Are there any names that you just can't imagine on a baby?

[TheNameNerd]

Each to their own but I just can't picture a baby Frank. It seems such a harsh sounding adult name for a baby especially a newborn yet there have obviously been a lot of baby Franks but somehow I have a mental block when picturing it.

Does anyone else feel this way about a name?

Steve
Joyce

I can absolutely imagine a chunky little Frank or Frankie.
I can’t imagine baby Colin.

I worked with a toddler Barry last year. That's a bit jarring for a newborn I think. I also worked with a 2yo Edna. By the end of the year it was just the best name ever, fabulous child, but I did have a bit of an eyebrow raise when I saw her name on my list initially.

I have a 7yr old called Garry, there aren't many his age I know of

I know a baby Frank and a baby Franklie (although the latter is a toddelr and a girl).

We recently at work had a contractor in his early 20s called Virgil. I found that surprising.

*Frankie

Doris and Boris

You're all incredibly unimaginative. All those names are currently unfashionable but they'll come back

Brian
Brenda
Gertrude
Wayne
Steven
Terry
Diane
Sue (although Suzy seems ok)

I have a girl Frankie and it totally works (and yet I hate the name Frankie for a boy 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Bruce

But tbf, a MN baby Margaret now would be 'christened Margaret, nn Gara/Argo/Pearl'.

There must once have been primary school classes full of little Terrys, Raymonds, Shirleys and Joyces. It's quite hard to imagine when names abruptly drop out of fashion after a particular generation, but I guess they'll be coming back in when they're 'we called him Roy Barry Arnold after his grandfathers' names.

It's odd isn't it about name/sex reactions. I love the name Rowan for a girl but dislike it for a boy. I've often wondered at myself about how odd that is!

Ethel
Brian
Gary

Margaret is an odd one. The name Margot seems to be racing up the charts if our school with a nursery attached is anyhting to go by. I am not a fan of either but that is probably down to having a very difficult aunt names Margaret.

I wonder how the recent fashion for calling dogs and cats very slightly dated/ironic names will play out, in terms of how it affects baby names? I know a canine Frank, Ted, Dave, and Roger, and cats called Kevin and Pam.

Yes 🤣 a friend and I were discussing this recently! For me it’s FIONA 🙈

Margo.

Margo is extremely popular atm.

Malcolm.

My dad is called Ian and we always say we don't know how his mother looked at a tiny baby and called him Ian.

But then again we say he was born an adult so it suits him 🤣.

Geoffrey
Ralph
Ian
Neil
Nora
Tracy
Sharon
Beryl
Elizabeth

I had a great Aunty Pearl her Sister my Gran was Margaret 😂

A colleague recently named her baby Barbara. I have to say I was flabbergasted.

Pamela

Denise

Nigel
Norman

Brenda
Deidre