Ruined First Names

A boy named “Sue”?

Arguably, “Wayne” is already ruined as a middle name.

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[Unknown quote] No matter what I name my kid, their name will probably be the name of the next Harry Potter villian

My dad’s middle name is Wayne, and he’s never killed anybody.

I used to post on a medical (mostly nursing) board, and there were multiple threads like this. One of them said, “I’m a psych nurse, specializing in children and adolescents, and there’s one name where I can almost guarantee that if you give it to your baby, we’ll be seeing them in 10 years.” However, she didn’t say what that name was.

…that you know of.

:wink:

I’d pick Jasper.

:upside_down_face:

Did she already know what your name was ? :smirk:

Donald.

Destined to be reviled for generations.

“Hillary” was on the rise (for girls; it can also be a male name) until the 00s, when it nosedived.

And your point is…?

FTR, my first name is considered a “classic” name, and is also in the Bible.

It’s a joke, implying that the reason she didn’t say the name is because she realized it was your name.

I thought so. My name was not in my username there, either.

BigT is right, it was my pitiful attempt at a joke. The typed word makes it hard to get humorous tone across, sorry.

I named all 3 of my kids with biblical names because I thought they were time-honored and would still be dignified when they were adults. My sons each have Apostle’s names. And their teachers always knew how to spell and pronounce them.

None of my kids’ have ever told me they wished they had different names, so must have done something right.

My brother and I both have Biblical names, and my sister’s name could be described as a feminized version of a Biblical name, but that’s not why we were named that. Our parents simply liked the names.

Back then, there was no way to know the sex of a baby before birth, so they took a list of names to the hospital, and my sister was the only one named off that list! The earlier-chosen names just didn’t fit my brother or me, I guess.

p.s. For me, one of those names was “Barbara Ann.” The Beach Boys song came out the following year.