Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, to me it speaks volumes if a parent needs to have a unique name for their child. Choose a name you like. Period. Whether popular or not.

The more "out there" baby name trends have been driven by celebs and it's been going on at least since Demi Moore's now adult kids were born.

My oldest is 20 and unusual names were frequently talked about in media when he was an infant. Who here remembers "Suri's Burn Book"?

We gave our two boys top 20 classic first names and very unusual middle names. So if they wanted to be trendy or cool or differentiated they could. I do like having the extreme choice as a middle name. So far they don't use their middle names optionally. Mostly just the initial.

P.S. I can't stand Brayden/Hayden/Jayden/Kaden. That was a big trend when mine were little.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I would argue that there are way more lower class and undereducated individuals than there are wealthy and highly educated individuals. Lower class and undereducated parents also tend to have way more kids (on average). The 1-2 (3 at most) kids that scientists, doctors, and lawyers have will not make up for the 5+ kids that are being born to lower class, undereducated parents every single day. I think you're underestimating how common these types of names are going to be among the next generation.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I would argue that there are way more lower class and undereducated individuals than there are wealthy and highly educated individuals. Lower class and undereducated parents also tend to have way more kids (on average). The 1-2 (3 at most) kids that scientists, doctors, and lawyers have will not make up for the 5+ kids that are being born to lower class, undereducated parents every single day. I think you're underestimating how common these types of names are going to be among the next generation.

what? it sounds like we're saying the same thing but you're adding in the number of kids people have, which is irrelevant.

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All I know is that I can't stand the boy names on girls trend that seems to be ever so popular (Scottie, Elliot(t), Stevie, Murphy, Blake, James, Ezra, Ryan). Yuck! 🤮

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I would argue that there are way more lower class and undereducated individuals than there are wealthy and highly educated individuals. Lower class and undereducated parents also tend to have way more kids (on average). The 1-2 (3 at most) kids that scientists, doctors, and lawyers have will not make up for the 5+ kids that are being born to lower class, undereducated parents every single day. I think you're underestimating how common these types of names are going to be among the next generation.

what? it sounds like we're saying the same thing but you're adding in the number of kids people have, which is irrelevant.

DP but this PPs point is that whatever names lower class and less educated people use are likely to become more generally prevalent because it's a larger population and they have more kids. So while wealthy, educated parents are naming their kids James and Catherine, they will be outnumbered by people who name their kids Jarvis and Caitlynne or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:All I know is that I can't stand the boy names on girls trend that seems to be ever so popular (Scottie, Elliot(t), Stevie, Murphy, Blake, James, Ezra, Ryan). Yuck! 🤮

I didn't feel strongly about this trend before becoming a mom, but now that I'm 10 years in, I find it disturbing.

Primarily because of all the parents I've encountered who are convinced that they've solved misogyny for their daughters by giving them "boy" names and refusing to let them have pink anything and pushing them towards boy-coded activities. It's wild. All they are doing is teaching their daughters that being female or liking anything associated with girls or femininity is bad. I'm not saying you should give your daughter a princess name and dress her in pink ribbons and bows and teach her to bake, but the outright *hostility* some parents (especially moms) have towards femininity in their daughters is effed up. They think they've pulled some kind of end run around misogyny but in reality they've just heavily reinforced it for their daughters (and their sons) who will grow up thinking anything feminine is gross and unserious and unimportant and to be avoided. Yay?

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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.

We have an engineer at my org who has a PhD and is a supervisor named Kandy. The name throws everyone off. I've even seen people who assumed she was the secretary to the supervisor instead of the supervisor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All I know is that I can't stand the boy names on girls trend that seems to be ever so popular (Scottie, Elliot(t), Stevie, Murphy, Blake, James, Ezra, Ryan). Yuck! 🤮

There have been like three different girl Scotties born in the last six months to semi-famous people. Pete Davidson, Tanya Hennessy (Australian comedian), and Eminem's newest granddaughter. This is like when Milo was ragingly popular several years ago.

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Personally I wish we'd have a resurgence of late '70's names. Jessica, Rachel, Laura, Stephanie, Lisa, Nicole, Samantha, Allison, Kristen, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Personally I wish we'd have a resurgence of late '70's names. Jessica, Rachel, Laura, Stephanie, Lisa, Nicole, Samantha, Allison, Kristen, etc.

Is one of those your names or your friends?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

We have an engineer at my org who has a PhD and is a supervisor named Kandy. The name throws everyone off. I've even seen people who assumed she was the secretary to the supervisor instead of the supervisor.

I have stumbled on my own assumptions and name discriminations enough not to do it any longer. It took me a shamefully long time to see the light but you really never know. Bexlee or Kandy might just be the best fit to get the job done.

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My son is in Kindergarten and we think the roster is hilarious. Daycare tended to be more conservative names (daycare wasn't free, so it tended to be dual working parents who were middle class), but public school is wild.

We also play the game of nursing home or elementary school? DS's friends are: Watson, Arthur, Isaiah, Harold, Beryl, and Charles.

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Anonymous wrote:Personally I wish we'd have a resurgence of late '70's names. Jessica, Rachel, Laura, Stephanie, Lisa, Nicole, Samantha, Allison, Kristen, etc.

Is one of those your names or your friends?

My kids each have had one of those in their classrooms: Rachel, Jessica, Heather, Samantha. Lisa was a popular nickname for Elizabeth, but now there's different ones. I've seen quite a few Laurens.

The other day I heard a preschooler called Ashley and I had to do a double take!

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Anonymous wrote:All I know is that I can't stand the boy names on girls trend that seems to be ever so popular (Scottie, Elliot(t), Stevie, Murphy, Blake, James, Ezra, Ryan). Yuck! 🤮

There have been like three different girl Scotties born in the last six months to semi-famous people. Pete Davidson, Tanya Hennessy (Australian comedian), and Eminem's newest granddaughter. This is like when Milo was ragingly popular several years ago.

Eminem has multiple granddaughters? Please get me my fainting couch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is in Kindergarten and we think the roster is hilarious. Daycare tended to be more conservative names (daycare wasn't free, so it tended to be dual working parents who were middle class), but public school is wild.

We also play the game of nursing home or elementary school? DS's friends are: Watson, Arthur, Isaiah, Harold, Beryl, and Charles.

I love all those names but haven't heard Beryl in ages and I love it! It wouldn't suit my background but I'm all for it.