When’s the last time you ever heard of someone named Masschusetts? 
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Yeah, “Prudence” is, like…ew. That name should be abolished.
I doubt someone would name their kid “Virginity,” though “Chastity” is still out there last I heard. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone somewhere was named “Purity,” that’s not too unthinkable.
Sooner or later some famous-for-being-famous ditz will name their daughter “Publicity.”
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As long as it’s not Mr. and Mrs. Hound, I could almost tolerate it.
On the last-name-as-first-name thing, I’m sorta screwed. My last name is more often a first name, although even that has been out of fashion for a few decades.
With young Noah Cyrus making the news for designing children’s clothes and dressing slutty for Halloween, expect to see more female Noahs in the coming years. Noah, of course, is the younger sister of Destiny Hope Cyrus, who legally changed her name to Miley and started a regretable trend (there’s a Miley in my daughter’s daycare).
Bolding mine.
I read a police report yesterday about a woman who defrauded a bank by depositing empty envelopes (fake deposits) in an ATM over a weekend and withdrawing $2800 in cash from her account. I suppose a Mary or Jane could have done this but I wasn’t surprised that the stupid thief’s name was Krystina. There’s something about those weird spellings that makes me think the parents probably spend more time on the spelling than they do on raising the child.
I feel sorry for the kid named Rhode Island.
Shaniqua stinks.
When my friend asked my husband and me to be her baby’s godparents, we agreed on condition that the baby would not be named any permutation of Katelyn. She confirmed that she had no such odious plans, and the deal was done. We have reached critical mass on Katelyn.
I’m with you on all of those!
My hatred lies in the “-lee” “lyn” names (Caylee, Kaitlyn, Breyleigh, etc.) It’s like they took a random prefix and attached “lin” and “lee” to it. But they think they’re sooooo cool and unique and trendy. No. Just no.
And to elaborate on Hippy Hollow’s hatred of Caden and the like, I think the same thing is happening with boys names. Take the prefixes “Cay, Gray, Jay, Ai, Tay and Hay” and randomly add suffixes like “son, den, lor” etc. It’s not unique. Maybe you’ve never met a Jaylor, but I’m sure someone else has named their son the same thing. And it sounds just like everyone else’s name, even if it’s different.
I know, I hate Mc names too, on this principal. Same reason I hate Madison for girls. The word “son” is built right in! It’s a BOYS’ name, a MASCULINE name.
(and my cousin named her daughter Madison. It takes all I have sometimes not to scream at her that her daughter has a boy’s name and she’s a lazy, trend following, bandwagon hopping idiot.)
(sorry for the double post)
We called our daughter Kayleigh just because we liked the name. No delusions of coolness here!
Oh, me too! And it’s derivative Penny. I also hate Pam but Pamela is okay. I also don’t like Pat or Patty, but Patricia/Patrick is hunkey-dorey. Maybe I just hate the letter P.
I was looking at my dad’s high school yearbook and was amazed by some of the names therein that you don’t see anymore, like Eunice and Edwin.
ETA: And along with Agnes, I think Agatha is a terrible name. Sounds like someone yacking up a furball.
Cat: ::hork, agatha, agatha, agatha, hork::
I think there’s more to naming your kid than just liking the name. It’s a name your kid is going to be stuck with their entire life. It’s a name they’re going to have as a child, adult and senior. So while you may think “Mckynzye” is cute now? Try rocking that name through adulthood. Good luck trying to be taken seriously in the workplace, too. Unless you’re a stripper, that is.
New York City borough names. Don’t name your kid Brooklyn or Bronx, please.
Having said that, Richmond (the county name for Staten Island) wouldn’t be so bad. But I’ve never seen it as a name.
It was, but at least he was a boy. It seems sort of dully ugly on a girl, to me.
When a friend of mine from law school was pregnant, we all went out to celebrate. When asked if she thought of names, she gave us a list, each name worst than the last.
The winner? Brooklyn. That poor baby is going to have to carry that obnoxious name with her for the rest of her life.
My friend is one of the sweetest, most intelligent, down to earth people I know, too! I don’t know what the hell she was thinking.
I hate any and all of the popular names (which have been covered by previous posters).
I loathe Wanda and Linda and Lola and Debbie. And Brenda. They just sound so trashy. And it’s not because 4 out of 5 end in the letter a. My first name ends with an a and I like it. Male names–I dislike Ron and Ray and Bruce. Because they sound trashy too.
Hasn’t the last-name-as-first-name thing been popular for hundreds of years? To take one example, wasn’t Robinson Crusoe named for his mother’s maiden name? Cameron, Bruce, Blair and Duncan were all originally surnames, yet now are unremarkable first names.
So you’ve read Harvest Home, too.