Given this baby naming craze, what do you think is worse? The so called "unique" names that are misspelled, made up, and sometimes just ridiculous (La'Jacquioosle, or Ghennifor), or the overused trendy names (Brittney, Ashley, etc)? Don't mean to offend anyone, just curious.
2007-02-05 04:21:11 · 42 answers · asked by Ruby 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Baby Names
I definately think the made up/ridiculous celebrity inspired naming trends are worse than the overused. At least with a common name, people will know how to spell it/say it and your kid won't get a wedgie on a daily basis. Whatever happened to giving your child a classic name they could grow up to enjoy. Imagine having to spend your life explaining your name before being able to talk about anything else. What a pain in the *** and all for the sake of the parents wanting to feel artistic. Sigh...
2007-02-05 04:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with most people on here. the totally messed up names u have to sit and read real slow just to TRY and pronounce correctly. Im not really into nameing my child trendy names either that are SO popular where there is 10 other children with the same name. So my advice would be to try and find a name u like that is maybe a lil of both. a lil different that u dont hear all that often but not so messed up where no one will ever get the name right. good luck and God Bless. I am having my 2nd son 3rd child and i am clueless on a name as of this time. i think it will just hit me when it is right.
2007-02-05 06:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by goober 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your first case is far worse. The trendy names are really only an issue if/when you happen to get a lot of them in the same place. As the kid grows up, in particular once they are out of school, you spend much less time around people who are exactly your same age, and at that point you just have a regular old name. But if your name is Oeddie, Qjohn with a silent Q, whatever, then you have a jacked up name for your entire life.
Amusing related note: I was in a course in college once that had more boys with the same name as me than it had girls in total, counting the professor and teaching assistant who were both females.
2007-02-05 04:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by dpawson 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather give my child an odd, unique name than have her known as Ashley G. or Sierra G. or the dreaded Britney G. I want to have people know right away who is being mentioned when she is spoken about. On the other hand I knew a guy in school whose name was S H I T H E A D! Seriously, his mom thought it was beautiful, and pronounced it ShaTodd. No one ever had a straight face when addressing him. Poor guy. He finally went by Todd. It was so ghetto and selfish of her to do that to him.
2007-02-05 05:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by danac210 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones that are misspelled,made up and sometimes ridiculous! Poor children these days, parents are forgetting that these kids someday are going to be adults! I just think that names are becoming such an issue on whos names are most unique that its way out of hand!
2007-02-05 05:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by kaelynnsmommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Yoo-neeq" names, definitely. They just look and sound so ridiculous. Overused names I can live with. In fact, some of the trendy names are quite nice, it's just when you have little armies of Ashleys that I start to get annoyed.
I should also say that unusual names, such as mythological names that you don't hear very often don't bother me, they're more of a pleasant surprise. But when you consult a bowl of alphabet soup when naming your child or tack on five extra letters to make your child's name "unique" it makes me want to heave.
2007-02-05 04:33:00 · answer #6 · answered by chelsea_san 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The unique made up names
There are unique names that are no used a lot, they are fine
I named my daughter in 2000, her name is Hayley
I was talking to a women, her daughter was born in 2000 too.
We were saying how we try to name our children names that you heard of, by not so there others in the class. Her daughter is named Grace. How when we named our children, they were not common. How we have so many girls that year, and since them name Grace and Hayley.
Some people do not attend to use trendy names
Other do.
I prefer trendy names.
2007-02-05 05:35:28 · answer #7 · answered by Halo Mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately the unique ones. I hate the made up 'ghetto' names especially. Some of the overused ones bother me (like the 'M' names- Madison and all of it's variant spellings, McKayla, Makenzie, etc), but they ones that you listed (Ashley and Brittney) don't bother me so much.
2007-02-05 05:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by Queen Queso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the unique names are worse because the ones you used as examples are hard to pronounce. Simple names are good. Unless if you come up with a good unique name.
2007-02-05 06:15:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Names that are misspelled, made up, and sometimes just ridiculous because they will cause a constant struggle for the child throughout their life, from ridicule to continually have to spell and pronounce the name.
2007-02-05 05:27:19 · answer #10 · answered by RoS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