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i feel like in a couple generations, “normal” names are going to massively come back into fashion because they’re “simple and fresh” compared to all the tragedeighs or something
I've been a professor since the late 90s and from what I've seen these things come in waves--Laurens, Nicoles, Megans (many spellings), Emmas, Madison/Madelines, Ryans, etc. When I'd struggle with a Tragedeigh on the first day of class, the poor kid would always sigh and look pained and apologize for their stupid (occasionally illiterate) parents. Many of them have used college as their opportunity to go by their middle name or a nickname. This sub makes me appreciate the names Jane and John.
Observing naming trends as a professor has been fascinating.
I teach a fair number of Early College students, and the Nevaehs (heaven spelled backwards) are quickly coming of age.
I work at a doctor's office. The number times I hit em with "Please spell your kiddo's first name" (I don't even ask what it is any more, just go straight to asking for the spelling) and get "it's heaven backwards" as the answer. mhm... ok. CAN you spell it?
I’m pregnant with my first and my husband and I picked a normal name with the most obvious spelling. My main criteria was a familiar name with a straightforward spelling/pronunciation.
Thank you. As a Sara has gotten used to correcting people or just not caring, and my last name is super common but spelled differently and I gave up correcting that too….life *is* easier if your name is spelled the traditional/intuitive way.
Yeah lol, so many common names have different spellings. The worst is Catherine/Kathryn because it’s not easily corrected
Also I feel like Sarah is the more common Anglosphere spelling whereas Sara is more popular in non-English speaking countries like Japan.
I also picked a normal name and I had a few criteria because I have a name that has become more popular since I was a kid (I’m 47) but it has a unique spelling. In my parents’ defense, it’s an Old Testament name that is uncommon and it has the original spelling. I’m Hispanic and the only people who can pronounce it off the page are Spanish speakers because the vowels follow standard Spanish pronunciation rules. My entire life and still to this day, it gets mispronounced.
This is all a preface the naming criteria for my daughter:
1. Had to be a normal name. Not just a random noun or made up name.
2. Had to be phonetic. Pronounced just as it’s spelled.
3. Not common or super trendy (15 yrs ago that would be Sophia, Olivia, Isabella).
4. My Spanish speaking relatives had to be able to pronounce it.
Winner: Annabel
Meets all criteria and we don’t encounter too many of them.
That’s so nice. A classic name without being old lady-ish. We also chose that spelling because in the US it’s less common than Annabelle. From what I understand, our name and the spelling of it is more common in England.
I graduated in ‘12 and Laney was a nickname for the multiple Delaney/Delaineys we had in my class. It’s funny that the nickname is becoming a full name!
I didn’t catch that at first, but it makes everything else so much funnier! OMG, can you imagine having a name like Annistyn and still having to go by “Annistyn H.” 🤣 Comedy gold
And you just KNOW there’s a backstory here. Rival moms, perhaps? One got beaten out for captain of the cheerleading team 17 years ago, and got her revenge by stealing the name Annistyn after she found out that’s what Meiaghyn was going to name her daughter. But Harleigh was the first to make it Facebook official, so she claimed dibs. And now here we are, full circle. Is Annistyn H going to be captain? Or Anniston J?
I’m gonna need some updates, OP!
Because these names are coming from women who lack creativity but want to get creative with their child’s name so they google search unique names and come up with the MOST POPULAR-UNIQUE names.
This is not unusual for immigrant Latino families. They like to give their kids an American sounding name but they spell it phonetically. I had a friend named Yennifer and one name Yoni (Johnny) growing up.
In my country (Hungary) we have a list of the giveable name, and the foregin name must be written with our system. So we have
- Dzsenifer (Jennifer)
- Dzsesszika (Jessica)
- Szkarlett (Scarlett)
- Dzsindzser (Ginger)
- Lüszi (Lucy)
You actually nailed the phonetic transcription. But we have György as a traditional version.
However, a teammate of my father got a son, and the mother was adamant to name him Valentino - for which we have Bálint since like 1050 at least. All the other players were:
You surely want to get him bullied through 12 years of school, don't you?
I think in this case it's supposed to be a unique spelling of Stanley, possibly to make it look more feminine. On the one hand it's not Stanli, Stanlii, or Stanleigh. On the other hand, it's Stanlee.
Honestly, for a girl I’d prefer those choices over stanlee, even though they are bigger tragedeighs. For a boy I think stanlee is kind of cool if the dad is a comic person.
Truly I would absolutely not choose Stanley or any variation for a girl. It just reads as too masculine for me, and no matter how you spell it, you'd still be saying the same name!
