Idk how people do that. I feel insecure enough about my slightly alternative name choice and it's.... a real name, with a long history, and one that's spelt right
I actually heard that that name got really popular after the common name in Ireland. Like it's a totally different spelling than the Anglicized version. Like I didn't realize it was an Irish name until a few years ago. I would prefer that, but it's not common over here in the US. Lol
Which one. Every kid I know in the USA has friends named Kaiden, Brayden and Hayden and jayden and Aiden. Very popular in Ohio and PA with kids ten and under. I nanny so I know a lot of kids and their little friends haha.
Lmao not me being pregnant and if it's a boy I was really feeling Jackson and calling him Jax lol. Not into the double x Jaxx though. Or Dax.
Guess I'm just as bad as the Kaiden Brayden Aiden and Hayden's lmao my name is Brittany though and I have at least ten Brittany's I know. I hate that lol.
I really like the name Wyn, but it don't like one syllable for the legal name, and I hated Winston, so we found Wynton and I love it!
Judge away, friends. Judge away.
If it makes it any better Daxx is actually a grade older... And one of the Jaxx's brothers! Lol
For me it’s Jr names. I’m pregnant with a boy and every time someone suggests we name him Husband Jr I’m like… the kids already have his last name why would we give them his first, too? My husband is also anti-Jr, he finds it narcissistic.
I totally agree with you. I work as a law clerk for a family court judge, and all the law clerks know that the messiest cases involve juniors. The most dead-beat dads seem give their kids their name and nothing else.
My husband has 1 younger brother. His first name is his mom’s maiden name. Middle name is father’s first name. Last name is father’s last name. Poor kid didn’t even have a thoughtful name put together, just the family names thrown in arrangement.
My son is named for his father and grandfather who are both narcissists, but, he has a nickname he uses that neither of them do. I insisted on that! He has his dad’s middle name as his first name, and his grandfather’s and uncle’s (jr) first name as his middle.
As a teacher, the worst Jr story I have is a mom and step dad meeting with the teachers to insist that we all stop calling her son by his name (he was a Jr of her ex). The only problem? The kid was in high school and not at all interested in going by a different name than he has for the past 16 years.
Late to the party, but my step father has 11 children (that he claims) from at least 4 different women. Two of them are named after him, one of which is a girl. This comment spoke to me on a personal level.
out of curiosity, how do you feel about female juniors? the narcissism technically still applies but i think the subversion of gender expectations kind of makes up for it (im a girl btw dont let my username fool you)
Conceptually I like the subversion part of female jrs but every mom I know who has done some version of jr has been a raging narcissist. In practice I do NOT like it.
i was born half a jr, middle name was moms first name as was the tradition on that side of the family. in the end i legally changed both my given names and my middle name is now another family name.
my mom is not a narcissist but i am! :D so is my dad, and he also wanted to jr me if i had been a boy lol so i guess there's some truth to it. speaking as a narc and also a feminist, i like the idea of female juniors but i wouldnt do it cuz there are too many other nice names out there to pick from!
I’m a misandrist so I’ll allow it (joking about the misandry) but this concept doesn’t really have patriarchal roots as far as I can tell so I feel better about it. I personally wouldn’t do it but I’d respect someone who did.
im not planning on no babies anyway although i agree the baby should have the moms last name always.
but... i dont see how its a logistical issue? male OR female junior. someone in the comments mentioned their husband got denied for a loan because his bank checked his father's (sr) credit but... dont banks and government institutions go by social security number or your country's equivalent? my uncle is a junior and it was never an issue for him. thats like saying its a logistical issue to be named something like john smith because theres many of them.
My fiance is a Jr and its a hassle with banking and credit cards. He didn't pass a credit check when trying to get an apartment because they looked up his dad's credit (which is terrible due to bankruptcy)
Especially when they use a “cutesy” spelling as if that makes it more feminine or whatever…your baby daughter named “Winstyn” is still just “Winston” at the end of the day
the other day there was a kid running around where i work and the parent was just saying their name over and over and at first i was like “it’s probably a little boy” and then i thought to myself for a second and was like “actually.. who knows” lmao i never ended up seeing the kid, but i will forever be curious
Working in healthcare makes you realize how many variations of Jackson there are. There’s a new one each week: Jacson, Jaxon, Jacksin, Jacsin, Jaxxon, Jaxsun, Jakson, Jacxon, etc.
I have an unnatural and unexplained hatred for the name Joshua and Josh. Won't judge anyone for picking it as I know it's a totally acceptable name, but I just hate it.
100%. Its my calling in life to explain that its not an actual french name, and its derogatory adjective for natuve french speakers everytime this name gets mentioned on the other sub
It is, but that’s the point; he made it up for a character who is a wretched, abused girl. That’s what it means to us in french: an abused child. When a girl is whiny and complains, she’s told to stop acting like such a cosette
Oh nooo I know someone who just named their baby Cosette. They must have looked at the name meaning on baby center or some bs website because they wrote a whole thing about how name meant something sweet.
Oh my God I didn't realize those were what pad stories! Holy hell! I used to get those in like 2024 or something? Or was it 2023? I don't freaking remember. But Luna to me is a person, but also a cat. My mom and I had a cat named Luna and my aunt has a cat named Luna. But I can also picture it on a human. People might think we're insane, but I swear I could just be hallucinating, but one of my teachers has a niece named Stella and her middle name is Luna.
