In 2017, 91 Babies Were Named Camreigh (Camry)

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 05/29/2018 at 16:59 • Filed to: None

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“The biggest new name is Camreigh, which was given to 91 babies last year, even though it didn’t show up at all in 2016. Camreigh follows the increasingly common practice to replace hard “e” sounds with the “eigh” cluster, as in Ashley/Ashleigh and Riley/Ryleigh. The traditional spelling, “Camry,” has been around for a while, with 113 baby Camrys born in 1997.”

394,397 Camrys were sold in the U.S. in ‘97.

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Also this: “Finally there is Cersei. You read that right: 11 fresh-faced, sinless babies were named after the manipulative, power-hungry, incestuous, helicopter parent-y, backstabbing character from Game of Thrones.”

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:09

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I’m 100% pro giant asteroid these days.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:12

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Alfalfa > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:12

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I shit you not, I was working on the Bronco in the driveway just this weekend and overheard the neighbor’s grandkids playing and one of them was named Camry. I heard that name called multiple times.

Not sure on the spelling, of course.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:13

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eh.... my kids named after/from an anime...... i probably cant judge

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:16

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His Stigness > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:19

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My sister has two toddlers, and two kids in their classes have wonderful names. One is Thor, and the other is Loki. And Thor’s middle name is from some character from WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!!!

My sister went on a tirade because his middle name is not even from the same universe.

But seriously, Thor and fucking Loki.

Under_Score > His Stigness 05/29/2018 at 17:21

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The dads probably wear fedoras.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:24

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Camreigh is amateur stuff. This guy is legendary when it comes to automotive inspired names:

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/02/06/man-named-shelby-mustang-gt500-arrested-for-driving-without-license.html

interstate366, now In The Industry > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:31

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And like their namesakes, they’ll grow up to be basic.

boredalways > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:35

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I feel sorry for these kids when they make it to 5th grade, the traditional grade when sex ed is taught for the first time...

...”Grounded to the Ground” will never be the same.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > His Stigness 05/29/2018 at 17:36

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Haha! My little brother has a good friend named Thor (he’s a really good/fun guy) - he’s almost 35.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Alfalfa 05/29/2018 at 17:37

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When we have cars that will come when they’re called, this is going to get really interesting...

jimz > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:40

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Hello, I’m Arthur Dehnte, and this is my daughter Camreigh.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/29/2018 at 17:41

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We’re trying to find a unique name and every list is full of:

Names that are far from unique.

Names that are terrible.

Pure, unadulterated, garbage.

This is the worst part of this whole having children thing. I don’t know how this will all shake out, but I’ve been trying to keep everyone from getting into the naming discussion until the gender is known.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/29/2018 at 17:41

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I mean, at least that’s actually unique. If you give a kid the same name as a car that’s sold A BILLION (okay, ten million) copies, no one’s not going to think of the car when they hear the name.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > jimz 05/29/2018 at 17:43

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COTD

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:44

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lol..we named her lain

we’ve not met another yet

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:46

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Why can’t parents give their kids a name that they don’t have to spell out every time they tell it to someone?

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > jimz 05/29/2018 at 17:46

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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 17:47

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My wife and I often talk about names for possible dogs/kids. I kinda like the idea of a car related name, but maybe for a dog instead of a kid.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > jimz 05/29/2018 at 17:53

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If this is actually your last name...

Urambo Tauro > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 18:05

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It’s always a fucking Camreigh

fhrblig > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 18:09

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So if the normies are naming their kids after beigemobiles, does that mean hipsters will go for the more obscure car names?

“This is our daughter Datsun 310GX and our son Quantum.”

fhrblig > jimz 05/29/2018 at 18:14

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Actually, his daughter’s name is Random, so Camreigh would maybe be her middle name?

Random Camreigh Dent

OMG IT CHECKS OUT

gin-san - shitpost specialist > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 18:35

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replace hard “e” sounds with the “eigh” cluster, as in Ashley/Ashleigh and Riley/Ryleigh

I didn’t realize you had to pronounce these differently; it sounds like I’m having a stroke halfway through the name if I try to pronounce it the way it’s spelled.

On that note, here’s a bunch more stupid names:

Ferrareigh

Lamborghineigh

Suzukeigh

Keigha

Hyundeigh (having a stroke partway through this name would result in you actually pronouncing Hyundai correctly)

Infiniteigh

Lexus Leighxus

I guess you could get away with Portia.

