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"Wet" names?

197 replies

LotusClover · 28/04/2020 20:31

Quite often I see people on here describing names as "wet". Sorry if I'm being stupid, but what is that supposed to mean?

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Cosyblanky · 28/04/2020 21:34

This is an interesting thread! Mine are
Neville
Timothy
Norris
I like some of the names mentioned. My first boyfriend was called Toby, he was a hunk ( although thinking about it a bit of a drip!) Guess the other posters are correctGrin

Dyra · 28/04/2020 21:33

I don't think I'll be showing DH this thread. His name has appeared far too many times. Sad

The only names I can think of are Piers, Kevin and Rafferty. They just ooze and squelch to my ear.

angelaEhen · 28/04/2020 21:31

Miles

Girlinterruption2020 · 28/04/2020 21:28

Alastair

lalafafa · 28/04/2020 21:28

Phoebe.
toby
ben
Jake
Amelia
Josipa, the worst
Jemima
milo
arlo
poppy
daisy
honey
lily
albie
Sammy
Emily

HaveAtEm · 28/04/2020 21:27

Oh...and Seth...always sounds a bit wet to me! I think it's the actual 'sounds' of the 'sounds' if you know what I mean...SETH 😣 Just makes a 'wet' noise as you say it 😱

Marimari93 · 28/04/2020 21:27

To me some "wet names" are:

Rafferty
Milo
Felix
Alfie

Freya
Chloe
Molly

Davespecifico · 28/04/2020 21:26

And Tim, Peter and Christopher

Davespecifico · 28/04/2020 21:26

Robin!!!!
Nigel, Lance, Keith

Marimari93 · 28/04/2020 21:23

I guess it's an instinctual but unfair reaction to a name that seems "weak" and I think it's directed mostly at boys names too.

It's also very subjective for example
I'm genuinely surprised Lucy and Alice are popping on here as to me they're classic, timeless, beautiful names but that's just my experience of them and other people clearly feel differently which is expected because we all respond to names in different ways.

I met a guy called "Felix" which to me is a "wet" name and he was anything but.

It's all silly really but kinda interesting too.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 28/04/2020 21:22

I was going to be Tim if I’d been a boy. Glad i wasn’t. However my bil is a Tim and he is pretty much the opposite of wet.
Kevin and Nigel for me. ( but then there’s Kevins Kline and Costner and Nigel Benn I guess)

Fatarseflanagan09 · 28/04/2020 21:22

Terrence, Calvin, Malcolm.

Orphlids · 28/04/2020 21:19

I think I find Arlo wet because it’s just such a soft sound. There are no hard consonants. And perhaps because all the parents I know who have named their kids Arlo are themselves rather wet. It seems to be very much a name used by inoffensive, middle class types.

formerbabe · 28/04/2020 21:18

Drippy types... lacking in opinion or general oomph in life if that makes sense... certainly useless in a fight.

Samtsirch · 28/04/2020 21:18

Timmy
Herbert

NoClarification · 28/04/2020 21:17

I love Arlo. I'd totally have called DS Arlo but I just didn't think of it at the relevant time! Lucky that I quite like his actual name too Grin

Galvantula · 28/04/2020 21:15

I'm impressed one of my son's names hasn't been mentioned yet, he usually gets on the 'wet names list' 😂

HandfulOfFlowers · 28/04/2020 21:15

Alice
Lucy
Milicent
Sandra

ACertainSupermarket · 28/04/2020 21:15

What's wet about Arlo? I really like it!

NoClarification · 28/04/2020 21:13

Funny how associations work. Arlo makes me think of Arlo Guthrie, then via Woody Guthrie to hard-as-nails depression-era fieldworkers against a backdrop of Guthrie singing 'This land is my land' Grin So quite the opposite of wet!

Pollyputthepizzaon · 28/04/2020 21:12

Lucy

Pollyputthepizzaon · 28/04/2020 21:12

Sebastian

TenThousandSpoons · 28/04/2020 21:10

Peter
Julian
Rupert

AnaphylacticAnnabelle · 28/04/2020 21:10

Noah

Anything ending in and 'ie'

Alfie
Albie

Etc.

30not13 · 28/04/2020 21:08

Strange how it mostly applies to male names.

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