Names you hate!

[Skyler30]

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?

Melanie
Samantha
Joanne
Martin

Names I dislike for no rational reason. Mine, dh's and both dc names have been mentioned a few times, I don't take different strokes and all that.

Don't take offence I meant!

I love this thread, it is very funny. Sadly I have to work so I will come back to it.
I don't like surnames used as names

• Parker, Hunter, Bryson, Tucker, Murphy, Winston, Duke

I hate names known to be commonly used for pets, used for babies -
Rex, Fox, Bruno, Buster (I've actually met one), Bear, Tiger, Buddy, Rocky, Coco, Felix

Names of places, London, Paris, Brooklyn, Sydney, Moroccan, Egypt, Kenya

I don't hate these names but think they are ridiculous, I would never take you seriously - Hugo, Marmaduke, Percy, Mungo, Tarquin, Jocasta, Araminta, Romilly, Ptolemy, Casper, Candida, Rafferty, Ulysses - there's more but you get the idea

Names which are really words
Fortune, Precious, Hope, Princess, Gift, Joy

I also dislike Primrose,
Old people's names - Geoffrey, Gideon, Mabel, Agnes, Albert, Gladys, Harold, Mildred, Martin, Nelson

Then you have the hilarious names people come up with, I have seen some on this forum but can't think at the top of my head.
Sunshine, Tulip, Saint, Roya reign, King Cairo, Katniss, Blue Ivy, Daisy Boo, Buddy Bear, Sunday Rose, Heavenly, Summer rose, Winter-rose (I know one), Apple

Irrationally, I dislike Edwin, Edmund and Elliot for boys and Penelope, Jade and Chloe for girls. No good reason, I just don't like the names.

Then there's the whole 'reminds me of a bully' thing. Definitely get that, but probably won't say the name here as it's fairly unusual. Going through some of the girls in my head who weren't bullies but we're certainly unpleasant to me at points and I've just realised I used one of the names for my DD! Obviously that one hadn't stuck in my memory then.

Oh I also dislike Elias for a boy... It's definitely those E names though weirdly I quite like Edward!

Nikita. It is a Russian male name. Think Nikita Krushchev.
I don't sound right as a girls name to me - I blame that dreadful Elton John song.

any of the 'unique' names that because a celeb has used them or they are used in a film/tv show - parents foist a name on a child (who has to live with it all their lives unless they opt for a sensible second name. ) and then the naming of a child as xxxxx with nickname xxx - so far as I know nicknames evolve
but then I am in favour of traditional 'stood the test of time' names which will be acceptable in any age and are not in the slightest boring or common

Simon. All Simons i've met were arseholes

Some names I love are far too similar to names I hate
Love Juliette/Julia - hate Jules, Julie
Love Georgia hate Georgina
Love Zoe hate Chloe
Love Josie/Jolie hate Jo
Love Alexa/Alexandra/Alex hate Lexi

I also hate Abigail/Abby which was almost my sisters name, eugh.
Anything -leigh, anything too cutesy
nevaeh - such a stupid name
Caitlyn

Jayden/JJ/Jackson

Maybe because you're a bit anti-semetic FrancisCrawford? Reuben and Seth are possibly the two most Jewish names you could think of.

My little boy's name has been mentioned by one person upthread, it's a very traditional Irish name and is also a family name. I'd never change it. Gets a great reaction from people in Ireland. It's a good solid boy's name. No weird pronunciation or spelling.

As for Gobnait, I actually knew one growing up. They spoke Irish at home. The poor girl, I'd be getting my name changed by deed poll!

Love the term granma- chic, definitely going to use that one!

Names I dislike: any insipid cutesy names for girls: daisy, lilly, Maisie etc
** For boys: Oscar (reminds me of Oscar Wilde, great writer and all but not so sure about his personality...) Archie, Jayden (total chav name, only one I've come across was a chav), boys names ending in O- Hugo, milo, arlo. Appalling names. It's as if the parents want to appear sophisticated or something, has the opposite effect in my view. Certainly not impressing me!

Another thing I hate is when babies are given an abbreviated name, like Ben, Harry, Jack, Archie, Charlie. They're not bloody names, they're nicknames!

Maybe because you're a bit anti-semetic FrancisCrawford? Reuben and Seth are possibly the two most Jewish names you could think of.

My little boy's name has been mentioned by one person upthread, it's a very traditional Irish name and is also a family name. I'd never change it. Gets a great reaction from people in Ireland. It's a good solid boy's name. No weird pronunciation or spelling.

As for Gobnait, I actually knew one growing up. They spoke Irish at home. The poor girl, I'd be getting my name changed by deed poll!

Love the term granma- chic, definitely going to use that one!

Names I dislike: any insipid cutesy names for girls: daisy, lilly, Maisie etc
** For boys: Oscar (reminds me of Oscar Wilde, great writer and all but not so sure about his personality...) Archie, Jayden (total chav name, only one I've come across was a chav), boys names ending in O- Hugo, milo, arlo. Appalling names. It's as if the parents want to appear sophisticated or something, has the opposite effect in my view. Certainly not impressing me!

Another thing I hate is when babies are given an abbreviated name, like Ben, Harry, Jack, Archie, Charlie. They're not bloody names, they're nicknames!

Mercedes.

once knew one, Would sleep with any guy that walked her way. Stole from every shop she walked in and would bitch constantly about everyone! and just sounds... chavvy to me

I have a sneaky liking for Neveah, would never use it of course...

And I don't like it when parents use a name like Edith or Alexander when what they really want is to call the child Edie or Xander. Just use that then!

My older ds's name was on my hate list (it was the name of the boy I currently hated above all others) but ex-DP insisted and I was too knackered to fight about it. I like the name now, because I love the person it's attached to.

I was the one who referred to Allegra and Elodie, FeralBeryl, and I wasn't sneering at foreign names. In fact quite the opposite - I was complaining about how they're pronounced (wrongly) by people who have decided they'd like to give their child an exotic foreign-sounding name without any cultural or linguistic links to that particular foreign place.

And thanks to the PPs who have added Coco and Mungo to my 'bad parents' register.

FWIW, people don't sneer or snigger at a child's name, but at their parents' pretensions. A name says nothing about a child, but a great deal about its parents.

Melanie - nasty girl at primary school
Paul - boy who picked his nose all the time
Dominic - vile boy I taught
And I've never met a pleasant Nathan

I'm very sorry to hear that happened to your family Francis. I'm not sure how my post is a slur?? I was sticking up for Jewish people as I genuinely thought your original post sounded racist!

I think we have crossed wires here as my intention was in no way intended to insult you or Jewish people. Quite the opposite in fact.

And just to ask, if you'd seen your post written by someone else would you have seen it as slightly racist??

Again, I'm sorry if I caused offence, that's not at all where I was coming from.

It's weird how knowing someone horrible will put one off a name and some names seem to be used by horrible people.

I live in Mexico a common enough name here is Gustavo, I have only ever met one Gustavo that I liked, all the rest were/are extremely unpleasant.

Many years ago I had a Canadian friend who went to live in London for two years and took advantage to change her name from (wholesome) Sally to Vanessa. After two years of living as Vanessa she went back to Sally, because she felt that the new name was changing her personality in a way she didn't like.

The fad a few years back using a surname as a first name, Taylor, Jackson, that kind of thing, I hated it at the time and still do, and I don't like many names beginning with K either...I don't mind the name Chester for my cat though brightnearly!