What names have you been put off?

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Are there any names you liked but have been put off by association or an event?

For me (A=and it's a shame because it is of course very popular and well liked) but one is George. My grandpa used to talk about "having a George" meaning a number 2...he said it was a navy thing and they'd talk about "going to the John for a George" and now all that side of my family still use the term! Has anyone else ever heard this? I've never come across elsewhere it so I wonder if it was something that someone my grandpa served with came up with and it caught on.

I also think Fraser is nice but put off by a horrible ex and I think Myra is pretty but can't disconnect it from Hindley.

Lana. I absolutely love the name, but once you realise what it spells backwards that cannot be unseen!

I haven't heard George used in that way but it's my ex's name and he is a shit.

Miranda (because of Myra, actually). I wanted Meera as a nickname, which sounds like Myra in English...

Oh, and Castor.

NiceCuppaTeaAndASitDown funny you say that because it is in my top 4 at the moment for DD but don't feel I can use it for that! Am contemplating Alannah instead with nn Lannah

Emily.

All of the Emilys I've known have been right cows.

Grace, because of someone with that name I dealt with at work. I later met her in a different context and she was much nicer, but at the time I was picking baby names she was horrible.

I wanted to call my ds Toby, my partner said only if we can have the surname of carvary sigh

Omg lana ruined for me now.

And to answer the original question, a very, very long list. As im sure most teachers have

I also loved Bryony until a friend said it's a male version of Brian- just Brian with a "ee" sound. Now I can't unhear it!

Pippa... and I still love it! Was going to be Dds name until I googled two weeks before she was born
It's slang in European languages for all sorts!

Maybe I'll have to get a dog and call her pippa ha

SuperBeagle: Emily.
All of the Emilys I've known have been right cows.

I think it's delightful 😀

Esme

I was on a flight with this woman who my grandmother would have said sounded like a fishwife!

She had a gorgeous little toddler called Esme, but she just shouted at her the entire flight. Ez-maaaaaaaay stop that! Ez-maaaaaaaaay get here! Ez-maaaaaaaaaaaay shut up! It was cringeworthy and made a pretty name seem so ugly to me. Put me right off.

I also liked Amanda until the episode of Friends when Rachel things the lady called amanda is a transsexual and says "oh I get it! A-man-duuuuuh"...never been able to shake that connection

I loved the name Daisy until I moved house and how I regularly her my neighbour telling her dog to 'do a daisy' when she wants him to do a poo in the garden

hahaha never heard Daisy used like that! Like how my grandpa used to say 'George'

I knew a woman with a little girl called Sienna she was a proper helecopter parent and spent the full 2 hour group every week saying Siennnnaaa no, Siennnnaaa put that down, Siennnnaaa come here, Siennnnaaa Siennnnaaa, Siennnnaaa in a really high pitched look at me voice. Everytime i hear it now i hear the womans screechy Siennnnaaaa.

Arthur because of people saying Arf-er.

Lola- I love it in an English accent (low-la) but we live in Australia where it's laaaau-la and it totally put me off!
Mira (meer-ra)- still undecided on this one but people seem to say mirror or myra and the latter doesn't have nice connotations!

Cameron. I loved the name until David Cameron made it unusable.

Connor. I fell in love with this name twenty years ago but then suddenly there were loads of naughty boys all called Connor so that was the end of that love affair.

Abigail.

Abigail Williams was the whore from the Salem Witch trials.

Abigail is also the whore OW in my last relationship

Not that I thought much about girls names (had 2 boys) but recently heard a mother calling her little girl who I presumed was called 'sophia' except her mother just said 'sphere' over and over and over and over again...

Angus. I worked with one and someone once in an email accidentally missed the G. Same logic as Lana I guess!

(Thankfully not me but the person who sent the email could never look the guy in the face again!)

Once someone pointed out that Astrid sounds a lot like ass turd I couldn't get it out of my head! I never loved it anyway though.

The one which really annoys me is Benedict / bendy dick because I do really do love that name and would use it, but DH now says we never could as he'd always hear bendy dick!