Is your child's name on the hated baby name list?

[Tanya93]

Do you agree with the list? 

What names just make you cringe?

If you already have your heart set on a name for your baby, you may want to stop reading now. If you couldn't care less what anyone else thinks and won't break into tears at the sight of seeing your future child's name on the 10 Most Hated Baby Name list, then proceed. I warn you, however, that it can be brutal to see one's choice sitting there after all the painstaking debate and devotion that go into choosing just the right name.

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The list comes from Laura Wattenberg, author of The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby. She conducted an "informal" study and came up with the list. In general she found people hate "gender-bending" names in which a masculine name becomes feminine -- like Addison or Madison.

As well, people despise trendy names ... though obviously not everyone does or they wouldn't be trendy, right? Also on the list of hate are names that are difficult to spell (Kaitlyn) and those that are similar versions of other names (Jayden, Brayden, and Kayden).

Here's the full list (with notes from Live Science) ... brace yourself:

Girls

1. Nevaeh ("heaven" spelled backward and one of the most divisive names around, according to Wattenberg)
2. Destiny (people dislike names that confer a virtue onto a child, Wattenberg said -- and many associated this name with exotic dancers)
3. Madison
4. Mackenzie
5. McKenna
6. Addison (an example of a masculine named turned feminine, which many people dislike, Wattenberg said)
7. Gertrude (people said this name is "ugly")
8. Kaitlyn (for its "made-up" spelling)
9. Makayla
10. Bertha (author's note: duh!)
    

Boys

1. Jayden
2. Brayden
3. Aiden
4. Kaden (these rhyming names struck many as overdone, Wattenberg reported)
5. Hunter (too much like a last name or "too violent")
6. Hayden
7. Bentley (people dislike brand-name names, Wattenberg found, calling them "trashy")
8. Tristan
9. Michael (too boring, according to some)
10. Jackson

I'm surprised to see some of them there -- especially Michael, and Kaitlyn doesn't seem that strangely spelled to me. But some of them, yeah ... "Bentley," really?

Still, if you love a name, it's your baby, and you get to decide. Don't let the haters color your opinion of a name you love ... just know that your child may be among those who hate it too.

[raeyliNlilysmom]

nope if one of my girls were a boy they woulld have been named Michael after my effing awesome daddy!!!! r.i.p <3

[Mommy_of_Riley]

My kids are not on the list... We have a son named Riley and we always get the "but that's a girls' name". Then our oldest DD is Ami. Yes it's with an "i". It's a family name always spelled with A-M-I. Our baby DD is Zoey. Which many people don't like...

Oh Well.

[pookah1203]

Well, I have a Jacob, Aidan, analise, keaton, and serenity. It only stands to reason at least one of theirs would be on the list lol.

[Tanya93]

I am thinking of all my friends that have had kids in the last five years

Martin

Adele and Lydia

Gabriel and Giselle

Brett and Judd

Elijah and Henry

Benjamin and Henry

Eleanor and Paige

Jane, Phillip, and George

Brayden

Kyle and Chelsea

[GLWerth]

That's interesting that they picked their own names, but I have a question...OK, maybe two.

1. What did you call them when they were not yet verbal? (Since I assume they picked their names once they could talk)

2. How did people react to this way of naming?

I'm honestly curious.

Quoting kailu1835:

 Kaitlynn is my daughter's name.  Not Kaitlyn with one N but two.  She picked her own name, just like my sons did.  None of those names made me cringe, and I think Navaeh sounds exotic.

[kailu1835]

 lol I should have clarified.  They picked their names in utero.  I dreamed their names before I even had them, and no other name we could think of felt right.   My youngest is only 2 months lol

ETA: Growing up we had a family friend who allowed their kids to pick their names at the age of 5 (before kindergarten).  They gave them names for the birth certificate (so they would have names to put on their doctors' charts), and then allowed them to get their names legally changed.  They had 4 kids.  Only 1 decided to keep the name he'd been born with.  It was odd, to say the least, but I understand that's how some cultures do it (though this family was plain old American lol)

Quoting GLWerth:

That's interesting that they picked their own names, but I have a question...OK, maybe two.

1. What did you call them when they were not yet verbal? (Since I assume they picked their names once they could talk)

2. How did people react to this way of naming?

I'm honestly curious.

Quoting kailu1835:

 Kaitlynn is my daughter's name.  Not Kaitlyn with one N but two.  She picked her own name, just like my sons did.  None of those names made me cringe, and I think Navaeh sounds exotic.

 

 

[TessaRae01]

Nope, we're naming our daughter Adilynn. (:

[1Giovanni]

Nope my son's names are not on the list. They are Jacob and Noah. Jacob is 19 so before Twilight. lol. I think if I had him now I wouldn't named him that because of the movie. :)

I never heard of some of the names. None of them bothered me. I do have some names I really don't like but those are actually a lot of the old grandma names. lol. Like Mildred, Mabel, and with boys names Peter and Aaron really bother me.

[1Giovanni]

My son's middle name bothers my family. His middle name is Jesse Bell (named after his grandpa) and they will call him Jezebel just to be asses. lol

[m3lissa_16]

Nope. Mia Alexandra and Leah Madelyn. =)