By: Chris Brubaker

Photo by: Jennifer Marr

Usually we talk about some cool new text messaging company or system, but today we’ve caught wind of an interesting new trend with Generation X. Baby names inspired by texting and web 2.0.

Yep, you read that right, a study by McCrindle Research on the top 10 baby names in Australia found an interesting trend among Generation X. They found that parents are now opting to give their new babies names that are unique and stand out, especially in the online world; using such things as phonetic spellings, hyphens, and apostrophes. The spellings for these common names are coming from new forms of communication such as text messaging. Who knew that when you sent the message “jzn, were u @?”, that a few years later you might actually meet a “Jzn” (sounds like Jason).

Social analyst Mark McCindle of McCindle Research explains one reason for the increase in texting-inspired names as individuality. Parents wanting their kids to be unique offline and online, often only picking names that have domain names available or “Google well”. In light of this new trend, I put together a list for all of you soon to be parents looking for a “unique” name for your kid:

Got any more web like or texting-inspired names?

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