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Names that make your toes curl!

596 replies

Mrsknackered · 26/02/2017 19:19

Esmeralda
Rosamund/Rosalind/Roseanna
Celeste

No reason they just make me feel funny!
Lighthearted- no offence meant.

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Rockaby · 27/02/2017 11:28

My objection to this thread is that it, like all the others of this vein, is to have a jolly good laugh at the "lower orders".

Is it?! Since when were names like Roseanna, Celeste, Esmeralda and whatever else was in the OP, names for the "lower orders"? Lots of the names sound pretty middle class to me! Chloe, Tarquin, James, Claire, Ian, Miriam?

Fair enough, some posts have been a bit classist - it's pretty gross to call your neighbours "common" for example, but I don't think that's what the OP intended when she started it. And those classist posts have been a handful in a huge thread.

It's annoying when people make general comments about a whole, (big), thread, when actually the majority of people are being perfectly nice; they just might not happen to like certain names. It's personal taste and not meant to be taken too seriously, though I agree it was bound to end in some people taking offence.

The people who are actually being classist need to be picked up on their behaviour for sure, but this doesn't happen when you just make a sweeping statement about the whole thread.

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piginboots · 27/02/2017 11:32

Henry

Annahibiscuits · 27/02/2017 11:33

Why on earth would you take offence, if strangers on the internet don't like your children's name choices??

guerillastyle · 27/02/2017 11:49

When I was a girl I remember irrationally disliking some names. I'm not sure if it was the sound they made or if there was a cultural/social context. Even names that belonged to dearly beloved relatives. Some of these still give me the heebies for some reason.

Kenneth
Maureen
Linda
Tim
Simon
Eric
Valerie
Jean
Janette

In a similar vein I also couldn't stand the name Peter Sissons (1980s newsreader). Hearing that name was like nails down a blackboard.

Currently popular names I dislike tend to be because my brain always links them with another word or thing. Particularly,

Olivia - olive oil
Darcey - arsey
Poppy - because of an annoying set of children's books DH and I refer to as Princess Ploppy (on account of main character being a brat)

Lowlandgarlic · 27/02/2017 11:57

For me without listing actual names

Names with a "unique" “Made up” spelling which does not conform to correct pronunciation. “This is a name I've made up, this is how I want to be spelt but this is how I want expect everyone to pronounce it” You cannot in these circumstances expect people to get it right when the sounds the letters make are totally different to how you want it pronounced.

Anything hipstery like Storm, Rainbow, Leaf, Somma.

Anything that has throughout history been a boys or a girls name suddenly being used by the opposite sex. I know some names have become both in time and are widely accepted but ones which the majority of people could not imagine being both even with time.

Just the other day I had the embarrassment of my children telling new parents in love with their baby and in love with announcing their name choice “but that's a boy's name isn't it?!” "It's definitely a boys name mummy" No don't blurt that out!
Think Aww look at baby “Craig”, “George”, “Dwayne” isn't SHE lovely.

OpheliaHamlet · 27/02/2017 12:05

Can't stand the 'ai' sound for some reason. Absolutely makes my toes curl, even in general words. These names especially:

Aileen
Aideen
Kayleigh
Ailsa

Notso · 27/02/2017 12:26

As an answer again to the why be offended posts. I had a bad day yesterday, it's allowed isn't it?
I've seen people try and stifle sneers or wtf faces when I've told them one of my children's names and it's not bothered me because I love it. I've certainly been around MN long enough to know my kids names are always listed on these kind of threads, I'm apparently 'trying too hard' to be 'chavvy' which usually amuses me. However yesterday it did bother me and yes I shouldn't have opened the thread.

What do I see today though is that while the OP referred to names that make you feel funny for no apparent reason in a lighthearted thread (one male name that weirdly makes me think of cigarette smoke, no clue why.) Some posters seem to have used it as an opportunity to list names they hate/dislike/think are chavvy etc and I think it's no coincidence that many have chosen to list names which are popular now or have been in the last decade rather than names in general and that seems goady and nasty.

ifigoup · 27/02/2017 12:28

Sheena
Emmaleigh
Casey
Lacey
Joscelyn
Kerry
Tracy
Darcy
Lexi
Stacey
Irene
Archie-Lee
Buzz
Milo
Herbert
Paris
Cello (I met an adult woman called this)
Oscar
Casper
Jasper
Xavier pronounced Ex-zay-vee-er
Esmay
Amberley
Blue
Roo
Boo
Bo

I could go on...

