What is with the names people give their kids these days

I mean come on, fuck.

I don’t know any of your real names or what you named your spawn, so sorry.

But come on, fuck

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a37641039/top-baby-boy-names/

Just scrolling through this article to get to the top 1000 had some mortifying suggestions. Once you get to the top 1000, the first 20 are eh, sorta trendy but relatively normal names. Then you start getting in to the weird shit. It’s just wild, I’ll let you pursue on your own time. Here’s the problem, to me. Let’s say you’re at work, and you get a resume from Brayden or Colt or Dash. Imagine that person that emailed you about the job opening in your head. You just pictured some 20 year old shit that is still going back to his alma mater on the weekends to party (which, great for Augustus, but there are career ramifications for someone always assuming you’re a fuck o based on your name.) Could Asher be a 50 year old man? Yeah I guess. But no one pretends like that’s actually the case, everyone knows it’s a 22 year old shit.

Maybe it’s a me old man yells at cloud thing and since the entire world will be Hudson and Grayson eventually it won’t be as big of a problem. But I just think people need to take a second before they name their children that they won’t be in a crib eating pooping and puking all night forever and that eventually this person will be a grown up and you should plan their name accordingly.

Also I don’t think it’s as big of a problem for girls names, other than spelling Alexa “Alyxsa” or some shit

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I mean come on, fuck.

I don’t know any of your real names or what you named your spawn, so sorry.

But come on, fuck

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a37641039/top-baby-boy-names/

Just scrolling through this article to get to the top 1000 had some mortifying suggestions. Once you get to the top 1000, the first 20 are eh, sorta trendy but relatively normal names. Then you start getting in to the weird shit. It’s just wild, I’ll let you pursue on your own time. Here’s the problem, to me. Let’s say you’re at work, and you get a resume from Brayden or Colt or Dash. Imagine that person that emailed you about the job opening in your head. You just pictured some 20 year old shit that is still going back to his alma mater on the weekends to party (which, great for Augustus, but there are career ramifications for someone always assuming you’re a fuck o based on your name.) Could Asher be a 50 year old man? Yeah I guess. But no one pretends like that’s actually the case, everyone knows it’s a 22 year old shit.

Maybe it’s a me old man yells at cloud thing and since the entire world will be Hudson and Grayson eventually it won’t be as big of a problem. But I just think people need to take a second before they name their children that they won’t be in a crib eating pooping and puking all night forever and that eventually this person will be a grown up and you should plan their name accordingly.

Also I don’t think it’s as big of a problem for girls names, other than spelling Alexa “Alyxsa” or some shit

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

The title of that piece “The Top 1,000 Baby Boy Names as Unique and as Cute as He Is” is so ironic and the author clearly doesn’t get it. A list of popular names, by definition, makes them common and exactly the opposite of unique, just like the vast majority of babies.

Trapper Gus wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I mean come on, fuck.

I don’t know any of your real names or what you named your spawn, so sorry.

But come on, fuck

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a37641039/top-baby-boy-names/

Just scrolling through this article to get to the top 1000 had some mortifying suggestions. Once you get to the top 1000, the first 20 are eh, sorta trendy but relatively normal names. Then you start getting in to the weird shit. It’s just wild, I’ll let you pursue on your own time. Here’s the problem, to me. Let’s say you’re at work, and you get a resume from Brayden or Colt or Dash. Imagine that person that emailed you about the job opening in your head. You just pictured some 20 year old shit that is still going back to his alma mater on the weekends to party (which, great for Augustus, but there are career ramifications for someone always assuming you’re a fuck o based on your name.) Could Asher be a 50 year old man? Yeah I guess. But no one pretends like that’s actually the case, everyone knows it’s a 22 year old shit.

Maybe it’s a me old man yells at cloud thing and since the entire world will be Hudson and Grayson eventually it won’t be as big of a problem. But I just think people need to take a second before they name their children that they won’t be in a crib eating pooping and puking all night forever and that eventually this person will be a grown up and you should plan their name accordingly.

