Cutesy/Trendy Names

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

There seems to be no general opinion on "trendy" names: you either abhor them or adore them.

What trendy name(s) make you want to roll your eyes and set fire to things? Why don't you like them?

If you love them, why do you prefer different spellings (Aluhsun over Alison?) over their traditional counterparts?

Comments

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

Personally, I hate trendy/cutesy names. I feel like it's absolutely butchering perfectly good names and the child bestowed with them will spend their entire lives correcting the spellings.

I also really dislike taking names from cultures extremely removed from yours. If I met an Irishwoman with absolutely no Japanese heritage named 'Kiyoko' I would probably question her parents sanity.

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

I agree to an extent on the cultural thing. Certain names you can probably get away with but some are so screamingly obviously from a certain country etc and should probably be steered clear of for the sake of the poor kid :p

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, the cross-cultures thing drives me insane. I'd be fine with a person with, say, French heritage giving their child an Irish name or something, as most people with European ancestry are total mutts anyway, but giving your very Caucasian child an Asian name is incredibly silly in my eyes.

[jexia]

The worst "-ayden" name I've heard is "Trayden". As in "get $500 trayden for your old car."

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

-aydens have become SO TRENDY lately.

Same with -aytons (Payton, Layton, Bayton, Bananarammafofayton)

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

I used to quite like the name Ava, but I'm starting to get sick of it. SO MANY AVAs and EVAs around here lately.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

They're like the Jennifer and Ashley of the 2010s.

[ealexsism.livejournal.com]

I don't mind "trendy" or "hipster" names, I just don't like common/overused names... and they tend to go hand-in-hand.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I agree with this like * 10000000000000

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I don't mind CLASSIC popular names, like Jacob, William, Henry, Lilian, Sophia, etc.

I really dislike kr8ive spelling and trendy names like the -den trend and names like Madison, Bailey, Kyle, etc.

I generally really hate cutesy girl names. I think a name should sound good as a child and as an adult.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

I generally really hate cutesy girl names. I think a name should sound good as a child and as an adult.

Accurate. I think all parents ought to step back and imagine fifty years time when someone is referring to their son as "Uncle Draxton" to test if it ages well.

[landslideoflove.livejournal.com]

I remember being 18 years old and my favorite name was "Jayden" Im 24 now and I can't stand it, or any other name that sounds like it lol. So much for standing the test of time!

[leithalia.livejournal.com]

I don't mind different spellings for names, but when you have to stare at the name forever to figure it out, you've gone too far.

For example, if my best friend has a girl in the future, she wants to name her Emily, but have it spelled Emmalee. I like that, it's a different spelling, but you still know what the name is.

However, I was substitute teaching one day and this girl's name was Aliviyah (Olivia). That's too much.

I also don't get names like Nevaeh (Heaven backwards), Destiny, Kindred, Genesis, etc. They sound like pet names to me.

And I think names like Madison, Mackenzie, Peyton/Payton, and -ayden names are overused.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

Aliviyah is just, wow, too much.

A cousin of mine named her daughters Neveah and Heavenne. I'm not kidding. The girls are about two years apart.

Names like that just make me assume that their mothers were too young when they had them.

[robothor1111.livejournal.com]

I don't mind different names, like "Kiya" for a girl, but I absolutely hate when you get a name like "Madison" and the name is spelled "Mahdihsun" or something like that. At that point, I'm like "seriously, stop." I mean, my name is Nicole and my friend's name is Nikole, but that's how it's spelled where her family is from. I don't think there's a Nykohl origin anywhere, am I making sense? So if I saw that, I'd probably roll my eyes.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

I dislike all the -aydens.

I haaate creative spellings ... the worst I've seen recently was Jakub.

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

I saw Jaesun not too long ago. Yikes.

[lovegingers.livejournal.com]

I agree with what everyone is talking about (crazy spelling and overused names) but what I first thought of was the trendy names like "Isabella" and "Edward" because of Twilight's popularity. Those names make me want to roll my eyes, because they will soon be the next extremely common "Jessica's".

BTW, I feel really bad about calling some names common and overused, because some people on here may be named that...

[smeebubbles.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how much of that is a trend that happened the other way, though. Like, if you called your daughter Hermione it's a fairly strong Harry Potter reference. Whereas Isabelle/Isabella and Jacob were already quite popular before Twilight really took off. Meyer just ruined a whole bunch of perfectly normal, classic, commonly-used names.

Here in Aus, Isabelle/Isabella/Isobel is the #1 girls' name of 2009/2010, but I don't know anybody who chose the name BECAUSE of Twilight, if anything, it was the one thing that worried them about using it.

[the-pyre.livejournal.com]

Nevaeh is the absolute worst imo.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Oh, good Lord, yes. "I'll spell 'heaven' backwards and use it as a name." ...Why?

[sweetserenity71.livejournal.com]

There are hundreds of Kayla's and Katie's and I didn't mind the name until it exploded.

Speaking of strange spellings and names -- I know someone whose girls are named Heavenli and Harmoni. Too much.

[night-mirror.livejournal.com]

When I was in 5th grade (21 years ago) the were six girls in my class with versions of Katherine: Kate, Kathy, Katie, Kat, Kathryn, Katy, and Kathy Jo. I think there was also two Alyssas in that class (one went by Aj and the other was an Allie).

