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

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scarlettlips · 06/12/2011 13:11

It seems this topic board has loads of MN's 'marmite' names. Loads of threads along the lines off, 'DC would of been' or 'Names you Love.'.

...so I was just wondering, which names don't you like and why?

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CharlieBoo · 07/12/2011 22:52

Gravitas??? I'm sorry but how does Henry have more gravitas than Harry? My dh works in a v executive role in the city and works with 2x Charlie's, (one in 20's one in 30's)... There's 2x Alex's ( why don't they use Alexander for more gravitas I wonder?) Grin

roastparsnipsandbrusselsprouts · 07/12/2011 22:44

I completely agree with gaunyersel but then I am also Scottish.

My ds's name would seem faddy to the wider Mumsnet audience yet it has run through our family for generations. It has not been mentioned btw, just the sort of name it is.

My dd's name is similar. It is Scottish but variations of it have been used nationwide and might be seen as faddy. It is unusual in the part of Scotland we live in (2 in the school so not freakish) but where we lived before it was not common but well recognised.

For us both names gave our dcs some of their heritage and up here would not have anything to do with class or fashion.

Sargesaweyes · 07/12/2011 22:37

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SleeplessinBournville · 07/12/2011 22:37

Don't know why - always hated Hugo and Guy - PSBs in Boden. And so bored of all those names like Alice, Emily, Emma, Amelia, Amy etc too. Victorian insipidness.

montmartre · 07/12/2011 22:37

My wee laddie has a Scottish name!

It seems universally liked on MN.

My DD's name is definitely of the marmite ilk though... people rave about it or detest it, no middle ground.

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edulwichma · 07/12/2011 22:27

Classic is something that doesn't go in and out of fashion. Oliver is a name that is massively popular today but 20/30 years ago was barely used. It will be strongly linked to this era and will sound dated (like Steven etc) in 20/30 years time.

SleeplessinBournville · 07/12/2011 22:26

I agree, Puffykins(?!). Alfie? Archie? Even Toby, which is nice for a little boy, but for anyone older than 12?

Puffykins · 07/12/2011 22:15

There are many names that I'm not as keen on as I am others, but one thing that really irritates me is when children are given diminutives as their actual names - i.e. Penny instead of Penelope, Charlie instead of Charles/ Charlotte, Harry instead of Henry, Millie instead of Camilla/ Millicent etc. etc. I don't know why it irritates me so much - after all, it's none of my business - but it does. One day the child might want a name with more gravitas.

SleeplessinBournville · 07/12/2011 22:14

Jay den? Bleeeeuuuurrrrgh!!!! My iPad even refuses to let me type it as one word. That's got to be a sign that it's just wrong.

Takver · 07/12/2011 22:02

Why is Oliver not classic? Is it because of the Cromwell association & therefore being anti royalist etc?

(Just curious - I would have considered it to be so.)

effingwotsits · 07/12/2011 21:59

Names I cannot bear for no good reason:

Jonathan
Jonty
Ellie
Millie
Maisie
Noah (though noa without the h doesn't offend me so much Confused)
Jayden
Anything 80's like Wayne, Barry, Douglas, Russell, etc....

gaunyerseljeannie · 07/12/2011 21:57

Just that the names described as classic are very English. no Scots names included, though of course some of these have been used in Scotland for centuries too. Think Scots names are often dismissed as faddy but have been used for a long time up here. Also sometimes seen as very middle class in England but aren't here etc.

LilRedWG · 07/12/2011 21:52

DD's name has been mentioned on here as a "I'm not keen on" name, but DS's isn't on here - which suprises me as in RL it seems to be a Marmite name - I quote my sister when we were discussing names when I was pregnant. I told her our boys name and she said, "Let's just hope you have a girl then". Needless to say we had a boy. :)

edulwichma · 07/12/2011 21:51

Yes, English. Born and bred Londoner.

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gaunyerseljeannie · 07/12/2011 21:46

Are you all English??

edulwichma · 07/12/2011 21:28

Agree that Harry is not a classic.

edulwichma · 07/12/2011 21:27

I agree that Oliver is no way a classic. Yes it's an old name but so are all the other 'current' names. I would say that George is a current name too. There were no Georges in my school in the 80s. David and Robert aren't classics either as they are out of fashion now and have been for the past 15 years.

The only real classics are James, Alexander and Edward. Elizabeth, Anna & Katherine for the girls.

SleeplessinBournville · 07/12/2011 20:24

Apologies for being a pedant, but Harry isn't actually a classic - it's a pet version/nickname for Henry.

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CharlieBoo · 07/12/2011 19:37

I don't know a single Harry in his 30's or 40's... Only ones younger than 21 or older than 65.... Bit like Oliver... IMO classics need to cover all generations.

exoticfruits · 07/12/2011 18:56

Harry is a classic, Finn, Jude and Oliver are not. I can't hear Archie without mentally going 'Archibald'.

Dragonwoman · 07/12/2011 18:37

As I've said before I don't like any name ending in o unless the family is of Italian extraction or similar. Just seems pretentious on a British person. Also dislike the name Harry for no reason. Dislike David but not Dave.

ThePoorMansBeckySharp · 07/12/2011 18:01

I cannot STAND poncy, try-hard names like Hugo, Mungo etc or pretentious names of the Atticus/Persephone/Lysander ilk