"We picked a traditional name for our middle daughter, Brooke (1995), my dad said, 'Nope,' and called her Ruby from her birth to his passing. When I named my son Zachary in 1987, my husband's grandmother said, 'Oh the new fangled names they're coming up with.' I named my daughter Mariah. My dad didn't like it said im calling her Maria with an H. And he always did till he passed. My son's name is Louis and we call him Louie. My grandpa called it a 'hobo name.'"
"Dax isn't as unconventional as she thinks," Wattenberg tells TODAY.com. "Over the past generation, we've seen an '-ax' explosion, with parents flocking to names built around that sound."
"Why are you calling him Dax?" she asks, as the newborn dozes peacefully on her lap in a recliner. "You've got crazy parents," she informs him. "So it's going to be a wild run."
Caden Troy Wilson, a firefighter and first-time father from Vero Beach, Florida, introduced his newborn son Dax to his 96-year-old great-grandmother, Louise Quigley. Quigley, who had known the chosen name for months, reacted with disbelief and repeatedly asked why the baby was named Dax. She told the child that his parents were "crazy" and warned of a "wild run." A clip of the encounter went viral on Instagram. Online commenters shared similar stories of elders rejecting modern baby names. Baby-name expert Laura Wattenberg noted an "-ax" naming trend and cited examples including Jax, Braxton, Paxton, Axel, Maximus, and Jaxon.
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