Best and worst names...

[Lanie233]

Well I'm off work, in bed and all this royal stuff has got me thinking. Entertain me... what are your most and least favourite names?

I've always loved Emma and Oscar. I like Rowan for a boy too if we're talking a little more modern.

I can't stand double barrelled names such as Ellie-May, Lexi-Grace, Demi-Rae, Tayah-Mae etc.

Thoughts?

OP post edited by MNHQ

I love Brooke for a girl. For a boy, Jesse. But my favourite names change all the time!

Probably be better if we just offered our favourite names OP, save upsetting others.
Rosanna
Harriet
Tess
Kathryn
Daniel
Dylan
Lots, lots more. Emma is lovely !

Nice

I still love the names I gave my DC's but also love Alaric and Arthur for a boy and Clementine and Matilda for a girl.

Oh I hate these threads. Everyone likes different things, what you dislike, someone else loves and vice versa

It doesn't matter truffle we're all allowed to dislike things, if everybody agreed life would be boring, it's nothing to be offended over 😊

I agree completely. It would be super boring if we all did like the same thing!

But I just think picking children’s names that you like and dislike (mainly the dislike bit) is a bit personal and it always ends up with people offended which just seems unnecessary that’s all

For Girls I love Daphne, Violet, Rosalind, Ivy and Emmeline. (all with Wren as a middle name)
I don't like (but DH loves) Jessica, Danielle, Kimberley etc.

For Boys, I love James (Jim), Jacob and Samuel
I don't like (but again, DH loves) Jack, Harry and Michael.

For a boy I love Leo, Isaac, Oscar, Lucas and Hayden.

I dislike Reece and Caiden

For a girl I love Olivia, Ava, Sara and Maya

I dislike Grace, Jodie and Neveah.

I dislike most names with awkward spellings though

I love Leo! Unfortunately I would never be able to pick it though as it would bring back a whole load of piss taking for my teenage obsession with Mr DiCaprio (I'm 33 and still can't live it down!)

I like Emma, Clara, Caspar, Quentin and lots more!

I dislike cutesy names Alfie, Archie, Evie, Poppy etc

But thankfully we all have different tastes!

I dislike judgements on whether names are Chav or not. Horrible term

Hi OP,

We've just edited your OP post to remove 'chav' as we don't think it's really in the spirit.

Favorites.... (apart from my chosen name which I'm keeping of mn till I've had her!)

Kaia
Soraya
Pandora
Kala
Marley
Cleo

Nakoah (what I'll name my son if I ever have one)
Aurelius
Tyro
Samuel (my darling brothers name)
Issac
Caleb (my nephew!)
Ezra
Eli/Elijah

Very bored of/don't like names like...

Greta
Chantel
Mason
Arlo
Kale 😂

Generally very popular names bore me...

See so many names on here like

Alexander
Olivia/Oliver
Amelia
Victoria

Yawn yawn yawn....

Can't bare people being unimaginative and trying to bring back old names like Peter and Colin!!

Sorry, but Kale? Really?

The worst name I’ve ever heard is Starlette

Actually Starlette sounds quite pretty, a little Star. I prefer it to Scarlett, which reminds me of a scar.

@longtallwalker I know! Notice it's in my list of names I don't like! Luckily it's not a common name but it is really the choice for some

I suppose Kale is a nice name when you don't know about the vegetable...

Starlette sounds like a sanitary product or female contraceptive

I have soooo many favourite names that I can never think where to start. Some are:

Arabella, Amberley, Avery, Araminta, Aubrey, Amy, Astrid, Aphra, Aria, Bronte, Cassidy, Cassandra, Calypso, Christabel, Devon, Erin, Eden, Felicity, Francesca, Fallon, Grace, Georgina, Hannah, Jessamy, Jessica, Kiran, Kayleigh, Lyra, Lara, Mala, Mila, Mika, Natasha, Piper, Rhiannyd, Robyn, Saffron, Savannah, Talitha, Verity, Vanessa, Xanthe, Zara, Zerryn

Alexander, Aidan, Aaron, Callum, Devon, Felix, Harrison, Harry, Isaac, Inigo, Jack, Jacob, Joachim, Jolyon, Morgan, Nicholas, Noah, Patrick, Robin, Rowan, Xavier, Zachary

There's very few names that I really can't stand:

Agatha, Gertrude, Maggie, Nelly, Kelly, Winifred

Gary, Horace, Nigel

Do you guys like the name lana? Because when I read it on a website it said that it was a bad fit because the. Name. Backwards is something not appropriate and I’d like to mention that it said lana and not the other

I hate the name Euan/Ewan. I properly detest it and I'm not sure why! 😂

I also dislike anything that sounds like an old man or old lady name.

I'm really hard to please though. I have two daughters and I've completely gone off their names too 🤦🏽‍♀️

Really don’t like Caleb or Ethan
Girls Nevaeh Olivia