Why are Americans more open to modern names than British people?

I could be wrong but I lived in the US and felt the boys names were strong traditional names - Patrick, Jon, and the girls were not so much, so Chelsea (a part of London) and Paisley (a not very desirable town in Scotland) or Madison , the capital of ?Missouri so it seemed a bit sexist to me.

Because Raelyn is fucking awful 🤷‍♀️

Paisley, Kailyn, Raelyn, Shmaelyn ARE NOT NAMES, THEY ARE MADE UP WORDS .
HTH

What's wrong with Randy?. Who gets to chose if a name is 'acceptable'?. My Fil is Dick

Nothing at all if you're in your 70's or older. Most younger men named Richard use Rick, Ricky, Rich, or Richy.

Dogwhistlae for a girl, I just think it’s prettier that way

Names go through cycles in whatever country you live in. The more multicultural your country, the more variety in the names. I'm irish and back in the 90s it was all the same names but now I know children of all different nationalities with a host of different names. Although among my Irish friends its irish names that are very popular at the moment , especially older irish names.

Short for Richard?

Anyone who names their kid Harlow has definitely not been to Harlow.

@TryingNotToReact9to5 Irish names are so pretty

Americans are a lot more accepting of new & different

Sometimes in their quest for new and different they skirt around nice. Shame.

It depends on area, where I live there's a lot of names such as seraya, charity, coby, Harlow, arlo, destiny.

My children all have traditional names because I think they are pretty. But I would say those names have only been popular in the last 20 years or so.

My childhood everyone was Tracy, Sharon, Kelly, Louise , Steven, Andrew

Omg my Indian friend named her child a classic Indian name. How dare she not call him Chase or Ramen or Osman.

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What's wrong with Randy?. Who gets to chose if a name is 'acceptable'?. My Fil is Dick

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I don't think a country that thinks "Randy" is acceptable as a name gets to judge anywhere else...

I always thought the US was behind European countries in terms of fashion/ pop culture when I was younger. Now they have cheap international flights access to the internet and greater influence from immigrants in the past 20 years it's caught up a bit.

I still don't think Paisley, Kinsley, or Raelyn sound 'modern' though (whatever that means), they sound dated on someone under 20+ years old

As a non Brit living here for many years. I would say it's because everyone is still obsessed with class. 'American' names are seen as chavvy & low class. Americans are a lot more accepting of new & different.

Because British people favour British names surely? As in Ireland we favour Irish names and so on. Culture, heritage,class and exposure all play parts. Also the US takes different bits from different cultures as it's a melting pot, that's less so in other countries. Your post reads to me that you feel America leads the way with things and others follow and you are wondering why names have not been the same?

You might as well ask why don’t UK parents call their sons the same name as their father but add a number on the end. Because we don’t. Or why don’t most UK women use their maiden name as an adjunct to their husbands surname as many US women do. Because we don’t. Or why don’t UK women use dottir on the end of our fathers surname as they do in Iceland. Because we don’t.

I'm sure there is a class thing here as there is in the US. However the US has large numbers of different peoples including those who bring their names with them from all over the world and religions and those who want specifically to remember their African heritage. The UK has fewer. I think what many people are not sure of is the taking of names off TV or appropriating names which don't belong to you. I love Scots and Irish names but wouldn't use them.

really don't think they are very different:

www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

As pp said that over all the USA has a bigger pot of cultures to pick names from there are people descended from all over Europe/ Africa/ Asia living there. This is true for parts of the UK too but not to the same extent.

I agree with PP I would put Paisley, Kinsley, Raelyn in with the UK names Kylie, Kelsey, Chelsea that were popular in the late 80's and 90's.

Fairly sure Kingsley Amis is/was more than ten years old

I honestly think many Americans don’t understand how different the two cultures are and they don’t understand why there’s so much anti-American sentiment in England especially. I don’t find the OPs post sneery or obstinate. But the idea that the names mentioned, Paisley and Raelyn, are modern, is not correct. Those would be considered down market names in America and mostly associated with the South.