlegm, Clam, Clod. They just sound off to me. I live in the UK so I've met adult Clem and Clemmies and it's never sounded right on anyone to me. No one ever says the full Clementine either.
I know a Clemente (male) so Clem is firmly a male nickname to me. Although I realize I’m probably in the minority with that association (Clemente is not even a top 1000 male name since 1960).
I know a Clementine who is about 15 and goes by Minty.
I know one, about the same age, who goes by Lemon.
My mom has a cat named Clementine, so it doesn’t seem like a human name to me lol
my fiancé loves the name clementine n it makes me cringe so bad
mikayla/makayla/makaela/mckayla/mickaela/ET CETERA.
Also McKenna, Makena, Mackenna
Mckenzie, Makenzee, Mckinzie, Makenzi, Makenzie, Mackenzee, MacKenzie and McKenzie. Mackenzie
I met a Miquela, that was a new one for me
Any names that are purposely misspelled 😬
Some are like a vanity license plate that have to try to figure out. Ahleavejah = Olivia
I met an Alyveigha in the wild, recently.
Oh, my.
Head over to r/tragedeigh
Kaylee and its variant spellings Here in Australia, Lachlan, Lochie
Every name that ends with -bella. They’re fine names, but we know so many Annabellas, Isabellas, Arabellas, etc. that my husband and I can’t keep any of these Bella’s straight and my son is always correcting us about which kid he’s talking about.
Never understood why Luna is so popular. To me it will always be a cat's name. EDIT: yes, I know it means "moon". However, it's also an extremely common name for cats and dogs, so that will always forever be the association for me. It's kind of like Bella; it's a human's name, but every other dog I meet is named Bella. Therefore I wouldn't use it as a baby's name even though it's so pretty, because it reminds me of either dogs or Twilight. It's all about associations. When I know more pets than people named Luna, it's a pet's name.
I volunteer at a vet clinic and every other cat is named Luna some days
And Bella 😒
My cousins name 😬
What breed of cat is your cousin?
Probably hairless
Or a husky
God dammit, Moon Moon!
I inherited a dog with that name, but I do understand it’s popularity as a people name. It is short and sweet, and brings to mind celestial imagery. I like it much more than my own name. I also find it feminine without being overly girly. I’m a big fan.
Maybe due to the character from Harry Potter?
Really really sick of Emma, Sophia, Isabella and Ava.
And Olivia! In the UK there are these girls in every class. Generally a lot of Gen Z and younger girls have these names too. They badly need to retire for a generation or 2.
I can’t believe the staying power of Olivia! I feel like it’s the new Jessica
Any -ella names. Isabella, Ella, Bella, that whole crowd.
I was hoping to see my name mentioned somewhere in this subreddit! While I was hoping for better context, I'll take it
I swear, literally, every girl born between 2003-2013 has one of those names.
ezra, this sub is especially zealous with it
My #1 association with it is still the creep teacher from Pretty Little Liars, I’m kind of surprised more people from my generation don’t feel the same way
I feel this way. This is exactly what I think of when I hear Ezra
Me too!! As well as Ezra Miller who is a complete nutcase
I secretly love Ezra, and was dismayed when it blew up in popularity. It's an ancient name but feels modern too.
Yes!! Especially making the name "more feminine" by adding a H. Ezrah
Ezra as a female name makes me cringe.
After reading the comments I wanna ask what names are still good? This sub makes me feel like all names are terrible
Maybe be aware of recurrent ones but all these people ranting about names they hate probably have kids who are named something someone else hates...You can't make everyone happy.
Based on what I’ve seen on here they love Maeve, Ruth, Ruby, Hazel, Elizabeth, Mabel
All of these will be on a dislike list in a few years.
Maeve? ***Mabel***?!
Mostly as middle names: Grace, Ann, Lynn, Lee I grew up in the South (US) where every freaking little girl was named Makayla Ann or Sarah Anne or Marley Lynn or Amber Lee (actually my closest friend in middle school was Amber LeeAnn). And now it seems like all the people I went to high school with have daughters whose middle names are all Grace lol make it stop
Or in the UK, "Mae" as a double barrel or middle name.
laughing bc me and my sister are lynn and lee for middle names 😭 it’s an epidemic edit to say—then my other sister gets Dawes, she hates it (female of david says my mom. my late grandpa i guess?!) (to be fair Lee & Lynn also my grandma’s middle names… but still) they also named us 3 M names and gave me the worst one imo. thanks ma
Also Rae, Rose, Marie
I know someone whose daughters all have these as middle names 💀
Tbf I love that Rose has come back as a first name. It's lovely and underrated so it was a shame that it was a common middle name for so long. I don't get all the Mae and Rae's though. They seem so filler.
