What are some “Hated names” that you actually think sound nice

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I’ll go first, I hate to say but I genuinely think nevaeh has such a pretty sound but the name itself tends to get alot of hate.

😅yours is similar to mine. I had a really Irish cool teacher called Niamh when i was in secondary school so I am thinking maybe that for my kid if it's a girl but people always pronounce it wrong so hate it.

Niamh is nothing like Nevaeh!

Niamh is quite popular now so people are learning to say is properly.

Most names are fine, but I don't like names being mispronounced, such as Niamh, where the mispronounced version becomes mainstream

I like 'middle-aged' names like Darren, Gary and Nigel

I've never known Niamh to be mispronounced? What is the mispronunciation that is now mainstream?

I quite like a lot of 'unpopular' names like Gary and Terry. I just think they sound mint on little kids

Lambrini. Beautiful name, means bright, brilliant, shining. Started a thread on it once but everyone was so quick to share their "witty" jokes they didn't bother to consider that it could well be a normal name in another language.

I nearly called DD Persephone, which sometimes gets a lot of hate when it’s mentioned.

I love Mercedes. Nn Mercy.

doesn’t really work outside a Spanish speaking country though.

I like Georgia which always gets blasted on mn.

I adore Persephone, altho to MN its try hard and pretentious

Thank you. DH and I like names with presence.

I was talking about this recently with my daughter. It’s not a name but chlamydia sounds like it could be a name. We agreed it’s quite cute 😂

I love 'Sharon'. Just a beautiful name that's been ruined by piss taking.

I love all of the below, ut each has had poor reception here and in real life.

Frank - horrible and ugly according to recent thread
Dolores - links to Lolita make it an issue for some people
Margarita - the obvious pizza and cocktail jokes

I think Irene is a lovely name. DH very much vetoed it.

My dad was going to call me Hereward (after Hereward the Wake-anglo saxon head case) till mum put her foot down. Think I might have liked it.

I like Georgia too! I also like Dixie (and in the new "woke" America, that goes about as well as Hitler -- maybe worse.)

Tiffany

I would have loved to call my DD it but every single person was negative about it

I really like Sharon as well-it has a lovely sound.
I like Jordan too.

I agree Tiffany.

I also like Keith.

Love it too!

I really like the sound of Sharon too.
I like lots of 1960s names that aren't popular here.
Someone mentioned Zerelda which was slated but I think it's rather fabulous.

My son had someone in his school with this name, now aged early twenties.

@Galvanisa so do I. I even secretly love the character on hollyoaks when I don't watch as an adult!

Mumsnet hate my girls names, to girly and flowery but I waited fifteen years for them and I love them.

I really like Georgia!

I hate Nevaeh, why does it always have to be explained that it’s heaven spelt backwards. We know. Everybody knows. It’s still terrible.