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What 3 Girls names wouldn't you choose?

109 replies

Taddda · 02/06/2020 09:23

I have 1&2 year old Dds and very rarely see their names suggested on here....Dd2s name has started to appear but only once I've spotted Dd1s...!
What names wouldn't you choose and why?

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SporadicNamechange · 02/06/2020 11:50

she thought she was being edgy calling you Lesley

No one was ever being edgy when they called their daughter Lesley. 😆

SporadicNamechange · 02/06/2020 11:49

@Blursula I agree that so many of the girls names that appear to be popular on MN are extremely fussy and frilly. And they have so many bloody syllables.

But obviously fussy and frilly mouthfuls are popular these days.

Tsubasa1 · 02/06/2020 11:49

OP is your daughters name Evie???
I would like it but with official name Evelyn or Everleigh.
I personally wouldn't choose
India
Sophia
Olivia

SuperMedium · 02/06/2020 11:47

Do you think parents reacts against their own names when choosing their child's?

If your name is Lisa/ Claire/ Sarah you call your daughter something long and unusual, but if you were the child of Mary or Sue and she thought she was being edgy calling you Lesley or Lindsay or Willow or Skye you'll go the other way and call your daughter Eva or Olivia...

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 02/06/2020 11:46

Julie
Verity
Katrina

Only because I have met awful people with those names and they have put me off them.

Blursula · 02/06/2020 11:44

Penelope, Felicity and Aurelia seem so loved on mumsnet and I think they all sound so fussy and frilly.

Lavenderblues · 02/06/2020 11:43

There’s a reason they’re popular names. They’re lovely.

Until they become overused and inevitably fall out of fashion!

CarolFuckingBaskinsPetCat · 02/06/2020 11:41

Evie
Lily
Olivia

😴

Also anything with Mae/May

🤷🏽‍♀️ sorry

Glowcat · 02/06/2020 11:41

There’s a reason they’re popular names. They’re lovely. As someone who had to spell out her name for people for years until it eventually became more widely used, there’s nothing wrong with popular.

FranklyDearIDontRiverdance · 02/06/2020 11:41

Is it Lily-Mae?

There seemed to be a spurt of them around here.

I’m not a fan of:

Mia
Lexie
Maddie/Harley/anything along those lines

Plumpi · 02/06/2020 11:39

Ella
Madison
Isla

Not sure why.

TheWashingMachine · 02/06/2020 11:39

I actually love most of the names mentioned on this thread. My own is already here, it is popular now but was pretty much unheard of when I was a child. I really am not keen on Welsh names but I'm not Welsh. I also don't like surnames as girls names, for example, Cameron, Mackenzie, Madison.

Lavenderblues · 02/06/2020 11:38

And yes, I'd avoid WAY more than just 3 WinkGrin

Lavenderblues · 02/06/2020 11:37

I'd avoid anything too common/fashionable like
Eva/Evie
Ella/Ellie
Sophia/Sophie
Bella, Belle
Maia/Mia/Maya
Emily/Amelie
Etc etc

I much prefer beautiful uncommon names that are more memorable!

AdelaideK · 02/06/2020 11:37

Elizabeth - seems popular on here but it's such an ugly sounding name.
Ophelia - so try hard.
Grace - frumpy

SuperMedium · 02/06/2020 11:33

I wouldn't choose a short form/ nickname

nor a surname as first name (especially anything containing "son" for a girl - what's the logic in people's heads when they call a girl child Name-son?

I also don't like former boys names used for girls (because I have one and my experience of it is more negative than positive, though not enough to bother with the conflict involved in changing it)

nor anything which sounds "made up" as though it's from StarWars or a fantasy genre TV series or film Grin.

There are a few specific names I would like if it weren't for the association's they have for me (not personal associations, things like Jude the obscure - how could you name a child after such a desperately unhappy, unfortunate character who's son of the same name murdered his younger siblings because he misunderstood something he overheard Sad ... even though I assume people who use the name haven't read the book or it wasn't significant enough to them to overshadow the name, and the children aren't named "after" the character!)

Cutesy or out there "I'm so cutting edge" names chosen for a baby-as-fashion accessory/ statement piece apparently forgetting he or she will grow up and be a separate person would be the last category.

It doesn't matter though does it; you can't please everyone and wouldn't want to. You just have to choose the name you think will be the right one for your child.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 02/06/2020 11:29

I second Effie.
Olive
Aurelia.

SporadicNamechange · 02/06/2020 11:27

Only 3? I’ve got a list as long as my arm. 😆

It depends on the context. I wouldn’t choose most of the currently popular names for girls. Especially not all the ones with millions of syllables.

But I also wouldn’t choose any of the names that were popular when I was a baby. Or when my mum was a baby either.

And I wouldn’t inflict my own name on anyone. It’s dire.

CeibaTree · 02/06/2020 11:18

Maisie - I find it so twee
Effie - ugly sound to me
Olivia - I actually love this name, but it is ridiculously popular

Twisique · 02/06/2020 11:16

Briony Romilly Lexie

Haz1516 · 02/06/2020 10:59

Nora - doesn't sound 'pretty' to me, but I know quite a few babies called it.
Olivia - too unoriginal now that it's been #1 for so long.
Mia - and most names like this at the moment, Isla, Ella, Ava... all blur together.

Miriel · 02/06/2020 10:57

Madison - son of Maud
Elsie - old lady, Victorian housemaid, cow
Harleigh - surnamey, hate spellings with gh in them

FeedMeSantiago · 02/06/2020 10:55

Jessica - school bully
Sarah - again, school bully and so popular in the 80s, there were loads at school with me
Amelia - yet again, school bully but also because of the medical term

Nothing wrong with any of those names, just that I associate each of them with someone unpleasant.

userabcname · 02/06/2020 10:52

Mia - too popular
Elsie - don't like the sound
Mabel - this seems to get a lot of love on here and I just don't get it!

SionnachRua · 02/06/2020 10:48

Sophie
Olivia
Emily

(I could keep going: Emma, Amelia, Eva, Grace...such boring, wallpaper names!).