Name & Shame: 2009’s Most Popular Baby Names
The most popular baby names of 2009 have been announced in the US, with many celebrities names increasing in popularity: shock horror!
Rihanna, for a girl – although I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of a boy rom the dirty south (or Basildon) being named that; and Jude – after the wiry dullard actor Jude Law – for a boy, are two popular baby names for 2009 and to be fair, these are two of the more normal names adopted by parents that are old enough to know better than to name their newborn after a celebrity!
I blame the Beckham’s with their fancy baby names; firstly Brooklyn, classily named after the city in which he was conceived; then came Romeo; followed by Cruz. The poor lil’ tykes.
Lets Talk More believe that this again exemplifies the triteness of people today: why choose baby names that are popular?
I wouldn’t want my siblings to share the same name as three or four others in their class or workplace (I should know given my christian name), yet at the same time, ‘unique’ names, are normally unique for a reason: because normal people don’t want to burden their child with a name that will lead them to instantly be perceived as a twat.
A guy who I once worked with was named ‘Michael’; a perfectly normal, popular name that surely couldn’t cause any man to be made fun of, unless of course his surname was… ‘Michael’. It was. I blame the parents!
