Why the hate for modern “made up” style names

[sarahbiggs1]

This is a very unpopular opinion especially on this sub but i kind of like the new “made up names” like Everleigh, paisley, braylee etc When people say stuff like it won’t suit an adult it dosent really make any sense because names that are now considered old women names like Linda,Sandra, Nancy were once probably looked at as child only names . I don’t think people realise that the names of the 2020s won’t be weird to their generation, there will be lots of high paid working people with these names and it won’t be looked at as odd for an adult to introduce themselves as “Kinsley” because by that time it will probably be an adults only name. Although it’s true that names like olivia or lily are more timeless because they have been around a long time it dosent mean the current trendy names will be looked on as bad because at the end of the day a lot of people in that generation will have those names.

You can have an unusual name that isn't made up. My daughter has an unusual name, it is likely she will never meet someone with the same name. The name was a family member's, it's beautiful, it has variations, but it's not made up.

You don't have to make up a name and can still have an unusual name so why would you make one up instead of sourcing an actual name that's just unusual?

name]-May/Mae/Mae/Grace, I assume the parents are probably quite young and not very highly educated, and that will influence the life paths of their kids. They will be Wayne/Tracey/Sharon equivalents 30 years from now.

One lovely young girl I know has Mae as the second part to her name - her parents own half the land in and around our village and have had same in their family for generations so presume away 🙄

Two cockneys:

hey mate, what's two plus two?

Come on mate, shabonce?

I can’t stand hyphenated first names.

I can’t stand double barrelled surnames for that matter.

I’m currently working on a project involving almost 5000 people who do a wide range of jobs in a large organisation with a 15 grade system. Like it or not there is a high degree of correlation between types of names and jobs. I’m frequently able to predict whether someone is in a higher grade role from their name.

This is aimed at toddlers, but I think much of Mumsnet could do with watching:

I have a very unusual name. There are less than 400 in total. I'm the only one with a British passport, and the only one in France.

I hate it!!

I am a mid 70s baby who got an out- there hyphenated name and hate it. What I would have give to just have been called Louise at the time, I couldn’t ever get anything personalised, no one could say or spell it. I suppose it’s different now as lots of children have unique names but I always say a big no to hyphens too.

That's interesting- when dd was born l had 2 names in mind but went with hers because l thought the other one wasn't really a "professional' name yet my very wc DH liked that one more! (Don't care he is wc by the way, but no denying we grew up in 2 very different worlds!)

One lovely young girl I know has Mae as the second part to her name - her parents own half the land in and around our village and have had same in their family for generations so presume away

Exception that proves the rule. Lilly-Mae type names are mostly given by parents who do not have a high education level.

Exception that proves the rule. Lilly-Mae type names are mostly given by parents who do not have a high education level.

I actually know 2 exceptions - the 2nd lovely child has that very name but the first part is spelt Lily - her parents are both highly educated professional people 😉

“This is a very unpopular opinion especially on this sub but i kind of like the new “made up names” like Everleigh, paisley, braylee etc“

Those names all have the same sounding ending but completely different spellings. All these poor kids are going to have to spell out their names their entire lives because they are made up! Gah

Just remembered I know another lovely girl ..... Mae and she is from a very different background to the others.

Just shows how class really is not a "thing" here in Ireland ...
well maybe it is in Dublin 4 😬

So many great and unusual names, Welsh, Irish, old English, names of prophets and saints, names of stars of stage & the silver screen, cultural heroes, french names, Italian names. Wonderful hippy names! Some might be a bit wanky or might carry heavy class associations, but most not.

Most made up names suggest that the primary cultural references are the more vapid expressions of pop culture.

You are not alone, OP. I don’t have an issue with more modern names and find many of the suggestions here a bit dull. But I had an unusual name growing up and enjoyed it.

I think my suspicions have been amply proven by the responses here.

I don't really care how people name their kids generally.

I do raise an eyebrow at names or spellings made up by people who really don't have a great grasp of the language. It must make it so difficult for the kids - both the practicalities of spelling or explaining their names, and the assumptions made about them.

Two real life examples I can think of:

• Beaux for a girl


• T'la pronounced 'Taylor'

I don't think you can protect against that happening. Thanks to the made-up-spelling people, nobody is really sure how to spell anything anymore . I gave my kids what I thought were rock solid, easy names, and still get asked to spell them out. "James? With a Y and a Z?"

😂

In primary care, certain names are definitely over-represented on the child protection list...............

Ive been trying to drop my name snobbery honestly I have, but I just dont like the sounds of those names. I had the time of my life in the USA so its not anti americanism. I like the rhythym of Everleigh, but I think it sounds like a surname. Paisley is ok, but braylee just sounds odd.

I live in a place where the newly spelled, "differently" named children are in their early to mid twenties now (English speaking, but without much classism evident).

I'm silently chortling away at the "I wouldn't choose a X, Y or Z to be my accountant/lawyer/interior designer" type posts that reek of snobbery —and may I say, say more about the posters themselves than the Braydens and Chardonnays out there— .

It would certainly be something in the field I work in if the highly qualified people I know with these names turned up to, for eg. cut your family member from a car wreck, deliver your premmie baby, tube your unconscious child, stabilise your grannie's dislocated hip, etc etc and you turned them away because their name was hyphenated -mae or they had a random eigh or ay where you believed some more traditional letters should be!!

I call these "pick and mix" names. It's like the parents have been given two columns and chosen a random syllable from each one to make a name.

Bray-lee, Bray-son, Bray-leigh, Bray-cie , Bray-den, Bray-lin, Bray-La

Ash-lee, Ash-son, and repeat ad nauseam...

This

I immediately think of American trailer trash or English sink estate .