I dunno, define normal. I always hated boring, common names (as I have a boring, common name, think Sarah) and so I wanted to give my kids names that were a bit more interesting and unusual (though I do not, for the record, like weird spellings).

Well, my son is Sebastian (Beautiful! Unusual! Delightful! A variety of nicknames!) and it turns out EVERYONE in my neighborhood named their son Sebastian. There's like four of them in 10 block radius. There's literally three white boys in my kid's class and two of them are named Sebastian.

Cross another parenting goal of the list.

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

So this means you think these two are upper class names? Oh, honey....

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are people obsessed with having a "unique" baby name. This is not a new trend. The people most likely to obsessively post about baby names online tend to fall into this trend.

But most kids get normal names. Go look at the top 100 names on the SSN site. It's stuff like Noah, Harrison, Violet, and Emma. This is the vast majority of kids.

I'm sure someone would say this about me because of my DC's name -- but he was named after a grandparent. Doesn't even register in the SSN site.

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Anonymous wrote:Any gun-related name is super tacky and off-putting.

I know 2 little brothers named Colt and Weston. Tragic.

Yikes.

Anonymous wrote:Any gun-related name is super tacky and off-putting.

I know 2 little brothers named Colt and Weston. Tragic.

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

Contrary to popular belief, wealthy WASPs (especially the influencer and public figure types) aren’t immune to giving their children stupid names. I’ve heard surnames used as first names, random words (Story, River, Journey, Navy, Chase, Rowdy), common names that are intentionally misspelled to appear more “unique”, girls given very masculine names, girls given unisex or masculine names with “feminized” spellings (Tristyn, Camryn, Elliotte). I’m sure I’ve even missed some categories because there’s a lot of examples.

Yes, you did. You missed the locations, weapons/violence, and trying too hard to be preppy/frat bro categories: Austin, Boston, Phoenix, Bronx, Brooklyn, Remington, Colt, Wesson, Cutter, Blade, Brooks, Banks, Wells, Briggs, Brock, Bradford, Beau, Prescott, Tripp, Crew. Need I say more?

Anonymous wrote:My niece called and told us she had a boy named Remmington Kai. My husband asked me is it a boy or a girl and we of course did not ask. It’s a cute name but now I know several boys named Remmington.
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Is your husband slow?

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

Contrary to popular belief, wealthy WASPs (especially the influencer and public figure types) aren’t immune to giving their children stupid names. I’ve heard surnames used as first names, random words (Story, River, Journey, Navy, Chase, Rowdy), common names that are intentionally misspelled to appear more “unique”, girls given very masculine names, girls given unisex or masculine names with “feminized” spellings (Tristyn, Camryn, Elliotte). I’m sure I’ve even missed some categories because there’s a lot of examples.

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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.

Ok but it’s millennials who are having babies. Gen X are 45+ now.

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

I'm the one who made that original post. It's definitely not a minority lower class neighborhood. It's a predominantly white middle to upper class suburban neighborhood.

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

Honestly Wells and Campbell are nearly as tacky if not family names.

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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.

This sounds very Texas.

It’s 1000% a minority lower class neighborhood. I’m from Texas and the last few babies my friends there have had are Daniel, Wells, Campbell, and Marjorie.

Any gun-related name is super tacky and off-putting.

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.

This sounds very Texas.

My niece called and told us she had a boy named Remmington Kai. My husband asked me is it a boy or a girl and we of course did not ask. It’s a cute name but now I know several boys named Remmington.
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