Names that nice but have too much of an association.

[chocolateicecream]

I like the name Marigold but it would completely get associated with a pair of gloves, as a result I wouldn't use it. Actually, I initially think of the song Marigold by the Foo's but not many others would.

[amazingmumof6]

Willy, Dick, Fanny, Gaylord

[amazingmumof6]

sorry, not even nice...

[coldcupoftea]

I liked the name Delilah for DD2 but I was shot down on MN by claims that she would never live down the Tom Jones song, and also the original Delilah in the bible allegedly wasn't very nice.

The name we chose in the end is often one of those love/hate names on here- and I strongly suspect it will be mentioned on this thread. You can't win! We love it though.

[Hedwig3]

Nora - always hear it attached to a swear word

My favourite ever girls name though

[chocolateicecream]

Delilah does have a nice ring to it, it just sounds pretty and nice spoken, song or no song.

I am struggling with the name Heidi. It's a name that I have loved since my childhood but I married a man with a Germanic surname and I can just imagine the comments.

[picnicbasketcase]

Ralph
Gilbert
Fanny
Tuppence

[ceeveebee]

Imogen - that girl who had an affair with Ryan Giggs ruined it

[guanosoup]

There's a woman in our local co-op called Myra, when you see it in isolation, its not an unpleasant name,
but you'd never, ever, ever call a child that...

[LastMangoInParis]

Tuppence?
Seriously?
Who on earth would use that name apart from a made up character in Little Britain or something?

Myra
Camilla

[devonsmummy]

Flora
Brady

[amazingmumof6]

Jezebel - I thought it was pretty as it sounds like Isabel! (2 Jezebels in the Bible, one's a whore other's a witch...)

Lucas - mucus

Lydia - chlamydia

Elvis

Levi (jeans)

[LastMangoInParis]

x-posts with guano.
Yes, Myra second only to Adolph.

Dennis has some fairly unpleasant associations too.

And I wonder how Jimmy will fare in future.

[amazingmumof6]

Jordan

[LastMangoInParis]

Candida
Jade

[cocobongo]

Orla- used to love that name, then there was a big brother contestant called it. So now out of bounds cos it just reminds us of her.

[chocolateicecream]

Oh, Jimmy will take a while to come round again.

[LastMangoInParis]

Overpriced yummy mummy bags put the kaibosh on Orla from over here.

[picnicbasketcase]

I don't actually like any of the names I listed but have seen them all come up on baby name threads.

[ErmahgerdBlahdyCold]

I love the name Judas, no way I'd ever use it though!

[LastMangoInParis]

I quite like Ebenezer.

[curiousgeorgie]

Hermione. It will only ever be Harry Potter now.

[GoldPlatedNineDoors]

Stella. Love the name, but people will think of the lager forst and foremost.

[badtime]

Lenore -probably my favourite version of Eleanor/Leonora etc, but even worse than Flora for branding issues.

[hjtunny]

Ella - because it is a suffix for the names of illnesses SalmonELLA, LegionELLA, VaricELLA, RubELLA etc

[StellaNova]

goldplated I know! Lovely name, lovely meaning - but beer. That's why I have to use it as a user name instead of actually calling a child it (although I only have boys so not sure they would have appreciated it anyway).

I think you can take associations too far though - I like Rose, DH was all "what about Rose West?" - but I just don't think that's the first thing people think when they hear Rose.

chocolateI knew a girl at school called Heidi with a Germanic surname, it didn't seem to cause any probs although I didn't know her well. In the book isn't it short for Adelheid?