I thought it was weird that "Nina May" from earlier in the thread didn't pronounce her name normally: "NEE-nah"

8/1/2014 9:06:20 PM

my mom worked with a Nina (Nigh-Nah)

8/1/2014 9:40:26 PM

Can't explain it but the name did get passed down to a cousin. She however got the normal "Nee-nah" pronunciation.

[Edited on August 2, 2014 at 8:15 AM. Reason : Weirdest auto correct ever]

8/2/2014 8:14:51 AM

my criteria for naming a kid would be to give them a name that they won't have to spell for folks

8/2/2014 9:54:54 AM

Welp, my white trash cousin was married to a guy named Copper. His brother is Iron. They are both in jail. She proceeded to have 3 more kids with 3 other guys (we as taxpayers are paying for them).

8/2/2014 10:19:35 AM

you could just envision your taxes are paying for something else

8/2/2014 4:12:36 PM

^ I wish.

8/2/2014 5:59:24 PM

Errrmahhgerd! Dey tuk r JARBS

[Edited on August 2, 2014 at 11:51 PM. Reason : With r taxes!]

8/2/2014 11:51:12 PM

I hate how people are now replacing vowels with y's and ending every name in -son or -den


That doesnt make you or you child any more sophisticated, assholes, you're trying too hard

8/2/2014 11:56:43 PM

I personally don't get names that are last names already

8/3/2014 12:04:34 AM

^ I hate that. Young ITB couples love it.

10/1/2014 10:11:31 AM

this may have been posted in here already, but i'm super annoyed with the trend of names being some word or name spelled backward. like nevaeh (heaven), rehtaeh (heather), traeh (heart), etc.

10/1/2014 10:17:07 AM

Noticed lots of people are starting to name their kids after cities now. Not so bad if it was already a name like Charlotte or something but Lexington? Come on.

10/1/2014 10:20:01 AM

it's where he was conceived

10/1/2014 10:20:59 AM

here in ITB you have to give your kids 2 first names

10/1/2014 10:44:16 AM

I was almost an island....thank goodness. Can you imagine Jolo or Cebu?

10/1/2014 10:59:59 AM

funktavious

10/1/2014 11:13:19 AM

Tesla, for a girl

idk dude

10/1/2014 12:17:52 PM

just heard about these girls in the phillipines named ABCD and EFG (some people in my friend's family). DiShonda is looking pretty normal now, all things considered.

[Edited on October 1, 2014 at 12:25 PM. Reason : ç]

10/1/2014 12:25:32 PM

Upper middle class white people are getting fucking retarded with the names they're giving their kids.

I looked at my daughter's class roster recently.

Savannah, Ava, Madison, Carson, McKenzie, Finley, Mallory, Callum, Anderson, Archer, and more that i can't think of right now.

I knew one Madison growing up and a Carson, but the rest of them are just parents trying too hard to be 'unique.' In general, I can tell by a kid's name how much of a douche/cunt the parents are.

There's one Nathan, a Katie, and then my kid's Amy. And we named our son Ryan.

10/1/2014 12:29:26 PM

Those all seem like they should be last names.

10/1/2014 1:10:21 PM

I always liked Natas

[Edited on October 1, 2014 at 1:13 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2014 1:13:12 PM

Growing up (born '82) I had classmates with 6 of those names, they don't seem that weird to me (Madison, Carson, McKenzie, Mallory, Anderson, and Archer (Archer may have been a nickname))

10/1/2014 1:15:31 PM

Agreed, Callum is the only weird-ish name on that list to me.

10/1/2014 1:25:08 PM

daughter of Krallum

10/1/2014 1:28:45 PM

I also think that none of those names are weird. I know two Callums, although one is Canadian

I grew up with a girl named Sthr. Pronounced star. Fucking weird.

[Edited on October 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM. Reason : callum is a boys name yo]

10/1/2014 1:33:33 PM

yah, maybe less weird than pretentious.

and again, more so a reflection of the parents than the kids... at least for now.

10/3/2014 12:57:54 AM

There used to be one or two Ava-types in a class of Stephanies/Lauras/Jennifers, etc...

Now you're the unique one with a simple Amy. At least your daughter's class features proper spelling and actual names. She could be in with some Kaydens, Mckynzies, and Madysens.

And I long for the days of RaShonda and LaTonya...anybody who had a problem with those should feel pretty stupid right about now.

10/3/2014 6:39:05 AM

There used to be one or two Ava-types in a class of Stephanies/Lauras/Jennifers, etc...

