Names you KNOW are perfectly nice but which you have an irrational hatred for

[sallyseton]

I'll go first-

Anne/Anna
Nancy

I don't know why I feel such a strong dislike for them! Perfectly nice normal names logically but for me.......no. To say the least.

Apologies to any parents of Annas or Nancys, I know I am the freakish one for feeling this way!

Figured everyone would have at least one name like this?

Amanda, Yvonne, Nadine. All evil bitches at school.

Isabelle/Isabella and all their variants, Amelia, Olivia, Lucy, Emily, Lily, Tilly, Millie, Amy, Ellie (although quite like Eleanor), Jessica, Leanne, Joanne (although like Joanna), Nancy, Evie, Ava.

Kyle, Josh, Kieran, Jayden, Archie, Alfie, Jason, Mark.

Might be back ...

Ooh Beverley. I knew a Beverley when I was little and it was naff then. Imagine calling a baby that now! "Baby Bev".

This thread is extraordinarily rude but fun

Alfie, Archie, Charlie, Freddie, Billy, Harry, Bobby, Theo, Jake, Jack and all nicknames without proper first names.

Liam, Joshua, Ethan, Callum, Zach/Zachary, Luke, Michael, Daniel, Benjamin.

Ellie (really hate this), Millie, Tilly and all those annoying twee nicknames! Chloe, Lauren, Jessica, Olivia, Holly, Heather, Layla/Leila/Lyla/Lila....

Zozzle, I think that might be all of the children in dd1s class at school!

One post mentions my name and dd2s name!

I just can't bring myself to hate any names, irrationally or otherwise. I know that if I come up with a name, I will meet someone with the name, and they will be lovely, and I will feel awful and yadayadayada.....

Fenton

Why for gods sake?

Ellie - really pretty name but the name of the girl that bullied me all trough primary school so I just cant get passed it.

As predicted this has just turned into a thread about which name bore you, or you wouldn't choose for all sorts of reasons to do with class or popularity. Or which names you love to wear your best judgeypants over. We already have enough of those threads thanks!

I rigidly stuck to the rules and only put names I had an irrational dislike of. If I'd allowed judgemental self-indulgence to creep in I could have filled 10 pages by myself.

Sort yourselves out.

A thread that invites you to slag off baby names though - how can we possibly retrain ourselves? And it hasn't even kicked off (while all kinds of innocent threads about dusting or cheese strings go ballistic)

Oh gosh, millions.

Ellie, yes

and Ella

and Isabella - I used to love it! I don't know what changed.

Chloe

Phoebe

Marie

Stephanie

Claire

I could go on and on.

My name, DH's name and both our DC's names are featured here !

Oh God yes

Cameron and Atticus

why? Oh why, oh why. I want to be able to say 'Ooh what a lovely name!' but you are spoiling it. Please use something else so I won't have to be disingenuous.

So is mine greentriangle.

Poppy

I went on school camp with one and she used to sniff her knickers each morning to see if they were clean

Every time I hear the name Poppy = Knicker sniffer

Right that's it my lovely nieces lovely name has been mentioned twice so here goes:-

Joshua, the women in the maternity bed next to me took ages to name her newborn son then came up with this which was overused at the time. Why? Also don't like the 'sh' sound.
Jessica for much the same reason.

Carn't think of any girls names I really don't like. Lots I wouldn't use personally but nothing nasty about them. I have the worst first name in the world so everything sounds prettier than mine. Christine and Jackie are equally as bad as mine.

Pmsl at "Poppy = knicker sniffer"

I think my DD's name has been mentioned every third post! You bastards!

I second Ophelia (for all your pretensions, she will just end up being called 'Offy' by the time she's 13) and Seraphina.

Also irrational dislike of boys names ending in 'us' - Atticus, Cassius, Augustus and the like.

I love Ophelia ans Seraphina!

As per the thread title, I KNOW they are perfectly nice but just have an irrational dislike of them.

Haha. My name's been on here about 10 times. Only one of my DC's is though, shock horror. Must try harder

Now, I don't wish to offend anyone because I know this is a common name, and I hasten to add that my hatred of it is irrational, but I truly, truly despise the name:

Imogen.

Eurgh eurgh eurgh. It's like someone's looked at the word "imagine" and thought; "I know, I'll insert a syllable that has connotations of whinge, midge and whinging midgets all at once!" Arghhhh.

Michelle.

Actually it isn't even that nice, but I do have an irrational hatred.

Oh, and I am a proud mother to an Atticus, by the way.

Do I get full marks for having my first name and surname on this thread? :o Not that I mind, it's not as if I chose them.

Forgot Ella - yes it's a nice name I'm sure, but it rhymes with little heller, yeller, smeller etc. Plus sounds really whiney hyphenated up - Lily-Ella, just sounds like you have eaten too much peanut butter and got your tongue in a twist.

And when did May start being spelt Mae, and why?

And hyphenated Louise - it's pronounced Loo Wheeze, what's appealing about hacking up phlegm in the bog?