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?

It's a shame that all those strong Scottish clan names - Malcolm, Allan, Russell, Douglas, Craig, etc - still have a strong residual 70s first-name feel about them, instead of being part of the current 'surname as first name' trend. Although I guess Mason/Tyler/Harrison/Morgan etc are heading that way already, but as typical 2010/2020s generation boys' names.

All those names are currently unfashionable but they'll come back

Yes I bet this is true. They'll become the really old person names than then seem cool and vintage to new parents.

People like me who have kids now, will one day be meeting their new grandchild and thinking "Derek? Fucking DEREK?"

Edmund
Leonard
Boris
Hubert
Eric
Nigel

My grandmother was Grizelda, married to Norman. Cannot imagine either name on a baby!

Gary

😂

DS1 was named after a deceased family member who was very dear to DH. We got so many looks. More recently my mother admitted she was 'WTAF!!!!

(A cousin actually said to us with surprise; 'Oh! I thought you would name him something pretentious!'. (Which I was WTAF at myself)

It's a brilliant name and actually we now get loads of compliments. DS2 was named a top 5 never mind a top 10 and I am a bit regretful in some ways, although his nickname is a nice one.

Agree with Nigel and Barry

Can't really imagine a baby Pamela or Kelly or Lorraine

Keith.

My colleague has a son called Bruce also. Couldn't imagine that when told, but it works.

I gave DS the middle name Allan recently 😊 keeping the clan names alive 🤣

I actually know a baby Frank and it suits him perfectly! I think once it’s a real baby and not a theoretical one, any name works.

This 100%

DS is named (middle name) after a late family member. It's one that frequently gets mentioned on these threads as being boring and "70's" and ugly. But to me it just represents all the things I love about my relative. It makes me think of kindness, warmth, strength, light. Names are so subjective. I think once you start to attach them to a real person they take on that character.

Pamela, Deborah
Dave, Barry

It works the other way too-my friend has two aunties-aunt poppy and aunt Olivia
both lovely names but very popular now-both names wouldn’t have anyone batting an eyelid on a baby now-it’s just these (lovely) ladies are both pushing 100

my grandad,great aunts and uncle where Leonard,olive,Edna and wilf

olive and wilf have swung back-I’ve met loads of babies with those names-I was cuddling a baby olive just the other day-it would have been the height of uncool and old fashioned if I’d named either of my dds after her

leonard (not Lenny) and Edna haven’t

My aunts on my other side are Amanda (Mandy) cherry and Sheila

ive met more than one baby cherry but not Amanda/Mandy or Sheila

I just know that my great children may be named one of the ‘uncool’ names as that’s what happens-they swing out of fashion and the cool parents haven’t heard them on rl people so they become cool again

myself and my brothers have names that are timeless-we could be any age and they’ve not dropped in or out of name lists over the years

out of my own children,only three names could be thought of as timeless-the others are very of the time they where born and to my regret,they will be thought of the same as ‘lan,Trevor or Nigel’ of the day in time-and one was born,so I named him what I thought was classic,timeless and lovely-I’d never met another of his name at the time of naming him

It ended up with ten kids with the same name in his class all though school-there seemed to be a boom of that name at the time

My mum’s friend’s grandson is Desmond. I’ve never met him and just cannot imagine a little Desmond.
I recently met a baby John which I also found a bit strange.

Margaret is on my list if we have a girl but I think DP might veto it!

Gary

That is so true. Mason, Kayden, Tyler etc are already dated, OOs names

Harold. I have a fish called Harold.

Egbert, Cuthbert, Bertram and Englebert.

Dale

Brian

My friend has a Harald …. only v slightly different from Harold but a world away … Scandinavian version - known as Hal - always though it v cool.

Colin. But I'd bloody love it if I met a baby Colin.

I know a cat called Colin

Daphne

Mark.

Ian

Dennis.

Baby Dennis would look like a wizened, grizzled old sea dog, and quite possibly come out smoking a pipe. It would be wrong in every way.