Is Tomato Next?

Usually my policy is not to criticise the use of actual names just because I don’t like them. As remi said in her very first post, a name generally needs to fall into one of three categories to make it on to this site: normal names spelled ridiculously, names of any kind in unfortunate combinations, or words, made up or otherwise, masquerading as names.

However, there’s one more category that seems appropriate after glancing at today’s notices. Themes.

Take for example the family that just welcomed twin girls. Scarlett. Okay in and of itself. Poppy. Also fine providing you don’t pair it with something silly (like, as a totally random example *cough*Jamie Oliver*cough*: “Honey”). Poppy and Scarlett. Okay, thematic, probably acceptable for twins. But it’s their big sister Ruby Rose that pushes the family over the line that divides quirky from obsessed.

Also, because last week’s Ayden wasn’t enough, today we have Aidyn. Way to make a perfectly nice boy’s name look as feminine as possible.