My head hurts, I’m going to stop now.

ranwhenparked > fhrblig 05/29/2018 at 19:01

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No, hipsters are so far beyond all current trends that they’ve gone full circle and are naming their kids even wackier things like James and Sarah.

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/29/2018 at 19:20

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There is a colleague with a son called Torran and a daughter called Autumn (I suppose the ‘Merkins would call her Fall or The Fall).

wafflesnfalafel > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 21:22

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I thought that “name your kid after a car” thing was a reference to the location of conception.

for Michigan > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/29/2018 at 23:10

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Respect my authoriteigh.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/29/2018 at 23:15

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After the car museum? Nice. =)

Lain is a very pretty name.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/29/2018 at 23:20

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“Normal”, old, regular names are now unique. That’s what we went with, and they’ll never have to tell anyone how to spell their name...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/29/2018 at 23:20

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Haha!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 05/29/2018 at 23:23

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This!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ranwhenparked 05/29/2018 at 23:25

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Haha! My youngest is James.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/30/2018 at 01:18

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Examples?

I’ve looked at many in my family tree over the last 4 centuries, but there are a surprising number of repeated names. Like generations on end with at least two of the following: Richard, William, Thomas, James, Jesse & John. Oddly, some very common ones are missing or rare. More recent generations have a much wider variety of names.

Males outnumber females in my male line quite dramatically (in just the last 8 generations (prior are incomplete) the ratios are: 4:1 (current), 3:1, 4:1, 4:1, 3:1, 7:6 (outlier, may not include children that didn’t survive), 3:1, & 3:0), so I’m stressing that as well because she is so sure she’ll have a girl that she’s only thinking of names for girls. I keep telling her that she’ll be a unicorn if she gets a girl first (hasn’t happened in 5 generations, so there might be something wrong with males in my family). A girl was such a surprise for my parents when my last sibling was born that she ended up named after my dad and my mom’s sister because they hadn’t even considered any names for girls.

I’m currently thinking Malcolm Eòghan for a boy, if my wife doesn’t reject it. If the improbable happens and it’s a girl, it could be quite a project to get her to reconsider Lilliana. The only thing we agree on yet with a girl is that we’re hoping to solidify a pattern of using a matrilineal middle name (my wife’s middle name is the maiden surname of her maternal great grandmother, so it’s already matrilineal with the exception of her mother) to track mitochondrial lineage like surnames follow the Y chromosome for males.

dannyzabolotny > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/30/2018 at 01:51

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And that’s why I plan to give my kid a Viking name...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > dannyzabolotny 05/30/2018 at 08:57

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Bjørn Danielsson?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/30/2018 at 09:23

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My daughter’s name is Rachel. It was the 21st most popular girl’s name in the U.S. in 2000. It was the 195th most popular girl’s name in 2017.

Some “normal” boys names (William, James, Benjamin) never fall out of use (2017 numbers below):

This is a good tool: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

Malcolm is a good, strong name, plenty unique, but one that’s know enough that he won’t have to repeat or spell his name to everyone he meets. Lilliana is pretty, and easily shortened to Lilly, Lil, or even Ana.

We gave my eldest son my wife’s maiden name as a middle name (her brother isn’t going to have kids - that branch of the surname will end with him, so we wanted to carry the family name forward), and it worked out that his initials are the same as my dad’s.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/30/2018 at 18:07

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The problems I have with Lilliana is that it will always be misspelled due to repeated letters, multiple spellings, and Liliana was 109th most popular in 2017 (and rising in popularity), which means there’s a fairly high chance that her name would not be unique among her classmates at school. Based on my experience with my painfully common name (my spelling was 21st, but if you combined other spellings it was 15th in the country and 14th in the state where I grew up), I want something that’s hard to misspell, doesn’t require qualification (like my “c”), and that unique enough that it’s improbable they’ll be a duplicate within any class/group (mine was regularly not unique, but at least it wasn’t as bad as all the Jessicas, Jennifers, Amandas, Ashleys, and Sarahs had it).

It’s a good plan, but it will probably not get passed beyond that. My wife will probably be the end of the line for her maternal line, sadly.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/30/2018 at 23:15

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So many Jessicas and Jennifers...