What are the current “naughty boy/girl” names?

[Turdd]

i know there’s been threads like this done before I read some from 20 years ago when I was a kid myself. Obviously baby naming has changed a lot since then.
Because there will undoubtedly be someone who says this is mean spirited then this is your warning to not bother reading it.

I’m curious to see if my kids names come up because they did on a few of the old threads 😂. Comments from teachers especially welcome

Enjoying this thread as none of my dc’s names feature (they are teens now) but lots of my friends’ littler dcs names do! Josh was the naughty boy name back in my day.

Finn appears to be favoured by parents who opt for gentle parenting in my area…

The other half’s name has been mentioned about a million times. I can’t wait to tell him

Gently extricate yourself from it.

Both sound neglected rather than naughty.

Archie! Every Archie I know 🤣🤣
And I would say the are all posh/middle class based on my area

My son's name has appeared, and it's likely to show up more as it's a popular toddler name at the moment.

I'm not fussed though. It's not a unique name, just a classic boy's name that's quite popular at the moment. He's a compliant if lively little soul, so I'm not expecting him to sit on a naughty list - maybe a silly list.

Is Ethel a name in school nowadays 🫨

Back in 2000, a then noted educational behaviour management expert ran a training session in our school.

I was surprised when he stated that names could be a clue to possible behavioural problems. The example that he gave was that a father who insisted on projecting his idea of masculinity would give his son a name like "Wayne" (from the stereotypical masculinity of John Wayne).

If that ever held true, I suspect that Wayne's World put paid to that.

I agree that stereotyping is unhelpful, but the theory that a name can give a limited insight into the parents possibly holds some water.

The juxtaposition of my own forenames is rather unfortunate and came about because Dad had English as a second language and left the naming up to Mum and Mum was intelligent but had left school at 14. I sometimes wonder what my teachers made of it.

Let’s get the teachers from diverse backgrounds in. And see the outcomes… not change because that isn’t the cause.

There was one Archie when I was at school - he actually was an Archibald - and he was a nice lad. Apart from the doctor's son who moved to a private school at the end of P6, we were all working class bairns.

I don’t really think this is fair! I am the same parent to both of my children but one is noticeably naughtier than the other. I’m always telling her to behave and explaining the consequences of her actions and disciplining her. Her older sister never needed to be told, she just behaved. Kids are individuals - it’s not always parents or environment or anything outside themselves.

I have an 80s "naughty" kid name. I was a little shit. Unsettled home life, parents didn't care etc. Sometimes the stereotypes hold true.

Of course it is.
I’ve worked as a teacher and with other teachers.

Anyone that sounds like a WC background or lives on a council estate is immediately judged.

Obviously not all teachers but a lot with old fashioned views.
Its shocking to think these are in charge of our kids but yet have so much prejudice against them (and we wonder why black and mixed race kids have a higher expulsion rate for the same behaviour as white kids).

I've never come across one. I think that the most 'old-fashioned' name that we ever had was a 'Phemie', back in the '80s. Her full name was Euphemia, presumably after a grandmother.

When I was at school, we'd see 'Senga' as an alternative to 'Agnes' in order to avoid being old-fashioned. I now only see that name attached to my age group - mid-sixties.

We used to see a lot of names inspired by soap characters. One year, I had an S1 class containing a Blake, an Alexis and a Fallon.

But children are a product of their environment and kids who have been disturbed all night as their parents are high on drugs or who get no love at home will probably not have as much energy and focus available to them to put into their studies, their energy is needed for other more basic needs.

Teddy

I don’t think this is as relevant to names as people think it is. I know parents like this with kids called Hugo and Annabelle (often assumed to be upper class names)

Poor kids, were social services aware? This reminds me of that awful story of the girl who was starved to death by her parents and neighbours reported afterwards that she used to come into their gardens to eat from the bird table.

I was just referring to previous poster who made out they were not misbehaved as Archies tend to be posh.
My Son is also an Archiebald and tbh when I do have to tell him off it is Archibald which is used rather than the Archie. 🤣

Blue. Yes like the colour. Mind you the parents are fucking awful too.

😂Finlay is my eldest boys name 😂 no trouble at School however he can be a real little shit at home HAHAHAHA

Callum , Joseph , Josh , Ava , Archie , Reggie . Ronnie , holly , isobel , Harley , Harvey , Tyler

Oh wow Lexie's are definitely making the list. I knew a very bossy/mean girl called Lexie.

My cats' names have been mentioned in this thread, and I can confirm that they are both extremely badly behaved.