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.

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.

The cool girl names suggested always seem to be boys names. I get that naming a pretty, popular girl Ryan or Blake is sort of subversive in a fun way but what if she's not pretty and popular?

PP here. There are often suggestions of boys names, though Ryan and Blake are both out of fashion right now. People are more likely to suggest names like Blaire, Sloane, Summer, or Serena (I don't know the degree to which people are aware they are just offering the name of "cool girls" from television shows and movies, but these names pop up a ton). Also names like Maxine that can nickname to a boy's name like Max, are popular. It is definitely true that people often think feminine names are not sufficiently "cool" which should tell you a lot about the instincts behind the "cool girl" name trend. I really loathe it. Especially because just going by the law of averages, most of the girls getting these names will not be the "cool girls" in their high schools -- they'll just be regular girls. They'll get zits, struggle to with dressing post-pubescent bodies, have weird and unresolved feelings about their crushes, get embarrassed sometimes, fight with friends occasionally, but hopefully work it all out and come out the other side okay. Placing the expectation on them that they be "cool" from the moment they are born sounds exhausting to me.

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Summer
Jacob

[Anonymous]

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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.

You might know my cousin. If so, it’s his mother’s maiden name and yes, he is a really great guy.

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Leo
Elise

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Elise

Leo is very popular in my under-10 world. Elise is pretty and not so common though.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

La-a, Zillion, LaPrincess, and Legendary beg to differ

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People seem to like to name their kids with last names. Interesting. Maverick? Ok.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

La-a, Zillion, LaPrincess, and Legendary beg to differ

This can’t be real.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

La-a, Zillion, LaPrincess, and Legendary beg to differ

This can’t be real.

Some of those are Nick Cannon's kids

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Rhett, Rowan, Elsie

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

La-a, Zillion, LaPrincess, and Legendary beg to differ

This can’t be real.

At least in the case of La-a, it's a racist urban legend, first sent to me 20 years ago in a joke chain email by my now-dead grandfather. PP will probably tell us she also knows twins named Lemonjello and Oranjello.

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Rowan
Walker
Dylan
Hayes
Caroline
Ryan (girl)

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

What are you doing here then?

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to good, solid traditional names? Good God Americans are insufferable.

Go back to 1961, or wherever/whenever it is you came from.

I’m probably younger than you are, but guess I represent the small minority with good taste these days.

You just mean you’re white.

Huh? It's not a racial thing. It's mostly white people using atrocious names actually. Kinsley, Braxton, and Everleigh would like to have a word with you.

La-a, Zillion, LaPrincess, and Legendary beg to differ

This can’t be real.

I work in a hospital and I've seen plenty of audacious names though not these. Multiples of Princess, King, Royalty, Adonis (which always kills me because what if the kid is ugly?), Majesty and so on.
I also knew a kid named Avian pronounced exactly like the adjective. The mom thought she had made it up. I wonder if she had heard the term "avian flu"?