Now you're the unique one with a simple Amy. At least your daughter's class features proper spelling and actual names. She could be in with some Kaydens, Mckynzies, and Madysens.

And I long for the days of RaShonda and LaTonya...anybody who had a problem with those should feel pretty stupid right about now.

[Edited on October 3, 2014 at 6:40 AM. Reason : I'm doubly serious about this topic.]

10/3/2014 6:39:05 AM

i think Ava is the (or one of the) most common girl names in america right now.

10/3/2014 8:36:04 AM

no way bro. [Any version of] Isabelle or Sophia.


Fuck if one more of my friends/facebook friends names their kid either of those I'm going to have to say something.

10/3/2014 1:55:00 PM

looked it up. Ava was number 5 every year back to 2008. number 4 in 2006 and 2007.

[Edited on October 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2014 2:00:11 PM

^^ my brother chose that name this year for his child, it was too late to say anything by the time it was done.

[Edited on October 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2014 2:14:00 PM

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis just named their daughter Wyatt???

[Edited on October 3, 2014 at 2:24 PM. Reason : almost palindrome ]

10/3/2014 2:23:48 PM

Quote :

"Agreed, Callum is the only weird-ish name on that list to me."

A girl I graduated HS with just named her son this. Blah!

Quote :

"i think Ava is the (or one of the) most common girl names in america right now."

Yeah, it definitely is. I have TWO cousins (kids) named Ava (one of my dad's side and one of my mom's side).

10/3/2014 2:31:48 PM

lol - I just googled "isabelle" (just right-clicked to search to open up new google tab so I could look up popular baby name lists) and first result is headline about how Ashton & Mila named their baby "Wyatt Isabelle"

10/3/2014 3:15:05 PM

Smath74

Quote :

"Top 100 names of the year Girls' Names 1. Sophia 2. Emma 3. Olivia 4. Isabella 5. Mia 6. Ava 7. Lily"

annnnd BOOM goes the dynamite

[Edited on October 3, 2014 at 3:18 PM. Reason : lll]

10/3/2014 3:17:58 PM

Axton

10/7/2014 10:50:04 PM

^^
parents are giving their kids some weird fucking names these days

I know that's a ridiculous thing to say, but I feel it has a solid kernel of truth to it

10/7/2014 11:11:11 PM

^^^Dude, those are all really high, including ava. You're not really proving anything.

[Edited on October 7, 2014 at 11:14 PM. Reason : ?]

10/7/2014 11:14:10 PM

you're really high

10/7/2014 11:22:09 PM

^^^ , ^^^^^

Aside from Mia and Ava, the rest are classical/stereotypical (historically popular and NOT new at all)) White Western girls' names. I don't see the problem there....


[Edited on October 7, 2014 at 11:25 PM. Reason : ]

10/7/2014 11:25:09 PM

robert downy jrs kids names

10/7/2014 11:35:09 PM

tinsley pedrick (a girl)

sidney harlow tang



my cousin went with family names for her two girls so they are unusual

chandler gray

mcrae alexander

10/7/2014 11:56:25 PM

^^^^I really, really am.

I've even been fucking up easy sudokus.

But that won't stop me from posting! (Or starting to post, falling asleep, and pressing post reply six hours later.)

10/8/2014 1:08:58 AM

Kquierstyn

what

10/8/2014 12:09:09 PM

^ pronounced kirsten?

also, i don't understand the hate (or distaste or whatever) for names that are actually names (historically, anyway) that are also spelled "normally"

for example, callum is an old gaelic name...you don't have to like it, but it's not like someone just put a bunch of letters together and called it a name...

...though i suppose anything can be a name, so it's kind of silly to think one string of letters is any different than another string of letters (assuming you didn't name your kid "toaster" or something)

10/8/2014 1:08:42 PM

Quote :

"Smath74 Top 100 names of the year Girls' Names 1. Sophia 2. Emma 3. Olivia 4. Isabella 5. Mia 6. Ava 7. Lily annnnd BOOM goes the dynamite "

what exactly is booming here? Ava has consistently been one of the top girls names (what i said) over the past half decade or longer, which is exactly what your list shows.

[Edited on October 8, 2014 at 2:47 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2014 2:46:53 PM

http://www.nameoftheyear.com/

In case someone didn't know this contest existed...

10/8/2014 3:02:53 PM

my friend is now dating a girl named Lauwren

10/11/2014 4:43:12 PM