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.

Two out of my four are on here.... watching this thread for a full house!!

I work in a school and have come across a lot of these names They are ruined forever but thankfully I am done having kids. None of my chosen names are on here - but my name is

My DH vetoed loads of my name choices as we are from different countries so it was actually quite hard to agree.

"year of the four Mias" made me laugh! Hasn't Zara Tindall got a daughter called Mia? It's actually unusual in the Royal Family.

My 20yr old dd name is now one of the most common names, we didn’t know of anyone called it at the time and she’s no friends called it but there are millions of younger girls called it. Similarly dd2 18 has a name I’d loved since childhood which was fairly unusual but not unheard of, now it’s borderline “chav”.

I also don't like boys names for girls. DH wanted to call DD Charlie.

CHARLIE!

All the lovely girls names and that was his idea. No.

That's the trouble, names change. I'm sure at one point Harry, Jack, Olivia and Mia were unusual. It's tricky, you're setting your kids up for a lot of problems if you make a mistake!

Astrid. Because I suggested it to dh and he replied Ass Turd?
Ruined forever

@Newnametoconfesshername Nice one! I love it 😁

Lily makes me cringe. Far too common these days and it’s generally chavs trying to by classy, Lilly-Mae, Lilly-Rose ect.

I know someone who called their baby, Jax (not even jaxon)

And I have a relative that called her son Cosmo....... wtf?

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?

Definitely Aurelia and Tabitha altho I think the latter is doable and Tabs/Tabby are cool nicknames
Also Posy 🙈

Jenny. Never met a nice one!

I know someone called Melena. Why oh why would you call your child after a term for blood in poo!

I love the name Astrid! It's not very common, either.

@YeOldeNameChange I went to school with a Tabitha and a Talitha! (Tabby and Tally, obviously)

One of my friends who is very much a hippie, named her son Kayden, about a year before it exploded on the chav scene. She fucking hates it now 😂

Maud-Lynne, as a thread-starter (presumably for a joke) asked a little while ago.

Not that we would anyway, as they don't relate to our culture or heritage, but there are some perfectly good and ordinary names that really don't travel well to an English-speaking culture, such as Kamaljit or the Hebrew Avishag ("Allow me to introduce my wife: Avishag." "If it's all the same to you, I'll just shake her hand for now, thanks.")

Again not a concern for those of us with surnames beginning with consonants, but if that were not the case for me, I would carefully avoid any name after which people would routinely add a non-existent 'r' sound between it and the surname, e.g. Pamela Anderson or Angela Owen.

My friends DH had an affair with a woman called Emma. Also the name of their 3 month old baby. My poor friend thought long and hard about changing it as it hurt so much to hear it all the time.

My son has a 'surname' for a first name, but is a family name used as a middle name for generations. I wouldn't use a name of any person I know. I wanted my children to be the first/only person I think when I hear the name, I think that's the main reason why. They are 10 and 8 and to date I've only heard my son's name once on someone else. They're not funky weird names, or ones people haven't heard of, but really not common.

DD’s has been mentioned but I can live with “overused”, at school I desperately wanted a “normal” name like all the other Sarah/Emma/Lisa/Clare!

I really don’t understand the logic of picking a name that is another word backwards, it’s like something children do

I saw a baby name inspiration thread yesterday with some “interesting” choices like Kaydi -mae and Kelsey-bo, Savali-blue and Safiyah-Marley, Harley-Quinn Nymeria, Star-Lilac, Doli etc. that made me wince but I probably have awful taste too, I loved Romily and Ingrid but both were vetoed.

Ebony for a very pale-skinned child or Bianca for one with very dark skin sound a bit strange to me.

Dislike these trendy names like Jayden, Jackson, Tyler etc and also wouldnt use common names like Harry, Isabelle, Olivia etc. Lovely names but used too much!

Balonz - or Data, for that matter.

Lana.

Anal backwards.

Very true, but you could also argue the same for Alan - especial if your surname is something like Beeching or Probert

especially*

Andrew.

For the very simple reason that I can't bloody say it, for some reason it comes out 'Anjoo'