What name do you really dislike?

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I don't like the name Dustin, I just think of dustbin.
What name do you really dislike?

I hate the name Hunter. To me it’s similar to naming a baby Killer. I also really dislike Parker and Carter and any other surname as first name that sounds like an occupation.

I really dislike the name Amelia, because when I hear it I immediately think of meal worms. <shudder>

I feel similar about Mila, although funnily enough I don't with Amelia. It feels more like a full name to me, whereas Mila is literally just the mealy part 😂

Freyja is known as the goddess of love, fertility, beauty, sex, war, death, gold, and magic.

I like loads of the names on here. The world would be boring if we all liked the same things!

Some of my own less favorite are maud, mavis and timothy.

I used to dislike Tabitha but it's kind of grown on me.

Seth (I know a lovely Seth, but really not keen on the name)
Clemmie (clammy)
Leslie/Lesley
Sheldon
Kingsley
Shirley

I once sent an email to a Shirley but mistyped her name as Shitley (easy mistake to make imo, as R is next to T!). Sorry Shirley.

Names beginning with K

If I'd been named Ethel, I'd call myself Ettie.

My middle name is on this thread 3x, although one person said it's not as bad as other names. And my first name - which I don't particularly love - is here once, on a list that also includes some of my favourite names.

Ian is odd to me because it's an anglicisation of Iain and while I know it has a history of use in Scotland, I've never met anyone with the given name Ian, although I've encountered it a lot lately as a unisex/masc short name for girls with names that have -ian- in them. I'm always confused about the anglicisation of Gaelic and Irish names - e.g., why Iain and Seán instead of John and Mairi and Máire instead of Mary and Eilidh instead of Helen/Ellen, but still far more James and Jamie than Hamish/Seamus and Angus and Innes than Aonghas/Aonghus?

Niamh and Neve aren't the same name.

Some European languages, for example Polish, don't have a concept of a soft initial C, so many names that start with C in English have to have an initial K (Karolina, Klara, Konrad, etc.) There are some names with an initial C, like Cecylia or Celina, but only if C is pronounced as S.

I have only read the first page, but I really like most of the names mentioned. I actually think this is a highly sensitive thread.

You are never going to please everyone with the name choice of your child, but it is personal to you.
I don't particular care for the old 60/70's names...but I ain't ever gonna give an opinion and be disrespectful!

Is Maud back?

Regardless of the origins of Neve, many do use it as an anglicised version of Niamh. I find it quite tacky personally. I can get on board with many anglicised versions of Irish names, especially the more complex ones, but not this one. Surely Niamh is well known enough for people to know how to pronounce it, without the need to simplify it? It's a bit like when people spell Siobhan 'Shivon' 😬

But how do you know that people are using Neve as an anglicisation of Niamh versus using it for other reasons - for example, as the Spanish/Portuguese/Italian word for snow or as a surname as first name a la Neve Campbell? (And I know people here think that using a surname as a first name is not OK and that's fine - although the claims that is is not OK because it's "American" are odd on a UK-based board when the practice likely originated in, and is still very common in, Scotland).

Is it off limits to use Neve under any circumstances because it could be used as dumbing-down of Niamh?

Well, introducing the name as "it's Irish" would be a clue 😉 Believe me, it's quite common. Even a quick Google has Neve commonly listed as 'an anglicised version of Niamh'.

I'm not sure where I've apparently said Neve is off limits, just that I personally find it a tacky spelling of Niamh if intending to use 'an Irish name'.

This thread is about names we personally dislike. You are entitled to disagree with me! You seemed to automatically assume that I wasn't aware that Neve had other origins, which isn't true. I was careful to specify when used as an alternative spelling to Niamh.

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Donna and Debra. Known several, all of them horrible!

Oh my god me too! It's so weird, I have a mild aversion to the letter K in general let alone names, imagine how much we cringe combined at the Kardashians.

OK, fair enough! I've never met a Neve whose parents equated it to Niamh or said it was Irish (it's obviously not), so I have a different view of the name. But you're right, this thread is personal and you dislike it and have every right to say so.

Both my own name and my favourite name have come up on this thread. I don’t see the point in getting offended, because no name can possibly be universally loved. Even if a name is too inoffensive for anyone to truly hate it, by definition some will find it very boring.

I think my personal least favourite is Virginia. Who looks at a baby and thinks “What would be better - a name that sounds like virgin, or one that sounds like vagina? Whoa, hang on… what if there was ONE name that did both?”

Also, it’s too uncommon to be an issue, but I’ve met two people called Storm (one female, one male) and both had desperately tried to build their personalities around the name. I could see the annoyance in the male’s face when I made no comment on his name when introduced.

Well to be fair, of course no one has told you that they hate your name or those of your children.

Isabella, I just think iny head 'is a bell a ringing', and it's been so over used

Garlic

Really? I grew up in Scotland and I can't think of a single child who had a surname as a first name in primary or secondary school. The only people I know with surnames as first names are all under the age of 16. And names without the Mc/Mac do not count.

This! My child's name has also been mentioned, only once thankfully, but I'm not offended. It's a classic but uncommon name and I knew it was a marmite name before I used it. I love it and that's all that matters.

Mavis
Angus
Magnus