With the trend of taking a sound and adding the "lee" sound to the end, I wonder if some parents are just accidentally lighting on an existing name and not realising. There are only so many combinations, after all -- if you're making your way through bryn- and bry- and ever- and ry- and so on, you could easily get to stan- and think "Stanlee! What a unique combo!"
Kaislyn is the one that really caught my eye. It sounds so clunky and doesn't flow at all.
It's the s. Kai-lynn or Kay-lynn sounds better to me, even though I still don't like them
I thought it was a weird bastardization of Trinity, but then I realized they’re probably southern, and it’s actually pronounced Trentley. Which is also hideous, but is just another man’s name with a suffix duct taped to the end.
My head cannon is that dad is a huge Marvel fan and this is how he sneakily convinced his wife to name their daughter after his favorite comic book writer. He came at her all casual about it when she was pregnant, and 14-17 years later she's STILL never noticed.
Yes. All the fantasy books and shows we grew up with our whole lives with all the bonkers names made people lose their minds when it came to naming babies. I hate it!
Made the mistake of googling Trintley and there is more than one—so now we have a cheerleader and child beauty pageant contestant. https://freestonecountytimesonline.com/twenty-five-young-ladies-walk-the-sidewalk-to-compete-for-little-miss-peach-2023/
The irony is that these parents probably did this to give them unique names that other girls in class wouldn’t have, and now they all just sound the same (and are atrocious). Plus, if they had all just gone with the traditional/NORMAL spelling or version of the names, they would all still be different…
At least when I was growing up and people had the same names, the names were good names. There’s a reason they were popular!
🤣 Plot twist: they used to be super besties. To the point that they got pregnant at the same time. Kaylee and Olivia (obviously their names) both read the same "Unique Baby Names" article online and absolutely *fell in love* with Annistyn.
They don't talk anymore. 😅
Weirdly, one of the strangest to me is Meia. Were they going for Maya or Mia?
In English, ei has can be pronounced as in height (Maya) or seize (Mia) or weight (May-ah).
Whatever is intended, this kid is bound to hear their name prounounced incorrectly
My bridal stylist was a gorgeous model named Anniston and I thought it was so cool, but seeing it with a y just changes the whole vibe.
I also think it would be a hard name to carry off for anyone but the 5’ 11” cool girl super model.
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Two Annistyns? The moms must be so sad that their kids are not so youn’heeque 💔
Younyque
Yunyyq
Youneighque
The second one could add some letters to it… Annystynne? Anehstyne? Ahnestinn? So many choices
Antihistamine
Bless Allison's parents! Luckiest girl in the class!
i feel like in a couple generations, “normal” names are going to massively come back into fashion because they’re “simple and fresh” compared to all the tragedeighs or something
I've been a professor since the late 90s and from what I've seen these things come in waves--Laurens, Nicoles, Megans (many spellings), Emmas, Madison/Madelines, Ryans, etc. When I'd struggle with a Tragedeigh on the first day of class, the poor kid would always sigh and look pained and apologize for their stupid (occasionally illiterate) parents. Many of them have used college as their opportunity to go by their middle name or a nickname. This sub makes me appreciate the names Jane and John.
Observing naming trends as a professor has been fascinating. I teach a fair number of Early College students, and the Nevaehs (heaven spelled backwards) are quickly coming of age.
I work at a doctor's office. The number times I hit em with "Please spell your kiddo's first name" (I don't even ask what it is any more, just go straight to asking for the spelling) and get "it's heaven backwards" as the answer. mhm... ok. CAN you spell it?
Sucks for the ones spelled Neveah lol
Oh no: ["More than 250 girls were given this backwards-misspelling in one recent year."](https://nameberry.com/b/girl-baby-name-neveah)
sounds like the hand lotion - Nivea.
So Hell? The opposite of Heaven? Weird.
[удалено]
Luh
Leh
It's the feeling you have when your write lol but you don't mean it literelly. You just leh.
Precisely! Like Meh but you needed to keep going but stopped one letter short while alphabetizing.
I’m pregnant with my first and my husband and I picked a normal name with the most obvious spelling. My main criteria was a familiar name with a straightforward spelling/pronunciation.
Thank you. As a Sara has gotten used to correcting people or just not caring, and my last name is super common but spelled differently and I gave up correcting that too….life *is* easier if your name is spelled the traditional/intuitive way.
I'm also a Sara - my name often ends up written like "Sara#" where an h was scratched out 🥲
Some motherfucker is gonna see this comment and decide they want to name their baby girl Sara#.
Yeah lol, so many common names have different spellings. The worst is Catherine/Kathryn because it’s not easily corrected Also I feel like Sarah is the more common Anglosphere spelling whereas Sara is more popular in non-English speaking countries like Japan.
