This is not a new rant—I posted back in 2006 (Are they serious?) about the same thing.
So this new list of names are mostly from the birthday lists at Owen’s daycare/preschool (the entire county-wide system, not just his location or his class) over the past few weeks.
Just. Wow.
Alishea
Alysa
Aniya
Aria
Ayanna
Brazille
Caden
Dereona
DeSean
Enyla
Eriyanna
Ja’Rie
Jaina
Janessa
JaQuan
Jariandelyz (SERIOUSLY?!)
Javion
Jayda
Jaylen
Jayley
Jazlynn
Jecouri
Jesson
Kialanie
Kionna
Kyari
Lamya
Mai Anh (turns out this is a common Asian name)
McKarley
Micalle
Nijayia
Nitrel
Quashaun
Shauniya
Skyla
Sonyta
Syesha
Taleyah
Talinn
Tamein
Za’Riah
Zi Asia
Zy’nyia
And these are almost (ALMOST) worse to me:
Haleigh
Benjamen
Caiden
Kayden
Dakoda
Heaven
Nevaeh
Auriyanah
Now, while some of those may be perfectly legit ethnic names, others (I’m looking at you, Jariandelyz!) are just people being silly. I know to each their own and I shouldn’t care but I kinda do. I guess I’m just not that kind of person (hence Owen and Katie).