![]() 06/30/2019 at 18:34 • Filed to: Baby names, Names, Name | ![]() | ![]() |
From this month’s Consumer Reports
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Interesting on “Kia”.
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You aint seen nothin yet
![]() 06/30/2019 at 18:50 |
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Hey, more interesting than the gazillion *aiden/*ayden/*aydyn/*aidin/*last name as first name etc given these days by feckless idiot moms and dronedads.
But I bet the Bentleys and Teslas especially will grow up to be punchable adults.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 19:03 |
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My sister has one of those names.
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“It's Brandi. With the traditional spelling."
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And her sister, Mysti.
Or make it a curveball, Brandi is a boy.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 19:32 |
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A cousin of mine I don’t see often has (had?) dogs called Austin and Healy. Didn’t even think he’s really old enough to know what they are.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 19:34 |
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T ypically, Kia as a name comes from the African root and doesn’t reference the automaker. Similar situation as the name Aston. All the rest are 100% for the brands.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 20:08 |
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Is Donkervoort a boy name or a girl name?
![]() 06/30/2019 at 20:09 |
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Yes
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It’s Koenigsegg, isn’t it?
![]() 06/30/2019 at 20:14 |
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I still would prefer Bentley and Tesla to the pseudo-country hick names being used by white northeast suburban parents. Fuck them and their Coltons, Gavins, Wyatts, and Elis.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 20:19 |
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That moronicity is common in the PNW as well, maybe second to the “aiden” family.
Not sure what inspires these names, I suspect the hover/bulldozer parents think they are “strong ” or some such bullshit.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 20:24 |
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I’m pretty sure some of those have been used as given names for a long time, but most of those brands have been around long enough that it’s hard to say which came first without doing research .
I think I prefer these over the Game of Thrones names that have been popping up in the past few years. “Well, little Cersei , you were named after a woman I saw on TV who ba - uhh, you know, never mind .”
![]() 06/30/2019 at 21:06 |
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I found jaxsyn on those mugs at a gift shop, but can’t find my own (traditional) name. At this rate I’ll find Smob before I find my real name.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 22:03 |
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Ugh. So true.
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Wouldn't surprise me a bit for Brandi to be a boy.
![]() 06/30/2019 at 23:35 |
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I wonder how Chevy Chase feels about that list
![]() 07/01/2019 at 08:43 |
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*scratches out Minivan on my list of kid’s names*
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I went to school with two sisters called Porsche and Mercedes
![]() 07/02/2019 at 15:52 |
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The thing that drives me the craziest in the use of boy names on girls. I mean, I can’t stand the ones you listed, but the gender switching drives me up the wall. There’s a reason people use these ridiculously masculine names for boys; if you don’t, they’ll be teased for their “girl name” by the time they’re old enough to start kindergarten. My brother suffered it in the late-80s to early-90s after some stupid TV show gender-switched his name for a character and the idiots picked it up, to the point that today it’s very rarely given to boys at all.
![]() 07/02/2019 at 16:19 |
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I don’t hate Bentley as a name. You could always go by Ben haha
![]() 07/02/2019 at 17:16 |
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I think there’s a large expanse of names between names that don’t fit with gender expectations and might generate teasing , and hyperconforming names that seem to guarantee a medusamom and bulldozerdad pressuring a kid until they become burnt out at their given sport or activity and then continue the abusive parent tradition as adults.
![]() 07/03/2019 at 13:19 |
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I came across one of those names today, and the last name was Carr. So... pick one, it doesn’t matter. WTF