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.

[jexia]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

-aydens have become SO TRENDY lately.

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

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

I'd probably roll my eyes to a super Irish name on someone who isn't Irish in the least, though.

"Siobhan LaFayette" or "Dearbháil Montpied" would just sound so silly.

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

Oop, good point. I forgot about the very Celtic sounding names.

[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]

You could do that with any culture's super-traditional names, if you tried hard enough.

Luckily trendy American parents don't usually choose Siobhan for their Washington born-and-raised daughter.

[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.

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

I just did this to uncle Draxton. I know someone with a little boy Treydon. Imagine that?

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

"Kids, get in the car. We have to be at Uncle Draxton and Aunt Precious's house for supper in five minutes."

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[landslideoflove.livejournal.com]

My neighbors daughters name is Neveyah Ann-Annette. "Neveah" is bad enough but adding the Y in there? so yuck. Her middle names are the names of her mothers best friends, both whos names are Annette, so why not just name her Neveyah Annette, so she added the "Ann" from "Annette" like its a seperate name or something lol. yuck yuck and yuck.

[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.

[robothor1111.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's awesome/awful.

[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...