To intensely dislike the “y/ie” suffix name craze?

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Alfie Archie Albie Blakie Bertie Denny Ellie Evie Edie Georgie Lenny Ralphie Ronnie Reggie Vinny.

Today I came across a Jeffie. Why?!

If want to give you kid an old fashioned name, then name it Alfred, Eleanor, Leonard or Vincent. Or Jeffrey.

Added to the naff-ness of it is the fact that when that child starts school, he’s going to be one in at least half a dozen others with the same name.

I just find it it very unoriginal and effortless to give your child a “trendy” name that 50% of parents seem to also be naming their child. I’m assuming they think it’s quirky or cute but I can’t be the only person who thinks it’s naff and tasteless.

I get sometimes it’s to honour a relative. My grandad was called Bernard, but if I wanted to name my son after him I wouldn’t name him Bernie. I’d call him Bernard. As that was my grandads name.

oh no, you’ve uncovered it now, we all hate it too but deliberately name our dc to wind you up.

So don’t name your children that.
Problem solved.
There are many, many name fashions that I dislike (‘unique’names, little old man names) so I just don’t choose them for my child.

Fifteen names there.

And somehow half of all parents will be calling their child the same thing. 🤔

You don't have to like every name. But names do trend. They always have.

I like most of those names, and I like them way more than the 'long' version. So I'm on the parents side. Sorry!

I wouldn’t be keen on Bernard personally, but then different people like different things.

And pray tell us what your children are called.

I do know what you mean - my little one has one of those very names you've listed but we've given her the full name version so she has the choice to use either the nickname or the full as she grows up.

But I've voted YABU because you can think what you like privately but calling other people's choices "naff and tasteless" and "unoriginal and effortless" is just rude really. We chose our daughter's name because I love it and always have and it is also my husband's late grandmother's name. If there are others in her class who share her name, so what. I wasn't the only one in my school year with my name, never did me a moment's harm. Each to their own.

Blakie?
(I’ll get you Butler!)

Can't say I've ever given a second thought to what people name their kids.... they're not my kids so it doesn't affect me in the slightest

My daughter ends in -ie but that’s the full name, it doesn’t have a long version 😮 what should I do?!?!

Firstly, they're not all the same name or all very popular, they just all end with the same sound. So the 'there'll be half a dozen kids with same name' bit isn't really accurate. You can't complain there are so many 'ie/y' names and also that everyone has the same name, those are counter points.

Secondly, I don't know how many of these children's birth certificates you've seen, but I would imagine that at least some of them do have the longer (or.in some.cases shorter) name on their BC.

I know Georgie (BC George), Freddie (BC Alfred), Teddy (BC Edward), Bertie (BC Albert), Annie (BC Annabelle), Noushie (BC Anoushka), Maxie (BC Max), Izzy (BC Isabelle), Tilly (Matilda) and loads more. They're just using the cutesy version when they're cute!

I’m with you OP. Not that I’d say anything because it’s none of my business but I do wonder why they’re setting up their dc for a lifetime of being asked if their full name is xyz.

fwiw I have a longer name but have always gone by the shortened version - I didn’t even click that my name was actually the long version till I was a teenager! I really like it, and like having social distinctions between people who know me by my longer name and people who call me by the shortened version. It’s not for everyone but I really liked having the option to try out different versions without drastically changing my name.

And to add to that - most names are 'unoriginal'. Bernard certainly qualifies. In fact naming a child after a relation is the least original!

Original names are often the worst. Silly spellings of normal names, for example, or the celebrity tend of giving unique names - see Elon Musk as a prime example!

I'll stick to unoriginal names, thanks.

It's not a craze, it has happened all my lifetime and I'm in my late 40s.

My name gets shortened to an ie ending as does my daughters, even though our given names do not.

It’s not a “craze” - wealthy families have been doing this for hundreds of years. Go to any boarding school (particularly girls) and it’s filled with Millie’s, Florries, Georgies. They all have a “proper” name on their birth certificate but go by a diminutive as a child and then if they become a High Court Judge they revert back to Camilla, Florence and Georgina.

My daughter goes by a diminutive. She’s known by that name at school. She has her full name on her birth certificate if she wants to use when she’s older.

Each to their own.

How do you know they don't have a longer full name? Just because they use a shortened version it doesn't mean that's their actual name on the birth certificate - or do you question the parents? Something about your posts makes me think you're potentially the type of person who actually does.

My DD has a name that ends in y. It could also end in ie but we picked the y ending. It's a complete and classic name as it is. No others in her class.

I’m only concerned with the names of my own children, not what others choose.

And surely it wouldn’t be setting your child up for a lifetime of being asked if their full name is x, y or z if, as op claims, half of all kids are named like this, it’ll just be seen as the norm that a child has been given the shortened version?

I'm 44.

Never once have I met anybody with the legal name Archibald / Alfred / Albert etc who doesn't go by the diminutive of Archie, Freddy, Bertie etc.

(Now, admittedly I haven't mets loads of people by those names so my sample pool is small, but significant enough, I think).

It's not a new thing at all.

@modgepodge it’s ok if it’s already the full name. Unless it’s one that should end in a Y and you’ve changed it to an ie “to be different”. Still doesn’t bother me as much as the Archie/Alfie/Albie thing tho. So like Lucie and Mollie doesn’t bother me so much because there are full names, but still any change it from y to ie? Molly and Lucy are nice as they are/ As far as I’m aware they aren’t shortened versions, I could be wrong tho. My eldest is called Poppy but I would find changing it to Poppie distasteful, as there’s no need other than to try to be different or quirky.

I know a Sophiey.
I can’t stand it.

Well I'm 45 and my sisters are 42 and 25. We all have ie or y ending names so I don't think it's a new thing

And Molly is a derivative of Mary fyi my son is known by one of the names you hate but his actual name is the full name. He just prefers to shorten it

@NuffSaidSam if it’s the full name on the birth certificate, that’s better at least. Unless it’s like those people who say “it will be Henry on the birth certificate but he will only ever be known as Harry”. But that’s a whole other pet peeve 🤣

Of course it's not new! Tommy Atkins, anyone? Written in 1890.

What a strange thing to get annoyed about