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?

I don't like female names that have been made out of male names, as if they are a derivative of the male. E.g.:
Paula, Roberta, Ivana, Daniella... Why take a male name and then stick an 'a' on the end and make it sub-male? Wierd.

My personal prejudice is boys' names ending in -o. Every single boy born in London in the last decade seems to be called

Arlo
Hugo
Theo
Milo
Leo

It's so faddy and often ruins a perfectly good name like Hugh or Miles.

Also hate cultural appropriation - little blonde girls called India or Scousers called Elodie or Allegra.

Dislike names that could be transformed from ugly ones into pretty ones just by adding an -a, so Joanne, Louise, Suzanne. Lazy parents maybe.

W8

I get what you mean re cultural appropriation to an extent but Olivia, Amelia, Isabelle are all wildly popular and not British.

My hackles rise over people calling their daughters Dylan and Bryn because it is a massive "fuck your inferior culture" gesture.

A non Welsh person calling their daughter Rhiannon etc is fine (unless they pronounce it ree-an-NUN as per the Fleetwoodmac song).

Speaking of misusing names from other cultures, there was a moment of popularity in Australia a few years ago for...

McKenzie/Mackenzie. For girls, no less.

Hideous.

My DS's name isn't on the list yet but probably falls under thr category of modern faddy names.

Alisvol - My hackles rise over people calling their daughters Dylan and Bryn because it is a massive "fuck your inferior culture" gesture.
Care to explain to the confused mom over here? Genuinely curious what you mean

hollyisalovelyname
Gobnait
Philomena
Attracta
Assumpta

Surely you've made these up???

Eh No, Hazel.
These names have been used in Ireland in the 20 th century.
I haven't heard of people using them lately though.
I wonder why?
Gobnait is a saint's name as is Philomena.

Father Jack ( real name Frank Kelly) of Father Ted fame did a really funny parody of The 12 Days of Christmas as Gobnait O' Lunasy.
It's worth listening too. Try YouTube.
I think it was in the Irish pop charts at one stage.
Although Saint Gobnait was female.

I've never met a Gobnait in Ireland. It's like snuffleuffagus.

Nigel - I've always hated this name for no reason other than I dislike the sound of it. I have admittedly known a few Nigels who are nobs but I've known some nice ones too

Kelly/Keeley/Kaley/Kelsey etc etc for girls - not keen purely because they seem very faddy and the opposite of classic - all the ones I know we're born between 1980 & 1990

Were

I never met a Gobnait but it is a real name- pronounced Gobnit.
I met an Attracta. She wasn't.

Abbie? For a boy? Surely that's a typo.

Yeah there's always a risk when the name is descriptive. Patience, Chastity, Charity etc

Bethany

Also hate cultural appropriation - little blonde girls called India or Scousers called Elodie or Allegra.

What a horrible comment. Perhaps her parents lived in/where born in India?

My DD is mixed race Asian and has dark hair, what name would be suitable for her?

Derelict

I think the poster meant Albie? Maybe.

Can't really think of a name I hate, just names I wouldn't call my own child she's a boring Anna
Not keen on my own name Lorna

I don't like Imogen. Terrible bully at school . Although so too was a Rachel.
Love the name Anna -rolling cove!

Mary
Ruth
Jessica
Kimberley (Have ya seen her?)
Tyler
Rufus

There's lots of scouse Elodie's.
That's not cultural appropriation. It's a very common name.

I predict it to be the next Amelia.

Both bloody awful sounding and wholly unimaginative. shudder

Its a bit off IMO to suggest a parent who has an accent shouldnt call their child elodie. I guess you wouldnt have the same issue with a middle class woman from London calling their child elodie?

Genuine question - what do you mean by cultural appropriation? Because almost all names originate from another language and culture and the list of classically "British" names we know now would sound entirely different to the same list from a hundred years a go ..?

Gobnait?! Good grief.

I've seen people claim you can't use a welsh name or an irish name if you're not welsh or irish which is such utter nonsense. Like you can't use a name from a hundred miles away? or a hundred and fifty miles away? come on.

Cultural appropriation? Ffs.

For example, Elizabeth is originally a Hebrew name deriving from Elisheva.

The queen has used it (shame on her ) AND it's been anglicised (how dare they...)

It's just ridiculous.

A white blonde (gasp) child shouldn't be called India? Because of the colour of her hair/skin? Would this be ok on an Asian child not from India? Or is it only ok for Indians? What about American Indians? What about if you have Indian heritage but have never been there? What about if you are blonde but were born there?