Irrational name dislikes

[Flappingflamingo]

I'm not pregnant, have 3 children and not having any more, but I love baby names. My best friend is having a baby soon and so have spent a lot of time recently talking and thinking about names. I've come to realise that there are some names that I really really can't stand and for absolutely no apparent reason at all.
I would like to apologise to anyone and everyone, I really don't mean to offend anyone but I just can't help it or have any reason for it, but here are some of mine to start with - you notice a theme!! 😂 😂
Poppy
Ruby
Scarlet
Rowan
Anyone have any?

Abigail
Veronica
Madison

Why would anyone take offense at this thread? My name is on here, as are both my boys names, and my maiden name! Doesn't bother me at all!

Plenty of names I think are fucking horrendous but I certainly would never say that to someone's face, nor would I sneer at a child with that name. But name associations are powerful things, right?

People need to get a grip if they take offense at this, nobody is talking about your child...

@Strokethefurrywall freedom of speech comes to mind. I actually responded to a previous comment because I don’t agree that it’s offensive to use names like Bodhi (in case Buddhists find it offensive) yet it’s perfectly ok to call our children James, Matthew, Adam or Eve... I definitely didn’t sit indoors crying about it but we’re all entitled to our opinions on here!

All of those silly girls’ names with too few vowels - Amelia/Amelie/Ottolie/ etc
Jack Russell names for people. Daisy/Poppy
Victorian housemaid names:Elsie, Pearl etc

James. No reason, just don’t like it.
Bohdi. I mean, WTF?

Generally anything with an ‘a’ Amelia, Matilda, Tabitha.

Really can’t stand Ronnie, Reggie, Vinnie.

Also those twee sounding names like Clemmie, Delilah, Pansy etc etc

@abitfunny I actually think the point you made is spot on. Bodhi to me is more hip surfer dude than Buddhist. I’m not overly keen on it myself but it’s like saying we shouldn’t call our children Noah or Luca.

I dont get Bodhi either but i remember thinking Hudson and Huyt and other American names were utterly ludicrous but i found out the river in NY (?) is in new york. And Huyt was a family who came over on the mayflower.

Maybe Bodhi will make sense to me one day!

Old Testament names, esp. more obscure ones.
Names with strong religious connotations.

[quote abitfunny]@whatausername - ridiculous reason. So people shouldn’t use names like Matthew, John, Gabriel etc etc too? My son is called Bodhi and although me and my husband love & follow many Buddhist values, we chose it because we simply liked the name and what it means. Like thousands of other people do. We actually took our son when he was small to a local Buddhist centre and the monks blessed him, praising us for using such a great name. No offence taken at all![/quote]
Cool your tatas. Obviously what you've done is a bit different to the average person. And Matthew, Luke etc are hardly equivalent examples, are they. Cohen would be closer to it I suppose. It seems appropriative and if people don't know you're Buddhist and you are in a non-majority Buddist area then you are going to have some who will raise an eyebrow. You surely realised that before naming your DS. Especially when Buddhism was one of those religions that was treated like a fad for a while in the West.

Actually, I've just realised none of the buddhists or buddhist families I know were called Bodhi. And I knew a lot (lived and worked in several buddhist countries and towns including your Mecca) so I do wonder what Buddhist centre you attend.

Anyway, chill your gills. I don't have to like your son's name. (Sorry, I'm sure he's lovely.)

@whatausername well we will just have to agree to disagree I’m afraid because to me it’s exactly the same. Why should we be able to use some religious names but not others? Seems a little unfair. But as I said previously, when we took him to the temple (it’s called wat buddharam in east London) the monks were nothing but happy for us. I’ve never met a monk or a Buddhist in fact that’s been offended by people using ‘their’ names, they’re some of the nicest people I’ve ever met and have more to concern themselves with than the use of the name Bodhi.

