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Names you hate!

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Skyler30 · 05/08/2016 15:18

First born is due in Dec (gender not known) and dh and I are pondering over names and he's suggested a few now that I absolutely hate - only because I know or knew somebody with that name and they were complete and utter shit heads!

They were every day names, nothing daft like Apple or Tiger Lilly but once associated with a past prize twat!! I go right off it!

Anyone else had this?

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W8woman · 17/08/2016 23:18

I'd never met an English Elodie until about 3 years ago. Suddenly they're everywhere. But usually not in Francophone or Francophile householdsWink.

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:20

W8

You love the name Myfanwy?! Shock

That's the Welsh equivalent of...of...Ethel or Mildred!

hazeimcgee · 17/08/2016 23:21

But no one would think you were disrespectful to the French if you's picked Charlotte? Curious what name you did pick

W8woman · 17/08/2016 23:25

Alis ShockGrin

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:26

I'm not saying you can't use names from any culture other than your own.

Rather, acknowledge that culture and don't call your daughters Dylan, Bryn, Luca and so on. Rhiannon, Seren, Haf etc for your daughters, go for it.

I'm sure a French person would would piss themselves laughing if I called a son Charlotte.

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:28

*edit - I'm not claiming Luca is Welsh name, it was meant to be an example of a name which is being adopted for girls, ignoring culture of origin.

hazeimcgee · 17/08/2016 23:33

Honestly if i met a French guy call Audrey i might think it weird, i might hope he has a nickname before he visits the UK, but i wouldn't be offended. Maybe i'm not patriotic enough. It's a NAME. If his mother wishes to saddle him with a girls name the dude has bogger issues than the anger of random English people

W8woman · 17/08/2016 23:38

What do you feel about pronunciation, Alis? To your earlier point, I'd say 'Rhiannon' wrong (or Anglicised anyway). Would you just think I was a dick or would it feel like a slight to your culture or language that I hadn't bothered to learn or preserve the original pronunciation?

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:41

I think perhaps it is different if your culture is one which has been historically oppressed and indeed mocked. I am not particularly patriotic, it doesn't offend me that people call their daughters Bryn, it irritates me. In a "what a culturally ignorant drip" sort of way. The two feelings are not one and the same.

TwentyCups · 17/08/2016 23:41

I know two French Florians. Both are female.

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:44

W8

Accents change the pronunciation of names. Or at least how you hear it being said. Even in Wales there is quite a lot of variance, particularly between the North and South. The Rhiannon comment in brackets in that post was tongue in cheek!

TwentyCups · 17/08/2016 23:45

Anyway,more to the point, I really dislike Harriet, Jeremy, Samantha, Jane, Ruth and Chloe. The first three I just dislike the sound. The last three are all names of people who have been horrible to me!

Never mind, it would be incredibly dull if we all had the same name!

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:45

How interesting Twenty! I've only known German male ones.

Largemelons · 17/08/2016 23:46

Harrison
Mason
Demi-Lee
Courtney
Alfie
Julian

I don't hate all surname names. I think some are quite nice but I just can't get away with Mason or Harrison.
Julian/Justin both a bit drippy. The beautiful Timberlake being an exception.
Ooh Timothy too. Maybe that's an open all hours thing?
Interesting how different we are.

cantthinkofabloodyname · 17/08/2016 23:49

The names of two bullying bitches at school, Shani & Dion.

MarriedinMaui · 17/08/2016 23:58

Following on from the Welsh discussion...

It really irritates me when people chose a welsh name but use the wrong ending (why? Because they think it looks prettier or something?)

Wyn= a male ending
Wen= a female ending.

Non Welsh person using Myfanwy - great! It's flattering that you like it.
Calling your daughter Bronwyn -just wrong. It's Bronwen.

hazeimcgee · 18/08/2016 00:01

Marriee alas everyone thinks spelling names is open for discussion hence N'talia and the like

Alisvolatpropiis · 18/08/2016 00:10

Tis true haze

I have seen some absolute shockers on a baby group I was on, on Facebook (I know, I know). I stayed for a while because I found it perversely fascinating, the unique spellings etc.

sailawaywithme · 18/08/2016 00:11

Jax. See other thread...

Tartyflette · 18/08/2016 00:20

I'm a bit bemused by some posts talking about a couple of names being pronounced differently in French and English.
I think Charlotte is as much German (or even pan-European) as it is French.... and is pronounced in French pretty much as it is in English.

And how is Elodie pronounced differently in French? It's Elle-Oh-Dee in both Eng and Fr as far as i'm aware (not sure of the Scouse pronunciation Grin but it's probably lovely)
As for the priginal post, well, as a rule I dislike men's names , or any surnames, (Dylan, Elliott, Taylor, Cameron, Leigh, James) being given to girls. It's not cute and it's certainly not clever.
And the underlying message it seems to be sending is that girls' names are somehow not quite good enough for ' our DD, let's give her a better one -- I know, let's call her.... Howard. '
And it's always one way, isn't it? Boys are never called Elodie.

hazeimcgee · 18/08/2016 00:20

Altho i saw Vyktorya as a Polish spelling and wondered if it would be weird to steal the spelling, i love it.

FeralBeryl · 18/08/2016 00:22

I hate myself for even clicking on this thread Angry

This thread was clearly started in a lighthearted way.

The thread I read before this one was about bullying and how it's had such a long lasting impact on people's lives. Maybe that has left me over sensitive?
I completely get the following, I really do.

' oh I went to school with someone called Marlon who ate his own snot so I hate the name.'

Or 'I was bullied by a Meredith so the name has negative connotations'

Or even 'I just hate the name Keith. I don't know why but I just do'

They are all completely acceptable and inoffensive but it's again descended into plain nastiness.

I hope everyone who is sneering about forrin names has named their children something that originated no more than 8 miles from their place of birth Hmm

hazeimcgee · 18/08/2016 00:24

Google consensus is French orogin although of course widely used all over , rather my point. Pronunciation - i get Char-lot-ey in Spain

Alisvolatpropiis · 18/08/2016 00:31

Who has sneered about foreign names?

FeralBeryl · 18/08/2016 00:39

Not your comments Al - a bit further back about using (I think) Allegra or Elodie.
Couple of others too.
It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, like I say, I've come straight from the rather harrowing bullying thread which was probably not the best idea Grin
I'd hate to think of loads of kids being secretly sniggered at by their friends parents unless they have a made up name in which case it's fine