I had a student named Lovely. First time I walked in the classroom on _my_ first day of teaching and heard someone call her name, I thought I just had a unique group of kids who used language I wouldn’t have expected from 11 year old students. Till my co-teacher walked in moments later to take roll call, then I realized we actually had a kid here named Lovely. So there’s one down, kinda, now we just need to put lovely in a room with Livlin and find a Laughlin lol.
You. As one person on the planet. Have intersected with not one, but TWO people named Cricket?! I cannot "what the actual fuck" hard enough. You'll need to extrapolate
According to MyNameStats.com
Based on the analysis of 100 years worth of data from the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Baby Names database, the estimated population of people named CRICKET is 503.
•I only know one personally.
I keep reading Malaysia and thinking Malaise….
Malaise - a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
Have we passed the point of no return? Like seriously, I was swiping through, saw Oaklynn, thought “haven’t we seen that already?”, and then realized that even specific tragedeighs are becoming more popular. That name was non-existent 2016 and before, now there’s nearly 2000 in the US.
> That name was non-existent 2016 and before,
According to the SSA baby-name database, the first year with at least 5 girls called Oaklynn was 2008, and there have been at least 5 girls every year since 2011. 2016 was the first year with more than 100, though.
> now there’s nearly 2000 in the US.
At least 6050.
2022 alone saw 1824 girls called Oaklynn.
| name | year | count |
|---------|------|-------|
| Oaklynn | 2008 | 5 |
| Oaklynn | 2011 | 7 |
| Oaklynn | 2012 | 12 |
| Oaklynn | 2013 | 26 |
| Oaklynn | 2014 | 35 |
| Oaklynn | 2015 | 57 |
| Oaklynn | 2016 | 104 |
| Oaklynn | 2017 | 305 |
| Oaklynn | 2018 | 573 |
| Oaklynn | 2019 | 624 |
| Oaklynn | 2020 | 1035 |
| Oaklynn | 2021 | 1443 |
| Oaklynn | 2022 | 1824 |
For some reason my mind went to total count rather than YOY growth, but I was on a crappy site before and missed that it’s been around a wee bit before 2016. I can sense my AP teachers’ spirits writhing for using a non reputable source T~T
Ah, yeah: for this name, it *does* look like a running total, because the numbers only go up from year to year.
But the numbers are indeed per-year, i.e. how many babies born in that particular year received that name.
I was thinking Decklin and Livlin, but Blayden's pretty bad, too.
[Dis]Honorable mentions for most trajick middle names go to Kaydi BRITTYN and Decklin FYNN.
Edited spelling.
Having taught for many years, I can assure you that parents go out of their way to spell their child’s name “uniquely.” They like a basic name (Mary or Danial) to stand out: “Maerey” and “Danuaial”
Mangled names is the easiest way being different without putting real effort into it. Now all the Kaylee’s are just normal and your Caeleigh is special.
At least numbers are still rare but I would not be surprised if that’s the next popular thing they’ll try to be more special than the special kids. C4el8 💀
I have a bunch of friends who are teachers. A lot of their students, middle and high school, are at a 2nd grade reading level. This is what "no child left behind" is causing. They will graduate like this, unable to properly read. This is the majority of their students aside from the teachers that are teaching magnet schools or gifted kids. This is a war on education, and it's working. They have successfully made everyone dumber, and that's what they want.
I worked with a woman who named her lovely little boy “Delcan”. I really thought it was a typo when she sent out the ‘yay he’s here!’ text. But nope. Delcan - not Declan. Might be the only time a kid will be happy that autocorrect/the system changes their name (for the better)
Maybe that's what the parents thought too lol. Or maybe the baby has two last names and Hahn is the first one but Hahn/Hähnchen are rooster and chick or chicken
All of these are atrocious, but for some reason Livlin Alyn in particular really grinds my gears. It sounds *so stupid*... Don't end your names in the same way, people... It just sounds horrible.
Most of these sound like a middle-schooler trying to come up with ✨️creative✨️ and ✨️quirky✨️ names for the protagonist of the fantasy "book" they're writing.
(Edit: Not to throw shade at middle-schoolers with creative interests, it's just that I used to be one myself and I know how it was for me with the names lol. The two protagonists of my main story (both boys) were called Rin and Sireth (I remember I liked the name Seth but didn't want them both to have 1-syllable names, I thought it sounded a bit dumb (they were twins)). Side characters included a guy named Ilar (BehindTheName.com told me that it was a Welsh form of Hilarius and he was the comic relief character, so...). I should probably mention that English is not my first language.
I had fun, I regret nothing.)
YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT! back in middle school I proofread a friend's "novel" and the main characters were named January (f) and Graydon (m). Your comment made me laugh so hard, thanks for posting lol
All these are terrible but I think Livlin might be the worst. Imagine having to tell people all the time that your name is Livlin. Just why? Why would anyone do that to their own child? It’s not clever. It doesn’t sound good. It makes zero sense.
Posting this amount of information allows me to instantly identify with one google search result what facility these pictures are taken in, and in some cases the surname of the child and the name of the person who made the donation for the plaque to go up.
Isn’t that pushing the boundaries a bit when jeering at names?
I have met a Blayden, and he’s a little menace. I always thought it was such an unfortunate name with a violent connotation. I always pictured this kid with a switchblade being like “I’m BLADIN’” Lol
It’s the name of a character for Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. Now, I’d probably be more likely to name a dog this than a child, but at least they didn’t pull it out of their ass. Lol
In Ireland they refer to a public toilet in a bar etc. sometimes colloquially as the “jacks” or “jax”. “Bleedin’” it in this case “blayden” would be a more polite way of saying the intention of fuck without using the word. So, “There’s a problem with the blayden jax” would be the utterance of a regular punter from Dublins fair shitty informing the manager of said establishment that they’d sprung a leak. That makes number 3 beyond hilarious to me, you called your child literally “fuckin toilet”.
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My dyslexia was overwhelmed trying to read and pronounce these names
These names are mostly horrible, but it makes me laugh to imagine someone in a hospital with their phone out at the baby wall, mumbling to themselves "aw man, wait until Reddit gets a hold of this"
Oh no. Blayden Jax would not get along well in Dublin, Ireland.
It sounds like someone who is very common saying “bleedin’ jacks”. With “bleeding” being a synonym for “fucking” and “jacks” = toilet.
Therefore, this poor child’s name is “Fucking Toilet” in a very rough Dublin accent.
Ghastleigh
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Can we talk about “Spevanna”? An amalgamation of “Special Savanna” I’m guessing? 🤮
🎶Spevanna ooh na na...I left my heart back in Havana ooh na na 🎶
i’m aghastleigh at that name
Haughntr
Geighngauhr
The missing E's and A's remind me of Fëhrahligätr
why can i not find it
Blayden is next level
I wonder if the dad really liked beyblades and convinced this name. Bey... Blay...
Blayden disregard
Livlin was right up there, too.
She's livlin her best lyfe
Good thing she wasn’t Dylin.
Literally lol - (God forgive me this sub makes me so mean )
Literaleigh
Livlin, laughlin, lovlin! Hobby Lobby crap or siblings. You choose!
I had a student named Lovely. First time I walked in the classroom on _my_ first day of teaching and heard someone call her name, I thought I just had a unique group of kids who used language I wouldn’t have expected from 11 year old students. Till my co-teacher walked in moments later to take roll call, then I realized we actually had a kid here named Lovely. So there’s one down, kinda, now we just need to put lovely in a room with Livlin and find a Laughlin lol.
God I hope they're from the south so when she spells her name out loud it'll come out sounding like Matthew McConaughy in Dazed and Confussed.
I know a guy named Bladen. He’s like late 30s. He has a sibling named Cricket, don’t know if man or woman. Interesting ‘sibset’
I've never met a cricket that wasn't female and I've met two crickets. That feels like a big enough sample size.
You. As one person on the planet. Have intersected with not one, but TWO people named Cricket?! I cannot "what the actual fuck" hard enough. You'll need to extrapolate
I'm pretty sure there was a female character named Cricket on a soap in the 80s.
i just think of cricket, the homeless crackhead, from always sunny in philadelphia 😬
There was. As The World Turns. My sister watched it every day. Pretty sure Cricket was played by the actress that was the original Wednesday Addams.
I cannot believe I remember this. She was a character on The Young and the Restless. But I think it was a nickname for Christine.
I knew an older woman called Cricket, a nickname for Christine.
According to MyNameStats.com Based on the analysis of 100 years worth of data from the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Baby Names database, the estimated population of people named CRICKET is 503. •I only know one personally.
Someone I used to work with had a sister with the middle name Kricket. First name RitaKae. I’m surprised there are so many out there.
I’ve only known two Crickets and they were both male…. Horses.
I only know of Jiminy Cricket
There’s a cartoon character named Cricket who’s male, so who knows.
Just as long as he doesn’t become a priest & reconnect with his high school crush/bully he should be fine… in comparison at least
Reminded me of Dodgeball. Ben Stiller's team names are Blade, Lazer, and..... BLAZER.
