Why do people give their children "baby names"?

This seems to be a rant disguised as a question.

However, I will say that I have been around a very long time, and have rarely - maybe never - seen a name prevent someone from getting a good job for which he/she was well qualified.

I've known a high level executive with the first name Sunshine and another named Blue.

I've known a medical doctor with the first name Rocky. Last name:Trails. No kidding.

I've known Billy, Bobby, Bubba, and Jimmy - not short for anything. Careers: Musician, Business Owner, Chef, and Professor.

Oak. Tootsie. Precious. Surfer. Paisley. Dunny. Lock (middle name Stock).

All post-graduate students on their way to lucrative careers when I knew them, and now successful adults, ranging in age from 21 to mid-50's.

None of these are things that I would name my own child, but I certainly don't judge the person based on a name picked by a parent. A child can always change his/her name when grown, if desired. There is probably a line to be crossed with a name so outrageous that normality is compromised, but I don't think baby Ryder and Bentley have much to worry about.

By the way, 100 years ago, Woodrow, Melvin, Orville, Homer, Rudolph, Delbert, and Archie were popular names for boys. Almost 50,000 babies were named Willie in 1916. Yet, those names would be scoffed at on playgrounds and baby name forums today. You're pretty safe with "John", but who knows - in another 100 years, Bentley and Ryder's great-grandsons may find it weird and inappropriate! Times change.

Bentley and Ryder are on the better end of modern names. Parents want to name their children a unique name.

Bentley actually sounds quite professional and Ryder sounds like a classic boys name.

I work at a preschool and boys names I think sound way worse include

Padrick (Not PATrick)

Stone

Spartacus

Moss

Oak (which isn't that bad either)

Striker

Xerxes

So parents just want a unique name but there is a fine line between unique and stupid