It seems that during the last few years, "Trendy" baby names have been taking over the earth. I am not a mama...but saw "hot" names such as Jordan, Chase, Hayley, Kaylie, Aidan, Ava, and Addison and Madison become as commonplace as the name "Jennifer" or "Christina" was to my generation.
Then in the last few months I have heard of 5 babies being born (thank you Facebook)..and 3 of the 5 were named Elizabeth!! 2 were named Sarah Elizabeth. Traditional spelling and everything. None of that Elyzibyth stuff.
Are traditional names making a comeback? I cant be sure because the other 2 babies were named Lana and Tanza.
The pregnant people in my life are going through a baby girl boom as well. 2 years ago everyone was having a boy. Now its all girls.
Baby Names...trend over?
April 17th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
April 17th, 2010 at 11:42 pm 1271547753
Just reminded me though, dh and I could barely agree on the 2 boys names we did agree on. Oy vey! We ended up with very "traditional" names. Which I did not want at all. I didn't want my kids to have 10 kids in their class with the same name. BUT, I let it go when I realized that traditional names from the 70s/80s just aren't so common today. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't be surprised if both my kids have a Top 10 name. The younger child's name has been better - it is more traditional - but takes on many forms. Most kids go by the shorter versions. So, phew. My older son, I know he has a top 10 name for the year he was born, but never met a kid with the same name. So, just lucky there. It's somewhat regional - Californians are really into "unique" names. Which makes our kids more unique, for having more traditional names.
But yeah - names go through cycles.
April 18th, 2010 at 12:33 am 1271550807
Of my family, I have an old-fashioned name but it's not too unusual, though not in anyone's top 100 list. NT has a really common name, especially for England. AS has a very unique name; there are people with the name but you don't come across them too often. It sounds a bit like it could be one of those names the mom made up (and in fact her mom claims to have) but the name actually appears in an Ibsen play, so it does exist.
For our daughter, we went for an old-fashioned name that's pretty common in Europe but not here. I wanted the name to be somewhat unique but not to the point of sounding silly and made-up. With my luck it'll be in the top 100 by next year, since I'm trying so hard to avoid trendy names!
April 18th, 2010 at 02:38 am 1271558297
However, I am finding, especially in reports of someone murdering his family members, a trend of "Bad Scrabble rack names." It's heart-breaking enough to read of a seven month old baby's obituary, never mind that his parents named him "Jihad."
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and I am actually very surprised, because although the pronunciation of it is very common, the spelling of it (we chose from a baby name book) is not common at all.
BTW, both my little raggamuffins were named at the hospital, always after the lady that comes for all the info tells us we have an hour before she comes back.
For me, it was so hard to name them until I saw them.
April 18th, 2010 at 07:23 am 1271575423
April 18th, 2010 at 01:14 pm 1271596447
I'll share my two cents here. I have quite a few children and all have Irish names. I'll say "real" Irish names rather than those you think of: Caitlin, Kelly, Erin, Sean, Patrick, etc. Think along the lines of: Conal, Seamus, Mairead, Sinead, Shiobhan, Rhiannon, etc. Are those names unusal? You bet. And I have a very common last name, so it works out well for us.
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If my kids were living in Hawaii, no one would think anything of their names. Well, maybe my son's.
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