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.

Libby
Ebony
Freya
Angel
Bobby
Ella
Donna
Paula
Jaiden
Reece

Made it to page 21 and DS’s name isn’t mentioned! Although several family dogs names have been. Mine is typical of the era I was born in and I don’t like it. My pet hate is Samantha, all the ones I’ve met have been really spiteful.

Libby... another one I irrationally hate!!

Lol my husbands parents and brothers name all mentioned within the first 6 posts! Funnily enough none of my kids are named after them lol

I'm not keen on Amber even though it's a lovely name because I knew an amber at school and couldn't stand her.

Donna is another! Vicky....
And I've been out off so many names for life having been a teacher for 17 years!!

Alfie, Charlie, Archie, Ryan being the current worst boys and faith, grace and Ellie not being great for girls. My daughters middle name is faith, I'm glad it's not her first name now!

I've heard Nevaeh pronounced as N'vaya. Rhymes with player.

Also agree with anything ending in -den. Make up bollocks.

As a teacher in the last couple of years, I've seen quite a few initials nicknames appearing as spelled out names (can't think of a better way to describe what I mean)
Examples of ones I've come across.... Ojay, Deejay, Ceejay, Emjay etc.... awful. Truly awful.

Names with ridiculous spellings
Made up names like Jayden or Immi
Americanised names
Rowan
Maud
Faith
Elspeth
Elsie
Archie
Albert
Martha
Samantha
Denise
Dorothy
Abigail
Cheryl

Could go on and on

I have loved this thread!

It has named every single person in my immediate family, DH's immediate family (including us), all our nieces and nephews, and started in on the cousins and great nieces and nephews! And grandparents.

It has not, however (she says very smugly), named my daughter's names. . . heh. Heh, heh.

@ mbosnz give it time - patience. Well get there, surely. (Shirley).

Phoebe. Everything about it makes me angry. Hate it. It's no name just a stupid noise and bunch of letters !

@HeronLanyon

@ mbosnz give it time - patience. Well get there, surely. (Shirley).

It's the upside of giving them names that will never appear on the stand of combs with names on them, and mugs

There has to be an upside to make up for a lifetime of ‘no tat’. well done !

The names I was appalled at (appalled, I tells ya! There was much hoicking of the bosom, tut-tutting, and clenching of ze pearls), was the names of twins.
Stella, and, I kid you not, Artois.
That year, in that class, there were also; Chardonnay, Nevaeh, Jayden, Ethan, Pollox, Olivia (three), Abigail amongst others.
That teacher, by the end of the year, was grey. So were the parents of the kids in that class, including myself.

I can't stand the name John or James just gives me itchy teeth.

Yes John seems to me like the ultimate boringly neutral name. It's like being called "man".

John is so boring 😂 the shortened version jack is cool though

Have to say Freddie and Libby are the top names I irrationally hate 😂

Saffron - always absolutely despised it.

Alfie, Archie, Wilf. Those old man names that are everywhere at the moment. And Jack. I swear there was a period of a couple of years where the only people in my circle of friends and family who didn’t name their baby boy Jack were the ones that already had a son named Jack. I mean it’s fine but it’s not that fantastic, why choose it when they are just everywhere?

For girls it’s place names and surnames. Madison, McKenzie, Montana. Bleurgh.

Alicia .
Grace / Gracie .
Josh.
Oskar.

Margot and Imogen.

Leanne
Siobhan
Bobby

I also know someone who has a daughter named Ana-Lease and it really sets my teeth on edge!

@SheilaHammond

Samantha. From a girl at school 45+ years ago. Always pronounced 'Smanfar'.

Phoebe
Chloe

Both so meh

Mason
Tyler

For obvious reasons

I really dislike all the frilly sounding multisyllabic girls names ending in ‘ia’ that seem to have been so popular for about a decade. They’re such a pain in the arse to say.

My own first name is crap too though. One of those 70s/early 80s ones no one likes.

Poppy
Coco
Hugo
Arthur
Toby
Jeremy