Which of these popular baby names is the worst? (girls)

[Delano]

Most of these are from the top ten baby names for last year. I addded a couple I personally hate. To me, giving your kid the same name everybody else's kid has is just WRONG. Especially these cracker-barrel names!


http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

[BlondieK143]

1. Jessica n/t

[Angelus]

2. I have a couple of ex-girlfriends...

with the names Alexis and Kirsten.

Personally, I actually like the name Alexis. It sounds like it's exotic or something. :shrug:

[Delano]

3. To me it just says BITCH! (nothing personal against your girlfriend)

The only "Alexis" I ever heard of was Alexis Carrington on "Dynasty". I have to say, I'm not so crazy about snooty-sounding names like "Carrington" either...

[Angelus]

5. *shiver*...

no, NOT my girlfriends! Ex-gf's!

[neverborn]

4. !

I love Ashley and Kirsten!

[Delano]

7. I don't have anything against Ashley per se...

Except that it's waaay too common.

Kirsten just seems like Kristen misspelled. I don't know why people insist on scrambling names like that. Next, some girl will be named "Jeffiner" or "Stenaphie", maybe?

[wickerwoman]

8. Kirsten is the German pronunciation.

I actually like the sound better than Kristin but it does make my eyes go wobbly figuring out which one it is.

[Delano]

9. Oh, fine!

In seventh grade I had a girl, Jennifer who lived next door to me. She insisted on spelling her name "Jeni" with a heart as the dot over the i. Needless to say, she was a stuck-up beeyotch...

[curse10]

49. Kirsten is the swedish and german version of Christian, and is older than

Kristen. It's not a fad name. I have it, I'm 25. I've only met two other Kirsten's in my entire life. It's not a misspelling, but people often call me Kristen because they are too self absorbed and ignorant and assume my name is misspelled.

[BurtWorm]

51. I actually like the name Kirsten better than Kristen

Much better.

PS: I can't stand the names Christie, Chrissy or Kristy--or Crystal, while we're at it. Way too freakin' cutesie for me. No offense to any Christie's, etc.

[Delano]

59. Ew- Crystal sounds really trailer-trashy.

Remember "Krystle" on Dynasty? Gotta love those affected spellings!

How about these?

Jeph

Baub (Bob)

Brytni (Brittany)

Hellyn

Krystofur


Wonder why these don't catch on?

[neverborn]

61. I know Kirsten and "Kristen" irritates me now :P

[wickerwoman]

6. Madison is an Avenue, not a person.

What are these parents thinking?

They want to name their daughter after a.) a heavily trafficked street where soulless assholes making a living exploiting the gullible or b.) the capital of the cheese state?

I see where you're coming from about not naming all kids the same thing but look what happens when you allow tone-deaf terminally uncreative people to come up with neo-names?

[Southpaw Bookworm]

21. But what if it's a family name?

I actually know someone who named her daughter Madison because it was the maiden name of her favorite grandmother. Is it acceptable in those cases?

What drives me apeshit are the soap opera names: Cody, Kayla, etc.

[FarmerOak]

25. Amen on the soap opera names!

I have a great-niece whom my niece named "Greenlee." I am told it is a name from a soap; I have bit my tongue for two years now, looking at decades more...

[Pithlet]

75. My niece was almost a Greenlee.

I talked my sister out of it by explaining that other kids would taunt her with Redlee, Bluelee, Brownlee, Orangelee. It's a name from All My Children. Thankfully, she named her daughter Rachel instead.

[wickerwoman]

38. It depends.

Do they live in a very rural area where it's hard to keep up on naming trends?

My great-grandmother's maiden name was Connor, but I wouldn't name my kid that knowing that everyone would assume I just did it to be trendy and he'd have six millions classmates with the same name. Maybe they can plead ignorance.

