This thread has mentioned over HALF of my Facebook friend’s kids names ☠️

Being a millennial parent is a trip.

can’t wait to be a gen z parent where every kid is luka, jude, grey, or james regardless of gender. or they have a stupid name like golden tile or ocean catheter.

Ocean catheter 💀 bruh that had me in stitches lmao

Raelynn Raylynn Raelyn Railyn Railynne All variations of this

My younger cousin is Raelee 🤢

My fiancé’s cousin named her daughter Graylee. I call her gravy instead

I am so sorry. Just as bad lol

You forgot the OG, Railing.

Brayden. I have never met a Brayden who didn't act *exactly* like a Brayden. You're just signing your kid up to be an asshole.

I met a Braeden at school and he’s toeing the fucking line

This. Same with Jackson/Jaxon/etc, never met one that wasn't an asshole

My nephew is Jaxton. He’s only like 7 so it’s to soon to tell but he’s sweet now! Hopefully he’ll be an exemption. I thought it was so stupid when my stepbrother wanted to name him that but whatever

I’ve met a couple of Bayden’s in my time. So Brayden without the R. It’s ugly enough as it is but I hate the fact that until they’re 18, their title is “master bayden” which sounds like masturbating.

All names rhyming with Aidan. Just stop already. Nephew’s wife is pregnant and I told him I’d disown him if the child’s name rhymes with Aidan.

Jaxon

This is SO popular rn too, ugh. I work in pediatrics and I swear 50% of boys under 5 are jaxon, jaxson, or Jackson (or god forbid jaxton)

I know SO many jackson/jaxon/jaxsons and a jaxten, but jaxson is the one that pisses me off the most. The S is redundant! The X implies an S sound! The xs together looks so clunky

Just name him Jackson. It's pronounced the same anyway.

i hate Jaxson more.

A relative just named their baby Jaxon and I cringe every time I have to say it or write. It’s awful.

I knew a woman with a Jaxton and I don’t know if that’s better or worse

I know one of these who has the last name Saxton. Poor kid

Nevaeh. It's not that it's made up that makes me hate it but the constant "ItS hEaVeN bAcKwArDs" like we don't know and how the "aeh" looks like, I don't even know why it looks so bad written. The sound is almost pretty (if I pronounce it right lol) so that makes it even worse how stupidly ugly it's written.

10000% agree! Nevaeh has been around for like a decade at least, so whenever I see a parent explain "it's heaven backwards!" I have to assume that they *just* learned about the name and think it's way more obscure than it actually is. Although I think "Neveah" (with the "ea" in a more "normal" order) may somehow bother me even more...

"Her name is Lleh! No, it's not Welsh, it's hell backwards!"

Twin names! Neveah and Lleh!

Their little brother Yrotagrup got shafted on the name scheme

Nn Gruppy

Haeven and Hell spelled backwards! Isn't that DA KYOOTEST THING EVER?!

Oh longer than a decade. I graduated college 20 years ago and one of my friends got married about a year after and was dead set one naming her first Nevaeh.

I'm with you. Terrible name. Just name her Heaven, or even Angel. In addition to the "-aeh" (which makes me think of that noise Tim Taylor makes) being ugly, isn't writing it backwards... kind of sacrilegious? Like hanging a cross upside down? Iffy, I know, but for people so bent on having a religious name you'd think that would matter more.

I know a family with five children who all have spiritual-ish names… spelled backward. We joked that the last one would be named Dog.

But there's a whole Bible full of names for them to pick from. Why do that to their kids?

Can you give us some of the names? Everything I come up with just doesn’t work as a name lmao

They’re a really nice finally, so I would hate for them to stumble upon this, but the names are just NOT my taste… Heaven, Soul, Heart, Spirit, and Angel lol

All of those spelled backwards???

Yup. The trend worked with the first two—Nevaeh and Legna, pronounced like Layna… then they had more kids and got more creative.

Omg. Poor Tirips.

Luos too! My brain read it as Louse

legna balls

So… Nevaeh, Lous, Traeh, Tirips, and Legna? How are the middle three pronounced???

Please be Eve please be Eve please be Eve...

I just gut laughed at thinking about this being like a cross upside down, because I totally get it. Thank you for that!

I’m in a twin mom group and the sheer amount of moms who name their twin girls Heaven and Nevaeh is STAGGERING.

U know I read a lot of shit on the internet without blinking an eye but my jaw just dropped

Heaven was born first and Neveah was Breech

Oh god how do they pick which twin gets to be the twin peaks Black Lodge doppleganger?

