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What names have you been put off?

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porterwine · 07/04/2017 22:40

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.

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kathkim · 13/04/2017 22:17

My grandpa used to talk about "having a George" meaning a number 2

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TinselTwins · 13/04/2017 22:17

Also Rose/Rosie. Never have Rosey dispositions or complexions, usually moody and pasty.

There's something about descriptive names in general.. they never match their owners. I also knew a Patience who was gruff, intolerant & VERY impatient.

Decriptive names really emphasise a lack of that characteristic in a person y'know. Like I don't make a habit of noting whether or not someone is "graceful" unless their name is Grace (and they're distinctly not!)

catsarenice · 13/04/2017 22:25

I really liked the name Corey but when I mentioned it to DP he said 'no way that's a nickname for your nob end'. I didn't believe him but then when I asked around a few other people said it too.

lorelairoryemily · 13/04/2017 23:15

@sparkle oh congratulations!! How exciting!! It is a great name, suits him so well, fingers crossed your Dh will forget scooby dooGrin my Dh hated it when I first suggested it and about two weeks later randomly text me from his night shift to say he liked it and it stuck!

Pammie70 · 13/04/2017 23:15

Zac for me, I have run a Pre-school for 17 years and this is the name of the only child who had nearly driven me to tears

1nsanityscatching · 13/04/2017 23:16

Amy and Emma purely because I know one of each and they were nasty and I can't see the names now without thinking of those two.
Lewis and Connor never met a likeable or well behaved one.

FamilySpartan · 13/04/2017 23:22

Alexa. We were going to call our daughter this but, thanks to Amazon, we need to find a different name.

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 13/04/2017 23:41

@lorelai thank you! Smile

RhodaBorrocks · 14/04/2017 00:45

I also knew a Patience who was gruff, intolerant & VERY impatient

Wondering if we know the same one... Wink

Alexa. We were going to call our daughter this but, thanks to Amazon, we need to find a different name

A friend called her daughter Alexa only months before the Echo came out. She bought one (why?) and now frequently posts on fb about how one or the other Alexa is confused by her requests.

I liked Lola but when I mentioned it to people they started singing the song and I thought I couldn't let my child go through life having a song about a transsexual being sung at them (I was also named after a song and still periodically have it sung at me, even though it's over 50 years old, and over 15 years older than me!).

My DM discounted several names for me because they rhymed with my last name. I love them all and they would have been great if I'd decided to be famous (especially the one that alliterated as well). Yet I discounted a potential name because it rhymed with XP's surname (I wasn't going to take XP's surname for the same reason - my name rhymed with it!).

Other names have been rejected simply because they were associated with people I didn't like. Funnily enough though, other names mentioned on this thread I've liked because I've only ever known nice people with those names (cf. James -
all funny and charming; and Lucy - never met one who isn't a total sweetheart).

AbernathysFringe · 14/04/2017 01:13

Mary Jane was on the short list until we realised... marijuana.

Zoe because of a bitch at school.

Every Sally I've known as an adult has been very unpleasant.

TheSeaPriestess · 14/04/2017 01:18

I loved Huxley, was desperate to call my DS that - till my sister said it just made her think of Huxley Pig. I had never even heard of it but couldn't think of it without adding pig in my head after. Hmm

loverofbadtv · 14/04/2017 01:19

Alexa but amazon and i thought if she had dyslexia that would be awkward!

SlicesMissus · 14/04/2017 01:30

My Irish uncle said the same exact thing when my cousin and his wife were considering the name Siobhan!

Oliversmumsarmy · 14/04/2017 01:58

Another one for Lola who can't not think.of the song.

Alice/Alison and Emily because everyone with that name has been a real bitch to me

Martin because everyone I have come across has been a complete idiot.

My own name which my mother said it sounded French when she named me but lost something when screamed at the top of her lungs in a thick northern accent to come in for tea.
It is also one of those names which even on here is universally hated

ScarletSienna · 14/04/2017 02:15

I've taught for a while now and am not put off any names by who I've taught-it would have put potentially hundreds out of bounds. It's the opposite of how lots seem to feel!

I love the name Nicholas but someone pointed out how it sounds like 'knickerless' and now I can't get that out of my head. I liked 'Aoife' and 'Anouk' until my husband replied with, 'E for enormous' and 'A nook and cranny'. Like others have said, I'd avoid names with 'th' in as I hate it when the 'th' is pronounced as 'f'.

Ralph (US pn) forever ruined by Judy Blume.

BlueChairs · 14/04/2017 02:21

@Catherinebee85 ... rude

Cwandri · 14/04/2017 02:27

Veronica. Never did like that name growing up. I know a lovely Veronica now though. It still makes me think of Veruccas though.

Shardaisy123 · 14/04/2017 07:21

We were gonna call daughter Lotte but I don't always pronounce my Ts properly if they're in the middle of a word so didn't wanna be that common sounding mum at park! 😂 Also Barry, because just why?

Hepzibar · 14/04/2017 08:56

Agree with names not matching owners.

Joy. Only known 2 and they were/ are as miserable as sin.

Me and my friend used to say the Joy in our class should've been called Misery Guts.

She's probably added our names to this thread as 2 bitches she knew in school.

HolditFinger · 14/04/2017 09:18

Willow. This was suggested to me loads of times until I pointed out it wouldn't work with our surname (think along the lines of Williams.) Though at least it's not Bush or something Grin

Lyra. Was dead set on this until someone said Lyra Lyra pants on fyra. I couldn't say it without chuckling.

SuperBeagle · 14/04/2017 09:22

Hepzibar The only Joy I know is a right miserable sod too!

Tiredallthetimelaura · 14/04/2017 11:07

I have always wanted to call my girl Isla. I mean, even as a child, that was the name I picked it out. Yep, if I ever have a girl, she'll be called Isla! That was until I met my husband. We met, fell in love, got married and had 3 beautiful children. 2 boys, 1 girl. I didn't name our daughter Isla, why? Because the man I married, his surname and now my surname is Mann. Work it out people! X

goose1964 · 14/04/2017 11:21

I always thought it was Richard the third

Whingewine · 14/04/2017 12:39

Ryan. Love the actor but the co worker Ryan decided to tell everyone at work (I hadn't announced I was pregnant due to fertility issues) I had lost my baby which was why I was off. I hadn't just a severe bladder infection at 18weeks. Unfortunately for him I was the catering chef for the company. He didn't get fed lol

SashaSashays · 14/04/2017 13:05

Sebastian, not just because the few I've known have been out and out shits but because their parents were always even worse!