Wondering why this name isn't more popular?!

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Maxine.

Given the popularity of Max names for boys, and boys names for girls. Maxine nn Max seems unbearably cool; does nobody else agree?!

Maxine Carr.

So whilst I would never call my child Maxine (or Ian or Myra), I think there's a next generation who literally don't associate

Sorry, slightly off topic, but there was a girl in the year above me at school called Myra. She’d have been born in 1967, shortly after the Moors murders were huge and horrifying news. Most people would have listened/watched the news with horror, but there were her parents thinking “Myra... that’s a pretty name”. Or something.

LadyGAgain Eek. Both lovely names but when said together I bet 99% of people will think ‘West.’ Hope they don’t google their names together.

Yes Maxine Carr but I like it anyway. Maxine Carr will mean nothing to a baby Maxine's contemporaries.

Knew too many growing up & never knew one who was particularly nice

I thought of Maxine Peake, who is awesome. I'd more or less forgotten about Maxine Carr, and wouldn't expect anyone born within the last 20 years to make that association either.

Re names associated with murderers, I think it's more to do with how common the name was in the first place rather than the sex of that person. Ian, Peter, Harold, Steve etc - all very common male names which are associated with many famous men other than the murderers. Similarly, nobody seems to have been put off Mary, Beverley, or Rose because of their associations with some quite notorious killers. But I can't think of a single famous Myra apart from Hindley because even back in the 50s and 60s it was an unusual name and obviously few people wanted to use it after that.

Sounds like a bully from my grim 80s primary school days.

I suspect it may make a comeback due to Stranger Things and the fact that most people under 25 may not immediately know who Maxine Carr is

I like it btw!

For me I just feel like it would be a typical name screamed out on Eastenders.

"MAX-EEEEEEENNN!!!"

I think it sounds rough.

It's a shame that most people seem to dislike it because I think it sounds really fresh and unexpected in a good way!

I think it's an ugly name.