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Names that nice but have too much of an association.

29 replies

chocolateicecream · 22/11/2012 21:05

I like the name Marigold but it would completely get associated with a pair of gloves, as a result I wouldn't use it. Actually, I initially think of the song Marigold by the Foo's but not many others would.

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amazingmumof6 · 22/11/2012 21:25

Willy, Dick, Fanny, Gaylord

amazingmumof6 · 22/11/2012 21:26

sorry, not even nice...

coldcupoftea · 22/11/2012 21:36

I liked the name Delilah for DD2 but I was shot down on MN by claims that she would never live down the Tom Jones song, and also the original Delilah in the bible allegedly wasn't very nice.

The name we chose in the end is often one of those love/hate names on here- and I strongly suspect it will be mentioned on this thread. You can't win! Grin We love it though.

Hedwig3 · 22/11/2012 21:41

Nora - always hear it attached to a swear word

My favourite ever girls name though Sad

chocolateicecream · 22/11/2012 21:44

Delilah does have a nice ring to it, it just sounds pretty and nice spoken, song or no song.

I am struggling with the name Heidi. It's a name that I have loved since my childhood but I married a man with a Germanic surname and I can just imagine the comments.

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picnicbasketcase · 22/11/2012 21:45

Ralph
Gilbert
Fanny
Tuppence

ceeveebee · 22/11/2012 21:47

Imogen - that girl who had an affair with Ryan Giggs ruined it

guanosoup · 22/11/2012 21:47

There's a woman in our local co-op called Myra, when you see it in isolation, its not an unpleasant name,
but you'd never, ever, ever call a child that...

LastMangoInParis · 22/11/2012 21:50

Tuppence?
Seriously?
Who on earth would use that name apart from a made up character in Little Britain or something? Confused

Myra
Camilla

devonsmummy · 22/11/2012 21:51

Flora
Brady

amazingmumof6 · 22/11/2012 21:51

Jezebel - I thought it was pretty as it sounds like Isabel! (2 Jezebels in the Bible, one's a whore other's a witch...)

Lucas - mucus

Lydia - chlamydia

Elvis

Levi (jeans)

LastMangoInParis · 22/11/2012 21:52

x-posts with guano.
Yes, Myra second only to Adolph.

Dennis has some fairly unpleasant associations too.

And I wonder how Jimmy will fare in future.

LastMangoInParis · 22/11/2012 21:52

Candida
Jade

amazingmumof6 · 22/11/2012 21:52

Jordan

cocobongo · 22/11/2012 21:55

Orla- used to love that name, then there was a big brother contestant called it. So now out of bounds cos it just reminds us of her.

chocolateicecream · 22/11/2012 21:55

Oh, Jimmy will take a while to come round again.

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LastMangoInParis · 22/11/2012 21:57

Overpriced yummy mummy bags put the kaibosh on Orla from over here.

picnicbasketcase · 22/11/2012 21:59

I don't actually like any of the names I listed but have seen them all come up on baby name threads.

ErmahgerdBlahdyCold · 22/11/2012 22:25

I love the name Judas, no way I'd ever use it though!

LastMangoInParis · 22/11/2012 22:34

I quite like Ebenezer.

curiousgeorgie · 23/11/2012 09:08

Hermione. It will only ever be Harry Potter now.

GoldPlatedNineDoors · 23/11/2012 09:10

Stella. Love the name, but people will think of the lager forst and foremost.

badtime · 23/11/2012 14:53

Lenore -probably my favourite version of Eleanor/Leonora etc, but even worse than Flora for branding issues.

hjtunny · 23/11/2012 15:00

Ella - because it is a suffix for the names of illnesses SalmonELLA, LegionELLA, VaricELLA, RubELLA etc

StellaNova · 23/11/2012 15:23

goldplated I know! Lovely name, lovely meaning - but beer. That's why I have to use it as a user name instead of actually calling a child it (although I only have boys so not sure they would have appreciated it anyway).

I think you can take associations too far though - I like Rose, DH was all "what about Rose West?" - but I just don't think that's the first thing people think when they hear Rose.

chocolateI knew a girl at school called Heidi with a Germanic surname, it didn't seem to cause any probs although I didn't know her well. In the book isn't it short for Adelheid?