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PRgal

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Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys?  Personally, I don't think it does them any favours.  It's not really a name I can take seriously versus a Sarah or Katherine.  I went from Cindy to Cynthia for a reason - even if people from my background who live back in the old country might have more trouble pronouncing it.  Prime Minister Mackinsleigh Leung just doesn't have the same seriousness as Prime Minister Katherine Leung (though East Asians don't seem to go for the creative name thing as often.  You don't want to bring shame to the family).

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23 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Lol, selective indignation.

A recurring theme on Big Bang Theory was referencing women's periods. Usually  "ooh gross" kind of comments.  It was so ridiculous and I gritted my teeth every time this happened but I am going to assume the writers were reflecting the way a lot of adult men feel about it.  Bunch of overgrown middle schoolers.

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19 minutes ago, Dimity said:

A recurring theme on Big Bang Theory was referencing women's periods. Usually  "ooh gross" kind of comments.  It was so ridiculous and I gritted my teeth every time this happened but I am going to assume the writers were reflecting the way a lot of adult men feel about it.  Bunch of overgrown middle schoolers.

I am so over period jokes. They mock us for being grossed out for references about certain male bodily functions, but when it comes to something we have to deal with every month, they act like it’s nauseating.

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SoMuchTV

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4 hours ago, PRgal said:

Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys? 

I’m not sure if I’m seeing it’s more common in girls than in boys but I’m not sure it’s just recent. I have two daughters born in the 1990s and I remember in one of their yearbooks there were three girls’ photos in a row, each with a different spelling of “Ashley”. And I ran across a few  Jaysons and Bryces from that same generation. 

I am curious, though. I’m not familiar with any common name that’s creatively spelled “Makinsleigh”. 

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PRgal

PRgal

9 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

I’m not sure if I’m seeing it’s more common in girls than in boys but I’m not sure it’s just recent. I have two daughters born in the 1990s and I remember in one of their yearbooks there were three girls’ photos in a row, each with a different spelling of “Ashley”. And I ran across a few  Jaysons and Bryces from that same generation. 

I am curious, though. I’m not familiar with any common name that’s creatively spelled “Makinsleigh”. 

It's an exaggeration of a super-creative name.  There are one or two kids with weird names at my son's school, but not too many.  

meep.meep

meep.meep

5 hours ago, PRgal said:

Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys?  Personally, I don't think it does them any favours.  It's not really a name I can take seriously versus a Sarah or Katherine.  I went from Cindy to Cynthia for a reason - even if people from my background who live back in the old country might have more trouble pronouncing it.  Prime Minister Mackinsleigh Leung just doesn't have the same seriousness as Prime Minister Katherine Leung (though East Asians don't seem to go for the creative name thing as often.  You don't want to bring shame to the family).

On reddit it's called a Trajedeigh

Apparently expectant parents are now into coming up with the most unique spelling possible for their bundles of joy.  Lots of extra letters, lots of silent letters, and apostrophes.

Think Wrestlyn  or Allija or J'Zaelyn or whatever Musk named his kids.

I'm thankful to not be a kindergarten teacher.  They do post the best ones.

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PRgal

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32 minutes ago, Absolom said:

We should be getting COVID kids in TK this fall.  

In Ontario, the 2020 babies started JK (Junior Kindergarten) last fall.  They're going into SK this year.  Cut off is by calendar year here.  The kids MOST affected by the pandemic are those born between 2017-2019 - they spent their most formative years, the years they should be learning how to interact with peers in playgroups/caregiver/child groups in isolation.  Kids like my son (he was about 1 1/2 when the lockdown started, had ZERO in-person interaction with other kids and was diagnosed as "expressively delayed" because he was barely speaking at 2 1/2.  He didn't even know HOW to play with other kids when he started preschool).  

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Absolom

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1 hour ago, PRgal said:

n Ontario, the 2020 babies started JK (Junior Kindergarten) last fall.  They're going into SK this year.  Cut off is by calendar year here.  The kids MOST affected by the pandemic are those born between 2017-2019 - they spent their most formative years, the years they should be learning how to interact with peers in playgroups/caregiver/child groups in isolation.  Kids like my son (he was about 1 1/2 when the lockdown started, had ZERO in-person interaction with other kids and was diagnosed as "expressively delayed" because he was barely speaking at 2 1/2.  He didn't even know HOW to play with other kids when he started preschool). 

The prior poster was talking about COVID names like Covidia or Purelle not the affect on the children.  That's why kids wouldn't have been born until fall or later that had been conceived just before or early in COVID where people might think of those names.  Many if not most US schools have the cut off around September 1.  So children born after 9/1/2000 would have been in TK or transitional kindergarten this last year and will begin kindergarten this fall.  

