What names do you judge the most?

I never judge a child by it's name...only the adults who gave them

It does happen. I used to work in social services and we always reckoned you could go down the maternity ward and tick off those kids who would end up on the troubled families register just by hearing what the parents had called them

Ew. I'm glad most social workers don't think like you.

My caseload is full of perfectly unremarkably named kids, if it's relevant. Not a Chardonnay-blu among them.

He's called Baptiste Coulmont and he's a sociologist.

There is a French anthropologist whose name escapes me whose research is all about first names and destiny. He has run huge databases and can predict the probability of success in the bac according to first name.

Lizzie - I have a couple of friends who are teachers in high schools (have been for many years), and they do admit to being able to predict (with some level of accuracy) which children are likely to be more 'lively' in class by their names on the register in S1.

It does happen. I used to work in social services and we always reckoned you could go down the maternity ward and tick off those kids who would end up on the troubled families register just by hearing what the parents had called them.

I think I saw some research somewhere that showed people are judged on their name in job interviews, school etc and it does make a difference to the way children are treated people do it subconsciously, no matter what diversity regs they've signed up to.

I don't judge people on their names but these are names I don't like

Anything titled like princess
Hyphenated names
Old fashioned but not trendy names such as Quentin and Eggbert
Place names like Camden
Pet names like Tabitha or kitty
Brand names like Levi
Virtue names like hope
Most boys names beginning with C or K like Cameron, Connor and Kieron

I do like flower names like poppy and lily, tree names like Hazel and willow, average/popular names like Sophia and Oliver and classic names that never went out of fashion such a Elizabeth and Alexander.

I agree with obsidian except I extend that to popular 'girly' names like Tilly, Milly etc. For some reason I like Kitty though

My dp has a double-barrelled, definitely not French, first name, but only his parents call him by it these days. He just goes the first half which is a very standard (although no longer common in children) British name.

Yeah, I agree. Poor Pierre.

SoWhite I agree about the French name being fine on a French child. Otherwise it can be a bit weird. I work with a guy who's name is Pierre. Customers always say "oh, that's quite fitting for a chef", they always assume he's French. Then they meet him, and hear his cockney accent and are confused! His parents aren't French. His family don't speak French. And he's only ever been to France once to take his kids to Disneyland what were his parents thinking??

How do people feel about long established French hyphenated names?

In France, or one an obviously French kid, fine.

British kid in the UK will get tarred with the same hyphen brush, even if it is traditional, or has a tenuous family link.

Run of the mill, average, been in top 20 names list for 30 years, play it safe names we've all heard 1000's of times before. Boring.

But how would you know a Phoebe is from Friends or an Armani, when heard, is actually an Imani?

I bet an Adonis and I judged, or rather thought, thats s big name to live up to.

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so white but my kids are in UK! Try look white with blue eyes as try mixed. Lets say my Des names are Jade and Phoenix or even Crystal Phoenix which might be very auspicious name they might be judged.

But we are becoming more global, with more travel so I think anything will be pretty much OK in future.

French hyphenated names are a bit passe in France (Anne-Sophie, Marie-Laure, Jean-Marie, Marie-Claude etc). They're square and uptight.

French people will always be stylish - I guess you are thinking Jean-Paul, Jean-Yves, Jean-Michel etc? That's so different from Kyle-Jayyden, I would suggest.

How do people feel about long established French hyphenated names?

1. Wrong spellings in an attempt to be different.

1. Hyphens.

1. Cutesy baby names that are totally unsuitable for adults.

1. Brand names - Diesel, Harley, Armani (and its many variant spellings, see point 1), etc.

1. Surnames as first names.

Oh - and I am extremely judgemental of people who call their DC after characters on popular TV shows. Joey/Phoebe after Friends...

I judge names that are incorrectly spelled - just as I judge people with poor spelling.

Names that are trying too hard to be either original or aspirational are pretty awful.

Actually yes tooloud, our Singaporean MD has a cutesy name, so there are definitely cultural variations. In the same way that surname names get an easier time in the US.

On the whole, I think people are talking about UK baby names on this thread though.

Maybe its a cultural thing?

Im Chinese and a feminist. I let granny choose Western baby names and one has a cutesy name like FIFI or Kitty and other other is nickname, made up, think Veronie or Maudie or Sybillie.

I know a MD called Crystal Tiger in HK. I really like her name but think it sounds strong and powerful. However you might assume she is uneducated.

Wolfie Smith surely?!

Rylea-Jain? Good grief.....

I knew of a little girl called Rylea-Jain n definitely thought yep her parents r total annoying wannabes trying to follow every trend at once, yawn. Boys name for a girl? Tick. Hyphen in name? Tick. Spell name "interestingly"? Tick. Awful.

Have since got to actually know them a little bit n they r lovely plus not wannabes at all so I have to retract my opinion on them as people n try to be less of a cow . However, I stand by my original decision that the name is awful!

My conclusion jumping is now reserved for parents of boys with hyphenated names. Oliver-Logan anyone? Didn't even know this was a thing now?