Whoa! Parents invented over 1,000 new baby names in 2017
People are always looking for ways to stand out from the crowd. So, when it comes to naming their babies, many parents take the opportunity to show off just how unique they are. As a result, folks have been choosing names that just get stranger and stranger, each year?from weird spellings of traditional names, such as Kaetlynne and Mykel, to names that are actually just words like North and Female (pronounced fe-MAL-ee).
New data from the U.S. Social Security Administration shows that American parents made up 1,100 new names in 2017. According to a report from Quartz, the most popular new name was Camreigh, a spelling variation of the name Camry, which was given to 91 babies last year. Yep, people are naming their kids after cars?and a fairly boring car, at that (I’m allowed to say that because I drove a ’92 Toyota Camry around for 5 years). The name, itself, isn’t that unusual (113 babies were named Camry in 1997) but the addition of -eigh put this in the new name category.
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