The other loophole would be if their last name is Smith, Johnson, etc. I'll allow some latitude there. :silly:

I prefer classic names that haven't had much play in the last hundred years but still don't sound like granny names. They're out there if you look for them- no need to stoop to "Dakota" and "Cheyenne" - what's next "Albany"? "Portland"?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

69. I've got news for you

Back in the 1940s or 1950s, actor James Mason did name his daughter "Portland."

This bit about celebrities giving their kids weird names is nothing new.

[smirkymonkey]

53. My sister named her daughter

Matteson, also a family name. They call her Mattie. I wouldn't be my first pick, but they weren't trying to be trendy.

[Servo300]

22. don't like "Madison" either

I watch the TV show "Everwood" and the character with that name is just about my least favorite.

[2bfree]

24. We have a Madison in the family.........

and my Mother-in-law calls her Medicine, she couldn't say Madison to save her life. She is 90 and it cracks all of us up. Of course everyone calls her Medicine now!

[Delano]

42. LOL!

You made my morning with that one! I just hope her future husband's last name isn't "Ball".

Hee hee.

[Lavender Brown]

27. Hey!

What is going on with that show? I saw only part of the finale and it looked like Madison was pregnant. That would piss me off, it's such a cliche.

[Servo300]

29. Yep...

Madison is pregnant, Andy doesn't want Ephram to know, told Madison he would pay for everything, blah blah blah, but don't tell Ephram, etc. Meanwhile Ephram and Amy decide they love each other, Amy suprises Ephram by showing up on his flight to NY for his music class...

So the season ends with Ephram and Amy off to New York, madly "in love", but Ephram not knowing that Madison is pregnant with his child and no one knowing if Madison is going to tell or not.

Oh... and on the humorous side, Andy and Harold Abbot agreed to become partners in their medical practice so that Harold could get malpractice insurance. Should provide some amusing moments next season with how THOSE two get along.... Harold had tried to go into business with his own bagel shop, but it failed. (Seems everyone in Everwood likes donuts, not bagels....)

[Lavender Brown]

30. Man...

I know this is a soap-opery kind of show, but I don't like the pregnancy storyline. I was hoping Madison wasn't going to return after they broke up.

[Servo300]

33. agree.....

the pregnancy storyline has absolutely been beaten to death.

However, it's the only show I watch regularly, so I guess I will be back next season to see how it all turns out.

[Lavender Brown]

36. Heh. We'll have to have a weekly Everwood thread

to discuss what Dr. Treat et al are up to. :)

[BurtWorm]

52. Don 't like that name either, but I like Maddie

Which is usually based on Madeline, which I also like.

[ironflange]

63. That's my daughter's name

Spelled Madelyn. She goes by Maddy or Madz. It really bugs her when a Madison calls herself Maddie.

[fudge stripe cookays]

65. These idiots are naming their daughters after a bleeping mermaid!

You never heard that as a name for girls until "Splash" came out in the mid-80s.

The first time I heard someone call their daughter Madison I said something really rude.

Especially since everyone I met after that seemed like they were naming their daughters Madison. And they all thought they were being SOOOOO original.

That's just so f$%ked.

[Kenneth ken]

10. other

who would name their child "Other' - that's just cruel.

[izzie]

11. Emma is an old one. I see that one doing family trees all the time.

Does not sound bad to me but I really am glad it is not mine. But then I call my self Izzie so who am I to talk?

[Dees]

12. Cheyenne....n/t

[Bridget Burke]

13. Many of these are fine names--perhaps a bit overused right now.

But there's no excuse for "Madison" unless it's an old family name.

[scarlet_owl]

14. They are all terrible.

Every time a class visits the Nature Center, there are several Madisons, Emilys, Siennas, Kaitlyns, Madelines, etc.

[nuxvomica]

15. Emma was my Grandma's name

What's wrong with that? It's a beautiful, simple name.
I picked Kaitlyn, including it's 9 billion variations in spelling.

