What name do you really dislike?

30 years ago in my early 20s, I remember discussing baby names with a pregnant colleague and I said I'd love to call a DD Eve - back then no one was called Eve. Except maybe Eve Pollard but I don't think I'd heard of her then.

By the time I had DC it was everywhere and I was so over it. Ubiquity stole my baby name!

William, Wilfred, Alfred, Archie, in fact any of those Victorian names. And the Kayden/Jayden type ones where it seems someone has just decided to make it up. And Britney, Bree etc. And silly spellings of ordinary names.

Fucking hate Ava, it’s in playgrounds everywhere - think this will be the next generations ‘Karen’

Any of the Kayden/Jayden type names.

Karen, Sharon, Nigel, Sarah, Deidre, Stephen/Steven,

Also Sadie.
Makes me think of "sadist".

I totally expected to see my kids names but out of 8 name (4x first & middle) only 1 middle name has come up and only once.

Maybe I have better taste than I thought lol.

Amelia
Theo

Candida.
I don't think I'll ever understand why anyone would want to name their child after a yeast infection.

In terms of girls names...I really dislike Evie. So popular, so meh

Lots of these names are just out of fashion. So tell us nothing about your personal taste except you go with current fashion.

I find it interesting how many names I love others hate: Sarah, Alice, Emma, Sebastian, George, Louis.
Any baby I met with those names I'd think: gorgeous name.

I agree with that names ending in ie have really been overdone and now seem twee.

And I say that as someone who 20 years ago went with the fashion and has a ie named Dd.
I'd choose something different if I were choosing now.

My DS's name has popped up now! Somehow I'm coping. Don't even like my own name so I've learned to tough it out

Des
Stephanie
Sophie
Glen
Timothy
Judith
Caroline
Julian

Arlo. No idea why it's suddenly so popular

Oh you just reminded me that DS met a girl called 'Clemmie' (short for Clementine, but went by Clemmie) and the first time I heard it it was so out of the blue that I was confused and I hope my face didn't show the horror my mind felt in the moment.

I LOVE Norman Reedus but when I found out his DS was called Mingus Reedus I nearly choked, it sounds like a spell a wizard would cast but I guess celebs are a different world.

I have always though Mungo would be a great dogs name though, if I got a dog it would be high on my list of possible names.

My daughter's name is on here as is my granddaughter's name. That's ok - we have reasons for their name and we, and more importantly they, like them.
I hate my name - it isn't here but I think it should be.
It would be boring if we all liked the same names.
I personally hate the name Alexander - not because of the name in itself but the people associated with it

I loved Arlo the Dinosaur movie and it's the first thing I think of when I hear the name Arlo
I am not a fan of Niveah or Archie but would never tell my friends who have named their children these names. They had their reasons too

I agree with you.

Violet (too close to Violent)
Jade / Ruby / other gem or stone names (just feel tacky)
Max (boy at school was nicknamed Waxy Max)
Lydia (gets shortened to Lid which is just horrid!)

Lincoln
Jackson
Mason
Landon
Oaklen
Oakley
Arlo

Peregrine is indeed a kind of falcon. And a silly posh name 😂. They really are names that posh people use though. Maybe that's why they also have an equally silly nickname like Bunty or Squiffy!

Anything like Teddie, Archie, Billie, Tommie, where the parents think they are naming a baby rather than, hopefully, someone who will be lumbered with their baby name for 80+ years.

Any long, posh or frilly names that don’t have short versions that I would be comfortable to go by most of the time as an adult. E.g. Felicity or Aurelia would be too fussy for me to feel happy to use day to day as an adult, but only have short versions that feel a bit too informal to me as a main name to introduce myself with or to sign off an email with at work (Flick / Fliss / Rory).

Mingus (makes me think minge)
Mungo (makes me think mung beans)
Fergus (makes me think fungus)
Clive (sounds smarmy to me)
Maude (makes me think maudlin)
Mildred (makes me think mildew)
Ethel (didn't like Ethel Hallow in The Worst Witch)
Ottilie (makes me think otter)
Ptolemy (twat)
Clementine (makes me think phlegm)

There are plenty of names that are perfectly lovely but I just wouldn't use them, doesn't mean I hate them though. The ones above though... I just can't get past what I think of when I hear them.

I hate surnames used as first names.

Ellie, Millie, Teddy and Jackie. Any other spellings of those names.
As pp has said Ellie and millie end up as elleh and milleh. Teddy is far too twee but really popular and I have never once met a nice Jackie so it's really coloured the name for me.

Barry - little baby Barry 😂

Duncan - sounds like a blocked nose
Kevin
Darryl
Dean
Nevaeh (that’s not how ‘heaven’ sounds backwards!)
Anything hyphenated with Rae or Mae
Justin and Dustin
Bradley - sounds like a tool
Maggie - unpleasant sounding, like an insult
Spencer - underwear
Angela
Samantha
Wilma
Wendy - boat comes in…!
Theresa - don’t mind Tess but don’t like this
Hilary

Better stop there!