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What name(s) do you irrationally hate?

902 replies

Baggingarea · 27/09/2020 20:16

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.

OP posts:
Davros · 27/09/2020 21:15

Mia, Maya, Ella, Bella, Freya etc

OldPunk · 27/09/2020 21:16

Ruth. No reason.

Bluepolkadots42 · 27/09/2020 21:16

My name and my DD's names have both been mentioned on here Grin

Most boys names I find totally dull. Especially v traditional ones.
Kaden/Jaden/Callum/Archie/Alfie all naughty boy names I detest.

Margaret
Mandy
Candice (makes me think of candida)
Lauren
Natalie
Caroline
Sarah
Jodie
Tina
Amy or any other spelling variation
Amber
Sapphire
Saffy/Saffron
Rosemary
Ruby
Ivy
Kaden/Jaden/Callum/Archie/Alfie all naughty boy names I detest.

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Bluepolkadots42 · 27/09/2020 21:17

@OldPunk YES. Left that one off my list!

docemmett · 27/09/2020 21:19

Full house! All 3 of my children have been named on this list Smile. My irrational dislikes:
Sophie
Kate
James
All perfectly pleasant, traditional names that thousands like...just not me

CarnageAtTheGardenCentre · 27/09/2020 21:19

Marc. I don’t mind it with a K at the end, but not the C.
Marcus
Evan

Dancefloortragedy · 27/09/2020 21:22

Lawrence
Alistair
Francis
Leslie
Brenda
Freya
Fleur
Monty

AnnaSW1 · 27/09/2020 21:22

Fleur
Francesca

Rossaloony · 27/09/2020 21:23

Juliet.

I've hated it since a child - I think there was a horrible girl at nursery with the name. Also it reminds me of courgettes and I bloody hate the things.

SanFrancisco49er · 27/09/2020 21:26

All the older more traditional names that are so popular at the moment.

Mabel
Edie
Evie
Albert
Wilfred etc...

Plus all the horribly twee middle class names like Milo/Arlo/Amelia/Oscar (and I about as 'Waitrose middle class' as you can get!)

Give me a normal name that doesn't date any day. Or a ridiculously over the top, horrific footballers wives name, go big or go home if you're going to do it! Grin

BogRollBOGOF · 27/09/2020 21:29

Jaxon because I don't know if it's pronounced as Jason or Jackson.

Occupational names:
Taylor
Cooper
Tyler
Miller
They get confusing if firstname/ surname order is not clear.

I once taught someone with a common first name as his surname and common surname as his first name. Neither was unusual for either purpose, but because he was that used to people muddling the order, he often mis-corrected his name when it was correctly presented as Surname Firstname.

I have a very boring taste in names and a DC has already been mentioned Grin

MrsCrosbyNRTB · 27/09/2020 21:29

Freya
Helen
Bethany
Joshua / Josh
Rhys / Reece
Daphne
Billy
Mason
Bobby
Ryan
Bradley
Connor
Martine / Martina
Ruth
Ian

autumnkate · 27/09/2020 21:31

Reggie

RuthW · 27/09/2020 21:32

Jessica, Evie, Alfie, Archie, Tommy, Billy, Helen, Duncan, Bailey, Dawn

keepingbees · 27/09/2020 21:33

Spencer and Curtis - Both just make my teeth itch.
Daniel - never met a nice one
Samantha - vile bully at school
Morag and Imogen - both clunky and don't look or sound nice to me.
Neveah

AlrightBabby · 27/09/2020 21:46

Joshua - especially shortened to Josh, it sounds like you're saying it with a mouth full of crackers
Heather - never met a normal one
Clive - urgh!!!
Aliya/ Alaiya / Aaliya - every class I teach has one, all spelt and pronounced differently, and I don't know which goes with which!

user1494050295 · 27/09/2020 21:54

Amy Emily Rosie basically any name ending in a y or an ie. bleugh

KittyKattyKate · 27/09/2020 21:54

Debra
Tracie
Jeremy
Jordan

Ugh

RiftGibbon · 27/09/2020 21:59

Seth. I don't know why. I'm not keen on Molly either (or any 'given names' that are diminutives of perfectly good ones. Bit that's another discussion.
I also don't like the name Priscilla. When I was having DC and on the ward afterwards, a woman nearby wanted to name her child after her mother. Except that she had absolutely no idea how to actually spell the name, which was Priscilla.

LunaAzul · 27/09/2020 22:00

Timothy and Natasha. Met perfectly nice people with those names but they just make me ick when I hear them said aloud.

Pet8 · 27/09/2020 22:00

Perfectly okay boys names that are shortened, by one or two letters, that change them into awful names that irritate me - Steve, Dave, Pete, Mike.

Hate the current trend for hyphenated girls names too.

Ellapaella · 27/09/2020 22:01

Ken

CherryCocktails · 27/09/2020 22:03

Imogen
Emily
Charlie
Anything like flossie or poppy,

Vanessashanessajenkins2 · 27/09/2020 22:05

@mrsmummy1111

Anything hyphenated with - May.

Eg Darcy-May🤮

That does set my teeth on edge!

Also, Jayden, Harley, Kayden, Jordan.

TheoneandObi · 27/09/2020 22:07

Milly. Dreadful bully who got away with it by smiling sweetly at the teachers at DD's school
But less personally - the usual Jaydens and Kaydens, and twee girl names like Evie and Lyla, and anything hyphenated.