What name(s) do you irrationally hate?

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I'll start.

Denise.

I don't know any Denises... I'm sure they're lovely. But the name just rubs me up the wrong way.

NOTE: No Karen bashing please! Because it's been hijacked as a name and it's not fair on Karens.

Jacqueline
Michael

I know people with these names who are perfectly nice but somehow I cant stand the names.

Mabel

This is a funny thread. Didn't expect it to stay but since it has, I hate so many names especially some of the old, stuffy "posh" names many people seem to like to hold onto as some sort of sign of "good breeding". So, names you'll find in the RF, for example (and this has nothing to do with the people, just the names and the fact that people fawn over these names as something special).

Elizabeth (Lilibeth- Blueergh)
Charlotte
Kate/Catherine
George
Harry
Victoria
Pippa
Eugene/Eugenie
Beatrice
Augustus
Archie/Archibald
Angus
Ian
Nigel
Keith
Theresa
James
John
Sarah
L' (anything) or D' (anything)
Sebastian
Louise
Franca
Gene
Alastair
Oliver
...

Kaden/Jaden/Callum/Archie/Alfie in little boys, the hyphenated girls names Ellie- whatever. In adults Sarah..never met a nice one usually superficially nice until you get to know them. In men Wayne, Darren..you get the age group lol..

Found my name....Fiona... don’t like it much myself, who the hell would call their kid Fiona🤷‍♀️......boring!
I always wanted to be called Susan😂
I’m not a fan of all these old lady names you hear of now like
Edna
Agnes (just why?)
Euphemia
Nora
Mavis

Rory. Simply, I just don't like the sound of it.

Pat
Zara
Amanda/mandy
Brenda
Linda
Debra/Deborah
Lucy
Nicola
Susan
Kelly

Reece
Toby
Andy
Stuart
John
Matthew
Gary

Not my cup of tea and some names listed are linked to people I dislike

Amelia. The awful mealy sound- 'a-mealy-uh', and the medical meaning of it is shocking.
Margo/t. Geriatric, looks like maggot and sounds ridiculous.
Emma/Emily. Yawn, yawn, yawn...
David. Loathsome dickish name.

Rae, Grace, Iris

Margo/t. Geriatric, looks like maggot and sounds ridiculous.

Oh forgot this one. Thought I was alone in this. Everyone else seems or pretends to be oblivious to how similar they sound/look (Referring to a particular actress with this name).

Robert ( never met a nice Robert)
Douglas
Ian
Les or Lesley
Rachel

Seth.
It’s just a noise.
Setttttthhhhhh.
And Caleb. Looks like it’s something spelt backwards.

Amelie - sounds as if parents couldn't make up their mind between Emily and Amelia.

Wayne
Gareth
Gary
Dean
Timothy
Noah
Neil
Any of the 'Jayden' type names
Hyphenated names
Amelia
Ruth
Naomi
Imogen
Rachel

All these names jar in some way, to me.

Nevaeh.

Find double names irritating for some reason . Lucy Jane or Sarah Louise for example .All nice names on their own but together just set me on edge!

Zoey, Zoe is fine but Zoey I think of as Zoo-ee.

Diminutives as given names, if you want a Katy at least give her Katherine so she has options later. Jack, Harry, Polly - not names.

Also initials as names, it's not cute it looks like you can't write, I once had two in a class who had the same name eg Deejay and DJ (not actual names)

Darren - no idea why I dislike it.

Jess/Jessie I have never taught one who wasn't a handful, Jessicas - not keen on the name but at least they behave,

Agnes (just why?)

In my grandmother's case because she was the fifth girl and they already had an Anne.

Names give to the 'wrong' sex, like Americans using Shaun for girls. And while I'm on the subject of Shaun/Shawn/Sean names linked to a culture that you have no link with.

I just absolutely despise Margot
Irrational hate also for Phoebe. Looks and sounds so ugly.
Girl in my dd's class is actually called Phebe ( parents didn't like the 'O' so just removed it from the name) it's beyond awful.
Reuben- makes my teeth itch.grrrr

SallySeven

I agree with the surname thing. Reminds me of the wonderful Victoria Wood line "Kent! That's not a name - it's a cricket team."

And Paris for a girl. I know two. Paris Hilton is such a ridiculous name. I love the apocryphal statement about babies being named after where they were conceived - that's why there are so many Basildon Travelodges in Essex.

Erin, Olivia - make my teeth itch.

Sophie, poppy, Millie - probably some others too but they seem like children’s names and not for adults.

Kai/kayden/kavell/korie etc - mostly association of children i have known

ie names like Evie and Gracie. Too many of them, sounds like a child’s name. It’s the current version of Lisa, Denise, Claire, Sarah of the 1980s.

Adrian
Keith
Wayne
Eloise
Donna
Kim
Demi
Laura
Amy
Toby
Stanley
Finley
Theo
Jenson
Jax/Jaxon
Harvey
Timothy
Elliot
Sienna
Mila
Mia
Isla
Louis
Ottilie
Georgia
Edna
Felicity
Poppy
Piper

graham
richard

Most names that end with a -na or -ta or -a

Anna
Helena
Georgina
Pauletta
Henrietta
Georgia
Ophelia
Susanna
...

Stupid spellings of names, things like Destiny and Neveah, double barrels of any type but esp with Skye on the end or even worse triple Destiny-Frankie-Skye

Biblical names like Issac, Noah, Mary, Joseph, Reuben, Peter, Paul etc

Thomas 🤮
Alexander 🤮
Lesley/Leslie

Lillah/Lila/Lyla
So overdone
Same with Evie/Ava etc

Sarah
So so so many