I never knew anyone named Aiden. Now I hear it often. I only hope they have a twin brother named Abetting.

No, he has my name as his middle. I did have to google Grady Wilson

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

Is his middle name Wilson?

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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).

You forgot Gladys, Madge, and Shirley.

I have a good friend who's 34 named Gretchen. An uncommon name for her age group. I like it.

My wife is a part time artist, but I think she could make a life of it named our 2 daughters Caren and Kacey. Her mother's name was Karen.

A friend of mine named their son Grayson.
No idea why.

Dweezil and Moon Unit

I used to live in Nebraska. In the old farm / ranch areas you will hear: Earl, Otis, Milo, Murl(Merle) & Edgar.

My granddad's name is Homer. I don't think I know or have heard of another one...in real life.

Sean.

I think they were naming their kids after Sean Connery.

Yep, Homer is heard quite often. Good call.

Mohammed

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
A friend of mine named their son Grayson.
No idea why.

One of my son's has a friend named Grayson, never thought it was weird or anything???

2 years ago I was looking at the class roster for one of my sons. I noticed none of the kids in his class had the same name as kids in my classes when I was growing up. We had tons of Mark, Marc, Kevin, Darren, Bob, James, etc...

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that when naming a child you don't want it to associate your child's name with people you knew growing up. My 2 sons have names that I never knew anyone growing up...Logan and Cole. I had to veto a few names my wife came up with because it was the same as someone I knew growing up. I think she vetoed some of my suggestions for the same reason.

Volodymyr

Liam

I never heard it at all growing up, ever, now it's everywhere.

My nephew named a kid Liam... supposedly after my dad William. WTF. Just name him William if you REALLY want to name him after his Great Granddad. They pronounce his name roughly as Lee-Am, Leem or Limb.

Folks around here pronounce William Will-Yum around here... I calling the kid "Yum"

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Liam

I never heard it at all growing up, ever, now it's everywhere.

My nephew named a kid Liam... supposedly after my dad William. WTF. Just name him William if you REALLY want to name him after his Great Granddad. They pronounce his name roughly as Lee-Am, Leem or Limb.

Folks around here pronounce William Will-Yum around here... I calling the kid "Yum"

My brother's grandson is 4th generation William, and goes by Liam. He just had my brother's second great grandchild. He's a fourth, middle name Fortune.

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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.

Indeed. Our granddaughter (10 mo. old) is named Gwen. Haven't heard of a Gwen in quite a while.

Chumley,Archibald,Beuaraguard and Beulah.

My mothers name was Verna. Her sister was named Leona.

My daughter named her new baby (my grandaughter I might point out)...Davy.

I like it. Go figure.

You still don't see a lot of Adolphs these days.

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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.

Yeah, but that wasn’t the point, I just said “names you never heard growing up, but hear commonly now.” My first GSD when I was young and single, I named Cody. I recall a guy I worked with had a pregnant wife and when he heard my dog’s name, said he’d never heard the name before and thought he’d like to name his son Cody. That was a long time ago. Boys named Cody all over now, not necessarily newborns.