Names You Would Never Use

@Stepfordian
Fully agree, the posts asking for an Irish or Scottish name and don't even know how to spell them!!
Same with the upsurge in Alba, at least it'll be easy to get something with their name on it!

This is why I chose the full version of my son's name even though we only really use the shortened version. So he would have options in the future.

Names that sound like morgue: Morgan, Morgana, Maude
Names that rhyme with fester: Lester, Hester
Names that are medical conditions or sound like them: Melena, Candida, Regina, Labbia
Names which could be stripper names: Candy, Randy, Bambi, Precious, Destiny

Jake, jack, ethan

anna, connie, libby

just very meh names to me

Anyone who shares a name with people I don't like. I can cope if it's one person of that name, but if there's 2 or more that's it.

Or if there's a lot of people with that name. I know so many Rebeccas, Catherines, Victorias - all lovely names but there's just so many!

Names that are nouns e.g. River.

Hyphenated names. (I also don't like double barrelling surnames either).

Prince Andrew

Mine are more my association /interaction with people with certain names ( ex teacher married to a teacher so many names were off the table!)

Don't like ' family ' names, each baby is it's own self give them their own name.

'Yoo-neek' (love that PP) spellings to stand out.

Names are circular so young women having babies don't have connotations with Elsie, ivy etc where as my generation still remember old ladies with these names. I quite like some of them.

I do like some names being used for male or female, but notvif they're obviously one or the other ie james Paul

Quinn. Because it sounds like quim.

Anything more likely to end up on the wrong side of the bench.

But names are funny things. I am in my mid 60s and my middle name is now a hated and very frequently used filler. It was very very unusual when I was born and for decades had a certain charm.

My DC are grown up now. Their names are pretty classic but not often used 30 years ago. Both have since exploded.

For me it's place names when there is no actual connection to it, India being the worst for this.

B: Jayden and Adolf.

G: Anything with May or Mae

I hope you all have psychic abilities. Two names mentioned often on these threads weren't even top 100 when my adult DC were born. Now they're 'over-used' and 'thoughtless.'

For me it is always related to individuals with that name.

1. Martha- works for Pfizer, poisonous bitch.
2. Olivia from school- apparently normal these days.

Old people names, Elsie, Iris, Ada, Arthur, Alfie etc. they’re just ugly names.

Irish or Scottish names on people who have no relation to those countries, or even worse people who’s grandad’s, second cousin’s, cat’s sister was Scottish/Irish so they give all their kids Scottish/Irish names and tell everyone they’re Scottish/Irish really when they’re not, they’re as English as they come. I don’t know why this annoys me so much, but it does!

Virtue names are quite bold. We know several Graces who are the exact opposite of graceful in every way. Seems cruel somehow.

One of my DD's names has already been covered in a category above so it just shows we all have different thoughts and tastes and that's OK. Here are my personal name dislikes:

Names that are nouns - so so many out there but I like names that are names, not random words like professions or seasons etc

Names from current popular culture (TV series', movies, pop stars, celebrities etc)

Yoo-neek spellings of well known names just for the sake of being different

Double barrelled first names, especially anything -May, -Rose

More than one middle name

Middle names that don't flow with the rest of the name or are really ugly but chosen just to 'honour' a family member. Give your child their own name!

Filler middle names that every other child has, chosen just for the sake of having one (the modern day Louise's, Jane's, Marie's, Anne's - you know the names I'm talking about)

Siblings with the same first initial (Kardashian style)

Alteration - it just sounds so twee and what might be so very cute when they're a baby won't be quite so much when they're a professional adult in the workplace.

And saving the best for last, having basically the same name and surname - think Neville Neville, Peter Peterson, David Davidson etc. Just why???

Names that are the nicknames of a traditional name. So the child can never choose the “full” version of their name to fit a formal or professional situation as an adult.

I don’t understand when people talk about wanting “cute names for a baby”. The baby will be an adult for 20 x longer than they will be a baby/small child!

Anything ending in -bert, it’s such an ugly sound.

Umph I’m glad this is anonymous!!

So my kids have short, quite common traditional names. Not because of any other reason than we liked them, ones a family name. For us we did wobble about whether they were too common - but they really suit them and so far in a small primary we’ve been fine 😆

my no goes are…

anything hyphened with May, or worse Mae
(Chloe - mae, daisy Mae etc)
anything spelt quirkily
Taylor, Tyler, Braydon, Jaxon, Logan,HARVEY/HARLEY

sorry..!!

Hyphenated names and ones with unique spellings (just makes me feel sorry for the child, constantly having to spell their name to other people)

Long or frilly / fussy names that don’t shorten easily to a useable everyday version. I introduce myself to new people multiple times per day at work and am very grateful for my two syllable, standard spelling name! I also have teenagers, and long names are all shortened by their friends (even if against parent’s wishes) so, for me I wouldn’t use a longer name unless I loved the short version. An example would be Felicity (in my job this would sound pretentious to insist on in full, but Flick / Fliss are too informal to introduce myself with to new people everyday in a professional setting).

I don’t like names that are off tv shows or movies, like Madison becoming popular after the movie Splash, and then obviously the game of thrones names.

In the same vein i avoid names that have been used recently by celebrities. Hazel was my all time favourite name from childhood, but then julia Roberts used it for her daughter before I had chance to use it so I had to avoid it.

I don't like any hyphenated first name!

Virtue names. Saddling a newborn with a descriptor that may not suit them as an adult.

being named after living family members. Deliberate confusion or enforced nicknames / additions. My family has a bit of this and I unfortunately married someone whose family also do this with the same name - DS ran the risk of having the same name as both this grandfathers, both his uncles and several of his cousins: I refused to entertain if.

Kayleigh.