Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?

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Started looking*^

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Kollyns is hilarious. Good God.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m certain that I saw the exact post that you’re talking about, OP. Those names were atrocious. I was convinced half of the comments were from teen moms until I starting looking at their profile pictures and saw that they all looked 25+.

I almost spit out my drink when I saw comments saying JANSLER, TIMBERLYN, and KEMPER for baby girls.

Wait, I just realized that you said Facebook post. The post I saw was on TikTok, but the names were equally as ridiculous.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gRPsMU/

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Anonymous wrote:Yes there are people obsessed with having a "unique" baby name. This is not a new trend. The people most likely to obsessively post about baby names online tend to fall into this trend.

But most kids get normal names. Go look at the top 100 names on the SSN site. It's stuff like Noah, Harrison, Violet, and Emma. This is the vast majority of kids.

There have always been people who have wanted to be different and special, but it was never as prevalent as it is today. Back in the day, most people didn’t care if their daughter was 1 of a million Jennifers or son was 1 of a million Christophers. I actually think conformity was more valued back then.

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Affluent college educated women continue to use classic baby names. It’s the demographics of your Facebook group.

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Anonymous wrote:We considered a more unique name for DS and worried his name would be too common. 18 years later I'm so glad we settled on Max. Short, sweet, and suits child and adult. And we've rarely encountered other Max's along the way in his age group.

There are so many Max and Zoes around here in NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:Horseshoe theory of baby naming: the very trashy and the very wealthy converge on the unique baby names.

Those two groups often overlap, n’est-ce pas?

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I would assume those are teen moms, Mormons, or both. Those are not representative of the total childbearing population.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are people obsessed with having a "unique" baby name. This is not a new trend. The people most likely to obsessively post about baby names online tend to fall into this trend.

But most kids get normal names. Go look at the top 100 names on the SSN site. It's stuff like Noah, Harrison, Violet, and Emma. This is the vast majority of kids.

There have always been people who have wanted to be different and special, but it was never as prevalent as it is today. Back in the day, most people didn’t care if their daughter was 1 of a million Jennifers or son was 1 of a million Christophers. I actually think conformity was more valued back then.

Actually most people had no idea there were so many of that name. They thought “Hm, I never knew a Christopher growing up. That’s a nice name that’s different” not knowing, because there was no internet, that hundreds of thousands of pregnant women were having the same thought.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just a casual thread. I’m in a pregnant moms group on Facebook, and a post popped up from someone asking what the moms in the group are planning to name their babies. I read out of curiosity, and 99% of the names (on a post with hundreds of comments) were absolutely outrageous. I’m talking Timber, Kollyns, Huntley, Bexlee, Hayzen, etc. Maybe it’s because I’m a FTM and am not around small children on a regular basis, but I feel like this mentality of needing to be unique is a relatively new phenomenon/trend. I’m starting to think my child is going to be the odd one out.

Those names are pretty trashy. I am never going to hire someone named Bexlee.

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I'm thinking of the kids who are friends of my son. None of them have names like that. We are in AdMo/MtP. There aren't many "classic" names like Michael, David, Thomas, Robert, etc., but there aren't trashy ones like what you describe either. I know kids whose names are in the top 100 names of 2025. I thought my son's name would be more popular and it is between 130 and 150 in popularity.

I think that FB group is an outlier, or definitely not populated with expectant moms in DC/MD/VA.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just a casual thread. I’m in a pregnant moms group on Facebook, and a post popped up from someone asking what the moms in the group are planning to name their babies. I read out of curiosity, and 99% of the names (on a post with hundreds of comments) were absolutely outrageous. I’m talking Timber, Kollyns, Huntley, Bexlee, Hayzen, etc. Maybe it’s because I’m a FTM and am not around small children on a regular basis, but I feel like this mentality of needing to be unique is a relatively new phenomenon/trend. I’m starting to think my child is going to be the odd one out.

Those names are pretty trashy. I am never going to hire someone named Bexlee.

I wouldn't want a Kollyns or a Bexlee to be my lawyer (if I needed one), real estate agent, etc. People should really take into consideration the impression that the names that they're picking give. A name is usually the first thing that you know about someone. If the name that you're considering giving your kid seems like a name that an 8 year old would pick, you should probably reconsider.

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It's gotten crazy. I just saw a video of a mom who has three children - Arrow (girl), Dixie, and Rowdy (boy) and was asking for name suggestions for their 4th baby that she's currently pregnant with. A lot of people in the comments were encouraging the craziness by saying how "unique" those names are. Unique doesn't always equal good, people!

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Anonymous wrote:I know 3 women who had babies in the last month and none used a name like you describe. One is unusual, but it’s still a conventional spelling. It may be the demographics of who is in that particular group.

It's this. The poorer the mom, the dumber the name.

Blue Ivy would like a word.

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Facebook moms group is all I need to know. Who is in this group? Rural, uneducated moms? Scientists, doctors, lawyers aren't in these groups.