For thinking baby names are getting silly

what a nasty and judgement thread to start. I know there is plenty going on in the baby name threads but to start one in AIBU just because people are using names you personally don’t like?

It makes literally zero difference to your life what people name their kids. Many people choose names which are special for one reason or another.

my kids have more old fashioned names, from a book I loved as a child and guess what? After my grandfather, a literal WW2 veteran. Nothing out there but along the lines of Elsie, Arthur, Albert, Lillian.

as someone who had a very generic 90s name, where there were three others in my class alone, I hated it and wished I had a more unusual name!

No, he’s not my first.

Why would I give it a few years?

His friends and classmates have names that would have posters here appalled and feeling sad for them, many of those friends from different cultures.

I’m working class & have a DS called Hector, had no idea it was considered a “posh” name until I read a thread where people were guessing what Boris Johnson would call one of his sons and Hector was a popular contender. A name is just a name, people can choose whatever they like to call their kids. If I have another DS I would want to call him Atlas but maybe ill choose something more in keeping with my social class, like Steptoe.

Horatios certainly do not need apostrophes.😆

I’m more curious as to the why, but I wouldn’t feel sad for her.

Ochre is a pigment., a colour. Those who know art and fashion would recognise it.

Not much different then someone naming their daughter Ruby or Scarlett.

Denmark has such a list.

As a Primary School teacher of 30 years I have never known have a child have the piss taken out of them because of their name.

Edit: I've just remembered one. A boy in Reception said a girl had a dog's name. I told him it was a person's name before it was a dog's name and that ended that. It wasn't even especially unusual - it's quite common for people to call their dog's human names.

Is you 6 year old your first child?
Give it a few years

I know a Phoenix.

I can't imagine naming my children anything other than something normal so that when they finally go for a job interview their names appear professional and easy to read/pronounce.
I know someone in their late 40s who has a very unusual, made up sounding, name and a very responsible job as a Coroner.

Loads of people have to spell their name though.

Its 2024. The country is incredibly diverse. People have names from all sorts of different cultures.

I don’t really see ‘Ochre’ as being particularly complicated to spell, pronounce etc.

My 16 year old DS is called Terry, good old fashioned working class name. Never met another one either.

I don’t see the issue with Horatio either…it’s a perfectly acceptable name. My problem is with made up spellings…maybe I should have gone with Terriegh instead 😂

If those are the names of a monarch or their consort then I must have missed another coronation.

I've noticed a huge amount of kids in the years r-2 at my kids school have old fashioned names (think Audrey etc) it's just what's in at the moment. I remember the name Courtney being really popular in the late 90s

Ochre.
I feel sad for the girl. Some parents really don't think for a minute that their child will be spelling and explaining that for their entire lives.

Why would kids take the piss out of names they’ve never heard of before?

I know for a fact my 6 yo isn’t going around making fun of his classmates’ names.

Wherever would they learn such behaviour?

All names are made up. Most names mean something, all the "traditional" names have a meaning from when they were first used as names even if it's in another language.

Would you find it ridiculous if someone said "I'm going to name my son the Hebrew word for red earth"? Which is just Adam.

I really dislike name snobs.

I agree about ridiculous names but there's nothing wrong with names like Albert. I know loads of all ages. Albert as a name never died out

I work across several schools and I’ve been wondering if we’re on the cusp of a generational name shift. Recently I’ve come across little Alan, Derek, Penelope, Bruce, Bryan, Mary, Hannah, Margaret, Joy, and they’re the names that sound slightly unusual against all the Bear/Blue/Phoenix/Ava/Evie etc.

I grew up with lots of Stevens.

A friend of mine is a Steven and known him since we were in primary school in the 90s.

It's up to the parents but admittedly some of the names are a bit silly. Why saddle your child with a daft name that ithe kids with take the piss out of? The names that sound made up are the worst, along with clunky double barreled ones that don't seem to flow

There was a Steven at my kids school and that also seemed strange. Perfectly normal when I went to school but unusual for that time.

how about theses names?

Believe me Phoenix Rose is bland compared with some of the names I hear where I live!
And yes to interviewers removing personal details such as name, age and gender when selecting for interview.

No, that was a joke.

We also considered how his name might sound as the next prime minister, a Nobel prize winner for science, a teacher, or a dodgy used car salesman.

Better have a look at the names of Nobel Prize Winners then. Didn’t seem to stop several in the name department.