Your vote for WORST name for a child (boy)

[UdoKier]

Poll question: Your vote for WORST name for a child (boy)

Your vote for WORST name for a child (boy)

From the most popular names of 2004.

http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names2004.html?adcode=MSN%3AEDI%3AART%3ANAM%3A100&refid=msnfam


What is the DEAL with these names?

Aiden
Jayden
Caden
Brayden
Hayden

Why are the yupsters so enamored of "-ayden" names?

or names that end in "-don" or "-den"

And people make fun of hippies naming their kids "Rain" or "River". Christ, at least there aren't five of them in every classroom, and they're not named after a "Boy-Toy".

:mad:

[Longgrain]

1. Darth.

eom

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Gayden

Doesn't go over well at the playground. You really gotta think of your kid.

[UdoKier]

8. How about "Maiden"?

But "Slayden" could be cool...

[Salviati]

20. Unless he can convince everone that it's his middle name...

and his first name is "Ninja" That might work...

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Wat.

[Blue-Jay]

4. Percival

[UdoKier]

21. Actually, "Percy" could be kinda cool...

For a jazz singer or something.

[donheld]

41. You know what the kid is going to be called in school?

it won't be pleasant. Prepare the kid to fight a lot.

[Bake]

58. Like Percy Sledge, for instance?

WHEN A MAAAAAAAAAAN LOVES A WOMAN ....

Bake

[prolesunited]

28. Not to be confused

with Percy (Pursey) Dean, of course.

[rogerashton]

5. Now WAITAMINNIT!

What is Ashton doing on this list?

Signed, RogerAshton.

PS. I though Ashton had transmuted into a girl's name sometime in my lifetime.)

[UdoKier]

10. Ashton gets mention for one reason.

You KNOW they got the idea from Asthon Kutcher. Sorry, naming your kid after Demi's boy toy is just wrong.

[rogerashton]

16. So, name him after me, instead.

I'm way cool. Or after my granddad, which is cooler still.

[LiberalinNC]

6. I don't like #100 Henry

My son's name is #1, and my daughters are #5 and #47. (BTW - all three of my kids have family names)

[Lavender Brown]

7. Both boys and girls names are getting stranger

I heard some really random ones at a christening recently. Even girls are getting the "aden" names now. But hey, whatever floats your boat...

[trof]

9. Jackson - Jack

That's my grandson and I like it.

[Archae]

11. Sue

:D

[ret5hd]

12. beat me to it.

[UdoKier]

13. BUT...

Spell it "Sioux", and it's suddenly cool.

[barb162]

14. Humphrey or Hunter, especially since the woman next door named

her dogs these names

[The empressof all]

15. Damien

Sorry, I just think it's incredibly cruel.

[Boxer Rebel]

17. Tuscon and Cojo... For a while there, I thought Cojo was

named after the Stephen King Dog Horror book. But no, that was Cujo, an equallly nice name.

[Greyskye]

18. Edwin and Cletus

They're not be on the most popular names list for a reason.

[UdoKier]

19. Now that using last names like "Hunter" for a first name is trendy...

How about "Dahmer"?

[JohnKleeb]

25. Thats just wrong

[DancingBear]

22. My nephew's first name is my last name

And no, I had nothing to do with it - I've never even seen him!

Why do parents do these things???

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Turd Knocker

I'm so glad my parents passed on that one.

[JohnKleeb]

24. Hey! Jayden is I think my cousin's name

[Spider Jerusalem]

35. Poor kid.

[silvermachine]

26. Brackett...

...a former boss (who was a complete numbskull) named his son Brackett. Ugh.

[UdoKier]

30. Brackett, Brace, Brick, Brock...

All names intended to bestow the recipient with some sort of faux virility/masculinity.


Of course Brackett also is a piece of hardware. Wonder how well names like "Vise, Pliers, Hacksaw would go over?

Then again, I have heard of the name "Sander".

[hfojvt]

44. Brackett happens to be a surname

it goes back to the 1600s in Massachusetts.
I thought Loomis was a very strange first name, but it was very common in the 1900s.
But is it any worse than Azariah, Eliphalet, Eleazor, Erastus, Mehitable, Obedience, Albermarle, Azubah, Silence, Rutherford, or Reuel?
I think it is kinda neat to honor the mother's family name.

[yellowdogintexas]

50. Vanocur, distinguised journalist and newsman back when we

could count on the media to expose the evil

Sander Vanocur, that is

[AngryAmish]

27. Tucker

"Tucker, don't do that to that dog!"
"Tucker, get your hand out of your pants!"
"Tucker, don't you see you have made Mrs. Presser sad! She has to get the gum out of her hair now, Tucker!"
"Tucker, no you may not have a candy bar! I mean it, Tucker! Ok, pick a small one, Tucker."
"Tucker, don't his Ashley with that rock!"

