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.

Well...George, now...

And sadly, Rory. For a boy. Because my DH says it sounds like something Scooby Do is saying.

Haha sparkle I have a Roryi love it!!

Lana? Seriously? One of my best friends names, a beautiful lady inside and out. So nice connotations for me, and yeah also because I'm not in Twin Peaks, I don't generally talk backwards.....

@lorelai it is a GREAT name! Currently pg and still keeping it on the list. So not off it totally.

Also, someone said Castor? Why not Castor, what have I missed?

Jade .... I am yet to meet a Jade who isn't a total twunt.

Castor oil? Castor Semagna?

Michael. Other than my nephew (truly a lovely man), every Michael I have ever known has been a real shit.

I loved Siobhan when pregnant (being the English version of my Nan's name Joan) and having Irish roots myself.... until my Irish mum said it sounds like saying Shove-On (yer knickers!)

Isolda, Louisa, Myra, Gabrielle, Maria, Annie, Bruno, Theresa, Matilda, Magdalena
Arik, Victor, Henry, Lucas, Henrik, Emmett, Cedric, Eddie, Silvano, Nicholas, Maximilian...

Shoot, so many. That makes me seem kind of awful, I think.

Violet - quie liked this name until on a simliar thread , someone said if you put a N in, the name becomes Violent.

Sylvia - in my infant school, a girl with this name pushed a frind of a climbing frM, causing her to break her arm.

Irish version of the name ffs - not the English

Castor. Just why

Alice.
My husband's colleague's daughter is called Alice. I have her mother on my Facebook and she's constantly posting photos of the little girl smiling a very sickeningly sweet false smile. Looks like she should be in a Stephen King movie.

Shannon. After a bus ride with a mother constantly screaming it at the top of her lungs, surrounded by swearwords, at her child. Had the said child committed matricide with her tweenies lunchbox I'd have gone in as witness for the defense, but that did the name for me.

Loads! Downside of being in the education sector!

Castor and Pollux, rhyming slang innit? I wish we'd called dtwins that.

Stacey ( an ex of my dp) lucy because every lucy I have ever met has been a manipulative, snakey horrible piece of work!
Alfie, my mums Yorkshire terrier has the same name

Feckerlino- thank you for your explanation about George! Makes perfect sense as my family were cockneys!

oh and joanne ( I knw this will offend ) but it's jut an ugly name nd all joanne's I have met have been awful people

Seraphina. Soo pretentious
Astrid, blunt & dumpy like an ass-turd

My dad was in the navy btw op and uses that term, along with loads of others

Yes to Ella, always thought it was a lovely name until I encountered one with a loud mother at toddler group who always seems to be shouting
Ell-ooooooohhhhhh

I was due to be called Tamara until an aunt told DM I be referred to as Tammy tampax

Grace. It's a beautiful name/meaning, but no Grace I've ever met has been either physically graceful, or had a gracious personality!

scribblegirl I have never laughed out loud at a post on mumsnet until I read yours this evening. That's hilarious.