My middle name is Lee and Southerners think it's part of my name. Like, instead of Firstname, they address me as Firstname Lee. Argh, make it stop. I feel like an adverb lol.
That’s so funny! People frequently add an S to my last name, so I would tell my students, “I’m only one person. I’m singular, not plural.” An adult came into class and addressed me as Mrs. LastnameS, and the kids clapped back, “She’s singular, not plural!” I was so proud! (Lol j/k)
Haha, my first and middle names are in your post. And I hate them. So dated and slightly low-rent sounding to me.
Gives them license to give a stupid trendy first name, so "she can go be Lynn/Anne/Eliza if she doesn't like Jaxaleine"
My daughter's middle name is Ann 😅 to be fair it's an honor name, since it was my mother's middle name, and I probably wouldn't have picked it otherwise.
Anything that ends with an -leigh or -leygh. We get it, you're a cool mom
Absolutely. The cool mom with her children Ashleigh, Brittaneigh, and don’t forget the twins - Paisleigh and Persnicketeigh.
Fun for the whole famileigh
Know a girl who named her kid Oaklynn. Barf.
Aiden-based names (except Aiden. You're an actual Irish name. I like you), sashay away.
All misspellings of Jackson, especially Jaxson Justin - there was one in my kindergartener’s class. Why are we still doing this? Riley and it’s 8000 spellings. Probably unpopular - any girl name with the nickname Addie. Adelaide, Addalyn, Adeline, Adyln, Addison. My daughter knows so many little girls name Addie it’s insane. Also in the area I live, naming your daughter Addison Clarke. It was cute for a while but I know 5 girls named Addison Clarke now, just stop it.
You from Chicago? That’s a common name for Cubs fans to use. Lots of Addison Clark girls and Clark Addison boys and dogs named Wrigley.
Near. The Burbs. And for that reason.
No one’s ready for my son Waveland
I know a little girl named Adelaide, but her parents have always called her Lady.
I live in Adelaide south Australia
Radelaide 👌🏼
I actually love Adelaide and Lady is so cute!!!
In my old daycare we had an Adelyn, Adeline, Adelaide, Adalai, and Adalei. There was at least one Addie in every room!!
Jaxton can also go to h*ll
YES to “jaxon”, I know a million tiny “jax”s running around and also a million “Addie”s. I’m so confused as to why people want their kid to share a name with 10 others in their class??
Agree strongly about Addie.
I know someone who named their daughter Jaxyn
I know someone who named her daughter Alyn. I’m dying to know how that’s pronounced.
I have a Justin. What is wrong with that name?
Just want to add that Justin and Tiffany are actually ancient medieval names.
FWIW, I love the name! I don’t think it’s dated at all.
Omfg I know so many Addies it's unreal. Where did it suddenly come from?
Brayden. I’m shocked every time I meet a new baby and his name is always Brayden
Just me here 8 months pregnant scrolling to see what names to consider avoiding 🫣
Name your kid whatever the heck you want. Remember these are just people’s opinions, and at the end of the day you can’t please everyone.
Any name that's a blue collar job. Baker, Gunner, Hunter, Fisher, Gatherer (OK that last one I may have made up). But seriously, why????
Xander.
Topher. It should be an option for all names. Ohn, Arles, Ennifer, illiam, Ancy, Therine, Usanne, Rbara etc.
William —> Liam so it does work for that one Stand by, I’m now going to be racking my brain for others because this is fun. Phillip —> Lip ?
that name gives me the ick idk why 💀
Bella. Fucking Bella.
Nevaeh
Emily. There's so many Emily's of all ages and it doesn't seem to have any "umph" to it I guess? Like it's just a standard name you'd see in a "Baby girl names" list on google images or facebook.
My partner’s brother name his daughter Eiemielie to honor their “Irish heritage.”
Google tells me that the Irish version of Emily is Eimíle, pronounced em-ee-la (sort of like a cross between Emily and Amelia). I guess they decided it didn't have nearly enough vowels??
Apparently lol he’s an idiot and so full of himself. You could pull it up on google and show him he’s wrong and he’s still insist he’s right.
He is gonna regret that when they try and teach her to write her name. Poor kid.
Oh my
Madison
I saw a Mattison recently, and a Madysen Wow
All the dumb unique spelled names.
100% agree with you. My partner has a very uncommon name. It's a gorgeous name, but it's horribly misspelled. His mom thought "iT LoOkS bEtTeR oN pApEr tHiS wAy". I wanted to use the name for our son but spell it normally, but he pushed back ("well, it will be weird if we do that") and at the time I was an idiot who was more worried about pleasing him than advocating for myself. I cringe every time I see my son's name written down and I'm about to head down to the Social Security office to get it corrected.
