Local Names:

[name]Vada[/name] (vaydah)
Eisleigh
Kessler (2 girls, 1 boy)
[name]Milan[/name]
[name]Paxton/name
[name]Landry/name
[name]Cas[/name]
[name]Grey[/name]
[name]Ellis[/name]
[name]Garner[/name]
[name]Parker[/name]

What about you? [name]Do[/name] you have any wierd or really well named children in your local city?

I’m looking at the birth announcements for the area I’m in, let’s see.

[name]Brogan[/name]
Theiron
[name]Zenaida[/name]

Mostly I see uber trendy and creatively spelled names, but on occasion I see names like [name]Lucille[/name], [name]Maxwell[/name], [name]Lydia[/name], [name]Elizabeth[/name], [name]Charles[/name], [name]Thomas[/name], [name]Russell[/name], [name]Vincent[/name], etc

My friend named her baby [name]Vada[/name]. I thought it was pretty obscure, so it’s interesting to see it show up on your list.

Yeah, I’d never heard it before she named her daughter that. It’s apparently the name of the main character in the movie my girl.

I love [name]Vada[/name] because of My Girl, but it reminds me too much of Darth Vader :confused:

Name announcements here:

[name]Samuel[/name]
[name]Lilian[/name]
[name]Arthur[/name]

Birth announcements where I live:

[name]Isabella[/name] [name]Darlene[/name] and [name]Addilyn[/name] [name]Sheila[/name] (twins)- I’ve never heard [name]Addilyn[/name] before, and their middle names must be family names because they don’t seem to go with the style of their first names at all.

[name]Addie[/name] [name]Grace[/name]

[name]Griffin[/name] (brother of [name]Graham[/name])

[name]Ashlynn[/name] (sister of [name]Brayden[/name], [name]Cassidi[/name], and [name]Riley[/name])

[name]Jaydin[/name] [name]Xavier[/name]

Funny, we just met and [name]Addilyn[/name] (not sure on spelling) at the playground a few days ago. First time I’d heard it, and she was maybe 2 years old.

My local announcements are always… well… here they are. (I did not include a lot of names like [name]Rebecca[/name], [name]Lucas[/name], [name]Annie[/name], etc. This is what’s left)

The not so good…
[name]Ariella[/name] and [name]Briella[/name] (twins)

[name]Jaxen[/name]
Jrayden
Iizabelluh
Lots of Olivias, Chloes, -aydens, Isabellas

The interesting…
[name]Cypress[/name]
[name]Salinger[/name]

The good (to me)
[name]Savannah[/name]
[name]Celia[/name]
[name]Selah[/name]
[name]Lola[/name]
[name]Adrianna[/name]
[name]Harrison[/name]
[name]Quinton[/name]

r_j, if you don’t mind my asking- where do you live? in the US, and if so what state? Some of those are awful- Iizabelluh!? Jrayden?

I am in the U.S. in the Midwest, but I found these in my home state of Michigan (still “local” to me I guess even though I moved!) It’s really bad for a name nerd.
Before I started looking at the birth announcements, I would always think posts like this on nameberry were made up. No [name]WAY[/name] are parents naming their kids these names! Oh, I was wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am hoping Jrayden is a typo since there were so many Jaydens and Braydens?

I always thought these had to made up as well, but I just looked at birth announcements for the last few months in my city and low and behold:

Girls

Peton [name]Sky[/name]
Avelyn [name]Snow[/name]
Teslin
[name]Zelda[/name] Sayoko
[name]Boston[/name] [name]Ever[/name]
[name]Riviera[/name] [name]Nevaeh[/name]

Boys

[name]Anner[/name]
Atley
[name]Kade[/name]
[name]Soren[/name] [name]Argo[/name]
[name]Cullen[/name]
[name]Dallin[/name]
[name]Jordan[/name] [name]Crist[/name]

Some of them I like. [name]Aveline[/name] and [name]Snow[/name] are both on my list.