HeyRoly · 27/02/2017 12:36

I have issues with names that are so common I get bored of hearing them. So many perfectly inoffensive names just sound so dull and basic to me now.

Isabel/la
Emily
Sophie
George
Jake
William
Sam/uel

I just think "Really? You couldn't do better? You couldn't be more imaginative?" Hmm

Classic names are nicer than wacky made up or bizarre hyphenated combinations, but I still dislike these dull, dull names Blush

xStefx · 27/02/2017 12:47

Names don't bug me as such although " Trinity" grinds me a bit. However, I hate it when parents double barrel the first name and then for the next 10 years correct everyone and anyone who doesn't say both names with a pissed off look on their face. My friend has an Olivia - Belle and my god if you miss off Belle she goes nuts, she is a pain in the arse with it and the only one who cares. Her DH even misses the 2nd name out as he says its a gob full.

WhatKatyDidnt · 27/02/2017 13:00

I just think "Really? You couldn't do better? You couldn't be more imaginative?"

They might just actually love those "dull" names. And plenty of people think it's pretty cringey to use your child's name as a vehicle to score cool points.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 27/02/2017 13:01

Names ending in -bert.. Robert, Albert etc. I know they're popular but I think it's a horrible sound.

And yes to names ending in -ie sounding twee.

lottieandmia · 27/02/2017 13:04

I naturally like unusual names and had chosen a very unusual name for dd3 but then when she was born it didn't suit her so I ended up choosing something more mainstream which did suit her.

MuseumOfCurry · 27/02/2017 13:08

Oh. I forgot how exceedingly dull 'Isabelle' and all its permutations has become. There are literally scores of them at my children's school.

LePetitPont · 27/02/2017 13:28

Both mine and my DH's name have been listed - products of late 70's/early 80's and not current baby names whatsoever! I was surprised to see the name we've picked for DS2 pop up - no love for the female version either Grin

I don't like cute names for little girls (anything -Mae for example) - they need to be fully functioning adults not dressed as pink princesses for the ready of their days!

Ellarose85 · 27/02/2017 13:51

DS, DD and DP have made it through without a mention, I have let the team down with one mention.

DS and DD's names are like marmite, I've been told they are not proper names.

I'm never offended if people don't like our choice of names, we love them, they suit our DCs.

The world would be a boring place if we all had the same taste Grin

lawrencecostin · 27/02/2017 13:52

Some of the classist posts just remind me why the snobby, unaccountable to anyone, name nerds who believe that new names stopped being legit after 1900 will never get the support they crave from their sacred proletariat.

RedStripeIassie · 27/02/2017 13:58

Donald

My name hasn't been mentioned and dds only once Grin

ladytrader · 27/02/2017 14:16

Poppy. What a dreadful name. Unless the child in under 5, its sound ridiculous.

Cant stand Pheobe, Tedd, Jayden, Harley, Kevin, Keith, Jesse-James, Sebastian or Milo either.

HolditFinger · 27/02/2017 14:30

This is the first time I've ever heard that my name is a dog's name. Charming! Shock

SaorAlbaGuBrath · 27/02/2017 14:33

None of my kids names are on here, but DDs best friends are Darcy and Tyler and they're lovely bairns. I like their names, they suit them.

FunfettiBetty · 27/02/2017 14:41

Levi
Lexi
Shellie/Shelley
Virginia
Megan

...and a multitude of US names:

Corey GrinGrinGrin
Hunter
Shelby

Pretty much any hyphenated name...

TinfoilHattie · 27/02/2017 14:47

I have lots of dislikes.

Kayden/Brayden/Jaiden/Zaiden - anything of that ilk.

Hyphenated names or random apostrophes thrown in to make a name yoo'neek. Lily-May, Betsy-Rose, Jamie-Lee.

Deliberate mispellings like Jorja or Alixandrah or anything similar.

But Nevaeh has a category all of its own as its so bloody awful.

ThoraGruntwhistle · 27/02/2017 14:48

I haven't read the whole thread yet but I'm pretty sure both my DC's names will be on here somewhere for being too common or unoriginal. Personally I don't like names ending in 'een' or 'ette' but I've no idea why.

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