Inside the world of the unique – and bizarre – baby names influencers are giving their children
Lyrics. Afternoon. Orca. Alchemy. No, these aren’t the names of some hippy pop-up café in Brooklyn, or brands for feminine hygiene products. Instead, they’re the real monikers that influencers are giving to their children – and the internet has a lot of thoughts about it.
On social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where influencers share carefully curated glimpses of their family lives, a new favourite hobby has emerged: unpacking, celebrating, and oftentimes critiquing the unusual names influencers give their babies.
Last week, Too Hot To Handle star and internet personality Francesca Farago revealed to fans the potential names that she and her fiancé, Jesse Sullivan, have picked for their soon-to-be baby. “I have been waiting to do the ‘baby names I love but won’t be using trend’ for two years now,” Farago said in a TikTok video with over 14m views. “So I wanted to make a video and talk about baby names I love. You guys can know my naming style and maybe someone will give a suggestion and that’ll be our new top favourite name.”
The names that followed, however, weren’t your average Jacks, Ashleys, Olivias, or Liams. They were nouns and adjectives ending in “-y” like Lovely and Baby, the 12 months of the year (full name “November,” nickname
