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I just find the idea of questioning the taste and judgement of any generation, based on popular name choices, to be a weird and unfair thing. I mean, I could easily say that I question the taste of women in the 1930s who were naming their little girls Shirley, Barbara and Carol. I may REALLY dislike those names but I can't blame those who lived at the time, for conforming to a trend that surrounded them. I'm actually in total agreement with you in that I dislike MOST of the names that I hear being given to babies now-a-days but they're only products of our existence at this time. Naming trends are as real as clothing trends and often just as "fad-ish" - I can't blame a guy for rockin' a mullet in the 70s anymore than I can blame a woman for naming her daughter Ashley (or Madison or whatever) in the 90s - Not that I think suck choices should be approached with the same considerations, but that's a different story altogether