What name would you never use? There has to be a good reason! Ie school enemies/murderers/funny connotations!

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What name would you never use for your child?
It could be that there are connotations or reminders of others.

Alastair - I love the name but I used to know someone called Alastair and he committed suicide

Janice - never met a nice one (I'm sure there must be some out there)

Potato because its a vegetable

Maggie (Thatcher) apols to all the lovely Maggies (I even know some)

Rose if surname was West (I know one)

Adolph, Attila, and any other unusual names belonging to mass killers. Joseph (Stalin) is fine tho, as it's so popular anyway.

Clive - that's to do with two former bosses who were not very nice.

Margaret (Beaufort plus an elderly aunt)
Ricki and Kelly (school bullies)
Micheal dropped me on my head in P3 (concussion)
Stanley (never trust a Stanley!)

Hispanics use the names Jesus.
I just find that strange

Donald is definitely ruined now. And to think, once upon a time all we thought of was an innocent cartoon duck...

Rose (west)
Myra (hindley)

I'll second Janice

But because of friends

Also penny

Partly because some people use it to describe their lady parts and it's the coins everyone ends up left with Too many of and feeding into the change machine and I hate the smell of coppers.

Also TBBT character has taken it forever

Equally a noonie, Fanny, willy etc.

I know both a Fanny and a Willy both very pleasant older ppl. Alana was my bully in primary school so I wouldn’t touch the name but as others have said, shame as these names are often pretty!

Hannah made my life at secondary school almost unbearable and Natasha once hit me with a hockey stick. I also would never use the name Grant as I had a truly awful, lecherous, arrogant boss with that name many years ago.

Dale, as a teacher I had a real horror, some unpleasant Lee’s too.
Girls I can’t think of any real bugbears beyond Myra even though I had a dear friend with that name it will be forever Hindley to me.

Biblical names. I am not religious and wouldn't give my child a name from the bible.

Rhian sounds like 'nothing' in French (rien).
Amelia sounds like mealy worms.

I went to school with an Adolfo. Even now, I think it's a very strange name choice in light of Hitler.

Couldn't have an Ivan in Australia.

I think naming your child after any political figure is a bad idea. Something ubiquitous like Margaret is fine, but Reagan or Whitlam or Thatcher is a heavy burden, regardless of your political leanings.

Joanne. I've known 3 and all of them were slappers

Brandon, met a couple of very dodgy ones.

Sylvia - caused a friend to fall of a climbing frame and break her arm in infant school

Sarah - all the Sarah's I've known have been busybodies

Rachel-nicked my boyfriend!

Craig

He picked his nose and wiped it on my leg in primary school.

Theodore. An absolute bastard.

Lucy. Never met a nice one.
Sidney/Sydney sounds HORRIBLE to me.
Caroline and Clara. Really neurotic weird women I've worked with.
I cringe every time I see one of those names on mn!

@CheeseTheDay I never knew that! DH and I have liked the name Amelie since before kids were even on the cards. We fell pregnant but DH's sister had her little girl a few months before us and called her Amelia, so we figured, much to my disappointment, that Amelie was out. Secretly (i know it's horrible) but your post has made it a little better. Plus the fact we found another name that we love 😊