Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids
 

Recently, I read a book in which a teacher said that there are many names that teachers--though they may love the names--will never give their own kids, due to awful stuff that their students with those names have done. This is true. I've talked to other teachers, including my husband, and they can tell you those names really fast! What are yours?

The ones that conjure up bad memories for me (and there were multiple mean kids named these):

80s: Chad, Jason, Shane
90s: Dakota, Dustin
now: Austin, Jaden

(And let me say that there were SIX Austins who lived in in-school suspension at our school last year)

Archtra
Devin
Raena

Ray
Bea (her last name really was Arthur - can you imagine?)
Laurie

If I have a daughter I want her to be named Melissa or Jessica. First one to tell me what those names have in common gets a cookie.

LOL, teachers feel strongly about this; I've never gotten such a quick response after starting a thread. Let me add Dalton to my recent list, how could I have forgotten?

Double "s"? An "e", an "i" and an "a"?Keep the cookie - I'm getting into shape, and don't need the carbs!:)

No cookie for you, it has nothing to do with the structure of the names or anything.

Melissa and Jessica -

Both titles of Allman Brothers songs!


I WANT MY COOKIE!!!

From Teaching:
Byron
D'Nicholas
Tawna
Kieran
Giovonne
Adonis
Martin
Chris, Christopher, Chrissy
Brooke
Patrick
Jack
Zach
Skyler

From Growing Up:
Mary
Kelly
Jennifer

From Dating:
I'm not going to give any son of mine a "J" name - It seems all my exes had a "J" name and I don't think there are any left! lol

My husband says that from last year alone, he could never name his kid:

Jeremy
Chad
Shuntae
Hunter

and he says don't get him going on years in the past.

Beat me to it! I once saw a cartoon of a very distraught looking teacher in a class picture, and the students' names Scot, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Scott, Scott, Jennifer, Scott, Jennifer...


My personal "names to hate" from experience (and my apologies to those who have these names) are Jeffery and Christopher. I actually broke off a very serious relationship with a man who was insistent that his son would be named Jeffery.

Easy--

Dana
Julio
Kelsey
Maria
Pam
Joseph
June
Rodney
Elsa

BUT - those are things they have in common. Just sayin'!

I'm not a teacher, but there are names of ex-boyfriends and mean kids I remember that have been stricken from my list:

Jason
Todd
Peter
Sean/Shawn/Shaun
Shaely
Blaine
Ashley

Boys:
Cage
James
Joseph
Justin
Marty
Matthew

Girls:
Amber
Brandi, Brandee, Brandy (not fine girls in my opinion)
Cassie
Kelly

Worst week of student teaching - having Brandi, Joseph, Justin, & Kelly sharing a table. There wasn't enough Tylenol in the world to let that disaster go on longer than 5 days.