Names you dislike/don't get?

[Ghostwriter90]

There are some names like Connie and Matilda.... Popular ones that I hate and just don't get.
Any names that are popular you just don't get?!

3 of my 4 dcs names have been listed!

Quentin - just why would you inflict that on a child?!

My sons name isn't here, actually never seen it on any Mumsnet post

Sidney and all variations sounds HORRID.

I really really hate Paul, Pauline & Paula. They just look so ugly written down.

Ruth may not be an objectively 'nice' name but I know about 5 and they are all truly lovely women. I don't think unpleasant Ruths exist, so on that basis the name feels nice to me.

Does anyone read The Unmumsy Mum ? "Fucking Ruth" 😂

I don't get the love for Arthur, Archie or Freddie type names.
Old man and Nick namey
Reminds me of Old Spice.

Ruth is plain and sensible but that's not to say Ruths are plain and/or sensible.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Dr Ruth the sexpert
Ruth Rendell

All quite formidable and impressive Ruths. I'm not sure there's ever been a glamorous Ruth?

I remember a line from Friends where Ross suggests Ruth as a name for their baby and Rachel says something like 'No. We're not having a 90 year old'

Oh wait, there's Ruth Negga. She's really bringing a bit of glam to the Ruth contingent.

Willow. I can't understand why someone would name their child that, nor do I understand why people always fawn over the name when anyone else uses it.

Arthur
Teddy/Ted
Oliver
Rory
Harry

Margot
Olivia
Freya
Megan

Also the name Samuel/Sam. So unimaginative and like they can't think what to name their son so they just use that name.

@howtotrainyourdragqueen
Mila is pronounced 'meela' and not 'myla' anyway. So whoever you know is pronouncing it right whether you like it or not

Also, I love your user name

I like almost all of chocolatelog’s list!

Over recent years, I’ve become less and less uptight about names and whether they’re ‘made up’ or not etc. However, old man style names I really dislike still!

@RuthW I think Ruth is a good name. As is Florence! I know one, and she's gorgeous.

@piratehooker I could have written this list myself - my names on it! Just so dull and common. You end up in a class of children having Laura S, Laura H, Laura M etc.

Similarly boa names I hate include Daniel, James, Matthew.

Also hate the modern ones like Cayden and Chase.

And also stupidly names siblings. I know 2 brothers called Callum and Cameron. ITS BASICALLY THE SAME NAME!

I can't stand Alice, I just see the word "Lice" every time.

I'm feeling the love for Jane, Catherine and Mary these days. I feel like I've been flower bombed by pretty floral names for too long. I'm even feeling Anne a bit.

Georgia
Phoebe
Eloise
Darcey
Mila
Amelia
Maddie
Poppy
Erin
Elodie
India
Clara
Piper
Jessica
Nancy
Ottilie

Dexter
Elliot
Finley
Jaxon
Louis
Logan
Milo
Oliver
Parker
Rowan
Roman
Stanley
Rufus
Rory
Toby
Theo

Agree with a number of pp.

Anything that's a nickname as a full name - Alfie, Archie, Teddy, Albie, Tommy, plus names like Poppy.
Hyphenated anything.
Surnames as names.

My DS has a boring, top ten name that is never misspelt or mispronounced, will be timeless and see him through his whole life. It suits him too.

Boring names like
Jennifer
Jessica
Edward
Sarah

Ugly names
Edith
Ethel
Brian
Colin
Malcolm
Margot
Archie
Eric
Ruth

All chav names
All names with questionably spelling
All -Mae -Rae etc

I don't like nicknames as full names, surnames as first names, names with invented spellings or hyphens, long and ridiculously ornate names and excessive extra frills on the end of classic, beautiful names to make them more frufru. Also improper nouns (rebel, apple, river) as names where the namers don't come from a culture where that's traditional.

I always wonder WTF parents were thinking if they give their child names with well known sinister or tragic associations (flowers associated with death, rememberence of mass slaughter and funerals, incredibly well known classic literary characters who murdered their siblings...)

However I love some of the names some people on this thread hate, there's clearly no point worrying about what people with a totally different set of criteria think!

I named one of my children a name I hate because it meant something to their dad. It's grown on me now and I couldn't see them as anything else but I'm still not a fan.

Funnily out of my three dcs names his hasn't come up once on this thread.

Imogen and James just sound whiny and pretentious to me. I have no idea why they do though.

Evelyn -is awful, old, dull and grim
Every pronunciation, way of spelling it doesn't help.
It's an ugly old lady name. Dated and terrible
Imo