Nowadays it seems like everyone is a Taylor, Tyler, Sailor, Hunter, or whatever… anything but a saint’s name!
I would use the word “epicene” or “unisex”, but what you say is absolutely true. People just like pretty, euphonic names, I understand that, but it is as though everyone is just “one big mush”, no distinctions drawn between the sexes, orientations, or anything, and most of all,
these are not saints’ names. (You might be able to dig through the English martyrology and find some of these as surnames, but I can’t think that’s top-of-mind among Catholic parents anymore.)
Back a few years ago, it was the whole Celtic thing, lots of Caitlyns (spelled about a dozen different ways), Siobhans (ditto, and that name is pronounced entirely differently from how it is spelled to someone who doesn’t speak Irish), and even Niamh (pronounced “neeve” to rhyme with “Steve”, and that spelling is even
more impenetrable). That wasn’t so bad.
But now, as you say, it is all neutral names, and all secular names. We’ve always had epicene names such as Hillary, Tracy, Leslie, Terry, Julian, and so on, but I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to see how this is a departure from traditional religious sensibilities.
