The Top 10 Worst Baby Names of 2007

[HeyHomie]

http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandp...ticletkt.aspx?cp-documentid=6359418&GT1=32001

Even though I "have no iron in this fire," so to speak, it still really steams me when parents give their kids ridiculous names. It's like they're setting their kids up for a lifetime of ridicule.

To that list, I'll add:

Ridiculously Trendy Names: Braden, Caden, Liam (especially for kids who aren't Irish - WTH?)

Names With Weird Spelling: Gynefor, Jyssikah, StyPHan7ie

Obscure Biblical Names: Joash, Methuselah

...the list goes on.

If Mrs. Homie and I had had kids, we'd have named a boy Benjamin Elias. Benjamin because it's a Biblical name that's neither too popular nor too obscure, and Elias because one of my heroes is a man named Walter Elias (any guesses on his last name?). For a girl we'd have gone with Grace Louise. Grace because I love the word (and the Biblical concept), and Louise because it sounds pretty, and because it honors my mother (her middle name is Louise).

 

[fuzzymel]

I hate stupid names and I hate the way parents can make a normal name kr8tive.

I do know a Liam but his parents are Irish so its pretty normal.

I do wish people would think a little more before naming a child. The poor thing has to have the name for the rest of its life and whats cute for a child may not be so cute for an adult.

 

[Rembrandtfan]

I don't like trends, I think they're silly. I'd have to go against the trend.

 

[cherryblossom03]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of "trendy" names.

 

[progressivegal]

I heart you Mr. Homie.
I have the same name peeves.
Especially trendy and obscure biblical names.
If someone says "I have the perfect name picked out for my baby...JADEN!" I just think "umm...".
And the obscure biblical names. UGH.
It seems like every boy being born that I know lately is beaing named something that ends with "iah" or "ah", names that bring long white beards to mind.
My brother and sister in law are expecting a baby and I've heard their "boy name" is "Zaccariah" or however the heck you spell that name. Sure they can call him "Zach", except these two are quite "anti-nickname" so yeah.
I love my nieces and nephews but they all (except for one, the one I never see) have just horrible horrible names.
My nice has the SAME name as my sister in law. Not her mother, but my brother in laws sister, her aunt. Same first and middle name. And they swear she wasn't named after her aunt, that her mother just really liked the name (which I do believe she did, but the seriously didn't even THINK that she would have the same name as her aunt?)
And to make matters more frustrating, her aunt wasn't flattered, she was offended that they didn't "ask first" but even more offended that the middle name was "Marie" because :gasp: SHE wanted to give her future daughter (who has yet to be conceived) the middle name Marie. Because you know, it's not like Marie isn't one of the most common middle names ever or anything.

So back on track here, as for the Kre8tiff spelling. I also agree. I think sometimes I subtle change can be fine, like substituting a C for a K (I know an adorable little girl named Kloe) but odd spellings can be So frustrating for the kids and for everyone around them.
even with me, I'm a "Kathryn" and I'm ALWAYS spelling it for people. It would have been so much easier if my parents had just named me "Katherine" so I could always answer "with a K" whenever people asked how it was spelled. MY poor sister has an even odder variation on a very trendy 80's name and it's always been frustrating for her.

As for the names on the list, I agree with them all except for "Story". I actually like that one. If you're a celebrity you get to name your kid something a little more unique I think. It's not like the kid is going to school in the midwest US feeling left out in a room full of Braydens and Mackenzie's, he's going to be hanging out with Kingston, Harlow, Shiloh, Phinius, etc.
Though I think Jenna Elfman's husband Bodhi, has the far more awesome name. As long as one spells it correctly. The spelling "Bodhi" is spiritual and deep, whereas any other spelling makes it a "Surfer" name.

 

[Redguard]

If Mrs. Homie and I had had kids, we'd have named a boy Benjamin Elias. Benjamin because it's a Biblical name that's neither too popular nor too obscure

But.... you're not Hebrew... or Israeli!! (Are you?)

I'm not a fan of trendy/obscure names either.

A friend of ours had a baby boy in January and named him Liam. They're not Irish. At first, Mrs. Redguard and I were like, "Wow... ok". But we weren't condemning about it because we think that too many people try to impose their own restictions on how people should be naming their children. And while we oppose the trendy and obscure names... we won't knock a person for choosing a name originating from a language/culture not their own.

When you think about it, most names that people have originate from languages and cultures not of their own. Apparently, my name is Scandanavian. But it's internationally accepted because it eventually started being used by people not of Scandanavian descent... which is what will eventually happen with the name Liam now that our Trinidadian friend has bestowed that name onto her son.

 

[Rembrandtfan]

Yeah, everyone I know is naming them Braden, Jaden, or Camden. How original.

I think Silas is kinda cool. But I'm not really into biblical names because it's trendy.

I was born in the 70's, but I have a name that was more trendy in the 60's and I'm not crazy about that.

