Baby names with connotations

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Like Myra for example? What does that make you think of?

Ainu?

AIBU obviously!!

Unfortunately yes that does immediately make me think of hindley, which is a shame because it's quite a nice name but there it is.

Flora.....spreads easily. (DH vetoed this one for us)

Myra is the first name I thought of when I read the thread title - so yes you'd have to be pretty brave to use this.

Hindley then McQueen. In fact I think those are the only two people I have heard with that name.

I just don't think I could go with Myra under any circumstances but I know someone considering it!

Haha @shush Flora- I do like it but yes it does make me think of margarine

Madeleine.

Stella - artois (the awful 'wife beater' name that gets).

Do you think it depends on how old you are/ how much media you watch too? Younger people might not know of some of these connotations? I'm 44 for example so immediateky cringed

Everyone is (rightly) ok with using Rose. I guess it's that Myra is more unusual so evokes a bad memory with an instant knee jerk reaction.

*immediately

Damien is a classic.

Adolf

Donald, these days

@getout - have you seen the only fools and horses episode where Del Boy calls his son Damien and Rodney flips- - so funny

Splashy, yes, it makes me wince and remember her little face. A lovely name but probably not much used at present.

Harley and Bentley

Ebenezer used to be a fairly common name apparently, but plummeted in popularity after A Christmas Carol was published. The only time you hear that name now is in relation to that.

"Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walks like a woman, but talks like man, oh my Lola... L - O - L - A Lola..."

I presume there aren't so many Kinks fans about these days!

My neighbour called their daughter Lolita. I couldn't even hide my cringe.

It's the unusual names with connotations that are difficult - like Myra, Lolita.

Whereas Rose (West), Ian (Brady, Huntley) Jack (the Ripper!) - they don't register. Too many other associations already so no problem.

Lola - always surprised in it's popularity rise due to the song also

Georgia /Georgia/sgeorgina - due to Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (fat kid connations)

Diana - Princess Di link

rodney -due to Only fools

Betty -due to Some mothers Do 'Ave em

I know too many Madeleines to always think of poor little Madeleine McCann. But Ive never met a single Myra. Maybe a couple more generations before MH is forgotten.

I think the name Myra is quite nice, but would never use it.

My DD is Lola and the Kinks song has never bothered me at all, and I've only ever heard people bang on about it on MN.

Ah this makes me very sad. My mum was Myra - she was a lovely woman who was loved by everyone who knew her. She had a knack of remembering everyone's names and the names of their family and little details like holidays, pregnancies, jobs etc - and she enquired after all of them.

She was named, in sort, after her mum and grandmother who were both Mary - my gran was known as Mae and Myra is, of course, an anagram.

I know she was disappointed to share a name with Myra Hindley but I can't ever recall anyone saying anything to me about it. But she was named before MH of course.