[dryan]

16. Neuter names

My brother's name is Kim (formally Kimberly). Growing up he had a lot of problems, some people even called him "Ken". He got teased a lot. He also used to get mailed addressed to "Miss Kim -----. People quit making fun of him when he was accepted into the SEALS. Maybe there's a connection. I wonder whose needs are being served by some of these names.

[tsakshaug]

20. sorta like

A Boy Named Sue?

[Bridget Burke]

26. Ever hear of Kimberly O'Hara?

He's the hero of Kipling's Kim. One of Kipling's best.

[Bertha Venation]

18. I think Emma's a lovely name, FWIW.

[Hand]

47. Not to mention...

It's Emma Thompson's name--the sexiest babe on the planet!!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Bertha Venation]

48. oh, heavens . . . a man after my own heart

She is, isn't she?! Yow. :D

[Hand]

70. Those eyes... those lips...

Um... excuse me for a few minutes...

:silly:

[primavera]

54. I agree

Emma is a lovely name, I don't see anything wrong with it. I also like Emily, reminds me of Emily Dickinson.

I taste a liquor never brewed -
From tankards scooped in pearl -
Not all the Frankfort berries
Yield such an alcohol!

Inebriate of air am I -
And debauchee of dew -
Reeling thro endless summer days -
From inns of molten blue -

When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door -
When butterflies renounce their dram
I shall but drink the more!

[Southpaw Bookworm]

55. Who knew

That Emily Dickinson was such a drunkard? So much for the image of her as a pale New England spinster.

:loveya:

[Bertha Venation]

17. I'm Kim -- it was quite popular when I was born, but MY name is unique:

I was named both for Kim Novak and my Aunt Beverley (figure that out).

[SarahB]

19. Ashley

My daughter Audrey, (very traditional, yet unique name :) ) is 12 and has gone to school with a bunch of them (big name in the early 90's. Almost without exception, all those Ashleys have been little snotty brats. Do I have a bias against this name? Yep. Is it wrong? Probably, but it's what I keep seeing in girls with that name.

[Commendatori]

39. Same here.

I can think of eight Ashleys and can't stand a single one of them.

[SCDem]

23. I love the name Emma but I just had to vote for it as being wrong

especially this year.... everyone is naming their daughters Emma. It is a beautiful name but I think it is such a disservice to kids to name them something that everyone (almost everyone) is going to be named in their same age group. There are lots of other beautiful old traditional female names to pick from.

Just my .02

[Lavender Brown]

28. I think Madison/Maddy

Some people use this because they want to call their daughter Maddy but think Madeleine is too old-fashioned. At least, I've heard that reasoning a few times. Personally, I think Madeleine is prettier.

[Whitacre D_WI]

31. "Caitlin" is a good name. "Kaitlyn" is an abomination.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. Isn't that a machine gun?

Sorta like calling your son Uzi?

[drumwolf]

41. Actually, "Uzi" *IS* a somewhat common boys' name... in Israel

In fact, the Uzi submachine gun got its name from its inventor, an Israeli named Uzi Gal.

[bif]

67. Are you thinking of Gatlin gun?

n/t

[southpaw]

32. Kaitlyn...

or any variation thereof...

My daughter is named Alexis (born in '97... before the craze got rolling)

[MissMillie]

34. I wouldn't want my kid to have a "popular" name

But then again I would never go out of my way to pick or make up something truly weird.

I never had a daughter, but I think if I had one, I'd name her Caroline or Grace.

[SCDem]

40. Depends on where you live though

Here in the Carolina (North and South) Caroline and Carolina are pretty popular. I had a son but before we knew and we were going through names I suggested Carolina and my husband who was born and raised here in the Carolinas was adamantly against it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

66. If your last name was Smith, you might consider it!

Mine used to be. I'm SOOOOOOOO glad my mom didn't name me Lisa or Michelle.

