Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?

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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.

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If a study was conducted on Americans, I have a strong feeling that the data would find a correlation between someone’s IQ score and their favorite baby names.

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This is just a Facebook group thing - it attracts uneducated people.

Almost every kid I know has a normal name (normal for whatever culture they belong to - but that doesn't include someone whose great, great, great, great, great, great grand-father was Irish naming their kid Caoimhe or Síomha). The handful of outliers I know are mostly girls with boy names (Declan, Elliot, etc.) or kids who have last names as first names (Parker, Barrett, etc.).

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Six was Blossom's best friend.

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This is a social media thing / online is not reality. I have a kid in preschool and know lots of recent babies. Their names are all basically normal.

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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.

I know of a managing partner at a law firm named Charity. A physician's assistant named Bambi, and a VP of a financial services company named Honey.