Adults who work in schools see so many different children's names - and they'll notice trends come and go and change as the years go by.
But things can get a little bit confusing when there's a year group where all the kids' names sound super similar, as one sports writer learned this the hard way.
One man took to Quora to complain that so many of the children's names are similar, but that it made things boring in the classroom.
He wrote: "So I write about high school sports as part of my job, and I've become extremely annoyed with the rosters I end up getting because it's like the parents all used the same name generator for their kids or they tried so very hard to come up with a unique name that they gave their kid a bad one.
"For example, these are the first names of a local high school girls basketball team: Sesley, Ensley, Kenzie, Remi, Kylie, Katy, Zoe, Jacey, Madi, Addi, Addie, Addisyn, Cailyn, Braelyn and Mia.
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"Thank God for Mia. There were four different variations of Madison/Addison on that one team. And believe it or not, there was ANOTHER Addie on the JV team.
"I covered one game earlier this year where one team had a Presli and a Jersey and the other team had a Presley and a Jerzy.
"A few years ago the football team had Dylan, Dylan, Dillon, Gavin, Gavyn and Gavin. I don't know how many different versions of Braiden and Aiden I've seen in the last couple of years.
"Look, I'm not saying every kid has to be named Tommy or Sarah, but when your son Braiden ends up in school with Brayden, Breighden, Aidynn, Cade, Cadynn, Caden and Caddence, don't say you weren't warned."
The comments were mainly other people who worked in schools writing unusual names.
"My wife has a student named Airwrekka", one wrote.
Someone joked: "And then there are names like Abcde. I used to substitute teach and every single class had at least one kid whose name was spelled so differently that I had no clue how to pronounce it and therefore had to ask. And I’m not talking about the Spanish names.
"I may not speak it, but I can generally figure them out. One girl had a name that looked like an unpronounceable jumble of letters that was pronounced some simple way like Madison or something."
Another told of their baby naming woes: "My son was born in 2001. When we were talking about names, I liked the actor Aidan Quinn, and at the time, I hadn’t heard anyone else named Aidan. We wanted a unique Celtic name and we went with Aidan. I remember the nurse saying she loved his name and hadn’t heard it before.
"About four months after he was born, every other kid was named Aidan, Aiden, Ayden, Haden, Jayden or some other variation. I was a bit irked, because we were going for unique and ended up with the most common name.
"So when my wife was pregnant with our daughter, we didn’t want the same thing to happen, we named her Enya. So far, her name is still rare."
One parent recommended people "stay away from current trends" to avoid things like this from happening.
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