Names you don't like that are loved on here

[fiveacres]

Lighthearted!

Rowan always gets a positive response on here and is suggested a lot.

I don't like it. I think it looks feminine (I know it can go either way) and it makes me think of Mr Bean!

Fleur. This has such a horrible sound!

Genevieve. I think this looks like a disease!

What are yours?

Rowan is lovely.

Is there an echo in here?

Gabriel is a gorgeous name. My dp wanted that if were to be graced with a son, but I can't use it though.

Otto

Pretty much all of them.

We all have different views! Two people have come on to state Rowan is lovely - as acknowledged, many people presumably think so, but not me! Same with Gabriel!

rowan is a lovely mnetter hence the love

I quite like it for girls.

I just think for boys it sounds wet and flimsy, somehow, and I can't get away from the Rowan Atkinson/Mr Bean thing.

I know an adult Rohan and 2 small Rowans, all very well suited to their names.

Why start a petty and pointless thread that's bound to create bad feeling if you don't want people to have pointless rows?

Romilly
Ottilie
Summer
Phoebe
Imogen
Charlotte
Miranda
Robyn
Esme
Elodie
Amber
Rosalie

Rufus
Rex
Rafe
Rafferty
Felix
Toby/Tobias
Theo
Jude
Rory
Milo
Barnaby
Benedict

If it upsets you so much people don't like names you do, then - erm, well I want to say something useful, but 'get over yourself' is about all I can extend to.

Lots of names I like and that I/my friends children are called are on here, and I'm not crying about it because you know, that's sort of the POINT!

I detest Harriet, and Matilda. They are loved on here - i find them so very ugly. And most of the flower and cutesy names - why name your child something that is only appropriate for about 7 years of their life?

I also hate when someone is asking say, ' Charlotte, nn Lottie' and people post "why not just name her Lottie then" I always think are you stupid? A cute nickname is not a proper name, there is a difference between wanting to name your child something and planning to call them a cute specific diminutive as a toddler.

Charlotte
Lydia
Harrison

Completely irrational dislike, I even know nice people with each name, I just don't like their names.

There are far too many to mention.

I love Rowan as it's my favourite tree, I'd always be well disposed towards a child called Rowan, but I probably wouldn't choose it for my own DCs. Funny that there can be names you like in abstract but would never use yourself.

Not sure these are really MN names but I hate:
Ava
Amelie
Grace or Gracie
May/Mae especially as a middle name
Rose as a middle name, though I like it as a first name, it's just far too over used as a middle name now.
Also don't like Jack, Harry or Freddie.
And I do know children with these names or versions of them that are lovely, I just can't get on with the names!

Oh and I do know an Arlo in real life, and I know a Romilly in the 80s. It was unusual then, I wonder how it caught on as a popular name again in MN land? Did you all know the Romilly I knew? She was very popular at school, that's for sure...

Elsa, Ella, Erin, Esme oh sorry should that be Esmay? Rose and any derivative of. Ditto Lily. Iris - like Lily but trying to be clever and different. Just like all the other parents of Iris. Edith, Edie, hipster shit like Nora. God fucking hell, who calls their child after Nora bleeding Batty? Cutesy, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail and their cousins Milly, Tilly, Mollie, Kitty & Posy. And Darcy. Just no. Mae, May and Grace for middle names. Yawn. Double yawn when you tell me its a family connection as you have loads more names in the family that are a billion times better and that seems to always be the justification. I'm not buying that everyone has a grandmother or Great Grandma May or Grace.

And the Dog names for boys. Fuck me why do 90% of the boys names on MN sound like dogs. List above as an example: Rufus, Rex, Rafferty, ok Felix is a cat, Toby, Theo passes the dog test, as does Jude, Rory no, Milo no, Barnaby is a bear. And Benedict is a great big St Bernard. Why?! And yet the same people want to tell you that Bear and Wolf are not suitable as names for humans. Everyone goes on about the High Court Judge Test, but not one thinks about the even more essential Canine Dog Agility Class Test. If you shout it and it sounds like you should be at Cruffs rather than the playground, you've failed.

Oliver and Olivia, just for reminding me of Jamie Oliver and never being able to get past that.

Hyphens & Unique Spellings.

Arrrghhh.

I think its safe to say I don't have the same taste on MN...

That said I try and generally be polite to people asking about particular names and will save my vomit (tongue firmly in cheek) for threads like this one. Names are totally personal thing and I'm well aware that there are a lot of posters here who don't share taste. For that I'm somewhat grateful as it'd be boring as hell if we did anyway. Its nice we have progressed somewhat from our ancestors John and Mary.

*share my taste.

I must admit I considered Rowan for a girl and Arlo for a boy but they sound awful in my Glaswegian accent so I decided against them :o

I really dislike some of the pretentious names (in my opinion!) that get mentioned over and over again on here, Atticus and Aurealis seem quite popular in the land of MN yet I dont know anyone in the real world who'd actually even think of those names let alone consider or use them maybe its just because I'm council estate scruff

Totally agree about the dog names for boys

I'm not upset, just think it's a really pointless and unpleasant post & the tone of some of the replies is really nasty.

Names that mange to sound dead-behind-the-eyes-dull and yet a bit fussy together, yet sound like they should be the names of cows on dairy farm

• Clover
• Annabelle
• Flora
• Sandra
• Claudia

For boys, surnames. Hideous.

• Harrison
• Sullivan
• Jackson

I also really wonder why people on MN bother spending ages typing out the full names of what the child would be with their already decided middle names and then adding in the possible first names.

I can't be the only one frantically checking if any of my kids names are mentioned here And yes, two of them are - although to be fair one of my kids has already decided they don't like their name and have changed it to one they do like

Phoebe
Persephone
Theo
Toby

Each to their own, but they're not my thing really x but I'm sure many people don't like unusual names that I like either.

Imogen

Also I don't understand why people on babyname threads say, 'I've just called my baby x, go for it OP', when poster is pondering a name. I know no body has ownership of a name but that's just giving it away