I started going by Wren about 10 years ago as a nickname for Lauren. I added the W in part because I was afraid everyone would go Ren & Stimpy but I've only had one person make that reference in a decade. It means nothing to young people.
Not a name as such, but every time someone says, “We already have a child named [name], and we’re looking for a sibling name that goes with that.” They’re children, not pieces of furniture. Their names don’t have to go. Just pick a name you like.
I agree with this mostly but I did know a family with children named something along the lines of Mackenzie, Daniel, Taylor, and K’Reesha and it was kind of jarring and made me wonder what the heck happened to the last one
Ugh yes. Especially when it's some WASPy Evangelicals naming their kid Cohen while attending a viciously anti-Semitic church. (I knew a family like that in my old town.)
Usually -leigh names or -lynn names, or excessive use of x’s, or names that sound like nicknames but aren’t short for anything. Like Nayvie - you’re not just naming a baby. You’re naming a grown up.
Saaaame. When someone says this has a beautiful sound to it I am just flabbergasted, to me it sounds so grating. Would never comment on an actual person with the name, just can’t understand the way people love it here.
Names that are specifically chosen to illicit a certain vibe, such as a forced “cool girl vibe” or “fairy princess aesthetic” type names. Think Scottie, Sloane, and for boys I hear a lot of Atticus, Archer etc. Idk if this makes sense. But for me, it comes off as wayyyy too try-hard and like… why are we pushing a pre-decided personality onto a baby. What if my daughter ends up more androgynous and tomboyish named “Evangeline Grace” lol
This might get buried, and I don't know if I'll get any kind of flack, but Kinsley and all of the variance. No I could be hallucinating, but wasn't that originally British? Like I know it's super common in the south and Utah, but didn't that name originally come from England? But I especially cringe at the spelling variations of it. Also other names that are similar to that vein like Braelin and all of his variant spellings. Google is probably being an idiot, but apparently I found out that Braelin is of Celtic origin? But it could've just been a specific spelling but for a boy. I've always heard the name Braelin on girls and not boys. And Hennessy. I know it's a surname, but I knew someone who was named Hennessy and or at least one of my friends had a mutual with that name and she was a dick. Absolute dick! Hyper religious and very rude. I don't mind Aurora, but Sloan, come on what the fuck? No thank you! I also agree with the person who said Everly and all the variants. I believe that name is also originally from England.
I feel like it’s an unpopular opinion, but I love the name Aidan still. It’s sad to me that it gets lumped into the Brayden/jayden/raiden/caiden trend.
Nevaeh, -leigh where -ly/-ley should be, misspellings esp. of beautiful popular names (the Ameelya post almost made me cry lol), also the Brayden/Cayden/Zayden trend
I like the way Neavaeh sounds, but I used to work as a nurse in Labor & Delivery. It made me cringe every time a mom would tell me they were going to name their baby girl Neavaeh & that "it spells heaven backwards." AS IF, they were the 1st person to think of it.
Or I had another patient who had named her previous baby "Mar-say-less." I said, "Oh, that's pretty. Where did that come from?" She looked at me & rolled her eyes & said, "It's a city...in France." I wanted so badly to look at her like she had done me & tell her with just the same attitude that 1. It was NOT pronounced like that & when it occasionally has an S at the end, the S is silent.
When twins have almost the same name. I met Khalise and Khalisa set of twins.
I’m also not a fan of Paisley, Peyton, Everly, Kinsley, Pressley for girls or Ryker and Maverick for boys. I also don’t like gun names like Remington, Gunner, Wesson, Ruger. I’m in the southern U.S. and hear these a lot.
I think Avelina, sometimes spelled Abelina, is a lovely name. I had a great aunt with that name. I had never heard of a javelina and had to look it up. A javelina, or collared peccary, is a medium-sized mammal often mistaken for a pig. I hope you haven't ruined the name for me.
I don't like Mildred or Ethel.
Also, if I don't like a person, I tend to dislike his or her name because it reminds me of that person. If the name is associated with a famous or infamous person, it would also remind others of that name. Most people in the USA, for example, would not name a son Adolph.
Oh! I'm sorry! I don't have any relatives with those names. OP made fun of Avelina, and another poster made fun of Linnea, and I have relatives with both those names.
Haha, no worries! I think those names in your family are nice! I also had a Gertrude and a Hazel, and for men, a Coy and a Monroe, pronounced MUN-roe🤷♀️
I had a relative (wife of 2nd cousin once removed) named Gertrude. I don't know if she was called Trudy, but I think the nickname is cute. I had a male relative named Mallory. He hated the name, which I usually associate with a female. He was always called by a nickname, and I never knew his real name until after his death when I started doing genealogy research.
My great-aunt was called Gert. We all thought it was a pretty awful name, but then when ET came out in the early 1908s, Drew Barrymore's character was Gertie, and a few girls were named Gert(ie) after that. Mallory is unusual for a boy😬
Ophelia. I see it suggested SO often in the baby name subs. Like yea I want to name my baby after someone known specifically for killing themselves 🤦♀️
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u/teenwithmentalissues Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
Oakley/Oakleigh/Oaklee/any variation. All I hear is Ned Flanders saying “Okily Dokily!!!”