Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

What name do you really dislike?

505 replies

squaredspots · 30/08/2024 15:37

I don't like the name Dustin, I just think of dustbin.
What name do you really dislike?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
PetulantPenguin · 30/08/2024 19:51

I'm finding this quite interesting and I've seen some of my children's names mentioned, and mine and am not upset

StoatofDisarray · 30/08/2024 19:34

KreedKafer · 30/08/2024 16:42

What a horrible thread.

I dislike loads of names, but as I know full well that hundreds of Mumsnetters will have those names themselves, or will have chosen them for their children, or will love someone with those names, I'm not about to say what they are.

My middle name appears on this thread and I think it's funny. Not everyone is a sensitive piss baby.

1984Winston · 30/08/2024 19:34

I hate double barrelled first names, just pick a name

StoatofDisarray · 30/08/2024 19:31

Susan. I don't know why!

LadyKenya · 30/08/2024 19:28

I really like the name Aaron, and I have a soft spot for the name Maude. I read a book when I was a child, and the old woman in it was called Maude. There was a character called Twyla too. Lovely.

Gardennotebook · 30/08/2024 19:28

Claire

BreatheAndFocus · 30/08/2024 19:21

I forgot Tyler! Yes, awful - as is Tyla. I also don’t like Taylor or any occupations as first names.

Also - Woody! Why?? It’s not a compliment and it’s such a horrible boy’s name IMO.

Nina9870 · 30/08/2024 19:19

I have absolutely no idea why, but the name Margot makes me think of a cigarette. So yeh, I dislike it!

ThereIsATInWater · 30/08/2024 19:18

Felicity and Abigail....hate them.
Tyler.

Sunnnybunny72 · 30/08/2024 19:17

Anything ending in ie.
And Noah.

Coffeeandcrocs · 30/08/2024 19:14

Charmaine

dontforgetme · 30/08/2024 19:12

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews my son would have been Emma too if he'd been a girl. I absolutely love it!

scootlandyard · 30/08/2024 19:10

Garlic Wind 🤣

housethatbuiltme · 30/08/2024 19:04

It is weird to think in a few generation people my age will be trying to hide horror as a sea of our offspring named Emily Rose & Oliver Jack announce our beloved grandkids or great-grandkids as Wayne Alan, Kevin Trevor and Tracy Debra lol.

Just as this generations grandparents are sat their going 'really??? Edith, Alfred & Dorothy? thats so 'old''.

Wonder what the future version of 'trendy' modern names will be? if the trend for words (like Sage Rain or Willow Winter) carry on it will be 'Hi granny, meet your new grand daughter baby Garlic Wind' as we sit there and force a smile, then maybe baby Shannon Louise won't seem so bad.

It will happen as time moves on around us all.

Catlover1705 · 30/08/2024 19:02

RoyKentwhistle · 30/08/2024 16:45

Logan I absolutely hate it with a passion

Me too but I don't really know why. I know a lovely one so I think it's just the sound of the name.

NavyDeer · 30/08/2024 19:02

CrumpetPeanutButterBanana · 30/08/2024 18:35

My closest friendship group is Sarah, Jane,Claire, Louise and Elizabeth. Can you guess we were born in the 70s?! Grin

Show quote history

I'm a bit older than you, so all the Alisons and Sharons. Mainly married to Kevins and Grahams 😂

MissMoan · 30/08/2024 19:01

Names that sound differently from how they are spelled, such as Hermione or
Nimah.

And for some reason, Roger, Jermaine, Beryl, and Aaron

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 19:01

StarvingMarvin222 · 30/08/2024 18:00

Emma it's just a boring safe name.
Violet I absolutely detest this name.

If my son had been a girl, i would have called her Emma.
I think it's a lovely name.

We're all different!

Lampzade · 30/08/2024 19:00

Jack- Every single Jack I have met was a pain in the arse

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 18:59

lowflow · 30/08/2024 17:34

Jaqueline

It sticks in your throat when you say it. It

I always think of Reverend Lovejoy saying it as jack-que-line.

MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 30/08/2024 18:58

I don't like

Americanised names eg Jayden, Harper
Hyphens
Overly posh and frilly names e.g Camilla, Francesca
Silly 'unique' spellings

shivbo2014 · 30/08/2024 18:56

Freya

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 18:55

hildabaker · 30/08/2024 16:51

Malcolm
Travis
Beverly
Derek
Avril
Margery

They're all in my mah jong club.

gano · 30/08/2024 18:55

Only name I can think of is Gemma.

I've never met a Gemma that I've warmed to. Also, two bullies in my year at secondary school were both called Gemma, and one of them beat me up.

nc3008 · 30/08/2024 18:54

I’ll look through to see if anyone’s mentioned but my name is a sort of amalgamation of two really ugly names although it is an unusual name in its own right. Rowena and Morwenna. Rowena is the whiniest name and Morwenna sounds like she belongs on the Addams family.

I also don’t like ramona although it’s loved on here: it sounds like moan. Also not keen on Genevieve although again adored on MN.

My mum also wanted to call me Elspeth which just sounds spitty and lispy!

Swipe left for the next trending thread