If you are welcoming a little one in 2024, you might want to know what teachers have to say about baby names – with many making snap judgements about monikers.
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Like many mums, SJ Strum wanted to capture the joys of motherhood on camera and began vlogging about her young family on YouTube.
After starting her channel nearly a decade ago, the busy mum has now become a full time content creator and name consultant – regularly sharing videos about the best baby names.
She even conducts research about the perfect moniker and recently asked teachers about the assumptions they made when hearing a child’s name.
Of course, educators didn’t hold back and gave their brutally honest opinions with them revealing which names are the naughtiest.
“A lot of teachers were like ‘yep, there are names that are red-flags,” SJ explained, adding: “There were some that stuck out and came up again and again.”
According to the consultant, boys named Jake, Jack or Max were often the worst behaved with names ending in ‘den’ also being notoriously naughty.
For those that are curious, this includes popular names such as Hayden and Jayden – who are also ‘always naughty’, ‘disruptive’ and ‘not listening’.
Classic girl names like Isla and Jessica were also sin binned for being ‘too chatty’ in class, with other monikers getting a bad rep.
“Apparently Martha is high-maintenance. Alexandra can be a bit of a bully apparently,” SJ revealed, having also discovered that teachers are just as sick of overused names.
If you feel like every other kid is your child’s class has the same name, you aren’t wrong.
The influencer even told fans: “Common names that came up – there were lots of Charlies, Lilies, Ellas, Alfies. One teacher had ten Sophias, four Laylas.”
She even revealed that there is a Theo and Oscar every year – apparently.
The thing that most winds teacher up though is common names with unique spellings, which often cause confusion.
The Youtuber said: “The number one thing which came up time and time again, the absolutely biggest pet peeve, bug bear, that teachers have when it comes to kids in their classroom is common name with unique spellings.”
If you wondering what to avoid, you should steer clear of elongating short names and swapping out letters to mix up the spelling.
SJ even gave examples, saying: “Emma-Leigh as a double barrelled for Emily really was a tough one and Jaxsyn spelt like this.
“Imagine with this spelling and there was even a Fee-Bee.”
However, teaching staff still enjoy unusual names, just remember that they shoudn’t be too hard to spell or weird.
“Unique names that are spelt easily and correctly to say are absolutely fine,” she added: “They liked names like Sage, Joanie, Scout.
“Unique names outside of the top 50 but not odd and weird were a thumbs up.”
We wonder what other names teachers would award top marks to?
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