What do *you* consider to be "horrible" names?

manic, great minds think alike! I dislike all the boys' names you mention apart from Hugo (but probably because I have a friend who's a Hugo and used to work with a gorgeous Hugo too, so it has good associations).

Pretty much agree with your girls' names too apart from I rather like Eve, Scarlett and Elizabeth.

I love a lot of the names mentioned so far.

Most of mine don't have clear reasons. Some are because I've known people or taught difficult children with that particular name.

I'm from the UK. Lived all over at various times but now in the home counties.

I've tried to group them a bit but probably only makes sense to me
Boys:
Sean, Shane, Wayne, Keenan, Jayden, Kai, Declan, Darren, Kevin, Kyle
Roger, Trevor, Brian, Brennan, Bradley, Barry, Keith, Norman, Allan
Hugo, Hugh, Rupert, Frederick, Hal, Vincent

Girls:
Chelsea, Kelsey, Kylie, Keely, Krystall, Kimberly, Kayleigh, Hayley, Kelly
Tracey, Stacy, Karen, Nancy, Sharon, Shannon, Michelle, Louise
Ann, Jane, Mary, Eve, Ellen, Scarlett, Sara, Elizabeth, Josephine

My son's name would be nice on a dog, I admit. But also on a lovely little boy! :)

In our local paper today:

"Mr and Mrs Whatsername welcome their daughter, Kensington Elizabeth..."

For the luvva God, why ?!

re reading the name books and have seen these gems

the girls name chava hebrew for life and it's dimunitive chavetta honestly i'm not making this up

and 2 boys names
chavez a spanish place name
chavara hebrew for loved one

not sure they'll be gaining in popularity in the uk any time soon

unless either baby beckham or windsor would like to be the first

I hate the following-
Lydia, Ethel, Ivy, Adelaide, Agnes ,Audrey, Gladys, Glenys, Mavis and lots of other old lady names. Absolutely hideous IMO.
Really boring names -Karen, Claire, Ann[e] [my own name], Jane, Mary
Old man names -Sid, Reggie, Harry, Wilf etc
Martha, Matilda ,Beatrice, Eugenie [no particular reason]
My pet hate is boys names for girls eg Toni, Billie, george. Girls should have pretty girls names.
Obviously all the usual made up, misspelled shit.

hrothgar a medieval form of roger . deepest aploogies to all little hrothgars and their mums .

someone at work actually said to me the other day 'Whats his name again?' about DC6 aged 2 (who was standing there) ' ' Oh N*&%$ it's a bit silly' I muttered or some such self deprecating gobshite and she just sort of smirked....

Take &^&(() THAT posh woman!

I have two dds with four names between them and two of the four have now been mentioned (although not by many people!). Waiting for the other two to appear now!

I just think it's intriguing how what sounds good to one person is so awful to another - it's like musical taste: it inspires such passionate feelings yet who knows why certain names make some people go 'ooh' and others go 'ugh?' This is why I love the baby names threads so much!

Lola seems to be very popular (among people I know/hear about anyway). It's a very middle-class slightly-alternative thing. Personally it always makes me think of a spaniel. I don't really know why.

I can't help quite liking Scarlett though.

1950s American nightclub names eg Ruby, Lola, Talullah, Scarlett. Why make your poor little DD sounds like something out of Bugsy Malone?

Brian, Keith, Nigel.

And I really really hate Ian.

Don't like Claire either for some strange reason.

And seems to have a nice meaning too:

The meaning of the name Shakira is Thankful
The origin of the name Shakira is Arabic

While I don't love Shakira, it has a nice sound to it and is easy to spell/pronounce. Certainly more interesting than another Ellie or Tilly.

I am pleasantly suprised that DD's nickname hasn't been mentioned yet. It always gets brought up on these threads as being twee and babyish.

Met a family yesterday whose daughter was called Shakira. I think that is almost criminal.

"Amelia - it is also the medical term for a birth defect with missing limb(s). Why use a name which also means this?"

Because most people have never heard of this condition? I admit that I hadn't until I read your post.

Since coming on mumsnet I have started to hate the names Kayden, Jayden, Brayden etc. This is because their horribleness has tainted two of my favourite boys names, Aidan and Haydn. Just because they have a similar sound to the ending of the name, everyone seems to lump together two solid, traditional names with a load of made-up, 'chavvy' for want of a better word, names.

Doesn't seem to happen with other names that sound similar - Ben/Ken, Guy/Kai etc.

The 'made up' names Kegan, Brayden, Jayden etc. A very popular one for girls round here is Tegan. Bloody awful!

season names eg Autumn, Summer and virtue names

Elizabeth, Catherine, etc. Not because they sound awful, they're perfectly nice sounding names, but just a little too commonly used. I prefer to go with traditional but less used names. (although just found out that my DD's name is in last years' top 100)

I secretly quite like LeShawn. Lol.

mamaesi, still no mention of mine . On yours, I mostly concur, although I rather like Imogen and Pearl. I secretly quite like Mo-Nique too ...

my daughter's name is on here... I adore it. actually the name forum is always the most heated/opinionated one on mumsnet...I find it hysterical how angry people can get...
so here goes... lets see how many people I make mad.

(have lived in england,america and italy) the names I hate are:

sharon, sheila, ethel, henrietta, crystal, imogen, cynthia, cinzia, pearl, mildred, agnes, ada, brooke, carol, gertrude, patience, roberta, princess, patrizia, paula

nigel, stanley, ronald, fabio, keith, donald, jeramiah, bernardo, bernard, dwayne,...

oh and if you want to get gong on made up names...there is no where better than in the ghettos of the south east of america, where I came across actual people named...

Sheniqua, Trishell, LaTrice, Lebron, LeShawn, Terell, Tyrese, Mo-Nique

Libelulle The same must go for me as I haven't been able to find mines yet. I think mines is just too unusual, everyone's forgotten how hideous it is! :P

libellulle, mine either! Which I'm surprised about, because personally I really dislike it.