Which is the one name you dislike the most?

[Wombat100]

Just out of interest really - is there a specific boy or girl name you just can’t stand?

Harvey and Olive.

Harvey was a recalcitrant cob who I could not ride one side of when having riding lessons many moons ago, and who once bit me.

Olive is a perpetually-miserable old woman who told the paper shop I delivered papers for that she never received hers, an injustice which 13-year-old me found breathtakingly unfair especially as I had to run the gamut of her badly-behaved yappy dogs to post it through her letterbox.

Both names ruined for me forever.

Anything that makes me think of a stripper or sex worker; Jade, Tallulah, Destiny, Scarlett

Boys it has to be Jayden, Kayden, Brayden etc

My daughter is Ophelia, I have an English Literature degree and I am an English teacher!

Oh come on. It’s usually a universally recognised name deliberately spelled incorrectly to make them sound yoonique and speshulll.
I’ve seen Rubee, Daysee, Mykel… pretty clear those aren’t the correct spellings.

My dds names, along with my own, have been listed. It makes me irrationally angry! 🤣

Can't stand Arlo, sounds like a dog name.

And for girls; Alisha, Ayesha, Lyla, Lola, Lilly, Molly etc.

A dictionary of names would be a good place to start.

Seth

Thankfully these have fallen out of fashion now but anything ending in the ‘web’ sound. So, Maureen, Doreen, Eileen, Pauline, Irene. They just sound so dreary.

That should say ‘een’ sound, damn autocorrect

I can’t believe my name has not popped up yet as I really hate it 🤣
I seem to dislike all the names that were popular a generation before I was born, like Susan, Ann, Nigel, Colin etc they sound so boring.

For the pp who asked, Persephone is pronounced Per-seph-o-nee

Oh yes, Esme! Sounds like a sneeze, looks like an orgasm.

I don't like Grace at all, I think it looks and sounds the opposite to its meaning. Gr is very unappealing aesthetically and the one syllable is like a dog bark.

Would be better if people could do one name they irrationally dislike rather than listing many many names and giving their opinion on them all... "It's overused"

I find the reasons most interesting!

Being 'overused' is definitely off putting to many. It means that a name has become so common and fashionable that it feels overused and will likely sound dated as it inevitably falls out of fashion

Rory, Conrad, Atticus, Cordelia, Martha.

Don’t know why but if I hear babies/children with these names it makes me cringe inside!

Always hated Hugo. The perfect name for a pretentious arse.

Surnames-as-first-names

Anything hyphenated

Ottilie pronounced Otterly.

Jaxon

Willow

Exactly these.

Erica and Ingrid

Duncan and Brendan make me feel a bit sick. Always have, I don’t know why.

I’ve just realised Duncan is in my username. Still hate it though.

Deirdre pronounced Deer-dree as in Barlow. May as well be Dreary. I believe it's meant to be said Deer-druh.

In my head I go through versions of ‘Hugo fuck yourself/Hugo this way’.

I don’t understand the popularity.

Wouldn’t you look into it though? I was going to call dd1 Olivia until I realised so was everyone else so picked a different better name.

I have teens and no joke their mates all have the same few names (eve/Grace/Lily/Isabel etc). Plenty of great normal names that aren’t done to death. Don’t think that makes me snobby 😁though seems I have touched a nerve! My own name is overused (3 in my friendship group) so I wanted to swerve that for my own kids.

Nothing I read on MN today will top this post 😂😂😂

I know everyone has a different opinion but to use words like ‘hate’ with regards to baby names is harsh especially as some children and parents don’t always have a say in their names (Local Authority adoption requires adopted parents to keep the name originally choosen by birth parents) many of which I know, are listed on this thread! This is to keep part of their identity and family history, new middle names can be added but this could raise anxiety for adopted / foster parents and how the world perceives a child based purely on their name!