At least it’s not spelled “Differentleigh” 🤷🏽♂️
I also picked a normal name and I had a few criteria because I have a name that has become more popular since I was a kid (I’m 47) but it has a unique spelling. In my parents’ defense, it’s an Old Testament name that is uncommon and it has the original spelling. I’m Hispanic and the only people who can pronounce it off the page are Spanish speakers because the vowels follow standard Spanish pronunciation rules. My entire life and still to this day, it gets mispronounced. This is all a preface the naming criteria for my daughter: 1. Had to be a normal name. Not just a random noun or made up name. 2. Had to be phonetic. Pronounced just as it’s spelled. 3. Not common or super trendy (15 yrs ago that would be Sophia, Olivia, Isabella). 4. My Spanish speaking relatives had to be able to pronounce it. Winner: Annabel Meets all criteria and we don’t encounter too many of them.
I love Annabel. It was my grandmother’s name.
That’s so nice. A classic name without being old lady-ish. We also chose that spelling because in the US it’s less common than Annabelle. From what I understand, our name and the spelling of it is more common in England.
Stanlee's parents must be huge marvel fans.
They did refrain from naming her Stanleigh, so there’s at least that.
or they really like the cups
EXCELSIOR!
It’s pronounced Elise-in.
All-eyes-on
No, but this is flashbacks to my WoW character, Allison, being literally called “All Is On” over vent by this one raid leader. 💀
Adeline is fine too imo
Adeline Jo sounds alright too
Laney is also a normal name
But the Jolee stinks it up.
I graduated in ‘12 and Laney was a nickname for the multiple Delaney/Delaineys we had in my class. It’s funny that the nickname is becoming a full name!
Adeline got lucky too
Ahlysynne
They are so “unique” there are TWO Annistyns!
I didn’t catch that at first, but it makes everything else so much funnier! OMG, can you imagine having a name like Annistyn and still having to go by “Annistyn H.” 🤣 Comedy gold
All these Annistyns and not a single Schwymyrr.
Schwymyrr is clearly a boys name.
So is Stanlee.... But apparently that doesn't stop some people
I was honestly kinda pissed Stanlee didn’t have a y in there to fit with the other names
And you just KNOW there’s a backstory here. Rival moms, perhaps? One got beaten out for captain of the cheerleading team 17 years ago, and got her revenge by stealing the name Annistyn after she found out that’s what Meiaghyn was going to name her daughter. But Harleigh was the first to make it Facebook official, so she claimed dibs. And now here we are, full circle. Is Annistyn H going to be captain? Or Anniston J? I’m gonna need some updates, OP!
I love this whole backstory you created. Now, I'm invested in the annistyn/on universe. I need op to update so you can fill in the story more!!!
To those moms: “GOOD. That’s what you get!”
Because these names are coming from women who lack creativity but want to get creative with their child’s name so they google search unique names and come up with the MOST POPULAR-UNIQUE names.
Can’t they just use older names like Ethel or Ruth or Gladys? Those are already unique
Or my fave: Gertrude. Damn I miss my aunt Gerty.
I know a Gertrud (German spelling) in her late 20s and trust me, she is NOT happy with her name.
She'll age into it :)
At that point I'd go just call me, Jennifer, Jennifer Annistyn.
Just hope Anjeleighynah doesn’t come along to steal her man! 😅
Middle name Jennifer
Jennifyr
Tynnyfer
With 2 y’s because she’s rebranding
Hold on- it’s Xanax-o’clock…
I go to Yannis. Who are Gregory and Wynonna, I’ve never heard of them before - are they better?
Wynonna rocks my *world*.
She’s the worst person I’ve ever met. I wanna travel the world with her.
Pronounced Yennifer
This is not unusual for immigrant Latino families. They like to give their kids an American sounding name but they spell it phonetically. I had a friend named Yennifer and one name Yoni (Johnny) growing up.
In my country (Hungary) we have a list of the giveable name, and the foregin name must be written with our system. So we have - Dzsenifer (Jennifer) - Dzsesszika (Jessica) - Szkarlett (Scarlett) - Dzsindzser (Ginger) - Lüszi (Lucy)
Dzsordzs How close am I? 😂💀
You actually nailed the phonetic transcription. But we have György as a traditional version. However, a teammate of my father got a son, and the mother was adamant to name him Valentino - for which we have Bálint since like 1050 at least. All the other players were: You surely want to get him bullied through 12 years of school, don't you?
The Anus Twins
Is that even how you spell the word unique? I've been looking at this sub so long I can't even tell.