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Mountainair

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On 6/7/2025 at 8:22 AM, chitowngirl said:

I work in a school district and you would not believe some of name spellings I run across. I sometimes have to pronounce them out loud to myself and realize it’s just a cr8tive spelling of a common name. And I never can assume gender based on a name. 

Today we had our Kindergarten assessments for the rising Kindergartners. I personally didn’t come across anything too outlandish but there was a Boris and an Emelia as opposed to the more common place Amelia. I will say that I don’t live in a very racially diverse area. I do however live in an area that a lot of parents allow their children to pick their own names and gender identity instead of assigning one at birth so that can be tricky at times. One Kindergarten teacher had a student who chose to name themselves Skywalker.

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StatisticalOutlier

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13 hours ago, Mountainair said:

I do however live in an area that a lot of parents allow their children to pick their own names and gender identity instead of assigning one at birth

I have to admit that when I was a week old, I was pretty clueless so I'm glad my parents stepped in.

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Annber03

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I probably would've picked, like, Penny or Lydia or something, 'cause hey, names of characters from cartoons I liked!

I did get to pick my sister's name, though - my mom had one name she liked and my dad had another and I was the deciding vote. I went with the one my dad wanted. The name itself is a nice name...but unbeknownst to little kid me at the time, it also wound up being one of THE most popular girls' names at the time, so my sister wound up going to school with a ton of other girls who had the same first name as her :p. 

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Dimity

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18 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

I did get to pick my sister's name, though - my mom had one name she liked and my dad had another and I was the deciding vote.

I was going to say how brave of your parents but the deciding vote isn't a bad idea.  Now letting a little kid actually name their sibling?  I recall when my sister had her daughter she asked her son what name he liked, the answer was "Gollum".  Needless to say....

 

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Bastet

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Just now, meep.meep said:

Didn't Peekaboo Street, the Olympic skier, get to name herself?

Picabo, and some articles say she chose it while others say her parents did (she didn't have a name until she needed a passport at two years old, and Picabo was chosen from the name of a nearby town).  One article that says her parents chose it - which seems more likely at two - also says she was told several years later she could change it if she didn't like it, but she kept it.

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Anela

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I don't know what I would have chosen. I like my name. I was almost a Belinda, or something like that. That wasn't my choice. 

My sister's name is Christa, and I called her Cruthta, until I could pronounce her name properly. She called me Angie Na, or AngNa. My dad was once trying to help her to say my name correctly, and she wasn't saying a word. As soon as he got up to leave for work, she said something to me, and called me AngeNA. That still makes him laugh.

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Dimity

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28 minutes ago, Quof said:

How do you refer to, or call, your child in the years they don't have a name because they can't speak in order to choose one? 

"This is my child, No Name"?

"Come here, You, it's time for your bath?"   

I guess you could just say "sweetie" or "baby" or some other term of endearment (or something  a little less kind if you come across them writing on the wall) but I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this notion of not giving your child a name probably ends with the first child.  Can you imagine  3 or 4 children running around the house and it's "Hey you, come over here, you know who I mean, yes you".  Madness!

 

4 minutes ago, Anela said:

I was almost a Belinda, or something like that. That wasn't my choice. 

My mother wanted to call me Joan Lorraine.  Have I mentioned she was Catholic?  The name they went with though was one of the most popular girls names the year I was born.  So school was fun.

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Annber03

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2 hours ago, Dimity said:

I was going to say how brave of your parents but the deciding vote isn't a bad idea.  Now letting a little kid actually name their sibling?  I recall when my sister had her daughter she asked her son what name he liked, the answer was "Gollum".  Needless to say....

LOL, oh, dear :p. 

But yeah, very glad they didn't ask me to just pick a name all on my own, that could've certainly gotten interesting :p. Though, then again, considering the names I mentioned that I would've picked for myself, I dunno, maybe I'd have picked a good one. I still would pick the name Lydia for myself if I ever had any reason to change my name. I've just always thought that was a rcool name :). 

Mollywolly555

Mollywolly555

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My sister Janine goes by J9 or Neener or Neenee which is what we called her when she was little.

I was a teacher and had an Annakin. Orion, Odin, Ariadne. etc...  Annakin asked me to go by his middle name....Def did not like it as he was a boy in middle school way last the film's popularity from his mom's generation.  

I do like unusual names or a trend now towards old fashioned names like Estelle, Lois, Lillian and Pearl. I picture little old ladies on a playground. 

There a a DJ that goes by A-A-Ron... love that skit of substitute teacher pronouncing kids'names by Key and Peele! 

My.mom and aunt's names were heavily East Euro so they anglicized them ... without legal means, but  back then it was not a big deal especially if you stay in your provincial area of town.

My family calls me an ethnic nickname from childhood,  although I was named after a grandmother, and I anglicized it later for simplification.  I answer to them all. 

