Irrational dislike of a name?

[looki]

I have an irrational dislike of the name Katie. I think its due to Katie being so commonly used where I live that when a name is announced, it is almost surprising if it doesn't contain the name Katie. Yet I quite like the name Kate/Cate.

Anybody else have dislike one name but like something very similar?

[UriGeller]

Darren and Darrel make me cringe. Fortunately they aren't seen as much as Katie! Kai as well is just horrible. I can't believe that fashion stylist woman called her baby Kai.

[UriGeller]

Oh sorry. I do quite like Karen though, which is similar to Darren but obviously for a girl

[BunnyLebowski]

I hate hate hate HATE Oliver.

It just sounds so horrible and ugly to me.

Have never known one so it isn't based on a bad experience with one.

Just hate it.

Thomas too but that might be down to that c*nt of a train.

[CatsAreLikeChocolates]

Mine's Sadie. Nowt wrong with the name I'm sure but it always sounds to me too much like sadness and sadism.

[TheBunsOfPanettone]

I dislike Katie spelt Katie but like it when it's spelt Katy obviously it sounds just the same. I think I'm slightly influenced by a rather nasty child I knew when I was growing up, who was called Katie.

I think Tessa's a pretty name but I am prejudiced against it. I suspect that's due to envying a little girl called Tessa in a picture book I had long ago for her fabulous pigtails, when I was made to have short hair that I could never do anything interesting with. While in my teens a man I was very keen on married someone called Tessa. In my mind "Tessa" just seems smug, prettier and luckier than me..... though it's debatable the Tessa that got the guy would agree about the lucky part, she left him after a few months!

[TheBunsOfPanettone]

CatsAreLikeChocolates agree about Sadie!

[UriGeller]

Maude.

Just the way it drags your mouth down when you say it. Its the picture of misery.

[comedaygoday]

I dislike Julie, but like Juliet and Julia and I agree with the OP on Katie/ Kate.

[Wishfulmakeupping]

Scarlet I just don't like the sound of the actual word itself

[squoosh]

Harriet/Harry

Both make my skin crawl.

[BuffyxSummers]

I don't know why but Monty irritates the shit out of me.

[ActiveTimes]

Amelia. It sounds so whiny and I hate it.

[southerngirl25599]

Florence. Just sounds old fashioned vindictive old ladybug i've had a bad experience with one. No offence to any Florences'

[Chottie]

Any names with Mae, May, Maisie stuck on the end. It just sounds so twee (no offence meant, personal opinion only).

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Not sure that it is irrational, but surnames for first names (Parker Evans etc) and the names of a job - Tyler Taylor Bricky...
Any other name -

[CeQueLEnfer]

Olivia. It reminds me of the colour olive. I really don't like it, although I appreciate that it is quite irrational and it's probably a perfectly nice name.

[CeQueLEnfer]

... oh, and anything with 'May' as a middle name. Or even worse, 'Mai'.

[Morgause]

Any name that begins with a K or a hard C.
Surnames used as first names.
Misspelt names - not quirky just ignorant.

[woodlandwanderwoman]

Hilary.

[jenniferturkington]

Lucas. I hear mucus. Sorry.

[JumpingJackSprat]

Phoebe. Looks so ugly written down and sounds like feeble.

rebecca. Dull in the extreme with no pretty shortening. Despise becky.

[vole3]

Jade
Most double barrelled first names, particularly when combined with blended rather than 'proper' double barrelled surnames eg. Sammie-Jo Smith-Taylor.
Unusual names or spellings that could be pronounced in different ways eg Kyron - have come across 1 that was Kye-Ron and the other was Key-Ron, got it wrong both times.

[MyNameIsSuz]

Any name with 'ine' or 'ina' - Georgina, Pauline, Maureen, Christine. And Patrick I cannot stand, no idea why.

[myitchybeaver]

Wayne, Shane or Duane names type names. I HAVE to say them like dwwwwaaaaaaaannne in a whiny voice with a long 'A'.

My DD has a Duane in her class and I can't help but giggle.

[BikeRunSki]

I dislike Charlotte for no reason at all.
I dislike Samantha as both those I have known were utter bitches.