Names that you love but Mumsnet hates.

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Which names do you love that generally get a bad reception on MN?

I love surname type names for boys so Lawson, Weston, Darwin etc.

I also think that Kyle and Kai are nice names.

There are others but I'll have to think of them.

Which disliked names do you love?

Judging by a recent thread - Ray/Raymond.

Trevor. Completely normal on people younger than 70 where I'm from.

Gavin
Candida
Clarabelle

Candida
Is that...actually....a name?!

Sonny

Irish names in general. Mumsnet seems to have a thing against them

Linda. I've always liked it and I still think it's adorable, but nobody on here agrees.

Lola gets a hard time on here but I really love it. If there was another dc on the horizon it would be the near the top of my imaginary list.

Mercedes
No. It's not "naming a child after a car", the car company was named after a person.
It's a perfectly normal Spanish name.
But then non English names in general don't seem to go down well around here.

I love Kai. And Daphne.

Esmeralda

Roland, Kaiden, Jayden 👀

@AgeingDoc I love Mercedes and DS would have been called that if he had turned out to be a girl.

My son has a "dog's name" which is universally hated on Mumsnet but holly willoghby and davina McCall have one

Antigone.
Rupert.

My favourite girls’ names are Mallory and River.

Judying by previous threads, MN doesn’t like either!

Kai
harlow
ramona
rocco
vienna
skye
river
posey
etta
eden
clarence
kenneth
dora
callie
phoenix
coco
pixie
emerald
sapphire
melody

Surnames for first names.

Aubrey for a girl

Ooh I love Linda! And Dora, Skye and Mercedes.
My likes/MN hates would be Cameron, Darren, Roxanne and Kari.

Popular names from the 70s and 80s. Most people talk about them like they are so uncool but I love them. Especially Jennifer and Sarah.

Queenie

I was going to say that. I’ve got a sonny, apparently it’s not even a name 🙄😂

Gary
Mark
Terrence/Terry
Michael
Claire
Julie
Louise
I haven't seen Daniel sneered at on here so I'm not sure whether to include it.

Candida 😅

I knew a Candida at school, she was a couple of years older than me so born mid 60s or so. Even in the 80s it was a bit embarrassing for her and I'd never use it but in itself it's really pretty. She went by Candy.