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.

Florence and Finley

I don't get the love for Aria, at all. But it is becoming quite popular here.

Alissa and it’s variations. Dd had 4 Alissas in her year all pronounced slightly differently, drove me nuts.
Ds1’s name has been mentioned several times .
We all have different tastes and that’s a good thing.

Noah sounds like a long whiny No. I don't like the sound at all.

Well mine and my 5 children's names haven't been mentioned yet

Noah is nice but as Lavenderblues posted it does sound like a long No.

I don't get the hype for Theodore. Theo I get, but not Theodore.
Long names like Raphael, Sebastian, Gabriel, Dominic.
Long frilly names for girls - Amelia, Aurora, , Anastasia, Liliana etc.
Names that are nice if you only know one or two of them but are so popular that they become a bit dull. Olivia, Matilda, Isla, Isabel(le) and Freya etc.
Names that are nice is their native language but not in English. e.g. Amelie, Elodie, Genevieve, Welsh or Irish names.
The short samey names for girls Eva, Ellie, Maia, Lily and the names like them.
Names that make me think of Corrie - Ivy, Audrey, Elsie, Ida, Violet.
Surnames as first names especially occupation ones.
Unisex names like Riley.
Old testament names that aren't always in fashion like Levi, Micah, Elijah...
Darcey/Darcie

I love this thread because when people talk about names they like it’s always the same few that come up but there’s a lot of variation today!

Names that I’m not keen on are names like Beau for a girl. I don’t like it for a boy either but it’s a boy’s name. I actually know of a little girl called Beaux and that just upsets me beyond belief.
Similarly the name Aubrey, I do actually like it but it’s a male name and I just don’t think people realise.
Then there’s names such as Rufus and Otis etc, we were at the beach a while ago and there was a big group including children and dogs and you had no idea which were being called.
I’ve never particularly liked the name Oliver, Olivia is fine though but like PPs have said, I don’t know why it’s so so special that everyone is using those names now!

Forgot nicknamey names like Archie, Alfie, Albie.
One or two of them and I would think Ooh that's unusual, but when every boy/girl/dog dog seems to have the name...
Aspirational names - once you've heard it called out in Asda you know it's filtered down.

Anything with -Mae/Mai/May or -Grace attached.

Hate anything with -Lee/Leigh attached to it too.
Also hate Jayden/Kaiden/Brayden/Marley/Harley/Riley/Jackson/Jaxon, Logan.

Gross.

Amelia. It makes me think of the medical condition & meal worms.

Posie
Margot
Everly
Niamh
Reuben
Raphael
Also the-
Kayden/Jayden and all that malarchy.
As well as Amelie/Amelia/Emilie/Emelia tosh.

I really don’t understand Margot. I have an auntie Margo and it just reminds me of her.

Beau and Bella- I just cringe a bit at saddling a plain looking child with a name that shouts about their outstanding beauty. And Beau for a girl has the added bonus of being completely uneducated too.
Grace, Rose and May as middle names. Grace and Rose are nice enough but so overused it's one big cliche. I genuinely think the parents have no idea at all how standard and common these names are.
All American surname names- especially anything for a girl which ends in ..."son". Why??? Special dislike of Jackson and Jenson.
Agree that Aurora looks nice written but sounds awful.
Also the exploding trend for Sophia/Sofia when Sophie is a much, much nicer and more elegant version.

Another one not keen on using surnames as first names such as; Parker, Jaxon/Jackson etc

Also not keen on the names Major and Prince (the former being very popular in the USA).

Anything with ‘den’ at the end too 😏.

Margot
Edith
Jean
Margaret
Theodore
Juniper
Elsie

I can't stand Aviary - I know someone who named their child that and all I could think was... isn't that a name for a bird cage?!

Teddie, Alfie, Archie, Albie, Billie, Freddie, Wiflie, Laurie etc

Parents didn't use to give their boys such cutesy twee nicknames (it was more Steve or Mike)I wonder if a lot of these boys prefer a less cute name as they grow up?

I don't dislike it particularly but there seems to have been a huge spike in babies named Cassia recently (I know three now) and I'd never heard it before.

I'm not sure if maybe there's a character in something fairly recently and it's caught people's eye? As I say I don't dislike it but I think it's really interesting when a name spikes for a mystery reason.

It happened with Ava a few years ago too, similarly a nice name but can't think why the sudden increase. I guess just snowball effect when people hear it a few times.

It's funny my friend called her little one Sophie recently and we were all almost surprised at a name popular in our own generation (early 30s) during school as we've gotten so used to out there ones! It's a lovely name I think.

Katie, Caroline, Hannah and Nicola were probably the most popular names in my year at school but haven't heard of any school aged kids with them now.

Ooh and Louise - nobody seems to use that now but it was the middle name of about 50% of our school in the 90s!

Amelia. Just dont like it and have no idea how it's so popular.

My pet is called Juniper

Issac
Teddy
Archie

Virtue names - Chastity, Charity etc.

All the old man names that seem to be about - Stanley, Sidney, Teddy, Albert etc.

Jewel names I am also a bit sick of, sooo many Ruby's about.

Well, my DD’s name has been mentioned A LOT, but only for a boy, so I’m going to pretend that’s a win.

'Regional' names when there is no association / family link. I knew a Jowan, it's a Cornish name and I quite like it but I wouldn't use it if my child had no connection to Cornwall.

Ooh and Louise - nobody seems to use that now but it was the middle name of about 50% of our school in the 90s!

In the 1960s it was virtually the law for girls to have Louise as a second name and for boys Simon and or David. I blame Roger Moore's portrayal of 'the saint' for Simon.

I too don't get the use of a diminutive as a 'full' name, if your little Katie fancies a change there's not a lot you can do, at least if you give her Katherine she has other options.