Names you dislike/don't get?

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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?!

@Mrssnowflake Brilliant! My stepsisters are called Sara and Nicola and their daughters are called Amelia and Olivia 😂😂😂

Siobhan and Bernadette. And lots of other Catholic Irish names.

Arlo around here (in the sticks, Middle England) isn't remotely hipster, it's bog-standard lower-middle class. Little Arlos have Louis and George and Amelia as older siblings.

fiddle ooo I’m interested what are her sisters called (I’m well awareness I could probably google for myself) 🤷🏻‍♀️😆

I hate Hannah. I don't know why, it just makes my teeth grind. And Kayleigh.

Jack - so, so dull.

Anna - as above.

Both smack of “couldn’t be bothered to give it any thought”.

@NorthernRunner, Thomasina and Horatia. Not to my taste.

Oh crickey no not my taste either

Brian. Especially if he’s married to a Barbara

Chelsea, Kylie, Michaela, Tyler, Bethany. I suppose I just don't like the sound.

& Nevaeh makes me want to scream

& super-bland men's names eg John, Kevin, Graham, Brian

Fiddle, I put a full stop after etc. I didn't mean neveah to be in the old fashioned category!

Eg Genevieve nn Ivy, just call your child Ivy ffs

I hate this too. There are always suggestions like that on MN. I find it so pretentious. A child’s nn to me seems like something that should happen organically not planned well in advance of their birth.

Hyphenated and American names too, they just sound awful. Otherwise I don’t really mind, I am indifferent to many of the names on this thread. I don’t mind the traditionally ‘posher’ sounding names in principle but the more extreme names like Hugo just don’t sit right on children not from that background. It isn’t a criticism of class, I am in no way posh enough to call my child Hugo either.

Isabel or Ella or Emilia or Emily or Lily are just so boring. A few years ago everyone was calling their baby girl Isabel, for some reason I always associate the name Isabel with having a horrible cold. Kayden and Jayden are the new Kevins.

I’d love to know which names turn up frequently in the Courts.

Elle is a weird one for anyone who did any French at school at all to choose - je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous - surely everyone thinks "that isn't a name, it just means she (or it for a feminine noun" ... Ella is a bit better, but why Elle?

Ezra. Just an irrational dislike.

blueskiesovertheforest I think Donna also means she (or her?) in another language (Italian?)

HighestMountains I think it means woman in Italian, I didn't even think of Donna, I haven't heard that name in ages, but I knew one as a child!

Surnames for first names...just don't get it. Cooper, Harrison, Taylor and so on. Sounds really impersonal to me, sorry.

Made up names - saw someone on Jeremy Kyle call their child Shanica or something along those lines. Poor kid has to live with that bullshit just because you wanted to be different

Wow 193 comments and still none of my children's names are on here. Yet I see a lot of threads that eliminate one of my daughters names a lot so just waiting for it to pop up 🙈😂

Ah I see, @fantasmasgoria1! I think I need to find my specs, your isn't the first post I've misread!

Brian. Especially if he’s married to a Barbara

Why am I sensing a backstory here!

Couple names that make me shudder is 'Pat and Angela'. Run away if you encounter a Pat with an Angela. Solo they may be okay!

I love Connie and Matilda!

Really dislike Luna, Wren, Willow. Just don't like the way they sound.

Any name that tells you what decade they were born.
Old people names.
Agree re Ruth sounding hard.
Specifically Thomas - turns my stomach - but love Tom. Also William but love Will.

I had no idea my dc's names would be so disliked!
For me, drippy names like
Millie, Molly, Poppy, Floppy, Drippy...
And Tabitha

I've never understood the whole "we'll spell it wrong and call it unique" thing. All I see is a spelling mistake.

Anything cutesy that I can't picture on an adult. I know there are adults with these names, I just can't come to grips with it.
Daisy, Poppy, Ruby, Millie, Dottie, Lottie
Albie, Teddy, Alfie, Archie, Ollie, Bertie

Also, Louis and Josephine. I don't know why.