NAMES TEACHERS WOULD NOT NAME THEIR OWN CHILDREN

School teachers are on the front lines of naming trends for children. Huffington Post asked teachers what names they would NOT name their own baby. Some of the responses:
– “One year I had a Larissa, Clarissa, Marissa, and Carissa all in the same class. They were all quite offended if I mixed up their names.”
– “Aiden. I had two every year in my class for over five years. They were always rowdy and had a hard time sitting still.”
– “Aiden, Jaiden, Kaiden … any variant of those are, more often than not, handfuls!”
– “Aiden (with an e), Aidan (with an a), Brayden (with a y), Braeden (with an a-e), Caeden (with a c), Kayden (with a k), Jayden, Hayden, Zaiden … all in one preschool class.”
– “Any boy’s name with an x in it that isn’t traditionally spelled with one, i.e. Jaxon, Braxton, Paxton, etc.”
– “I started teaching in the ’80s. I only met one Jason that I could stand.”
– “Any boy J name. My first year teaching, I had 10 male students in a resource class and eight of them had names that started with J.”
– “Storm. Self-explanatory.”
– “Kids named Angel rarely are.”
– “Angel, Sunshine, Rainbow.”
– “Any name that is also a virtue — Charity, Chastity, Harmony. They are always hell on wheels.”
– “Every other girl was Katie, Kayly, Keely, Kelly, Kylie, Kelsy or Kelty. They were all blonde and looked alike.”
– “Tyler — every single Tyler I had was a handful.”
– “I vetoed all names that could be initials, like AJ or JR.”
– “Darius: He swore all the time.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Teachers out there, do you have any comments on children”s names?