Which names do you IRRATIONALLY dislike?

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This is not certainly not meant to be a "bitchy names thread". The emphasis is on the word IRRATIONAL. i.e. there are some names that are perfectly innocuous, lots of other people like them, I've known some lovely people with those names (so no obvious bad associations) BUT for some reason I've always disliked them. Would be interested in hearing anyone else's bugbear names!

ANNA - just too symmetrical, and (to my ears) smug and boring

LUCINDA - I like Lucy, but for some reason the "inda" really turns me off this name

Anything with "BELLE"on the end.Annabelle, Isabelle etc Pretty on paper, but I just don't like the sound for some reason

BEATRICE again irrational, but the combination of sounds just doesn't do it for me, it does the opposite of "trip off the tongue"

This is not meant to be in any way offensive. My 3 children have really "Marmite" names, and I don't mind at all that some people don't like them.
I just think everyone finds that certain sounds "jar" with them. Do others find this?

On a different note, the Baby Names topic is brilliant and I have been a long time lurker!

Oh and holly/hollie

Megan
Tobias
Tristann
Kerry
Nevaeh
Chelease
Any two names put together. Elsie-may etc

I have an irrational dislike for Ethan which, although I know it is not, my mind completely unfairly classes with names that were made up in the nineties by Americans who call their children things like Satchell and Bookcase. I know it is not that sort of name at all but that is where my brain has decided to file it.

William, Elizabeth, Oliver, Rose, Matthew, Helen are all totally normal names that I hate.

I also hate old names like Maud, Wilfred, Agnes etc and the name Bess/Bessie makes me shiver.

Also names like Luna, Persephone, Seraphina I cannot get on board with no matter how often they pop on on MN

Bella. Hate it. Makes me think of "belly".

Naomi
Kay
Kelly (hate hate hate this :( )
George - so smug sounding and kind of smudgy and squishy
Melanie

Hayley
Gemma
Hannah
Anna
Nathan
Michael

So that's my mum, dad, sister, daughter, husband, grandmother, nephews and me all with names that are hated by lots of people.

Can't think of any I hate irrationally. Or even rationally. There I names I'd never use as I associate them with people I don't like but I don't hate the name.

Olivia, Archie, Millie, Tilly, ellie, ...just too many of all of them
In fact anything ending in ie.
What I don't get is when you have a child, name it say Emily, then you call her Millie or olivia and call her Libby?

Oh no there's nothing irrational about disliking Nevaeh at all!

I know a family with a Richard and a William. The mum's pregnant again and I'm half expecting them to name her Fanny.

teaandlemon

Matthew - just sounds a bit wet to me. Sorry all the Matthews out there!

David and Russell

I cannot stand the names Michaela and Saskia. They're hard, spiky bitchy sounding names that make me assume the owners are not going to be very nice. I know that I'm being shamefully predjudiced...

Not a fan of Archie (pompous) or Josh (boring and unimaginative).

Don't much care for Olive (dowdy), Megan (eggy), Lucinda (prissy), Rebecca (definitely whiffs), or a lot of the old lady names like Ethel, Pearl, Enid, and Maud which I imagine are often chosen as a statement of so-called hipster cool and not because the parents actually like them!

I also cannot stand the name James. It's one syllable that goes on and on and I cannot understand why people like it at all.

I find Jasper, Timothy, Hugo and Sebastian all sound wet to me.

Jonathan
Christopher
Martin
Timothy
Jessica
Jayden
Teagen
Finley

I'm sure there are loads more. I just hate this trend for made up names ( Teagen) and old lady names ( Doris, Edith etc). Poor little sods.

Old lady names - Martha, Ethel, Mabel, Edith etc
Old manny names - Archie, Alfie, Wilf
Stodgy biblical names - Caleb, Seth, Aaron
Pretentious names - Ptolemy, Persephone, Hugo,
Surnames as first names - Madison, Jackson, Parker
Flower names - Violet, Daisy
1960s / 1970s names - Kevin, Nigel, Colin, Sharon
1990s / Noughties names - Jayden, Chantelle, Chelsea
Hyphenated names - Nathan-Jack, Lily-Belle

I think we picked the only two names left for the DCs

Oooh, Sebastian! I find it utterly wet and pretentious. Nearly choked (privately, of course) when a friend used it for her son years ago.

I also hate Kelly and belle, for the same reason as upthread. Belly.

Floral names. Lily, Poppy, Rose etc...

I have no idea why, I just really dislike them.

I'm confused, what does Marmite name mean? I looked it up and it's some kind of vegetable spread?

Anyway, here are some names that I hate without reason (so I'm going to leave off the really obvious ones like Madison and Hunter, names I hate because of their sheer tackiness)

Rachel
Alice (I had no idea so many people didn't like this name. I think it's skeevy sounding)
Hannah (but I love Anna?!)
Victoria (Oh how I hate this name)
Lois (shiver)

Luke
Lucas
Matthew
David
Caleb (I know it's a legit biblical name but it seems like a fake cutesy name like Cayden or something)
Marcus (oh just hideous)

Caroline

Much like the spread it means people either love it or hate.

Noah does nothing for me.
An aunt said Emily was a 'below stairs name' and I can't get it out of my head now

Always Louis.

I despise the sound of it. Do you say Looee or Lewis? I like Lewis but hate Looee.

It just screams wet blanket to me.