Names influenced by personality of people you know

[Honeywitch]

I'll go first...
I can't stand the following perfectly innocuous names because of people I knew with that name at primary school/difficult bosses, etc:
Heather
Linda
Simon
Wendy
Wayne
Darren
Julia
Sally
Christina
Hazel

And I love the following because of people I knew with that name!
Miranda
Soraya
Fiorella
Fernando
Sophie
James
Christina (cancelled out effect of first one!)

I used to really love the Name Chloé. It was 2nd Choice for our DD..

..Then I met one.

Wouldn't even dream of naming another child of mine that now! So glad we choose our 1st name for DD instead!

Isn't it wierd how people can really affect your name choices?

I used to love Sally, but then had a bullying boss called Sally and went right off it.

Apart from her my strongest reactions to names comes from primary school, strange how that stays with you...

I used to love the name Duncan, but then moved schools and a boy called Duncan used to bully me mercilessly.

Julia (especially if Welsh as new Aussie PM)is bad news to me.

Have two lovely friends called Linda and have finally met a Susan who cancels out my suspicion of people with that name.

Teaching children has a serious effect on your decisions! Never got on with Nicoles/Simones and always trouble from Billys/Bobbys! As it happened, chose names for DDs that I'd never taught (although have subsequently and they've all been lovely!)

a friends cool older sister was Catherine and i really liked that name, til we had a witch of a french Au-Pair called Catherine! ruined it!

Always liked the name Freya since i met an irish little girl called Freya, was so confident and grown up for her age (6) but so cute and funny with it.