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?

And any name that's a shortened version of the actual name, like Freddie for Frederick for example. Just use the proper name on the birth certificate then shorten it as nn if you want but at least it gives the kid the choice when they're an adult to not have a name that sits better on an under 18 year old. One of my DSS's has a variation of this and it makes me irrationally annoyed at DH for allowing it 😂.

Orla is an anagram for ‘oral’. Can't unsee that one, sorry and I can't see the appeal in Awluh.
Lana - can't unsee Anal after MN. Otherwise just wooly.
I'd avoid Gisele too.

Oh god yeah the "they'll definitely be bullied for that" angle is so bizarre, I've known some kids with really odd names who've never heard a peep about them from classmates, and people with a name like "John" or "David" get a nasty nickname tacked onto them from God knows where.

It's like... I'm glad you, a grown adult, can come up with a list of clever ways to ridicule a child, but I think you're overestimating the lengths primary school aged children will go to manipulate a name into something mean. They're far more likely to end up with the lifelong nickname of Chunks because they puked once on a school trip or something then a clever anagram of their name.

Well, it’s not pronounced ‘Awluh’.

@HolyStoned But that is how people say it around here.

Well, I can’t help that.

No, but compared to how you probably say it, it sounds awful. When I first heard it,it was from someone with an irish accent and it sounded pretty.
Then Awluh Kylie prints became popular.

edited to correct typo and to add Orla Kiely

Elsie. Such a wet name.

How do you pronounced Orla other than “Awluh”. Do you roll the r?

Barry
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With an Irish or Scottish accent the ‘r’ is pronounced and there’s a slight inflection to the final ‘a’. I like it as a name in either of those countries where it’s pronounced properly; I think it’s awful in an RP English accent where it does just end up being Aw-luh.

Alfie and Archie. Was compulsory to call boys one or the other a few years ago.

There was someone on here on the baby names wanting to call their baby Junie, another wanted to call her Halo Annie and then there was another selecting Isambard.

Archie. Can't stand it it's so ugly.

oh god there’s so many!!

The surname names for boys, Jackson, Cooper, Sullivan, Harrison etc.

Isla (know one that is not very nice)
Lily (sooooooooo many of them) the Louise of this generation.

Demi
Kane
Jordan
Jaxon
Milly

For some reason I’ve never liked Dexter or Finnley/Finn for a boy. Just sound unattractive to me. For the Finnley ones it makes me think of people who can’t say ‘th’ don’t know why.

For girls Emily and Sarah. I just find them so boring.

Grayson ughhh I don’t get what’s nice, the Gray or the son.

I can't see the appeal in Awluh
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Olivia, Chloe, Phoebe, Esme.

Bailey, Charles, Chester, Milo.

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

This is absolutely true.

My most hated name of all time is Primrose. I can't imagine anyone wanting to be named this.
Slightly less hated but also not to my taste: Jackson (or, even worse, Jaxson), Archie, Jayden or Grace.

Julie frigging hate it with a vengeance it’s horrible
Tammy- girl in school was called Tammy tampax
Tyrone
Tyson
Levi
Karen
Evelyn- it’s horrid
Lois
Joshua
Justine
Gavin- Can’t stand
Jayden
Cory
Grace- very Grace I know are horrible little kids
Anything with Mae, May, Mai hyphenated
Ellie so overused

I'm fickle with my name-hates.

I used to hate Esme (it was my aunt's name) and Poppy (ditto). Then they came back into popular use again and I stopped seeing the 70/80 year old women and started seeing it as a little girl's name.

So I am very very much hoping that this starts to work again soon with the Doris, Ada, and Maude cohort, because I am struggling with those now.

I’m never going to be able to get that out of my head now 😂

Finley will forever be mispronounced “thinly”