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names you would never, ever call your child

164 replies

MamaLaMoo · 23/01/2012 12:57

Fenton

Adolf, Beelezebub, Satan, Lucifer, Jezabel, Lolita.

Any drug including alcoholic drinks (I taught an Opium - just imagine what she was like, yep just like that).

Parents/grandparents names, personally don't like the Little Johnny Junior or Little Johnny II.

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exoticfruits · 29/01/2012 17:01

I don't think it is mean and unkind. People find mine dull and boring-I'm quite pleased because if they liked them there would be far too many around! DH and I liked them-I really couldn't care less for opinions of people that I haven't met.

LineRunner · 29/01/2012 16:57

There is a little bit of humourlessness on here, but that's be the Barry Manilow fans.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 29/01/2012 16:13

I really, really don't 'get' that it's 'unkind' to say whether you like particular names or not. They are just the opinions of strangers. You like your daughter's name so why on earth does it matter to you if some random person on the web says they dislike it?

I remember somebody on MN getting really, really sniffy when I said that I hated a certain writer, who she happened to love. If people are so insecure in their opinions that they feel that the whole world and his dog must share them, that's quite odd imho.

amimagic · 29/01/2012 15:56

Oh, and I meant to say that I think this thread's really mean and unkind.

amimagic · 29/01/2012 15:54

DDs name is Amelie. Someone delightfully shuddered at the thought upthread Hmm

Saying that it's horribly overused though certainly doesn't apply round here. Large numbers of people have never heard of it!

(I have wanted to use the name since reading Wide Sargasso Sea for A-level 20 years ago. Amelie was a horrible character but I thought the name was fab)

kerala · 29/01/2012 15:05

Marie (name of bully at school)
Emma (DHs mysterious ex who he was with for years but has mysteriously disappeared)

Names that are ok but horribly overused rendering them tedious (Sophie, Eve, Amelie, Isabel/la et al)

Littlepurpleprincess · 29/01/2012 11:54

McKenzie. 'Tis Chav-tastic.

DS name is on here, do I get some sort of award? Grin

oldsilver · 29/01/2012 00:31

Woo hoo, both my first and last name (although that was spelt incorrectly) and a bastardisation of DS's name is here ... mind you so has the whole of DS's school Reception and Year 1 classes Grin

Tis all personal taste init Smile

LineRunner · 29/01/2012 00:08

Yes, like Eugenie.

Princess Vagine. Rather magnificent. Tres Candide. Grin

WittyTitle · 29/01/2012 00:06

I was worried it was to become a name, it has a french ring to it?

LineRunner · 29/01/2012 00:02

It's famed typo of vagina, Witty.

WittyTitle · 29/01/2012 00:01

Incidentally Potty, thats the second time today ive seen the word Vagine used in a post non-chalently.....is it common on MN? Hmm

WittyTitle · 29/01/2012 00:00

Can we call her vuhjayjay for short then? Grin

Im just waiting to see a post "what do you think of the name Canesten-May

Popoozle · 28/01/2012 23:10

Really planetpotty - I was hoping to name my future-yet-to-be-conceived DD Vagine-Fanjo. Do you think it would be a no-no then?

Actually, it'd probably be more widely accepted on MN than Poppy Grin.

planetpotty · 28/01/2012 23:01

Tallulahdesthehullainhawaii

Vagine

Popoozle · 28/01/2012 22:56

Although, still no-one has mentioned DS2's name. I need it to complete my bingo card, don't cha know Grin.

Popoozle · 28/01/2012 22:55

I can't bear Poppy, Daisy, Milly, Tilly, Holly, Maisy, Molly.....and all those cutesy diminutive flowery names that seem to be all the rage.

Ah, how sweet of you to mention my entire name shortlist for DD. Grin She has one of those names, two others were the names that DS1 & DS2 would have had, had they been girls.

Popoozle · 28/01/2012 22:49

WittyTitle - your post has reminded me of a local family with 5 boys. Each one has a hyphenated first name and each first name begins with a double letter. It was fine when their first DS was named Lloyd-X, but by DS5 the names were very clearly made up to fit the "criteria" Grin.

WittyTitle · 28/01/2012 22:28
Confused
muffinino82 · 28/01/2012 22:12

OH's cousin named his children Damien, Pagan and Jezabel Hmm Sadly, Damien killed his father with a machete (I'm not joking, he really did) :(

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exoticfruits · 28/01/2012 17:10

All early 20th century names Elsie, Hilda, Reginald, Sidney etc etc
All 1940's names Brenda, Linda, Nigel, Malcolm etc etc
Flowery names Violet, Primrose, Poppy, Daisy etc etc
Anything spelt originallywrongly.
Names like Kyle, Jayden, Tia, Maya etc
Surnames Tyler, Morgan, Tayler, Harrison etc etc
Hyphenated names

WittyTitle · 28/01/2012 16:41

Incidentally, my name is totally weird to most people, as are my childrens, but im okay with that because I know if I was home, we would be normal!

WittyTitle · 28/01/2012 16:40

yeh but the bad news for him, he was in A and E, Grin

I also knew a family where all of the children started with a D' ...there was D'lila, D'estiny, D'vine, D'angelo and D'avid....I think they ran out of steam with the last one!

StarryEyedYoghurt · 28/01/2012 16:38

My name has been mentioned quite a few times already on here Sad I actually love my name, which I think is quite rare as most people I know don't like the name their parents gave them.

I hate the Hayden, Jayden, Kayden brigade and can't stand names that are the shortened version of a name - like Chris being someones whole name.