You have to name a child a name you hated growing up , what would you call the child?

[glovestrains]

the reserve of the other one

Oh no... my name, my mum's and my husband's are all on here

For me it would be Karen - before it had its current connotations of course. I knew two who were mean, then an adult one who was lovely and now probably hates her name! For a boy maybe Neill or Lance - they were bullies!

Hayley, Georgia, Jennifer, Olivia or Jessica. Still can't stand the names no idea why, maybe it's because of the ones I've met but can't think I disliked anyone with those names. It's the feeling it gives me when I pronounce them I think ?

Fiona

Girl - Mildred

Boy - Rodney

Marcus

Nicole

Toby
Imogen

I’m not sure why I never liked the names. I never knew a Toby but it always reminded me of the Chef on the Toby Carvery signs. There was an Imogen in my class who was lovely but I couldn’t stand her name. I don’t mind Toby now, prefer Tobias. Still don’t like Imogen

Kirsteen - two in my primary school were horrors

Sorry, misread the question. I hated a person called Marcus (bully) but not the name.

Jack, Jake, Rory, Albert, Arthur
Ethel, Doris, Maureen. Maud.

Basically any 'old person' name. Can't stand them.

Ray and Marie

I can honestly say that I never thought of hating another child’s name growing up. Any names I didn’t or don’t like are associated with children or people I was exposed to growing up and the association with their name.

Guertrude

That's so funny as I've never met an Emma I didn't like! I love Emma's.

Hilary or Valerie. They both sound too much like celery

Edith- as a child I read a book with an Edith in it, presumed it was pronounced Eh-dith and hated it because I thought it sounded too 'boyish', like Edward or something. Even worse when her nickname was Edie (or Eddie as I thought). Now I know how to say it it's not so bad after all!

Shiela & Sean

Boy -Harry
Girl - Leonie

Emma and Ryan. I can remember being so baffled in the Friends episode when Monica tells Rachel her dream baby name is Emma.

Me too actually! But not even because I hated the name Emma, just because it seemed so nothingy and unremarkable, I couldn't believe a) Monica loved it so much and b) Rachel wouldn't have thought of it herself when it was so common!

Morag.

Francis

Carolyn

Catherine and Antonia. Two hateful little cows. Their names were so ugly to me

Keith
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