What kind of baby names bother you?

Question

My coworkers and I were having a discussion yesterday about how silly baby names are nowadays. People are naming their children the most rediculous things...for example one of my classmates just named her daughter Anacrusis (which is a musical term we learned in Music 104) What are some weird names you all have heard lately?

Oh yes and I forgot about another classmate who had a baby girl and named her Kloey (Chloe) those weird spellings kill me too!

Answer 1

Yeah almost everyone's naming their baby mispelt or ugly names in an atempt to be original & cool. I Like some rare names like Naida,Tiffany,Dustin & Eden but not names like Ayeslenne,Laqueisha or Raindrop....what they dont realise is that in 12 years thier child will be just one in millons of baby's who have ugly mispelt futuristic names!

Answer 2

I accept that some people want to be different with their choice of name, but the vast majority of children with very unusual names hate it and could get bullied about it. I think that parents need to consider how their child would think about the name because it's highly unlikely that they'll thank them for it! I think a lot of parents think that having an unusual name for their child is a statement about them, but i personally think it's not a good statement! Imagine when these kids grow up. What adult would enjoy the name Sugar or Shilow.
"So who do i make the cheque out to?"
"Shilow Smith"
"Oh, i'm sorry, we don't serve dogs."
It's an embarassment, and would be really annoying, especially having to spell it out constantly. I mean, even a name like 'Rachael' causes problems when people forget to add the extra 'a', and it's a pretty standard name.

Yeah, by all means choose a pretty name, or something unusual but generally known. But don't sling a load of letters together, totally make a name up or steal a country or object name. Toy?! That's appalling, and you can guarentee that he or she (you can't tell with a name like that) will get bullied at some point in their life. And I think that a lot of the time when place names are used it sounds a bit idiotic. Like Tenessee or Chelsea. You kind of want to as them what they are going to call their next child. Finland? Russian Federation? Bulgaria?

End rant.
I sound old and grumpy.
I'm only 15.
I just feel particularly strongly about this. =p
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Answer 3

There was an hour long program on E! television the other day and it was all about all the crazy names that celebrities are naming their kids. Some of the names were just awful! If you want your kids to get picked on in school, go ahead and name them some weird, bizzare name. The poor kid will end up in therapy. Some of the names on the show were:

Inspector Pilot
Hopper Jack
Audio Science

To name a few. I know that Inspector Pilot is the son of the star of My Name Is Earl. Hopper Jack belongs to Sean Penn and Audio Science is some singer from Europe or something. Anyway, are those awful or what? Good Lord!

Answer 4

I've known one couple to name their daughter Nefarious. And then there's the strange spellings to make a common name different, like Mikal (Michael).
I like in Quebec where a good portion of the population is French, and I can't stand when the kids have names that can't even be pronounced in french - Kim sounds like Keem, Jason sounds like Zhasohn. And there was one instance many years ago where a couple wanted to name their son Spatula.

Answer 5

Miscommon spellings for common names, and these weird names parents try to come up with for "uniqueness," and also people going by their middle names instead of their first name.

In fact, if it were up to me, agencies like the DMV and Social Security office would have standardized spellings for certain names. So in other words, we'd either have Antwan or Antoine, assuming the "standard" was Antwan then no matter how you spelled your name for the purposes of that governmental agency only Antwan would be accepted, no matter how you actually spelled your name otherwise.

I think they already do that with regards to accepting first name and middle name both, so if your name is "John Bob Smith" but you like to be called Bob, tough luck--they're going to enter it as John Bob Smith, and you (I think) have to sign it that way. I agree with that 100%.

In things like this, I think SUPPRESSION of individuality is a GOOD thing, because the standardization makes it so much easier on society having to deal with paperwork and processing things etc. Why burden society just because you want to be "unique?" In this case I think "unique" just equates to being cocky and arrogant enough to want to be an unnecessary pain in someone's backside.

Save your uniqueness for your own ventures, I mean heck, even Magic Johnson has to sign his papers Earvin Johnson I'm sure, although the entire basketball world knows him as Magic Johnson. That is how it SHOULD be.

I would even so go far as removing all titles like Dr, Reverend, Honorable, Professor, Lieutenant, etc, at least (again) for these agencies. Why isn't Mr and Ms good enough?

Answer 6

Harry
Chuck
Bob
Vanessa

Answer 7

You know, the way names are being spelled nowadays is no different to how it was many years ago. Back in the day, my name was a last name. It was "wierd", "strange" "awkward"- and now it is normal. Absolutely, totally normal.

The baby names that bother me the most are the ones that are just totally off the wall -- who in their right mind would actually name their child Apple? Really -- I mean REALLY?

Answer 8

I cant stand People who like to name their kids weird names but most of all I hate when they try to spell it different. How is that making it different the name still sounds the same. I know a girl who spelled her kids names Maddisyn for Madison, but this ones the killer Maiysn for Mason like does that even sound out as Mason. These are going to go thru a life time of having to correct spelling of their names constantly.

Answer 9

Anything that you are going to have to explain to people how to pronounce. My exhusband picke our son's name, Malachy, pronounced mal-a-, well I don't know how to write the last part, but it rhymes with guy. I didn't think it was a big deal, it's biblical, Irish American author Frank McCourt's brother was named that (why my ex picked it). But now everyone acts like it is the hardest name to figure out.

Answer 10

Like many others, I hate when people try to come up with a weird spelling for a perfectly normal name! A couple days ago, some asked if there were alternative ways to spell Beth.....No there isn't, like hello!!!!