I’m from the US, in the heart of the South. The “bad” names I’ve heard are just what I would call redneck names. [name]Hunter[/name], [name]Harley[/name], [name]Peyton[/name], [name]Riley[/name], [name]Noah[/name], [name]Gunnar[/name], [name]Gage[/name].
And then there are the overly popular ones: [name]Aiden[/name], [name]Caden[/name], [name]Jaden[/name], [name]Hayden[/name], [name]Logan[/name], [name]Mackenzie[/name], [name]Kayla[/name], [name]Layla[/name], [name]Emily[/name], [name]Madison[/name], [name]Ella[/name], [name]Emma[/name], [name]Lily[/name].
Combined, my husband and I have 9 friends with sons named [name]Aiden[/name]! It’s insane.
Oh, I’ve thought of some more names since I last posted. I have family members (hoping they NEVER read this) who named their daughter [name]Ferrel[/name], and sons [name]Stone[/name] and [name]Pace[/name]. The names have worn on me over time but come on… [name]Ferrel[/name] is way to close to Feral for me. Also, another family member is set on naming her son [name]Trip[/name] (he’s the third child).
I live in [name]Texas[/name], and my daughter goes to daycare with two little boys named [name]Santana[/name] and [name]General[/name]. [name]Santana[/name] wouldn’t be too bad except that they call him Santie or [name]Tana[/name] for short, both of which seem very feminine to me.
I’m in the UK … I haven’t heard too many awful ones, only very common ones (many a [name]Maisie[/name]), except for two Mileys (ugh) and a handful of Jaydens, and a (M)[name]Addison[/name] or two.
One which made me stop the other day was the baby of a friend of a friend … It isn’t a bad name, in fact it is a nice one, very vintage, it just shocked me on a baby - [name]Ned[/name]. Eds and Teddies have been making a comeback for over a decade now, it seems, but he is the first little [name]Ned[/name] I have met.
I was thinking of naming my little girl [name]Winter[/name], because she will be born in Feb, and there arent many names that start with a W that I like, and I wanted something for my girl so that we would have the same intials of our name. Since my husband wants a jr. I at least want a child with the same name as mine, or letter. Therearent to many W’s like I said.
[name]Emma[/name]! yes. one of the most popular names is the most shunned in my town.
No one would dare to name a child this, and if one moved here they would be teased horribly.
It is slang for nosey in my town and used very often.
I hear a lot of brand names and place names- [name]Chanel[/name], [name]Paris[/name], and [name]Princeton[/name] are ones I’ve heard recently in NYC. I hope that little [name]Princeton[/name] does well in school or he’ll be teased mercilessly.
Gosh, I’ve been doing some more, we’ll call it “name mining” in my area, and wow! Am I the only one who does this? I’m starting to think that [name]Utah[/name] is the weirdest naming place on [name]Earth[/name] because in addition to our slew of overly-popular Isabellas, Sophias, and Emmas, mixed in with our trendy Addisons, Aidens, and Carsons, we also have a ridiculous amount of made-up names. Not just new trends like surnames (which are in abundance) but random, misspelled, made-up names.
I’m from New [name]York[/name] City and I know a newborn [name]Hunter[/name] (female) also! I was shocked when I heard the news. The name is sooooo masculine to me. I’m usually very good about accepting names and am very open to unusual names, but this one just floored me.
I think utah has very trendy and strange names compared to other places I have lived. Some I have heard and read in birth announcements: berlin, rayce, brix, crogan, coltlin, azlyn, selwyn, oakley, vanden, lavry, daxton, stetson, brighton… These aren’t necessarily bad names, just very trendy and different. Some sound made up.
I am from [name]Nova[/name] [name]Scotia[/name] and the worst name I’ve heard is Alanta. It just seems like a spelling mistake for a name. [name]Way[/name] to many [name]Alexander[/name]/[name]Alexandria[/name]/[name]Alexandra[/name]/and [name]Alexis[/name]'s, [name]Connor[/name] [name]Christopher[/name] [name]Colton[/name] and [name]Emily[/name] are all very popular around where I am from.
I don’t think anyone from what I know has really chosen a name that is really out there.
There is a lady in my town that has two boys: [name]Gunner[/name] and [name]Cannon[/name]. She swears they weren’t named in anyway after weaponry, etc.
A name no one outside the country can pronounce: Xochitl, means “flower” in Nahuatl, the Aztec language. That TL sound is bad news.
Ye olde Spanish names that should only be seen in the pages of Hola Magazine: Almudena, Cayetana, Cayetano, Macarena and Covadonga.
No matter how much money that relative left you, please please please don’t name your son after him: Ceferino. I know one, he’s six. Gets the daylights teased out of him, according to my daughther.
Bad name from [name]Argentina[/name]:
Facundo. He’s eight years old. To my American ears, it sounds like “fecund.” And then there’s the nickname, Facu… I pray this family never gets an expat posting in an English-speaking country.
I’m in the [name]Pacific[/name] Northwest region of the US and here it’s not so much bad names, per se, as a lot of halfway decent names with bizarre (read: awful) spellings. Myckel for “[name]Michael[/name]” is about the worst I have seen.
I know a 13 year old girl named [name]Hunter[/name] and a 1 yr old named hunter. Its ok for a boy, but come on! Agree that Facundo sounds BAD in english I have a latin girlfriend that married an american and she is trying to convince her hubby to use Facundo but he just laughs every time she mentions it.