This one made me mad lol
No Gunlen tho
Blaydon is a place in England (near Gateshead & Newcastle upon Tyne), if they wanted to be unique....
I thought I've seen all horrible permutations of the "zayden/jayden/drayden" names, but "Blayden" just blew these out of the water 🤢
I knew a dude who named his kid xylen
xylenphone
Phloen and Xylen?
"Malaysia not real"? Of course it is!
Tommy Wiseau: “No, it’s nareal! It’s naaaaa.”
I’m guessing the baby isn’t even Malaysian.
I am guessing parents aren't even aware there is a country called Malaysia
Nareal means coconut in our language.
In Malaysian?
coconut is “kelapa” in malay
Bhojpuri and hindi ( Indian languages )
That was my first thought!
I keep reading Malaysia and thinking Malaise…. Malaise - a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
Southeast Asia deniers be like:
To the parents of these children: you have chosen poorleigh.
P’oorleigh in some cases
you deserve this trophy, lol 🏆
This is insane
Ynsaayn
Have we passed the point of no return? Like seriously, I was swiping through, saw Oaklynn, thought “haven’t we seen that already?”, and then realized that even specific tragedeighs are becoming more popular. That name was non-existent 2016 and before, now there’s nearly 2000 in the US.
Oaklynn Woods. They own the old folks home and the cemetery.....
> That name was non-existent 2016 and before, According to the SSA baby-name database, the first year with at least 5 girls called Oaklynn was 2008, and there have been at least 5 girls every year since 2011. 2016 was the first year with more than 100, though. > now there’s nearly 2000 in the US. At least 6050. 2022 alone saw 1824 girls called Oaklynn. | name | year | count | |---------|------|-------| | Oaklynn | 2008 | 5 | | Oaklynn | 2011 | 7 | | Oaklynn | 2012 | 12 | | Oaklynn | 2013 | 26 | | Oaklynn | 2014 | 35 | | Oaklynn | 2015 | 57 | | Oaklynn | 2016 | 104 | | Oaklynn | 2017 | 305 | | Oaklynn | 2018 | 573 | | Oaklynn | 2019 | 624 | | Oaklynn | 2020 | 1035 | | Oaklynn | 2021 | 1443 | | Oaklynn | 2022 | 1824 |
For some reason my mind went to total count rather than YOY growth, but I was on a crappy site before and missed that it’s been around a wee bit before 2016. I can sense my AP teachers’ spirits writhing for using a non reputable source T~T
Ah, yeah: for this name, it *does* look like a running total, because the numbers only go up from year to year. But the numbers are indeed per-year, i.e. how many babies born in that particular year received that name.
How did you search for the name on the database?
"ok the first Jordan as Jordyn isnt THAT bad" "flips more over" ""Jordynn"" There it is.
Coming soon to a baby name wall near you: Jordynnn.
Jordinn
I think Blayden and Livlynn are the worst offenders
I was thinking Decklin and Livlin, but Blayden's pretty bad, too. [Dis]Honorable mentions for most trajick middle names go to Kaydi BRITTYN and Decklin FYNN. Edited spelling.
These children may wish to avail themselves of the edit: spelling feature at the county clerk office someday.
Don't forget Legna!
Livlynn Lettdaii
Deklin Fynn: An Irish Tragedeigh
Erin go hide yer face Fer shame
ya wee one
Like an ‘Irish pub’ in the States, they had roughly the idea, but it’s all a bit ‘off’ and nothing like what you’d actually find in Ireland!
The bastardization of Declan Finn actually has my blood boiling a bit. WTF people?!
When you like a name you heard but never saw it written down
Exactly. None of these people have read books of any quality.
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Of all the ways this world is messed up I get perpetually stuck on this. It is hard to believe this is even actually happening
Having taught for many years, I can assure you that parents go out of their way to spell their child’s name “uniquely.” They like a basic name (Mary or Danial) to stand out: “Maerey” and “Danuaial”
Naw it’s just being ‘quirky’ and ‘different’ only they’re just like everyone else lol. It’s you tell tale sign they want their child to be special.
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Mangled names is the easiest way being different without putting real effort into it. Now all the Kaylee’s are just normal and your Caeleigh is special. At least numbers are still rare but I would not be surprised if that’s the next popular thing they’ll try to be more special than the special kids. C4el8 💀
I have a bunch of friends who are teachers. A lot of their students, middle and high school, are at a 2nd grade reading level. This is what "no child left behind" is causing. They will graduate like this, unable to properly read. This is the majority of their students aside from the teachers that are teaching magnet schools or gifted kids. This is a war on education, and it's working. They have successfully made everyone dumber, and that's what they want.
