What to Know
Society has come such a long way since the days when “Apple” was considered a weird baby name, hasn’t it? Now it seems like more mainstream names are unique as people—particularly those of the white variety—keep sharing their baby names online. It seems like any noun or adverb can just…be a name now. And this viral TikTok that lightly plays on baby names is both hilarious and eerily accurate.
“Bananagrams but the category is white people baby names,” reads the on-screen caption of a video shared by Jackie Mustian on TikTok, where two women are playing a brilliant version of Bananagrams.
“My first name is for twins, of someone who’s really into shopping on SHEIN,” one of the players says. “It’s Rayon and Nylon.”
See? Brilliant. Oh, the fun you could have doing this. The options are endless.
“Mine is more of a Northern take on ‘Topanga’ from ‘Boy Meets World,'” Player number two shares. “And that’s Toboggan.”
All you have to do is literally just…open the internet and you’re immediately overwhelmed with white influencers as it is. Once they all start having babies (cough, looking at you, Utah moms), it’s become almost a universal guessing game about what an influencer will name their baby. Why? Because it’s never normal. It’s not even unique. More often than not, the names people come up with are just utterly and completely batshit. Enough so that you immediately feel a pang of empathy for the poor kid who has to carry that moniker for the rest of their lives.
And it’s not even just influencers—Brittany and Patrick Mahomes named their three children Golden, Bronze, and Sterling. Like, for real.
“This one is for people who just always have plans, and that’s Bizi,” says one woman in the viral video. Other Bananagram names include: Bestos (vintage, for people who love infested buildings), Nokia (for any Gen Z-ers who want to pay homage to the flip phone unironically) and Ova. Short for Ovum or Ovary, duh.
“This is just Utah,” one commenter shares.
“I lost it when you said Toboggan,” says another.
“Stop because I make personalized Christmas ornaments and these are very close to ones I’ve actually written….” shares another commenter. LOL.
If you’re into predicting influencer names or you want inspiration for your upcoming holiday Bananagrams name game, Emily Kim is the GOAT of predicting what certain influencers are going to name their children.
Here she is basically explaining the Venn diagram of the baby name world and influencers/content creators.
In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait until May when the Social Security Administration releases its popular names list for 2025—if Rayon didn’t make the cut, hopefully Nylon did.
