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?

Well today I saw the name Victony. I mean, fuck sake, just pick a name. Don't combine.

Emma it's just a boring safe name.
Violet I absolutely detest this name.

There are plenty of names that I dont like, I'm sure no one likes all names.
But 2 that seem to grate on me when I hear them are Noah and Caleb.
I'm not even sure why. I know perfectly lovely kids with those names, but I just cant seem to like the names

Keith

Yes I find Emma the ultimate epitome of 'dull'.

Like theres nothing 'wrong' with it but I just can't imagine that in 9 months thats the greatest name a mind can possibly come up with... its just so plain and uninspired.

Duncan - sounds like a blocked nose
Kevin
Darryl
Dean
Nevaeh (that’s not how ‘heaven’ sounds backwards!)
Anything hyphenated with Rae or Mae
Justin and Dustin
Bradley - sounds like a tool
Maggie - unpleasant sounding, like an insult
Spencer - underwear
Angela
Samantha
Wilma
Wendy - boat comes in…!
Theresa - don’t mind Tess but don’t like this
Hilary

Better stop there!

Barry - little baby Barry 😂

Ellie, Millie, Teddy and Jackie. Any other spellings of those names.
As pp has said Ellie and millie end up as elleh and milleh. Teddy is far too twee but really popular and I have never once met a nice Jackie so it's really coloured the name for me.

I hate surnames used as first names.

Mingus (makes me think minge)
Mungo (makes me think mung beans)
Fergus (makes me think fungus)
Clive (sounds smarmy to me)
Maude (makes me think maudlin)
Mildred (makes me think mildew)
Ethel (didn't like Ethel Hallow in The Worst Witch)
Ottilie (makes me think otter)
Ptolemy (twat)
Clementine (makes me think phlegm)

There are plenty of names that are perfectly lovely but I just wouldn't use them, doesn't mean I hate them though. The ones above though... I just can't get past what I think of when I hear them.

Any long, posh or frilly names that don’t have short versions that I would be comfortable to go by most of the time as an adult. E.g. Felicity or Aurelia would be too fussy for me to feel happy to use day to day as an adult, but only have short versions that feel a bit too informal to me as a main name to introduce myself with or to sign off an email with at work (Flick / Fliss / Rory).

Anything like Teddie, Archie, Billie, Tommie, where the parents think they are naming a baby rather than, hopefully, someone who will be lumbered with their baby name for 80+ years.

Peregrine is indeed a kind of falcon. And a silly posh name 😂. They really are names that posh people use though. Maybe that's why they also have an equally silly nickname like Bunty or Squiffy!

Lincoln
Jackson
Mason
Landon
Oaklen
Oakley
Arlo

Violet (too close to Violent)
Jade / Ruby / other gem or stone names (just feel tacky)
Max (boy at school was nicknamed Waxy Max)
Lydia (gets shortened to Lid which is just horrid!)

I agree with you.

My daughter's name is on here as is my granddaughter's name. That's ok - we have reasons for their name and we, and more importantly they, like them.
I hate my name - it isn't here but I think it should be.
It would be boring if we all liked the same names.
I personally hate the name Alexander - not because of the name in itself but the people associated with it

I loved Arlo the Dinosaur movie and it's the first thing I think of when I hear the name Arlo
I am not a fan of Niveah or Archie but would never tell my friends who have named their children these names. They had their reasons too

Oh you just reminded me that DS met a girl called 'Clemmie' (short for Clementine, but went by Clemmie) and the first time I heard it it was so out of the blue that I was confused and I hope my face didn't show the horror my mind felt in the moment.

I LOVE Norman Reedus but when I found out his DS was called Mingus Reedus I nearly choked, it sounds like a spell a wizard would cast but I guess celebs are a different world.

I have always though Mungo would be a great dogs name though, if I got a dog it would be high on my list of possible names.

Arlo. No idea why it's suddenly so popular

Des
Stephanie
Sophie
Glen
Timothy
Judith
Caroline
Julian

My DS's name has popped up now! Somehow I'm coping. Don't even like my own name so I've learned to tough it out

Lots of these names are just out of fashion. So tell us nothing about your personal taste except you go with current fashion.

I find it interesting how many names I love others hate: Sarah, Alice, Emma, Sebastian, George, Louis.
Any baby I met with those names I'd think: gorgeous name.

I agree with that names ending in ie have really been overdone and now seem twee.

And I say that as someone who 20 years ago went with the fashion and has a ie named Dd.
I'd choose something different if I were choosing now.

In terms of girls names...I really dislike Evie. So popular, so meh

Candida.
I don't think I'll ever understand why anyone would want to name their child after a yeast infection.

Amelia
Theo