This week’s Bad Baby Name listing is ripe with contenders, but one stood out amongst the crowd. And unlike the five-for-six Y action week, this week we actually bat a thousand — every name has a Y in it!
We start off with Zayvin, Dayshell, Jhayden, Shaelynn, and Chyler. Each one of these names is horrid. Each one of the parents deserves to be slapped. Zayvin? Dayshell? What the hell kinds of names are those? Shaelynn is almost as bad as Shylynn. Hopefully someone with one of these names can comment on this post and look like an idiot like some other unfortunate Shylynn did.
And then we move to the hyphens. You knew the hyphens were coming. Hannah-Lynn is the first to poke her head over the wall, followed closely by Rylan-Jay. But their Commander-In-Chief in the Hyphen Army is A.J.-Isly-Ander-Brown.
That’s right, three hyphens, two initials, and a Y. All those hyphens aren’t a typo, because little A.J.-Isly-Ander-Brown actually has a middle name. I know that the parents are just going to end up calling this kid A.J., but why not call him that to begin with? Why saddle him with the triple hyphen name of doom? I have only one answer:
A.J.-Isly-Ander-Brown’s parents are idiots.
#1 by chyler on 21 January 2007 - 11:29 pm
wtf … you suck … who the hell are you to say our names are horrible. fuck you.
#2 by Brad on 22 January 2007 - 8:06 am
I didn’t say your name was horrible, I said it was horrid.
#3 by Rylan Jay on 07 May 2007 - 3:02 pm
You have no right to comment on other people’s names like that! how does someone elses name bother you anyway?
all you are doing is trying to put other people down to make yourself feel better.
#4 by blah on 07 May 2007 - 4:34 pm
I’ve known brad for a long while now, and can firmly say that he is a horrid man, but at least he doesn’t have a Y in his name.
#5 by Brad on 07 May 2007 - 4:43 pm
Actually I do have a Y in my name, as my full name is Bradley.
Which is actually a proper use of Y in a name. Had my parents named me Brydley I would have shot myself long ago. Or them. Or them then myself.
#6 by blah on 07 May 2007 - 6:13 pm
What? After all these years you tell me you have a Y in your name?!
I feel dirty.
#7 by um on 12 November 2008 - 8:40 am
Um, we just named our baby girl Chyler and have gotten great reactions. The actress Chyler Leigh on Grey’s Anatomy (and elsewhere) is a likable and rising star, so I predict you’ll see more and more little baby girl Chylers in the years ahead (not so for Zayvin, Dayshell, Jhayden and Shaelynn…).
#8 by Jerry on 07 May 2011 - 7:16 am
@Um, yeah Chyler isn’t as bad as the other ones. It’s kinda pretty. I personally wouldn’t use it for anything more than a middle name, though. Just my personal opinion. Hope you’re not offended.
And to all the people saying this column is so mean, well, it is. But what’s meaner is being mercilessly bullied and made fun of at school every single day just because your parents thought a stupid name like Dayshell sounded slightly pretty. Or being given a name like Zayvin and not being able to do anything about it. Naming a kid is a big, big deal because they have no say in what you name them and will either end up liking or regretting the name. These parents are being very careless about one of the biggest decisions most people make in their entire lives, and maybe, just maybe, it might take a cyberbullying site like this to wake them up. It hurts but it’s probably true.