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I definately think the made up/ridiculous celebrity inspired naming trends are worse than the overused. At least with a common name, people will know how to spell it/say it and your kid won't get a wedgie on a daily basis. Whatever happened to giving your child a classic name they could grow up to enjoy. Imagine having to spend your life explaining your name before being able to talk about anything else. What a pain in the *** and all for the sake of the parents wanting to feel artistic. Sigh...
unique names are a lot worse
Ridiculously spelled names are worse, at least the popular ones are easier to read and pronounce.
The first 2 names listed are worse. That's just ridiculous.
Your first case is far worse. The trendy names are really only an issue if/when you happen to get a lot of them in the same place. As the kid grows up, in particular once they are out of school, you spend much less time around people who are exactly your same age, and at that point you just have a regular old name. But if your name is Oeddie, Qjohn with a silent Q, whatever, then you have a jacked up name for your entire life.
Amusing related note: I was in a course in college once that had more boys with the same name as me than it had girls in total, counting the professor and teaching assistant who were both females.
They both suck but the 1st one suck the most!
Definately stay away from the "unique" names. They sound ghetto, so unless that's where you are, you don't want your child to be called that. If you want to know about naming trends, pick up the book "Freakanomics". There's an entire chapter on this very question and it's really informational.
"Yoo-neeq" names, definitely. They just look and sound so ridiculous. Overused names I can live with. In fact, some of the trendy names are quite nice, it's just when you have little armies of Ashleys that I start to get annoyed.
I should also say that unusual names, such as mythological names that you don't hear very often don't bother me, they're more of a pleasant surprise. But when you consult a bowl of alphabet soup when naming your child or tack on five extra letters to make your child's name "unique" it makes me want to heave.
The way-too-exotic, badly-misspelled names are WAY worse.
unique names...
i have a friend that named one of her kids tonell and the other tonise. to me it sounds like toe nail and toe knees. i would hate to see what body part she would have named the next one. i don't know. it don't like it but i think it is better to be an original than a copy.
well I really dont like super common names, and i cant stand misspellings when you cant read the name right. And made up names, well
Its all as long as when you read the name you can prn it right its fine.
I think that the unique rediculous names are worse, definately.
The ones that are misspelled,made up and sometimes ridiculous! Poor children these days, parents are forgetting that these kids someday are going to be adults! I just think that names are becoming such an issue on whos names are most unique that its way out of hand!
Misspelled, made up, and sometimes just ridiculous names!
I like the unique names that arent over done with mispellings and length. The kids still have to learn to write and spell there names as early as 4 years old.
Definately the unique ones. I hate the made up 'ghetto' names especially. Some of the overused ones bother me (like the 'M' names- Madison and all of it's variant spellings, McKayla, Makenzie, etc), but they ones that you listed (Ashley and Brittney) don't bother me so much.
the awful- spelled names are a whole lot worse!!!
Names that are misspelled, made up, and sometimes just ridiculous because they will cause a constant struggle for the child throughout their life, from ridicule to continually have to spell and pronounce the name.
I think unique names are fine as long as they are spelled so you know how to pronounce them when you see them. I have never liked common names,but that's just me. I liked the idea of looking for names with the right meaning for my child,my first born is a boy,I named him Adam,which means first man,man of earth,my second sons name is Troy,which is Celtic & means foot soldier,he was going to need a strong name to go with him being the second boy,my daughters name is Sara,which is Hebrew meaning Princess,which she was to me & her father. I also liked Hebrew & Biblical names,so just go what will sound good for a life time,but have it be something that can be pronounced right just by looking at it.
WHAT EVER YOU DO DON'T NAME THAT CHILD KATIE
I'd rather give my child an odd, unique name than have her known as Ashley G. or Sierra G. or the dreaded Britney G. I want to have people know right away who is being mentioned when she is spoken about. On the other hand I knew a guy in school whose name was S H I T H E A D! Seriously, his mom thought it was beautiful, and pronounced it ShaTodd. No one ever had a straight face when addressing him. Poor guy. He finally went by Todd. It was so ghetto and selfish of her to do that to him.
The unique made up names
There are unique names that are no used a lot, they are fine
I named my daughter in 2000, her name is Hayley
I was talking to a women, her daughter was born in 2000 too.
We were saying how we try to name our children names that you heard of, by not so there others in the class. Her daughter is named Grace. How when we named our children, they were not common. How we have so many girls that year, and since them name Grace and Hayley.
Some people do not attend to use trendy names
Other do.
I prefer trendy names.
The unique spellings of names isn't too bad~ I have several my self (Travys, Cyndi, Zowie, Maygen)! But the really far out there names are way too strange! And the really over used names are getting way out of hand! Makes your kid blend in to much!
I really think that the just ridiculous names are the worse, I would never name my kid those names because it would be a bad time in school for them
They both are really bad. Unique names should be just that...UNIQUE. Not all messed up. The overused names get boring at times and need a change.
to me id rather name my child Ashley or something, because can you just imagine those kids going through life with those jacked up names? Imagine trying to get an interview nobody wants to hire you if your name is Shaquwanalea, and you have to answer the phone hi this is Shaquwanalea, how may I help you, no, I know I probably wouldn't hire.
I agree with you but I think the long, unheard of mis-spelled names are the worst. Poor kid has to grow up not knowing how to pronounce his or her own name let alone having it pronounced and spelled wrong by everyone else. At least with the over used common ones, people can say them and usually spell them.
made up names... just b/c it's hard for the kid to learn to spell and others to spell and say.
I agree with most people on here. the totally messed up names u have to sit and read real slow just to TRY and pronounce correctly. Im not really into nameing my child trendy names either that are SO popular where there is 10 other children with the same name. So my advice would be to try and find a name u like that is maybe a lil of both. a lil different that u dont hear all that often but not so messed up where no one will ever get the name right. good luck and God Bless. I am having my 2nd son 3rd child and i am clueless on a name as of this time. i think it will just hit me when it is right.
I think the unique names are worse because the ones you used as examples are hard to pronounce. Simple names are good. Unless if you come up with a good unique name.
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