What are the names of the most recent babies that were born in your social world?

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Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Eh, you might be focusing on your dislike for the parents but neither of these are "redneck" names. Sydney sounds like a middle class kid from Chicago. Her dad is a trusts and estates lawyer, her mom is a sahm who volunteers at school and is just so, so nice. Wyatt's parents live in the Hudson River valley, though they are divorced. His mom is a textile designer. His dad has a trust fund but he organizes charity concerts using his rock band contacts from when he used to play base for the Googoo Dolls. Wyatt attends a Waldorf school and is not vaccinated for measles.

lol.

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Xavier
Tobias (Toby)
Isabella
Sloane

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Noah
Pierce

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Madelyn

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Asher, Summer, Lillian, Lucas, Lawler, Talik

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Lucas, Samuel,juliet,aiden,rosie,Dean

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Sophia
Hannah
Avery (female)
James
Lachlan

Pretty standard stuff. My oldest is 10 and his friend group is very diverse but the names are all still Liam, Noah, Brendan etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Eh, you might be focusing on your dislike for the parents but neither of these are "redneck" names. Sydney sounds like a middle class kid from Chicago. Her dad is a trusts and estates lawyer, her mom is a sahm who volunteers at school and is just so, so nice. Wyatt's parents live in the Hudson River valley, though they are divorced. His mom is a textile designer. His dad has a trust fund but he organizes charity concerts using his rock band contacts from when he used to play base for the Googoo Dolls. Wyatt attends a Waldorf school and is not vaccinated for measles.

Yeah I don’t particularly think of Sydney and Wyatt as redneck. Sydney definitely isn’t, Wyatt could be but could also easily be normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asher, Summer, Lillian, Lucas, Lawler, Talik

oof Lawler seems like a hard name for kids to pronounce--even if he learns how to say it it's going to be butchered by many of his friends! Hope he learns to answer to "Wah-wuh" or whatever the other kids call him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sophia
Hannah
Avery (female)
James
Lachlan

Pretty standard stuff. My oldest is 10 and his friend group is very diverse but the names are all still Liam, Noah, Brendan etc.

My kid is 8 and one thing that kind of amazes me is that in her entire elementary school, there are only a few overlapping names. It's like the entire community collectively decided to diversify their kids names with very little duplication. And it's not like everyone has a super uncommon name. Most kids have "standard" names. But somehow there's only one Sophia and one Noah, for example. When there are duplicates, they are rarely in the same grade -- I can only think of one example of this in the whole school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Eh, you might be focusing on your dislike for the parents but neither of these are "redneck" names. Sydney sounds like a middle class kid from Chicago. Her dad is a trusts and estates lawyer, her mom is a sahm who volunteers at school and is just so, so nice. Wyatt's parents live in the Hudson River valley, though they are divorced. His mom is a textile designer. His dad has a trust fund but he organizes charity concerts using his rock band contacts from when he used to play base for the Googoo Dolls. Wyatt attends a Waldorf school and is not vaccinated for measles.

Hilarious and accurate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sophia
Hannah
Avery (female)
James
Lachlan

Pretty standard stuff. My oldest is 10 and his friend group is very diverse but the names are all still Liam, Noah, Brendan etc.

My kid is 8 and one thing that kind of amazes me is that in her entire elementary school, there are only a few overlapping names. It's like the entire community collectively decided to diversify their kids names with very little duplication. And it's not like everyone has a super uncommon name. Most kids have "standard" names. But somehow there's only one Sophia and one Noah, for example. When there are duplicates, they are rarely in the same grade -- I can only think of one example of this in the whole school.

It’s not just your daughter’s school. The most popular names these days are used by a smaller percentage of the population than the most popular names when we were growing up. There’s more variety in names now, so although it seems like there are a million little Charlottes, Noahs, Olivers, etc. there aren’t nearly as many as there were Sarahs, Ashleys, Davids, etc. back in the 80s and 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Those names are okay. I know siblings Colt and Wynne (short for Winchester). They're my cousins kids in Montana. Horrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Those names are okay. I know siblings Colt and Wynne (short for Winchester). They're my cousins kids in Montana. Horrible

Colt is not great but Wynne is okay. I know an adult Wynne and it suits him and he's a great guy.

What would have been awful would have been Colt and Wesson (which is in the top 1000 names in the US, sadly). Though I actually think Wesley/Wes is a good name.

Some other boys names I've heard of recently that I find awful: Maverick, Remington, Blaze, Jagger

Also, I frequent a baby naming subreddit and mostly it's great, but the one question I absolutely loathe seeing posted is "I want to give my daughter a "cool girl" name, please suggest some." The names suggested are mostly perfectly fine, but this impulse of wanting to give your daughter a name that will make her a "cool girl" in life feels super toxic to me. It's like "I want my daughter to be better than other girls, how can I best accomplish that?" It's of a piece with naming your son after a brand of gun or a wildfire or a rock star.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney
Wyatt

Both are vile.

Vile babies?

Vile names. They’re tacky redneck names.

Those names are okay. I know siblings Colt and Wynne (short for Winchester). They're my cousins kids in Montana. Horrible

Is their third kid going to be Remington?