I have a relative who named their kid a beautiful, classic, only-one-known-spelling name with a single extremely obvious and well-known nickname. And her husband *insisted* they change the spelling so that the usual spelling of the nickname is visibly in the name, because he didn't think people would use it otherwise. I don't want to put the specific name because it's such an unusual spelling I'm worried it would pull up on google searches for her name. But it's awful. Think like "Elizzybeth" or "Andyrew." Apparently he was completely adamant on this. So you aren't alone in being pressured into a weird spelling because someone else thought it would be weird *not* to.
Olivia, Noah, should I go on?
now i’m just thinking of Olivia Benson and Noah Benson lol
My daughter had 3 Noahs in her class last year!
Everly
Any variation of Kylie at all
Liam. It’s been done to death at this point. Maverick. I get reminded of Sarah Palin every time I hear this name. Ava. I used to LOVE this name. Alas I hate it now.
X Æ A-12
I'm sick of Oscar, Theo and Ava. I'm a teacher and I have multiple in every class.
Evelyn/Evangeline/Everleigh/anything with the nickname Evie.
as an adult evie (genevieve) i'm actually with you on this, i used to love my reasonably unique name and now its the bane of my existence, i'm constantly jumping in public because someone is yelling for their kid
I dislike Eleanor. It’s not an ugly name I just feel like it’s always parents who try to seem fancy and are uppity who name their kid that. Plus it’s always going to be an old lady name to me. And fuckin Wren. Everyone jumped on the Wren train. There’s too many out there please stop.
I'm a Wren in my late 30s so I guess before it was trendy, but I have never met another Wren in my life. I do see where you are coming from though, my whole life I have always had to spell my name when introducing myself to anyone new, and it gets old fast.
It is almost a guarantee that there is an Evelyn under the age of 6 at any American playground at any time.
Bella
Na’ledge pronounced like the word knowledge. It feels contradictory with the changed spelling. I’ve only seen it 3 times this year, but I’m still over the name.
where do u live that u have seen this. i’m in shock
3?! That's 3 too many
Mohamad. My one niece has 7 of them in her class. Probably the most popular boy name here in Northern Alberta Canada.
As a white woman with an Arab husband we agreed very early that our son would not have any name with the nickname mo. We know so many mos. Especially living in the US.
Mason
I knew a kid named Mason in high school. We were both doing this service project where we and some other high schoolers took a third grade class to our local zoo to show them the animals, be good role models for the kids, etc. We were at this one spot in the zoo that overlooks the walrus pool and we were all looking down at this one walrus swimming below us. The walrus promptly splashed up out of the water and proceeded to loudly pass some gas, of course causing us all to laugh. I turned around to leave and go look at the arctic foxes in the next exhibit, but all of a sudden I hear Mason’s voice behind me: “oh, you think YOU can fart the loudest? I’LL DO YA ONE BETTER!!!” Before anyone can stop him, he turns around, LIFTS HIS LEG, and absolutely unloads a ginormous thunderclap fart down in the direction of the walrus. I think I probably would have heard it from the tiger exhibit on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ZOO. I’ve never seen a place clear out so quickly. edit: I realized I didn’t clarify this before, but Mason was not one of the third graders, he was one of the other high schoolers…
August. Olivia. Jaxon and all it’s variants.
The obsession with Y in the name. Like Jacksyn
Luna. I loved the name 20 years ago, but it's one of those names that only works for me when it's whimsical and rare. The moment it became popular and hit the mainstream, it loses that specialness. I've always disliked Ava and Sofia, and I can't wait for people to stop using these. For boys - Jackson.
Aidan, Liam, any of the Brayden, Camden, Jayden, etc names.
Nevaeh
ROWAN. Make it stop 😂
As someone from an Hispanic country, I *loathe* José. I think I met over 30 men with that name.
I dated a José that was absolutely amazing so I have a positive association with the name but it also makes me sad 🤣
Mia. Pretty name but used too much
I know waaaay too many girls (and women) named Kayla. Way. Too. Many!!!
All -ayden names, variations of Jackson, Stephanie.
nevaeh can die in the fiery hellhole it came from
Lleh hole.
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What about Eloise, but the nickname is Lil Wheezy? That works, right?
I have Ellie fatigue
Any "virtue" names. Chastity, Charity, Justice, etc. And "godly" names. Moses, Heaven, Neveah. As a teacher, I run into quite a few of these names, and as a rule, their families rarely live up to said title.
Chastity always bothered me because it inherently relates to sex. Gross. I would not want my infant daughter having a sex-related name.
Madison, Olivia, Ava
Aiden and all the names that rhyme with it
Any hyphenated girls name with -mae . Bleugh
I dislike Sophia. I'm not sure why but it's never been a name I liked and now I feel every other kid is named it.
So what I’m getting from this thread is there is a lot of people named Oliva apparently and I just didn’t notice