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.

Short form names where it's the full name. Ie Beth instead of Elisabeth etc

(It's fine if someone is known as a shorter version of their full name - can't explain why that doesn't bother me)

Hey Mawgan is Cornish not made up!!!

Boys names ending I'm -ie, Archie, Alfie, Albie, Reggie, Ronnie, Bobby, unless nicknames with a full name on birth certificate. Similar with girls names, Millie, Rosie, Poppy, Ellie.

Double barrelled first names, unless you're French.

Names that are surname-esque. Fletcher, Mason, Jackson, Hunter etc.

Eva, Evie, Evangeline

Dexter

Archie

Finn

Aubrey

Nova

I agreed about bland names that are so dull from overuse:

Emily Amelia Amelie Olivia

Oliver Charlie Theo Harry

Elizabeth. Terrible, harsh, clunky name.

Names like Seracina, Ottilie or Ophelia are often suggested on here but I think they're hideous.

Beatrix and Beatrice. Such ugly names.

Anything really popular starts becoming a random sound rather than a name.

There's a baby at my nursery called River poor girl. It just doesn't sound nice to me at all.

Arlo became popular after the good dinosaur came out. I'm sure that's where people have got it from.

Aurora and Arlo. I really, really cannot stand them, they just don’t sound right to me!

All of the Aurora’s and Arlo’s I’ve met have been lovely children though. Its just my personal taste.

@Frith2013 when choosing a boy name the first place we went for inspiration was Rev w awdry’s trains

Luna

Anything with a Yoonike spelling to prove how --twattish— cool the parents are.
Currently know an Emilie a Summa (British parents - I did wonder if it was a foreign name) and Kayte.

Strikethough fail

Popular 80s names coming back
Not my taste at all

Rupert
Logan
Phoenix
Olivia

Names with two flowers in a row! Which flower are you calling her after? Is she a lily or is she a rose?! Identity crisis! 😂🙈 I think I really overreact to this and usually I really like the names individually, but just dislike two together of the likes of Daisy/Lily/Rose/Ivy/Iris etc.

Also not a fan of a name that becomes a really specific description when the first and middle are said together. Think Winter Rose or Autumn Rain or Summer Daisy or whatever. Again, often I like the individual components of the name; it's the combination that irks me!

Apologies if this offends anyone - I do think I have a overly strong reaction to these names and it's just my opinion, not fact! As the thread says, it's names I don't get the hype for when people love them - very much just my taste!

I don't like names like Maisie, Phoebe, Poppy, Daisy, Evie. Just too cutesy too me, cute on little girls yeah but not so much when they're older

Willow
Ruby
Poppy

All just awful.

Willow
Margot
Elsie

All the Old Testament Prophet names for boys
Anything where the spelling has been altered to make it yoooneek.

Marnie.

It's awful. A mixture of moany, sarnie, barmy and mardy.

Margot
Freya
Olivia
Alice
Rory
Reggie
Wilf

Arlo 🙈

Great thread idea!

Agree with lots on here - especially the ....den names and double barrel names (especially with May/mae or flowers). I also hate the name Raine

Lots of the names I really like are on here too 😂