Names you just don’t understand the hype for?

Band? *name

My DS's band has been mentioned here but not my DS's which is very surprising to me.

Bring a nearly 50 year old I'm quite fond of the old retro names I heard all the time in school but never now -

Claire
Nicola
Kate

Peter
Matthew

Etc.

My teenage has a Stuart in her year at school and he really stands out over all the Ben's, Ethan's, Kieran's and Jake's

I guess if I had to choose a name I hated it would have to be

Kayden (yes I've known one)
Courtney.

Finn is the most popular name around here. There's 4 in my son's class including him! It was a compromise name and I regret it because he's fed up as always being known by his surname too. I had no idea it was as popular as Oliver or James. There's 13 of them in the school! Some Finley or Finlay etc I assume.
Another recent name is Grey? For girls. Odd to me. But popular in this area. V trendy. There's 6 Avas in my dd's Year 8.

Names that were old woman or man names when I was a child.

Struggling to understand what's wrong with Cordelia.

Olive = on the buses
Margot= Margo = snobby neighbour in the good life.

'Regional' names when there is no association / family link. I knew a Jowan, it's a Cornish name and I quite like it but I wouldn't use it if my child had no connection to Cornwall.

Ooh and Louise - nobody seems to use that now but it was the middle name of about 50% of our school in the 90s!

In the 1960s it was virtually the law for girls to have Louise as a second name and for boys Simon and or David. I blame Roger Moore's portrayal of 'the saint' for Simon.

I too don't get the use of a diminutive as a 'full' name, if your little Katie fancies a change there's not a lot you can do, at least if you give her Katherine she has other options.

Well, my DD’s name has been mentioned A LOT, but only for a boy, so I’m going to pretend that’s a win.

Virtue names - Chastity, Charity etc.

All the old man names that seem to be about - Stanley, Sidney, Teddy, Albert etc.

Jewel names I am also a bit sick of, sooo many Ruby's about.

Issac
Teddy
Archie

Amelia. Just dont like it and have no idea how it's so popular.

My pet is called Juniper

Ooh and Louise - nobody seems to use that now but it was the middle name of about 50% of our school in the 90s!

I don't dislike it particularly but there seems to have been a huge spike in babies named Cassia recently (I know three now) and I'd never heard it before.

I'm not sure if maybe there's a character in something fairly recently and it's caught people's eye? As I say I don't dislike it but I think it's really interesting when a name spikes for a mystery reason.

It happened with Ava a few years ago too, similarly a nice name but can't think why the sudden increase. I guess just snowball effect when people hear it a few times.

It's funny my friend called her little one Sophie recently and we were all almost surprised at a name popular in our own generation (early 30s) during school as we've gotten so used to out there ones! It's a lovely name I think.

Katie, Caroline, Hannah and Nicola were probably the most popular names in my year at school but haven't heard of any school aged kids with them now.

Teddie, Alfie, Archie, Albie, Billie, Freddie, Wiflie, Laurie etc

Parents didn't use to give their boys such cutesy twee nicknames (it was more Steve or Mike)I wonder if a lot of these boys prefer a less cute name as they grow up?

I can't stand Aviary - I know someone who named their child that and all I could think was... isn't that a name for a bird cage?!

Margot
Edith
Jean
Margaret
Theodore
Juniper
Elsie

Another one not keen on using surnames as first names such as; Parker, Jaxon/Jackson etc

Also not keen on the names Major and Prince (the former being very popular in the USA).

Anything with ‘den’ at the end too 😏.

Beau and Bella- I just cringe a bit at saddling a plain looking child with a name that shouts about their outstanding beauty. And Beau for a girl has the added bonus of being completely uneducated too.
Grace, Rose and May as middle names. Grace and Rose are nice enough but so overused it's one big cliche. I genuinely think the parents have no idea at all how standard and common these names are.
All American surname names- especially anything for a girl which ends in ..."son". Why??? Special dislike of Jackson and Jenson.
Agree that Aurora looks nice written but sounds awful.
Also the exploding trend for Sophia/Sofia when Sophie is a much, much nicer and more elegant version.

I really don’t understand Margot. I have an auntie Margo and it just reminds me of her.

Posie
Margot
Everly
Niamh
Reuben
Raphael
Also the-
Kayden/Jayden and all that malarchy.
As well as Amelie/Amelia/Emilie/Emelia tosh.

Amelia. It makes me think of the medical condition & meal worms.

Hate anything with -Lee/Leigh attached to it too.
Also hate Jayden/Kaiden/Brayden/Marley/Harley/Riley/Jackson/Jaxon, Logan.

Gross.

Anything with -Mae/Mai/May or -Grace attached.

Forgot nicknamey names like Archie, Alfie, Albie.
One or two of them and I would think Ooh that's unusual, but when every boy/girl/dog dog seems to have the name...
Aspirational names - once you've heard it called out in Asda you know it's filtered down.