What name do you just not get?

Updated Tue Jul 22 2014

Maybe it’s a name that’s zoomed to the top of the popularity charts, but you just don’t get why so many people are rushing to use it.

Or maybe it’s a name that people whose taste you respect — hello, fellow berries! — adore, but you just don’t get the appeal.

Or the thing you don’t get might be why more people don’t like or use a name you find lovely.

Or maybe you don’t get why so many parents are naming their daughters Elliot or their sons Finnegan or Finley instead of Finn.

So what name do you just not get, and why?

About the Author

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.