Baby Name Pet Peeves
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Baby Name Pet Peeves
| Fri, 09-16-2005 - 11:45pm |
Hey all! I'm new here and not expecting anytime soon but always have been fascinated with baby names.
Thought it would be interestiing to see what everyone's biggest pet peeve(s) for baby names are!
Mine:
Girls with boys names...I just can't jump on the whole 'Ryan' 'Cameron' 'Riley" thing.
Close second to common names with crazy spellings (ie: Erica spelled Erykah) and siblings (especially twins) with too similar names-my husband has twin cousins who are 'Trevor' and 'Travis'
Love to see your thoughts!

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Bruce & Demi's youngest dd's name is Talullah Belle, then they have Scout LaRue and Rumer Glenn..
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_212733.shtml
Edited 9/28/2005 12:43 am ET ET by mom2jbse
Rita
Oh, wow! I guess I'm everyone's pet peeve!! My daughter's name is Bryttanie Alexandrya and she goes by Alex...a boy's name. I love to change the spellings or add "y's" or other letters and make it unique. If she had been a boy, she would have been Austin Mykhael. Now, if we have another girl, we've decided to name her Austin. :-) Another boy's name! Conforming to how everyone else thinks is "normal" is irritating to me. I think the John's, Andrew's, Ann's, Mary's and Jane's are old, boring and simple. I love long, beautiful, flowing names that are spelled as differently as I can. Oh, and I had no idea who Britney Spears was when I named her...so it certainly wasn't a celebrity thing.
I do not like one syllabul names as I find them boring and do not flow well. Flow is really important which is why Alexandrya goes by her middle name rather than her first name...because it sounded better that way (well, I thought so with her last name, anyway.) :) Names that rhyme with or sound similar to their last names are extremely bothersome...Sally O' Malley or Steven Marven or something.
As far as having to spell a name over and over for the rest of one's life...my name is Deborah and I am forever being mistaken for Barbara, Debra, and other odd mispellings or mispronunciations. My middle name is Japanese which I used to go by for years and that was funny trying to get people to grasp that concept or even come close to spelling it right, let alone say it. In hindsight, I absolutely regret changing it to something as common as "Deborah" (my legal first name) rather than keeping my unique and special Japanese name. I guess that's where my opinions of unique and different names being a wonderful way to give a child an identity of their own in their special name.
However, when I say unique, I think it's okay to a point. Naming your child Apple or Coco is a bit odd.
I'd have to agree with the last poster in that I think it's no problem for a girl to have a unisex name. Who says that Ryan, Jordan, Taylor
Quote: And why is it a problem to add a y in place of an a?
Well cause y doesn't
Oooh I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. I agree with most posts already. I just wanted to make a few points.
I don't know if people name their kids after celeb kids. I just think celebrities have just as bad taste as the rest of humankind, that's all. Who names their kid Apple? Pilot Inspektor? Demi Moore should be knocked upside her head for naming her daughter Tullua and Rumer. It's just bad taste!!!
And whenever I see a celeb with a kid named Eva, I just think wow, she has great taste in a name!! I named my daughter Eva (pronounced with a long A thank you very much) b/c I listened to Eva Cassidy my entire 9 months of pregnancy and just came back to that name. So, I guess I named her after a singer who had some popularity posthumously.
But back to the gosh awful names parents make the mistake of naming their kids. Let me ramble a few off that drive me nuts: Kaitlyn, Cody, Mackenzie, Britney, Brianna, Ashley, Brady, Braden, Jaden, Jasmine, Hailey, Caiden, Finley, Caleb, Chandler, Madison, Kendal, Regan, Kennedy, Collin. Basically, I can't stand the same name over and over again. Who wants their kid to be one of ten Kaitlyn's in a class?
And don't get me started on unique spelling. That's plain moronic!!
And I can't stand, honestly, basically a lot of the names I see today. I get that people want a name that's unique but it's gotten out of hand and it's not unique, just dumb (and clique and unoriginal). But that's just me. Of course, name your kid whatever you like. As long as you're happy, right?
Ricky:)
Wow, with all these pet peeves I'm surprised you all managed to find an acceptable name for your children.
~Kelly
married to Len
Mama to Nicholas Lane, May 2006
expecting baby number two November, 2008!!
My only pet peeve is when there are too many of a name. I guess I have other pet peeves like spellings, but the main one is just that there are going to be 75 emmas in first grade in 5 years, same w/ Aidan, etc. But those are still beautiful names so I can understand... its just that when I was growing up there were like 4 boys in my class named Jeremy and I knew them as "jeremy s" "jeremy k" and 'jeremy m' etc... w/ their last initial. that's what we actually called them. our teacher too. so i never want that to happen to my kids. that's my main thing. the names we like now aren't on the top 50 list - yet - but if it happens before they're born I'm picking a new one. It's sad when thousands of people all like the same 5 names. What ever happened to originality? And spelling them differently isn't original. Whoever met someone and said "Hi! I'm Madysin. That's spelled M-a-d-y-s-i-n." People don't care how it's spelled, only how it sounds.
The test is, can you see your childs name printed on a graduation diploma? A wedding invitation? Can you see them as a lawyer? A doctor? A teacher? Or any professional person? I don't want to knock anyone's names b/c we have our reasons.. but lets pick a name they can live w/ as kids and adults!!
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