Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?

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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!

Many gen Xers are bound to have had negative associations with someone with those names.

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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.

Blue Ivy is hardly the worst name out there. Maybe pick a different example.

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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.

Really? I have a 20 yr old DS, and he has had multiple friends, teammates, and classmates over the years with that name. Well, Maxwell and Maximilian, all called Max. Not a critique, it's a nice name. Must just have been our demographic.

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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.

Eminem was 23 when Hailie was born and his other children are adopted (first cousin and half-sibling). The cousin is older than Hailie.

But yeah.

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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.

Blue Ivy is hardly the worst name out there. Maybe pick a different example.

It's pretty bad

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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.

Blue Ivy is hardly the worst name out there. Maybe pick a different example.

It's pretty bad

Ivy is a normal name. Blue is fine too. It's weird to have them together, but it's not the worst celebrity name.

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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?

Nope, and I’ve always hated my name.

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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!

Many gen Xers are bound to have had negative associations with someone with those names.

I'm right between Gen X and Millennial and grew up with people with all of those names. The issue for me would not be that I have negative associations -- most of them I have positive associations because they are/were my friends.

It's more that it would be awkward because I already know too many people with those names. My boss, my colleagues, my friends from college, my neighbors. Even when the associations are positive, they are also specific. Lisa is my BFF from high school and the name of two different bosses I've had. When I think "Lisa", I already have very particular ideas of what that person is like, and it's not a baby or a little girl in 2026. It's a woman in her 40s or 50s. That's why people look back a couple generations for names, to find a new-to-you name for this new-to-you person. You don't want to give a baby a name shared by lots of adults you encounter regularly.

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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! 🤮

The parents who give their daughters full-blown boy names are the same ones who will be the first to criticize you for naming your son a name that sounds slightly feminine. It’s very ironic. I had one try to tell me that my son would be horrifically bullied if we named him Stellan. They believe in gender roles but only when it comes to boys.

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I work at a middle class local elementary and names really aren’t that weird at all. The usual Ella/Ellie, Emma, Mia, Maya, and the boys generally have traditional/biblical names. William is big lately, always Jacob, Daniel, Benjamin.

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I think it’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a post-Covid thing? I have one born in 2015 and the friend group is all common or “uncommon but still normal” names. My younger born late 2019, so in K now, is out there with like, Seraphina, Samara, Legend, Sylas, and Jaxson. There are still some common names out there too but a lot more off the wall and unusual ones as well.

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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.

+1 with Vincent

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a post-Covid thing? I have one born in 2015 and the friend group is all common or “uncommon but still normal” names. My younger born late 2019, so in K now, is out there with like, Seraphina, Samara, Legend, Sylas, and Jaxson. There are still some common names out there too but a lot more off the wall and unusual ones as well.

I am 49 and when I was 11 or 12 was friends with a girl named Samara.

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a middle class local elementary and names really aren’t that weird at all. The usual Ella/Ellie, Emma, Mia, Maya, and the boys generally have traditional/biblical names. William is big lately, always Jacob, Daniel, Benjamin.

Just wait until you start getting the kids that were born between 2021 and 2026.

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People are naming their kids Sevyn/Seven now (so much so that the name has entered the top 1,000). I’m old enough to remember when that was just a joke on Seinfeld.