[smittenlotus.livejournal.com]

I can't stand names like "Mercedes." A Mercedes is a car for crying out loud. Why would you name your child after a car (unless they were conceived in one or something)? It seriously reminds me of the Ramona and Beezus stories where a little girl, Ramona, was mocked for naming her doll 'Chevrolet'.

Semi-related, I also don't like how some parents try their best to make their child's name sound "unique and exotic", so they give their poor kid some gobbledygook name that sounds like a venereal disease. There's a lot of names like that given to kids in my hometown and I feel so bad for them.

[vesta-venus.livejournal.com]

Technically, the car was named after the woman's name and not the other way around. It's Spanish for Mercy.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

The names "Jayden" and "Kayden" sends me up the wall. Strangely, I love the name "Aidan" (yes, "Aidan," and not the more popular alternate spelling, "Aiden").

I do like fancier, once old-fashioned girls names that have come back in style recently: Olivia, Ava, Evelyn, Eleanor, Isabel. I don't like many "cutesy" names, but "Riley," "Kylie," and "Bailey" are exceptions.

[night-mirror.livejournal.com]

It's funny that you bring this up because my teacher today said that my parents were horrible to have strapped me with the name Odessa O'Dette. When I was a kid I hated my name but now I like it. My first name is Greek and everyone assumes my last name is Irish.

I honestly hate trendy names and cutesy names but with that being said a lot of people would flip out because I like unique names. Yes, kids make fun of other kids because of their names. Shit, kids make fun of each other for everything and if they can't find something to tease each other about, they make stuff up.

[rosabelle.livejournal.com]

Hm. I think trendy spellings annoy me more than trendy names, in general. I hate the names Peyton and Alexander (less trendy than Peyton, I think? IDK), but spellings like Payetin or Alyx&r would bother me WAY MORE than the names themselves.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

I see a lot of distaste for the -aydens here. I concur. I have a son Grady and someone once asked me if it was a nn for Grayden. I was like what.....? Grayden isn't even a real name!

I'm also not a huge fan of girls being given traditionally boy names. I'm not quite sure why, just a pet peeve.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

The only one I can think of that I like is Charlie for a girl. If I ever end up using it, I'd definitely go for a proper name of Charlene, though.

[sara-of-troy.livejournal.com]

i know a "peyton" who spells her name "patyn." that is too much for me. if i were to just read it without knowing her i would pronounce it pat-in.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I tend to draw the line at trying to use spellings to separate your child from the crowd. For the most part, people are going to say your name than spell it, and if it still sounds the same as another, it might as well be spelled that way; at least then you don't have to correct both my spelling and pronunciation.

I think I'm a minority this community in not caring about how popular a name is. I feel that people stress too much about not wanting someone else to have the same name as their kid. My mom wanted to name me Christiana because she thought it was unique (it's the owner of a tavern down south). When I got to college, I met a girl with that name. I tend to think that chances are there's someone somewhere with the same name, so if you like the name use it; so what if someone else likes the name? But that's just me :).

[smeebubbles.livejournal.com]

As a teacher, I have to say, it's true - I DO look at the roll and make prior judgments about what the class is going to be like based on the number of awful names. There's a student at our school called Twayne, and yes, he's the kind of kid you'd expect a Twayne to be.

Fortunately I'm yet to meet a Nevaeh here in Australia. There are WAY too many Madisons, though (people - it means SON OF Maud, how is that a girl's name??), and "Makayla" or "Mikayla" both appear in the top 100 with the correct spelling "Michaela" nowhere to be seen. For boys, people still seem to like traditional names, but for some bizarre reason "Jett" has appeared out of nowhere and "Jaxon" sounds like a cleaning product in my opinion.

I also hate the surname-as-firstname trend, cf Mackenzie, Harrison etc and the profession-as-name trend e.g. Hunter, Archer, Piper.

[edwardina.livejournal.com]

That last one I don't mind, perhaps because of the historical precedent. Last-name-as-first-name and profession-as-name, are variations on the same thing: Names like Hunter and Piper became names because they were professions. Just like Baker, Chandler, Fletcher, Cooper, etc.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Crazy spelling I saw recently was Ilyza for Eliza.

100 kinds of wrong!

However, if it's part of a different culture, and you're within that culture, that's different. Eg, I'm part Polish. I have cousins in Poland with names like Krystyna and Ewa, if I was over there, it would be feasible for my name to be Alicja instead of Alicia.

[roxtarrr.livejournal.com]

The most ridiculous name I ever saw was "Merxiadeze". It took us a day to figure out that it was "Mercedes".

Also Blaiyze. Yeah.

Vowel soup

[edwardina.livejournal.com]

The original spelling clearly doesn't have enough vowels, we must add more! Extra vowels make it extra classy!

Oh, my aching head.

[turple-purtle.livejournal.com]

Cutesy names and wacky spellings are annoying. Clearly no one thought about how these would look on headstones...or how long it would take their child to learn to spell their own name.

I usually prefer a traditional spellings. Alusuhn - Blech. Others that annoy: Jaymes, Rilee, Kaiytelynne (let's see how many letters we can use to spell a 2-syllable name!), any spellings other than Michaela, Jayden, Nevaeh, and other made up monstrosities. And I really have to try and guess if a child is male or female based on their name. Most time they'll have a middle name or spelling that clinches it, but I wouldn't guess come some names (my only unisex exceptions: Robin, Jamie/Jaime, and Lindsay/Lindsey).