Names you just don’t understand the hype for?

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(Thread isn’t meant to offend anyone - MN hates my Dd and Ds names anyway!)

For me it would have to be Cordelia and Juniper.

What 'hype' is there for Cordelia?

But if you mean fashionable names then I'd say cutesy names like
Archie
Alfie
Evie
Elsie

Anything too old man/ old lady. E.g.
Albie/ Bertie/ Albert
Stanley/Stan
Reggie
Mabel
Ethel
Agnes

I'm also not keen on names that hyphenate with May/Mae e.g. Ellie-May, Mollie-Mae, Lily-May, etc.

Rufus - always a dogs name to me

Archie/Alfie/Albie
Willy/Billy
Izzy/Evie/Ellie

Cordelia is beautiful.

Never met a Juniper.

I'm always surprised at how popular boys' names-that-sound-like-surnames are, especially with unusual spellings, e.g. Jaxon. In my social circle, the boys' names that seem super popular that I just don't get are Hugo, Oscar and Arlo. Nothing wrong with any of them, all perfectly respectable names, but it puzzles me that they're SO popular.

Teddy

Kai

Vincent/Vinnie - I see sleazy 70's car dealer in a sheepskin coat and with a medallion ring.

I don’t think it’s as common now but a while ago every other girls name seemed to have a random ‘Mae’ attached to it - Amelia-Mae, Sienna-Mae, Ruby-Mae, ruining a name that would be perfectly nice by itself. Having said that, Mae on its own would be a nice name - no doubt someone would want to turn it into Mae-Mae though.

Willy

Anything that’s purposeful spelt differently (incorrectly) to make it more special or ‘younique’.The name still sounds the same! Why?

Evie and Evelyn I just don't like those names.

Aurora. Met a few when my son was born. I bloody hate it.

Josh
Ryan
Millie
Mia
Tia
Sophia/Sophie
Ella/Ellie
Jack/Harry

Amelia. Completely fail to see how it’s become so popular!

Alfie
Reggie
Stanly
Frank
Albie

Amelia for definite, and any girls name with a -mae added on. Boys names I don't get that are a few of round me are Ezra and Reggie

The awful obsession with adding 'den' to the end of a name-

Jayden
Kayden
Hayden
Cayden

Hate hate hate them!

Agree with Cordelia and Juniper. Genevieve and Juliet I am not keen on and I see them everyday on these threads.
Also agree with Reggie its not my cup of tea

It isn't that I think these names are awful but I just don't get why they are so popular

Amelia
Margot (really can't understand this one)
Archie
Alfie

Arlo. Three years ago I'd never heard of the name. Now it's everywhere! I don't dislike it, but I have no idea how it's become so popular so suddenly.

Oliver
Olivia

Totally agree with the Jayden/kayden!

I can't bear them, along with Kai and then names which are spelt in a dumb way eg Jaxon or Mawgan.