Most hated baby names: Is your kid's on the list?

The Aiden, Brayden, Caden craze drove me nuts! It was cute the first time or two I heard it....but now I know 2 Braydens, 3 Cadens, and about a hanful of Aidens. I feel like the best way to go about unique names is to look into names from other countries that you don't normaly hear.... Elodie is a French name, beautiful for a girl!

I have a niece named Heather and an nephew named Jason, but both are in their 50s so the names were not as common then.

Emilie Bell and Zoey Gabrielle. It was going to be Emilie Rose(Rose after a family member) but that horror movie came out at the time I was picking names and when I was telling every body they started laughing at me.

my friends last name is gray. I told her to name her daughter Scarlet Ann Gray (OSU)!!!!

My 3yr old boy's name is Hunter & he IS violent...he fights with 3 older sisters! LOL

My daughters name is OceanJanelle so she has 2 first name :)

one of my former neighbors daughters name is Chocolate. AND she is afro-americian. If I was a teacher I would have a hard time doing rule call.

Naming my daughter (in the semi-distant future of 5-6yrs) Natalie Elise. I have only
Met one Natalie and one Elise. I've been in love with this Natalie for upwards of 8 years (and I'm only 20). My name is Eryn and I've only met one girl with the same spelling and not until I reached college. There was a guy in my high school named Aaron, but we were the only two.I get complements all the time. I love my name. (my middle name is Elizabeth which is pretty common but flows well with Eryn). The other girl name I love is Caroline. For boys I like Nathan Anthony and Christopher Anthony (Anthony is after a deceased relative).

Thoughts?

Our daughters middle name had originally been planned as Haevyn, kinda glad we decided not to go with that lol. Her name is Faolyn (Fay - oh - lin) as I was always rather resentful of having such an overused name though I do appreciate my name's roots (8 Erin/Aaron total at my school growing up). The name we picked was originally Faolan which is the masculine so we changed the second 'a' to an 'e' to make it feminine BUT my mother in law said she didn't like the name 'olen' being in her name so when they swapped the 'e' to a 'y' to get her to shut up lol

25 years later our youngest daughter still hates her name..only because no one ever pronounces it correctly. Its Moira. MOI (rhymes with boy) RA... but is proud of its uniqueness and who it Honor's and meaning...cant wait to see what handle she and her hubby give to their own kids..

I can't stand people who misspell Caitlin. There is a reason it's that way. It's Irish/Gaelic and means Pure. All the other ways are just silly.

My wife's criteria was that our son's name had to be unique because her name is very common. In my family all boys names starts with the letter R. So we looked at baby name web sites and I found Raiden. It is the Japanese god of Thunder. Rai = Thunder, Den = Lightning. and it's unique. It happens to kinda combine my first name with my wife's Ray + Diana. By coincidence it is also the name of the character from the Mortal Kombat games. We dressed him up as Raiden from Mortal Kombat for his 2nd halloween. There are a few Raidens out there.
Little did we know there's an "Aiden" craze going on right now. At the playground we hear parents calling for their kids all the time.. "Jayden", "Aiden".. etc. So technically his name isn't on the list because it starts with an R and it's definitely unique, so I'm partially relieved.

As someone with an uncommon name, I was constantly, as a child and continue to as an adult, having to correct folks when they either say it or spell it, although it is easily phonetic when written. As an adult, to retain some degree of anonymity online, I utilize my initials. As a child, I resented my mother for giving me a name that required no last name for people who I was. And, what I hated the most was not being able to find anything personalized, with everything having to be custom ordered. Perhaps, though, it is because of this that I became a wordsmith. I CRINGE when I read some of the monikers folks stick on their children, yet if it has meaning or significance in some way to them, so be it.
One of the most absurd things I see is the prefix "Mc-" on a girl's name: McKenna, McKayla, McKenzie. "Mc-" means "the son of", and the proper spellings for these otherwise lovely names are Makenna, Michaela, and Mackenzie. Recently, American Girl introduced a story character whose name is McKenna. The editor needs to fire whoever came up with that spelling.

Haha i know two girls names Porscha and Mercedes. Sisters.

I was the only one my entire school system named Hayley (there were 3 Kayleys of various spellings), all 12 years and even my 2 years of college. Now it seems almost every little girl has that name. My only consolation is that I rarely see it spelled my way.

It always amuses me when people pronounce my name "Sean" as "Seen". Never really gave it much thought, but I like my name.

Yep! I agree with Bentley sounding trashy... funny how you can't say it without a deep southern accent.. (after watching Teen Mom anyway LOL!) In my opinion "M" names are getting way over used.. I can't keep track of all the different spellings and pronunciations, (ie) Madison, Madeline, Marilyn, Melinda, Miranda, etc...
And there are just some names that are not for a GROWN man like, Joshua, Tyler, Tristan, pretty much any name ending in "tan".
And seriously... MAXWELL for a girl!! Come on.. I thought Jessica Simpson was stupid before.. but now there is no hope for her. What did her sister name her kid... Mogely.. really?

My 4 year old girl is named Alyssa (Ah-Liss-Ah) Erin. I love her name as does her father and the rest of the family too.

I understand most of the names chosen on both lists, however I think there are a couple others that should be added. I think the name Trey for a boy is very trashy. I will say my sons name is on the list.... Kaden.

Read some where that some millionaire guy whose last name was Lear...named his daughter Chande...so basically Chande Lear. Really?!?! lol.

Funny story...my son's name is on the list :P