Recently, it seems like everyone I've ever met is having a child. Which is fine. What is not fine is the fact that they are making up names for these children. They think they are cute and creative and fancy, but in 22 years when this kid wants to get a job and can't because you named him Atrium, I'm guessing he's going to be a little pissed. And so, I've assembled what I call "New Wave Baby Names That I Hate."
Chesney (I hope her middle name isn't Kenny.)
Cason
Kaedon
Jayden (Like so many things, I wasn't following you on this, Britney.)
Chava
Westley
Tripp and/or Trigg (Callin' you out, Palins.)
Cabella (I bet she'll one day have a brother named Bass Pro.)
Kyler
Nevaeh (This is "heaven" spelled backwards. Yeah...)
This is only a preliminary list. Expect it to grow and grow.
I can't believe anyone is trying to pass these things off as names. It isn't the sound of them that bothers me the most (though someone introducing their child as Kyler or Chava would really irritate me), it's the spelling.
ReplyDelete"Kaedon" and "Cason" don't look like words. People who misspell words fall into two categories. Those who make minute and understandable mistakes like "delimma" instead of "dilemma" and those who completely butcher words to the point that they no longer even look like anything remotely English or sound at all like the word they were originally trying to write. Like "defianitley" ...Which unfortunately I have seen. And I think that all of those silly namers fall in the second category. It's when there's a flagrant disregard for what looks like proper English and what doesn't that I get angriest.
Also. I like the name Olive for a girl but Kyle's last name is Farmer and I'm not going to have a child with the moniker Olive Farmer.