Your Say: Baby names hit and miss

Sophia and Aiden topped the girls' and boys' lists of most popular names in 2012 released by BabyCenter on Thursday. Comments from Facebook:

Your article "Parents pick coochy-cool names" quotes a woman saying, "They want their kid to have a unique identity." So they name their son Aiden, which has been the most popular name for eight years in a row. Unique?

Rich Barnes

I think a name for a newborn should be based on a person you have known, a person you have looked up to and admired.

Pat Hatch

Names such as "Apple" or ones that are just misspelled are not "cool." They are a lifetime curse!

Kathleen Coad O'Brien

Newsflash: Naming your kid something that you think sounds cool won't make your kid cool.

Denny Kravitz

Teachers who have been working a while sometimes give their kids unusual names simply because they associate names with certain kids, and not always in a good way.

My husband was teaching when we had our children, and he shot down the majority of names I came up with.

Tori Skidori

My first grandchild was born this year, and his name is Nathan James. That's No. 1 this year for me.

Suzanne McAllister