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.

Kai. Klay. Kit. Coleen Rooney is the main culprit. It's like she is trying to punish her kids for taking over her body for nine months.

Grayson
Lawson
Etc

I think these names will be the next Kayden, Jayden names.

Grayson will only ever be Larry Grayson to me!

Names ending in -son that sounds like surnames as well.

Harrison
Bronson
Maddison
Jackson
Jenson
Bryson

Clementine ...urgh! Especially with the nick name Clemmie.
Clara...so ugly. Claire is much nicer
Greta/ Martha/Ethel. Ugly sounds

Surnames as first names seem to be popular these days and I think they are horrible:

Harrison
Parker
Piper
Hunter

Margot is dreadful. And I'm still not convinced that Ottilie is a real name rather than some MN in joke.

Ah sorry @zvjezdica it was me who said I don’t like Arietty, I actually think Arietta is much nicer - it’s the ‘etty’ sound that I’m not keen on. Interestingly the morning after I posted that I met a cute little Arietty and I didn’t think twice about it - it’s just her name, I wouldn’t choose it but I could tell little Arietty’s mother didn’t think much of my daughter’s name either

Popular names round my way are

Lexi
Lacey
Mason
Harrison

All absolutely horrific imo.

Proud mother of a Wynter Rose- I hit double mumsnet points with the younique spelling and flower middle name. It’s not hyphenated so I don’t get a full house.
I really dislike the names Harper and Stanley. Dd1 had a kid called Cherish in her class which I just loathe

Grace - sounds like Grease

Noah - such a drippy, wet blanket name

Anything with a hyphen that ends in Mae

I've never understood why someone would pick something super popular anyway. I love Isabella but wouldn't use it because it's a bit overdone. I wouldn't want my daughter being one of five Isabella's in her class.

Alice .. unbearably twee

All 3 of mine have been mentioned now 😂 damnit, I was doing so well until page 10!

I don’t get the sudden popularity in -ie names, particularly for boys.

Ronny, Frankie, Archie, Vinnie, Alfie, Albie, Sonny

Ottilie is a real name. It's the name of a character in a Goethe novel. Apparently it's a Germanic version of the French Odile (or vice versa). Hardly anyone in Germany is calling their dd it, even though old lady chic is just as big a thing there as in the UK and there are loads of little Friedas, Lottes and so on. I don't actually mind it as a name, I'm just incredibly surprised that it seems to have caught on in at least a small way in the UK.

Cherish is awful. Bad enough before but now reminds me of that goddawful woman on Professional Bake Off!

And this thread runs on. Sad that this is what Mumsnet is these days.

Any fashionable, cool name ie Jaxon, Parker etc.

Seen a few True's (who were born pre True Kardashian). It's child cruelty!

Anything double barrelled too!

My DS is at a boys' school with 1,500 pupils. There isn't a single Hayden, Cayden, etc. Neither is there a Jaxon, Parker, Hunter, etc, as surnames-as-first-names doesn't seem to be a Thing there.

DD is at a girls' school, and there are no Whatsit-Maes either. Thank God.

I keep seeing Willow on MN. Just why? Likewise Sadie, Wren, Ottilie. The latter is nice, but is now evidently common.

Janderson Ottilie is far from ‘common’ disliked maybe but it’s ranked at 226th. Unless you are using common in a different context.

My DS is at a boys' school with 1,500 pupils. There isn't a single Hayden, Cayden, etc. Neither is there a Jaxon, Parker, Hunter, etc, as surnames-as-first-names doesn't seem to be a Thing there.

Do you know every single pupil’s name in a school of 1500 kids? I find that quite hard to believe. My son is in a school the same size and I don’t even know the names of everyone in his year, far less the whole school

Hate old names such as:-
Margaret, Beryl, Betty, Ethel, Maud, Violet, Ivy, Beatrice, Beatrix, Francis, Norah, Florence,

Stanley, Ernest, William, George, Harry, Henry, Amos, Alfred, Gerald, Oliver, Percy, Walter

Also hate ‘cute’ names:-
Daisy, Poppy, Lucy, Rosie

Alfie, Frankie, Archie, Tommy

And anything double barrel:-
Daisy-May, Ellie-May, Sophie-Jo

Tommy-Leigh, Theo-Ben, Ellis-Lee

Honestly, I couldn’t imagine being in a board room calling for Daisy-May🤦‍♀️

@LatteLove I know - it seems impossible (and I know the names of a relatively small handful of girls at my DDs' schools). However, there is a list published at the start of every year by my DS's school, which is a good read.

And, sorry, I mean common as in 'occurs frequently', not as in the way my Gran would have meant it!

Logan. Never heard it before and now know at least 3!

I'm not a fan of Logan either. Or Lachlan!

Well at least two of those names aren’t names at all when you remove the ‘den’ part!