Common baby names you dislike

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, it appears that many people do not like my cat's name. I'll try hard not to be offended.

The Laura/Nora thing got me thinking - I don't like girls' names that start with a hard 'G' sound - Gwyneth, Greta, Gretchen...all perfectly fine names, but they sound very hard to me. Nora also sounds "harder" than Laura (but not as hard as "Gora" would sound).

Funny - I love all three of those G names. I had them as options for our daughter but DH said no to them all. I'm curious about your cat's name, too...

The cat's name is Jasper. Named before the Twilight craze, not that it makes a difference, since it's just a cat. And she's even a girl, which would annoy me in a human (girls being given boy names), but for pets, I can overlook a lot.

Darn it, my money was on Courvoisier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

My favorite Irish name is Saoirse. Aoife is also beautiful. But you are right - destined to be massacred.

FWIW, I did not name my children Irish names. However, each of my kids is named after an ancestor, and we do have Irish ancestors. So my kids have Anglo and French names.

So how do you pronounce these names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a neigbor name their dd AshLynn - stripper, perhaps?

Boy in my son's daycare - Adonis. Setting his future Match.com dates up for high expectations?

Sounds like a name an uneducated daytime soap watcher would make up - white trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

My favorite Irish name is Saoirse. Aoife is also beautiful. But you are right - destined to be massacred.

FWIW, I did not name my children Irish names. However, each of my kids is named after an ancestor, and we do have Irish ancestors. So my kids have Anglo and French names.

So how do you pronounce these names?

Saoirse=Seersha
Aoife=Eefa (kind of like Eva but with more of an 'f' sound)

(someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not Irish but I've heard those 2 names spoken before)

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I'm not fond of the following names, all of which have been previously mentioned, simply based on how they sound:
Sebastian (know two)
Brody (know two. One goes by it as the nickname for Broderick, which I happen to like. The other is just "Brody.")
Skylar (know one. I seriously thought this was a made-up name when I was told the child's name, but it looks like there are many more out there!)

While I like some of the -aiden names, I agree they are becoming very popular. Still, aside from Jayden and Brayden, I think the others sound ok.

There are lots of popular names mentioned that sound great in my mind (Ethan, Jackson, nickname Max); I wouldn't pick them personally, but feel like they are getting a bad wrap just for being popular.

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When I was growing up all the girls were Jennifer or Michelle. I have 4 friends named Jennifer and 4 named Michelle. I was the only person with my name growing up and I so wanted a cool popular name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

My favorite Irish name is Saoirse. Aoife is also beautiful. But you are right - destined to be massacred.

FWIW, I did not name my children Irish names. However, each of my kids is named after an ancestor, and we do have Irish ancestors. So my kids have Anglo and French names.

So how do you pronounce these names?

Saoirse=Seersha
Aoife=Eefa (kind of like Eva but with more of an 'f' sound)

(someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not Irish but I've heard those 2 names spoken before)

Bwahahaha! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever seen! Not to dis Irish culture, but for anyone to think that those names would fly in the US in this day and age is on crack.

My name is pronounced Jenniffer, but it's spelled Greoe$#ndfdf#.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

My favorite Irish name is Saoirse. Aoife is also beautiful. But you are right - destined to be massacred.

FWIW, I did not name my children Irish names. However, each of my kids is named after an ancestor, and we do have Irish ancestors. So my kids have Anglo and French names.

So how do you pronounce these names?

Saoirse=Seersha
Aoife=Eefa (kind of like Eva but with more of an 'f' sound)

(someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not Irish but I've heard those 2 names spoken before)

I thought Aoife was Ay-fin, almost like with Aidan with an f. (but I could be wrong)

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I like the Irish spelling for Owen. It's Eoin. Pronounciation is the same but it leaves people guessing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the Irish spelling for Owen. It's Eoin. Pronounciation is the same but it leaves people guessing.

But why do you want to leave people guessing? The last thing I wanted for my kids was to give them names that left people guessing as to pronounciation or the child's gender.

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My sister is naming her baby "Jayden" and I really, really dislike the name. She had a baby in September of 2009. She named him Anthony and I totally loved that name. I don''t know why she's going from a traditional name to a trendy name, but she is.

[Anonymous]

I don't like Kayla or Kaylee, both names I've heard recently. And Kendra.

[Anonymous]

I thought Aoife was Ay-fin, almost like with Aidan with an f. (but I could be wrong)

You are It's EE fa -- the Gaelic version of Eve. I knew an actual Irish person who named his daughter this, and yeah, sucked when they lived in the US, because it got butchered.

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WTF, don't you speak Gaelic? Of course REOATAYFIN is pronounced "Aiden."

[Anonymous]

I actually find this post interesting.

My first thought for popular names I dislike are the Caden / Braden / Jaden names. Aiden doesn't bother me as much because it's at least something of a "real" name.

I also really can't stand the Mackenzie / Mackenna / Makenna / Mikayla type names. Ick city.

Most other names I can tolerate, even if they're overused. I actually like Jack and Owen and Riley and Ella and Sophia - I think they're good names and considered a couple of them myself.