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I hate Makenna.
I don't have the words to describe how much I hate Bailey. It's bad for a boy and even worse for a girl. A friend of ours named her baby girl Bailey a couple of years ago. I am just dumbfounded. I cannot wrap my mind around why anyone thinks Bailey is in any way a good or nice or pretty or spiffy or beautiful or classy or think-of-any-positive -quality-for-a-girls'-name-that-you-can name for a girl.
Jordyn -- well, it's not as bad as Bailey, but it's unfeminine and ugly as well.
Mason ---- God I hate Mason. I just hate it so much. An example of a letter making a big difference, because I like Jason, although Jason was very overused and I am somewhat tired of it.
Chloe -- I don't hate it, but it's a little cloying. I think Zoe is much better, not that Zoe is now an original choice, either.
I'm with you on what people are naming their kids these days. At least 75% of the time, I think the names are awful, especially the girls' names. I suppose you can write it off, in my case, of my taste not changing with the times...maybe. But my taste actually has changed since I was young. I do like names I didn't back then, names such as Hazel and Mabel. I dunno. I am just so glad that my granddaughter is not going to be named something like Kinzley or Bailey or Mackenna or Riley or Addison. Yes, Lucy is popular, and Lucille is rising, but they are still in a different league than these monstrosities.
I don't have the words to describe how much I hate Bailey. It's bad for a boy and even worse for a girl. A friend of ours named her baby girl Bailey a couple of years ago. I am just dumbfounded. I cannot wrap my mind around why anyone thinks Bailey is in any way a good or nice or pretty or spiffy or beautiful or classy or think-of-any-positive -quality-for-a-girls'-name-that-you-can name for a girl.
Jordyn -- well, it's not as bad as Bailey, but it's unfeminine and ugly as well.
Mason ---- God I hate Mason. I just hate it so much. An example of a letter making a big difference, because I like Jason, although Jason was very overused and I am somewhat tired of it.
Chloe -- I don't hate it, but it's a little cloying. I think Zoe is much better, not that Zoe is now an original choice, either.
I'm with you on what people are naming their kids these days. At least 75% of the time, I think the names are awful, especially the girls' names. I suppose you can write it off, in my case, of my taste not changing with the times...maybe. But my taste actually has changed since I was young. I do like names I didn't back then, names such as Hazel and Mabel. I dunno. I am just so glad that my granddaughter is not going to be named something like Kinzley or Bailey or Mackenna or Riley or Addison. Yes, Lucy is popular, and Lucille is rising, but they are still in a different league than these monstrosities.
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Amen.
I don't mind Makenna, Jordyn, Chloe, or Mason. I can sort of understand why they would have appeal to some people. But, Bailey? For a girl? It would require a total disconnection from every association I can think of, as well as every unconscious association, with the name Bailey. It's like they're extraterrestrials. It reminds me of Ford Prefect in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...
This friend of his had first arrived on the planet Earth some fifteen Earth years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself into Earth society – with, it must be said, some success. ... He had made one careless blunder, though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name ‘Ford Prefect’ as being nicely inconspicuous
Amen.
I don't mind Makenna, Jordyn, Chloe, or Mason. I can sort of understand why they would have appeal to some people. But, Bailey? For a girl? It would require a total disconnection from every association I can think of, as well as every unconscious association, with the name Bailey. It's like they're extraterrestrials. It reminds me of Ford Prefect in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...
This friend of his had first arrived on the planet Earth some fifteen Earth years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself into Earth society – with, it must be said, some success. ... He had made one careless blunder, though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name ‘Ford Prefect’ as being nicely inconspicuous
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These names seem very dated, to me. The people using them are around my age, so I think they're sticking with names they heard and liked in the late 90's/early 00's, but aren't most of these on the way out? I wouldn't know, because I don't know popularity, and stuff. I could be wrong.
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Yes, they were/are all popular, and all except Mason look to be headed downward, although Chloe hasn't headed downward as much as the other three. So yes, they're boring, and except for Mason and Chloe, dated. I was addressing a different issue than you were --- even if they were never popular, I'd think them all, except Chloe, horrid.
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