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Kryssi
Lv 6
Kryssi asked in Pregnancy & ParentingBaby Names · 1 decade ago

What is with this baby name trend?

I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant with a little girl, and am a mom to two boys. My husband and I have noticed this crazy baby trend over the last two years or so!

What is with this crazy modern trend of "unique" names or alternate spellings to be "different" but the thing is that is seems almost everyone is now doing this so they aren't different or unique at all. Some of the names are quite lovely but it just seems to be the current "hip" thing.

So my two questions are:

(1) Will we have an entire generation of people sick and tired of having to spell their names out for people in twenty year?

(2) What will historians chalk this phenomenon up to?

Humor me, I'm on bed rest for the next 11 weeks until the baby is born!

Update:

Kayla: VERY good point! I see things like that all the time and have the exact same thought!

Update 2:

But people WON'T say "How unique" because it is so common to do it that its not unique anymore, its simply what everyone else is doing.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I wonder the same thing. I gave up trying to answer questions about which name should I give my baby. They're all so totally dumb. I think perhaps celebrity worship has a lot to do with it - names like Brittany, and Miley and Paris.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i'm not particular what the subsequent variety will be. It truly relies upon on the subsequent enormous celeb scandal. possibly, Tiger...haha. Or if yet another legend dies. I see Hank in there someplace. I completely accept as true with the poultry names situation. assume to make certain Falcon after the finished balloon boy drama. very last names as firsts have grow to be particularly straightforward. I also imagine position names are gonna make a large comeback...Aspen, Charlotte, Dakota, Georgia, & Virginia are all turning out to be truly common on Y!A. i'd like to make certain the Isabella, Isobel, Bella, Belle variety bypass away. & the tousled spellings. ...and the Aiden, Jayden, Kayden, etc names. i wish the Twilight variety is going away too. I loved Twilight, yet this obsession that each and absolutely everyone has with it has ruined a number of sturdy names for me.

  • I agree. I've seen really cute and unique spellings but some people are just going overboard. There's no reason we need to spell David... Dayvid just to be different. Actually though, it may be a good thing. English is so crazy, our kids may actually start to learn how to spell better when they see words spelled crazy like their names. Who knows? Congrats on your baby. Good luck with the bed rest.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I couldn't agree more.

    Most names these days sound either like strippers or like they're coming from illiterate parents. I do not think the names are cute at all, they're hideous!

    Historians will say, "Well, it was a time in history where the past was ignored and people made bad decisions in all aspects of their lives". Jeez, I hope.

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  • Ray
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I don't like unique spellings. It makes it harder for people to pronounce it correctly. I feel bad especially for their teachers (lol) and bad for the kids that have to continually correct when people say their name wrong.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is all about personal opinion some people think like you that nobody will know how to spell the names and will be forever spelling the names wrong however other people like myself don't want our kids to have the same name as another 3 people in their class at school. I like my girls unique names that way there is unlikely to be other people with their name. it really is just about personal opinion. is there really anything wrong with people wanting unique names for their kids? i don't think so and is there really anything wrong with people wanting common names for heir children? i also don't think so. :)

  • blank
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    1.Actually most are easy to say.

    2.They will think How unique.

    Personally I do not think there is anything wrong with it.But it depends on the name like lilly should be spelled like lilly and not lylly.Some names look okay.Some don't.

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  • Kayla
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    i'm pretty sure none of these kids will find their names correctly spelled on anything... pens, pencils, keychains.. none of it will be spelled right. they will have to custom order these things

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