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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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MagicianMoth · 30/08/2024 16:08

HighlandCow78 · 30/08/2024 15:57

Sarah. The most plain and boring of all names.

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.

Deadringer · 30/08/2024 16:08

There are loads of names that I hate, especially ridiculous ones like Savannah, and very few that I like, but the worst for me is Jasper, the sound of it makes me feel a bit sick.

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 30/08/2024 16:07

squaredspots · 30/08/2024 15:37

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

Not a nice thread. Sad Some people will actually have these names you know @squaredspots !

TulipCat · 30/08/2024 16:06

Eve

It reminds me of the truly revolting dessert they served at my school. It was called Eve's pudding. To this day I don't know what was in it, but it was vile!

MrsWhattery · 30/08/2024 16:06

Ian. Just can't get my head round how anyone ever had a baby and thought "I love Ian for a boy!" Baby Ian. In my head Ian Beale is the epitome of an Ian.

Imogensmith · 30/08/2024 16:06

Neveah

redtrain123 · 30/08/2024 16:06

Sylvia - school bully had this name

StormingNorman · 30/08/2024 16:06

Surnames as names. An awful American invention.

Imogensmith · 30/08/2024 16:06

Bodhi

summerbreze · 30/08/2024 16:05

Genevieve. Awful!!

Ohdearyme72 · 30/08/2024 16:04

Alfie, Ottie, Lottie, Mathilda, Oscar, Ollie, Rose, Rosie, Gracie. Basically anthing twattie.

SophiaJ8 · 30/08/2024 16:03

Esme - no explanation, just really irrationally hate it

Ottilie and Ophelia

And Jayden, Brayden, Cayden, Logan, etc

LonelyBones · 30/08/2024 16:02

Arlo
Ottilie
Sia
Sienna
Ava

Arlo, fucking Arlo.

MaybeItWasMe · 30/08/2024 16:02

Any of the Jayden, Kayden type names.
Anything hyphenated particularly with Rose or May.

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.

TheHeadOfTheHouse · 30/08/2024 16:00

There’s loads of names I dislike but the ones that come to mind are…

Penelope (it’s reminds me of that movie years ago about the girl who had a pig nose)

Molly (it reminds me of a mop)

anything that’s keep done to death like May/Mae for middle names and that’s the same with Rose.

Any name that’s popular for dogs like Marley, Bailey, Bonnie, Charlie, Ben, Sam, Buddy, Bella etc

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It's funny how we associate names with people we know - I too know three Carols and they are all awful!

PurpleChrayn · 30/08/2024 15:59

Names ending in -b like Caleb and Jacob. So lumpen and ugly.

Names ending in -m. Liam. Callum. Tatum. Nauseating.

TulipCat · 30/08/2024 15:58

Jayden
Kai
Kayleigh

Plus silly posh names like Araminta, Atticus, Peregrine and Olympia.

notanarchaeologist · 30/08/2024 15:58

Blueberry40 · 30/08/2024 15:48

Sebastian
Moira
Ruth
Paige
Peyton
Chad
Maud
Graham

Agreed on Moira, makes me think of moist.

HighlandCow78 · 30/08/2024 15:57

Sarah. The most plain and boring of all names.

Frowningprovidence · 30/08/2024 15:56

Cain as I think of the first murderer

otherwise i'm pretty mellow about names.

Monkeytapper · 30/08/2024 15:56

Sebastian

ThisOchreLemur · 30/08/2024 15:55

Astrid

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