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 totally expected to see my kids names but out of 8 name (4x first & middle) only 1 middle name has come up and only once.

Maybe I have better taste than I thought lol.

Also Sadie.
Makes me think of "sadist".

Fucking hate Ava, it’s in playgrounds everywhere - think this will be the next generations ‘Karen’

Any of the Kayden/Jayden type names.

Karen, Sharon, Nigel, Sarah, Deidre, Stephen/Steven,

William, Wilfred, Alfred, Archie, in fact any of those Victorian names. And the Kayden/Jayden type ones where it seems someone has just decided to make it up. And Britney, Bree etc. And silly spellings of ordinary names.

30 years ago in my early 20s, I remember discussing baby names with a pregnant colleague and I said I'd love to call a DD Eve - back then no one was called Eve. Except maybe Eve Pollard but I don't think I'd heard of her then.

By the time I had DC it was everywhere and I was so over it. Ubiquity stole my baby name!

Personally I really dislike surnames as names, and Nevaeh is horrific. And I hate my name (Sarah) - practically everyone else was called the same thing at school!

I was doing some admin for a creche recantly came across the name Dusty. Don't know if its a boy or a girl but why, just why?

My closest friendship group is Sarah, Jane,Claire, Louise and Elizabeth. Can you guess we were born in the 70s?!

Dusty is probably after Dusty Springfield, a (female) 60s singer. A lot of the recent trendy names are from jazz, soul or old folk singers, including Arlo - see also Etta, Nina, Woody, Herbie etc.

After Dusty Springfield perhaps?
She was a gay icon.

Yep! And the only options as middle names were either Louise or Jane. Seems to have been the law. I'm a Sarah Louise and had a v common surname at school. There was someone else with exactly the same name as mine on the A level results board - I panicked at the sight of science A level results till I realised I definitely hadn't taken those and saw my own results!!

Haven't RTFT but what about Balonz?

Lots of names I wouldn't use but not sure there are any I hate enough to add to the thread

The parents are only about 20, would be surprised if even their parents had heard of Dusty Springfield. The worst thing is the surname is a boy's name, so like Dusty Micheal. (Michael is not the real name). Awful.

They are all lovely names due a revival in 2030s/ 2040s.
An antidote to all the Lilys, Poppys, Evie's, Mollys etc. which will be the names of their parents.

Many of us may have grandchildren called Jane and Paul and our kids will not understand why we hate it, they'll just think they've hit on something cool and new.

Mildred - it just doesn't sound nice, as others have said reminds me of mildew.
Maud - sounds like mould
Ethel
Barbara
Olga

Derek
Darren
Kenneth
Herbert
Jayden
Jaxon
Nigel

Josh. I hate the sound of it

Balonz is prob up there for me

Amelia
Evie/Eva/Ava/isla
Tim
Janet
Lisa
Karen
Todd

Sarah was very popular in the 90s too, there was 4 in my dds class, and 2 or 3 Kate's.

Haha, snap!

Is this one of those deliberately provocative threads designed to upset people?? Why does it matter what someone else names their child? So many rude comments on here about perfectly normal names

Thanks very much for this.

I always thought the Americans adopted the tradition from the British Isles. Surnames from the many other cultures that settled America are not used as first names, after all.

I’m not keen on anything named after a brand, so things like Chanel, Prada, Mercedes, Armanii, Kenzo, Klein etc etc.

Have come across some of these before.

It makes them sound like law firms.

The Jayden, Kayden and cutesy girl names with Rose or Mae as a middle name go without saying, but also:

Leslie
Sarah
Esther
Harriet
Julie
Rebecca
Shelby
Demi

Rueben
John
George
Angus
Edmund
Oliver