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?

Ian. Just can't get my head round how anyone ever had a baby and thought "I love Ian for a boy!" Baby Ian. In my head Ian Beale is the epitome of an Ian.

Eve

It reminds me of the truly revolting dessert they served at my school. It was called Eve's pudding. To this day I don't know what was in it, but it was vile!

Not a nice thread. Some people will actually have these names you know @squaredspots !

There are loads of names that I hate, especially ridiculous ones like Savannah, and very few that I like, but the worst for me is Jasper, the sound of it makes me feel a bit sick.

I love the name Sarah, I think it is a great name - it is just so did eleventy million parents in the 1970s and 1980s.

I am not keen on Alice, for some reason, as I see it as insipid, although I recently met an Alice who was very nice and not at all insipid so I may be changing my mind.

Winifred, Gertrude, Wilhelmina - but you don't get many of those these days.
Stewart, perhaps because it has "wart" in it.

Not heard of Wendle but I love that!

Sonia, Barbara, Yvonne

I also dislike my middle name- Louise. I think it’s the eeeze sound.

Anything ending in an ee sound becomes ‘eh’ with the regional accent where I grew up. So I’m not fond of and avoided using names ending in y and ie.

Meh people are allowed to hate names! We're all different. If anyone is upset by this thread because they have a baby with a name that's on it, they really shouldn't click on it. It's easy to avoid if it's going to affect you.

Aaron. When my cousin named their child this I cringed.

I actually like a lot of the aforementioned names though! Sarah is lovely and I really like Nevaeh- I know people get hung up on it being a bit naff for the whole ‘it’sheavenspeltbackwards’ but I think it’s very soft and pretty-sounding.

I also can’t imagine a baby Ian (and similar generation names) but I think that’s just because we are so used to associating those names with 50-year-old men rather than the actual name.

Kai
Levi
Jayden

Worst of the worst

The eleventy million parents using it in that time period probably contribute to my hatred! So overused.

Eugene.

Although I love the pronunciation of Eugenie (but hate its spelling!)

Haha Arlo is the worst!

Don't like Riley, Mason, Lily or Daisy.

All perfectly fine names l just don't like them.

Jackson
Jaxson
Jaxon

And any other horrible made up American names

Living up to your name?

Edith. Dreadful.
Once met a lady with a baby Edith and I had to smile tightly and say it was lovely but inside I was grimacing hard.

aside from ones that get a lot of flack like Jayden, Kaiden, double-barrelled, Nevaeh, Sharon, Karen etc… for no good reason or just by associations I’m not a fan of

violet (looks like violent and reminds me of a really spoiled child?)
scarlett (the scar sound plus above)
Toby
Grace
amelia
ellie
hannah
hugo
rory
samuel
william
adam
michael
mason
logan
grayson
imogen
bella

Giles and Miles
Colin
Kevin
Barry

Paige and Amber - just because I've met some horrible people with those names.

Same for Callum and Cameron.

Louis, as it sounds really wet and miserable to me.

Hannah, as it was the name of the girl who bullied me dreadfully at school.

Nevaeh. Followed by ‘It’s heaven backwards’. Yes we know. Everybody fucking knows. It’s still bloody terrible.

Rose/May/Grace after every name. Overused and unoriginal.

Zoe, Julie, both really dislike them and think they're horrible names. Just can't imagine looking at a sweet baby and going oooo she's a sweet baby Julie or a lovely Zoe. Just horrid.