What names do you judge the most?

[EmilySmallwood]

Seems like a lot of people judge names on here, so just wondering which names you do...

*they

But how would you know a Phoebe is from Friends or an Armani, when heard, is actually an Imani?

I bet an Adonis and I judged, or rather thought, thats s big name to live up to.

Run of the mill, average, been in top 20 names list for 30 years, play it safe names we've all heard 1000's of times before. Boring.

How do people feel about long established French hyphenated names?

In France, or one an obviously French kid, fine.

British kid in the UK will get tarred with the same hyphen brush, even if it is traditional, or has a tenuous family link.

SoWhite I agree about the French name being fine on a French child. Otherwise it can be a bit weird. I work with a guy who's name is Pierre. Customers always say "oh, that's quite fitting for a chef", they always assume he's French. Then they meet him, and hear his cockney accent and are confused! His parents aren't French. His family don't speak French. And he's only ever been to France once to take his kids to Disneyland what were his parents thinking??

Yeah, I agree. Poor Pierre.

I agree with obsidian except I extend that to popular 'girly' names like Tilly, Milly etc. For some reason I like Kitty though

My dp has a double-barrelled, definitely not French, first name, but only his parents call him by it these days. He just goes the first half which is a very standard (although no longer common in children) British name.

I don't judge people on their names but these are names I don't like

Anything titled like princess
Hyphenated names
Old fashioned but not trendy names such as Quentin and Eggbert
Place names like Camden
Pet names like Tabitha or kitty
Brand names like Levi
Virtue names like hope
Most boys names beginning with C or K like Cameron, Connor and Kieron

I do like flower names like poppy and lily, tree names like Hazel and willow, average/popular names like Sophia and Oliver and classic names that never went out of fashion such a Elizabeth and Alexander.

It does happen. I used to work in social services and we always reckoned you could go down the maternity ward and tick off those kids who would end up on the troubled families register just by hearing what the parents had called them.

I think I saw some research somewhere that showed people are judged on their name in job interviews, school etc and it does make a difference to the way children are treated people do it subconsciously, no matter what diversity regs they've signed up to.

Lizzie - I have a couple of friends who are teachers in high schools (have been for many years), and they do admit to being able to predict (with some level of accuracy) which children are likely to be more 'lively' in class by their names on the register in S1.

There is a French anthropologist whose name escapes me whose research is all about first names and destiny. He has run huge databases and can predict the probability of success in the bac according to first name.

He's called Baptiste Coulmont and he's a sociologist.

It does happen. I used to work in social services and we always reckoned you could go down the maternity ward and tick off those kids who would end up on the troubled families register just by hearing what the parents had called them

Ew. I'm glad most social workers don't think like you.

My caseload is full of perfectly unremarkably named kids, if it's relevant. Not a Chardonnay-blu among them.

I never judge a child by it's name...only the adults who gave them