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AIBU - to ask you for your worst girl and boy names

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Mirrorlolo · 22/08/2026 08:38

Asking on behalf of DD who is expecting. What are in your view the worst girl and boy names. for me they are the made up ones like Nevaeh and Jayden

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Disturbia81 · 22/08/2026 11:07

Coinkidinki · 22/08/2026 08:49

Oh, dear - this is going to be one of those threads where people sneer at names from demographics or cultures they perceive as inferior.

Why does your DD need a list of 'the worst names'? Why not post some names she is considering and get people's opinions?

If you're naming your baby, it seems an odd way to go about it - take every single possible name and start crossing off those that Mumsnetters don't like.

This. So snobby on here 😂
Sorry snobs but the country is mainly made up of these names you don’t like so get used to it.

wellington77 · 22/08/2026 11:04

As a secondary school teacher I’ve come across some awful ones

  • star ( surely this is what you call a rabbit?!
  • precious
  • princess
  • angel

names that aren’t horrible but everyone seems to have names their child are:
olivia
isabelle with various spellings
isla
Amelia or emilia
maia/ maya

there’s normally atleast two in a class

kalokagathos · 22/08/2026 11:03

Poppy, James, Jason, Mark, Peter, Matthew, Robert, Claire, Kate, Karen, Stewart, Steve, Nick, Harrison

Lou7171 · 22/08/2026 11:03

rainbowbee9 · 22/08/2026 09:13

Kinda agree. I do think some names on this thread, for example Lucifer, are fair game. It is a banned name in some countries for a reason. But Freddie? Really? I've met plenty of adult Freds and Freddies and it never crossed my mind that anything was wrong with the name.

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The issue is it's working class and mumnset is snobby as fuck.

AnnoyedAsAllHeck · 22/08/2026 11:03

WaddesdonWanderer · 22/08/2026 10:29

Yeah but it’s fun though!

I give you - Chardonnai. Classy spelling, huh?

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Sangria
Mojito
Daquirina
Molsen
Guinness
Porshie
Kia

themoonandhalfacrown · 22/08/2026 11:03

BunkBedsArePeopleShelves · 22/08/2026 09:02

I was recently introduced to a baby Lolita.

I also know a toddler called Barry and a child called Methuselah.

People are fucking weird.

Methuselah isn't weird for a Jewish family, neither is Seth, Enoch or Reuben.
And for the girls - Naamah, Hagar, Leah,

19lottie82 · 22/08/2026 11:02

Never been a fan of Millie / Molly / Maisie. Cute names for a toddler, but not a grown woman.

Ilikesundays · 22/08/2026 11:02

BunkBedsArePeopleShelves · 22/08/2026 11:00

I don't know where you're from but I can assure you that Barry is a very unusual name for small children where I come from. Like Nigel and Alan. They're all at least 40.

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I certainly wouldn’t call a child Nigel at the moment!

JortsNTeeShirt · 22/08/2026 11:01

Wet, posh boy names.

Quintin
Crispin
Rupert
Barnaby

<shudder>

Perimenipausalmum · 22/08/2026 11:01

ChickenBananaBanana · 22/08/2026 08:43

Personally I dislike cutesy old man names, eg Albie, Alfie, Archie etc. but I know plenty of boys called them

I call them traditional names.

Havanananana · 22/08/2026 11:01

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/08/2026 10:16

I quite liked Mercedes for our daughter ( she'd have been Sadie probably)
She gives me a hoo'er of a look when I tell her this. ( Lucky escape she thinks)

Mercedes - the car - is named after a person, Mercedes Jellinek, whose father was involved in racing and marketing the earlier cars. It is a common name in Spanish-speaking countries.

"Bear" is also common in Europe - as Björn/Bjørn/Bjorn in Scandinavia, Netherlands and Germany, and Urs in Switzerland. Ursula is the feminine form (Ursula Andress, Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula in The Little Mermaid).

wellington77 · 22/08/2026 11:00

Kyttiol · 22/08/2026 08:42

Someone named their daughter Dusty dove.

