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Which names do you love that MN usually hates?

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JingleTheFlamingo · 06/12/2021 13:36

I love Kai and Kyle. I think they're lovely but strong names.

I also love the American surname type names e.g Sullivan, Ryder, Granger, Harrison Edison etc.

I also love names like Ruth, Heather and Camille, though I'm not sure how MN feels about those.

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Buddhabowl · 07/12/2021 19:04

Kai, Kaia, Cade, Coby, Cody, Beau

ISaidDontLickTheBin · 07/12/2021 13:56

I like all the names MN finds the most boring and/or dated, e.g.:

Peter, John, Sam, Ben, Matthew, Daniel, Joseph
Rose, Amy, Claire, Sarah, Ruth, Kate

MissyB1 · 07/12/2021 13:31

I love the names of my best friends at school
Geraldine
Ruth
Susan
Belinda

They would be hated by most of mumsnet I’m certain!

IVflytrap · 07/12/2021 13:13

Jasmine is lovely. I hate the term chavvy, anyway. However much people try to claim they only use it to refer to loutish type behaviour, it's usually clear after a while what they really mean by it.

@CaffiSaliMali I know of Kai through the main boy character in the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen, and it's the main reason I like it. So I suspect Kai is Danish too, or an anglicisation of a Danish name. (On another thread recently I got told that I'm wrong and the character wasn't a Kai. I had to go and find the book to check I hadn't misremembered for all these years.)

Just thought of another name I like that mumsnet won't: Darren. I'm not kidding. It's genuinely a nice sounding name.

BiscuitLover3679 · 07/12/2021 11:32

@Mankyfruitbowl

I love Jasmine. Beautiful flower and scent. Was told it was "chavvy"

not only on here but in real life. Wish I'd used it for dd1 now!

I love Jasmine. I've always known lovely Jasmines.

I like violet too.

Mankyfruitbowl · 07/12/2021 09:46

I love Jasmine. Beautiful flower and scent. Was told it was "chavvy" not only on here but in real life. Wish I'd used it for dd1 now!

CaffiSaliMali · 07/12/2021 09:25

Cai is an old Welsh name and I think Kai is an anglicisation (there's no K in the Welsh alphabet).

I quite like it. Unfortunately a few Welsh names seem to have become stereotyped in England as 'naughty boy' names like Rhys and Dylan.

Although Rhys and Dylan sound very different when pronounced by a Welsh speaker!

VenusClapTrap · 07/12/2021 07:35

Great name yourself, @IVflytrap

Caspianberg · 07/12/2021 07:08

Long traditional names like Valentine, Augustine, Montgomery.

I love Timothy which I don’t think is liked often.

MummyInTheNecropolis · 07/12/2021 06:49

I love twee flower names, Daisy, Lily, Violet, Poppy etc

VenusClapTrap · 07/12/2021 06:37

Balonz wasn’t a serious suggestion. It was a troll thread, but a very funny one. I think it might be in classics. Much more to it than just a silly name suggestion, and definitely worth a read if you can find it.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 07/12/2021 06:14

Aidan

Centuries old saints name, gets bundled up with names or more modern usage Kayden, Jayden etc.

CakesOfVersailles · 07/12/2021 06:01

Kai makes me laugh every time because it's literally the word for "food" in my country. But I appreciate that it doesn't mean that in English.

Some of the names I like have been called "very boring" on here, e.g. Anne and Mary.

Jacaranda75 · 07/12/2021 05:48

@groovergirl a poster started a serious thread asking what posters thought of the name Balonz, as she was considering it for her child. Cue much hilarity and Balonz coming up as a joke suggestion in every name thread since.

LoveFall · 07/12/2021 05:28

I love the name Colin for a boy. But I am not British. I don't understand the hate for it on here.

groovergirl · 07/12/2021 03:01

Sharon, Karen and Tracey. They were the cool older girls at school, and I wanted to be like them. All the women I know with these names are smart and have done very well in their careers.

Meanwhile, can someone please explain "Balonz" to this clueless Australian? I see jokes about Balonz pop up a lot on MN but have no idea of the origin!

IVflytrap · 07/12/2021 00:19

Mavis. I think it's a lovely name with a lovely meaning.

@Venusclaptrap (great username, btw!) I love Marjorie too. In 2020, according to the ONS, it was only used 3 times for baby girls I was surprised by that considering the current trend for retro names.

I also really like Kai, OP

DoucheCanoe · 06/12/2021 22:57

Kai is quite a popular name, there are/were a fair few because it's been around for a good decade or more. It's not "odd" at all!

MrsFoxyplease · 06/12/2021 21:55

I love Sonny.
Also like Leyton/Clayton which I'm sure are thought of as down-market.
For a girl I like Lola which, I'll agree, is quite popular for a dog.

HWHWHWFG · 06/12/2021 21:48

My daughters name Daisy - often called twee. But turns out I love “twee” names like Amelie, Lily, Rosie & Maisie.

Orphlids · 06/12/2021 21:21

Also Gertrude. I think it’s lovely. It would have suited my eldest DD very well. But on here it’s always spoken of as a sort of joke name that would obviously never be considered by any sane person.

BabyRace · 06/12/2021 20:53

@Larryyourwaiter

Balonz 😃

You beat me to it!

VenusClapTrap · 06/12/2021 20:49

Also all the ‘it’s a cow name!’ names - Marigold, Clover, Daisy.

VenusClapTrap · 06/12/2021 20:47

Marjorie. Love it.

BiscuitLover3679 · 06/12/2021 20:18

I love quirky marmite names. They are actual real names. Things like Mina and Florian .

But I love the fact they get so many different opinions! It doesn't bother me when people hate it, because it means others will love it and there also won't be 10 of them in a class. They'll make the name their own.

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