Names you don't like that are loved on here

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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?

Persephone has got to be the worst name ever ! It's awful

I could fill the thread with 'em.

Wren. Honestly! It's like a PR campaign for the name on here sometimes, especially as an 'unusual' middle.

pseudo hippy names.

pseudo celtic names

Nothingupsleeve - Why on earth somebody would become offended because somebody doesn't like 'their' name, or their 'child's' name, because unless they've coined the name themselves it's ridiculous.

Adding the 'yooneek' spellings of mainstream popular, or in fact any, names would qualify.

Many years ago I was PA to a very senior bloke who had two daughters called Penelope and Persephone. He also had three sons I think who had more mainstream names which I can't remember. However he used to refer to his girls phonetically as Pennylope and Percyphone which was probably a very affectionate Dad thing.

Neither are names I would have chosen for a DD but I cannot hear them the correct way anymore.

Gretchin. It's awful and sounds like retching yet people are always suggesting it! Just no.

I have a Sullivan, I don't take offense if people don't like it, totally doesn't bother me. I have a Carter as well, that really seems to make the masses scream "American trailer park" - don't live in UK so I suppose the names aren't frowned upon as much here. Everyone likes different names, the world would be totally boring if we all liked the same thing (which evidently, lots of people do!)

I can't stand old man names - Alfie, Archie, Charlie, Harry, Stanley - I eyeroll every time I hear them because they're everywhere.
Jaden/Kaiden/Brayden - totally bastardized versions of Aiden. To be honest, I think my loathing of certain names is really because of over use. Lily. Perfectly lovely name. May/Mae. Perfectly lovely name. But Lily-Mae? Totally unimaginative. I used to love Darcey and Grace. Due to popularity I've heard them so often they now bore me.
Names mumsnet love in here that I hate? Harriet, Ottilie, Hugo, Ptolemy - basically names that I find sound totally pretentious and something that that awful sub-par "journos" katie Hopkins of Shona sibery would use.

Imogen
Romilly
Ottilie
Lydia
Elodie
Amber
Claudia
Heather
Erica
Darcy

Rafferty

Fwiw, Jude is the name of an apostle (from the Bible). It is most definitely a boy's name.

Henry

To me it says "horrible Henry" or Henry VIII.. Neither good associations, and I always imagine a nasty little kid with slicked back hair who loves to torture small animals (I'm really sorry to all mums of Henrys, I'm sure your child is lovely really!)

Also Benedict - harsh and ugly and try-hard to my ears.

I do know a really horrible Henry.

My DHs name has been torn to shreds

Too many to mention - and the name I called my son is very clearly on this list as being common, unoriginal and old mannish - luckily he loves his name and despite apparently being in the top five boys' names lists he doesn't have any with this same name in his friendship group apart from the dog next door. .

My DDs name is here as well as it is a cows name! I'm not offended though as I like it.

I know a little Romilly, her mother considers herself to be rather superior so it's no real surprise. Weirdly the sibling has a very normal name, I was expecting something super pretentious when she was pregnant. Such a disappointment.

I think every granny chick name covers it Honestly some names are best left in the past.

Perisphone ? Only because i dont know how to say or spell it and it looks like periscope somebody on a thread tried to break it down for me i still couldnt grasp it makes me twitchy. Oh and they name /nick name thing just call your kid the nick name

Elizabeth, Emily etc. you say timeless Classic, I say dull, dull, dull.

Matilda. I'm tripping over them & I don't understand why.

Bailey, Cooper, surme types.
Jayden, cayden, brayden & the likes.

Jasper and Lucien. They sound so wet to me.

And what is so wonderful about Alexander? I think I am the only person in the world who doesn't get the attraction.

Alice
Stanley
Sidney
Jesse - really don't like it for a boy.
Surnames for first names.

I understand why people get a bit bristly about it; its not nice if your DCs names come up as ones people hate which you may even have been passionate about before they were conceived.

I love quite a few names people are saying they dislike eg Romilly.

Ruben. Sophia. Anything with a made up spelling to make it look 'indervijewel'. Milo. Desperately pretentious old names - Mabel, Ethel etc. And any name that was only picked because of the nickname/shortening. Just fuck off.

Posy - unbearably twee
Juno - name for a male dog
Arlo - sounds like it's missing a consonant
Claudia - heavy sounding
Marnie - sounds like the shortening of a name which doesn't exist
Imogen- sounds like the name of a biotech company

Alexandra, Georgina, Philippa, Leonora, Theodora pretty much any female version of a masculine name.
Most of the granny names Elsie,Agnes,Ethel,Evelyn,Maud, Agatha, Mabel etc.
Old man nicknames Alfie, Archie, Albie. Freddie, Teddy etc.
Nature names Storm, Rainbow, River, Fox, Bear etc.
And then names can't catergorise Finley, Harley, D'arcy, Grace.
It seems with my list I dislike far more names than I like tbh.

Oh, and Jude for a boy, that's a woman's name!

Bollocks is it a woman's name.

It derived as a short form of the male name Judah.

It can also be used as a female name, but to say it's just a woman's name, is utter bullshit.

Most of them. Sorry MNers

Any names containing punctuation marks are not to my taste at all (D'arcy above reminded me) although I don't think they usually go down very well on here anyway!

Mrs Jay. I stArted a thread a few weeks ago asking how Persaphone was pronounced.
It's "Purse e phony."

I would recommend a name I didn't like on here actually. I think the thing about this section is about trying to gauge the posters tastes and come up with ideas you think THEY might like.

I find it ironic when you do look at the stats for 2013 just how few people call their children the likes of Romilly and Ottilie and Persaphone despite them being suggested all the time and posters.

And the thing I find saddest, is when people admit that they love a name but didn't have the guts to use it for whatever reason - whether it be because they regard it too popular or too out there. It you love it, and it means something to you, provided it doesn't offend or have a truly awful association or nickname just do it rather than worrying about everyone else.