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Which is the one name you dislike the most?

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Wombat100 · 02/01/2023 00:08

Just out of interest really - is there a specific boy or girl name you just can’t stand?

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techmum99 · 02/01/2023 12:15

Romy 🙄

JoandLily · 02/01/2023 12:15

Margot reminds me of maggot

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Wombat100 · 02/01/2023 12:00

BenCoopersSupportWren · 02/01/2023 10:11

Harvey and Olive.

Harvey was a recalcitrant cob who I could not ride one side of when having riding lessons many moons ago, and who once bit me.

Olive is a perpetually-miserable old woman who told the paper shop I delivered papers for that she never received hers, an injustice which 13-year-old me found breathtakingly unfair especially as I had to run the gamut of her badly-behaved yappy dogs to post it through her letterbox.

Both names ruined for me forever.

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Bouledeneige · 02/01/2023 11:57

Hate is a strong word - but there's quite a lot of names I'm not fond of - including my own which has been mentioned. Very out if fashion with a Karen-ish flavour. Always hated it.

My dislikes fall into a couple of categories: the Jayden, Kayden, Jaxon and surname type names.

The trad names: Catherine, Margaret, Elizabeth, William and Victoria names.

And then the ones with sounds I don't like: like Bethan

And the ones that are twee: Kitty, Daisy, Maya, Mia

That doesn't leave many. And I have given my children unusual but pretentious sounding names (not mentioned yet) but I can see others would think them wanky.

JaneJeffer · 02/01/2023 11:39

amitoooldforthisshit · 02/01/2023 08:34

Anything Irish, oft I find the concoctions of letters for some of the names look bizzare on a sheet of paper.

Grin it's almost as if it's another language

GladiatorSandals · 02/01/2023 11:37

Headabovetheparakeet · 02/01/2023 11:18

Fucking hell. Confused

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It’s hardly surprising, though. Mn has always had a strand of knee-jerk anti-Irishness. Though it’s the widespread total ignorance of the geography, history, nomenclature etc of a neighbouring country that I find weirder.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 02/01/2023 11:34

Proseccoagain · 02/01/2023 00:45

As a teacher I would scan down the names of my new class, and my heart would sink if I saw Darren, Dwayne, Wayne or Dean.....

Well, yes, because those names would imply that several forty-five-year-old men had infiltrated your class.

pantherrose · 02/01/2023 11:31

Imogen- Remedy for the trots
Phoebe- Always thought it was pronounced 'Fobe'
Duncan- just no.
Dominic- Ditto

Headabovetheparakeet · 02/01/2023 11:18

amitoooldforthisshit · 02/01/2023 08:34

Anything Irish, oft I find the concoctions of letters for some of the names look bizzare on a sheet of paper.

Fucking hell. Confused

DemBonesDemBones · 02/01/2023 11:18

Lily. It's just so weak.

CellophaneFlower · 02/01/2023 11:16

None of my children's names have appeared yet, but I'm sure plenty would dislike them! I chose them as I didn't know any other children with them, as I didn't want them to become a name with their initial after it at school. I'd actually be quite miffed if they suddenly became popular!

My all time most disliked name is Keith.

harrassedmumto3 · 02/01/2023 11:16

My 3 daughters' names don't appear here. Yesssss!
Only one middle name though.

B1993 · 02/01/2023 11:11

I’m a bid sad that some of the names on my baby list are apprearing here… I may need a rethink 🤣

@Xmasgrinchywinchy, my DF named her son this… not my cup on tea, but I don’t think it’s awful either! Same friend also has DD Myla - not sure if that’ll be loved or hated my the MN community. I think it’s pretty sounding and not common so also have nothing against that, even though I wouldn’t use it myself.

B1993 · 02/01/2023 11:07

TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 00:23

It's got to be Luckey-Buoy.

Yes!!! I saw this thread… I wonder if OP did ever officially name baby that 🤔

Sockwomble · 02/01/2023 11:05

I don't get the love on here for Olive (On the buses), Margot/Margo ( snobby character from The good life and Ivy (poison Ivy from Corrie). Probably showing my age.

OneCup · 02/01/2023 11:04

Hunter. Hunters kill animals. Do you really want to call your child that?

Xmasgrinchywinchy · 02/01/2023 11:04

Jaxon which is truly the most horrific name of all time

Fleabigg · 02/01/2023 11:03

I have an irrational hatred for Archie.

Otherwise, surnames as first names. Harrison, Madison, Gray, Riley etc.

Plantsaregreen · 02/01/2023 11:01

Ottilie
Harriet
Ophelia

Seb (I don’t mind Sebastian though, just really dislike Seb)

Jomummy1013 · 02/01/2023 11:01

And don't like Eloise either x

WimbyAce · 02/01/2023 10:59

I really like Grace but there were so many about when I had my daughter so is her middle name instead. There is no one else with her name at her school currently.

Jomummy1013 · 02/01/2023 10:59

Hayden/Jayden/Kayden. Also don't like Matilda - don't know why. And don't like hyphenated names because they normally end with Mae/May!

Claricethecat45 · 02/01/2023 10:59

Boys;Oliver - there are zillions of them.
All I can see is an underweight urchin asking for more..such a feeble sounding name..Ollie even worse and not at all cutesy
Jack - just do John and be done with it

Girls; Anything Lacey/Stacey/Gracey sounding
Chelsea, Lily-Mae and any other double barrelled abomination

Widgets · 02/01/2023 10:59

I know everyone has a different opinion but to use words like ‘hate’ with regards to baby names is harsh especially as some children and parents don’t always have a say in their names (Local Authority adoption requires adopted parents to keep the name originally choosen by birth parents) many of which I know, are listed on this thread! This is to keep part of their identity and family history, new middle names can be added but this could raise anxiety for adopted / foster parents and how the world perceives a child based purely on their name!

BenCoopersSupportWren · 02/01/2023 10:54

DuncanBiscuits · 02/01/2023 10:51

I’ve just realised Duncan is in my username. Still hate it though.

Nothing I read on MN today will top this post 😂😂😂