AIBU - to ask you for your worst girl and boy names

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Asking on behalf of DD who is expecting. What are in your view the worst girl and boy names. for me they are the made up ones like Nevaeh and Jayden

I have an adult Alfie. He doesn’t find it “cringy” at all. He loves his name and it’s still fairly unusual in an adult. Another 10 years and there will be quite a few adults named Alfie.

AFAIK names with fewer than 3 uses don’t get published to protect privacy so we don’t see the genuinely rare ones. Unfortunately.

My dc have quite timeless traditional names. I hope no one thinks they’re awful. 🙈

But in my group of old school friends, there is a baby called Fritiz and another called Bruce. I can’t think of Bruce as anyone but the guy from the golf club who sells insurance. 😂 I’ve never said that to my friend obviously!

Personally, the ones that drive me nuts are the ones that are spelled wrong. Like Alayiyah but they insist it’s pronounced Aleeeyah. That is not how you’ve spelled it though!

Yes, my DS’s name didn’t appear with individual numbers for his year of birth, indicating three or fewer usages.

Just wondering what AH stands for 🤔

And who are the namesakes?

I'm really in the dark here! 😊

I don’t know if anyone remembers Dallas. I was watching a YouTube video recently about one of the actors. His name was Dack Rambo. His real name was Norman Rambo and his twin brother was called Orman Rambo (really!!). When they grew up they didn’t like that their names were so similar so changed them to Dack and Dirk 😖 Who though would called their kids Norman and Orman, seems almost cruel😯

Me too, I didn’t understand that post at all.

See, these threads always include names that were quite normal when older Mumsnetters were young - Barry being one of them. Names come and go and sneering at names you're not familiar with - or think are "old fashioned" - just shows you don't realise this.

There was a thread recently where someone said she would never give an "old fashioned" name to her child and then said she was thinking of naming her child Agatha. This was very much an old fashioned name when I was a child. As were names I've seen a lot over the past decade or more - like Elsie, Peggy, Reg, Stan, Ruby...

Probably a certain German dictator

Likewise! One of my kid's names was in there too, so l'm somewhat invested now ...

And of course there’s the movie Alfie (and the song).

A teacher I know had a Pocohontas in her class one year.
Her mother used to refer to her as 'Our Pock-er-ontas' - no offence meant but that's the best I can do for a broad northern accent.

It's the combination of forename and surname.....

Ophelia. The surname was Balls.
Petra Fry.
Justin Budd.

None of those names would make me think of ‘AH’. Only AH’s name would be a big no-no.

No, I don't think it can be that.

arseholes?

I'm not a big fan of people calling their child the nickname version of a name on the child's birth certificate. For example 'Reggie' or 'Archie' rather than 'Reginald' or 'Archibald'. I'm perfectly happy for the child to be referred to as the nickname version by everyone though, it just seems tacky to me for the nickname to be their actual full name, like they need something more official sounding/ less cute for more formal settings.

Lots of people seem to not care though, perhaps just me!

Anything with an apostrophe.

Ah - arseholes/assholes.
I meant to me specifically:- Sara and Jocelyn were school bullies; Ben was a knobhead boyfriend; Dean was an atrocious and rather stupid colleague.
Names with historical significance like Adolf can also join the club.

Much as there are names I dislike, I have never disliked children because of their names. Children are more than their names however, people will have an opinion on a Tristan and a Chardonnay. I dislike the middle classes looking down on working class names while calling their own children poncey names like Ptolemy or Sebastian.

Amelia.

I’m sorry, it’s really popular and every Amelia I’ve met is lovely. It’s just the ‘meeeel’ sound makes me think of a mealworm.

I hate anything hyphenated so Ruby-Mae etc, so chavvy.

In general, I loathe the names Christopher and Timothy. I also hate Jasmine.

Names of cities or places where the child was conceived. Brooklyn Beckham was one of the first. I know a child who is named Orlando, Im not sure if his parents are fans of Lord of The Rings or if he was conceived in Disneyland.
He is a sweet little boy by the way.

Jaxxon. Not only is it a truly terrible name, but I always imagine a dad called Jack who is incredibly angry and controlling.

AH=Arseholes