Church Kids

I was looking at the list of names for the babies and 1 year olds at church this morning. This is just some of the list:

Girls:
[name]Amelia[/name] - 2 (1 goes by [name]Mia[/name])
[name]Mia[/name] - 3 (1 is a nn)
[name]Aubrey[/name] - 2 (1 [name]Aubrie[/name])
[name]Ava[/name] - 2
[name]Ellie[/name] - 3
[name]Evelyn[/name] - 2
[name]Hadley[/name] - 2
[name]Josie[/name] - 2
[name]Lily[/name] - 2
[name]Savannah[/name] - 2

[name]Ada[/name]
[name]Anneliese[/name] (sp. [name]Annelyse[/name])
Aniston
[name]Arabella[/name]
[name]Ashlyn[/name] (sp. [name]Ashlynn[/name])
[name]Brielle[/name]
[name]Cora[/name]
[name]Glory[/name]
Jylnn (REALLY don’t like this spelling!!)
[name]Lilyana[/name]
[name]Lydia[/name]
[name]Michaiah[/name] (proununced Muh-cay-uh)
[name]Paisley[/name] (guilty pleasure of mine)
[name]Presley[/name]
[name]Raelynn[/name]
[name]Tempest[/name]

Boys:
[name]Andrew[/name] - 3
[name]Brayden[/name] - 2
[name]Eli[/name] - 4
[name]Elijah[/name] - 2
[name]Evan[/name] - 2
[name]Ezekiel[/name] - 2 (both also go by [name]Zeke[/name], 1 spelled [name]Zeek[/name]!)
[name]Hudson[/name] - 5
[name]Jace[/name] - 2
[name]Jackson[/name] - 2
[name]Keegan[/name] - 2
[name]Levi[/name] - 2
[name]Lucas[/name] - 3 (1 [name]Luke[/name])
[name]Matthew[/name] - 2
[name]Noah[/name] - 2
[name]Samuel[/name] - 2

[name]Beau[/name]
[name]Cohen[/name]
[name]Bentley[/name]
Levis
MacKinley (nn [name]Mack[/name], I prefer no ‘a’)
[name]Madden[/name] [name]Lee[/name]
Matson
[name]Lawson[/name]
[name]Paxton[/name]
Rowdy
[name]Riley[/name]
[name]Spike[/name]
Witten

Not sure of the gender:

Myalo (sp. ???)
[name]Emery[/name]
[name]Charlie[/name]
[name]Harper[/name]
[name]Riley[/name]
[name]Averie[/name] (not a fan of the spelling at all!)
[name]Karis[/name]
[name]Everly[/name] (guessing boy)
[name]Jordan[/name]
[name]Taylor[/name]
[name]Evan[/name]

Some I like, some I don’t. Lots of multiples of some names. [name]Hadley[/name] and [name]Paisley[/name] are guilty pleasures of mine that I probably wouldn’t actually use, but do like. [name]Michaiah[/name] is awful to me, seems very made up. (Like 2 names mashed together. [name]Lilyana[/name] I prefer separated, but it works together, too. Same with [name]Raelynn[/name].) Rowdy and [name]Spike[/name] are animal names, not people names!!

[name]Love[/name] [name]Ada[/name], and MacKinley nn [name]Mack[/name] on a boy is really cute. [name]How[/name] do you even pronounce Jylnn? That’s absolutely bizarre looking.

I spelled it wrong. Sorry! It’s Jlynn. Not sure how it’s supposed to be pronounced. I’m guessing jay + lynn, but with a crazy spelling!..

I do like [name]Ada[/name], as well.

[name]Ashlynn[/name] stuck out to me. It’s very pretty sounding.
[name]Everly[/name] is a very guilty pleasure of mine…for a girl.
Also, Rowdy? That’s like naming your kid a walking fistfight.

Most are pretty typical but these ones…

Jlynn - What do they have against vowels?? [name]How[/name] in the world do you even say that?
[name]Tempest[/name] - While not the worst, I still find it really odd for a name.
Rowdy - And what if he’s the quietest, calmest little boy in the world?
[name]Spike[/name] - I think they got their son and dog mixed up.
Witten - I first read this as “Written” and thought it was interesting. Not a fan of most word names but it was interesting to me (kinda how [name]Lyric[/name] is sort of a GP for me). But when I reread it I just went “huh?”

We have 3 services, so I’ve only met about 1/3 of the kids. There were a TON more names, but these were just the ones that were more than 1 kid and a few that stood out to me. ([name]Hence[/name] the questionable gender list and not knowing some pronunciations.) Some have me shaking my head and asking myself “Why?”, but the vast majority are actual names, at least. :slight_smile:

[name]Michaiah[/name] is actually a legitimate biblical name.

Very surprised to see two Josies! [name]Spike[/name]?! I just don’t get these hyper masculine names.