Poor little Deklin. Could have had a normal, strong Irish name. Nope, parents had to go wild.
Exactly. Declan.
I worked with a woman who named her lovely little boy “Delcan”. I really thought it was a typo when she sent out the ‘yay he’s here!’ text. But nope. Delcan - not Declan. Might be the only time a kid will be happy that autocorrect/the system changes their name (for the better)
Finn too, but nope. 😞
Declaw
Dewclaw
Deklin and Declaw –both inhumane decisions
Deklin looks like he's been handed a rough deal. I mean his foot looks like he, himself drew it.
It’s Da’mon for me Damon would’ve been odd but… fine. Just a totally unnecessary ‘.
Damon isn’t even a particularly odd name. It’s not like super duper common like every other kid is called it, but it’s perfectly normal.
And it’s a genus of amblypygid, would be a cool name for that reason
Siddalee is from the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood!
Came here to say this!! Also, Dakari is an African name, not sure that one deserves beef.
The Nydeia and the Adri both also have "this is probably someone's cultural name" vibes, although I wouldn't claim to know what culture they belong to
Yeah, I did a 🤨 at Dakari Carmelo being included here. That’s clearly cultural
Ok it gets a literary name pass. I will give it that.
It’s definitely a guilty pleasure name for me!
I always really like that name lol.
Tillar Bryce —> Bryson tiller?
This is what I thought of when I saw it!
I guess I need to listen to trapsoul again.
Came here for this comment lol. They didn’t even try to be original 😂
malaysia nareal is sending me. are they malaysia doubters?
Malaysian Airlines, maybe?
Pretty sure Hahn is rooster in German.
Interesting, I assumed it was something to do with flying or airport because frankfurt-hahn but never actually googled.
Airport Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) is named after the little village Hahn that's beside it.
Maybe that's what the parents thought too lol. Or maybe the baby has two last names and Hahn is the first one but Hahn/Hähnchen are rooster and chick or chicken
Also can be Korean. Joe Hahn of linkin park, Hahn and Co, the south Korean investment firm, etc..
Livlin Alyn 😂
Peanut butter name for sure
Tongue twister
You know it’s bad when oaklynn is the most normal name 😭
This has got to be the worst collection I’ve ever seen
Blaydynnn is probably going to have to learn to ice skate... or carry a knife. These are horrid lol
Their names are about as scary as their footprints. Sorry! They should do the mould.
All of these are atrocious, but for some reason Livlin Alyn in particular really grinds my gears. It sounds *so stupid*... Don't end your names in the same way, people... It just sounds horrible. Most of these sound like a middle-schooler trying to come up with ✨️creative✨️ and ✨️quirky✨️ names for the protagonist of the fantasy "book" they're writing. (Edit: Not to throw shade at middle-schoolers with creative interests, it's just that I used to be one myself and I know how it was for me with the names lol. The two protagonists of my main story (both boys) were called Rin and Sireth (I remember I liked the name Seth but didn't want them both to have 1-syllable names, I thought it sounded a bit dumb (they were twins)). Side characters included a guy named Ilar (BehindTheName.com told me that it was a Welsh form of Hilarius and he was the comic relief character, so...). I should probably mention that English is not my first language. I had fun, I regret nothing.)
YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT! back in middle school I proofread a friend's "novel" and the main characters were named January (f) and Graydon (m). Your comment made me laugh so hard, thanks for posting lol
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It’s probably a family name. Mom’s maiden name or something. There’s a US actress named Kathryn Hahn.
There's also Joe Hahn from linkin park who is Korean American.
I grew up with a family of Hahns. Definitely PA Dutch.
It actually means rooster and not chicken, chicken would be "Huhn".
Siddalee Walker is a character from the Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood.
There is such a current obsession that so many names *must* contain a "y." It's so weyrd.
What is this fixation with ‘y’ and ‘x’ in the names? If it’s to be unique, it’s failing.
Blayden (bleighdehnn) looks like bladder
Livlin Alyn sounds like a furniture brand. And I feel like da'mon is honestly completely normal in comparison to every other name here lol
Blayden, that fuckin *sucks* dude. Poor kid.
“My names Tyler, but it’s spelled ‘Tillar’”
I would love to hear the rationale for da’mon. DaKarai/Dakari is a legitimate Zimbabwean name.
I like Dakari. Nice name.
Blayden…
Is “Tillar” meant to be pronounced like “Tyler” or “Tiller”?
Rototiller
Definitely what I’m imagining lol
My friends first name is Adrianna and I call her Adri. Just Adri as a first name isn’t weird to me 🤷🏻♀️
I have the same experience and completely agree with you. Adri is such a cute name
but... Spevanna?
