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?

i8sum
Thank you for the private message.
It's not so bad compared with some names on here

Can I add to my list
Derek
Henry
Seán
Ian

Rhona
Serena ( there were sanitary towels called Serena at one stage).
All the daft names like
Rumer
Scout
Sonny ( you're obviously somebody's son)
Missy (Jesus wept)

ha ha you're very generous Holly.

I agree with you about 'Missy' that's like a non-name. It goes beyond merely not my taste (where I'd put scarlet and darcy and Jaiden) and comes out somewhere near a nickname you'd give the Dog, like if the dog was called Mademoiselle and you nick named her Missy. That's where I'd place Missy on the taking-it-seriously-ometre.

Oh oh oh and Kai.

Oooh yes! I hate Kai. And Jai/Jye. So naff.

Ooh, a lot of you don't like my DD's name... I'm quite fond of grandpa chic timeless classics.

The only name I think I couldn't use because of associations is Samantha. There were three in my class at school, none of them nice.

My name and all 6 of my children's names have been mentioned but they are sometimes mentioned o shortlist of names, so don't think I will run off and change them.xx

I like (or am at least indifferent to) most names actually. I can understand not liking a name because of a particular person but am astounded by the very popular 70s-90s names that people have never met a nice example of:
Gemma, Rebecca and Claire - really??
I'm a Rebecca from the days when it was top 5 and there were dozens of us everywhere I went. There were also generally at least 2 or 3 Gemmas and Claires too. Most people are nice. How can they all be awful people? I can think of one Rebecca I didn't like and one Gemma I wasn't too keen on. All the many, many others have been fine or better.
Similarly, how can people not know a nice little boy called Alfie? There are thousands of Alfies! Most are delightful (as most kids of all names are).

The only names I have what I could call a hatred of are:
Gertrude
Agatha
Harold

I just think they sound so ugly.

The only names I hear and really hate are names when I feel that the parents didn't think it through. Names like William Williamson, Michelle Michaels.... I have met far too many children where their surname and first name match like that!!! Drives me mad.

I also hate double barrelled names. Eva-Leigh, Lily-Rose, Mollie-May, Evie-Beth.... All awful! Just bloody pick one.........

Not mad about my name (Sarah) but it's nice that was named after a beloved Grandma.
For no reason I can think of I don't particularly like
Callum, Connor, Jacob, Isaac, Ethan.
Any place names - Brooklyn, Paris, Cleckheaten etc.
Lola, Daisy, Maisie and other cutesy girls names.
Stan/ley, Bernard, Arthur, Fred for boy. But do love Archie, Alfie and Teddy.

Joshua
Amelia
Mia
Chanel
Darcy
Teddy
Buddy
Toby

Both my DDs & my name mentioned... We're all double barrelled too

Lilith
Shona
Joni
Caleb
Fleur
Norah

Keith and Patrick. Make me cringe!

Patrick has had a surge in popularity here (Aus).

I am and . (It's awful.)

I love the name Patrick, would have definitely used it, if we ever had a boy

Jason (with apologies to any Jasons and their mums)

I don't like Melissa, I think it's just so drippy and unforgettable. The fact it's shortened to Mel is worse. Unfortunately this is my middle name, fortunately I go through cycles of like/dislike for it

Kai.

It sounds like a Northern Irish person saying 'cow'.

George. I just find it so mind numbingly dull and plodding.

I don't like Sarah or Anna. They're so commonly used and have been throughout history that they seem genuinely unimaginative, to me.

I find them mind numbingly dull in the same way pp says about George.

I do however like Sadie, an old nickname for Sarah and Anouk, a French/Dutch variant of Anna.

I'm not mad keen on my own name. It's generally considered dated on here. People often say I don't "seem like one", which I think is a polite way of inferring something rather less polite about the name.

I do like how it looks written down though. Well, when it's spelled properly anyway. Given in the uk it has only one commonly used spelling (whereas in the USA there are loads and the spelling used here isn't the most common) it baffles me when people get it wrong.

I know someone who's sons are Eli and King J

For boys:
Toby
Seth
Alfie
Abbie

For girls
Annabelle-can't stand it!
Fleur
Sue

Milly. Keith. David. Dave. Karen. Leroy. Francis/Frances.

Gaylord