"Wet" names?

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Quite often I see people on here describing names as "wet". Sorry if I'm being stupid, but what is that supposed to mean?

Sebastian

Lucy

Funny how associations work. Arlo makes me think of Arlo Guthrie, then via Woody Guthrie to hard-as-nails depression-era fieldworkers against a backdrop of Guthrie singing 'This land is my land' So quite the opposite of wet!

What's wet about Arlo? I really like it!

Alice
Lucy
Milicent
Sandra

I'm impressed one of my son's names hasn't been mentioned yet, he usually gets on the 'wet names list' 😂

I love Arlo. I'd totally have called DS Arlo but I just didn't think of it at the relevant time! Lucky that I quite like his actual name too

Timmy
Herbert

Drippy types... lacking in opinion or general oomph in life if that makes sense... certainly useless in a fight.

I think I find Arlo wet because it’s just such a soft sound. There are no hard consonants. And perhaps because all the parents I know who have named their kids Arlo are themselves rather wet. It seems to be very much a name used by inoffensive, middle class types.

Terrence, Calvin, Malcolm.

I was going to be Tim if I’d been a boy. Glad i wasn’t. However my bil is a Tim and he is pretty much the opposite of wet.
Kevin and Nigel for me. ( but then there’s Kevins Kline and Costner and Nigel Benn I guess)

I guess it's an instinctual but unfair reaction to a name that seems "weak" and I think it's directed mostly at boys names too.

It's also very subjective for example
I'm genuinely surprised Lucy and Alice are popping on here as to me they're classic, timeless, beautiful names but that's just my experience of them and other people clearly feel differently which is expected because we all respond to names in different ways.

I met a guy called "Felix" which to me is a "wet" name and he was anything but.

It's all silly really but kinda interesting too.

Robin!!!!
Nigel, Lance, Keith

And Tim, Peter and Christopher

To me some "wet names" are:

Rafferty
Milo
Felix
Alfie

Freya
Chloe
Molly

Oh...and Seth...always sounds a bit wet to me! I think it's the actual 'sounds' of the 'sounds' if you know what I mean...SETH 😣 Just makes a 'wet' noise as you say it 😱

Phoebe.
toby
ben
Jake
Amelia
Josipa, the worst
Jemima
milo
arlo
poppy
daisy
honey
lily
albie
Sammy
Emily

Alastair

Miles

I don't think I'll be showing DH this thread. His name has appeared far too many times.

The only names I can think of are Piers, Kevin and Rafferty. They just ooze and squelch to my ear.

This is an interesting thread! Mine are
Neville
Timothy
Norris
I like some of the names mentioned. My first boyfriend was called Toby, he was a hunk ( although thinking about it a bit of a drip!) Guess the other posters are correct

I think the names can be nice and have good associations but still be seen as 'wet'. I think if I was naming a son I would think about that.

Maude
Barney
Wilf
Seth

Poppy, Daisy, Molly... any of the names that are cutesy for toddlers, but are way too wet for a professional woman.