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

Probably a certain German dictator

See, these threads always include names that were quite normal when older Mumsnetters were young - Barry being one of them. Names come and go and sneering at names you're not familiar with - or think are "old fashioned" - just shows you don't realise this.

There was a thread recently where someone said she would never give an "old fashioned" name to her child and then said she was thinking of naming her child Agatha. This was very much an old fashioned name when I was a child. As were names I've seen a lot over the past decade or more - like Elsie, Peggy, Reg, Stan, Ruby...

Me too, I didn’t understand that post at all.

I don’t know if anyone remembers Dallas. I was watching a YouTube video recently about one of the actors. His name was Dack Rambo. His real name was Norman Rambo and his twin brother was called Orman Rambo (really!!). When they grew up they didn’t like that their names were so similar so changed them to Dack and Dirk 😖 Who though would called their kids Norman and Orman, seems almost cruel😯

Just wondering what AH stands for 🤔

And who are the namesakes?

I'm really in the dark here! 😊

Yes, my DS’s name didn’t appear with individual numbers for his year of birth, indicating three or fewer usages.

My dc have quite timeless traditional names. I hope no one thinks they’re awful. 🙈

But in my group of old school friends, there is a baby called Fritiz and another called Bruce. I can’t think of Bruce as anyone but the guy from the golf club who sells insurance. 😂 I’ve never said that to my friend obviously!

Personally, the ones that drive me nuts are the ones that are spelled wrong. Like Alayiyah but they insist it’s pronounced Aleeeyah. That is not how you’ve spelled it though!

AFAIK names with fewer than 3 uses don’t get published to protect privacy so we don’t see the genuinely rare ones. Unfortunately.

I have an adult Alfie. He doesn’t find it “cringy” at all. He loves his name and it’s still fairly unusual in an adult. Another 10 years and there will be quite a few adults named Alfie.

I think a 40+man called Barry (or, even worse, Barrie) would be odd unless he's over 60.

I hate Neville, Victor, Vincent, Bernard, Ernest.

They all sound thoroughly dependable chaps who wear Harris tweed jackets with leather elbow patches, but still awful names.

Anything overly pretentious and trying to sound upper class. Just choose names like Elizabeth/ Rose, Henry, Ernest.
Names like Jayden, Brayden etc . Also Riley, Tyler type names.
Girls anything double barreled. With Jo, Mae , Rae etc at the end.

I was a bit disappointed when a very close friend named her dd Francesca.

The only other Francesca I've ever known was an absolute cow-bag.

I know someone who has 2 sons with 1 syllable names, eg Luke and Max. Relatives and neighbours etc call them Lukey and Maximillian, or Lukeyboy and Maxwell. Names on their birth certificates are Luke and Max.

More annoying that the names being shortenened that is, bloody lengthening them...

I also know someone with sons called Adam and Daniel, and they call them Addy and Dangy. (Hard G in Dangy, like G for Great.) Brother is called Stuart, they call him Stewpot. One of their cousins is called Harry - they call him Hazza or Hazzington. Another cousin is called Lily. They call her Lillo. Fucking LILLO!

What the F is wrong with some people?!! The names are easy enough to say. Stop pissing about. If someone mispronounced my name I would ignore them. A supply teacher (when my DC were in early primary) used to shorten my older DC's name, and I politely asked her not to. It really pissed me off. EG, if it was Hannah, she called her Hanz! Fuck off! Her name is Hannah. It's literally 2 syllables!

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Only read your initial post and concluded your thread is ridiculous. Those are not made up names 🙄

I saw that. Not sure I believed the poster though. I was believing it til she willingly shared the names. Who would do that? I had a feeling it may have been someone deliberately taking the piss out of someone else's children or grandchildren's names.

The only names I have heard that I really dislike are ones that belonged to horrible people, who have then put me off the name full stop. Obviously there are lots of names I would not have chosen for my dc, but in terms of knowing someone with a name, I like the name if I like the person, so the actual name is irrelevant.
Eg names like Julie are unpopular now, but I’ve known a lot of lovely Julies.
I went to school with Penelope, Monique, Andrea, Susanna, Nicola, Deborah, Laura, Helena, Philippa, Jane etc. All classic and sound lovely but underused at the moment.

Gladys

Malcolm

The worst two that I have come across in my family tree are probably Horace and Gertrude.
The influencer Aubree Jones's kids have tacky names eg Trendy and Disney.

Icarus !??? That is unfortunate. Do they keep telling him to wear sunblock and stay indoors ? Plus no air travel…

Someone I know gave her husband a list of her preferred names and told him to think of the worst nickname someone could make out of them. From Jazmine he came up with Jizz-Minge and I’ve never felt the same way about the name since 😆

I'm really hoping she had relatives that were murdered there and wanted to use it as some sort of bizarre tribute. Still absolutely shocking, but the least horrific alternative that I can see, unless she actually thought she'd invented the word!

Oh, how I loathe these snooty, judgmental threads!

My friend spent £35k on IVF then called the poor child Jayden. I think Jay is nice though. I wonder why?

I also loathe all the Cooper, Walker etc surname type names.

That's terrible.

Thank you for explaining why it's so very inappropriate.