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?

Anything with a silly spelling
Anything double barrelled

@JaneJeffer , that's what it sounds like where I am.

Olive. Awful.

Oh gosh, yes.

A nice character in fiction can usually endear a name to me, but even the lovely little girl in Little Miss Sunshine could not rescue the name Olive. Just….why?

Another vote for Sienna. Hate the name.

Yeah agree.
the two I know were bullies.

Arabella. Just too fussy.

Anything with Mae and Rose as a hyphenated name.
Hugo, William, Stanley, Cosima, Arabella, Esme and Elizabeth.

Tbh most of the obnoxious sounding names people suggest on the name boards here. When someone says they like Autumn or something and someone suggests names like Winifred Bourgeois Clementine or Millicent

Ironically both my kids names are on here 😂 I love them

35 years ago I could never find my name
on a keyring etc never met anyone with my name now its one of the top 10 and it pisses me off . But least I get key rings now

You've listed my favourite ex there.

Chesney

I can't stand Linsey, Lynsay or silly spelling like Linsy, Linzi etc. Childish and mimsy. I don't mind Lindsey though, spelled properly.

@TheAverageJoanne , the original spelling is Lindsay

Elliot
Guy
Parker/Carter/Grayson/most surnames as first names
Lloyd
Austin
Jeremy
Barnaby
Mark
Simon

Lucinda
Maddison
Grace
Mackenzie
Jodie
Eliza
Elspeth
Maude

That's a few more than one though!

Riley, Bray/Cay/Hay/Jay/Kayden, Bree, Noah, Archie, Harry, Albie and today, I have heard of two little children called Enid and Nellie. Bloody awful. I am qualified to judge, my own name is not only awful but Gaelic and unpronounceable too.

AwwwI love the name Guy!

Know of a new baby Dulcie which I thought was an unpleasant sounding name.

Callum. It sounds like someone clearing their throat - also sounds a bit like Gollum.

Imogen is awful. See also Isabel/Isobel.

Is a bell. Awful!

Esme, Ottilie, Edith

Paige. I loathe it. And Toby. Can't bear Imogen.

Anything ending in ie.

I haven't read the full thread. My name and my DCs are probably on here somewhere.

Anyway: Oscar, Olive, Oliver, Olivia - not sure why, but olive being an actual food (that I'm not keen on) and Oliver containing 'liver' probably contribute.

Archie, Stanley, Albert - I know they're all very popular right now, but they seem weird to me on little kids. One is also the name of a very nasty family member.

Anything with a hyphen.

Most surnames as first names, e.g. Riley, Cooper, Parker, Harper, Carter - especially on girls. There are plenty of other nice gender-neutral names, e.g. nature names, if that is what you want. Most of the above just sound ugly to me.

Names that have been engineered just so that the parents can use a certain nickname or unrelated name, e.g. (and you won't find this in any thread here because it's just an example): wanting to call the baby Lara and asking if Hilary would be OK for the birth certificate. Or wanting to call her Bunny and wondering if Naomi is suitably close in sound.

@ScruffMuffin , There's a thread where the OP was thinking of Ava nn Vivi.

@FayCarew aargh, they need to choose one or the other! Vivi would be short for Vivienne, wouldn't it?

Freya, don't know why it just has a whiney quality to my ear.
McKenzie as a first name.
Teddy- infantile and overly cutesy.
Wren/Juniper- invariably suggested on every girls name thread, I don't get the appeal and think they will date quickly as seem to be a fad.

@goodgriefsean , Freya makes me think of frayed.
I don't like Darcey/Darcy/Darcie at all.
Names like Wren don't sound or look right as first names
I don't like Arlo