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Names you adored but went off

37 replies

whatausername · 05/09/2020 00:34

What are yours?

Mine:
Seth
Sebastian
Hepzibah
Adelaide

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unmarkedbythat · 28/09/2020 10:48

When I was 7 (this is really quite a long time ago) , I thought the name Tracey was absolutely gorgeous and then it all got ruined with the Sharon and Tracey jokes. I suppose like Karen has been really! When I was a teenager I thought Nicole was the best and coolest name of all time and that my life would have been infinitely more fun and glamorous if only my silly parents had used it. I still do like it, but not to that extent.

I haven't really gone off any other names. Couldn't use most of my lifelong favourites as DH didn't like them or they wouldn't work in his language/ culture. For me it's more the case that names I used to strongly dislike (Lily and Toby in particular come to mind) I no longer think are awful.

CoalCraft · 28/09/2020 10:42

Jessica and Victoria, especially the former always assumed I'd use Jessica for a girl but have gone right off it in recent years.

Enko · 28/09/2020 10:01

Helena it was a serious contender for dd1 and we had it on the short list by the time we were expecting dd2 (23 months between them) it was not featuring at all.

Kanaloa · 27/09/2020 13:44

Madeline. Someone I know and really dislike called her child Madison and I find them too similar. I still like Madeline but nowhere near as much. Some lovely names on this thread though. I actually quite like Levi and I wouldn’t be put off by people calling it chavvy. In my experience people who put things down by calling it chavvy usually aren’t worth listening to at all.

Jaimeles · 27/09/2020 13:36

Levi, I still adore this name but I keep hearing it's "chavvy". I wish I had the courage to not care about the chav things.

Metalhead · 27/09/2020 07:48

Mia or Maya - far too popular for my liking these days.

earthyfire · 26/09/2020 22:44

Florence

Sunsage · 11/09/2020 10:39

Isaac & Emily

Was dead set on them and just totally went off them!

This naming children business is bloody hard lol

VenusClapTrap · 07/09/2020 18:23

Helena. Dd was nearly called this, and I’m so glad we went with our other option in the end because there are SO many Eleanors now.

micc · 06/09/2020 23:34

Alexa
Maria
Rosemary

Eli
Tristan
Eden

danascully96 · 06/09/2020 22:58

Lila
Lorelei
Anneliese
Hudson
Albert
Ophelia (this one has been completely ruined for me due to... an terrible association I had never made before)
Amelia
Eva
Helena
Victoria
... and I'm teetering back-and-forth over Jasper

Spied · 06/09/2020 20:59

Harrisson or Ryan were top of my list for DS but DP veetoed.
Pleased now, I am not a fan at all.
I adored Gracie at one point.

QueenofLouisiana · 06/09/2020 20:53

Dominic (dodged a bullet there, but I decided I didn’t like it long before Mr Cummings showed himself to be a total wankbadger)

Chicchicchicchiclana · 06/09/2020 20:50

Also, for my pfb it was always going to be Mary for a girl. I'm not Irish or Catholic but I just love this name. Unfortunately I then had long and protracted dealings with a woman called Mary (my neighbour) involving court and all sorts and she is the only human I've known in real life I truly hated. So that name was out the window for pfb years before she was born.

VerbenaGirl · 06/09/2020 20:49

OMG! I had Hepzibar too!!
And Willow.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 06/09/2020 20:46

Theo. Our pfb would have been Theo had she been a boy.

By the time our second child came along, just over 2.5 years later, I'd completely gone off it and he got a different name that we plucked out of the air about a week before he was born (we didn't know he was a boy at that stage).

Theradioison · 06/09/2020 20:45

India, loved it but it just sounds really pretentious now

Standrewsschool · 06/09/2020 20:42

Leo - Tony Blair named his son Leo, so. I thought it would become popular

Charlotte - lived due to Charlotte web books, and fairly Uncommon growing up. Then became popular.

Conversely, didn’t choose Dylan because thought it was too old fashioned. Then Catherine Zeta Jones (Douglas) named her child Dylan, and now considered modern.

JanewaysBun · 06/09/2020 20:41

Clover - I made the error of telling people who immediately said butter/cow

Sapphire

Biscuitsneeded · 06/09/2020 20:38

Lily - absolutely adored this 25 years ago when naming fantasy children. Still think it's very pretty but here are so many of them.

TruffleMama · 06/09/2020 20:23

Isla - it has become way too popular and I'd worry DD would meet Mr White/Wight, Mr Mann or Mr Sheppy and she'd become Mrs Isla White etc.

pinkpinecone · 06/09/2020 11:16

Astrid - As soon as someone said it sounded like Ass turd that's all I hear
Saskia - popular water brand in Germany

Tillygetsit · 06/09/2020 00:12

Caroline. Met a really horrible one and that was that.

FallingOffTheBed · 05/09/2020 19:05

yeah- no, Hera not so common, the others though. I just went off Hera. I was a very long way from being clear in my post and mixed them all together.

I know of only one Hera. Oddly enough since talking about it again it is gowing on me again!

BabyLlamaZen · 05/09/2020 18:55

@FallingOffTheBed I don't think I've heard of any little Heras that!