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A friend's neice is competing in a local baby beauty contest (not sure what to call it) and I thought the names of all the babies competing were...interesting. Some of them I really like and others are just...interesting.

Bold names are ones that I really like.

Izabella
Nicholas
Timmy
Cooper
Arianna
Conner
Brydon
Brian
Aarahlynn
Skylar
Bryson
Riley (m)
Landen
Hanna
Karigan
Riley (f)
Damien
Madison
Olivia
Kaydence
Raven
Brooklin
Thomas
Carter
Ryan
Kailey
Lancy
Devin
Jaden
Landon
Alexandria
Michael
Gavin
Charlie
Rylee (f)
Nadia
Reagan
Gianna
Brandon
Drake
Logan (m)
Caleb
Ella
Conner
Mallory
Ciaira
Eve
Brayden
Wyatt
Baylor
Tabbitha
Brooke
Mikey
Cody
Bobby
Alexsandra
Mariana
Madisen

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Baylor just sounds ilke someone couldn't decide between Bailey and Taylor.

It looks like a very typical selection of kids born around now

I actually really like Baylor. It's a more traditionally southern name, I think, as I've seen it used in a couple of books set in the south (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood being one of them)

oh ok, well I'm from Australia and I've never heard it lol

lol I had never heard of it before then, either, and for all I know it could be a name that's totally unrelated to the south and the authors just used it because they liked it. Who knows.

i don't like it at all, either. it does sound like bailey and taylor mixed together :p

I totally agree - I'd never have guessed it was an "real" name rather than something made-up and trendy!

Baylor ()

It's also the name of the largest medical conglomerate around Dallas - http://www.bcm.edu/

There's a Baylor medical facility in practically every town and suburb around here.

Everyone would think the boy was named after the hospitals.
http://www.baylorhealth.com/

I like:
Damien
Olivia
Thomas
Eve

I hate when names are spelt wrongly - Madisen, Alexsandra, Tabbitha, Ciaira, Brooklin, Kaydence, Izabella! Come on!

Baylor? Aarahlynn? Is that a typo for Sarahlynn? Both are awful and sound made up.

I like Baylor and I've heard it used in several different places, but I'm totally with you on Arahlynn and with (most of) the mispelled names. I don't mind Alexsandra that much, but the rest are pretty bad lol.

Kaydence makes me ill. I wonder if people who are using the name even know what the WORD "cadence" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cadence) means! In my high school music theory class, when we were learning about cadences, I thought the word sounded so pretty, and would be such a pretty name for a little girl. Until a couple years later when I realized people were actually using it and being morons about it.

Most of the time I don't like when people use words (like Cadence) as names, but I hate it when they spell them wrong! I guess some people might not know what a cadence is but there's no excuse for names like Ryver, Foxx, Fayth...

I only like Damien, Charlie, and Drake.

Some of these make me seriously want to gag.

I recently really like the name Nadia. I was looking up names on babynames.com about a week or so ago, because I was scared that I might be pregnant (which would have been awful). I always thought I had my girl name picked out (Hannah Margaret), but I started to think maybe I didn't. The names that really stuck out at that point were Nadia and Mabel. Two names I otherwise never would have thought of. *shrugs* On my list now...

Back to this list... People who spell things wrong just to be "cute" need to be beaten with sticks.

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