Two come to mind immediately: Shane and Cody; maybe that’s mostly out here in the West. Another is Dylan, even heard of girls named Dylan.

when I worked and hired folks in the hood, there was a long list of names that basically no one had ever heard of

seems names were done sometimes by combining parts of 2-4 names,

did get an application from both a Special, and a Sparkle,



outside of that Hunter and Dallas are 2 that come to mind,

I named one of my sons Cody 43 years ago that name has been popular a long time. One I haven't heard up until three years ago is Huxley. There's a couple down the road from us at the lake who have two small kids a boy three and a girl five. Boy's name is Huxley and the girl Hazel.

My youngest son and his wife are pregnant and they are naming their boy Huxley. Watching a hockey game the other night and they were interviewing one of the players who just came back from missing several games because his wife had a baby. When asked how they were he said his wife did a wonderful job and little Huxley is just fine. So a name I never heard in 67 years of life is seemingly every where now.

Braden, Jaden, Hayden, Okayden, etc.

(Well, maybe not that last one... )

Basically, all of the various -aden or -ayden names exploded in popularity over the last decade or two.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
One I haven't heard up until three years ago is Huxley... So a name I never heard in 67 years of life is seemingly every where now.

Yeah, newly minted "-xley/-xton" names are becoming overwhelming popular these days too. Huxley, Brinxley, Jaxton, Paxton, Braxton, Daxton, etc.

I'm thinking -xton is the new -aden.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Two come to mind immediately: Shane and Cody; maybe that’s mostly out here in the West. Another is Dylan, even heard of girls named Dylan.

Man, you're out of date. Those names were the shit five years ago.

Names come in and out of fashion in waves. That has been going on a long time. We think the names we have are "normal," but remember that twenty years before we were born, our names weren't as common. My name is very common among men my age, but hasn't been very popular at all since the middle '70s.

What about first names that are never heard anymore? I think we could use a couple Shemps around here.

Deshawn, Kenisha, Daquan, Lebron, Barak.....

Emma. My grandmother born in 1885 and my granddaughter born in 2001.

Overused: Trevor, Chase, Dante, Kenya, Ryan, Noah, Austin, anything with an apostrophe in it.

Not too popular any more: Jennifer (overused in the 80's), Leslie (as a boy's name), Sidney, Charlotte, Gwendolyn, Uriah, Hezekiah, Eloise, Hazel, Silas, Oscar, Oliver, Mabel, Clementine, Beatrice, Caleb, Maisie, Remy, Ambrose, Hortense, not that these were ever that popular (except Jennifer, of course).

ETA: coming back to this thread after running into an old classmate at the grocery store. In my HS class there must have been half a dozen Margarets, most of them nicknamed Peggy (and some others Marge), few of them used their actual name. By the early 70's, you never heard this name any more. Coincidentally, this was about the time the term "pegging" started appearing on the back covers of certain video tapes, or maybe it just became unpopular. My friend still goes by Peggy.

ETA: my cousins Boyd and Wayne, I guess there are still a few Waynes around, but Boyd?

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I think it's an urban legend, but I was at a dinner party where a doctor told a story about a baby he delivered while working in the ER. Somewhere in there he had to explain to the new mother about meconium. I found this definition on the interwebs:
Meconium is a newborn's first poop. This sticky, thick, dark green poop is made up of cells, protein, fats, and intestinal secretions, like bile. Babies typically pass meconium (mih-KOH-nee-em) in the first few hours and days after birth. But some babies pass meconium while still in the womb during late pregnancy.

Anyway, as the story went on, the young african american mother named her child, yes, Meconium.

He swore it was true.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:

My youngest son and his wife are pregnant...

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Braden, Jaden, Hayden, Okayden, etc.

(Well, maybe not that last one... )

Basically, all of the various -aden or -ayden names exploded in popularity over the last decade or two.

Usually belonging to a single mom RN with a Karen hairdo claiming 'lil "-ayden" is her whole life.

Zoe

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Jaden, etc.

That name trend was the pornstar/stripper trickle down effect.

(wait, "pornstar trickle down effect" sounds pretty nasty. Eeewwww)



Just think of all the "Grandma Britney"s we will have in another 20 years or so.

“Dylan” is an Welsh name meaning son of the sea according to Wiki. Seems to have become popular after Bob Dylan became famous. Some sources said that Robert Zimmerman coined his stage name in honor of Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet born in 1914. Other sources say no.

My generation (Boomers) have revitalized the name. Popular culture seems to have some influence on baby names. I remember the name “Tammy” becoming popular after a movie containing that name and “Leah” after an Orbison song.

All the last names that would normally be boys' names attached to girls: Madison, Taylor, I'm sure you know lots more.

Happy that our daughter and her husband chose names of 1960's movie stars for their two daughters: Audrey and Natalie.

We named my boy, Grady. We had no clue that grandfather's best friend growing up and they remained friends into adulthood until his death, was also named Grady. We learned of this after we told my dad's side of the family the name we had decided on.

I guess it used to be kinda popular. Now, there is a kid in his all star baseball league named Grady, too.

What I call "little old lady" names are now popular again for girls, never saw any kid with them growing up, just elderly relatives:

Sophie
Edith
Rita
Beatrice
Grace
Sadie

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Originally posted by BennerP220:
We named my boy, Grady. …

Is his middle name Wilson?

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Originally posted by PASig:
What I call "little old lady" names are now popular again for girls, never saw any kid with them growing up, just elderly relatives:

Sophie
Edith
Rita
Beatrice
Grace
Sadie

This is the trend for girls now. Our granddaughter is Hazel Grace.

When my kids were born, about half the girls were named Caitlin (spelled about five ways) or Lindsay. I have nieces with each of those.

It is cyclic.