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

Wet, posh boy names.

Quintin
Crispin
Rupert
Barnaby

<shudder>

I certainly wouldn’t call a child Nigel at the moment!

Never been a fan of Millie / Molly / Maisie. Cute names for a toddler, but not a grown woman.

Methuselah isn't weird for a Jewish family, neither is Seth, Enoch or Reuben.
And for the girls - Naamah, Hagar, Leah,

Sangria
Mojito
Daquirina
Molsen
Guinness
Porshie
Kia

The issue is it's working class and mumnset is snobby as fuck.

Poppy, James, Jason, Mark, Peter, Matthew, Robert, Claire, Kate, Karen, Stewart, Steve, Nick, Harrison

As a secondary school teacher I’ve come across some awful ones

• star ( surely this is what you call a rabbit?!
• precious
• princess
• angel

names that aren’t horrible but everyone seems to have names their child are:
olivia
isabelle with various spellings
isla
Amelia or emilia
maia/ maya

there’s normally atleast two in a class

This. So snobby on here 😂
Sorry snobs but the country is mainly made up of these names you don’t like so get used to it.

When my grandma was at school there were 6 Susans in the class. No doubt named after Susan Haywood, USA actress.

Theres one of these threads regularly and it always get taken down as it descends into the inevitable scrap on racism.

I’d avoid any name trends as inevitably they date badly. The Jill’s of the 60’s are yesterdays Anna’s and the next generation of Otille.

I've heard parents calling, numerous times, their unruly children. Temperance was bellowed constantly by her father in Pets at Home and Atlas with a full nappy and runny nose in a London museum by his mother.

Ocean
Jersey
Brogan
all names I've met in real life.

Unusual ones that I have met and liked.
Sapphire
Bridie
Serenity

I know two (Scandinavian) ladies called Kia - both in their 60's and named long before the car arrived in Europe.

"Porsche" as a name is a running joke in "A Fish Called Wanda". Kevin Kline's American gangster character, Otto, is a somewhat uncultured Anglophobe and taunts Archie Leach (John Cleese) who he thinks has named his daughter after a car. Her actual name is Portia - from the character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice

I dislike the made up names and those with weird spellings as have already been described upthread. My personal favourites over the years have been Rainbow Dash and Franzwar. Shouldn't be allowed!

My son's class was full of boys with those names. It sounded like a mediaeval village: the tiler, the cooper, the carter, the fletcher, the shepherd.....

Jayden comes from Jadon which is literally in the Bible. All names are "made up", that's what language is.

I think this kind of ire should be saved for names that are actually unkind to the child. I know a teenage Anakin - A literal Star Wars villain, not even the hero or a likeable side-character!

Surnames used as first names are always a bit sad… Harrison, Taylor, etc
idk why but I think Hannah is a very depressing name though there’s not many of them nowadays. Dylan strikes me as a pretentious name, I hate Bob Dylan though so I have a negative association with it. Ruth is a very abrasive name, to me. I think we have enough Bella’s to start their own country, so I’d veto Bella for the foreseeable.

I dislike surname ones, cutsey ones or names that are difficult to spell or spelled wrong in order to be 'unique'. If you want to call your child Chloe, spell it like that rather than Cloweey or something equally hideous.

like Allevia the antihistamine 😂

I wish you’d said, I had to google it 🤣 ( Moulin Rouge)

Ah, all three of my DCs names are on this thread 😆.

The “worst” names for me are ones that sound either very wet or very harsh. We all have our own opinions and that’s fine.

Alice
Nina
Pippa
Petra

Elliot
Quentin
Tarquin

Also not a fan of creative spellings.

I don't mind the full names, just dislike the nicknames as full names. But that's just my opinion, my best friend has used similar. I just said lovely and carried on cos it's not my choice when not my child

I agree, my uncle is in his 60s and called Barry and I find that relatively normal. However one of my friends boyfriends (late 20s) is called Barry and I find it a little more… unusual.

I really don’t like Albie and Rudy. I actually despise Rudy. I just don’t get it. It just sounds like you’re calling the child rude.

Also Grace & Imogen.