My DS’s name is on here but I’m cool with it

I don’t like:

Ottilie. Every time I hear it I just think it’s sounds so....Boden.
Ella. There are just so many.
Theo. Same as Ella.

Nothing wrong with the names themselves, it’s more the context.

@WiserOlder

I dont get Bodhi either but i remember thinking Hudson and Huyt and other American names were utterly ludicrous but i found out the river in NY (?) is in new york. And Huyt was a family who came over on the mayflower. Maybe Bodhi will make sense to me one day!

I met a little girl called Hudson and it just sounded so odd. It’s a big manky river!

Hudson! So bad. I know a woman with a Jaxon. I mean why? Also names like Troy etc.

Bodhi is a great name. It has a nice sound to it unlike Boden or Beau.

Araminta is one of my least favourite names ever. Makes me think of mint imperials in a fussy wee tin owned by a mean old lady who disapproves of everything.

@abitfunny yeah we'll have to agree to disagree. Cheers for the temple name, I'm curious about them now!

I have a lot of American friends and I am not keen on the surname names they give their children. I have literally no idea how they know if Peyton, Leighton, Taylor, Mason, Brayden, Avery etc are male or female. The use of Aubrey as a girl's name upsets me too. They took an elegant boy's name and made it the next Brittany.

Anything like Isla, Ellie, Ella, Amelie. They’re all so sickly sweet 🤮 give them a proper grown up name lol 😂

Boys - oscar -hate this. noah , mathew ,arlo .
Girls -amelia , gracie /grace , ava , ottilie .

Freya don't like the sound of it

I have the worst name ever and not one mention.
2/3 kids have been! One to go. Even the dog has escaped criticism!

Honestly none I feel that passionately about that I genuinely detest or can't stand.

I think we're all very malleable as our likes and strong dislikes generally boil down to trends and associations... taste in names is suggestible and ever rotating.

Avril - it just sounds so cold and hard
Arthur - reminds me of Arthur Fowler
Tess - for some reason I’m just not a fan of T names but this one I dislike above all others

Guy - not so much a name as a pronoun. The equivalent of calling your child 'bloke'

In fairness, it was a name long before it meant 'man'. 'Guy' first started to mean a shady, dodgy sort of bloke (before later morphing into just any man, and then even as a unisex plural noun) from the 'guys' children made out of ratty old clothes and wheeled around when they went 'penny for the guy'-ing. And obvs they had 'guys' because of Guy Fawkes - who himself was named after a local Yorkshire landowner called Guy.

whereas I think 'bloke' always meant bloke

My irrational name hatreds are Liam and Martin - though I know exactly why (boys from my class in primary school).

I also don't like the overly frilly, overly long Arabella, Araminta type names. Isabella is bit much for me tbh.
I used to really hate the name Francis (and all Fran names - but Francis the most) but now I don't mind them, for no real reason ... they just stopped bothering me one day.

But then my guilty name pleasure is Cedric so ... I think we can all agree my taste is dubious at best.

I really don’t like American sounding names. Wyatt, Grayson, Hudson, Carter, Riley, Madison etc. Just not my cup of tea at all!

I feel jaded when I hear yet another Isla/Ella/Isabella being called. I dislike Imogen and Indigo too. Pretentious

Some of these are irrational and I have no reason to dislike them other than I just don't like them.
Some I hate because I associate them with horrid people I have encountered through my life.
These are my personal opinions and my intentions are not to cause offence or upset to anyone.

Molly/Polly - just don't like it

Amanda/Mandy - absolutely HATE these! One horrid, awful woman ruined these names for eternity.

Bertha - just no!

Keith - why?

Kenneth - oh dear.

Lindsey (particularly this spelling) - Yuk! Such a winey name. Sounds so nasally.

Tracey - too Essex

Lesley/Leslie - just don't like it.

Theresa/Terri - such an unfeminine name. Reminds me of a chavvy council estate girl. I can imagine "Terri" in her 30's, wearing tacky gold jewellery and having a smoker's cough