To think that Americans have weird first name preferences!

[Lycidas]

Why do so of their popular first names sound like surnames?

Chace
Trace
Brock
Blake
Penn
Tucker
McKenna

Etc

Of course there are the usual standard names too, but it’s odd that you just don’t see the above kinds of names in the UK.

Boudica, I am surprised at the Manson, I admit. Might as well call the poor child Brady Hindley Shipman and be done with it. 😲

I thought that Hank was derived from Hendrik.

Merlot and Brie would have been crackers though

LOL!

I used to go out with an American fellow whose name was Charles but he was known as Chet. I could never understand how you'd go from one to the other

I've always thought this about Peggy and Molly, which are both diminutives of Margaret

I absolutely agree with you AlexaAmbidextra

Rumer
Scout
Trey
Sailor
Piper

Add Woody and Sonny to that lot

I know a Jamie Jamieson, a john Johnston, a David Davidson and a Calllum McCallum all of them born in a small town on the S.W coast

I hate English names like Persephone, Amelia , poppy. So twee. Aren’t they ridiculous? So try hard...The English really should start using proper names

Add Woody and Sonny to that lot

I know several Sonnys, including an uncle of my partner, it's a diminutive of Samuel.

Wouldn’t have been a problem if they’d pronounced it the Welsh way, I.e Yonna rather than Eyeowna

Sadly she was an Eyeowna.

@pallisers Well Ronan did say his first name was terrible so I guess you should take it up with him and tell him he's wrong because you like it.

The one I find weird is giving girls surname-names like 'emerson' I mean, names ending in 'son' mean 'son of'

scotinthenorth Persephone is a goddess in Greek mythology. It’s not English.

What is try hard about Amelia and Poppy?! Persephone is unusual but the sound is nice and not a daft spelling.

I'd rather have an "ugly name" on these lists than such an ugly soul that would make fun of people for something so silly as their name (or worse, call them "trash").

I’ve noticed how they go for one syllable names a lot
Chad, drew, chip, dale, cane, Kyle and so forth

Mainly men’s I think

Chad is short for Chadwick. Drew is short for Andrew. Chip is a nickname for Charles. I've never heard of any Americans called dale or cane.

Meanwhile here in the US no one has the slightest interest in what British people name their children, unless it's one of the royals.

@ZoeWashburne

I'd rather have an "ugly name" on these lists than such an ugly soul that would make fun of people for something so silly as their name (or worse, call them "trash").*

This. A million percent.

dale or cane
I know a Dail and Cain

I'd rather have an "ugly name" on these lists than such an ugly soul that would make fun of people for something so silly as their name (or worse, call them "trash")
Are you sure MN is the place for you Zoe?

I used to work with a Rusty Bucket. I mean. Why???

Randy is short for Randolph

I quite like a lot of the names listed they are strong sounding names

Maybe they a cross over names between two languages like English and German

mine was considered a silly name by many in the 70’s now it’s a nice name

Haworthia
I know someone who named their daughter Frankton. I can understand people wanting something a bit different but not that different!

How are you U.K. people with dog names? We tend to give ours human names.

When we met one of my sons's teachers this year she said,
"Oh, I'll remember his name; that's my dog's name too!".

I'm guilty of this too. All my dogs except my childhood dog have had human names.

As an American, I can say that Taylor and Jackson and McKenna are quite normal names, but I did name all of mine traditional first name first names, naming them after various relatives/grandparents.

But there are loads of Chantelles, Chardonnays, Chanels and Armanis in the US. And classes with multiple Olivias and Amelias too.

The idea that America is full of kids with cowboy style names as listed in the OP is just not a reflection of reality.

I have come across Chet, Chip and Chuck as NNs for Charles as well as Charlie. Nicknames don't have to be related in an obvious way to the original name. See for instance John/ Jack, Richard / Dick and many more.