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.

I wanted to name my son Constantine - my husband said ‘would you be happy his friends calling him a Cunt as short form of his name?’ We didn’t call him Constantine. My relative heard us discuss this and called her son Constantine.

On a related note, does anyone else have names that they love but would never give a child because they’re just too OTT or hard to pull off?

Andromeda and Serendipity (I argued for Seren when pregnant with DD but was denied...)

Constantine is nice! He may have got called Connie, though!

Any name hyphenated with May/Mae/Mai or Grace or Rose. Boring. Overused.

Old fashioned names that are just plain ugly. Agnes, Maud, Agatha, Ethel.

I’d never name a child Melina because I’m a nurse (and it sounds like malaena). In itself it’s a pretty name, but malaena is not pretty.

bumble I’m a Sophie too, and I think I’m relatively nice .

I don’t Have a strong dislike for any names really. I don’t particularly like Jayden, Kayden etc. Girls wise although I like the name Eva, Ava..they are so over used now.

At the end of the day though, one persons tacky is another persons lovely name.

I personally adore biblical names, although a PP said they were try hard. Another PP also said the name Ivy Norah was the ugliest name they’d ever heard whereas I think it’s lovely! Love both the name Ivy and Norah!

I think Sophie is lovely.

Yes melina when your in medicine is not good Surname Stool

I really don’t understand why Oliver & Olivia are so popular. I know dozens and I just think of liver every time I hear those names.

Can you imagine!

Sylvia - due to a Sylvia knocking a friend of a climbing frame and friend ended up breaking her arm.

A lot of the popular names today imgrew up,thinking we’re old fashioned and would never have used them - Harry, George, Grace, Evelyn, etc

I find Emma and David quite boring names.

All the " chav" names i quite like.

Anything - ette, -een, - elle, - den.

Lysette - just ugggg.

My dd was called a ‘whore’ at school recently. She is 12.

I asked her who called her it, she said a boy called Jaxon.

In that one word she told me everything I needed to know about the child. Although saying that ds’s name has cropped up on here quite a bit.

I personally wouldn’t use hyphenated or nickname names.

Eg. I wouldn’t use Alfie it would have to be alfred, Alfie for short. It’s like that for generations in my family though so it just wouldn’t feel right to me I don’t care what other people call their kids though, be boring if we were all the same!

Ralph because it will always be for me the name the character in the Judy Blume book gave his penis.

In New Zealand there are strange names for kids - some very questionable and even raised in family courts - the one that sticks out is the girl named "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii". Its not even a joke.

Amelia
Olivia
George

Very overused.

Pinshit made me proper laugh!

I reckon Judas is probably a non-starter

So glad none of my kids names are on here
I’m not a massive fan of ‘popular’ names, but also don’t rate unique names. A nice middle ground for me.
I do love Sophie though. Such a lovely name.
My own name seems to be one that hasn’t lost its way over the years, never been overly used but has just drifted

Any hyphen, anywhere. I have a double barrelled name and it is the bane of my life.

I couldn't have children and now way past the age but love being horrified by some of the truly awful suggestions on the Baby Name Board.

I hate the Jaxon/Jayden/Kayden+++ chav names and also hyphenated first names, especially when the second part is May/Mae/Ray/Rae. Also, it seems over the past couple of years, every other person chose Rose as the second name, it's so overdone.

Two more things I dislike: 'yoonique' spellings of perfectly normal names. Upon hearing them my first thought isn't 'oh how clever and attractive' but rather 'how fucking awful and how thick must the parents be.' The second is giving girls masculine names if it's so cool to call a baby girl Jack, why isn't it cool to call a boy Lucy?

So safe in the knowledge I will never name a child I am content to give my favourite boy's name to the robin who greets me at the patio door every morning. I have named him Ichabod, Ichy for short

Never thought of that @Apple's! Like the name Ralph buy not sure now+

KImberley. When the surname is added it's that that's stamped on public toilet roll dispensers🤣 My husband had Kimberley in his names list until I pointed this out