Why the fashion for stupid names.

[ceecee32]

Can someone please explain to me why on earth there is the need to saddle your poor children with a stupid name which will affect them for the rest of their life.

Is there a competition somewhere to have the most ridiculous thing that can be thought of.....why???

Agree that names go in and out of fashion - today's Neveah is tomorrow's Gertrude. And once you factor in family names, cultural differences, traditions etc etc, I find it hard to care too much about what someone else's kid is called.
My mum is fairly 'out there' and when I was born, there was no one else with my name. Never came across any others, could never find anything with my name on (those pens/keyrings/whatever with names on that you buy in service stations, and garden centres at xmas). Really uncommon. Fast forward a quarter century and my name is ten a penny, absolutely everywhere. Well into the top 10 from last year. So I am living proof that what was once quirky is now totally mundane. In 5 or 10 years there'll be a whole new set of name fashions for everyone to moan about.

Same here Four. Wonder if it's the same name?

I like Fox as a name. Not so keen on cub though.

tobee mine's Ella - no chance of being outed as there's so bloody many around now

The trouble is that people do judge. If you hear or see names without a photo, you might have an idea of what they are like and what they look like. Would you expect a Darren or Tracey to be 18? Amelie or Jack to be 57? Doubt it.

I used to work with three teenagers called Armani, Chanel & L'Oreal.

Seriously.

I spent ages after wondering if I'd heard Hedge or Hench or something literally the most bizarre name I've ever heard i don't even get why you'd choose something like that and i actually like weird names
I'd choose Imani or Kinga for my future DDs name thankfully DH has chosen naice names

Why the fashion for being so judgemental over something as innocuous as a name?

Who cares? Diversity is a good thing. I have zero qualms with somebody calling their child Aymeee or Nevaeh.

The trouble is that people do judge. If you hear or see names without a photo, you might have an idea of what they are like and what they look like. Would you expect a Darren or Tracey to be 18? Amelie or Jack to be 57? Doubt it.

So? If I then found out that Darren was an 18 year old, how would that affect me or him in any way? Why does it matter?

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I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for it! I'm due in November and don't know if the baby is a boy or girl, but Flughafen is pleasingly unisex

It wouldn't affect you or him, it's just that some people will form an idea of what someone is like and they might feel strange when the person is quite different to what they expected.

Would you expect Lindsay or Kim to be men? Is Ashley or Chris a woman?

I know a girl who has just changed the spelling of her name by deed poll within weeks of her 18th birthday. It's a fairly out there name, that is a word in its own right, but her mum wanted to distance her name from the word so spelled it 'uniquely'. She has spent her whole life saying 'yes my name is x. No you don't spell it that way' and she really resents her mum for it!

Think Ocean spelt Owshun, or Sunshine spelt Sunnsheine...

I think there are a lot of silly names but tbh when I was in primary school, no one really got bullied for their name but their was a girl whose last name was Friday. We called her Saturday. Thought it was hilarious. She hated it.

Would you expect Lindsay or Kim to be men? Is Ashley or Chris a woman?

But I still don't get why that matters. Like... So what if somebody doesn't have a name that one might expect them to have?

(although I do know a female Ashley and a female Chris - short for Christina)

Wait, Ashley isn't a girls name??

My all time favourite "different" name is Nevaeh. Guess what, it's heaven spelt backwards,. Amazing.

There have been a few baby name threads on here recently where I have seriously wondered if they are a pisstake. A poster will list their favourite really awful names and the responses are completely serious so
I think it must be me and the circles I mix in.

Coming from an Irish background - yooneek spellings of traditional names gets on my wick.

Shauvaunne, Shivawn, Shawn, Dervla, Mikal, Kormack etc.

Bastardizing someone's heritage is infuriating.

I know male Lindays and male Kims, male and female Ashleys, male and female Chriss.

It doesn't matter but when I heard that Lindsay was visiting our office from another site, I said something like "Oh, when she's coming?" and I was told "Lindsay's a man".

The thing is TheSea is that people make assumptions based on a name. The assumptions may be to do with social/educational/racial background. You might not, but some people will.

My son wouldn't believe me that Steve was a name

What about Captain America? He's called Steve!

I think it's great to have more diverse names! Agreed with fashions too. I have a VERY common name that my parents thought was unique when I was born in 1994...

What I can't bear is the yoonique spellings. I know an Alicia which is spelt...Ailiyissia. Alicia is a lovely name, why not use that?! The name isn't, but the spelling is just stupid IMO.

It doesn't matter

Right. That's my point. You said "when's she coming?" and someone said "Lindsay's a man". Big non-story.

Unusual isn't the same as invented but I can't say I care too much either way-not my child not my business!

I remember about 20 years ago, a guy I worked with was complaining about the crazy name his sister called her baby, Freya. He couldnt believe it. Who would do that to a child?