Names you hate!

I don't like all the -aiden -ayden names
Norman for a baby just seems ridiculous
Have met too many unpleasant Claires
Surnames for first names, just wrong

Not sure Timo should be acceptable anywhere!

Uh oh, my OH is a Timo! Though he is certainly unacceptable in some places...

To clarify - DD's name is a full name not a nn. It's just short.

Wholeheartedly agree with londongirl. I don't really like nicknames on birth certificates (there are a few exception which I do like), though I appreciate its personal taste and all that. I probably wouldn't do it myself is all - I'd like my DC to have the choice. My DD has a short name which is hard to make a nn out of and I kind of regret that.

I don't get why some people on here don't understand why people would name a child William and call them Billy for instance.

Billy is a nickname and nicknames are meant to be used by family and friends to show closeness and intimacy. Some nicknames are best only while children are small. Having a more formal name, like William, allows a child to have a more grown up name for work and dealing with strangers. My brother in-law insists on being called Robert at work but friends and family call him Rob. My best friend is Rebecca at work but Becky to her friends.

Queen Elizabeth's family call her Lilibet but I doubt she'd want you to call her that!

I actually am not fond of giving nicknames as legal names. It seems to rob children of choice and force them to always be overly familiar and diminutive with everyone.

Ellen I'll never learn will I!
I need to Know My Place.
I had tried to discuss the matter but meh.
Little John Paul and R Baby are quite happy with their names thanks

I do t like Nevaeh
Kathryn
Elizabeth
Sophie
Ruth

William
Jayden
Benjamin
George

My absolute worst are Olivia and Oliver. I do not understand the popularity of these names. They sound so dismal and sludgy [ smile]

Personal choice and all that but for me

Boys
Finley - v popular round our way and not in a good way
Charlie - as above every other kid is called it
Milo - just shouldn't be allowed outside of Hampstead
Lewis - just don't like it
GEorge - too many of them
Mason - we are not kardashians
Sebastian - just don't like it
Toby - really dislike it sounds like a dogs name

Girls
Millie/ Tillie or any other similar sounding names
Melody
Thea /Freya - touch pretentious for me
Poppy - just not nice

Elliot, Neil, Peter, Robert. No idea why. Just make me feel itchy!

I dont like Abigail....to me it looks like a - big - ail.

Or reminds me of Abigail Williams the antagonist from the Crucible.

Because sneering is an eminently sensible pastime.

And if you weren't such a Scouse Prole FerylBeryl you would have known that.
Furthermore I very much hope that your children are suitably named Shaun and Chantelle; as is befitting your cultural/social standing

No, FeralBeryl, I was sneering at cultural appropriation. Which is a perfectly sensible thing to sneer about, as two posters who are actually from cultural minorities have confirmed on this thread.

Oh jeez K8 you've just reminded me that my DP really wanted to call ds Octavius that name was swiftly vetoed!

Yes! Ditto to Claire. But Clare is ok they do generally seem nicer 😳

I also dislike double barrel ending in Mai/May and Lillie is yuck but Lillian is lovely.

There are so many names I dislike I dare not start a list! I bloody hate Scarlett.

Names spelt ridiculously and the parents that them complain no one pronounces it correctly.

Noah for a girl

My DS1 used to go to nursery with a Hercules and a Ulysses ironically they were two of the wimpiest kids you've ever seen!!

W8 no, ok you were sneering at the use of names with a foreign origin.
It wasn't only your post I found a bit off - I didn't intend to single anyone out in particular.
I am genuinely interested what you would deem acceptable to name your children if they're born in Liverpool?
What are your thoughts on someone's example of 'Charlotte'
The way it read was that Scousers would be incapable of pronouncing such names which is obviously an offensive thing to suggest?
We don't all talk quite like Lily Savage
I is dead posh sometimes.

Oh dear my friends and family have a lot to answer for there isn't one name there that I don't know as a child!

Family-wise I have Noah, Caleb, Harley, Charlene, Eli, Mason, Kevin, Tanya..all equally as shit as each other apparently

Friend-wise I have Chloe-Mae, Lily-Mae, Lucy-Mae, Harrison, Ellie-Mae, Miley, Milo, Evie, Theo, Leo, Rueben, Lewis, Charlie, Dylan, Thomas, Rory, Jacob, Isaac..
to name but a few.

Thankfully neither mine, OH, or ds name had come up so far.

I, personally, can't stand the name Elisha (or any other spelling). No idea why, I went to school with one and she was lovely.

I also can't stand why people would call their child one name i.e William and then insist they be called some derivative of that name i.e Billy..
why not just call them Billy in the first place?! Boils my piss but everyone's different I guess.

Ellis
Reina
Lexie

New to the thread so these have probably all been mentioned:

Kayden
Jaden
Lili-Mae anything Mae
Anyone who calls their ds after their dad, but adds 'junior', so junior becomes an actual name.
Initials as an actual name. Like calling your child 'TJ'

The fad a few years back using a surname as a first name, Taylor, Jackson, that kind of thing, I hated it at the time and still do, and I don't like many names beginning with K either...I don't mind the name Chester for my cat though brightnearly!

It's weird how knowing someone horrible will put one off a name and some names seem to be used by horrible people.

I live in Mexico a common enough name here is Gustavo, I have only ever met one Gustavo that I liked, all the rest were/are extremely unpleasant.

Many years ago I had a Canadian friend who went to live in London for two years and took advantage to change her name from (wholesome) Sally to Vanessa. After two years of living as Vanessa she went back to Sally, because she felt that the new name was changing her personality in a way she didn't like.

And just to ask, if you'd seen your post written by someone else would you have seen it as slightly racist??

Again, I'm sorry if I caused offence, that's not at all where I was coming from.

I'm very sorry to hear that happened to your family Francis. I'm not sure how my post is a slur?? I was sticking up for Jewish people as I genuinely thought your original post sounded racist!

I think we have crossed wires here as my intention was in no way intended to insult you or Jewish people. Quite the opposite in fact.