We Picked Our Baby's Name Because It Wasn't Popular
Now it's 'trendy,' and I'm angry AF.
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I wanted to send a quick email because… Guess what! I’m on Yahoo’s front page today *SQUEAL* after my latest essay for Business Insider was published this morning.
“The name perfectly fit into our naming criteria. It's the Spanish word for river, has a pop-culture reference (we love the character River Tam from the short-lived series ‘Firefly’), and is short, so nickname-free. But most importantly, it was 2,000 in popularity at the time, according to BabyNames.com.”
Read it here:
We picked our baby's name because it wasn't popular. Now it's 'trendy,' and I'm angry AF.
“We idealized our baby's name for so long, and now it feels tainted. It doesn't quite feel like the name we chose — though I wouldn't change anything. My Rio is such a Rio.”
Thank you to all of the friends who have recently told me that a friend/colleague/cousin/brothers’s boyfriend’s sister’s bestie also named their baby Rio in the past two years.
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How did you pick your children’s names? What special meaning do they hold? Have you come to think differently about their names today? I’d love to hear from all of you!
Talk soon,
Irina (she/her) - raising a March 2020 Gen Alpha kid
We had a middle name we wanted to pass on and chose a first name that sounded good with it. David Nathaniel. It’s funny because David is a really old name, but Millenials aren’t using traditional names anymore so without meaning to we picked something unique (for his generation).