Also I don’t think it’s as big of a problem for girls names, other than spelling Alexa “Alyxsa” or some shit

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Of course it is. But you know that Jace doesn’t remember 9/11 right? Like let’s be real. Brooks has never even seen a phone that couldnt access his email

My grand daughers have old school names. Gloria and Cecilia

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Of course it is. But you know that Jace doesn’t remember 9/11 right? Like let’s be real. Brooks has never even seen a phone that couldn't access his email

Having ancestors named "Thankful", "Forgiveness", "Seth" & "Zeno" I can attest that every generation has its favs.

How about "Moon Unit"?

duffy munn wrote:My grand daughers have old school names. Gloria and Cecilia

And we are back to the 1920's - you know they will grow up as housewives or flappers. /s

Well I can tell you we settled on Sophia for 8 months. Then it seemed like everyone was naming their daughters to be, Sophia. So we switched at the last minute. I can guarantee you that you don’t know any other girl with her name. So I might be one of “those” people…..

My wife’s grandparents are from Ireland.

She suggested Irelyn as our daughters name. I said you know, I don’t hate that.

Irelyn it is.

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Thanks for your input Silas

DWags wrote:

duffy munn wrote:My grand daughers have old school names. Gloria and Cecilia

I think they're coming back in vogue now.  Clare. Elizabeth, Nancy etc.  I see that alot.

Here is what I found.  When I buy a new car, I start to notice how many people have my same type of new car.  I never noticed that before.  When We named our children, it was the same thing.  I started noticing how many other children at or near their age had the same name.  Even some with the same middle.  

Is what it is.  

Dont' know if this is true or not, but I hear in HR departments sometimes if they can't pronounce a name on a resume they don't have that resume on tip of the stack.

Yeah I mean this is what I’m getting at. Like it or not, right or wrong, this could certainly happen. Why would you put them at a disadvantage, or even slight possible disadvantage, just because you think Kayden is just adorbs. (Probably because they don’t look into the future past the adorable cooing phase)

I feel attacked. My name is Turtleneck, Turtleneck Williams III.

Cameron wrote:I don't really care what you name your kid, but I do care how you spell it. "Unique" spellings for existing names drive me nuts. It's not cool and unique, it's wrong and stupid. Just spell it right.

Also, the name Stephen should not exist. You can be Steven, or you can be Stefan. Get that PH bullshit out of my face.

Same goes for creating backward names from regular words. Yes, I'm looking at all the parents who named their daughters Neveah.

Cameron wrote:I don't really care what you name your kid, but I do care how you spell it. "Unique" spellings for existing names drive me nuts. It's not cool and unique, it's wrong and stupid. Just spell it right.

Also, the name Stephen should not exist. You can be Steven, or you can be Stefan. Get that PH bullshit out of my face.

Just guessing, but spelling variations can be cultural. In some parts of Spain, the name Xavior is diminutively pronounced Charley.

Never thought I would see the day when Cam argues people should be named Steve.

Cameron wrote:I don't speak enough Spanish to dispute that, but I don't see how those dots connect.

All I know is what some Xaviors I used to work with who lived in Spain told me, so it has a limited sample size.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

DWags wrote:

I think they're coming back in vogue now.  Clare. Elizabeth, Nancy etc.  I see that alot.

Here is what I found.  When I buy a new car, I start to notice how many people have my same type of new car.  I never noticed that before.  When We named our children, it was the same thing.  I started noticing how many other children at or near their age had the same name.  Even some with the same middle.  

Is what it is.  

Dont' know if this is true or not, but I hear in HR departments sometimes if they can't pronounce a name on a resume they don't have that resume on tip of the stack.

Yeah I mean this is what I’m getting at. Like it or not, right or wrong, this could certainly happen. Why would you put them at a disadvantage, or even slight possible disadvantage, just because you think Kayden is just adorbs. (Probably because they don’t look into the future past the adorable cooing phase)

You SOB. There’s nothing wrong with naming your kid after a lake in remote Canada. I only know this because I’ve fished it….

What about Aaron and Blake?

Trapper Gus wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I mean come on, fuck.

