Posted on 11/22/2011 12:29:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve always been fascinated by name trends. It’s interesting to see how certain names ebb and flow in popularity.
The name game is tough to win. If you hop on a trend, it could be cool for the first few years but, chances are, that name is going to feel dated when your child is reaching adulthood. That’s why I’ve always passed over fads for classic names. However, when naming my son a classic name I inadvertently hopped aboard a Hollywood trend. A twofer! Rare!
If you’re looking ahead to 2012 wondering what names are going to be all the rage, look no further. The creator of nameberry.com, Pamela Redmond Satran tells Huffington Post what the hottest trends for 2012 will be.
1. Combining Favorite Names. Most parents try to avoid super popular names. That can be tough when the great names surge up the list and your left between picking a name you love and having your daughter be one of four Avas in her class. The new trend, altering popular names slightly. As Satran says “Number 1 girls’ name Isabella gives rise to stylistically-related choices Arabella and Annabelle; Olivia, the top name in Britain, spawns spelling variation Alivia; Emma and Emily promote brother name Emmett.”
2. A slew of parents are looking to the animal kingdom to give their kids fearsome names. “Bear, Fox, Wolf, Lynx and a range of names from Leo to Lionel that mean lion, and then there are the perhaps-even-fiercer names like Breaker, Ranger, and Wilder.”
3. Sweet vintage names make a comeback. Especially names ending in ie. For example: Lottie and Hattie, Addie, Nettie and Nellie.
4. Modern hero surnames. Satran says Mariah Carey nailed it when she named her daughter Monroe, to honor her heroine, Marilyn Monroe. Other examples of surnames or heros in movies, life and literature used as first names: “Landry (as in football coach Tom), Gatsby (as in fictional hero The Great), and Palin (yes, as in her).”
5. 2012 will be the year of M names, Satran predicts. Examples: “Maeve, Magdalena, Maisie, Marguerite, Marlo/Marlowe, May, Mila, Millie, and Minnie, and for boys, Magnus, Micah, Miller, Milo, Montgomery, Moses and MONICA!
I’m naming my baby “Hurricane.”
I'm torn between June-Bug, Jamal, and Mohammed.
Reminds me of that old Da Niece joke. (Girl named by her uncle).
Chlamydia Champagne....and her sister Etiwanda, of course.
Then they got around to Madison's brother....."Oregon! Oregon!"
I always wanted to name a daughter Cosmoline.
Saw a LATRINA the other day in the arrests and warrants section of the newspaper.
Don’t like it. Sounds too much like latrine.
I keep leaving out the "r" in her last name as I read it.
and then there are the perhaps-even-fiercer more retarded names like Breaker, Ranger, and Wilder.”
Strange ... there were not many names containing ‘kk’ or ending in ‘qua’. Whz up wit dat? :)
Bex ping.
I saw a cashier once with a name tag that said Vendetta.
My dad worked at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in the 60s & 70s. There was a woman who gave birth there. She liked the sound of one of the words she heard during her delivery and decided to use it as her daughter’s name. Her daughter was named Placenta.
Think he would ever waste a dad who named him Entropy? I would.
I remember a sergeant in the Air Force many years ago whose last name was King. His first name was Nosmo
My given name and surname are both either first or last names. When a clerk thinks my name is the reverse of what it is he invariably spells both names right. When he gets the order wrong he spells at least one of them wrong and usually both.
Hahah...poor kid with that one!
I was volunteering in a local middle school, and here are some names of a few girls:
Misdermeanor (Yes, that is how it was spelled) I wanted to ask if she had a sister named Felony or Fellonee.
Teaquila (clever spelling/sarc)
Promise Favors (I think the person(s) who named their baby daughter that should be beaten to a pulp—idiots.)
Those were just a few gems that caught my attention. OF course there were numerous Ahmeds and Mohammeds—I even saw one Barack—many Muslim sounding names from both boys and hijab-wearing girls. Surprise, surprise.
4. Modern hero surnames. Satran says Mariah Carey nailed it when she named her daughter Monroe, to honor her heroine, Marilyn Monroe. Other examples of surnames or heros in movies, life and literature used as first names: “Landry (as in football coach Tom), Gatsby (as in fictional hero The Great), and Palin (yes, as in her).”
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Friend of mine had a boy 2 years ago. Named him Ripken. As in Cal.
Goes by Rippy.
(I’ve been nice. I’ve never spoke my mind on THAT.)
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