Which names do you IRRATIONALLY dislike?

Boys names for girls and vice versa. Not unisex names like Alex, but like male Ellie or female Jordan.

Mia or Mya
Simply because if someone says that name, I immediately forget how they have pronounced it.

Merlin - can't take it seriously

I dislike French names, although I'm not sure why. Especially if they start with a CH (Charlotte!). And extra-especially the newer names like Chantelle and Chanice. I think it must be the SH sound because Sinead and Siobhan etc. annoy me too. And don't start me on Shanai...

But my biggest dislike is Caitlin. It irrationally irritates me that it is about the only Irish-spelled name that isn't given its Irish pronunciation, but is sounded out in English phonetics. And that bugs me. Then the "t" is always a glottal stop and the whole thing sounds horrible. Mind you, "kotch-leen" doesn't really sound much better, does it?

You sound lovely, Regina.

Hate the name Kaiden, (kayden) with a passion it is over used and chavvy.
Girls I hate ellie, lilly, evie, sienna all stupidly over used girls names theres to many at school that they have to ge known as liily p etc, No kaidens at the are all residing on big council estates in the city

Jessica - bleugh!

Claire
Vicky (Don't have a problem Victoria)
Tracy/Tracey
Any names that have been made "cute" eg - Archie, Alfie etc
Any "Z" names eg - Izzy, Zac, Xander etc
Any "K" names eg - Kelly, Kerry, Kevin, Kalvin etc
Americanised names - Macey, Casey, Morgan, Mason, Paige, Jayden/Jay etc
Surnames as first names eg Harrison, Parker etc

Probably loads more!

I will admit that it is important for me to recognise that all this is so subjective as to be irrational because my frequent reaction to people on baby name threads, including this one, who react vehemently to names are a bit thick.

Clearly they are not thick, but what is the point of saying 'oh I hate that name'? someone else will love it.

Asking for suggestions, to get ideas you might not have thought of, is one thing, but posters saying 'oh I hate that' is nothing more than irrational.

Oh yes, Scarlett.

Imogen
Martha
Arlene
Amelia and Amelie
Dorothy
Nicole
Danielle
Stacey
Taylor
Darcy
Ramona
Leona
Heidi
Kelsey
Georgia
Rebecca
Beth, Bethany, Bess, Bessie
Poppy, Daisy, Elsie, Dulcie, Molly, Clover, Ellen

Jared
Caleb
Seth [yeth yeth yeth to Lebkuchenlover. This is what snakes would say, if snakes could speak]
Angus
Sebastian
Magnus
Tyler
Lawrence and Laurence
Mason
Rufus
Rafferty
Flynn
Ethan
Riley
Tristan
Joshua
Rupert

Glad to get all that off my chest.

We've had D and B names, but I irrationally dislike all E names. Especially Eleanor, Ellie, Ella, Emma, Edward, Edmund, Ethan. They make me think of eggs! I cannot think of one I like.

Agree with posters who have said Beatrice, it's horrid, but I don't know why. And I don't like Amelia/Amelie as for some reason I think of worms.

Also dislike Thomas and Tom.

My own name has been mentioned here but I don't mind it at all.

Saskia for me too, it makes me think of someone in a snowsuit. Dunno.

Neil.. just awful to me.

Barry & Gary.. soooo boring.

Anything like Arabella, Scarlett, Ruby. They make me angry!

Yy charm!

I agree. If you dislike a name you simply dislike it! Don't think that is a rational decision.

"can we conclude that all subjective name choices are basically irrational - you either like it or you don't - and it is a complete waste of time basing your choice on what someone else likes"

AMEN!

So since this thread contains practically every name that has been asked about on MN, and as every name that is popular or someone loves, can we conclude that all subjective name choices are basically irrational - you either like it or you don't - and it is a complete waste of time basing your choice on what someone else likes.

There are as many people prepared to be horrible about any given name as say they love it.

I don't think your dislike of Morag is irrational in all honesty, Mutter

Maude, Morag, Melanie. Obviously have an irrational dislike of girls names beginning with 'M'!
Stephanie
Samantha
Ariadne
Daphne
Chardonnay
Henrietta

Marcus
Seth
Angus
Timothy
Gregory
John
Kyle
Francis

Also dislike any male/female name that is hyphenated or spelt in a completely weird way to how it should be.

Poppy makes me wince as it was my chosen name for 15 years to give to a
DD till bloody Jamie Oliver called his daughter Poppy now every other kid is called Poppy. grrrr. It was quite an obscure name till Jamie ruined it. But I'm grateful my DD was born after so she now has a beautiful name.

Jayden. I've no idea why, I just can't stand it!!

Chloe sounds like phlegm.

Excuse me?

bubblegum I'm the opposite - like Francis, can't stand Frances. Only reason I can think of for this is that my older brother had a gorgeous mate called Francis when he was at school, I was also friends with a Frances who was nice but ever so slightly irritating.

I can't stand the name John, to the extent that I once dumped a perfectly nice boyfriend because I couldn't stand his name .

chrome - there isn't a name that hasn't been slagged off is there? Think all my family are there, some several times. Most of my friends, and most of their friends!

I feel irrationally sad that my own name has been slagged off on here - why do I even care?

Chloe. Sounds like phlegm.

Imogen. Pure, irrational dislike