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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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passthehobnobsplease · 30/08/2024 16:23

RosesAndHellebores · 30/08/2024 16:01

I dislike many names but feel it's inappropriate to mention which ones because it's rude and potentially hurtful.

This

waltzingparrot · 30/08/2024 16:23

Morag

TulipCat · 30/08/2024 16:22

hattie43 · 30/08/2024 16:19

Giles and Miles
Colin
Kevin
Barry

I am trying to imagine a baby Colin or Barry now! 😁

BloodyHellBob · 30/08/2024 16:22

RosesAndHellebores · 30/08/2024 16:01

I dislike many names but feel it's inappropriate to mention which ones because it's rude and potentially hurtful.

This. Not a particularly nice thread to be honest.

PetulantPenguin · 30/08/2024 16:22

Oh and yes to whoever mentioned Jaxson, Jayson, Jayden, Kayden etc. I just don't like them though, no reason.

glitches78 · 30/08/2024 16:21

Zoe, Julie, both really dislike them and think they're horrible names. Just can't imagine looking at a sweet baby and going oooo she's a sweet baby Julie or a lovely Zoe. Just horrid.

ThatsNotMyDuck · 30/08/2024 16:20

Nevaeh. Followed by ‘It’s heaven backwards’. Yes we know. Everybody fucking knows. It’s still bloody terrible.

Rose/May/Grace after every name. Overused and unoriginal.

UpTheMagicFarawayTree · 30/08/2024 16:20

Louis, as it sounds really wet and miserable to me.

Hannah, as it was the name of the girl who bullied me dreadfully at school.

PetulantPenguin · 30/08/2024 16:20

Paige and Amber - just because I've met some horrible people with those names.

Same for Callum and Cameron.

hattie43 · 30/08/2024 16:19

Giles and Miles
Colin
Kevin
Barry

Mumofgirls2017 · 30/08/2024 16:18

aside from ones that get a lot of flack like Jayden, Kaiden, double-barrelled, Nevaeh, Sharon, Karen etc… for no good reason or just by associations I’m not a fan of

violet (looks like violent and reminds me of a really spoiled child?)
scarlett (the scar sound plus above)
Toby
Grace
amelia
ellie
hannah
hugo
rory
samuel
william
adam
michael
mason
logan
grayson
imogen
bella

skyfalldown · 30/08/2024 16:17

Edith. Dreadful.
Once met a lady with a baby Edith and I had to smile tightly and say it was lovely but inside I was grimacing hard.

FrillyKnickersAndNoFurCoat · 30/08/2024 16:17

HighlandCow78 · 30/08/2024 15:57

Sarah. The most plain and boring of all names.

Living up to your name?

wickerlady · 30/08/2024 16:16

Jackson
Jaxson
Jaxon

And any other horrible made up American names

Rubyandscarlett · 30/08/2024 16:16

Don't like Riley, Mason, Lily or Daisy.

All perfectly fine names l just don't like them.

wickerlady · 30/08/2024 16:15

LonelyBones · 30/08/2024 16:02

Arlo
Ottilie
Sia
Sienna
Ava

Arlo, fucking Arlo.

Haha Arlo is the worst!

WittyUser · 30/08/2024 16:14

Eugene.

Although I love the pronunciation of Eugenie (but hate its spelling!)

HighlandCow78 · 30/08/2024 16:14

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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The eleventy million parents using it in that time period probably contribute to my hatred! So overused.

wickerlady · 30/08/2024 16:12

Kai
Levi
Jayden

Worst of the worst

scootlandyard · 30/08/2024 16:11

I actually like a lot of the aforementioned names though! Sarah is lovely and I really like Nevaeh- I know people get hung up on it being a bit naff for the whole ‘it’sheavenspeltbackwards’ but I think it’s very soft and pretty-sounding.

I also can’t imagine a baby Ian (and similar generation names) but I think that’s just because we are so used to associating those names with 50-year-old men rather than the actual name.

niclw · 30/08/2024 16:10

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

MrsWhattery · 30/08/2024 16:10

Meh people are allowed to hate names! We're all different. If anyone is upset by this thread because they have a baby with a name that's on it, they really shouldn't click on it. It's easy to avoid if it's going to affect you.

expiredplants · 30/08/2024 16:10

Anything ending in an ee sound becomes ‘eh’ with the regional accent where I grew up. So I’m not fond of and avoided using names ending in y and ie.

scootlandyard · 30/08/2024 16:08

Sonia, Barbara, Yvonne

I also dislike my middle name- Louise. I think it’s the eeeze sound.

MrsWhattery · 30/08/2024 16:08

Not heard of Wendle but I love that!