If I ran a school there would be a total ban on all Tuckers. And Waynes.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

74. LOL reminds me of a George Carlin sketch...

"Fuck Tucker. Tucker sucks!" He went into a rant about horrible names. God, it was hilarious.
Duckie

[auburngrad82]

29. My vote would be for Dick, Jr

Who wants to go through life being called Little Dick?

[Placebo]

31. My nephew was named "Trey Jayden"

His parents want him to be called TJ.

...

Oy. I guarantee you that boy is going to be gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. :eyes:

[Spider Jerusalem]

37. THat's pretty bad...

especially considering that "trey" is a misspelling of the French for "three" (I knew someone called Trey once, but he was Somebody-Or-Other III, so it made a lot more sense).

[KamaAina]

32. George

unless you want your child to grow up to be an evil lying sociopath with the IQ of tree sap.

If not, then at least do not give him the middle initial "W".

[yellowdogintexas]

52. Hey, my wonderful yellowdog husband is named George

and so is my hunky Italian brother in law and his father

actually my husband's father was also a George and
my husband's aunt married a man named George

really tacky of the Shrub to contaminate a good name like that

[KamaAina]

56. Yes, but what are their middle initials?

Any W's? Sure hope not.

[yellowdogintexas]

62. um lessee GHW, GSW, GNW (Sr & Jr), don't know about

the uncle though.

standing for:

Henry (dad)
Stephen (husband)
Nicolas (brother in law and His dad)

uncle George is a mystery

[woo me with science]

33. Cody

When I meet a boy named Cody I am torn between pity and a desire to smack his snotty nose.

[DemGirl7]

61. The name Cody annoys me too

It may be because My dog is named that...but It sounds like a name for a pet like a dog, instead of a child's name. Plus I didn't want to my dog that either, but my sister and Mother liked over the name that I liked which was Bailey.

[Spider Jerusalem]

34. Someone ought to name their kid "Raiden"...

[JohnKleeb]

36. hahahaha

:) I get that 110%

[webjamn]

38. Erwin

Name your son Erwin and doom him to a life of celibacy.

[donheld]

39. Can i vote "all of the above"

These are all fine Last names, but give me a break, none work as first names IMHO.

[Ivan Sputnik]

40. Aren't these mostly romance novel names?

They sound like it, or like names from soap operas.

[leftofthedial]

42. George, Herbert, Prescott or Walker

are now right up there with Adolf

[theboss]

43. I hate all this soft, soap opera names

Whatever happened to guys? Mike. Bob. Tom. Vinny. Red.

Seriously, if you ever get your ass kicked by a man named "Tyler," leave the country.

[Emops]

73. You're about to get your ass kicked by a man named Tyler!

:evilgrin:

Seriously, why did my parents like that name so much?

[bigwillq]

45. My boss son's name is Caden

I think it's kind of cool.

[Spider Jerusalem]

46. Parental cruelty, plain and simple.

And after seeing this list, you just KNOW that some poor infant got saddled with a chuckle-inducing name like "Braden Aidan Hayden"...

[yellowdogintexas]

47. My great niece Brooklynne is getting a baby brother:Brayden

how these kids come up with these names?

and up the street in the other brother's house, is Brandon. Geez

disclaimer: I don't know if they are spelling it Brayden, like the sound a mule makes, hopefully it is Braden, since they are trying to be sort of Irish about it but still.......

[ThorsHammer]

48. No offense to anyone with these names, but they all sound feminine

[roguevalley]

49. Beverly and Connie. Real boy names by the way. Chowderhead

might be another baddie but the worst boys name I ever knew in real life is:

Fire In The Belly Of The Lord Lee
Hallelujah Amen Lee

[rbnyc]

51. I have a boy cat named Beverly.

His twin brother is Elliot.

;-)

[yellowdogintexas]

54. Beverly Briley was the Mayor of Nashville for 20 something

years..and a Good Old Yellow Dog too

I went to school with a guy named Connie Ray, and don't forget
Connie Mack, the senator

[baba]

53. Aiden is really popular.

I know of at least three babies named Aidan.

[yellowdogintexas]

55. one reason: "Sex and the City" ..Aiden was the guy Carrie

was engaged to and then cheated on with Big.
Played by a hunk so his name became popular

Back when Ashley and Nicky were the hot young gals on 'young and restless' there must have been eleven million little girls named Ashley Nicole. One week there were eight of them in the birth announcements in Evansville IN, ..I was pregnant and reading the birth announcements regularly to avoid naming my child the same thing as everyone else.

