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Do you consider any of these names American in origin?

154 replies

Wilderwood · 25/07/2026 08:17

Girls:
Harper
Lainey
Autumn
Madison
Delaney

Boys:
Hudson
Cooper
Hunter
Grayson

And not that it’s a bad thing! But husband says my choices are quite American 🇺🇸 so please help settle this debate.
Open to suggestions

thank you ☺️

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rainingsnoring · 25/07/2026 12:45

They are sound American to me, execept Autumn. I much prefer your husband's choices, especially Cassia and Thea.

blooba · 25/07/2026 12:48

Autumn and Hunter are ok. The rest are awful.

pigmygoatsinjumpers · 25/07/2026 12:50

They all sound American to me, except Autumn.

If you like Madison, I think Madeleine is nicer. They'll likely both end up shortened to Maddy.

pouletvous · 25/07/2026 12:50

Yes maam. They sure do sound yankee

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 25/07/2026 12:51

Agree with everyone else. All of them are very American. Nothing wrong with that if you like them.

pouletvous · 25/07/2026 12:51

Madison was never a girls first name until the film Splash 🙄

pouletvous · 25/07/2026 12:51

Delaney? Honestly! That’s flipping awful

catsflorafauna · 25/07/2026 12:59

It’s the list of names for whatever Taylor sheridans new spin off show will be 😂😂😂😂

DaysIllRememberAllMyLife · 25/07/2026 13:01

Yes because most of them sound like surnames. In fact one of them is my maiden name.

Americans seem to go in for surname as first name but I think it's getting more popular here.

Autumn is nice though.

user1492757084 · 25/07/2026 14:39

Yes, they are.

WhyIhatebaylissandharding · 25/07/2026 14:45

I’d say Hunter was Scottish.

Defoncforthis · 25/07/2026 14:47

Yes American..

VodkaAndSoda · 25/07/2026 14:49

They sound American, but I much prefer them to your DH’s choices.

SeasideDaisy · 25/07/2026 14:50

All of them apart from Harper, nothing wrong with any of them though.

MyDarlingRose · 25/07/2026 14:50

Yes all of the boys names. And Madison and Lainey

MyDarlingRose · 25/07/2026 14:51

I love Octavia and Cassia

Youspurnme · 25/07/2026 14:51

Most of them are surnames. And honestly quite tacky. Sorry.

CypressMoon · 25/07/2026 14:54

Yes they all sound like American names to me. It's more common there to use surnames as first names, which all your boys' names are. And the girls' names sound like characters from US TV shows rather than UK classrooms. Nothing wrong with that - just how the names come across.

AwayWiththeGoblins · 25/07/2026 14:55

Yes, all but Autumn. The 'rugged surnames as first names' thing is culturally deeply US, and the girls names generally suggest someone whose taste was honed on American TV series and bloggers. There was a terrible Mommy blogger a while back, the type who would drag a large wooden dresser out into the woods behind her Florida house and have a friend in New England send her a box of autumn leaves so she could take large colour photos of her offspring having carefully-curated, monetisable fun. One of her daughters was called Lainey Love.

Thatcannotberight · 25/07/2026 15:15

If you really want to stir things up suggest Athea. It's a real name of Greek origin and a place in Ireland.

There was a thread on Reddit a while back where everyone argued it should be Althea or Anthea or Athena. 😁.
DS 2 goes to school with an Athea, I think it's a nice name. She pronounces it A-thee-a.

KnickerlessParsons · 25/07/2026 15:27

All of them except Autimn sound a bit chav, sorry OP.

mathanxiety · 25/07/2026 15:47

Your H is right.

mathanxiety · 25/07/2026 15:51

Funnily enough, Octavia would be considered pretty down market in the US.

I don't like either set of names - his or yours, fwiw.

user293948849167 · 25/07/2026 16:00

Girls - yes all apart from Autumn (I get that it’s a name in US but it’s more of a British word)

yes all the boys names I would think of as American sounding

Daffodilsinthespring · 25/07/2026 16:01

Yes all very American. I do like Autumn though.

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