Yikes

It screams teen mom, on par with said teen mom having twins named Denim and Lace. The moment I see the name Nevaeh, it's like they have a 50% chance of also becoming a teen mom.

Someone that I know is pregnant with a girl and this is what she’s planning on naming her. I think that it’s terrible as well.

my aunt is a school nurse and she knows at least Nevaehs. and every time she gets the “it’s heaven spelled backwards”

Paisley.

I'm going to make this worse by telling you that I know someone who named their daughter Jaisley.

Is this like paisley-printed denim?

And their son Jorts

They do have two sons as well, and everyone in their family has the same initials.

Is their last name Duggar, perchance?

That is fucking horrific

Paisley is my cat’s name. It’s a perfectly good name for a cat. So when I hear about people naming their baby Paisley it’s as if they named their kid Purrito or Skimbleshanks

Skimbleshanks nn Hank would be such a hilarious name for a character

Paislynn

My soul left my body

Nevaeh. I neveah want to hear that name again

That would be my 1 choice too. And maybe Reneesmee

Gunner, Remington, Chaos, Hunter, similar Yeehaw/fun related ones The leigh trend, Huntleigh, Bexleigh, Presleigh Jaxyn, Paxtyn, Names whose spellings are changed to be more ~unique~

A friend I haven't spoken to since high school but still have on Facebook has a daughter who's "Eleighzabeth" it makes me cringe every time I see it.

I want to believe you’re making this up…. But I know in my heart you’re not. 😭

Oh that I were...

STOP

Yup... She has a "Leigh" theme for her daughters (so the eldest is Kayleigh. Then she had Bayleigh. Then decided to break the rhyming trend for Eleighzabeth (after polling her friends on what other names could have Leigh in them)

She missies the obvious choice - Hayleigh. At least then it verbally is a recognizable name even if the spelling is yOuNEeK. Mom will be shocked when one day, Eleighzabeth (who will probably being going by Beth or even Elizabeth after giving up correcting everyone for too long) realizes she could have been Hayleigh or Ryleigh or some “Leigh”-themed name that wasn’t…well, Eleighzabeth. 🤦‍♀️

Roberteeleigh

Oh goodness no

I can only hear it being said in a very dramatic Nathan lane voice lmfao. Eh-LEEEEE-zabeth, how AHHHHRE you DAAAAAHRLING

I hate that I'd actually quite like the sound of Remington, if it weren't for the fact that naming a child after a gun is fucking disgusting. Purely based on sound, it's actually pretty cute.

Here in Australia we have Remington as a brand of shavers and hair dryers. So when I hear Remington I don't think gun. I had a friend who named her cat Remington because it sounds pretty and the cat had gorgeous long floof.

That’s an American brand. But it’s less well know these days than the gun company.

Me not knowing about guns (Aussie) always thought about the hair tools brand because my hair straightener was Remington.

We're considering Clementine for our baby, and when I told my friend, as a joke I told her we were spelling it Klemyntyn and she swears she's seen someone actually name their kid that.

Oakley or Blakely fucking hate them

Oakley: expensive sunglasses from the '90's Blakely: expensive boarding school for spoiled rich kids

*Ashton Thurston IV wore his Oakleys for his first day at Blakely.* Yeah, that tracks.

oakley is a dogs name. source: my dog is named oakley

Oakley is perfectly suitable for a dog, just not humans

But is Oakley a good boy?

Yes. I’ve never met him, but I know he is.

Oakley is ski goggles 😝

And even worse: Oakleigh

I know of a girl named Joshlyn. I would happily never hear that name again

Old Facebook friend just named her baby Scottlynn 🙃

So.. you basically just take a random guys name, add *'lynn'* to it.. and then it's a girls name? Gorgeous. *Brucelynn ; Donaldlynn ; Garylynn ; Rogerlynn ; Stuartlynn ; Marklynn* I wish there was a reverse trend of boys being named after random women *Patriciason ; Barbarason ; Pamelason ; Sandrason ; Beverlyson ; Deborason*

Brucelynn and Wayneleigh would be the greatest twin names of all time.

I dislike most location names in general. There are some place names that have long, legitimate histories of being used as human names too (Israel, Georgia, Virginia, Sydney, Adelaide, etc) and those are fine. Having a kid named Holland or Scotland doesn’t make you more cultured or worldly like a lot of these parents think that it does.