Not to worry, Margaret Suzanne isn't common at all and most of the Margarets go around being Maggies anyway

[last_texas_dem]

57. Jayden is a guy's name?

I know there have been some interesting cases of predominately male names becoming predominately female names (Ashley, Courtney, Leslie, etc.) but a male ever being forced to live his life with the name Jayden has got to be pretty tough to deal with. I dunno... just something about the way it sounds. But I guess if it's an incredibly popular name to give guys that makes it a guy's name...

[brentspeak]

59. Kimberly or Carol (n/t)

[hyphenate]

60. I think a lot of it is your background

For instance, if you have a Celtic background, Angus, Duncan, Connor, Bruce or Aidan are great names. But you wouldn't likely name a child of Jewish heritage one of those names.

If you're from French descent, Jacques, Francois, or Jean are good solid French spellings of typical names. But you would be hard-pressed to find a French child named Jesus (as in the Hispanic pronunciation) or Juan.

The typical "American" names are mostly long time favorites, some with a miniscule difference:

Steven (or Stephen)
John
Richard
Micheal (ugh) instead of Michael (I don't mean to offend anyone, but when I see that on someone I always assume the mother couldn't spell!)
James
Robert
Joseph
David
Daniel, etc.

Regional differences also account for different spellings, or different pronunciations.

My name, Mary, was far more popular in the 50s-70s than it is now, though it's been around for a very long time. Some names are cyclical, and what was once old is new again: Jessica, Jennifer, Austin, Allyson, Spencer, Randolph.......

I always said if I had children I would name one of them Duncan Angus or Connor Frederick or something along that line. But since I am from a Celtic background, these names would be widely accepted in the circles in which I travel.

As a writer, it's funny to create a character and name them something a little different, only to find out it's not that different after all: one of the names I use in my novel is Janelle, and I have since found several females with that name.

[Hand]

63. Dubya

And I'll bet that some poor freeper/fundie babies out there have already suffered this act of criminal abuse!

:puke:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

64. Ashley

I had a few male students named Ashley. I was expecting them to be girls.

[Mizmoon]

65. I think it was a male name first

Gone with the Wind has an Ashley Wilkes, after all.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

67. It was... but most people use it as a girls name now. n/t

[bif]

66. Austin

[Debbi801]

68. Too funny. In my almost 3 yr old's day care class...

He has kids with almost all these names: Aiden, Ethan, Dylan, Jaydone, Brayden, Mason, and Ashton.

I had to vote for Mason, though.

Although, I probably shouldn't talk. My toddler's name is Duncan. While different, it suits him to a Tee.

Debbi

[UdoKier]

70. Duncan's not bad...

Although, in elementary schools we had a couple of british kids who came to our school named Duncan and Neville (!). Everybody called them "Dumbkin" or "Dumpkin", and "Nipple".

But seriously, as an adult name, Duncan ain't bad.

[southpaw]

69. Voted 'Ashton'

But I'm glad to see the end of the Justin-Dustin craze.

[LibDemAlways]

71. When I taught eighth grade twenty years

ago there was a boy named Arpad - believe it was a Hungarian name. God, did that kid ever suffer. Teased mercilessly with imitations of frogs croaking "arpad, arpad."

Last year my cousin saddled her newborn with "Royce." Horrible.

My daughter has a crush on a boy named Landon, another "on" name. I sort of like it, though. Mason, however...yuck.

[intrepid_wanderer]

72. actually...

BONE IRWOOD would be pretty bad!

:bounce:

[Andy_Stephenson]

75. Worst name I ever heard was

Elbert J Measles

[Rhiannon12866]

76. Jayden? Caden? Those aren't names!

That's just some word that somebody made up. My vote for worst boy baby name goes to one I saw in the local paper: Spyder! I kid you not; someone actually named their baby that. And when I mentioned this case of child abuse to one of the girls that I worked with, she totally didn't get my point because she said that this was someone that she actually knew!:shrug:

[Sabriel]

77. Are they aiming for offspring or National Finals Rodeo contestants?

That's what they all sound like to me: "And now, take your hats off to our next rider, folks! All the way from Amarillo, Texas, it's Caden Tyler!"

[eridani]

78. I think the parents get them off of interstate highway exit signs

Clayton (Missouri?)

Madison (Wisconsin?)

Kennedy (Expressway?)

[ironflange]

79. Interesting item in recent Sports Illustrated

A high school girls' basketball team (sorry, can't recall the name) recently played a game in which all five starters were named Kaitlyn, or a variant thereof. Imagine the chaos: "Quick, Kaitlyn's open" "Kaitlyn, hit the bench, Kaitlyn, go in for her" etc.