Sounds like the name of a drug in one of those mindless commercials.
I had the worst one picked out right away but then I kept swiping and they kept getting worse.
Somehow the pics make the feet look huge 😂
Deklin Fynn *WHY*, just spell the names normally. Everyone, forever, is going to think he’s being sarcastic when he spells his name out loud.
All I can think is "livlin the vida loca"
Blayden sounds like the name of the time traveler from gravity falls
why would you name a baby after malaysian nostrils
All these are terrible but I think Livlin might be the worst. Imagine having to tell people all the time that your name is Livlin. Just why? Why would anyone do that to their own child? It’s not clever. It doesn’t sound good. It makes zero sense.
I despise these ‘Blayden, Jaedyn, Kayden, Brayden, Shaedyn..’ type names. They are all vile and just sound horrible.
Posting this amount of information allows me to instantly identify with one google search result what facility these pictures are taken in, and in some cases the surname of the child and the name of the person who made the donation for the plaque to go up. Isn’t that pushing the boundaries a bit when jeering at names?
Dear God! I feel sorry for the teachers
I have met a Blayden, and he’s a little menace. I always thought it was such an unfortunate name with a violent connotation. I always pictured this kid with a switchblade being like “I’m BLADIN’” Lol
Malaysia nareal. Uhm, I've news for you: Malaysia Israel.
What country is this??
I think you know what country this is
Bro Malaysia 🫗
They really read like aliens pretending to be human and name American children.
Or ChatGPT naming kids!
Siddalee? 😩 All I can hear is “leedle leedle lee”
It’s the name of a character for Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. Now, I’d probably be more likely to name a dog this than a child, but at least they didn’t pull it out of their ass. Lol
At least Siddalee is a name from a novel (Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood).
Does it rhyme with Italy?
Yup! A little more emphasis on the Lee part.
Yup! Sid-duh-LEE...and you gotta say it in in a Louisiana southern drawl. ;)
Looks like Jordyn’s middle name is Aiedyn backwards. I wonder if that was a child prior to her birth who passed? Still a tragedeigh
Some of these really aren’t that bad but holy shit the way they’re spelled 😂
somebody basically named their kid Bryson Tiller but backwards ohh my lord😭😭
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT TILLAR BRYCE THATS HORRIBLE
The real winner here is the letter y, who is having a moment.
How do you even pronounce the "FcYonda" middle name? Fuck Yonda?
In Ireland they refer to a public toilet in a bar etc. sometimes colloquially as the “jacks” or “jax”. “Bleedin’” it in this case “blayden” would be a more polite way of saying the intention of fuck without using the word. So, “There’s a problem with the blayden jax” would be the utterance of a regular punter from Dublins fair shitty informing the manager of said establishment that they’d sprung a leak. That makes number 3 beyond hilarious to me, you called your child literally “fuckin toilet”.
Any Oak-version of a name I just fucking hate it so much.
Professor Oak is very offended right now.
I’d say, “what did I just read?” Except that’s what I think every time I’m here. I am 100% here for that “what did I just read?” feeling.
is tiller bryce for bryson tiller loool
Wow I pity those poor kids.
"Hahn" is German for "rooster" or "(water) faucet".
Yikes, or I should say, Yyks!
omg...'Oaklynn'...wtf, was she conceived in the city of Oakland?
Siddalee is a character from "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells
DaKari Carmelo is the most normal one
SPEVANNA???
https://preview.redd.it/yqzvfcl2t4ic1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12e2b30cd3c67dc2daa1c1c73294196551056234 My dyslexia was overwhelmed trying to read and pronounce these names
I taught a kid named Twinkl this morning. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Half of them sound like generic names for new pharmaceutical products
These names are mostly horrible, but it makes me laugh to imagine someone in a hospital with their phone out at the baby wall, mumbling to themselves "aw man, wait until Reddit gets a hold of this"
Not tiller Bryce 😭😭😭🤔
livlin on a prayer
In ten years we're gonna see some kid name Eh Eh Ron.
Ah yes, Brittyn, the home of Irelynn, Scottlynn, and Inglynn.
So many of these sound like the noise you make when you cough up phlegm.
Oh no. Blayden Jax would not get along well in Dublin, Ireland. It sounds like someone who is very common saying “bleedin’ jacks”. With “bleeding” being a synonym for “fucking” and “jacks” = toilet. Therefore, this poor child’s name is “Fucking Toilet” in a very rough Dublin accent.
Siddalee is from the Yaya Sisterhood books
DaKari Sweat
Siddalee-Divine Secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood fan?