Define Trendy

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

Define trendy names for me and list a few examples.

My examples:
*Anything that ends in -aden
*Anything that ends in -alyn
*Names off of anything MTV

Comments

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

In my area at least:
Landon, Cheyanne, Nehamiah, Johanna, Diem

[fallingtopieces.livejournal.com]

But Bronwyn has been around forever. Okay, well, I've seen it mostly as Bronwen, but a change of one letter hardly throws it into tryhard uniqueness. Does it?

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Yeah I don't think so, I just think of Bronwen as an underused classic.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware both spellings are very common and have been around forever! Good old-fashioned Welsh name if you ask me :)

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Lol, I don't think Bronwyn is a "trendy" or "yuneek" name at all. It's a classic Welsh name that's been around for years!

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I think the 'y' spelling is just a variant. Yes, I think Bronwen is more traditional and Bronwyn more modern, but it's definitely not that new. My father (Welsh) has a cousin Bronwyn who's probably 60. To me it's quite a traditional name, I didn't even realise it was that popular!

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Bronwyn with a y was such a popular name in the 70's. I'm not a huge fan, but I agree: it's not at all new.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

Oh god I hate Bronwyn/Bronwen. So pretentious. Actually, that's a trend I've been noticing lately. People trying to use "intellectual" sounding names -- names from literature, mostly.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I'm really confused as to what is pretentious about Bronwen/Bronwyn. Doesn't sound "intellectual" to me at all.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

Bronwen/Bronwyn doesn't sound intellectual to me, but it makes me think of people using it because it's British and therefore "fancy." Plus, it REALLY bugs me when people use Bronwyn on a girl because they think the y makes me more feminine. The -wyn ending only occurs in masculine Welsh names, so to use it on a girl just shows ignorance.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Haha, I think it must be different in the US, I didn't realise it had that kind of vibe about it :) I've never met a Bronwen/Bronwyn who wasn't actually Welsh (or at least British with Welsh blood) so to me it seems a pretty traditional name. You're right about the -wyn/-wen thing though. I think it's a bit more accepted nowadays (I met a female Gwyn a few years back which I thought was really odd) but -wyn is definitley masculine. My dad's cousin Bronwyn is 100% Welsh...maybe her parents were just dumb or maybe they were trying to be trendy...

[kthartline.livejournal.com]

*Names of Celebrity babies
*Names with totally screwy spellings (kre8tive)

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

Boys' names for girls.
Kre8tyve spellings.
Youneek names.

And I agree with everything that's been said so far.

Also, does anyone else feel like names for the kids of hippies are coming back? I've been hearing about a lot of Sky/Skye lately, and Maia (Maya?), and when I said I was naming my kid Soleil, a lot of people told me that was a hippy name.

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Names with extra ys, the whole unique deal

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

To me "trendy" pretty much means "suddenly uberpopular but will seem retarded in ten years if it doesn't already." Sooooo kry8iv spellings and "Haley" in all its incarnations. Possibly "Madison." "Ethan," "Ella" and "Isabella" might not be "ruined," as they're more old-fashioned.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Names that you hear 24/7 but only recently...
McKenzie
Riley
Madison

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Ugh to all those three. I really don't get why anyone would think "Mackenzie" is an attractive name, particularly for a girl.

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

Trendy basically means fad, names you all the sudden hear that get really really popular and then the next there history.

Examples:
*kre8tyve names*
*boys names for girls*
*names celebrities use for there kids*
*yooneek names*

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

here in holland it are those decent short old-people names;
dirk, jan, joep, sanne

in this community i also get the feeling the last-name-is-a-first-name-trend is quite popular in the usa now... i hate it

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

oh god yeah the last name as a first name. That's why there's a zillion Jackson's running around. I hate it too.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Surnames as first names and professions as first names. They often overlap. Examples: Taylor, Chandler, Thatcher, Walker, Cooper. Ick. I think of names like Mackenzie in this category too, as they sound like surnames to me.

Boys' names on girls. Riley is a perfect example.

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

Oh I feel horrible:) I love Chandler, Thatcher, Cooper, etc.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Hehe, it's just personal taste :) If you like them because you just like them then cool! I wouldn't stop liking the names I like just because they became trendy; it's people who pick names *because* they're trendy that annoy me.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

-son names are getting trendy too