AIBU to ask owyou would never name a child and why

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I would never name a child Mia = missing in action. Or Cameron, what if she marries a guy named Cameron and then she is called Cameron Cameron?
Or Claudia because it means “one who is lame“ in Latin.

Dierdre, Derek, Gretchen, Maud, Bridget, Victor, Gertrude. They all sound awful. I can't imagine anyone ever looking at a baby and thinking aww, she looks like a Gertrude!

Reading this thread Katie Hopkins springs to mind. Nothing to do with her name just her obnoxious attitude to certain ones.

My daughter’s name has been mentioned 4 times, twice as hated, twice loved 🤔

My two sons names haven’t been mentioned at all, and they aren’t unusual

A lot of the names on here have been complimented on the baby name thread...

Anything hyphenated grates on me. Our surname is a very popular go to name for hyphenation (think May) and I’m forever explaining that my DDs full name is indeed that and not just her first name.

All variations of names ending in ‘Den’

Roxanne
Hayleigh
Amy
School bitches

My name has been mentioned a few times just because it is a horrible name.

I quite agree it is a horrible name. Everyone I have met with that name hates it.

Oliversmumsarmy
What is the name ?

Tedandlola lol I love all the names you've listed! Especially Gertrude! I think those types of names Germanic sounding are becoming quite popular! And old lady names are too!

It would be too outing as it isn't a common name

I wouldn't call a boy, "Walter" because it is old fashioned. My dad was called Walter and he was old fashioned.

I used work with an incredibly gorgeous and sexy Walter which changed my view on that name somewhat

I loathe hyphenated names - it’s so tacky ‘Lily-May, Ava-Ray’. Just pick one name!
Anything that sounds tacky actually I can’t stand - Jaxon, Jayden, Jordan, Brooke, Tiffany, Madison etc.

I would also never give my daughter a boy’s name - someone I follow on insta recently called their daughter Noah. Why?! She’ll spend her whole life surprising people and having to apologise for not being what people expect.

Also makes like Ethel, Gertrude, Mildred that are so obviously ugly I can’t fathom how anyone looks at a baby and goes ah yes, she’s an Ethel.

@Oliversmumsarmy
My name has been mentioned a few times just because it is a horrible name

Mine has too. It's my first name but I've always used my middle name which I don't like much either. It's just better than the first name!
My parents, who were in their 30s and 40s when I was born named me after both their mothers so the names were old fashioned.

My second name was so horrible I have changed it and don't have one now.

When I move a think a new name will be in order.

I don't like cutesy names at all so anything ending in an ee sound is out for me

Daisy
Rosie
Katie
Archie
Alfie
Freddie
Teddie

I have a very dear friend who is the only daughter in a very large family of boys. Her mother had many husbands and with each one seems to have named the children produced by the union in batches- so when she first told me the names of her siblings it went something like this - Keith; Kevin;Doug;Donald;David;Pete;Paul;Percy;Adam;Andrew;Antony. I’m not sure which batch my friend was born in or between but she doesn’t match any of the boys. She hadn’t never found it funny and said she had never noticed before.

Alex/ Alexander -- all the Alexes that I have known are jerks
J(ay)-something Jayden, Javier, Javen, Jay overused at where I come from
-den or -don too Aidan/ Aiden, Brayden, Brandon, Cayden/ Kayden, Hayden, Leeden etc ditto. Just shout "Kayden" in a shopping mall and a handful of kids will respond to you.
Emma -- too quaint for lovely little girls

Beatrice/Beatrix. They're very popular on MN but I've never understood why. They're such ugly names.

I think it doesn’t sound good for a child and I would call her Trixie or Bea but it is a nice name for a middle aged woman.

Again, any name by an ex would be out.

I'd have loved to have named by kids something earthy and hippie like River or Wolf but I felt like I couldn't lumber them through school with it, so I suppose all names like that too.

Thoughts on Zoe please, middle name Ivy after my nana. I’m very pernickety with names, I myself am called Sarah meaning princess that I love, my mum chose well. I look up meanings of names, and like names that are traditional, biblical and modern. Zoe I like it means life same as Eve, Eva, but not too keen on them.

I also like Xander for a boy a variant of Alexander it is also Greek as is Zoe and means great as in Alexander the Great.

DD1 and DD3's name have mentioned as being bullies or not nice... Both lovely girls...honest!
DD's name isn't mentioned, it was popular in the 90s.
Mine isn't here. Thank fuck. It's not a common name in this country, but it's truly awful. Think my parents were on drugs!
Like others, I hate this double barrelled nonsense or ones taken from TV shows.
DD2 is pregnant and her chosen names are def not popular.

Logan - actually love the name, but he is a servant in old Mythology.

I wouldn't choose anything ending in an 'ie/ee/y', just really dislike them and I don't feel the names go with adults. I had a beautician once called Gracie, and it just sounded odd calling an adult such a cutesy thing.