Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 05:08     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My sister was telling me about some of the wacky names of kids that her daughter goes to preschool with. These included the likes of Kynslee (actual spelling), Ridge, Remington, Jazlyn, Walker.

For reference, this is at a preschool in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. It is not a lower class area by any means.


I wouldn't choose any of those names, but most will be okay. Walker is definitely southern but a fairly accepted name -- people will accept it. Remington will go by Remi, which is actually a great name, and Jazlyn will go by Jazz or Jazzy, which is still a little different but acceptable for a nickname. Kynslee's spelling is atrocious but Kinsley is actually a top 100 name in the US and I know a kid at our UMC, Mid-Atlantic, highly educated elementary school with it. You get used to it.

I don't know what to do with Ridge. I guess you just acclimate. Hopefully he has a halfway decent personality.

The problem with this line of thought is the fact that legal names are what actually go on important documents. I'm sure that many employers would not take a job application from a Jazlyn or a Remington seriously. We live in a judgmental world.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 14:42     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Georjah - that's what my cousin just named her baby.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 13:33     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My sister was telling me about some of the wacky names of kids that her daughter goes to preschool with. These included the likes of Kynslee (actual spelling), Ridge, Remington, Jazlyn, Walker.

For reference, this is at a preschool in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. It is not a lower class area by any means.


I wouldn't choose any of those names, but most will be okay. Walker is definitely southern but a fairly accepted name -- people will accept it. Remington will go by Remi, which is actually a great name, and Jazlyn will go by Jazz or Jazzy, which is still a little different but acceptable for a nickname. Kynslee's spelling is atrocious but Kinsley is actually a top 100 name in the US and I know a kid at our UMC, Mid-Atlantic, highly educated elementary school with it. You get used to it.

I don't know what to do with Ridge. I guess you just acclimate. Hopefully he has a halfway decent personality.


One of my kids went to preschool with a boy named Ridge, and this was years before Covid unfortunately. And it definitely did not work with the child’s last name either.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 23:46     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
The trying too hard names are a sign of tacky, low class strivers. Most upper middle class people use normal, traditional, classic names that will serve them well.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 23:42     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:My sister was telling me about some of the wacky names of kids that her daughter goes to preschool with. These included the likes of Kynslee (actual spelling), Ridge, Remington, Jazlyn, Walker.

For reference, this is at a preschool in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. It is not a lower class area by any means.


I wouldn't choose any of those names, but most will be okay. Walker is definitely southern but a fairly accepted name -- people will accept it. Remington will go by Remi, which is actually a great name, and Jazlyn will go by Jazz or Jazzy, which is still a little different but acceptable for a nickname. Kynslee's spelling is atrocious but Kinsley is actually a top 100 name in the US and I know a kid at our UMC, Mid-Atlantic, highly educated elementary school with it. You get used to it.

I don't know what to do with Ridge. I guess you just acclimate. Hopefully he has a halfway decent personality.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 23:06     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
I almost forgot Emersyn! ^
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:55     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
My sister was telling me about some of the wacky names of kids that her daughter goes to preschool with. These included the likes of Kynslee (actual spelling), Ridge, Remington, Jazlyn, Walker.

For reference, this is at a preschool in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. It is not a lower class area by any means.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:35     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Because one of the people involved in the show knew a real person named Seven and said “why not Six?”

Wow. 90s sitcom trivia engaged.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:34     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


-Apple
-Aleph
-Ser
-Zillion Heir
-Raddix
-Moroccan

Ugh I know folks have their pitchforks ready for the tech billionaires but can we also add celebrities to the list. Good grief.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:33     Subject: Re:Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
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.


This will happen when our grandkids name their kids after us - give it 50 years
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:32     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
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 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.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:30     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:29     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:28     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
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.).
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:20     Subject: Does anyone use normal baby names anymore?
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.