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?

She now happily shares a name with 2 others in her workplace and it has never caused an issue once!

It can be very confusing to have 3 Steves or 3 Sarahs at work... I'd much prefer my own name.

We have 4 Harrys in our scout group - very confusing, especially as two share very similar surnames.

Some people seem to forget why we name things and people..... To identify them!!

Also the point made about the friend changing her name to a normal one — it’s not a choice between top ten and Moon Unit. There are hundreds of lovely normal names that are underused. So instead of Grace/Lily/Isabel why not say Zoe/Miranda/Mary?

The sounds of Chloe and Poppy grate on my ears. One sounds cloying and sickly, like when something sticky gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. Poppy is just dreadful.

Judith and Ruth sound SO hard and cold. I imagine a thin-lipped woman dressed in itchy tweeds.

Olive came up on another thread. Normally, a lovely person or character can change my views on a name, but even the sweet little girl in Little Miss Sunshine could not sell me on this horribly frumpy name.

I hate names ending in "ina" - frumpy, frilly and awkward sounding.

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Phoebe sounds horrible. FeeBee.

Nevaeh

Olive - so frumpy and drab.
Wren, I don’t understand the love for this. It’s a bird, why not seagull or pigeon.

Jayden/Kayden/Brayden

McKenna or MacKenzie for girls. They’re surnames and not nice first names either.

Anything with an apostrophe in the middle. WTAF is that about??

Eliana

Esme
Carter

Yes, south west England. Mine is only in year 1 though, popularity may be waning.

Wren, I don’t understand the love for this. It’s a bird, why not seagull or pigeon.

Because it sounds nice. Hence why we call girls Daisy or Poppy, but not Ragwort or Herb Robert.

I dislike harsh discordant sounding names.
I think top is Gertrude.
And for boys Archibald, Archie. Sounds like nails on a chalk board.

But Wren doesn’t sound nice.

I think it does.

But this thread isn’t about names you like.

joshua ,oscar , grace /gracie

Wren sounds really odd to me. Funnily enough I love Renee

I was never fond of Jared but Jared Kushner put the final nail in the coffin.

I irrationally dislike Jonathan.

This is the quality repartee that keeps me on Mumsnet

@ladygindiva yes maybe. Mine are p1, p4, p5 and s4. Probably the most I've met are in the s4 and p5 years.

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Mason, Maddison, Zoe, Riley, Monique Morgan…icky

Banks. Just no.

The current trend of the mother’s maiden name being used as a first name, even if they’re things like Dawson, Watson, Wilson

Girls - hyphenated first names eg Molly-Mae and Lilly-May. ‘Unisex’ names that are just boy names.

Boys - names ending in den. Oliver and Jack as they’re so popular and boring. Reuben, Arlo.

I asked my brother if I could name his first child and he said yes! It's a good thing he and sis-in-law had a boy because I joked with Mum that if baby was a girl I'd insist on MYRTLE. She said, " Don't you dare!" 😆(And NO, I wasn't serious! Yuk!)