[gumbo]

'Cody' strikes me as awful, and the excessive use of 'Madison' (pretentious?) of late is starting to get to me as well.

'Dylan.'

And 'Cody' and 'Madison' are vulgar and snotty at the same time.

Even worse: pretentious "unisex" names, such as Taylor/Tyler.

How many obnoxious little "Tylers" are running around these days? (Hope I haven't offended any FReepers with that comment, but jeez, what bad taste.)

[MotleyGirl70]

Dingle Norwood

[smorgle]

Worst for a girl: Nutritia

Worst with Terwilliger:
Willie/Millie/Billie
Wanda
Gertie
Chastity
Torvald
Birdie
Nellie
Lillith
Buster (as in 'She does that again, I'm gonna Buster Terwilliger!')
Caesar (see under 'Buster')
Tiger

"Best" all around: Snert

Once saw a guy in a phone book named Guido Cat. And it was on this very forum I learned that Johnnie Cochran's brother was named Ralonzo Phelectron. You wish I was making this up.

[Lauratealeaf]

My daughter (who is in college) has a friend who is named Keeley Minnie Minerva Maude Montgomery. No kidding! She says that her parents were arguing over which mother to name her after and just decided to name her after all of them (as well as a grandmother) When my husband and I were first expecting we loved thinking up outrageous names and had fun thinking up names that were after diseases. (don't ask me why we did, we just did) We thought Luke would be a cool nickname for Leukemia and Hodge for Hodgkins Disease. We also thought it would be cool to give each one of our children the middle name, "Duck". We thought that when the kids were out playing and we yelled for them to come inside the only ones who didn't duck would be our kids. Of course, my Mother-in-law took us seriously about those names and was horrified. We stuck to family names when it came time for naming our children. We had some nice names in the family. Don't name your kids after all the trendy names like Emma, Caitlyn, Matthew, etc. Be original. Or look in your family Bible to see if there are some good ones. My husband's grandmother was named "Era" and her twin sister was named, "Vera". Always thought those names were so odd. But, my own grandmother was annoyed by her name too. It was Hazel Alabama Whitmarsh Webster. She didn't like the "Alabama" but I did.

[ErnBatavia]

Well, out here in the Los Angeles basin, there are certain groups know to name their chirrens based on sightings, from either

1 - freeway offramps, such as "Etiwanda"

2 - the medicine cabinet, such as "Senokot"

[kingh99]

We have 10 kids on a flag football team and 2 are named Taylor and 2 Tyler. Not too common eh. My kids names are Sean and Nicholas. I know Nicholas is played but what can I say, my dad's nickname is Nick.

[moondoggie]

I have a niece on one side of the family named Jordan and a nephew on the other side named Jordan.

Forget the unisex names!

[albee]

"...And 'Cody' and 'Madison' are vulgar and snotty at the same time. Even worse: pretentious "unisex" names, such as Taylor/Tyler."

I have some good news and some bad news for you.

The bad news is I have two grandsons named (get ready) Cody and Taylor!

The good news is that I agree with you on the lousy choice of names.