 

[fuzzymel]

I was so relieved when my nephew was named Thomas. Its a nice normal name that will do him fine for the rest of his life.

The only issue is that looking at the birth section of the local paper all the other parents got the same idea so when he is in school he will be surrounded by Thomas's.

There was a child in the paper a couple of weeks ago called Pebbles. I really felt for her.

 

[Galadriel]

Yeah, some of those weird spelled names like Aymiie, or whatever are just annoying. If I ever had a kid, I would name him/her something nice but not those trendy names, they grate on me too. I mean how many Mackenzies can there be? Or Jaydens? Bleh.

 

[Redguard]

I was so relieved when my nephew was named Thomas. Its a nice normal name that will do him fine for the rest of his life.

The only issue is that looking at the birth section of the local paper all the other parents got the same idea so when he is in school he will be surrounded by Thomas's.

There was a child in the paper a couple of weeks ago called Pebbles. I really felt for her.

That's the thing with overly common names.

John
Thomas
Mark
Michael

I almost get the feeling that kids with these names either have incredibly dull parents, or parents who just didn't want to take the time and effort to think about a name that they felt would suit their kids (not saying, however, that the dull names won't eventually suit kids who will themselves grow up to be dull)

 

[Amélie Unbound]

I can tolerate almost any name except the ones with bizarre spellings. Those ones drive me nuts.

If my husband and I had an oops (which is unlikely, thanks to infertility plus birth control!), we'd name our child Emma if it were a girl (I've loved that name since the 80's, long before it became as popular as it is now... in fact, I'm a little annoyed that it's become so popular ) and Joel if it were a boy.

 

[Rembrandtfan]

I was so relieved when my nephew was named Thomas. Its a nice normal name that will do him fine for the rest of his life.

The only issue is that looking at the birth section of the local paper all the other parents got the same idea so when he is in school he will be surrounded by Thomas's.

There was a child in the paper a couple of weeks ago called Pebbles. I really felt for her.

Yes, a nice, normal name, that will stand the test of time. I'm sure Bertha, Agnes, and Myrtle were trendy at one time, but you name a kid something like that now, you're setting them up for all kinds of abuse. And yes, "Pebbles" is infantile. It won't be cute anymore once she starts school. It's like naming them "Pookie" or "Precious".

 

[Rebekka]

I have no problem with Magnus, it's a common name in Scandinavia.

And I think Ptolemy is actually cute (yeah, I'm weird - but I married a classicist).

I hate weirdly spelled common names. And there are quite a few English names that are tacky in Dutch (e.g. Kimberly, Tiffany, Brittany, Kevin, John, Michael - especially when spelled as Maikel [phonetic; mind that the Dutch has a perfectly acceptable equivalent of the in itself lovely name Michael: Michiel], etc.).

The trendy names right now are Sem and Milan for boys. I don't know what it is for girls right now.

 

[Chan1976]

Names With Weird Spelling: Gynefor, Jyssikah, StyPHan7ie

Eeks, horrible, especially StyPHan7ie (just typing it out frustrates me).

 

[HeyHomie]

StyPHan7ie

I was being silly with that one. I don't really know any girls with that name.

 

[snoochface]

No one guessed Homie's hero? Disney, right?

I have a friend who named her baby Maverick. I was like............

Another friend named her child Jesse James [Last Name].

I hate my name. It is common in a European country, but not in America. I've only run into two other people with my name -- one of whom was on a past season of American Idol, and it drove me crazy every time I saw this person's name mentioned in the press because I dislike it so very much.

And if one more baby girl is named Shiloh, I will put a pox on Angelina Jolie!

 

[HeyHomie]

No one guessed Homie's hero? Disney, right?

Yup!

 

[HeyHomie]

The trendy names right now are Sem and Milan for boys.

Sem like the English-language Sam (as in Samuel)? Milan as in the city in Italy?

My name is Aaron. Biblical, but neither too common nor too obscure.

"A good name is better than great riches." Proverbs 22:1

 

[Rembrandtfan]

My name isn't terrible, but it's not what I would have picked. It was already outdated when I was born. Everyone else I grew up with was named Jenny or Lisa. I was named after my grandmother (who was named after her mother), and the only people I know with the same name are in their 80's.

 

[progressivegal]

Sem like the English-language Sam (as in Samuel)? Milan as in the city in Italy?

My name is Aaron. Biblical, but neither too common nor too obscure.

"A good name is better than great riches." Proverbs 22:1

Hey, that's my husband's name I've always liked the name Aaron.
My husband got the name because when his mom was pregnant with him she met Aaron Copland and he started kicking like crazy or something (it was a music festival). That, and his parents were determined to name their massive brood of children all after people and words in the bible. I have vowed that if I ever have a child s/he will not have a "bible" name since all of my nieces and nephews (except for the "illegitimate" one ) and all of my brothers and sister in laws (except for 2 of the "illegitimate" ones) have "bible names". And seriously there's a lot of them...