To think parents are going mad

[Burgh]

I've seen a few posts recently about parents naming their kids and some of the ideas are insane. Axl, Orange, Blossom. Whats with the trends of going for really out there names - whats wrong with traditional names? Am I the only one that thinks its getting more and more out there.

My sister named her daughter Rebecca in '98 and my Mum thought that was a 'new' name when everyone called her Becky.

Hadyn / Hedyn is Welsh for seed, never heard of anyone with that name. Haydn is quite common though, although it's one of those weird ones that's common in Wales but not actually Welsh, like Leighton.

Would it be possible to hear the name Leighton without mentally adding 'Buzzard'?

I am cringing mostly at someone thinking Rebecca was new in 98. I was in school in 98 and had so many Rebecca's in my class they were called Rebecca B, Rebecca D etc.

People do it to demonstrate to others how terribly creative and interesting they are. It’s also usually the kind of person who sees their child as an extension of themselves rather than an independent human who will one day grow up and have a career.

I just don't like phonetic names that are made up. Yes, I know they are all made up but many have a linguistic origin. Braiden, Kaiden, Jaiden, and the Y spelling variations typically.

As a kid the hard part for me was those custom name thingies . If I saw one with my name, with the right spelling, it was gold dust.

My dd (born in 97) was always going to be Rebecca until a couple of months before she was born, when I looked at the birth announcements in the local paper and there were 6 Rebeccas in 1 week

People do it to demonstrate to others how terribly creative and interesting they are. It’s also usually the kind of person who sees their child as an extension of themselves rather than an independent human who will one day grow up and have a career.

This, 100%.

As a kid the hard part for me was those custom name thingies . If I saw one with my name, with the right spelling, it was gold dust.

This. With bells on. Oh how I wanted a really trashy and completely overpriced pencil case with my name on but could never have one as a kid (my name isn't unusual but less common than many and the less-frequent spelling variant of it as well and I bloody hate it).

It's all the "little old lady" names around our way - including poor Betty who I cannot see without my mind doing the whole "oooh Betty" thing.

There was a fad a few years back around here for "initial" type names - you know the sort A-J, C-J and the like. Poor poor kid I once taught who was actually named B.J.

I had a cat called Everard. The name suited him well.

I hated my ordinary, one syllable name, wanted to be called Victoria. Except, if I was called Victoria, my initials would have been VD. So just as well I wasn't Victoria and I grew into my given name, quite like it now.

My name is unusual but still a well recognised name. Saying that I've never met another one in person. I hated it at school and longed to be called Sue or Ann. I am OK with it now but use a short version.
I was a nanny in the late 70's to a little girl called Bonamie.
My late husbands middle name was Page.

What about the woman who is going to call her son Squire Sebastian Senator, that is his first name and he has to be called by that first name, all of it.

People used to give their kids the unusual name they wanted to call them as their middle name. Which is why so many of my generation have embarrassing middle names. It meant if you did somehow like it, you could use it, and if you hated it you could not tell anyone about it.

I think it shortsighted for parents to choose names that will be difficult to spell correctly. I'm sure it'll be very trying for the child at a later age, perhaps less so now we do online ordering so CAN get it right.

Gabsalot it's actually spelt Isaac...

People used to give their kids the unusual name they wanted to call them as their middle name. Which is why so many of my generation have embarrassing middle names. It meant if you did somehow like it, you could use it, and if you hated it you could not tell anyone about it.

I want to call a girl Boudicca or Boadicea but in reality that would end up hidden in the middle names.

A girl at my secondary school was called Liquorice! I always wondered how her parents landed on that.

Saw a child recently called Teddy-Theo...not judging, just confused...do they not realise they've called them Theodore-theodore?

Even worse are the traditional names with a very different spelling - eg instead of Isaac it's Eyezac. Or Ameelyah instead of Amelia.

those are the most awful. I know a Ryon. Never ending trouble.

I love unusual names.

My mythical accident would be called Mehitabel if a girl

Personally love somewhat unusual names like Malakai and Lear but my DP would never go for it

Loads of Malakais now, not very unusual!

Never known a single one but then again I live in Denmark @ForAMin

I thought the spelling is Malachi

I've been thinking a lot about this recently, but I think it's all down to individual opinions. My dad doesn't like the names of either of my daughters. One he thinks is an old ladies name, the other reminds him of "smelly cat". But I like them so it's not a problem.

Saying that, I do sit around board meetings with the likes of David's, Sarah's, Andreas, michaels and wonder what it will be like in 10 years when I'm addressing Teddies, Alexas, Romans, Roccos or Sapphires 🤷‍♀️. They're aren't (to me) longevity names, they're just "cute".

My youngest has a Phoenix, Willam, Destiny and a Boy (yes, just the word Boy) in her class, and these are from pretty upper class parents too!