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Do you have any names you hate because of an association?

58 replies

Imcrc · 30/05/2021 07:13

I certainly do!
Cant stand the name Molly and Polly 🤮 my aunt had a cat named Molly that was horrible, it's used to wait on the stairs and scratch you ankles when you tried to pass it. And there was a girl who was mean to me at school called Pollyanna!
OH suggested Mollie when I were pregnant and I almost had a turn!
It's sad because they are quite cute names, I just hate the sound of them.

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Blondiney · 01/06/2021 00:39

Melanies are two faced cunts.

danascully96 · 01/06/2021 00:29

Luca/Luka bc of Luka Magnotta.

xprincessxjanetx · 31/05/2021 17:11

Yes. I dislike one of my old favourite boys names now as a girl I don't like named her son the name and I just can't think of anything else when I hear the name now. Shame because I would have used it if baby #6 is a boy but feel I just can't.

BusterGonad · 31/05/2021 05:27

Ella. There was a girl at school called Ella who wasn't very nice, her cousin was a bit of a prick too. I just always think of her. I'm sure she's perfectly lovely now she's grown up but I just don't like the name now.

virginfannyornaments · 31/05/2021 04:02

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

Never met a nice Fiona.
Second this
allfurcoatnoknickers · 31/05/2021 04:01

Truly vile babysitter named Melissa put me off the name for life.

Tillygetsit · 31/05/2021 00:43

I've never met a nice Lucy.

LynetteScavo · 30/05/2021 20:59

Miread.

And then I met a lovely Miread, and it messed with my mind.

BasicMadeira · 30/05/2021 20:58

Louise. I just don't like it. No particular bass memories of a Louise but a firm dislike. It's odd for me because I like "proper" names and Lousie is definitely a "proper" name.
I dislike plenty of other names for being made up/ too trendy/ too awful etc but cannot fathom while I dislike this perfectly reasonable name.

KirstenBlest · 30/05/2021 20:50

I find the calling names in the park/shop puts me off. I can't hear Noah, Oscar, Elsie, Alfie, Raphael etc without recalling the way it was called out.

Another thing that puts me off is how it sounds in a regional accent. Some names don't sound good in certain accents.

ImbarbaraB · 30/05/2021 20:45

Yes Nikki - a nasty girl from school
Sam - an abusive exh
Kimberley - someone who treated me badly when I was going through a divorce to said abusive man

KirstenBlest · 30/05/2021 20:44

Funny you should say that Brown.
I can think of 2 nice ones but they spell it differently, but generally I know a few mean Kerrys.

BrownEyedGirl80 · 30/05/2021 20:27

All the Kerrys I've ever known aren't very nice

DeusEx · 30/05/2021 20:16

I’ve friends who are teachers and they say this is terrible when choosing names! Grin

For me it’s Imogen. Love the name, but not the memory of the primary school bully.

BetterThanKleenex · 30/05/2021 19:56

Jessica and Emily- I've only met bitchy Jessicas and Emilys.

The only Rebeccas I've know have been annoying influencer wannabes- one who changed her name by deed poll to Rebbekkuh...

Checkingout811 · 30/05/2021 19:50

Daisy.
I don’t hate the name, I just could never use after hearing Daisehhhhhh screamed along a walkway in a very busy shopping centre. They eventually caught up to little Daiseh who was toddling around bare foot in just a nappy and hoop earrings bigger than her head. She can’t of been older than 12 months.

DramaAlpaca · 30/05/2021 19:40

Yes. Two female names.

shallIswim · 30/05/2021 18:47

May he outing but I don't care. Anna, Rosa, Milly, Verity and Emma bullied my DD in secondary school. Others were satellites to the gang. But I doubt very much I'll have any grandchildren with those names, with either DD or her brother. All perfectly ok names (except Milly which is a bit overused IMO), but all associated with downright nastiness.

ILoveShula · 30/05/2021 17:43

OK, the names themselves aren't hateful, they are ok, but the associations are unpleasant.

Holothane · 30/05/2021 17:22

Norman my cousin who had cerebal pailsy and would knock the crap out of he was six years older.

Holothane · 30/05/2021 17:21

Steven my ex
Loretta my sister
Bob my dad
Norma my aunt
Ann my birth mother
Long very complicated life story.

lemondrophannah · 30/05/2021 17:19

No. Hate is too strong. But there are names I think are nice that I wouldn't use because of bad associations. I've met two female Jo's that were both egotistical, self absorbed, very dull and catty but I still like the name, just wouldn't use it.

ILoveShula · 30/05/2021 17:17

Yes.

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Imcrc · 30/05/2021 16:21

So weird I've never met a bad Jessica! I always thought it was a nice girl name haha

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bubblebath62636 · 30/05/2021 12:45

Yes, mainly bullies from school: Jasmine, Jodie, Danielle.