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?

I felt like this over a, wait for it, Ernest. This was 30 years ago, he was 28 at the time.

I went out with a Kenneth. Eurgh!

Barry is emerging as a dog’s name where I live, but then it is Australia.

Nothing wrong with Barry, it's a Welsh town.
Better than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I had never met a Walter irl until recently. Within the last year, I have now met three!

It's like Where Is Walter now ...

I am in my 50s and so are they. Why am I suddenly surrounded by Walters?

Ummm nick name for a Barry, ba or arry or bar. Can't help sorry

we've been married 3G years now and I'm used to the name (and the even more awful abbreviation of it). But I still dislike his taste in shoes.

You've been married for 3,000 years?!?!?!

You win @maddiemookins16mum
Ernest

Snap!

I once encountered a man by the name of Royston. I don't know if all/most men known as Roy are just Roy or if they all have the full name of Royston?!

I can't say what his surname was, as it would be very outing (no, it's not 'Vasey'!), but both names said together sound exactly like a typical exclamation of surprise that Robin would have made to Batman

I can’t imagine having sex with a man called Barry or Kevin.

The guy I lost my virginity to was called Laurence but everyone called him Lol. 😁

About 25 years ago I had a HUGE crush on this guy I knew through my job at the time. Tall, dark, built like a rugby player and sooo good looking! Even went on a couple of dates with him! He was called...Trevor. So gutted. 🤣

Just call him B. Simples

Trevor
Colin
Archibald
Harold
Malcom
Desmond
Frankenstein
Rupert
Keith

Leslie. Knew it would never work out so didn't waste his time. His name was a big reason.

Can't stand the names Wayne or Simon. For some reason Simon seems such a wet lettuce name to me.

Yeah Barry is terrible. Baz even worse

Genuinely amazed my husband's name hasn't been mentioned yet. Although most of my ex's have come up multiple times. Starting to wonder if I had a reputation in my youth for not laughing people out of bed for having a daft name, maybe they tipped each other off?

I had a long standing friend named Barry. We could talk for hours, all night on many occasions, about such things as what is inside a washing machine (yeah, no jokes) and why he batch cooks 7 meals for the week ahead, all the same meal and how he re-soled a favourite pair of shoes. Everything non-controversial under the sun and you can't imagine how many topics we covered, often overnight, 8-10 hours at a time. He lived in Basingstoke and I live in Surrey. We never met and I can't remember how we got in touch. He was divorced with an adult daughter.
When I met my OH the friendship continued and my OH used to say, 'You haven't been speaking to the lovely Barry again, have you!' when I mentioned an unexpected topic. He hated that I found him so interesting, and he was.

Now I'm wondering how he's doing. 🤔😂

That was in 2012-2016.

I'm disappointed it wasn't Balonz.

My friend is married to a Neil and she hates it, calls him Nez.

I love Lee
But then it’s a family name

No...Barry actually lived (maybe still lives) in Bracknell, not Basingstoke. It's been some years...🙄😁

But he wasn't called Gene! He was Eugene, which is a really geeky awful name!