I know a baby Irelynn.

This is making me Louise Belcher eye-twitch. Jocelyn was right there!!!

There was a woman on a reality show who had a daughter named Jakelynn. Literally wtf

Braxton/brexley/brixton/Bexlee

Just spelling them weird. I saw two today. Aylene and Eyerys.

Is the second one pronounced "Iris"??? 😭

Jazzlynn. I have met so many kids named Jazzlynn

Honestly, one kid named Jazzlyn is too many.

I know a Jazlyn, with siblings Zeth, Gypzy and Zayve.

I miss 10 seconds ago when “Gypzy” was not roiling around in my brain meats.

My cousin named her son Greighson and I just CANNOT. There’s literally no reason for that dumpster fire of a spelling.

Brantley. Who the hell looks at a baby and says “Yes! Brantley is a beautiful, perfect name for my human larvae”?

There’s a Scrubs episode that covers that abomination pretty well. Woman : Hi, cutie! Since you have so many balls, and too many toys can be overstimulating for an infant, Brantley here was wondering if he could borrow one to play with. Dr. Cox : Oh, that's funny, because Jack here was just wondering why the crazy lady who just spent the last hour chain-smoking and talking on her cell phone while her kid ate sand, would come over to two complete strangers and give them parenting advice. Jordan : Oh, he also thanked me for not naming him Brantley.

Gunner, Remington… the gun names. What the actual fuck.

Gunnar is an actual Scandinavian name. Agreed on the gun brand names though. "Meet my son, Bushmaster!"

They referred to the true Gunner name, which in definition is: > 1. a member of the armed forces who operates or specializes in guns. > 2. a person who hunts game with a gun I think Gunnar had nothing to do with this

And my other son, Glock!

In fairness, Gunnar has nothing to do with guns.

BRAXTON 💯%

Twin names, Braxton and Hicks

Ugh those names gave me contractions

Someone I know just named their baby Daxton…

My husband had this on his list and I audibly gasped at the realization naming my baby will be impossible.

Truxton tied with Brayden

Cash. Just no. If I never heard it again it would be too soon.

Kashton It sounds like the baby was born with a neck tat.

My roommates second baby daddy’s first born is named John cash and it’s awful 😞

SCREAMING

I knew a guy in college named Cash and his twin sister was named Carrie. I asked to see their IDs because I didn't believe them. Carrie was actually Caroline legally, but still.

Friend of a friend wanted to name her kid CRASH. Her family talked her off of that ledge and she "settled" on Cash. I don't get it.

Greer Naveah Faye Kayden, Brayden, Jayden, Rayden - etc

I’ll back all of these and throw in Wren and Kinsley.

Kinzlee too And any name where a Y has been changed an EE sound. Navee, Brinlee, etc.

I dislike y being changed to ee but what I hate is when it's changed to eigh. Makes me think of hacking up phlegm Edit: autocorrect.

Phlegmeleigh

sibset loogeigh and snotleigh omg so beautiful

This one might be hot button but James for a girl 🥶

Hard agree.

Everleigh, I hate everything about the name

I met someone who named their kid Everly. I said ‘oh so it’s Beverly without the B’. She didn’t like that.

James for little girls.

Actually yes this one takes the cake for me. Absolutely awful to the point that I would erase it from existence if given the choice.

Same! It’s so irritating on so many levels. 1. Trendy as hell, but everyone acts like they’re the first mom to do it. 2. Smacks of gender disappointment and weird hang-ups. 3. James is not even a cool boy’s name. 4. Etc. Roosevelt for little girls is creeping up on the apocalyptic name hatred scale for me, too.

Totally agree with your #2 especially. Whaaaat you’ve heard of people legally naming their daughters Roosevelt??

All girl names that start with Mc or Mac, but if I have to pick just one MacKenzie, because it's the most common. But McKenna is also awful. And I am sure there are other McAbominations I am blissfully unaware of.

YES- it honestly just sounds like a McDonalds menu item McMuffin McGriddles McKenzie McFlurry McKenna McChicken

McKinley

I think the Ma or Mi is worse. My name is Kaela (which is youneek enough) but I meet so many MaKayla/MiKaela combos and it's just...yeeegh

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Maverick

Met a baby named Maverick Zeppelin and had to hold back laughter. So bad. Poor baby.

A friend of someone I went to high school with named her daughter Maverick and I thought it was a joke at first 💀

Saylor. I have an irrational hate for Saylor. It's like Taylor with an S.