I don’t know any of your real names or what you named your spawn, so sorry.

But come on, fuck

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a37641039/top-baby-boy-names/

Just scrolling through this article to get to the top 1000 had some mortifying suggestions. Once you get to the top 1000, the first 20 are eh, sorta trendy but relatively normal names. Then you start getting in to the weird shit. It’s just wild, I’ll let you pursue on your own time. Here’s the problem, to me. Let’s say you’re at work, and you get a resume from Brayden or Colt or Dash. Imagine that person that emailed you about the job opening in your head. You just pictured some 20 year old shit that is still going back to his alma mater on the weekends to party (which, great for Augustus, but there are career ramifications for someone always assuming you’re a fuck o based on your name.) Could Asher be a 50 year old man? Yeah I guess. But no one pretends like that’s actually the case, everyone knows it’s a 22 year old shit.

Maybe it’s a me old man yells at cloud thing and since the entire world will be Hudson and Grayson eventually it won’t be as big of a problem. But I just think people need to take a second before they name their children that they won’t be in a crib eating pooping and puking all night forever and that eventually this person will be a grown up and you should plan their name accordingly.

Also I don’t think it’s as big of a problem for girls names, other than spelling Alexa “Alyxsa” or some shit

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Damn it all.

Dendrobates wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Damn it all.

What’s your favorite lap dance song?

Dendrobates wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Damn it all.

With your freewheeling rep it is equally likely you named your girls these names, or that you didn't.

Dendrobates wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Making assumptions about people based on their name is stupid.

Given that I'm pretty sure that Misty & Tiffinay are always strippers and Biff is always a white Anglo-Saxon at an Ivy. /s

Damn it all.

my wife bought some sort of hand soap for the kitchen called "Honey and Warm Ginger"...

I was like, "what the fuck? I thought Honey and Warm Ginger were working their way through dental school"?

Robert J Sakimano wrote:my wife bought some sort of hand soap for the kitchen called "Honey and Warm Ginger"...

I was like, "what the fuck? I thought Honey and Warm Ginger were working their way through dental school"?

That's probably one of the places where you don't have to worry about kids named after firearms showing up.

tGreenWay wrote: It’s grumpy old man day at tSwill.

That’s every day.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:my wife bought some sort of hand soap for the kitchen called "Honey and Warm Ginger"...

I was like, "what the fuck? I thought Honey and Warm Ginger were working their way through dental school"?

That's probably one of the places where you don't have to worry about kids named after firearms showing up.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:my wife bought some sort of hand soap for the kitchen called "Honey and Warm Ginger"...

I was like, "what the fuck? I thought Honey and Warm Ginger were working their way through dental school"?

That's probably one of the places where you don't have to worry about kids named after firearms showing up.

I didn’t think too hard about why Weston is 95th on the list but that’s it isn’t it? Fuckin hell

i prefer biblical names, myself.

I have always though naming a kid was extremely difficult.  It may have to do with the fact that I have never liked my given name.

When picking our daughter's name it was definitely a consideration - we wanted something that was unusual, but something that everyone had heard before.  We did not want something that would date her to a specific decade.

The name we chose has historically been a 200th-500th most popular baby name in the US, but has never been in the top 100.  It is the French version of a Jewish name, my wife is Jewish, my mother was French.

Social Security Administration Most Popular Baby Names

My kids ended up with what might be considered Jewish names from the Old Testament, not intentionally, as one was named for an MSU football player whose name we liked and the others were named for ancestors who we admired.

If I was naming kids now I would go with the staples from the 1950s like Mary, Thomas & Carol.

anyone call their kid something different than their actual name?

99% of the time, my wife and I call our daughter by her first initial. Probably since she was 2-3 years old.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:anyone call their kid something different than their actual name?

99% of the time, my wife and I call our daughter by her first initial. Probably since she was 2-3 years old.

In my giant family everyone has a nickname. I almost never call any of my siblings or nieces and nephews by their actual name. And certainly not my sons unless it's a very serious topic or I'm pissed at them.

As for my Cecilia and Gloria, they became CC and GG pretty much at birth.