Dating a guy with an awful first name (light-hearted)

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To be clear - this is a lighthearted thread - I know he can't help his name and I'm obviously going to carry on seeing this guy - we met on a dating app and I knew his name before matching with him.. but it's a very unsexy name.. really not a fan of it. Can't figure out a nickname that works either (he's told me a nickname his friends use too and I'm not a fan of that either) - although to be clear he has no idea I have any qualms with his name of course!

So for anyone else who's ever done this - I assume you just get used to the name after a while and it stops being so strange!?... Um.. right...!?

Feel free to guess his name/give me your worst names for a guy and if it would ever stop you from dating him?

My first though was Heinrich, but yeah Barry is worse, is it not short for something better he could use instead? Barold?

The name Barry just has negative associations - Victoria Wood had a lot to do with it, also the ballroom dancer Barry from Hi De Hi who had the lavender marriage, and also from being associated with a very drippy singer. Wasn't there also a dweeby Barry in Eastenders years ago?

My elderly widowed aunt met a widower and they got married. At the wedding his middle name was revealed as Algernon. You could heat the audible snigger from the congregation 😆

Everybody hating on Nigel, that’s a fine name. I guess it’s the hatred of Farage whom I like. His bank account was taken. That is outrageous. It tells us who the fascists and authoritarians are. Herb now, that is a truly awful name. The poster talking about Mary as a ubiquitous middle name. Around here growing up it seemed like every girl’s middle name was either Lee or Lynn.

Mike Hunt.

I know several Michael Hunts. I do wonder what their parents were thinking. I could never say, "I'm married to Mike Hunt, I'm in love with Mike Hunt".

Ohhh I think I’d quite like to be married to Heinrich! A big Bavarian wood chopper kind of guy

my husbands name has listed many times on this thread 😂

I also knew an Albanian whose first name was Doris.

Oh, and I once met a man called Gaylord. He was much older though. Funny how that name has fallen out of popularity...

is it not short for something better he could use instead? Barold?

No Barry is not short for Barold 🙃

I dated a Llyr at university. Not an awful name by any means but the pronunciation was such a struggle that in the end he started going by Will (shortened version of his surname)

No, it's always been considered a horrible name. So it's fitting it belongs to Farage.

No. Nigel is definitely worse than Barry! Disclaimer. I may be projecting, because of Awful Nigel in my youth

Lol, I don't mind Barry! I do have an irrational loathing of Jamie though. Names conjure up images of objects for me and Jamie is a baked-bean smeared t-shirt. Not sure I could get over it tbh.

Mind you, I did hate Benedict but I've warmed to it since Benedict Cumberbatch!

There is no name that could possibly be worse than "babe"

🤮

Give me a Gary or a Trevor any day over a "babe".

Lol, I have previous from back in the day with 2 Barry’s and it was a running joke for a while with my friends that I only picked blokes with old bloke names (others were Trevor, Charles, Colin!) even though we were only in our 20’s at the time so the fellas born in the very late 70s/early 80s.

I'd be calling him Big Bad Barry after that fish from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
I sympathise OP I'm dating a Clive

I met a really hot Portuguese chap once, he was lovely, but his name was Noonoo.

(no idea of sp)

You just couldn't, could you?

Gavin. Chris. Graham. Ben. Ryan. Mark. Peter. Andrew. Nigel. Ian.

I've been out with all of these, some longer term than others. The best guys out of the lot are in bold. The twats are in italics.

Ha ha my friend married a guy with a name like this and I remember her saying in the early days "wtf, I can't go out with a man called Xxxx!!"

I thought Nigel was a horrible name long before the batrachian Farage impinged upon my consciousness. Glad he (well, his mother) didn't use up one of the nice names.

You could call him ‘Bear’ It’s quite a cute version of ‘Barry’

Oh fantastic! Brought back lovely memories of that hilarious show!

It does seem as if most Chrises are asses. Which strikes me as unjust.

I’ve always liked the name Mark. Handsome and kind boy from school.

I went out with a Denzil. I hated the name with a passion, it absolutely made me cringe.

Not RTFT, but Cletus!
The slack jawed yokel!