This naming convention is not as backward as it seems.
Choosing surnames as first names for newborns is an increasing trend among parents, according to experts in the baby’s name.
“Many surnames are so well placed in our culture of the first name that we don’t even think of them as surnames,” said the founder of Namerology Laura Wattenberg today.
“You can find examples along the generations.”
For example, she showed Milton and Irving, which were popular in the 1910s, or Warren and Wallace, which grew up in the 1930s. In the 1950s, Glenn, Stewart, Curtis and Wayne were trendy, and at the time the 1990s returned, Courtney, Taylor and Kelsey were all hits.
Today, surprises that have begun to become the first ordinary names include money, Davis, Everly, Quinn and Wells, while Wattenberg Monitors predict that they will eventually morph in the first names are Kingsley, Beck, Sterling and Slade.
“I expect parents to start exploring names with a softer style of return, like Montgomery, Shepard and Jennings,” she said. “Also look for more names with a syllable like Locke, Holt and Penn.”
She has also seen an increase in “Rock ‘N’ Roll” monikers, such as Jagger, Hendrix and Lennon.
“Some of the hottest styles of growing surnames today are the adjectives that end up in ‘like Collins, Brooks and Hayes,” Wattenberg continued.
“Also, names that end up with unusual letters like ‘W’, as in Harlow and Winslow, or ‘X’ Si, Lennox and Knox.”
Sophie Kihm, a baby’s name expert in Nameberry, recently predicted that Millennial and Gen X monitors are “trendy”.
“Ashley, Heather, Megan, Ellen – names that were familiar with this generation of mothers,” she explained. “For boys Clayton, Justin, Preston and Danny feel a little older.”
The change in naming trends comes as class schools arrive in the classroom with extremely unique monikers – much for the shagrous of some parents.
One redditor revealed a list of their children’s classmates, which included names like “Averiella”, “Lakendren”, “Raleigh”, “Keegan”, “Kohn” and “Paisyn”. Instead of not coming to the monitors, viewers were introduced as “criminals”.
“I feel like some of these pronunciations should be considered a crime,” one commenter said. “Maybe this is dramatic. Okay, a misdemeanor, but some of these are honest criminals. “
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