Marmite names which MNetters don't like..!!

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It seems this topic board has loads of MN's 'marmite' names. Loads of threads along the lines off, 'DC would of been' or 'Names you Love.'.

...so I was just wondering, which names don't you like and why?

Love
Theodore & Theo
Daniel & Dan
Peter (Not Pete)
Joseph
Frankie (for boy or girl)
Alexander
Claudia
Antonia
Elizabeth
Sian
Catherine

Loathe
Any names like...
Ellie, Lilly, Milly, Poppy, Emily, Megan (yuck) Florence (vile) Lucy, Darcy, Layla, May, and my worst Georgia (Chavtastic)
Woopert (sorry Rupert) Cameron, Jack, Calum (yuck) Jayden, Kayden (don't know if boys or girls names) Also not keen on Talisha, Tanisha, Kalisha etc etc.
Well you did ask!

I like Mason too.

I forgot to add Dexter to my 'dislike' list.

Ragwort you have listed a lot of our current list - Susan, Sally, Jane and Mary - lovely!

There are lots of names which I don't understand the popularity of - usually (but not exclusively) very faddy ones, which will date terribly.

To the person on the first page who said just choose a popular name if you like it - the reason people avoid popular names is because they date, and sometimes they date badly (Kevin, Brian, Tracy, Sharon).

I'm not going to list names I don't like as it's just my taste and isn't a reflection on anything else.

Funny that DS's name isn't on here - if I said what it was, everyone would pile on to say they really don't like it, but it's so out of fashion right now that no-one even thinks of it!! Bonus: he will be the only one in his class.

Just to add re popular names dating - some perfectly nice names end up dating (I mean, Tracy no longer has particularly nice connotations, but it derived popularity from Grace Kelly/High Society), such as names from my generation.

Claire, Sarah, Joanne, Karen, etc - are all nce names, but because they were so well-used they now sound dated to outpr ears because they're so associated with a period in time.

If you choose one of the current lovely, popular names - it will sound dated to the next generaton just from pure over-use now.

I don't think you can really worry about names dating. I mean, if you meet someone in their 30's called Steve or Nick, you don't think "Oh my God. How dated," do you? It's just a common name for someone of that age. So in 30 years time, Oliver/ Jack etc will be perfectly normal names for 30 yr olds but all the babies will probably be Steve's.

In terms of negative connotations, you never know what name is going to gather those implications . It only takes one serial killer called Sebastian.........

I think classic names (I'd include Henry, George, William, Charles, James, John, Edward, Alexander for boys) are classic within a certain class of people - I imagine that the popular names of the British kids on the Eton waiting list are the same as two generations ago. However, the popularity of those classic names amongst the bulk of the population waxes and wanes. There were more Tyler's than John's in 2010.

You don't necessarily think 'how dated', but the names do nonetheless sound a bit blah now. No disrespect to people with those names.

I can just fully understand why people don't want to be Jack X or Olivia Y all their lives, nor be totally pinpointable to a certain decade forever after. There are so many names to choose from, zillions which won't date your child, which are equally lovely, if not more so, than the massively popular ones. I'm just giving my reasons for expressly avoiding very popular names.

Have never heard of a serial killer with the name Sebastian?!

I despise the name Olivia. It makes me wince.

Also, anything ending in May. Katie-May, Ellie-May, Lilly-May...

My name is Megan, chicky. :o Mostly get Meg though.

I don't like -ayden names, though Aidan is nice and just plain Cade is okay.

Any girls names ending in -lyn or -son.

Carter or Parker for either.

I like names like Sam, Charlie, Jack, Annie...though I do love Rex and Finn.

I also love names like Peter, which you never hear of for little ones but it's still a name IYSWIM.

Also I like some of the underused Biblical names (Caleb, Asa) but not the overdone ones like Noah or the way-out-there ones like Josiah.

I hate names that sound as if they belong to cheesy Hollywood stars in the 1950s-1970s.

Clinton, Troy, Brandon, Lee, Jason, Darren, Wayne, Duane, Shane, Vernon, Gary,

And for women I've always had a (probably irrational) dislike of Amanda, Beverley, Yvette, Yvonne, Elaine, Lorraine, Patricia, Pamela, Kimberley and Hilary.

There is another boy's name that fits into the list above which I detest but I can't think of it right now. It will come to me as soon as I press send!

I also hate surnames as names.

I only really hate very popular names (top 10/20 names) like Jack, Tom, Ellie, Evie because they defeat the purpose of 'naming' or 'identifying' someone.

I much prefer classic, timeless names that are not super popular or fashionable but are still well known and easily pronouncable - e.g. Peter, Quentin, Alexander, Charlotte, Antonia etc.

I agree, it's not so much that I 'hate' over-used names, I grow very very bored with them. I can LOVE a name, but once it becomes ubiquitous I go off it rapidly. That has almost happened with one of my DCs names, not overly common, but common enough to be able to link him to a particular decade. Although when I named him it was very unusual. It became very popular about 5 years later. It hasn't happened with the other two, and won't happen I don't think.

In fact my 12 year old has a name that when you put it into the facebook search engine it only returns about three results in the world! It's not remotely weird, just thankfully under-used.

Yes, we sometimes forget why we name someone or something: to identify him or her. And if a name is already used by thousands others doesn't really serve its purpose (without the addition of modifiers like surname initial).

A few names I considered beautiful a few years ago have now become so widely used that I find them rather dull. It is the same with foods of fashion - too much of anything becomes dull. But in the case of a name, it also loses its purpsose imo.

There are still lots of lovely underused names outside the top 100 though .

Fellatio I would love to know what your dc are called, you big tease

I agree with my dislike of popular names being down to boredom. When you hear them everywhere they no longer sound interesting. Although I do like William.
I cannot stand the 'ie' ending fad at the moment, particularly if the child is given one as a full name, with nothing to fall back on (Alfie instead of Alfred for eg)

I chose all my dc name because i thought they were unusual, yet classic (ish), we have known people of all ages with dc names, although a few are getting pretty popular now (Elijah and Iris) the other two are less so.

Oh Fel.nelson, I also dislike those (Amanda, Beverley, Yvette, Yvonne, Elaine, Lorraine, Patricia, Pamela, Kimberley and Hilary.). They are the sort of names of women who wear the same pair of tights for days on end and use too much perfume...or something.

I bet our grandchildren will all be called Amanda, Kimberley, Pamela as our children don't have our associations and find them 'cool' and 'different' .

Quentin is not a timeless classic. It's a horrible geeky name that I've only ever heard once in RL. Seems strangely popular on MN though!

But then maybe I'm just bitter that people are saying how lovely names like Quentin and Antonia are whilst declaring all 3 of my DCs names as pointless .

Each to their own .

Jayden,Kaden,Kai,Tai boys and girls Aanya, Casey, Iona, ANGEL!!! All at our school.... we have 2 Angels - neither have the character one would expect of the name....

Iona is beautiful! I doesn't belong in that list at all!