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What are the worlds most boring names?

147 replies

AntibackWash · 21/06/2017 16:23

This isn't a hate thread! I've been told that I like boring names Grin

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M5tothesouthwest · 21/06/2017 20:13

Helen
Sarah
Mark

DramaAlpaca · 21/06/2017 20:07

Oh dear, my name is on here, as is DS's, and lots of names I like.

I must be very boring indeed Grin

Umpteenthnamechange · 21/06/2017 20:04

I take it you mean English names? If so here goes -

Jane
Janet
Deirdre
Arthur
Doris
Gertrude
Alan

What do you picture when you read those names? I vividly see our village garden centre around 11 am on a weekday... Wink

MrsCharlieD · 21/06/2017 20:02

Jack, Harry, Isabella and Esme. Just dull as dishwater and ten a penny.

Kpo58 · 21/06/2017 19:59

Jane
Sarah
Sarah-Jane

Two boring names put together doesn't make an interesting name.

WhiskeySourpuss · 21/06/2017 19:57

Mine & both DD's (first & middle) names have been mentioned... love that DD1's name is the dullest, most dreary name ever... it wasn't even remotely popular when she was given it & then shot into the number one spot the following year... but hey I still love it & she's anything but dull & dreary!

midsomermurderess · 21/06/2017 19:21

Emily, just the dullest , most dreary name one could land on a child.

greendale17 · 21/06/2017 19:14

David
James
Charlie
Jack
Alfie
Freddie

Claire/Clare
Isabelle
Lilly
Amelia
Emily

Thurlow · 21/06/2017 19:12

I love the fact my name is on virtually everyone's list! I have no idea what my parents were thinking...

Castlelough · 21/06/2017 19:12

Helen...I don't know why I'm picking on the poor name Helen but Inhave always found it a bit dull.

SeveredPixieBits · 21/06/2017 19:06

*gruffallosfriend" wrote the exact post I was going to. If I meet another bloody baby Evie...

LynetteScavo · 21/06/2017 19:05

Thomas and Charlotte

Absolutely nothing wrong with them. Just boring. DH loves the name Charlotte though, so he would disagree with me.

moutonfou · 21/06/2017 19:03

Gavin.

SloeGinRocks · 21/06/2017 19:01

Sam
Claire
Angela
Faye
Ben
Ann
Anna
Brian
Ryan

sorry!

itssquidstella · 21/06/2017 18:58

Andrew
Mark
Stephen
Michael
Ben
Daniel
Sarah

Gallymum1 · 21/06/2017 18:56

Richard and Ian

MessyBun247 · 21/06/2017 18:54

Ruth
Amelia
Eva/Ava

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user1495484765 · 21/06/2017 18:52

Kevin, Nigel, Mary, Susan, Audrey, Suzanne, Martin, Pamela, Sarah

allegretto · 21/06/2017 18:49

The world's most boring name is Lee. Can't be shortened. Can't be lengthened. There is no air of mystery. No way to whisper it romantically. It's just there. Sorry Lees!

grufallosfriend · 21/06/2017 18:46

Anything that's very overused tends to get boring, so for me it's names like

Alfie, Archie, Jack, Harry, Oliver etc

Ellie, Olivia, Sophie, Evie, etc

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 21/06/2017 18:45

Im a Clare. The most boring name in the world.

Susan
June
Kate (boring but nice and classy)
Lynn
May
Jenny
Anne
Lily
Ellen
Rose

weebarra · 21/06/2017 18:17

Mine and DS1's names are there!
DS2 has an old Scottish name, but his middle name (ancient Scottish king) is always described a a middle aged man's name.
DD has a name which is also very old but has only recently become popular in England, we're in Scotland.
For me, it would be the names my friends and I are called:
Clare
Sarah
Kirsten
Michelle
Colin
Iain
Craig
David

susurration · 21/06/2017 17:35

Anne, Jane, Susan, Mary

David, John

PuppyMonkey · 21/06/2017 17:29

Jack

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