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What names have you been put off?

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porterwine · 07/04/2017 22:40

Are there any names you liked but have been put off by association or an event?

For me (A=and it's a shame because it is of course very popular and well liked) but one is George. My grandpa used to talk about "having a George" meaning a number 2...he said it was a navy thing and they'd talk about "going to the John for a George" and now all that side of my family still use the term! Has anyone else ever heard this? I've never come across elsewhere it so I wonder if it was something that someone my grandpa served with came up with and it caught on.

I also think Fraser is nice but put off by a horrible ex and I think Myra is pretty but can't disconnect it from Hindley.

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lorelairoryemily · 13/04/2017 23:15

@sparkle oh congratulations!! How exciting!! It is a great name, suits him so well, fingers crossed your Dh will forget scooby doo my Dh hated it when I first suggested it and about two weeks later randomly text me from his night shift to say he liked it and it stuck!

catsarenice · 13/04/2017 22:25

I really liked the name Corey but when I mentioned it to DP he said 'no way that's a nickname for your nob end'. I didn't believe him but then when I asked around a few other people said it too.

TinselTwins · 13/04/2017 22:17

Also Rose/Rosie. Never have Rosey dispositions or complexions, usually moody and pasty.

There's something about descriptive names in general.. they never match their owners. I also knew a Patience who was gruff, intolerant & VERY impatient.

Decriptive names really emphasise a lack of that characteristic in a person y'know. Like I don't make a habit of noting whether or not someone is "graceful" unless their name is Grace (and they're distinctly not!)

kathkim · 13/04/2017 22:17

My grandpa used to talk about "having a George" meaning a number 2

GoLightlyHollie · 13/04/2017 22:16

scribblegirl I have never laughed out loud at a post on mumsnet until I read yours this evening. That's hilarious.

TinselTwins · 13/04/2017 22:13

Grace. It's a beautiful name/meaning, but no Grace I've ever met has been either physically graceful, or had a gracious personality!

xrayyankeezulu · 13/04/2017 22:07

Yes to Ella, always thought it was a lovely name until I encountered one with a loud mother at toddler group who always seems to be shouting
Ell-ooooooohhhhhh

I was due to be called Tamara until an aunt told DM I be referred to as Tammy tampax

M0nica · 13/04/2017 21:56

My dad was in the navy btw op and uses that term, along with loads of others

M0nica · 13/04/2017 21:55

Seraphina. Soo pretentious
Astrid, blunt & dumpy like an ass-turd

MusicToMyEars800 · 13/04/2017 21:54

oh and joanne ( I knw this will offend ) but it's jut an ugly name nd all joanne's I have met have been awful people

BurnTheBlackSuit · 13/04/2017 21:54

Feckerlino- thank you for your explanation about George! Makes perfect sense as my family were cockneys!

MusicToMyEars800 · 13/04/2017 21:52

Stacey ( an ex of my dp) lucy because every lucy I have ever met has been a manipulative, snakey horrible piece of work!
Alfie, my mums Yorkshire terrier has the same name

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 13/04/2017 21:48

Castor and Pollux, rhyming slang innit? I wish we'd called dtwins that.

Gatehouse77 · 13/04/2017 21:38

Loads! Downside of being in the education sector!

rumblingDMexploitingbstds · 13/04/2017 21:36

Shannon. After a bus ride with a mother constantly screaming it at the top of her lungs, surrounded by swearwords, at her child. Had the said child committed matricide with her tweenies lunchbox I'd have gone in as witness for the defense, but that did the name for me.

MadisonAvenue · 13/04/2017 21:30

Alice.
My husband's colleague's daughter is called Alice. I have her mother on my Facebook and she's constantly posting photos of the little girl smiling a very sickeningly sweet false smile. Looks like she should be in a Stephen King movie.

PunkrockerGirl · 13/04/2017 21:29

Castor. Just why

SunnySideDown1 · 13/04/2017 21:28

Irish version of the name ffs - not the English

228agreenend · 13/04/2017 21:27

Violet - quie liked this name until on a simliar thread , someone said if you put a N in, the name becomes Violent.

Sylvia - in my infant school, a girl with this name pushed a frind of a climbing frM, causing her to break her arm.

ChippieFishieHorshie · 13/04/2017 21:26

Isolda, Louisa, Myra, Gabrielle, Maria, Annie, Bruno, Theresa, Matilda, Magdalena
Arik, Victor, Henry, Lucas, Henrik, Emmett, Cedric, Eddie, Silvano, Nicholas, Maximilian...

Shoot, so many. That makes me seem kind of awful, I think.

SunnySideDown1 · 13/04/2017 21:25

I loved Siobhan when pregnant (being the English version of my Nan's name Joan) and having Irish roots myself.... until my Irish mum said it sounds like saying Shove-On (yer knickers!)

AcrossthePond55 · 13/04/2017 21:22

Michael. Other than my nephew (truly a lovely man), every Michael I have ever known has been a real shit.

KitKats28 · 13/04/2017 21:22

Castor oil? Castor Semagna?

loveslipstick · 13/04/2017 21:22

Jade .... I am yet to meet a Jade who isn't a total twunt.

Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 13/04/2017 21:19

Also, someone said Castor? Why not Castor, what have I missed?

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