Common baby names you dislike

[Anonymous]

Brittany. Tiffany. Mallory. Amber. Nicki. Marcy.

[Anonymous]

I keep hitting refresh, waiting for my girls' names to show up...

[Anonymous]

Lauren (strangely, I'm okay with Laura or even Laurel)
Ava
Natalie
Nicholas
Max
Ethan

These are names that just bother my ears for some reason, I don't think less of people who use them.

I do get sick of hearing people talk about how they can't stand unusual spellings, only like "traditional" names because there seems to be this veiled classism in their critique.

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Anonymous wrote:Ava, Mia, Gia, Eve, Eli, Ian. I don't like the 3 letter names. I also don't like Nate/Nathaniel/Nathan. Every Nate I have known has been whiney. There are lots of good names for boys in the top 15 that I never hear anymore. Christopher is cute. So is Andrew. And Ryan. Good names, still at the top of the lists, but everyone I know names their kids Jadyn or Brody. For girls I hear the top 10 over and over and it's revolting. The only name in the girls top 15 I can tolerate is Abigail/Abby. That's cute.

Gia is actually the shortened version/nickname for Giovanna. If you are Italian, I think that is a lovely name.

[Anonymous]

Quinn, Reilly, or any other Irish last name used as a first name.
Emelyn.
Aiden, Hayden, Cayden, Braydon and their million various spellings.
Madison and Addison.

[Anonymous]

Quinn's a good one. I know a lot of Quinns, half boys and half girls and I'm not sure I like it for either.

And I'm on the Aidan/Brayden/Caden/Hayden train but I think Jayden is by far the worst, thanks to one Miss Britney Spears.

Kai is becoming popular for boys and it just seems...too short.

[Anonymous]

thanks b/c the first one is my name

Anonymous wrote:Lauren (strangely, I'm okay with Laura or even Laurel)
Ava
Natalie
Nicholas
Max
Ethan

These are names that just bother my ears for some reason, I don't think less of people who use them.

I do get sick of hearing people talk about how they can't stand unusual spellings, only like "traditional" names because there seems to be this veiled classism in their critique.

[Anonymous]

I'm Italian and I don't care for Giovanna - although I do like Giada.

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Anonymous wrote:Ava, Mia, Gia, Eve, Eli, Ian. I don't like the 3 letter names. I also don't like Nate/Nathaniel/Nathan. Every Nate I have known has been whiney. There are lots of good names for boys in the top 15 that I never hear anymore. Christopher is cute. So is Andrew. And Ryan. Good names, still at the top of the lists, but everyone I know names their kids Jadyn or Brody. For girls I hear the top 10 over and over and it's revolting. The only name in the girls top 15 I can tolerate is Abigail/Abby. That's cute.

Gia is actually the shortened version/nickname for Giovanna. If you are Italian, I think that is a lovely name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not inherently mean to say that you dislike a name. I don't like the name Ezra. I don't like the sound, I don't like saying it, I just don't like it. Does that mean that I don't like your child named Ezra? Or that I don't like you for naming your son Ezra? Nope, I can still like you, and him, even if the name does nothing for me.

There's nothing Better than Ezra.

[Anonymous]

Lexi - hate it

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Anonymous wrote:Brittany. Tiffany. Mallory. Amber. Nicki. Marcy.

Hate these too, but I don't think they are too common anymore. I also hate Joanne or Joanna. Yuck. Thankfully, these also aren't popular anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Maya

Maya's mom here.

Would you suggest a cross-cultural name for our third girl? We need a name that works in all 3 places.

DH is Indian, I'm Peruvian and we'll be living in America for a while.

[Anonymous]

Skylar. The freaking worst name EVER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lauren (strangely, I'm okay with Laura or even Laurel)
Ava
Natalie
Nicholas
Max
Ethan

These are names that just bother my ears for some reason, I don't think less of people who use them.

I do get sick of hearing people talk about how they can't stand unusual spellings, only like "traditional" names because there seems to be this veiled classism in their critique.

Maybe I shouldn't use the term "traditional" then--but use "timeless" which the baby name wizard uses. I like a name which you immediately cannot pinpoint to a certain generation in time. A person with that name could have been around in the 1800s or 2010, e.g., John, Elizabeth, Catherine, Andrew, Michael, etc. Trendy names are risky..they fall out of fashion quickly and often get picked up by....

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Italian and I don't care for Giovanna - although I do like Giada.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ava, Mia, Gia, Eve, Eli, Ian. I don't like the 3 letter names. I also don't like Nate/Nathaniel/Nathan. Every Nate I have known has been whiney. There are lots of good names for boys in the top 15 that I never hear anymore. Christopher is cute. So is Andrew. And Ryan. Good names, still at the top of the lists, but everyone I know names their kids Jadyn or Brody. For girls I hear the top 10 over and over and it's revolting. The only name in the girls top 15 I can tolerate is Abigail/Abby. That's cute.

Gia is actually the shortened version/nickname for Giovanna. If you are Italian, I think that is a lovely name.

I don't know what the English version of Giada is, but Giovanna is Italian for Joanna. It does have a touch of the theatrical but so do many Italian names. Caring for it isn't based on being Italian or not, it's just not many non-Italians would choose a name like Giovanna/Giuseppe or any of the other very Italian names: Chiara, Alessandro, Paolo, Federica, etc.