I'd have shot myself before I was done with junior high. 40 bazillion Lisas and Michelles there (born in 1966. Surprised?)

[DS1]

37. Taylor - double score if brother is called Tyler. I've seen it happen

[Southpaw Bookworm]

56. Rosemary and Rosemarie

My mom's cousins, born around 1950. Both of them had twins as well. One have her daughters reverse names (e.g., Mary Susan and Susan Mary) and the other other picked two different names that happen to along belong to two of the Brady Bunch boys. I don't really know if that's where she got the names.

[drumwolf]

43. I agree with Whitaker about "Caitlin" and "Kaitlyn"

"Caitlin" is a beautiful Celtic name. "Kaitlyn" looks like a badly misspelled "Caitlin."

I actually had a very good friend back in NYC a few years ago with a baby daughter named Kaitlyn. That was the first time I'd ever seen that particular spelling variation, and at first I thought she'd deliberately misspelled the name (I've noticed it's not uncommon to put a "unique" twist on a "normal" name). I didn't realize that "Kaitlyn" was that commonplace.

[eyesroll]

44. Trying to find a name that's not popular can be tricky, too...

My parents are one-and-one on that.

My sister, born in 1978, is named Felice. Not too many of them around, but it's not utterly unheard of and it's pronouncable.

On the other hand, my parents thought Stacie would be a very unusual name for a girl born in 1975 to have. The spelling's uncommon -- so everyone goofs it up -- but the name isn't. There were tons of Stac(*)s in my HS graduating class. From what I understand, the 1970s were peak years for that name.

[livinginphotographs]

45. Madison

I'm sorry, it just makes me think of a porno star.

I think Kirsten is a decent name, though.

[Hand]

46. You forgot...

Brittany... :puke:

[Merrick]

57. I was just about to type that!

[curse10]

50. My name is Kirsten

:-( It is a beautiful name. Depending on the dialect, it means Stone Church or just plain ol' Christian. (Not that I'm Christian, that's just the story).

It's a very old name, and not that common. I've only met two other Kirstens in my life.

And there are two pronunciations. I pronounce like my screen name suggests. curse-ten. Others pronounce it like Kirsten Dunst does. A sort of Kier-sten.

[Delano]

58. Well, and a lot of girls go by "Kirstie"

nt

[skippysmom]

84. I love the name Kirsten

I'd consider it for a daughter if I have one.

My vote is for Madison. That's a city, not a name for a girl. And it makes me think of daryl Hannah in Splash.

[JCMach1]

60. my daughters are Anaisa and Katerina

both easy to shorten to

Ana

and

Kate

[HereSince1628]

62. I named my daughter Emily...she hates it.

This sort of happened because her moms family has a history of playing with consonants...Wayne William, Dorothy Dee, Lori Lou, Sandy Sue, and Mary Mae

My kids had names with "M" and "J"...

Emily Jean feels like she is living in the wrong century, or likes the wrong kind of music...she blames me for not being able to get a date with men who aren't named "Jason" or "Josh."

She thinks my nickname for her--"Em"--sounds like a letter not a name.
Her mom called her "Emmer" with even less success.

In High School she went by "Millie" which to me is like fingers on a blackboard and really turned the clock back...

Going by initials she would be "E-J" but because its more letters she detests that...

Sorry, Em, but you are stuck with Emily until you can find an alternative you like better. I suspect it will be given to you by a flaming hunk named Josh.

[ironflange]

64. I have a list of all the 2003 Alberta birth names

Some of them are waaaaayyy out there, here are a few:

Arizona-Rayne
Bhryeann
Feely
Hodohoden
Lexxington - sure to become a porn star
PeeKay
Swastika
Zowie

These are all girls.

To be fair, there are a lot of unusual names that are really nice.

