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?

Arlo
it looks and sounds like you’ve misheard another name

It has to be the Americans named British place-names or girls with names ending in 'son'. I know a Grayson and a Kensington ffs.

UK wise, Grace is my worst name. The way it looks written down and the way it sounds are aesthetically opposite to its meaning imo.

Luna (Loony) and Lyra (Lycra) are awful too.

@GoldenCagedBird - I’m an English teacher and I love Ophelia as a name.

Aurora. I just don't get it. I don't like anything about it. It's a Disney princess. It's vowelly and awkward to say. It sounds like a yawn.

Edna and Ethel for girls
Dale for boys

I like Aurora it is the northern lights ( Aurora Borealis) or it can mean the dawn. It predates Disney by more years than I can count.

Willow and Arlo are probably the ones I dislike most at the moment!

@OopsieeDaisy I'm glad it's not just me that dislikes Willow. It seems very popular on MN.
Even worse is the awful Willa 🤮

Also dislike Aurelia (areola), and Ottilie and Elodie when used for a British person. Seriously, how do you even say Elodie without putting on a silly cod french accent?

@CockleburIck Ella-dee. But agree they’re not my fave type of name either. Just so many vowels!

@CockSpadget , Elle O'Dee not Elluhdy

@thegreylady It predates Disney but was not much used as a name. It's too vowelly and unless you can say R properly is awful.

I don't like the long vowelly names that tend to get shortened to Ellie, Tilly or Milly. Evelyn (Evva-lyn) looks and sounds ugly to me, as does Evangeline, and seems like a long 'BC' name to shorten to Evie.

I dislike Ava. It looks nice, and Ava Gardner as beautiful, but Ay-vuh. It just sounds like a sigh or something.

I agree. It’s like calling your child Girl#24376.

Though I have a specific dislike of George. It’s such a podgy, gammony sort of name, all Hanoverian pomp, plus it sounds like the noise a cushion makes when sat on heavily . Its popularity mystifies me. Clearly people have different associations with it.

Agree with you both. When a baby is introduced proudly as “Eve” I think - really?! Another one?

@TheaBrandt , there aren't many Eves though, there are lots of Evies, Evelyns and Evas.

Anything-Mae/May or Anything-Rae/Ray

And thanks to Mumsnet I absolutely despise Wren, a name I'd never heard before coming here.

No matter what the OP says their tastes, likes, dislikes and wants are, within about ten posts someone will suggest Wren. Want a three syllable name? Wren. A literary classic name? Wren. A name that starts with the letter G? Wren.

It's not even a nice name.

There are loads of names I can't stand!

Jayden/Kayden/Brayden
Anything ending in May/Mae (dad on holiday this summer had Emily-Mae tattooed on his arm in cursive script😆)
Melanie (wet)
Anything made up, 'unique', misspelled, etc
Kai/Tyler/Kyle - any child with these names is always an absolute horror

Personally I think this stems from people not realising/being in denial about how common they are, as that's constantly evolving.

My name has been mentioned on here as being really common and the assumption has been made that the parents put no effort into naming the child, but it wasn't common at all when I was growing up.

And similarly, Eve was always my favourite name, and I really wanted to use it, it was only because I happened to be the kind of person who had read all the Top 10 baby name charts that I knew how common it had become. I'd encountered a few but didn't really know many kids before I had my own. Not everyone is going into parenthood hyper aware of all things child related, and even of those that are there will be many who will still name the child the name they'd always loved most and wanted to give to them, even if it is common now.

Beverley
Travis

How times change, when I was 15 I was in a netball tournament with another school and one of the team was called Evelyn, I remember thinking poor girl, I feel so sorry for her, she must be named after her great granny or something. Our team featured Laura, Nicola, Kirsty, Gemma, Katie, Charlotte and Sophie.

My friend's daughter is 6 and she is called Evelyn and I think it is really nice now.

At one stage a third of the girls in dds class were named a variant of the name Eve. It got very confusing

Forgot to mention Engine oil, too. Sorry, I mean Imogen!

DH once announced that he would like the name Imogen if ever we had a daughter.

That's not happening 😂

Freya

Yes on the weird obsession with ‘Wren’ on here, and yes, it keeps being suggested for all kinds of requirements it doesn’t meet. I’ve no strong feelings about it either way, though I think it’s quite twee, but it certainly sits in a weird place on Mn.

The other thing that is deeply odd is that a certain type of poster appears to go to considerable lengths to find a ‘playground teasing’ angle on the most deeply ordinary names. So Jacynth Isabel is going to be called ‘Jizz’ or Orla is an anagram for ‘oral’.