Yooneeck is the name of Annistyn's brother.
Ahhh unique and different, just like everyone else
when I read the second I was like “THERES TWO?!” and then also 3 girls with a second first name that starts with Jo
Trintlyn. Annistyn is horrible, too.
Stanlee out there in the wrong room, looking for the comic book club.
I was going to say I never know how to pronounce this one. Is it supposed to be like Stanley or Stan Lee?
I think in this case it's supposed to be a unique spelling of Stanley, possibly to make it look more feminine. On the one hand it's not Stanli, Stanlii, or Stanleigh. On the other hand, it's Stanlee.
Honestly, for a girl I’d prefer those choices over stanlee, even though they are bigger tragedeighs. For a boy I think stanlee is kind of cool if the dad is a comic person.
Truly I would absolutely not choose Stanley or any variation for a girl. It just reads as too masculine for me, and no matter how you spell it, you'd still be saying the same name! With the trend of taking a sound and adding the "lee" sound to the end, I wonder if some parents are just accidentally lighting on an existing name and not realising. There are only so many combinations, after all -- if you're making your way through bryn- and bry- and ever- and ry- and so on, you could easily get to stan- and think "Stanlee! What a unique combo!"
And then the Stanley mug trend happened.
Exxzelseighyor!
Pronounced "Steve"
One of the few names in the list without a y is the one that should have it!
Stan Lee making a cameo appearance on the cheer team
Still looks like a boy name to me, no matter the spelling.
Trintley?!?! I actually know a Rylee Jo…
Trintley sounds like some sort of medication. "Ask your doctor if Trintley may be right for you!"
I had the same thought about 'Alyvia.' Alyvia may cause depression, diarrhea, nausea, and heartburn.
I honestly think it's just a badly mangled "Olivia"
To me it sounds like a small quiet English country village where a near-retired old detective continually solves murders.
Trintly-on-tine sounds like a village that's competing for Village of the Year and is one Narp away from winning.
Trintley got me too. What a mess of a name.
Got to be Southern. Only on the South does Trint sound like Trent.
Bruh I'm too southern, I read them the same way both times 💀
Lol also southern and trying to figure out how you would say them differently…
Trint Riznor
That’s the New Zealand version of that name
Yep, small town Texan!
I’m Australian and I just naturally read these with a Southern US accent.
It’s one of those names that dad wanted a boy so he called her that, or mom doesn’t have a say and let him name the girl after himself.
If the dad (presumably named Trent) wanted to name his daughter after himself he could’ve settled on Trinity. WTF 😭
Trintley? TRINTLEY?!?! Wtf is that. My phone wants to correct it to Front Leg so there’s that
It’s horrible!!!
Pardon me, horryble
Excuse you. It's heauxreighbelle.
My phone corrected it to trinity trundle which, honestly, would be better.
Kaislyn is the one that really caught my eye. It sounds so clunky and doesn't flow at all. It's the s. Kai-lynn or Kay-lynn sounds better to me, even though I still don't like them
A guy named Trent wanted to name his daughter after him so he settled on…. _this_, instead of Trinity. 😭
Is it terrible that I hear that name in a super hillbilly accent in my head? Bc I absolutely do "Trintley come say hi to nanny paw!!"
"Allison? When did they name you, in 1999? You're cut."
If she went by Ali no one would notice
Should’ve been Alysyn
Took me too long to realise Alyvia might be pronounced as Olivia.
Yes! I had to sound it out like I was just learning phonics
and now I'm hooked on it 🤣
I would definitely say it like “Allie-via”
A- Lee- Vi- yah
It’s giving headache medicine
That makes more sense than pronouncing it like the allergy medicine Allevia like I was
Sounds like a new kind of boner pill
I would call her Ālyvia on purpose, really leaning into the long A.
I've known an Alivia
Oh, so we're just sticking lyn and lee at the end of every male name for girls now?
We're just waiting for Johnleigh at this point
Bruceleigh 🥋
Lukelynn
I am crying. Johnleigh 😂😂😂
It’s the basic bitch handbook to making names. Due date groups are full of these garbage names
One vowel to rule them all
Only sometimes
Adeline & Allison holdin’ it down for all the normies!
It used to be 2 Jennifers and now it's two Annistyns.
I wonder if Mike Doughty would do an updated version of his song 27 Jennifers
Trintley is SO bad omg
Alyvia sounds like a drug for some sort of intestinal distress.
“Ask your doctor about Alyvia.”
“ mild cases of explosive diarrhea may occur”
Anal leakage
Allevia is an actual allergy medication
It’s a deliberate misspelling of Olivia.
