What names have you been put off?

[porterwine]

Are there any names you liked but have been put off by association or an event?

For me (A=and it's a shame because it is of course very popular and well liked) but one is George. My grandpa used to talk about "having a George" meaning a number 2...he said it was a navy thing and they'd talk about "going to the John for a George" and now all that side of my family still use the term! Has anyone else ever heard this? I've never come across elsewhere it so I wonder if it was something that someone my grandpa served with came up with and it caught on.

I also think Fraser is nice but put off by a horrible ex and I think Myra is pretty but can't disconnect it from Hindley.

[NiceCuppaTeaAndASitDown]

Lana. I absolutely love the name, but once you realise what it spells backwards that cannot be unseen!

[Oysterbabe]

I haven't heard George used in that way but it's my ex's name and he is a shit.

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

Miranda (because of Myra, actually). I wanted Meera as a nickname, which sounds like Myra in English...

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

Oh, and Castor.

[porterwine]

NiceCuppaTeaAndASitDown funny you say that because it is in my top 4 at the moment for DD but don't feel I can use it for that! Am contemplating Alannah instead with nn Lannah

[SuperBeagle]

Emily.

All of the Emilys I've known have been right cows.

[ASqueakingInTheShrubbery]

Grace, because of someone with that name I dealt with at work. I later met her in a different context and she was much nicer, but at the time I was picking baby names she was horrible.

[SecretNortherner]

I wanted to call my ds Toby, my partner said only if we can have the surname of carvary sigh

[TalkingofMichaelAngel0]

Omg lana ruined for me now.

And to answer the original question, a very, very long list. As im sure most teachers have

[porterwine]

I also loved Bryony until a friend said it's a male version of Brian- just Brian with a "ee" sound. Now I can't unhear it!

[Redpramlady]

Pippa... and I still love it! Was going to be Dds name until I googled two weeks before she was born
It's slang in European languages for all sorts!

Maybe I'll have to get a dog and call her pippa ha

[Emily7708]

SuperBeagle: Emily.
All of the Emilys I've known have been right cows.

I think it's delightful 😀

[Lemondrop09]

Esme

I was on a flight with this woman who my grandmother would have said sounded like a fishwife!

She had a gorgeous little toddler called Esme, but she just shouted at her the entire flight. Ez-maaaaaaaay stop that! Ez-maaaaaaaaay get here! Ez-maaaaaaaaaaaay shut up! It was cringeworthy and made a pretty name seem so ugly to me. Put me right off.

[porterwine]

I also liked Amanda until the episode of Friends when Rachel things the lady called amanda is a transsexual and says "oh I get it! A-man-duuuuuh"...never been able to shake that connection

[PutThatPomBearBack]

I loved the name Daisy until I moved house and how I regularly her my neighbour telling her dog to 'do a daisy' when she wants him to do a poo in the garden

[porterwine]

hahaha never heard Daisy used like that! Like how my grandpa used to say 'George'

[Anditstartsagain]

I knew a woman with a little girl called Sienna she was a proper helecopter parent and spent the full 2 hour group every week saying Siennnnaaa no, Siennnnaaa put that down, Siennnnaaa come here, Siennnnaaa Siennnnaaa, Siennnnaaa in a really high pitched look at me voice. Everytime i hear it now i hear the womans screechy Siennnnaaaa.

[passingthrough1]

Arthur because of people saying Arf-er.

[deluxetrolley]

Lola- I love it in an English accent (low-la) but we live in Australia where it's laaaau-la and it totally put me off!
Mira (meer-ra)- still undecided on this one but people seem to say mirror or myra and the latter doesn't have nice connotations!

[YoungYolandaYorgensen39]

Cameron. I loved the name until David Cameron made it unusable.

Connor. I fell in love with this name twenty years ago but then suddenly there were loads of naughty boys all called Connor so that was the end of that love affair.

[FreeNiki]

Abigail.

Abigail Williams was the whore from the Salem Witch trials.

Abigail is also the whore OW in my last relationship

[OhHolyFuck]

Not that I thought much about girls names (had 2 boys) but recently heard a mother calling her little girl who I presumed was called 'sophia' except her mother just said 'sphere' over and over and over and over again...

[Scribblegirl]

Angus. I worked with one and someone once in an email accidentally missed the G. Same logic as Lana I guess!

[Scribblegirl]

(Thankfully not me but the person who sent the email could never look the guy in the face again!)

[Rockaby]

Once someone pointed out that Astrid sounds a lot like ass turd I couldn't get it out of my head! I never loved it anyway though.

The one which really annoys me is Benedict / bendy dick because I do really do love that name and would use it, but DH now says we never could as he'd always hear bendy dick!