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

Nobody calls their kid a name they, the parent hates.
So you might have certain preconceptions about a particular name but you can't extrapolate that everyone else will think the same.

Orlando - As You Like it - Shakespeare

Persephone, is that pronounced per-sef-on-ee?

I do t think we’ve ever had a great love for the name Jennifer in the UK, it seems much more popular in the US. But to me, in a similar vein is the name Gillian, which has always seemed to me to be the epitome of dowdy. This is no doubt completely unfair. I feel that Denise is even worse. As for Marlene and Darlene… just no!

I think it's all personal choice and experience. I think everyone has had a bad experience with someone at some point in their life time and has been put off a name. I've a long list!!!

Personally I'm not a fan of names spelt unusual ways. Just spell it normally!!!
Also not keen on surnames as first names ie Taylor, Carter etc.
But everyone is different and chooses names on own personal preference.

What's so odd about Barry? It has been an ordinary name for centuries.

Indeed, and the 16th Century English composer Orlando Gibbons.

Some names carry certain preconceptions to the vast majority .. like it or not, its undeniable so unless you are a rock star (even Zowie Bowie prefers to go by Duncan Jones) you're not going to do your child any favours by saddling them with something you might like at the time but needs to serve them a life time

Kit is a posh diminutive for Christopher, so at least it's a proper name.

The variations of Nevaeh are starting to come through now.
I know people with three different spellings. 🙈

Fair enough. I must have misunderstood. My apologies.

Jaxson, Jaydon, Kaydon and Mason - If you find any combination of those names on your form list, you instinctively know it is going to be a difficult teaching year.

Shirley or Pasty is up there. Im also not keen in Ladasha or Letesha.

Ooh, like what?

Anything that sounds like you’re summoning an English butler in a film:
Oakley, Hudson, Parker, Greyson, Harrison, Lincoln, Leighton etc.

Then stuff like Navy, Zephyr, Journey, Poem. Last names as first names. Jobs as names.
And the usual double barrelled/creative spelling nonsense.

Ordinary names I dislike because they just sound awful to me: Reuben, Lance, Margot, Paige, Brooke.

The ones that stick out to me IRL include an Olé (pronounced: Ollie) and James James (changed his name on his 16th birthday).

Harper, Lola, Lolita, Elle, Ellie
Jayden, Dax, Jaxon Harrison

Concepta

What's Elsie a nickname for? My aunt was Elsie but on birth certificate as that

I love Persephone!

I don’t think there is a ‘worst’ but the ones I personally dislike are alcohol / drug names - Chardonnay, Mary Jane, Haze, Hennessy. All of which I have heard and I just dislike the implication that someone liked their vices so much they named a baby that.

I also once met a redhead named Blaze and thought that was a bit silly. Yes he was bullied for it.

Me too

My husband grandmother was called Maisie! I love that name, she would be 109 now, it suited her all through her life. She was an amazing ballroom dancer 🩷

Of course it is, like the Greek Goddess.

I'm assuming that AH is arseholes and namesake is someone who has the same name as you, usually a famous person, fictional character or older relative.

👆There's always one.