I chose Elizabeth as my Confirmation name. My mom said she considered it for my birth name but thought it wd smack of the sexually- charged image Elizabeth Taylor. Now I love the name Bethany. 

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Annber03

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Apparently my name hit its height of popularity in the early '70s, so had I been born sooner, I probably would've also gone to school with a lot of girls with my name. As it was, there were a couple other girls in my school who did share my name, but that was about it. And most people called (and still call) me by the popular nickname for my full name anyway, so...

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Dimity

Dimity

9 minutes ago, Mollywolly555 said:

I do like unusual names or a trend now towards old fashioned names like Estelle, Lois, Lillian and Pearl. I picture little old ladies on a playground. 

I remember when the 'medieval occupations' names were trending - Cooper, Taylor, Tanner, Sawyer and probably others I'm not remembering.  I think this coincided with the trend to using last names as first names and using names that are gender neutral.

I love the idea of little old ladies on a playground!  So many of the names for girls now are the names from my great grandmother's generation that were rarely used by the time my generation was having children.

I predict in another 20 years or so we'll have a kindergarten class populated with Debbie's, Linda's, Susan's and Sharon's!

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SoMuchTV

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12 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I predict in another 20 years or so we'll have a kindergarten class populated with Debbie's, Linda's, Susan's and Sharon's!

I was just looking at some pictures my daughter posted on Facebook of a get together with her friends and their kids (mostly girls).  The girls all had either “new” names (I won’t out my granddaughter) or “old” names like Naomi, Cordelia, Isabel). So I’m guessing the generation after the Linda’s and Susan’s will be having the Emily’s and Lauren’s and Jenna’s. 

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Anela

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53 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

Apparently my name hit its height of popularity in the early '70s, so had I been born sooner, I probably would've also gone to school with a lot of girls with my name. As it was, there were a couple other girls in my school who did share my name, but that was about it. And most people called (and still call) me by the popular nickname for my full name anyway, so...

Mine was popular then, and I was born in the 70s, but I hardly ever met anyone with my name. I met one girl, in the last school I attended in England, and she approached me, and shook my hand, because it was so rare to find other girls with our name. 

I wonder if it was more popular over here, than England. 

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EtheltoTillie

EtheltoTillie

6 hours ago, Absolom said:

I've seen birth certificates with "Baby Boy Smith."

Yes, and I had a client with this problem. We had to file with NYC to change it when he was in his 40s so he could get ID. He’d never had a driver’s license and somehow managed to get by without ID in years when it was more possible.  

We had to produce baptismal records. 

Don’t do this to your kid!  

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tearknee

tearknee

12 hours ago, Annber03 said:

I probably would've picked, like, Penny or Lydia or something, 'cause hey, names of characters from cartoons I liked!

I did get to pick my sister's name, though - my mom had one name she liked and my dad had another and I was the deciding vote. I went with the one my dad wanted. The name itself is a nice name...but unbeknownst to little kid me at the time, it also wound up being one of THE most popular girls' names at the time, so my sister wound up going to school with a ton of other girls who had the same first name as her :p. 

I'd rather be Kayla than Gertrude.

(I'm a

Spoiler

Jennifer

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anony.miss

anony.miss

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7 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

 

But I had a friend in high school whose confirmation name was Veronica--yep, from the Archie comics.

Veronica is also a saint - it's said that she dried Jesus' forehead with her veil when he was carrying the cross.

~not to be confused with St Jughead & the sacred hamburger.

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Mollywolly555

Mollywolly555

My best friend Stephanie's mom was Gertrude, but she went by Trudy. She was lively and or suited her. 

Kathy's, Sharon's, Susan's, Linda's,... yep my 8th grade class, and Carol, Debbie, Mary Kay, Mary Ann, Rita, etc.

My sister's best friend was Marie Antoinette and her sister was Mona Lisa. True.  They were Hispanic and are still friends today.

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Mollywolly555

Mollywolly555

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Angie Baby!

Angie Dickinson!

I love the name Angela. 

When we were naming our son,I definitely wanted names that wd not have a nick name, because what wd be the point, then? 

People do like to alter/shorten or familiarize formal names, for whatever reason.

There a woman I know who legally changed her name to "You" , because she believed spiritually that we are all one and the golden rule, "Treat your neighbor as yourself. "

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PRgal

PRgal

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1 hour ago, Annber03 said:

I knew a crapton of girls named Sara/Sarah when I was in school. 

That was definitely a popular name at my school, too. As was Jessica. 

  Reveal spoiler

My name is Angela. 

 

Were there a lot of Jewish kids at your school?  Sara(h) and Deborah/Debbie were common, whether observant or not.  Hong Kong immigrant families liked Karen just as much as they liked Jennifer (which was common across the board).  

 

ETA:  This whole name thing should probably be moved to the regular Chit-Chat board.

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