Names You Would Never Use

As an ex-teacher, neither did I!

Sadly, I don't like boring names, just to buck the trend. I'm tired of:

Emma
Emily
Lucy

Having worked in 2 eu countries and in North America, I'm done with those names sadly.

Equally we have lots of missionaries at our church and thus lots of Old Testament names for kids under 10, some of which are so sad like:
Obadiah
Jessom
Marah (bitter waters!!! Why??)

Blown away that none of my three children's names are on here. I get some funny looks when I introduce my children!

Just reminds me of Gollum

Boys
Kevin
Vernon
Ashley
Taylor
Tyler
Ethan
Jayden

Girls
Sienna
Scarlett
Desiree
Fanny
Griselda
Isis
Kelly

Wouldn’t use any name that hasn’t been in constant use for 500 years. No Kaydens, Jaydens, Kimberleys, Dorises, Storms, Tracey’s, Willows etc. They date.

any silly 'ie' nick names
anything ending in Mae
Olivia, Amelia, Lily

I prefer names which can't be shortened and I'm not keen on made up names.

Some names I don't like the sound of:
Olive, Eileen, Ruby, Jayden, William, Denis

Forgot Ottille is this even a real name?? And felicity and Florence

Rosie, Olivia, all Belle names, Sophie/a, Willow, Isla, Lottie and 95% of the top 80 names for girls and boys.

so many boys names, Grayson, Albie, Theo, Ethan, Noah and place names Preston and Lincoln, worse still is Teddy honestly they will be adults at least call them Edward!

I hate these names not because they are common they are just awful on small children let alone adults.

B - Callum, Grayson, Hunter, Ian, Miles, Milo, Oliver, Rory, Stanley

G - Delilah, Daisy, Freya, Lyra, Luna, Mila, Myla, Nova, Poppy, Sienna

Just some I can think of off the top of my head, no particular reason just dislike them immensely
Forgot Faith/Faye

I think maybe part of the reason I don't like Callum with two Ls is that it looks a bit like "callous" - but it's also because it's not the original spelling.

I'm going to go against the grain and admit to loving double barreled girls names with may in. Lily may, Jodie may etc

Sound so pretty and elegant.

Grace/ Eve/ Faith/ Rose - I find so bland
Felicity - don't know why, I really dislike it

Luke - rhymes with puke
Oliver - met some really strange boys with this name but like Ollie/ Olly

Totally with you on much of this, especially the bad name meanings. My name has a lovely meaning, and I was always so glad of this. I'd hate to have a name that meant something negative.

My daughter's name has appeared twice on this thread as one of the too-frilly, too-feminine names. She feels the same way unfortunately. She goes by a diminutive which is also a name in its own right and a lot of people think that's her actual name unless told otherwise. (She also has May as one of her middle names which is hated on here but she was born on 1st May so my justification is that she's properly entitled to it!)

I don't like diminutives as birth certificate names, it sounds like the parents couldn't be bothered to think of a real name. The full name gives options. I worked with a woman whose birth certificate name was Jenny, people would assume it was short for Jennifer and put that down on official records, what a pain for her (and rude of them, obviously).

Surnames as first names, sounds too American and try too hard. I especially hate this for girls. There are so many lovely girls names and you choose Cooper or Parker FFS! I particularly hate the current trend for Sutton, not least because it makes me think of Mutton and because in the UK it seems to be pronounced with a glottal stop as "Suh-Uhn" - ghastly.

On the subject of glottal stops, see also Otillie ("Uh-Ih-Lee").

Atypical spellings like Samm and Abbigail. Just, why?

I don't like names that trend/date too distinctively. Barbara/Linda/Susan are very much names from my mum's generation. In my day there were umpteen Nicolas, Emmas, Marks and Jasons. Slightly younger it was Hayley and Jade. Now it's all Kayden/Jayden and Ava/Ivy/Amelia.

Then there are names I dislike because I just hate the sound, no real rational reason. Such as:
Beverley - makes me think of Bovril and Beverage
Kimberley - for some reason makes me picture someone with a runny nose
Maud - combination of mould and fraud
Andrew - whiny nothing name, also with snotty nose
Hannah - sounds too like hammer (strangely I like Anna)
Colin -sounds like colic
Paul/Paula - sounds like appalled or pulled pork
Rupert -silly and babyish (see also Teddy and Dolly).

Also feel irrationally annoyed when people give their children descriptive names that don't seem to fit. I know an April who was born in January, an Augustus who was born in October and a Bruno who has the fairest hair I've ever seen for example. See also parents who don't seem to have any interest in the meaning of names and call their children names with horrible meanings (Amelia, Gideon, Mary) or something like the eldest child Imogen (it means "the last" so should surely be given to the youngest?).

I need to learn to mind my own business.

I can't stand any shortened girls name with the exception of Jenny,

I had Victoria picked out as DD2's name, but XH's family immediately started saying Vicky, so when she was born I gave her a name that couldn't be shortened, and chose Victoria as a middle name.

I should have realised that when I gave DD1 a name that can be shortened, they immediately started calling her by that version, didn't matter how many times I asked them to call her by her proper name.

DD1 is an adult now, and doesn't have much to do with XH and his family, but they still call her by the shortened version, which she hates. I find it incredibly arrogant and rude to not call a person by their chosen name.

The regular names I can't stand are things like Deborah, Angela, Jacqueline, Maureen.

Albie seems to be quite popular where I live. I think it's awful.

Horace