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

Arseholes I expect.

I’m currently on holiday in America and there was a girl in a restaurant the other day, aged around 3 or 4, called Basil!

I agree, I was just quoting how it’s referred to on Reddit.
I think arsehole is more common in Scotland whereas asshole tends to be said in England?

Let it not be forgotten that Freddie named one of his sons Rocky…

Awful lot of hate for Jayden but DS has a friend called this and he’s a lovely lad.

DD had a girl in her class at primary school called Bootsie . She moved schools after a couple of years but recently I bumped into her mother for the first time in nearly 15 years and when relaying the story, the general consensus was “how can you forget a child with a name like that?”

I had a phase of reading the birth announcements in the Telegraph for sport and most memorable was the baby girl named Hermione Popocatépetl, which raises some interesting questions

My personal dislike are when people deliberately misspell names to be unique like Abbeygale, Reeess, Phlorens etc

I know twins named “Reggie & Ronnie” - really don’t like this because of the nod to the Krays.

Also know sisters called Blossom and Bloom - I just think that’s a bit naff 🤣

Royal Wish Walker - to be called Wish - daughter of Annie Kilner and Kyle Walker.

We used to hear neighbours talking and singing to their daughter- 'Ellie fenelly with the big fat belly', and 'My brown eyed girl', She had a nickname 'Phanta' as in Ele-phant', it was sung out with such tender love.... but felt sorry for the 'Ellie fenelly with the big fat belly' thinking it would impact on the child's self esteem, then we found out the child they sung so lovingly to was a little mixed breed dog. Bless. But I could never call a child Ellie after that.

There are still people (not me) who believe the Krays represented a golden era of criminality - I think because they left 'ordinary people' alone and had lines they wouldn't cross - they wouldn't condone mugging old ladies, that kind of thing.

Their type of fraud was on a corporate scale, not scamming the man on the street. That contrasts favourably to some compared with modern life, which is like trying to cross a minefield as you dodge scams left, right and centre.

Of course, the Krays type of crime did affect the person on the street if you dig deeper - protection rackets sending people out of business, collusion with corrupt police etc.

But to some people, the Krays were 'gentlemen thieves'.

And Allegro is a musical term for a fast section of a piece.

Which is also why IMO Allegra is a lovely name for a girl, since besides sounding attractive, presumably it means lively.

Think you might be telling on yourself there - I would imagine it's a looking for names that sound nice or that you haven't heard of before, or trying to make sure your pick won't be one that means there will be three other children with the exact same name in class.

There are also hazards in picking a name that is popular and sounds terribly similar to other popular names without being the same, so your child is forever known as Amy I mean Amelia I mean Aimee I mean Emmy I mean Emily sorry Mia ... etc.

Probably is in parts of Europe - don't the French have a List? The British are pretty liberal though.

Bernard and Bernadette don’t seem to be having a resurgence, do they. Nor does Theresa. or Irene.

some names seem to have sunk without trace.

Not any more. I think they abolished it in the early 1990s.

I just think those haven’t been gone quite long enough to have come back into use.

Oh God, I’d forgotten that our third goalkeeper, currently out on loan, is called Li-Bau!

I don’t live in the uk but I still think in most countries there are systems in place to prevent naming children grossly inappropriate names. Not necessarily a list , but other laws. It’s like a form of abuse .

I'm in my 50s and there was a Barry in my primary school class. I would have thought it was a Gen X name. Like Gary. Not granddad names unless you become a granddad in your late 40s or early 50s.

I have a cousin a couple of times removed who is called Orlando. He wasn't conceived in Orlando!

A while I ago I knew someone whose first son was called Spike.

I think she went on to have three more sons who all had "ordinary" names like Jack or William.

Not sure if Spike had a second name.

Yes I don't like abbreviated names as the official name.

Names like Sam or Nick or Abi. Call them Samuel, Nicholas or Abigail. You can still call them by the short version but they have the option to use the long version.

Way back in the day I had a friend called Michael who went by Mike - he'd studied engineering. He said if he'd done law he'd have been Michael and if he'd been a bricklayer he would have been Mick - but as he was an engineer he thought Mike suited him. He liked having the choice, rather than being Mike on his birth certificate.

Ah yes those wonderful criminals… they wouldn’t harm a granny. They would rape people though and did. Lauding them is sick.

Spike is awful, I would assume it was a nickname. It just sounds harsh and spiky 😆

More ‘surnames as first names’ I’ve seen- Hudson, Carter, Digby, Montague, Parker, Sawyer. There are so many names to choose from, unnecessary to resort to using surnames.

Melissa is out of fashion , never really was hugely popular in the UK. I met a ghastly woman once called Larissa, which sounds to me like the name of a cleaning fluid.
Sonia has disappeared too. Thankfully.