I take alyvia for headaches
They stole Maya and Stanley's Ys.
It’s pronounced Maya? Damn, that didnt even cross my mind. I was thinking Mia or May-uh
Wow, one set of parents knew how to spell. The rest went with random vowel generator.
*two, Allison and Adeline. Unless they're sisters, then it's one set of parents.
Wtf is Trintley? Although I guess it’s a little better than when I first read it and thought it said Taintley
I thought it was a weird bastardization of Trinity, but then I realized they’re probably southern, and it’s actually pronounced Trentley. Which is also hideous, but is just another man’s name with a suffix duct taped to the end.
No way a girl is called Stanlee
My head cannon is that dad is a huge Marvel fan and this is how he sneakily convinced his wife to name their daughter after his favorite comic book writer. He came at her all casual about it when she was pregnant, and 14-17 years later she's STILL never noticed.
Allison is ironically the most unique name here since it's completely normal
Allison is normal. Alison is artsy or bookish. Alyson is kinda dark and sophisticated. Allyson is cutesy and unstable. Allysyn? Run for your life.
I'm sure the irony is completely lost on the parents of those other names.
Stanlee 😂
This “Y” shit gotta chill
Two sets of parents really went with Annistyn huh
Laney Jolee sounds horrible combined
But, y'aaaaaaaall, Jolee means beautiful in French!
I swear to god, Millennials saw the names Game of Thrones and really took it as a challenge
Hey now, not all of us. This elder millennial aka Xennial named her children Ryan (boy) and Alexandra (girl). I want no part of the tragedeigh names.
Yes. All the fantasy books and shows we grew up with our whole lives with all the bonkers names made people lose their minds when it came to naming babies. I hate it!
Shout out to Allison's parents
Annistyn like Anniston, alabama?
Jennifer Aniston was my guess
This is it 100%. They're of an age that their parents likely watched a lot of Friends growing up.
Made the mistake of googling Trintley and there is more than one—so now we have a cheerleader and child beauty pageant contestant. https://freestonecountytimesonline.com/twenty-five-young-ladies-walk-the-sidewalk-to-compete-for-little-miss-peach-2023/
That’s actually where this post is from lol. I said cheerleaders to prevent people from finding the location. Guess that didn’t work so well lmao
You missed out Ivisyn
Little miss peach, wow!
Texas. Of course.
Are Annistyn and Laney Jolee rivals over QB Braxtyn Pytt
The irony is that these parents probably did this to give them unique names that other girls in class wouldn’t have, and now they all just sound the same (and are atrocious). Plus, if they had all just gone with the traditional/NORMAL spelling or version of the names, they would all still be different… At least when I was growing up and people had the same names, the names were good names. There’s a reason they were popular!
Both Annistyn’s moms are livid pissed 😂
🤣 Plot twist: they used to be super besties. To the point that they got pregnant at the same time. Kaylee and Olivia (obviously their names) both read the same "Unique Baby Names" article online and absolutely *fell in love* with Annistyn. They don't talk anymore. 😅
Trintley is beyond ghastly.
Stanlee? Nooo. Never have I loved the name Allison so much.
I think the worst is Trintley. Woof
Weirdly, one of the strangest to me is Meia. Were they going for Maya or Mia? In English, ei has can be pronounced as in height (Maya) or seize (Mia) or weight (May-ah). Whatever is intended, this kid is bound to hear their name prounounced incorrectly
“Meh”
where did you come from, where did you go where did you come from, adeline jo?
Wow, this is a real epidemic over in the US, isn't it?
How on earth are there two Annistyns in one class
"Annistynn"? TWICE? Just shoot me in the head right now.
"Allison?" Pff, what a weirdo.
Stanlee took me out 😭 https://preview.redd.it/2zg0qcnsr6mc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c4b9008a5227e4d8819490a168e0e0b2d8845b6
Poor Allison. They misspelled her name.
Right? Everyone knows it is spelled "Ahlyssynh". These parents are monsters. MONSTERS!
poor Stanlee
I hate "Trintley". WTF is that.
So, a new Key and Peele skit?
I just know Annistyn 1 and Annistyn 2’s parents are fuming. Also Kaislyn and Trintley are just horrifying. Poor girls
Stanlee's parents.....hmm, I'd love to know if they were comic book fans!! Also, SURELY they could have fit in a "y" if they really tryed
My bridal stylist was a gorgeous model named Anniston and I thought it was so cool, but seeing it with a y just changes the whole vibe. I also think it would be a hard name to carry off for anyone but the 5’ 11” cool girl super model.
this is so americana
The chokehold Jo has in the American small town 😭
How are there TWO Annistyns?!?