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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.

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LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 28/09/2020 09:35

Amelie- it is what my mum would call, affected.

amieejust · 28/09/2020 09:43

Frank 🤮

Mervyn

Melvin

Flaunch · 28/09/2020 09:47

Jaxon

Horrendous.

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Ginorwine30 · 28/09/2020 09:48

Hyphenated names
Made up spellings make me cringe as well! Emilee etc. Anything with May/Mae
Ronnie, Reggie, Alfie
Clementine
Xanthe

WonderMoon · 28/09/2020 09:56

I wouldn't say I HATE them but I just don't like them, no particular reason!

Millie
Tillie
Georgia
Henrietta
Victoria (Vicki)

Archie
Hugo
Charles
Jayden

gingerwhinger0 · 28/09/2020 10:01

Lucy, first boyfriend cheated on me with one. She sounded, amongst other things, like an insufferable middle class twat.
Tina. Don’t really dislike the name, it’s just always reminds me of a poor kid from school that always had green lines of snot running from her eyes and nose.

areyoubeingserviced · 28/09/2020 10:07

Jack- For some reason many of the little boys who picked fights with my dcs at primary school were called Jack. So now I can’t bear the name

Crystal87 · 28/09/2020 10:08

Paige

Athrawes · 28/09/2020 10:11

Sandra.
I remember meeting one when I was 6. Probably a perfectly nice girl but she had the same name as someone my Mummy and Daddy shouted about....

tornadoalley · 28/09/2020 10:34

Daisy-Mae. Give me the vomit bowl

VickySunshine · 28/09/2020 10:37

Keir

FutureProofed · 28/09/2020 10:46

Nothing irrational about my dislike of imperfectly anglicised or plain wrong Irish names -- Neve for Niamh is awful, and don't get me started on Sorcha pronounced as 'SORE-sha' or Aoibheann pronounced Ay-VEEN, which would be correct only if Irish language phonetics were completely reinvented.

Cáitlín stripped of its fadas and pronounced 'Kate-Lin' also gives me the rage, but to be fair, it probably has its own independent existence at this point, even if its origins were in a misunderstanding.

Davros · 28/09/2020 11:02

Some of these posts are like "help me name my puppy" threads. Ha ha

SchadenfreudePersonified · 28/09/2020 11:08

@ExclamationPerfume

Phoebe Sophie
My little black cocker.

My west highland terrier.

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TeamLannister · 28/09/2020 12:46

Agree 100% @FutureProofed, gives me the rage as well! Love the name Cáitlín when it's pronounced in the original Irish, but not the Katelin way.

myusernamewastakenbyme · 28/09/2020 12:54

Jordan....such a tacky chavvy name.
Nancy...just dont like it.
Jake....common in 1998 and overused...my son had 3 Jakes in his class.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 28/09/2020 13:04

Any name that is made up of initials rather than being an actual name: AJ, CJ (or CeeJay), JJ (or JayJay) etc.
Callum
Brian
Bob
Kevin
Lucifer - reminds me of Cinderella's cat!
Archie, Alfie, Bobby, Reggie, Ralphie
Declan
Luis when they mean Lewis

Elise - I read it as Elsie, which I actually like
Tilly
Ottily
Persephone
Stephanie
Ashley
Angela
Isanthe
Cleopatra
Eleanor
Julia
Samantha

FierceS221 · 28/09/2020 13:16

My 2 brothers, sister, grandmother and boyfriend have all been named here Blush

I am yet to see my name appear, which I was pretty sure would make an appearance when I clicked this thread Grin

FierceS221 · 28/09/2020 13:37

Mine are....

Girls
Justine
Rebecca
Stacey
Poppy
Hayley
Aaliyah (used to adore this name but it is soooo overused now)

Boys
Kayden/Jayden/Hayden/Anything-Den
Jasper
Gary
Gareth
Hugo

also anything with Paul in it..... Paul/Paulene/Paulette

There are so many more.......

TeresaN · 28/09/2020 13:53

Jacintha
Dymphna
Any double barrel name with Rose or May
Georgia
Keely
Carter
Imogen
Sebastian
Rachel
Deirdre

Myresistanceislow · 28/09/2020 14:34

Molly
Julie
Jenny/Jennifer
Sheila
Shirley
Indy/Indie
Pauline
Bella
Sharon
Sandra
Rebecca/Becky
Hayley
Linda

Tristan
Grant
Martin
Colin

AfterSchoolWorry · 28/09/2020 14:38

Marine

Moany sarnie.

LuckyAmy1986 · 28/09/2020 14:38

Archie.

InvisibleToEveryone · 28/09/2020 15:08

Abigail
Felicity

Just eurgh names. Don't even know any either, but nope yuk.

daisychain1620 · 28/09/2020 15:24

Sophie is very blah to me and any Stacey and Louise I have met are always major trouble makers and not nice people so I don't like these because if that
Lucas makes me think of mucus