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[quote=Anonymous]This name is very funny to me because it embodies two sort of self-contradicting naming trends for girls of the last few years.

The first is "unusual names". People really like this idea of giving a kid a name no one has ever heard of. This is obviously funny with Ailany because you know many people who used it thought "oh no one will have this name!" and now it's #14 in the US. And they can never play off that it's a "family name" because it's obviously not. There might be some tiny number of people using this name who have Hawaiian heritage and can say it's a variation on the Hawaiian name Ailani (which has also skyrocketed in popularity in the last 10 years, though not as suddenly or fast as Ailany). Like it's quite obvious they went looking for a name no one they knew would know and found this one.

The other trend is in the sounds in the name. I suspect this is precisely why the name took off like it did -- there are certain sounds and patterns in girls names that have been extremely popular over the last few years and Ailany really embraces them. It starts with an A or an E, is vowel heavy, it's multisyllabic, and has only soft consonants, no harsh sounds. The -ee sound at the end deviates from the predominant trend in recent years which is towards -ah endings in girls names, but otherwise this name is right in keeping with a bunch of other trendy girls names like Eliana, Lilliana, Eloise, and Evelyn. There are also a bunch of two-syllable names with this trend -- Lila, Layla, Isla, Ava, etc.

If you spend a lot of time around kids under 10, you are very familiar with this trend because it produces marble mouth in many teachers and coaches. I've encountered classrooms and teams where it just sounds like all the girls have a variation on the same name (Eva, Ava, Avery, Vera, Rhea, Aria) or where a repeating letter like "L" becomes almost comical (I once knew of a grade level with two Lilys, a Lillia, and a Lilliana, plus an Emilia and a Isla).

My recommendation to parents naming girls today: look for names that don't sound like other names. Embrace a hard consonant. Don't assume that a name needs to be vowel heavy and soft to be feminine or pretty.[/quote]

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