List of babies born at my local (American) hospital - April

[Fishpond]

Background:

Been doing this since December. The parents have agreed to have their babies listed by name, picture, birthdate, and parents' names on my local hospital's webpage so they are public to all. I only include first names to try to maintain some semblance of privacy although the middle names are included on the page. I live in a midwestern American town of about 80-100,000.

Interesting note this month - 63 boys and 63 girls born

Some really spectacular ones this month ladies

BOYS

Alexis
Andrew
Ayden
Benjamin x3
Brantley
Braxton
Brayden
Brayton
Bryan
Carter x2
Casen
Cayden
Charles x2
Christian
Christopher
Eli
Elijah
Ethan
Evan
Gage (+1 Gaige)
Gunner
Henry
Holden
Ja?mani
Jacob
Johnathan
Joseph
Joshua
Kaiden
Kaison
Keenan
Korben
Landon
Liam x3
Locke
Mason x3
Maxtin
Noah
Nolan
Preston
Reese
River
Ryker
Samuel
Seth
Stephen
Sy
Talon
Travis
Tristan
Tyler
Zander
Zane
Zayden

GIRLS

Abigail
Adlee
Ahmiya
Alexis
Anna
Annabelle x2
Addison (+1 Addyson)
Alisson (+1 Alyson)
Arabella
Ava
Braelyn
Brilee (+1 Brylee)
Brinley
Brystol
Carleigh (+1 Karlee)
Chloe x2
Eleanor
Ella
Emma x2
Emmalynn
Harper
India
Jaylee
Jemma
Josselyn
Kambreigh
Kayla
Keelie
Kinsley (+1 Kynsleigh)
Kylee
Lacey
Layla
Lucy
Lydia
Lynnlee
Mayleigh
Payten x2 (+1 Payton)
Phoebe
Piper
Presley
Promise
Priyana
Raye
Rebecca x2
Reese
Ria
Rosemary
Sabdy
Sadie
Sarah
Sophie
Truth

spider - it had to happen. I suppose parents nowadays are too young to have seen the tv news of desolate ex-steelworks etc. Maybe its been redeveloped and is now the sort of place you'd like associated with your LO...

but its still shut steelworks and trouserpresses to me.

I have never got sucked into a baby names thread before - must mean I'm getting broody! I find most of the boys names, well, not terrible - I wouldn't choose many of them but I wouldn't really think "poor kid" either. Not mad about a lot of the girls ones though.

You've inspired me to check my local hospital's baby gallery for April too - I will tell you the country after, unless anyone wants to guess :)

April 2012 boys
Aaron
Laurin
Noah
Philip
Collin
Lennox
Davide
Felix
Maximilian
Jamie-Dean & Jayden-Ben
Alexandru
Abdul
Linus
Tom
Manuel
Luis
Patrick
Rafael
Ben
Jorge
Lucian
Mason
Shannon
Nils
Noah
Jonah

April 2012 girls
Nisa
Sara
Melissa
Maya
Leni
Phelline
Adele
Mia
Isabell
Aliyah
Beritan
Lena
Liya
Fiona
Michelle
Ronja*
Romy
Ariana
Fiona
Liana
Lina
Mia-Sophie
Mina
Maja
Mia
Antonia
Lucia
Marie
Luisa

Grimma - that also sounds like someone off a Radio 4 panel game - Mr and Mrs Trouserpresse and their delightful daughter, Corby :)

God, Babycentre sounds worse than What to Expect baby name board.

They also do the chopping of family names and mixing them with other names. It also seems really popular to give a girl a male name but a "feminine" spelling - Kevin becomes Keven, Ryan becomes Ryann, Charlie becomes Charleigh.

Popular names seem to be Jaxson, Maverick, Braxton and Hunter for a boy, Addison, McKenzie, Audrey, Presley and Paisley for a girl.

They also regularly have somebody come on and ask for an Irish name for a girl and the suggestions are Kennedy, Delaney, Ireland, Eire, Raegan and Katelyn, when anybody suggests an actual Irish name they're told it's too weird (Aoife is too similar to Adolf Hitler apparently )

Ah yes fondle - I had someone like that. I gave her loads of lovely Irish names & do you know what she decided to call her baby.... Irelynne ffs

There was one asking for an opinion of Envyy the other day!

What awful names! (with the odd exception)

This is all just too funny! :)

Thanks for posting these Fishpond!! So interesting.

Ivana - hopefully if Harper was inspired by anyone it was Harper Lee who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, not a baby Beckham. Maybe that's where they got it from too. Anyway, I'd imagine that's one of the less outre names in the US.

I actually liked the name Harper before the Beckhams used it. Although I could never quite get away from it sounding very like Harpie.

Brystol is my favourite on there. Fabulous.

What other lovely place names could we name our DCs?

I'm going to call mine...Grimsby

Grimsbeigh if its a girl

Now I feel better about liking Bruno Hercules....

Some shockers on there! its even worse when they take a crap name and then to add insult to injury, they spell it badly.

Tempted to have a Monntrose or a Bellefaste or Barnsleigh. Maybe even a Coventreigh and Peterboro and Loutonne too. Whitbee, anyone?

Grimsbeigh could always have a brother, Billingham.

Who looks at their beautiful baby and gives them such ugly names?! I've heard of Brayden before and thought that was awful enough, but Braxton? Brantley? Ryker? And don't get me started on those awful girls' names....

"They also regularly have somebody come on and ask for an Irish name for a girl and the suggestions are Kennedy, Delaney, Ireland, Eire, Raegan and Katelyn, when anybody suggests an actual Irish name they're told it's too weird (Aoife is too similar to Adolf Hitler apparently )" But.... but.... There are some lovely actual irish girls names out there. Why would you call your daughter Eire ffs?!

"Tempted to have a Monntrose or a Bellefaste or Barnsleigh. Maybe even a Coventreigh and Peterboro and Loutonne too. Whitbee, anyone?"

Just snorted coke out my nose at that! Give it time, give it time.

bamboozled that's settled, my kids will be called Grimsbeigh, Billingham and Wiganne

If we're going for a theme I would take Stellan's suggestions of Barnsleigh and Coventreigh and put them in a sibset with Grimsbeigh. Nicknames Barn, Cov and Grim, naturally.

Thanks for theses Fishpond Ive enjoyed all the other ones you posted. Been checking on here all week to see if you would post an April list..... I look forward to Mays now

It seems to me that the citizens of USA are a little more stupid brave with their name and or spelling choices.

To be fair, after having another look at the lists there are some lovely names there. Ethan, Christian and Henry to name a few on the boy's list. I also like Abigail, Lucy and Phoebe too. Maybe some of the other more, ahem, unique names wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for some of the rotten spellings.

I certainly don't think it's fair to label everyone in the USA as having lousy choice in names for their children. I think it's just that the truly awful names on the list jump out at you.

Braxton!?

sorry I didnt mean to offend anyone. There are some lovely names on this months lists(this is probably one of the best so far).
What I ment(but as usual didnt word it very well) was that having seen the lists from other months that the OP has posted before that as far as I can see in America there looks to be a tendancy to use a wider variety of spellings and unusual names (not that we dont have our fair share of people trying to be unique in the UK).

It looks like both in UK and USA people are taking perfectly nice names and then completely spoiling them by messing with the spelling in order to be 'different' from anyone else.