Here are the full lists, right-click and save for hours of enjoyment:

http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/pdf/vs/baby_names/2003_Boys.pdf

http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/pdf/vs/baby_names/2003_Girls.pdf

You can get earlier lists here:

http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/information/vs/top10_names.cfm

[bigwillq]

68. Kirsten (nt)

[Runcible Spoon]

71. feck off.

most of these are fine names. would you like to offer up your name so we might have a go at it???

[Delano]

77. Well, you're free to attack, but...

My sons are Ryuichi Isaac and Joseph Ryuto. They usually go by "Richie" and "Jojo", but I'm sure their nicks will change as they get older.

The Joseph is after my father, and I just felt that Isaac imparted a sense of wisdom.

My Japanese wife picked the Japanese names, and they mean "One Dragon" and "Flying Dragon".

I grew up with a boring typical name, and always had a couple other guys in every class with the same name. Wouldn't want to do that to my kids.

As for my last name, it's very unusual, and sounds kinda chinese, even though it's actually German...

I'd love to change it if my father were no longer alive...I was always being called "Wong" and "Wang" and "Wang Chung" and "Windsong" and "Windsock" in school. I hate my last name.

[Squeegee]

72. I'm surprised Apple didn't make the list. n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

73. I kind of like Apple as a name.

It's simple, but unique.

[Delano]

79. Sounds as likely to be taken as serious in adulthood as...

"Tiffany", "Bubbles", "Fifi", etc.

[wickerwoman]

80. Come to China- there's 40 million of them.

Some other great "English names" I've encountered teaching here:

Singing
Rising
Tops
Bogart
Fish
Sun (man)
Winter (man)
Ray (woman)

and my all time favorite:

Tempter

[Mobius]

74. Brittany or Britney

:puke:

[fortyfeetunder]

76. Any of these feminized male names

Like Reagan, Morgan, Shelby, Cameron, Sheridan, to name a few. Leaves fewer names for the boys to use....

[Delano]

78. Excellent point.

Although I think "Reagan" has been around for a long time, and I've never heard of a boy named Reagan. Morgan has been around for ages, too. What about Morgan LaFay? Morgan has been around for ages - also not a boy name.

http://home.earthlink.net/~estara2/Morgan.html

YOu must simply be associating them with the powerful images of Ronald Red-Ink Reagan and tycoon J. P. Morgan.

But yeah, I don't care much for the names you mentioned.

[Solon]

81. I don't really judge by names...

My sister was born in the mid 80's and was named Jennifer, don't know why for that. Me on the other hand, I'm a Junior, named after Dad, first name of Donald. Of course, when growing up we were called Jenny and Donnie, I hated it until I found out the meaning of my name. The root name is Domhnall, its Gaelic and means "Leader/King of the World", several Irish Kings were named that. So yes my goal in life is to be the Evil Overlord of the world. :evilgrin:

Just a question, not really meant to be offensive, but are names like this typical in Mormon Communities? My best friend is a recovering Mormon, considering she is lesbian you can understand why she isn't in the church anymore. Anyways, her name is Lanetra, with the middle name of Lael, I can understand the Lael maybe as an Angelic name, but I'm not sure. Also her father is named Lavar, which I also find odd, BTW they are all white. The funny thing is that her previous girlfriend who she lived with for 3 years was named LaShonda and she was white as well, we all made a joke of it. Now her fiancee's name is simply a female variation of my own, Donnell, I find coincidences like this as odd.

[dudeness]

82. this thread is absurd

names are individual to each person...this is bullshit..

[neebob]

83. I always wanted a cracker-barrel name

but my parents - both of whom had common names - gave me this way unusual name that few people can pronounce, even though it's obvious from the spelling, and even fewer people can spell correctly. I guess they thought it would be fun, having to explain and spell your name for every person you meet and talk about your name - unless it's on the phone, in which case you get to talk about the surprising fact you're not a guy before talking about how you got your incredibly interesting name - and getting letters addressed to the wrong gender and everything. I'll take Emily or Emma. Or how about Jane? Susan would be fine, too.