Mila Kunis with her daughter, Wyatt.

But when it came to Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ offspring, Wyatt, that’s exactly what happened.

“We were going to a Lakers game and I got name Tourette’s and I just started listing off anything and everything that I saw: ‘Sign, truck, wall, door’, ” Kutcher told Conan O’Brien in 2014.

“She [was] like, ‘Shut up!’ ... Then I was like, ‘I’ve got a really dumb idea. What about Wyatt?’ And she goes, ‘That’s it!’ ”

We should mention at this point that Wyatt is a girl. We’re looking forward to the couple’s next beautiful baby daughter, Carl.

It may sound strange, but Kutcher was on to something. Whether he knew it or not, he was tapping into one of the hottest trends in the baby-naming world: gender-neutral monikers.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard named their eldest girl Lincoln. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds chose James for their daughter. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan chose to call their girl Max. Leighton Meester and Adam Brody have five-month-old Arlo, a girl.

The trend also extends to non-celeb parents, as Amari, Karter, Phoenix, Quinn and Reese become more ubiquitous among children born to regular folks.

Blake Lively with daughter James on a recent trip to Australia. Credit: INFphoto.comSource:INF

“As usual, baby names are reflecting a larger cultural shift,” BabyCenter’s Global Editor-in-Chief Linda Murray wrote on the website last year. “Millennials are an open-minded and accepting group, and they don’t want their children to feel pressured to conform to stereotypes that might be restrictive.”

So having a traditionally masculine or feminine name is now seen as restrictive? Has the political correctness pendulum swung so far that calling a girl Emma — the most popular name in 2014, reports the Social Security Administration — is now seen as a mild form of abuse? As is calling a boy Noah?

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan chose to call their girl Max.Source:AP

That said, there’s some evidence that naming your girl Wyatt may one day help her: A 2009 Clemson University study found women with gender-neutral names tended to be more successful in traditionally male-dominated fields, such as law.

Then again, there are other studies that find unusual names can be a burden. People with more common names, say Marquette University researchers, are generally perceived to be more likeable and more likely to be hired. (Sorry, Saint West!)

Shippensburg University researchers discovered that kids with less-common names are more prone to juvenile delinquency. In other words, they act out because they’re saddled with names like Zuma Nesta Rock — we’re lookin’ at you, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale — and the kids aren’t all right with it.

A University of Florida economics professor found that boys named Sue — or some other traditionally pink monikers — had more behavioural problems and lower test scores.

So go ahead and name your children Apple or Addison. Just know that baby names are as cyclic as fashion — and the odder they are, the stranger they’ll sound a few decades on.

Right, Clovis?

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