2016 worst baby names

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Millennials are having kids


The Worst Baby Names According to Reddit Users Include Little Sweetmeat, Merika

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/here-are-the-worst-baby-names-according-to-reddit-users-w199895


Leading the pack is one user's nomination of "Elizabreth," which a commenter joked "easy becomes The Lizard Breath."

The next in line is "Mhavryck," which the nominee said is "pronounced as Maverick." Immediately, a user replied: "Huh. And I thought Gryffynne for 'Griffin' was bad."

Observers then noted how some parents like to add their own creative spins to traditional names. "Like Amee or Billee or Melanee," one Reddit user shared. "Worst I heard was where they'd spelt it Bethanie instead of Bethany because 'then she can dot her I with a little heart.'"



Other names mentioned by users under the Reddit thread include:

- Aliviyah. Pronounced Olivia.

- Yuck. Our good friends, bless their hearts, named their kids Elivia, and Ehann (pronounced Ian).

- Baby. Yup. That's the name.

- Little Sweetmeat. Swear to God.

- Nevaeh will always be the worst. Your going to Lleh for naming your kid that.

- Danger. I work in childcare. I could do this all damn day.

- Beberly. Sounds like an accidental birth certificate spelling error.

[HoneyBadger]

1. Always wondered if they made fun of Elizabeth Arden in school

Liz Ard????

[Orrex]

7. Did she have a brother Rhett?

[ret5hd]

2. Trendi

[Lucinda]

13. OMG

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Danger?

Carlos....Danger?

Oh, Anthony Weiner. Thanks to the Law of Unintended Consequences, your mischievous dick pic-ing may have doomed us all to a horrid dystopian fascist nightmare.

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4. I always cringe at the names that are obviously supposed to be a noun but are

misspelled because the person has never seen the actual noun written down. Just last night I saw a name on a PTA agenda; this name, I assume, was supposed to be "Chastity," a decent enough name if you are into the old-fashioned idea of naming girls after virtues like Hope and Faith, but it was spelled "Chasidy." I have also seen "Chasitty," "Chastidy," and "Chastetty." Abominable.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. You mean like famous media persona Orpah?

Ironically, I think the misspelling comes off sounding much better and euphonic.

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6. I was unaware of the story behind Oprah's name. She was actually named

after Orpah, a woman in the book of Ruth in the Bible, and her birth certificate reflects that. But everybody who looked at her name said Oprah, so that's what stuck verbally. No one, except people who couldn't read very well, misspelled her name, but it seems like Oprah was easiest for everyone to say because, really, who knows who Orpah is?

I don't know that Oprah's name could be compared with an out-and-out misspelling of Chastity. I don't see how that's related.

Eh, I'm just an old lady who thinks the various "Chassidies" are just ignorant.

[Orrex]

8. I posted something broadly similar on FB last night...

Me: "The name is Jasmine? Spelled like it sounds?"

Customer: "Yes. Giazmynne."


Me: Um.

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9. Yeah. Eye-popping. I volunteer at my grandkid's elementary school and I shudder

at the names some of these kids are saddled with.

[Orrex]

11. Honestly, I try not to be elitist about it...

and obviously there's no objective "right" way to spell a name, given that spelling is itself an artificial process, so I unless a name is really bad (e.g., I know of a young woman in Pennsylvania named "Shiddy&quot , then live & let live. Or that's my goal, anyway. Sometimes I fail.


Also, speaking of elementary school, I once volunteered for some event at my son's pre-kindergarten. His classroom had each child's name above a coat hook, and a quick scan of the 20 or so names came up with:

Aiden
Jaden
Jayden
Braydon
Braiden
Caden
Cadence
Kaydon
Graydon
Kayla
Kaylee
Kayleigh
Kylee
Kylie
Kyla
etc.

I'm sure that I'm misremembering a bit, but you get the point. Again, live and let live. Still, I can't help wondering what happened in 2006 to cause this explosion of rhyming names?

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15. Oh, I agree -- it's not like I'm gonna go shame the kids or parents. Nearly all the kids

are sweet little things and I'm sure most parents love them to death. It's mainly the names that will really drag the kids down later in life, you know? Like a tattoo on your forehead? (LOL)

As for the Jayden/Kaden/Adan bunch, as snowflakey as those names are, they don't look like they were misspelled from ignorance, which makes the names a little less of a drag on the kids' futures.

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12. Gonna be hell for some of these people in life

Um, yeah what is your email address again?

Phone rings, How come I can't find you in the company directory?

Cop pulls you over, spell that again for me-

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10. Alex Trebek already has trouble with some names.

Lucky for him he probably won't be hosting much longer.

[MindPilot]

14. Some 40 years ago when we were thinking what to name our son...

We spent a lot of time thinking of names that were simple, easy to pronounce and spell, decent alteration with the last name, and had minimal potential for mockery. We settled on Derek Howard. (Howard is in honor of my flight instructor)

My wife commented during a football game this past weekend regarding some of the player's names, that "a whole lot of people must be really really drunk when they filled out the birth certificate."