it really irks me when people get on this board and tell people that they shouldn’t name their children unique/modern names. Their argument is that when they get older, their “cute” name won’t make any sense. I get what they are saying, and I respect their opinions, but this is the way it is, people!!

And because it is the way it is, all those who don’t think it should be will be ordered on to trucks and shipped to labor camps until they decide to name their kids Mykynzy.

Look at the paper once and see the birth annoucements, they are all newer names. Go to a kindergarten class and look at the attendance sheet, they are all newer names also. Face it, times are changing.

You vill like zee stupid names! Old names are counter-revolutionary!

I lived in a world where there were a million Josh’s, Matt’s and David’s. Now there are a million Kayla’s, Samantha’s and Brittany’s.
Pretty soon, there are going to be a million Brayden’s, Jordan’s, and Madison’s. Don’t worry about your child growing up to be a Grandma MacKenzie, because that is going to be a normal name for her generation. Just like we have Grandma Mildred’s and Grandpa Frank’s, whose names have gone out years and years ago.

Yeah, well I lived in a world where plurals aren’t spelled with apostrophes. “Comrade’s! To give your kid’s normal name’s is against the teaching’s of our fearless leader! You will change your way’s and have lots of kid’s with pretentious name’s!”

Meanwhile, this staunch advocate of doofy names has gone and unravelled the primary pro-doofy name argument: Unique names make kids unique. Over and over I’ve read people complaining they don’t want their kid to be Jenny W. or Kevin P. at school, when all they’ve done is set up their kids to be the even more silly Braden J. or Brooklynn M. Damn you, irony!