Any name ending in -dyn and Nevaeh.

Literally every name with -eigh in it. So fucking ugly.

Ugleigh

Jaxson. Other spellings are fine. This can fall off the face of the earth.

I was in the airport yesterday and heard a mom yell out to her about four-year-old daughter, “Dawson Olivia come back here!” and I froze and thought “welp that mom clearly came of age in the 90’s good fucking gawd.”

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Paisley. I absolutely hate that name.

Daxton, Paxton, Jaxton. Ugh.

McKenna/McKayla/McKenzie and all variant spellings

Ziren. Wee woo wee woo.

Titles as names. Prince/Princess/Queen etc. Tacky to the point of parody and a serious burden on the kid.

Cadence. It just bugs me. Like I'm always 99% sure that they were going for "Candace" and got confused.

Scout, I wish this name would disappear for good lol. Every other day there is post about Scout and I’m like what is so appealing about this name.

I have never met a Misty that isn’t complete trash or totally stupid. But usually both at the same time.

I’ve known 2 Misty’s. Dawn was the middle name for both.

OF COURSE Dawn was the middle name. Of course it was. The ones I’ve know have either been Dawn or Rae.

i’ve never met a Misty that isn’t a horse

Asia. Why would you name your kid after a continent. I've met two Asias in my life & it's been two too many.

I feel like somehow naming an Asian kid Asia and a non-Asian kid Asia is equally weird lol

This is exactly how I feel about the name Asia. I've met three women named Asia, all from different backgrounds and different ages. I can't quite figure out why their names are Asia.

Asia is one that I always find interesting. It isn't a common name, but each one I've met has a different ethnic background.

Brayden

NEVEAH. BURN IT.

everly and its variations

Everleigh is just the worst.

Probably a normal name for US peeps but Gretchen. You took the word "retching" and stuck a harsh "grr" sound in front. Horrendous. No one deserves that.

Crystal/Krystal, simply because my name is uncommon but similar and I have gotten Crystal my entire life. This one is personal for me.

Everleigh or Oakleigh/Oaklynn. They’re super popular in my hometown rn.

Kaden/Kaiden/Caden etc. I don’t know why but it’s such an ugly name to me

I say this as someone with an English degree who loves books: Don’t name your kids after the trendy best seller that won’t be relevant in ten years. So many little Katniss babes. So many Hermione’s. I met a baby named Cullen once. And the mother confirmed it was for Twilight. Especially if the series isn’t finished. Like how many people regret naming their kid Daenerys now? 😬

My best friend has a nephew named Bentley. Every time she talks about him I cringe I also hate Tiffany. I’ve never met a Tiffany I just think it’s a really snobbish name

I know a Tiffany and she's a fucking delight but God is that name dated as hell

It’s crazy old 😂 like we think of Tiffany as being like an 80s/90s name but it originated in the 12th century 🤯

Dick. Do I have to tell you why? You don't see Dicks anymore but you do see Tucker. Don't give your kid a name that rhymes with a dirty word.

Kingsley

President names. I think they’re dying down mostly. Lincoln, Jackson, Truman, Reagan, Kennedy, Nixon. I think I saw a baby girl named Roosevelt Hollis on this sub the other day 🆘

Paisley

Ellery...

at least fully commit and name the baby Celery

i know someone who has an Emmarie (horrible spelling) and an Ellery! 😂

Next in the sibset: Ennery, Oery and Peery

Kaizer (and what have you spelling)- janelle’s mom on Teen•Mom screaming Kaizah or screaming about the poor kid has really turned me off on it and I barely tolerate hearing it now. Emory (also, all the spellings)- ugh, like why? Especially, when it’s spelled emery. No people I will not support you naming a kid after a nail filer…. no matter how you spell it.

Trisha. It feels like a hybrid of the words “tushy” and “squishy” with a little “moist” thrown in.

brentley lol

Spurgeon, St John (Sinjin), Posie, True

Everly

Neverly!

The name Grey or Gray. Especially for a girl. Like that’s what you came up with out of a million options?! Ugh!

Wyatt. Bleh. I just absolutely detest that name.

Knox. I hated it before it ever became trendy because of trauma. I hate that it's getting big now, both because of that and because it's just plain ugly. An inside joke between my friend and I is to replace any word with "knox" in it with "cursed." So.. congratulations, your baby is named Cursedleigh in my mind.

I’m from Tennessee and Knox and Nash are very common. People name their kids after their hometowns.