And another named their son lucifer. Also twins named Reggie and Ronnie.

These are people I actually know

Reggie and ronnie 😂😂😂

Ilikesundays · 22/08/2026 11:00

I worked with a man called Martin Martins.

BunkBedsArePeopleShelves · 22/08/2026 11:00

Ilikesundays · 22/08/2026 10:57

“I also know a toddler called Barry”. Barry is a perfectly normal name.I know several Barrys of different generations.

I don't know where you're from but I can assure you that Barry is a very unusual name for small children where I come from. Like Nigel and Alan. They're all at least 40.

Ilikesundays · 22/08/2026 10:57

“I also know a toddler called Barry”. Barry is a perfectly normal name.I know several Barrys of different generations.

Anotherdayanotherdollar · 22/08/2026 10:57

MrsBatshitRatshit · 22/08/2026 10:54

People do though. They might have a sudden realisation 'I'm an adult now and I want a grown-up name on my diploma/marriage certificate/office door'.

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Their name will be the same age as they are. Equally as grown up! But, as a pp said, there's nothing to stop anyone using a longer form of a name, in the same way as others use a shortened form

Growagardenmom87 · 22/08/2026 10:56

Onbdy · 22/08/2026 10:40

This! I taught an Adolf and a family member’s neighbour has recently called her baby Myra. 😬

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I have met a toddler named Vladimir. 😣

IStillHearTheWaves · 22/08/2026 10:55

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Amazing.

I loathe the pretentious names as much as the made up, trouble maker ones. My pet peeve is when people ask for names suggestions on here and posters run off a stream of Shakespearean and mythological names (when they weren't asked for). I always ask why Goneril or Hephaestus are missing from the list 😂

MrsBatshitRatshit · 22/08/2026 10:54

Anotherdayanotherdollar · 22/08/2026 10:48

Why do you presume that someone would want to change the name by which they've been known for years? If you've been "Libby" all your life why would you suddenly become Elizabeth? Why would Libby not suit anymore? You're only ever a day older than yesterday...

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People do though. They might have a sudden realisation 'I'm an adult now and I want a grown-up name on my diploma/marriage certificate/office door'.

RebeccaRedhat · 22/08/2026 10:52

For absolutely no reason whatsoever I have always hated the name Nathaniel! My sons best friend is called Nathaniel so I've heard it loads over the years and I've still not got used to it!
I don't think there's a girls name i feel so much hate towards. I have a friend with a daughter called Penelope, nicknamed Nelly and think that's an ugly name for a child. Her other daughter is Iris and I think thats a really pretty name in comparison.

LimpRat · 22/08/2026 10:52

PurplebudsWhitebuds · 22/08/2026 09:19

Well good for you. Does your child also deal
with it?

A lot of people are very sensitive about names. And quite rightly because, like it or not, what someone is named influences others perception of them and their reaction to them and their expectations of them.

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God yeah! DC has to have lifetime intensive therapy because a handful of unimportant people quizzed a name they haven't heard of before.

Obviously kids have no resilience whatsoever. No attachment to the name us parents gave them with love, which suits them, their friends don't blink an eye at and which they personally like, use since birth and don't want to change or use nicknames for.. Such lack of resilience. It's a burden! Terrible parenting!.etc etc

Terfarina · 22/08/2026 10:50

NoHotGirlsInHell · 22/08/2026 10:25

florabelle has to be the worst I’ve heard in a girl.

Haven’t heard this before - I like it!

MadisonMarieParksValetta · 22/08/2026 10:50

There is a woman in my town named Pocahontas. Just plain cruel imo. Have also met a toddler named Thor.

ERthree · 22/08/2026 10:50

I really dislike Christopher but like Chris. Joshua and Luke i can handle just about but Joshie and Lukey make my teeth itch. Can't bare the names Jane and Marina.

SassyLemonFish · 22/08/2026 10:50

some parents don’t seem to think about how their child’s name is going to look on a CV

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