Unattracrive Baby Names

[WakyWally]

Does anyone else dislike these baby names? Albie, Willow, Chase, Cody, Cory, Talullah, Olive, Ivy, Elsie, Belle, Autumn, Summer, Teddy, Ronnie and Reggie? Bring back proper, solid names. Such as Hannah, Jane, Caroline and Kate!!!

I ike the ones you mentioned. Not keen on Hannah somehow, but I'm not sure why.

Maureen

Gobnait. Irish girls' name (I'm Irish). I've just never taken to it.

I like Maureen and Eileen. Gobnait doesn't look or sound pretty to me, but I'm not Irish.

I really like the name Judith. I was at school with a very cool one, who would now be early 50s, and I used to work with a barking mad author of that name.

What’s not to love about having a Biblical namesake who save her city, honeytraps and then beheads an invading general?

It’s not pretty to Irish people either (pron. ‘GUBB-net’), though Saint Gobnait was a cool fifth-century bee-keeping abbess who once drove off a cattle-rustler with a swarm of bees. I only know a child who has it as a middle name. In general it falls under the category of ‘names you would give to an eccentric octogenarian aunt in a story’.

I don't really understand why anyone would call a child Tallulah or Cody, but clearly some people love those names. Each to their own.

@Justleaveitblankthen - I don't especially like the 'surnames as first names' thing either

@OnOtherPlanets , .
I don't understand the trend of using names from other languages/cultures. They are usually dated in their original country, and the anglicised pronunciations sound far from pretty IMO (Amelie, Elodie, Orla, etc). If you start a thread asking for a [Named Nationality/Language] Names, you'll get a list of names used in the 1960s and 70s with only a few current baby names.

I don't like the surnames as first names thing either.

I agree 100%

Lots of baby name threads where I don't anything cause I have nothing constructive to say cause the names are so bloody awful.