I havn’t read the whole thread, but the only name I had that I havn’t seen is Chandler.
My sister-in-law named her son that, and yes, directly after the Friends character.
Not a big fan of “Brian”, which is why I chose something different for myself after I got brave enough to tell my mom that I didn’t like her choice.
My parents went out of their way to select names you couldn’t shorten and put a cutsie “y” sound on the end. My sister’s name is “Shane”, named after some female olympic diver from Australia in the 70’s. That’s a good name, I think, except it’s generally a boy’s name. She doesn’t seem to mind it.
I work at an elementary school summer program, and today I met a little girl named Joileeah. Joy-Leah might be ok, but Joileeah?
If I never see the names Cody or Chelsea as first names again, I’ll be happy.
Also: Mitchell, or anything else that is a surname.
*I know a kid named Chardonnay. Poor thing.
The same siste-in-law with the kid named Chandler, has a daughter named Chelsea.
Actually, she has 4 kids. 3 with her first husband (Chase, Chandler and Chelsea) and one with my Brother-in-law (Charles but actually, that’s my brother in law’s name too)
Not only does she name her kids badly, she names them badly with a theme. (Ok, I really don’t have a problem with Charles, but the others, ick)
Hi, I’d like you to meet my kids. This is ShyAnne, this is BashfulJake, and the little one here is IntrovertedMildred.
I object to that! My mother’s name is Ann Marie. She named my older sister Carol Ann, and I’m Kathleen Marie. There’s a bit of Mom in both of us. So there!
Of course, I do admit that nearly every friend I had throughout my school years had the middle name of Marie.
Strange, because the two Jeremy’s I’ve known since I hit puberty I have had the hots for badly.
The filler middle name phenomenon perplexes me. Notice it’s almost always girls who get stuck with filler middle names, boys usually escape this curse. Parents spend time and effort pouring through baby name books for the perfect kre8tiv name, trying every imaginable permutation of Caitlyn and Maddisyn, only to shove ‘Lynn’ or ‘Rose’ in there like an afterthought.
I can understand religious parents choosing Marie/Mary/Maria, as a tribute to the Virgin Mary, but for the love of God why do Lee, Lynn, Ann, and Rose make up the tiny pool of filler middle names? The middle name is the perfect place to honor some notable relative, like Great-Aunt Beulah who invented copypaper, without saddling the child with a hopelessly out-of-date first name.
Re. Jeremys - I know people who have the serious hots for Jeremy Irons and for Jeremy Vine (BBC presenter). And there’s Jeremy Hardy, a Very Funny Man (and great singer 
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That did make me giggle, have you met BoundtogoofftherailsJordan?
…and RitalintotheeyeballsKyle?
I’m reminded of pioneer broadcaster Kolin Hager, who in 1922 was apparently the first person to stage a play on the radio. (Cite.) Must have been a pretty kree8iv guy.
Don’t forget Elizabeth. That’s my middle name, and while it may not be as common as the others, Elizabeths still make a up a good portion of middle names.
We’re planning to use a less popular middle name - the whole fun of choosing names to me is to pick a first name and a middle name that give them some sense of uniqueness. It’s hard to do that when you’re one of ten Jennifer Lynns (and I know at least fifteen of them) or six Isabella Graces in your class (I already know four Isabella Graces under the age of three).
E.
I used to know some people who, out of sheer illiteracy, named their son…not Wayne…not Duane…not Dwayne…but Dwane. That’s about as stupid as it gets!
This thread has been both funny and exasperating! I’m glad we’re not having any kids - we don’t have to go through this crap. Before we made the decision not to procreate, my wife said she would like to have a daughter named Gertrude or Brunhilde or some such abhorrent name. I vetoed those right away!
It’s probably a good idea my husband and I aren’t having kids either. I’d have to insist on naming a girl Mathilda, after my great-grandmother.
There’s a student at my school whose name, I swear, is
I’Money.
Why would you do that to a kid?
In the vein of naming children with last names, a friend of mine named her son Connor. Horribly trendy, and the maiden name of her mother-in-law. So for a middle name, she gave him HER mother’s maiden last name. Greenlees. I swear I almost slapped her.
My sister, who works for the Children’s Aid Society, once told me that any kid named after a state or a gem was probably going to have a file opened on them at some point.
BTW, my niece Georgia just passed her first swimming class, so good for her!
Oh, forgot to mention my friend who let his wife name their daughter Hermione because she’s such a HUGE Harry Potter fan. I think if you’re that big a fan, you should change your own damn name, and leave the poor children out of it.
BTW, my friend calls his daughter Maya.
My friend just adopted a baby girl. They call her Maya, but I don’t know what her full name is.
I have distant family named: Mom: Denise Dad: Dennis. Kids: Dwayne, Debbie, Derek and D-something else, I don’t remember.