Marmite names which MNetters don't like..!!

Noah - loved it until dd was a toddler and started saying it instead of No in a huffy way!

Mark - a friend of a friend is known as skid, when I asked why I was told "oh, his name is mark... skid mark" Put me off the name for life.

Riley or Ryhlee as the boy at dd's nursery spells it. Generally any name that is spelt incorrectly in order to make it different. Just makes the parents look thick and means the poor child has to spell it to everyone. I worked at a newspaper for a while and came across 11 spellings of Amy!

I can't bear Evie - faddy and just one letter away from 'Evil'. And anything strippery - Lola, Tallulah, etc.

I must be alone on here as I actually quite like Destiny. I wouldn't choose it for my child, but I like it on other people.

Lola

Not one of my dcs names in the whole thread! Loads of names I hate....Freya and Daniel are two of the most common names that are too dull to say out loud.

I also don't like short names on BC...I don't know why! It just makes me cringe a little.

DS is Sam and I didn't like Samuel or Samson, but I ended up putting Samuel on the bc. And I like it now just fine. :)

What others choose to call their children is of no real consequence to me but I did feel a slight pang of pity for the child in the park the other day when her Mum called across the sand pit "Destiny! Get 'ere"

I absolutely hate Scarlett, it's a dreadful name and i always feel so sorry for any little girl with that nae. I also have an irrational dislike of Imogen, just sounds so ugly to me.

I also hate this MN obsession with everyone having to have a long version as well as a short version of a name. If you like Katie, call them Katie, it's a perfectly sensible name, they don't need to be Katherine, just in case, their name is their name.

I also hate hate hate Zak, it's the most popular name around here by far and a Zak always has a brother called Sam and a sister called Jessica.

Its silly spellings that get my goat more than the name itself. I know a Paditta (Perdita) and a Lillee (Lily).

Jingle, you've not met my Quentin yet - he's a mischevious 5 year old .

I don't really 'hate' any name but am not very keen on made up spellings.

Frenchified spelling, so I loathe Harriette but like Harriet. Amelie is awful but Amelia is pretty.

Can't stand Amy or Amie or Hannah (too breathy!) or anthing double-barrelled: Sally-Anne, Sarah-Jane (or worse, Sara-Jayne) Ellie-Mae etc.

Dislike shortenings as "real" names, so Bertie, Archie, Sally, Ellie etc are all wrong.

Irish names are lovely if the parents have have Irish heritage. If not I think they're a bit pretentious. Likewise French names; and while we're at it, "Fleur" is hideous even if the parents are French and the child will be called either "flirt" or "phlegm".

Plus the usual range of daft made up names.

Worst one in the book when we were choosing was "Gobniht". Means something very pretty in Irish but I think it's pronounced as spelled- would be interested if wrong

Sarge - I do like Bertie, I think it might be the only exception. I do prefer it asa nn for Bertram, but Bertie is fab.

Just re Harry, apart from small child ones I know Harrys in their 20s, 30s, 80s & would be 100s if not departed. My grandfather & both DP's grandfathers were Harry - and that was on the birth certificate.

Iona is beautiful! I doesn't belong in that list at all!

Jayden,Kaden,Kai,Tai boys and girls Aanya, Casey, Iona, ANGEL!!! All at our school.... we have 2 Angels - neither have the character one would expect of the name....

Quentin is not a timeless classic. It's a horrible geeky name that I've only ever heard once in RL. Seems strangely popular on MN though!

But then maybe I'm just bitter that people are saying how lovely names like Quentin and Antonia are whilst declaring all 3 of my DCs names as pointless .

Each to their own .

I bet our grandchildren will all be called Amanda, Kimberley, Pamela as our children don't have our associations and find them 'cool' and 'different' .

Oh Fel.nelson, I also dislike those (Amanda, Beverley, Yvette, Yvonne, Elaine, Lorraine, Patricia, Pamela, Kimberley and Hilary.). They are the sort of names of women who wear the same pair of tights for days on end and use too much perfume...or something.

Fellatio I would love to know what your dc are called, you big tease

I agree with my dislike of popular names being down to boredom. When you hear them everywhere they no longer sound interesting. Although I do like William.
I cannot stand the 'ie' ending fad at the moment, particularly if the child is given one as a full name, with nothing to fall back on (Alfie instead of Alfred for eg)

I chose all my dc name because i thought they were unusual, yet classic (ish), we have known people of all ages with dc names, although a few are getting pretty popular now (Elijah and Iris) the other two are less so.

Yes, we sometimes forget why we name someone or something: to identify him or her. And if a name is already used by thousands others doesn't really serve its purpose (without the addition of modifiers like surname initial).

A few names I considered beautiful a few years ago have now become so widely used that I find them rather dull. It is the same with foods of fashion - too much of anything becomes dull. But in the case of a name, it also loses its purpsose imo.

There are still lots of lovely underused names outside the top 100 though .

I agree, it's not so much that I 'hate' over-used names, I grow very very bored with them. I can LOVE a name, but once it becomes ubiquitous I go off it rapidly. That has almost happened with one of my DCs names, not overly common, but common enough to be able to link him to a particular decade. Although when I named him it was very unusual. It became very popular about 5 years later. It hasn't happened with the other two, and won't happen I don't think.

In fact my 12 year old has a name that when you put it into the facebook search engine it only returns about three results in the world! It's not remotely weird, just thankfully under-used.

I only really hate very popular names (top 10/20 names) like Jack, Tom, Ellie, Evie because they defeat the purpose of 'naming' or 'identifying' someone.

I much prefer classic, timeless names that are not super popular or fashionable but are still well known and easily pronouncable - e.g. Peter, Quentin, Alexander, Charlotte, Antonia etc.