Names that can't or shouldn't be used due to bad association

[ofwarren]

Not really a TAAT but sort of.
The Maxine one made me think about other names that may be perfectly fine but now can't be used.
Names like Myra or Madeleine. Perfectly nice names but straight away, your mind goes to Hindley and McCann.
Which other ones are there and why do some names of truly dreadful people not have the same impact?

AravisTarkheena - I think that it might be because of Amelia Dyer but don't think people would think about her much anymore.

Well indeed daisy that does support the argument. The event of the disappearance of Madeline McCann.

It doesn’t support the argument at all. The child who disappeared was called Madeleine, not Madeline- a different name which is both pronounced and spelled differently. The fact that people have already forgotten her name says a lot.

I know a Myra, she's late forties so will have been born not long after the infamous murders. How can her parents called her that?? The only reason I can think of is it must have a family meaning (or her parents were living in a cave)

FrancisCrawford

Have you been living under a rock?

www.pinterest.com/novelcreations/karen-memes/

I can't see Gary ever making a big comeback

I’ve never heard of any negative associations with Karen either. My first thought with Karen is the little girl in Outnumbered.

@HeronLanyon I’m fairly certain we know the same ‘Boris’

I went to school with a myra 😬😬 poor cow.
My name would be gaylord
Wtf would anyone call a baby that

Elmo, and Grover

Isis. There was a programme on radio 4 a few years ago about women and girls called Isis and how they felt about their name now.

Adolf
Myra
Donald

Enoch
Candida

Years ago people would have called their daughters Amelia after the aviator.

I've used Madeleine. I think it's a beautiful name and McCann was a long time ago now. My daughters generation are unlikely to know of her

Willy or Fanny

I absolutely love Jezebel.

Was on my list but meaning and history of names are important to me so I just couldn’t.

Love Jethro too but it always comes with the sound of banjo’s 😂

Not so much a bad association, but Alexa is going to be unusable as a name for a very long time.

Camilla

@aroundtheworldin80moves. Whos ian bradley?

@Jeeperscreepers69 not sure if it was a typo, autocorrect error or a brain error, but it should be Ian BRADY.

Whos ian bradley? !!!!!!!! I find that quite offensive actually. You need to educate yourselves. This is important history of our country.

I am shocked that people don't know this. IAN BRADY and his girlfriend MYRA HINDLEY comitted horrendous crimes together.

He was/is (not sure if he's still alive) a serial child murderer, he hid the bodies, and never said where they were, denying the families closure.

They are both dead, I’m surprised you don’t know that, it’s an important part of history, I agree.

Gary