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Irrational dislike of a name?

63 replies

looki · 02/01/2014 10:25

I have an irrational dislike of the name Katie. I think its due to Katie being so commonly used where I live that when a name is announced, it is almost surprising if it doesn't contain the name Katie. Yet I quite like the name Kate/Cate.

Anybody else have dislike one name but like something very similar?

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southerngirl25599 · 04/01/2014 05:18

Florence. Just sounds old fashioned vindictive old ladybug i've had a bad experience with one. No offence to any Florences'

ActiveTimes · 04/01/2014 03:37

Amelia. It sounds so whiny and I hate it.

BuffyxSummers · 02/01/2014 14:35

I don't know why but Monty irritates the shit out of me.

squoosh · 02/01/2014 13:33

Harriet/Harry

Both make my skin crawl.

Wishfulmakeupping · 02/01/2014 12:03

Scarlet I just don't like the sound of the actual word itself

comedaygoday · 02/01/2014 12:03

I dislike Julie, but like Juliet and Julia and I agree with the OP on Katie/ Kate.

UriGeller · 02/01/2014 12:00

Maude.

Just the way it drags your mouth down when you say it. Its the picture of misery.

TheBunsOfPanettone · 02/01/2014 11:59

CatsAreLikeChocolates agree about Sadie!

TheBunsOfPanettone · 02/01/2014 11:58

I dislike Katie spelt Katie but like it when it's spelt Katy Hmm obviously it sounds just the same. I think I'm slightly influenced by a rather nasty child I knew when I was growing up, who was called Katie.

I think Tessa's a pretty name but I am prejudiced against it. I suspect that's due to envying a little girl called Tessa in a picture book I had long ago for her fabulous pigtails, when I was made to have short hair that I could never do anything interesting with. While in my teens a man I was very keen on married someone called Tessa. In my mind "Tessa" just seems smug, prettier and luckier than me..... though it's debatable the Tessa that got the guy would agree about the lucky part, she left him after a few months!

CatsAreLikeChocolates · 02/01/2014 11:08

Mine's Sadie. Nowt wrong with the name I'm sure but it always sounds to me too much like sadness and sadism.

BunnyLebowski · 02/01/2014 10:35

I hate hate hate HATE Oliver.

It just sounds so horrible and ugly to me.

Have never known one so it isn't based on a bad experience with one.

Just hate it.

Thomas too but that might be down to that c*nt of a train.

UriGeller · 02/01/2014 10:32

Oh sorry. I do quite like Karen though, which is similar to Darren but obviously for a girl Blush

UriGeller · 02/01/2014 10:31

Darren and Darrel make me cringe. Fortunately they aren't seen as much as Katie! Kai as well is just horrible. I can't believe that fashion stylist woman called her baby Kai.