Millennials are killing the normal name industry, or at least so it seems. The weird names young parents give their kids have become bonafide memes at this point. I don’t know if we’ll ever get to a point where McKinsleigh will be considered a normal name by the majority of the population. At the same time, we felt the same way about the name Britney, and nobody bats an eye at that anymore. 

My favorite millennial naming convention is giving your baby an old lady’s name. I know two babies named Maude, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. There are definitely ways around giving your kid a unique name without messing up their life, and giving them an older name is one of them. One father tried to save his unborn daughter from a life of correcting the spelling and pronunciation of her name, but his wife wouldn’t have it.