These are the baby girl names you’ll regret using, according to a baby name expert
Choosing a baby name is perhaps one of the more challenging parts of pending parenthood. After all, most parents want to choose something that’s both unique and fitting to their little one’s personality, which can be tough when you, you know, haven’t even met them yet. So if you’re expecting a baby girl and you’re not quite sure which one to choose, one baby name consultant is sharing the names you might regret landing on.
Colleen Slagen (aka @namingbebe on TikTok) helps parents-to-be find the perfect name choice for their babies, and she shares her wisdom on social media for her thousands of followers. Slagen scored two recent viral clips when she shared the baby girl names that might feel unique, but are actually among the fastest rising girl names from 2022, which means your bundle of joy might be one of many with the same name in school years down the line.
In the first clip—which garnered an impressive 170,000 views—Slagen shared that the list “embodies so many different name trends going on right now,” which makes sense given how much methodology is behind baby name trends, including historic data, pop culture relevance, cultural traditions, and more.
But before you start angrily typing a comment in protest, Slagen does note that she’s joking about these names being ones you might regret. In fact, they’re still extremely unique; they’re simply on the rise in popularity based on Social Security’s Most Popular Baby Names for 2022.
Slagen uses Wrenlee as a “perfect example” in the fast-rising category of invented names, as names ending with -lee, leigh, or -ly have been popular for years. (Think: Hadley, Brinley, and Everly.) While she’s not a fan of Wrenlee or Wrenley, she does love Georgina as a more unique twist on the beloved Georgia or Georgie, especially since it’s both classic and unexpected.
Gender neutral names are still very common, with Slagen recommending Scottie instead of the popular Charlie. There’s also names like Marigold and Elowen, both of which fit in well with “nature-inspired whimsical names” that so many parents have gravitated towards in recent years.
Some trendy celebrity-inspired names you might regret, per Slagen: Winona, Zendaya, and Stormi, all of which rocketed up in the lists in 2022.
In part two (which racked up more than 621,000 views), Slagen shared other naming trends having a moment among baby girls: names that end in “a” like Carla, Amaya, and Inaya; vintage names like Arlet and Sylvie, nicknames used as given names, and nouns used as names, like Love and Jream. (Yes, that’s Dream with a “j”! As Slagen jokes: “Microsoft Word is not gonna like that.”)
All jokes aside, baby names are such a personal choice, and you can’t go wrong with whatever moniker you decide on for your precious new arrival.
What do you think of the list? Would you name your baby Jream?
