Once again, another celebrity has the Mamas of ‘Razzi worried about her choice of baby names. Click here to find out more.
What do you think?
Creative = good
or
Creative = years of therapy in that child’s future.
Once again, another celebrity has the Mamas of ‘Razzi worried about her choice of baby names. Click here to find out more.
What do you think?
Creative = good
or
Creative = years of therapy in that child’s future.
Oh please no more Maddisons, Madisons, or Madysens. Or Alexas. Or Joshua, Jeremy, Jason or Justin.
What’s wrong with Martha? Mary? Christine? Christopher, Michael (yes, I know Michael #1 forever but sometimes the popular stuff is the good stuff), Robert? Nothing wrong with those and the kid can hold his head up as an adult.
Creative can be good as long as it’s not too far out there. It’s almost like there is a competition with celebs to see who can come up with the weirdest name.
I am dying to know what it is now.
It’s only right that Celebrity Royalty should bestow on their offspring names of such pure uniquitude. Imagine having to share a name with another human being on the planet! How would anyone be able to tell how special you are?
Angie Harmon grates on my last nerve… there is something so smug about her.
However, YUMMY husband. And the 3rd kid will probably just have another pretentious last-name-as-first-name like the other 2.
I like Finley, it’s a good Scots name. One of my friends named her kid Finley Cameron.
We Jennifers know that an erstwhile perfectly good name can be cheapened by overuse, HOWEVER, creative names are so commonplace now that they’re boring, too. Finley IS a good name, for one or two people.
Maybe there are just too many people?
There’s creative, there’s unique, there’s special – and then there is stupid, asinine, and bizarre. My daughter’s name is Regan (which is Irish, and means ‘small ruler’). I was one of 3 ‘Sarah’s in my grade at a very small school, and I wanted less common names for my kids (that said, we named our son ‘Sam’). And my Dad is Irish, so I liked the cultural connection. Actually though, the popularity of Irish names is a personal pet peeve. I don’t want to tell people what to name their kids (alright, I do!) but how about picking a name that has some kind of personal connection to you? There are too many Aidan’s, and most of them are definitely NOT Irish, or anything close to it. You don’t see me naming my children Joaquin, do you?
When my daughter was born, we wanted to give her something different, but not strange. Something was actually a real name but she wouldn’t have to have 3 others with the same name in her class each year. It’s not easy.
Oh, I am all about unique, but c’mon people, crazy is not unique. I can live with Avery and Finley (even though I’m not a huge fan of the last name as first name trend, unless the name has personal significance in your family), but the new name isn’t even in the baby books? Ouch. Considering how many “unique” names are in baby books now, that scares me a little.
BTW, have you ever checked this out?
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html
A true riot…
I love the rare family names. I always wanted to pass along our family’s multi generational and very beautiful name, Ascenith. Makes me think of an ascending zenith of beauty and love. Made my husband think of an 8 year old girl nicknamed Ass.
Our daughter has a very popular name from a different ethnic background.
I say leave it at Avery and Finley – monsex names are hard for normal people like teachers/doctors/lawyers to get with.
What ever happened trio Samantha/Katherine/Jessica/Amy/Amanda/Samuel/Joshua/Brian?
Poor kid.
I’m never having kids, so it’s a moot point for me. I always thought I’d give my kid an unusual name if I had one, but these days? I’m not so sure.
However, if you want to read something snarky about odd name choices go here:
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html
You can amuse yourself for hours!
I know another blogger whose daughters are Finley and Avery. (and Briar) – I would have never guessed that the Sehorns had the same names. Wow! I like the names, they’re not scary like some others.
Of course I’m married to someone with the #1 most common male name ever. And our son has #1.5. So who am I to talk.
Signed,
The Unoriginal One.
My father-in-law asked us to please choose something that wouldn’t sound silly when the child became a 50 year old adult.
Tallulah sounds much better than Lula to me. Lula reminds me of a cow. Tallulah Bankhead was a famous actress in her day.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Tallulah/tallulah.htm
Tallulah reminds me of the bird character in Maisy.
Ok, I’m supposed to be tending to a sick person and I just spent entirely too much time over at Notwithmy handbag on the weird baby names thing.
Naming was son Sean was weird enough: all of my aunts called him ‘seen’ until I explained the way to say it….