Which names do you love that MN usually hates?

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I love Kai and Kyle. I think they're lovely but strong names.

I also love the American surname type names e.g Sullivan, Ryder, Granger, Harrison Edison etc.

I also love names like Ruth, Heather and Camille, though I'm not sure how MN feels about those.

I love the name Colin for a boy. But I am not British. I don't understand the hate for it on here.

@groovergirl a poster started a serious thread asking what posters thought of the name Balonz, as she was considering it for her child. Cue much hilarity and Balonz coming up as a joke suggestion in every name thread since.

Kai makes me laugh every time because it's literally the word for "food" in my country. But I appreciate that it doesn't mean that in English.

Some of the names I like have been called "very boring" on here, e.g. Anne and Mary.

Aidan

Centuries old saints name, gets bundled up with names or more modern usage Kayden, Jayden etc.

Balonz wasn’t a serious suggestion. It was a troll thread, but a very funny one. I think it might be in classics. Much more to it than just a silly name suggestion, and definitely worth a read if you can find it.

I love twee flower names, Daisy, Lily, Violet, Poppy etc

Long traditional names like Valentine, Augustine, Montgomery.

I love Timothy which I don’t think is liked often.

Great name yourself, @IVflytrap

Cai is an old Welsh name and I think Kai is an anglicisation (there's no K in the Welsh alphabet).

I quite like it. Unfortunately a few Welsh names seem to have become stereotyped in England as 'naughty boy' names like Rhys and Dylan.

Although Rhys and Dylan sound very different when pronounced by a Welsh speaker!

I love Jasmine. Beautiful flower and scent. Was told it was "chavvy" not only on here but in real life. Wish I'd used it for dd1 now!

@Mankyfruitbowl

I love Jasmine. Beautiful flower and scent. Was told it was "chavvy" not only on here but in real life. Wish I'd used it for dd1 now!

I love Jasmine. I've always known lovely Jasmines.

I like violet too.

Jasmine is lovely. I hate the term chavvy, anyway. However much people try to claim they only use it to refer to loutish type behaviour, it's usually clear after a while what they really mean by it.

@CaffiSaliMali I know of Kai through the main boy character in the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen, and it's the main reason I like it. So I suspect Kai is Danish too, or an anglicisation of a Danish name. (On another thread recently I got told that I'm wrong and the character wasn't a Kai. I had to go and find the book to check I hadn't misremembered for all these years.)

Just thought of another name I like that mumsnet won't: Darren. I'm not kidding. It's genuinely a nice sounding name.

I love the names of my best friends at school
Geraldine
Ruth
Susan
Belinda

They would be hated by most of mumsnet I’m certain!

I like all the names MN finds the most boring and/or dated, e.g.:

Peter, John, Sam, Ben, Matthew, Daniel, Joseph
Rose, Amy, Claire, Sarah, Ruth, Kate

Kai, Kaia, Cade, Coby, Cody, Beau