Best and worst names...

Best name- I like Hamish

Worst name- anything which presents the child as purely an extension of the parent's identity rather than a person in their own right, eg naming your child after yourself or after a celebrity you think is cool but for all you know may get Yewtree'd (or the posthumous equivalent) in a few years time.

Love:

Lara
Audrey
Annie
Violet
Alice

Alex
Owen
Ivor
Elliot
Lawrence
Seth

Dislike:

long, fussy girls names such as Arabella, Theodora etc. Or any hyphenated girls name of the Georgie-May type ilk.

Imogen - sounds like a detergent

Also
Hugo
Nicholas - (this is a totally irrational loathing - I just hate the sound.)

But it would be boring if we all liked the same stuff. Each to their own....

I love names such as Poppy, Matilda, Florence, Amelia, Eliza/ Elizabeth, Freya, Iris, Kelly, Rosa/Rose
Sebastian, Oliver, Sidney, Albert,

I can’t stand: Oscar, Billy, Jonathan/Johnathan, Tommy, Matthew, Mark, Arthur, Ronnie, Stanley, Lara, Jessica, Kiki, Bella

I don't truly hate many names, but there is something about the sound of some words and the images of those sounds that really put me off a few names.

Moira. Too similar to moist.
Maeve. It just sounds so unfinished to me! Really awkward sounding, but everyone else I know loves it!
Mildred. Too similar to mildew.
Eglantine. Makes me think rotten eggs.
Jamie. I have no reason for hating this name so much, I know it's illogical. I think it's something about the "mee" sound. I dislike Mia and Amelia too.

I love a lot of 70/80s names. Jennifer, Sarah, Gemma, David etc. Also harder sounding names are nicer to me than soft names.

If I had a girl she would have been named after something like a beautiful colour/flower or jewel. So I like anything such as Ruby, Pearl, Amber, Iris, Rose, Violet etc...

I always liked Douglas for a boy, Duggie for short but DH hated it so went with something else. Also really like Thomas but can't explain why. Just realised typing this out that both names end in the same sound.

I don't like Octavia/Ophelia or Constance/Prudence. Think they're just very over the top and I'm definitely not posh enough to use them. And Felix which is also popular on here but a cat food brand to me.

I like underused classics - there are so many beautiful names outside the top 500!

I hate overused names like Alfie, Archie, Oliver, Jack, Theo, Harry, Ellie, Evie etc

I dislike anything with May/Mae, Anne or Leigh tagged on the end of a first name. Also common names spelled strangely to be ‘unique.’ I also dislike the old lady/man names that are coming back into fashion.

If I had another little girl I’d name her Susannah Marigold and nickname her Sunny. If I had to name another little boy I’d call him Nathaniel James.

I like so many names! I really don’t like names like Brixleigh, etc…we have a lot of those kinds here in the states. But whatever floats your boat.

Agree with pp, cringe at double barrel names using Mae/May or when it’s used as a middle name.

Boys..... I love. Gabriel. Tom. Cooper. Finbar. Vincent. Jude.
Boys......I hate. Mason. Arthur. Austin. Sean. Wayne.
Girls.......I love. Briony. Faye. Katie. Hannah. Tiffany. Shannon. Molly. Noami.
Amity. Pearl. Nyree. Lucy. Eden. Abbie. Elsa. Eliza. Jovie. Nevaeh. Saskia. Tansy. Jessica Poppy Daisy. Kiera. Linda. Virginia. Cynthia. Kelly. Michelle. Lindsey. Alicia. Christina. Victoria. Farrah. Fallon. Victoria. Irena.Violet. Angel. Sarah. Nicole. Kacie. Summer.
Girls.......I hate. Ella. Isla. Ava. Rose. Charlotte. Scarlett. Paige. Lillian. Henrietta. Dawn.

Really don’t like Caleb or Ethan
Girls Nevaeh Olivia

I hate the name Euan/Ewan. I properly detest it and I'm not sure why! 😂

I also dislike anything that sounds like an old man or old lady name.

I'm really hard to please though. I have two daughters and I've completely gone off their names too 🤦🏽‍♀️

Do you guys like the name lana? Because when I read it on a website it said that it was a bad fit because the. Name. Backwards is something not appropriate and I’d like to mention that it said lana and not the other

I have soooo many favourite names that I can never think where to start. Some are:

Arabella, Amberley, Avery, Araminta, Aubrey, Amy, Astrid, Aphra, Aria, Bronte, Cassidy, Cassandra, Calypso, Christabel, Devon, Erin, Eden, Felicity, Francesca, Fallon, Grace, Georgina, Hannah, Jessamy, Jessica, Kiran, Kayleigh, Lyra, Lara, Mala, Mila, Mika, Natasha, Piper, Rhiannyd, Robyn, Saffron, Savannah, Talitha, Verity, Vanessa, Xanthe, Zara, Zerryn

Alexander, Aidan, Aaron, Callum, Devon, Felix, Harrison, Harry, Isaac, Inigo, Jack, Jacob, Joachim, Jolyon, Morgan, Nicholas, Noah, Patrick, Robin, Rowan, Xavier, Zachary

There's very few names that I really can't stand:

Agatha, Gertrude, Maggie, Nelly, Kelly, Winifred

Gary, Horace, Nigel

Starlette sounds like a sanitary product or female contraceptive

I suppose Kale is a nice name when you don't know about the vegetable...

@longtallwalker I know! Notice it's in my list of names I don't like! Luckily it's not a common name but it is really the choice for some

Actually Starlette sounds quite pretty, a little Star. I prefer it to Scarlett, which reminds me of a scar.

The worst name I’ve ever heard is Starlette

Sorry, but Kale? Really?

Favorites.... (apart from my chosen name which I'm keeping of mn till I've had her!)

Kaia
Soraya
Pandora
Kala
Marley
Cleo

Nakoah (what I'll name my son if I ever have one)
Aurelius
Tyro
Samuel (my darling brothers name)
Issac
Caleb (my nephew!)
Ezra
Eli/Elijah

Very bored of/don't like names like...

Greta
Chantel
Mason
Arlo
Kale 😂

Generally very popular names bore me...

See so many names on here like

Alexander
Olivia/Oliver
Amelia
Victoria

Yawn yawn yawn....

Can't bare people being unimaginative and trying to bring back old names like Peter and Colin!!

I dislike judgements on whether names are Chav or not. Horrible term

I like Emma, Clara, Caspar, Quentin and lots more!

I dislike cutesy names Alfie, Archie, Evie, Poppy etc

But thankfully we all have different tastes!