http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/30/whats-the-second-worst-baby-name-of-2012 Comments On: What's the Second-Worst Baby Name of 2012? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss always followed up with a 'u,' am I right?
Posted by MythicFox]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:43:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by nastynastya]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:08:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by nastynastya]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:59:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Justus]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:49:44 -0800 The Stranger
My older grandson has a rather uncommon Biblical name, Elijah. When he was born in 1996, that name was #81 -- last year it was #13 so maybe not so uncommon nowadays? Interestingly, he was named after his mom's much-loved great uncle, who was born in the 1920s. When the name Elijah was way down in the high 300s.

@ 62 - Olivia has had a huge rise in the past few years! It was #4 last year. Maybe we can thank Law & Order SVU? I remember taking driving lessons with an Olivia in the 1970s and I thought it was a neat, rather old-fashioned name. But she was the only one I ever met.

Hazel, another lovely name, is making a comeback too. But anyone my age or a little older who hears that name unfortuately thinks "Maid!"

Because it can't be said enough -- Madison = Blaaarrrghhhhhhhhhhhh!
Posted by The Wild Sow]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:08:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Amanda]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:35:22 -0800 The Stranger
People often ask me if Clayton is an old family name. Nope. My parents were watching television when Mom went into labor, so I was named after the actor who played The Lone Ranger.
Posted by Clayton]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:09:56 -0800 The Stranger
And for what it's worth, I knew at least one Braeden in the service some 20-odd years ago.
Posted by DonServo]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:08:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by bassplayerguy]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 09:32:02 -0800 The Stranger
As for the most discredited US President in history - Dubyah comes to mind.

A truly horrible baby name is Trig for a trisomy G child.
Posted by sissoucat]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:54:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ginnyj]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:20:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Corydon]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:35:55 -0800 The Stranger
@52 - In the last Anne of Green Gables book (set in the WW1 years), Anne's teenage daughter grouses about the name everyone has called her since she was a baby: Rilla, short for her middle name, Marilla. Rilla/Marilla are just so ridiculous and old fashioned, while she has a perfectly lovely, sensible first name that no one will use -- Bertha.

How tastes do change.
Posted by Chelydra_serpentina]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:47:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Whoop Di Doo]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:29:15 -0800 The Stranger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylar). People are naming their kids after the wife of Breaking Bad's Walter. Duh. BabyCenter is stupid.
Posted by idaho]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:43:12 -0800 The Stranger
Painful, but kind of awesome.
Posted by Dod]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:53:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Free Lunch]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:08:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Steven Bradford]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:21:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by randomitis]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:20:59 -0800 The Stranger
Hmmmm....I dunno. Sandra Day? Always made me think of Sandra Dee (♫ Lousy with Vir-gin-ity! ♪) Antonin? Looks like it's misspelled! Condoleezza? Also looks like a typo, and like it ought to rhyme with "pizza."


Posted by The Wild Sow]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:39:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by very bad homo]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:27:05 -0800 The Stranger
Cotton Mather....Increase Mather....Peregrine White....all real early Americans with real weird (to our ears!) names.

Names go through cycles. I was born in the 50s and I didn't have a single contemporary named Hannah, Sophia, Jacob, or God forbid, Ethan. Jacob & Hannah were our old great-aunties and uncles, very old-fashioned and out of style. Then in the 80s, a TV show called Thirtysomething had a little boy character called Ethan. I remember thinking "WTF, is he a Green Mountain Boy or does he sell furniture?!" But Goddamn if it didn't take off. I was flabbergasted when my peers and younger friends started naming their kids things like Sarah and Hannah and Jacob.

Oh well. I have 5 granddaughters, all of whom have very unusual "virtue" names (think Faith Hope and Charity, but less common!) and one grandson with an uncommon Biblical name. And then there's my other grandson...whose name is JOHN!

People are funny old things, aren't we?
Posted by The Wild Sow]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:23:31 -0800 The Stranger
@48 -- Could she have been named for Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist? Actually that might be even worse than the POTUS!

I named my oldest Megan -- fortunately, she was born in the early 1970s when the name was just barely beginning to move up the charts, so she's a "cutting-edge Megan" rather than a "jumped-on-the-bandwagon Megan"! Had I known her name would rise like it did, I might have chosen something different. But when she was born, I'd only ever run across that name twice, one a childhood acquaintance and the other a character on Dark Shadows!


Posted by The Wild Sow]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:03:02 -0800 The Stranger and "Reagan."

At least Reagan has a history as a real first name. Nixon, though? Is that for real? Are people naming their babies after modern America's biggest sweaty greasebag?
Posted by balderdash]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:56:24 -0800 The Stranger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBKE00zZ…

By the way, I voted for Nixon. WTF?
Posted by beatgrl]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:53:11 -0800 The Stranger