My Problem With The Oh-So-Popular Baby Name Nevaeh

A few years ago, the name Nevaeh barely existed. To this day, I don't know a single person above the age of 4 who is named Nevaeh. Then, out of nowhere, this name became one of the most popular and unoriginal names ever.

And it's never classy, respectable people who name their child this, I've noticed. One of my first encounters with the name "Nevaeh" was on 16 & Pregnant, so that already tells you a lot.

You know a name is bad when its redeeming quality is being able to say, "It's heaven spelled backwards."

It's like the parent wants people to look at them with admiration and say, "Wow that's extremely clever! I wish I was clever enough to come up with something like that! A religious term SPELLED BACKWARDS? call an ambulance, I think I'm going to pass out from all the cleverness I've been subjected to!"

I just don't get it. Why backwards? Why couldn't you just name your child Heaven? You just HAD to spell it backwards?

And what's with the pronounciation? Most people who name their child Nevaeh pronounce it "Ne-VAH-Y-uh". This doesn't make any sense. If anything, "Nevaeh" is pronounced "Ne-VAY-eh", which sounds equally as dumb.

In short, this name is not cute, and it's sure as hell not clever. It's tacky and unoriginal.