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What name do you really dislike?

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squaredspots · 30/08/2024 15:37

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

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PoodlesRUs · 30/08/2024 18:53

Stuart
Stephen
Dwayne
Olivia
Maisie
Sharon
Lauren
Lisa
Rebecca
Laura
Tate
McKenzie as a first name
Molly
Bobby
Michelle
Chanel
Bruno
Bruce
Kirsty
Brenda
Blake
Blair

NavyDeer · 30/08/2024 18:52

MagicianMoth · 30/08/2024 16:08

I love the name Sarah, I think it is a great name - it is just so did eleventy million parents in the 1970s and 1980s.

I am not keen on Alice, for some reason, as I see it as insipid, although I recently met an Alice who was very nice and not at all insipid so I may be changing my mind.

Winifred, Gertrude, Wilhelmina - but you don't get many of those these days.
Stewart, perhaps because it has "wart" in it.

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I have a Sarah. She was born late 90s and there was only one other Sarah in each of the three schools she attended. It always amused me that the parents who thought they were giving their children more interesting names, found that many others thought of the same and so there was a multitude of Calebs and Kyles. Perfectly fine names of course, but I that's how name popularity goes.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 18:52

lollyPaloozah · 30/08/2024 16:35

Ottilie
anything like Bailey, Hayley etc
and for some reason Caroline but can’t put my finger on why

But she's so sweet! 😉

Blushingm · 30/08/2024 18:50

Anything that ends in -ayden or -aiden think jaiden, kayden

Don't like Tyler or Courtney either

Middle name of May or Lee

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 18:50

niclw · 30/08/2024 16:10

Aaron. When my cousin named their child this I cringed.

They didn't get beyond column one of the first page of the book of baby names.

lavendermoonx · 30/08/2024 18:49

The Jayden, Kayden and cutesy girl names with Rose or Mae as a middle name go without saying, but also:

Leslie
Sarah
Esther
Harriet
Julie
Rebecca
Shelby
Demi

Rueben
John
George
Angus
Edmund
Oliver

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/08/2024 18:49

StormingNorman · 30/08/2024 16:06

Surnames as names. An awful American invention.

It makes them sound like law firms.

AdviceNeeded2024 · 30/08/2024 18:49

I’m not keen on anything named after a brand, so things like Chanel, Prada, Mercedes, Armanii, Kenzo, Klein etc etc.

Have come across some of these before.

poetryandwine · 30/08/2024 18:48

Georgyporky · 30/08/2024 17:40

Quote re Robson Green : -

"He was named in the Northeast tradition of naming the first son after family surnames: Robson was his paternal grandmother's maiden name,"

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Thanks very much for this.

I always thought the Americans adopted the tradition from the British Isles. Surnames from the many other cultures that settled America are not used as first names, after all.

Lemonademoney · 30/08/2024 18:47

Is this one of those deliberately provocative threads designed to upset people?? Why does it matter what someone else names their child? So many rude comments on here about perfectly normal names

notthefunauntie · 30/08/2024 18:45

TSMWEL · 30/08/2024 18:44

Balonz is prob up there for me

Haha, snap!

Deadringer · 30/08/2024 18:44

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

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Sarah was very popular in the 90s too, there was 4 in my dds class, and 2 or 3 Kate's.

RareMaker · 30/08/2024 18:44

Amelia
Evie/Eva/Ava/isla
Tim
Janet
Lisa
Karen
Todd

TSMWEL · 30/08/2024 18:44

Balonz is prob up there for me

SammyScrounge · 30/08/2024 18:43

Josh. I hate the sound of it

RedOnyx · 30/08/2024 18:43

Mildred - it just doesn't sound nice, as others have said reminds me of mildew.
Maud - sounds like mould
Ethel
Barbara
Olga

Derek
Darren
Kenneth
Herbert
Jayden
Jaxon
Nigel

StrawberryWasp · 30/08/2024 18:43

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

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They are all lovely names due a revival in 2030s/ 2040s.
An antidote to all the Lilys, Poppys, Evie's, Mollys etc. which will be the names of their parents.

Many of us may have grandchildren called Jane and Paul and our kids will not understand why we hate it, they'll just think they've hit on something cool and new.

Deadringer · 30/08/2024 18:42

The parents are only about 20, would be surprised if even their parents had heard of Dusty Springfield. The worst thing is the surname is a boy's name, so like Dusty Micheal. (Michael is not the real name). Awful.

notthefunauntie · 30/08/2024 18:42

Haven't RTFT but what about Balonz?

Lots of names I wouldn't use but not sure there are any I hate enough to add to the thread

EmeraldDreams73 · 30/08/2024 18:40

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

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Yep! And the only options as middle names were either Louise or Jane. Seems to have been the law. I'm a Sarah Louise and had a v common surname at school. There was someone else with exactly the same name as mine on the A level results board - I panicked at the sight of science A level results till I realised I definitely hadn't taken those and saw my own results!!

Georgyporky · 30/08/2024 18:38

Deadringer · 30/08/2024 18:33

I was doing some admin for a creche recantly came across the name Dusty. Don't know if its a boy or a girl but why, just why?

After Dusty Springfield perhaps?
She was a gay icon.

MrsWhattery · 30/08/2024 18:37

Dusty is probably after Dusty Springfield, a (female) 60s singer. A lot of the recent trendy names are from jazz, soul or old folk singers, including Arlo - see also Etta, Nina, Woody, Herbie etc.

CrumpetPeanutButterBanana · 30/08/2024 18:35

EmeraldDreams73 · 30/08/2024 18:33

Personally I really dislike surnames as names, and Nevaeh is horrific. And I hate my name (Sarah) - practically everyone else was called the same thing at school!

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

Deadringer · 30/08/2024 18:33

I was doing some admin for a creche recantly came across the name Dusty. Don't know if its a boy or a girl but why, just why?

EmeraldDreams73 · 30/08/2024 18:33

Personally I really dislike surnames as names, and Nevaeh is horrific. And I hate my name (Sarah) - practically everyone else was called the same thing at school!

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