Which is the one name you dislike the most?

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

Flora is also bad (margarine). And Felix (cat food). And anything blatantly from a film or book (GofT, LOTR etc).

Mildred and Percy

Tabitha - I think it’s fine as a cat’s name but not for a woman. I dislike names that designate class and this is one.

That’s a lot of names for one name you dislike 😁 There’s some perfectly nice names on there but it is such a subjective topic.

I don't have any strong feelings on the name but I know three adult Tabithas and they all absolutely hate their name. I've never known a name to provoke such a strong reaction in the person who owns it.

Always sounds too much like knickerless to me.

I really hate my name but wouldn’t mind being called Tabitha. It sounds very feline and I envisage Tabithas as having good cheekbones and being very attractive. It’s a name I’d feel would stop me slobbing about in my dressing gown 😁 It would raise my game and I’d completely ‘own’ it. My own name on the other hand has always made me envisage kids with snotty noses and socks that don’t stay up.

One of mine has their name here as well but I don’t mind. They’re not that keen on it either unfortunately. They don’t like their (very popular) middle name so getting a new moniker they feel is them hasn’t been easy. Shame really as I hate my name so empathise and wish I’d given them more than one middle name now.

I know a(n older) child Tabitha, who loves her name.
She's known as Tabby day to day and really ramps up the feline - Alice bands with cat ears, etc.

Henry

Makes me think of the wife murdering King, and "horrid".

Dulcie or Dolcie is probably my least favourite name, too twee and the "dull" syllable stands out to me. I dislike a lot of names with the same ending sound actually, like Nancy, Elsie, Betsy, Darcie. Too cutesy.

For a boy, I think Spurgeon is probably the worst name I've heard.

Alma.
Enid Blyton obviously disliked it too - wasn't there a 'stodgy, dull' Alma at Malory Towers or St Clare's?

Alma Pudden!

Dorcas anyone?

Ada or Ida sound like old women in pinnies gossiping in the street, reminds me of a Les Dawson comedy sketch.

I heard 'Harper!' being shrieked in the supermarket the other day. There's one for me (especially said like that).

Nina

I dislike Harper, but also Piper which (to me at least) is the same sort of name, and even more awful.
I just imagine a little girl playing a huge set of bagpipes; either that or doing plumbing, both of which activities should really be done by a manly man.
At least playing the harp is slightly better.

Any girls name with a hyphenated May/Mae
Evie/Evelyn
Neveah

Jaxon
Lewis
All the Jayden/Kaydens etc

Abigail - makes me think of angry Puritans
Jaxon - nope. Jackson is fine, but why spell it with an x?

Caroline

I see your Jaxon, which is at least phonetically plausible, and raise you Jaxson, which has somehow become the 135th most popular boys’ name in the country. 421 of them named in 2021!

Jaxson is such a cute name tho 😍😍and its a bit diffrent than Jaxon or jackson.

But she came into her own when she and Mean Elsie were joint Form Leaders.

Erm….. makes you look rather illiterate. Sorry.