AIBU to ask owyou would never name a child and why

[Flyingfish2019]

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.

Janice
Linda
Pauline

every one of these I've known has been horrible

Hannah and Sophie. Nothing wrong with those names but I’ve just met some massive twats called Hannah and Sophie in the past!

I’m not sure we’ve gone full circle on the Colin/Norman/Nigel/Wayne/Bernard sort of names?

A kid at one of my DCs lower schools was Gracie-Jynx.

Cough.

When I was pregnant with my first I got chatting to a friend of a friend who’d recently had a baby. Apparently he& his partner had one up with a shortlist of names then he’d been tasked to go away & coneup with the worst possible nickname or insult that could’ve made out of their prefered names. On the list was Jasmine, a lovely name I was very fond of. He’d come up with ‘jizz-minge’.

They’d crossed it off their list, & I swiftly crossed it off mine, andnowany time I hear ‘Jasmine’ I just hear ‘jizz-minge’

Waynetta
Frogmella
Spudulika

David- purely because of the shortened version, Dave- urgh!

Lacey. Hideous and not a name for a grown woman.

Diane Edith is a lovely name imo, the name of Saxon queens. Met a young mother last week, her very pretty girls were called Elsie and Olive wtf

@Bunnyfuller Gracie-jynx made me cringe! The two worst at DS's school are Brax and Lexton. I can't stand fashionable names!

@Crispyturtle I had a friend called Jasmine at school and she had the nickname jizz minge too it's a shame because it's a nice name!

Tristan- sounds like an annoying posh boy to me.

I don’t like when people give their child a “unique” spelling, and I don’t like surnames as first names. So, Jackson is bad enough but Jaxon is even worse.

Rhyming names. I have taught a few e.g. Lucy Bussay, Hayley Daley etc. Just why.

I am also very conscious of names that don't fit well with speech impediments ... I taught a Susanna Stevens (similar not actual name) with a lisp and a Harry Roberts who pronounces R as W. I have a surname that both of these would impact on! Kids can be cruel.

As for individual names - everyone has a reason and likes that name - their choice.

Ian - utter sadistic fucker I had the misfortune of working with
Colin - just a bleurgh name and again another sadistic fucker I worked with
Eddie - makes my teeth chatter for no particular reason
Francis - nasty piece of work I went to school with
Any hyphenated names - Dont know why.
Very American sounding names - brooke, Madison, piper etc
Sean and Beau - when I first started reading as a child one of the books I read had characters with these names. I sounded them out and in my head they were Seeann and Bew. Even thirty odd years later my natural instinct is to pronounce them wrongly in my head before mentally correcting myself

My 2nd dd her name is on one of these posts. And yes I felt judged when she was a baby because of her name, so I used to have to tell the whole story of how she came to be called that...
Ooh my dd1 was there and she told all midwives and everyone at the hospital and by time I got back from theatre she was already named lol. I dont think they needed to know all that but felt I needed to explain lol

Malachi
Ezekiel
Isaac
Zachary

Any old biblical name. So try-hard!

Emily- just think it’s boring and really overused.

Anything hyphenated. Gracie-May, Demi-Lee.

Hayden, Jayden, Kayden. I can't stand these sort of names. (Sorry to anyone who has chosen them)

Olivia, Eva, Eva -Overused in my opinion.

Archie, Alfie -Same, overused and Archie was the name of my dog.

I like the name Mallory, Suzanne or Dana or for a girl if I ever have children.

and Colin haha random. So much hate for Sophie but what about Sophia?
I wanted to call my DC an old fashioned name after my grandmother, don't know why, I've an old fashioned name and hate it. OH didn't agree to it and I'm glad now.

Also normal names with daft spellings.. Jaymee, Jorja, Kristell, chevorne etc etc

Oh and I have an old fashioned hyphenated name so going by this post it's doublely bad

Tyler

Amelie- I think it sounds clunky and awkward.
Also Lisa, as I knew a real bitch with that name!

Mark. On my mums side of the family anyone named Mark had been killed in a war. She told me to never name any children Mark 😢