Names you hate!

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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 agree GillBear.

THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING IRONY of the cultural majority declaring something is not cultural appropriation.

I note the only person agreeing with W8 is Welsh. I'm also throwing my hat into the ring, as someone Indian.

If you don't want someone to assume your child has - for example - Indian heritage, why FFS would you call them India?

If you do not speak French and do not even know how to pronounce Elodie correctly, why would you name your child this? And if you are French, are you not entitled to be, at the very least, a bit offended at the mangling of your language?

Cultural appropriation is not the same as borrowing or loanwords or even acculturation.

The only two Indias I know are

India Hicks - her grandfather was,at least partially, responsible for Partition, which killed a million Indian civilians

India Knight - whose mother was Pakistani, and who was born in 1965, long after Partition and shortly before India and Pakistan went to war. IIRC her real name is Gisela and India merely a pseudonym.

Not inappropriate AT ALL then .

I love when people of other countries/ cultures use Irish names for their children.

Danielle. Hate it.

And Kayleigh.

But if you go through the origins of many names, they're not English. I'm a Charlotte - it's French. I don't pronounce it with a French accent. I've been to France once. I never want to go again. But it's been in use for so long over here no one eould care. Surely that's just what happens? How is it offensive or inappropriate? It doesn't stop anyone else using that name

If you don't want someone to assume your child has - for example - Indian heritage, why FFS would you call them India?

Umm, maybe you like the name? Or loved the country?

If you do not speak French and do not even know how to pronounce Elodie correctly, why would you name your child this?

Because you are English and feel a bit silly pronouncing it in a French accent so you pronounce it how it would be read in English?

And if you are French, are you not entitled to be, at the very least, a bit offended at the mangling of your language?

Yep, completely 'mangling' it because it's pronounced differently in an English accent .

in fact white English people should definitely stick to old English names, no deviations please, Scottish to Scotch names etc. Maybe we should have a permitted name list according to race and heritage? It all becomes a bit offensive and mangled otherwise.

DD would have been quite lucky as we could have used a number of different names for her considering her mixed heritage. DS would have had a bit less luck and had to make do with either an English or Irish name.

Just repeating myself here:
Cultural appropriation is not the same as borrowing or loanwords or even acculturation.

And qv the Welsh poster above who quite understandably dislikes girls being called Dylan or Bryn. I presume because they aren't girls' names and if you knew the first thing about Welsh culture you would know that.

It's not a tribute; it's a form of an arrogance.

Cultural appropriation (or not) nonwithstanding Elodie is just a fucking frightful name.
Whichever accent you use to pronounce it.

I can honestly say i do not gove a damn who uses an English name for their child. If there's a French family somewhere or African or Australian family who want to call their child Audrey, go for it. I don't consider it a compliment or an insult because it is a name and if you go through the top 10 Boys and Girls names in most countries, they will not be from that country

I do find the popularity of the name India amongst white British people surprising. Given Britain's imperialist history there, it isn't a name I would use.

I would get annoyed if a Russian called their daughter Archibald. Just so bloody arrogant! Likewise if they used Avery. I know they were trying to make a tribute, it was nothing to do with liking the sound/name for whatever reason.

They don't need to GillBear, they have Anastasia and other cool names

Well yes, they had better stick to that then and not get any funny ideas. Likewise don't you get any funny ideas about using Anastasia Haze

It was sooo on my girls list. Picked a Basque name for my PFB boy tho hahaha (cackles evilly)

Acculturation and cultural appropriation are not the same thing and yet most of you are conflating the two (or worse, insisting the latter doesn't exist).

The tone of the replies from the 'I can call my child what I bloody well like' brigade rather confirm the point Alisvola and MMXV were making.

Can we go back to the OP's thread now please?

I'm adding the names Cosmo, Rollo, Jago and Inigo to the list of -o names that helpfully tell the rest of us which parents to avoid in the playground.

Orlando
Horatio

Apparently anything without proven lineage to the country of the childs birth

I hate Stephanie

Timo acceptable as long as you have Scandinavian heritage

Not sure Timo should be acceptable anywhere!

Haze I have always adored the name Myfanwy but there is no Welsh in our family anywhere. Maybe I should have gone ahead and used it anyway, but it would have felt a bit meaningless, and possibly disrespectful to the Welsh.

I thought Elodie was Greek by origin. What a weird thread btw.

haze

I've just seen you asked me question, wasn't deliberately ignoring you.

What I mean is - plucking any name you fancy from a culture not your own and using it in a way not done in that culture is a bit galling for people from that culture.

Example - Florian. I think that's a lovely name, could just as easily be a girls name as a boys name. However it is historically a boys name (from the Latin Florianus) very much so in the countries where it is most commonly used (Germany, Poland, France). A German would have every right to be if I called a daughter Florian.