Jayden is the most hated boys name is America, according to the results of a new informal study. Did we mention that the moniker also happens to be the name of the youngest of Britney Spears’ two sons?
Jayden James Federline, age 4, was born to the singing star and her then-husband Kevin in Sept. 2006.
A survey on the most panned tags in the nation was conducted by Laura Wattenberg, author of The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby. According to Live Science, she scoured general-interest message boards online, looking for conversations about baby names that make people cringe. More than 1,500 names were cited and Wattenberg calculated which names came up the most.
“In recent decades, people have moved toward ‘whatever feels fresh.’ That means moving away from common names, and common sounds, from the previous couple of generations,” Wattenberg says. “That may explain why many people hate the names Gertrude and Bertha. Hard, Germanic consonants were once thought to convey opulence. Now we live in an age of vowels, and poor, guttural Gertrude doesn’t stand a chance.”
The next three entries after Jayden are rhyming names like Brayden, Aiden, and Kayden. Bentley, the name of Teen Mom star Maci Bookout’s toddler son, has alsw become the bane of existence for a many an American.
On the girls side of things, Neveah, “Heaven” spelled backwards, found a top spot. The name didn’t even exist until the 1990s, but shot to 31 on the list of most popular baby names in 2003. The survey also concluded that people hate gender-bending names, particularly when a masculine becomes a feminine as in for Madison and Addison. A spate of Mc names Mackenzie, McKenna and Makayla also made it into the Top 10.
The US Social Security Administration also released a list of most loved American baby names, published by Live Science.
