Any names you don’t like ( either through association or just because)

sara I totally disagree.. how can you make a judgement about a person or child because of their name ? ? That is such a strange and shallow way to view people

crazyH

Awwwww Mawbe - I love him already ?

Thank you - I do too!

Kandinsky

Unfortunately - a person is defined by their name, that’s why so many celebrities change theirs.

I simply do not agree
If that is the case, the omission lies with the person doing the defining.
Celebrities change their names to stand out from us lesser mortals -and some of them choose some pretty daft names. Alvin Stardust, Gary Glitter?
And then foist equally daft names on their children - Zowie Bowie, Peaches Geldof, Apple Martin (Paltrow) - but I’m not judging!

blonducot you have totally misunderstood there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying you can’t stand a name that’s totally normal but when posters say I can’t stand anyone with the name of a,b or c because all ——- are horrible
Nsna8 YOU are talking about the name not the person but unfortunately some posters on here have been making it very personal, and unkind if you read through them
Well just because Mumsnet is cruel and unforgiving do we have to be the same kardinsky
bluesaffire The thought that teachers could be so limited in their compassion as to judge children by the name they have been given absolutely horrifies me

I don’t think you can help but make judgments about people by their names, you might turn out to be wrong, but judging by the teachers comments on here, they’re very often right.

Unfortunately - a person is defined by their name, that’s why so many celebrities change theirs.

Awwwww Mawbe - I love him already ?

A bit like assuming that the wee boy with the ginger hair, freckles and sticky out ears is bound to be trouble and putting him in the front row!
(That would be my GS’s card marked)

What I find most disturbing is the teachers who looked at the register and formed a low opinion of a child just by their given name! Might explain quite a lot. I accept that sometimes there will be personality clashes between teachers and pupils, but honestly, prejudging a child on what their parent named them is dreadful and totally unprofessional!

What a negative thread!
A person is not defined by their name and any associations with the name will not be those of another person.
We have had threads in the past about GPS horrified at the choice of name for a new baby. I hope they kept their reservations to themselves.
Apart from the (dare I say) ridiculous names based on a misunderstanding of a word (and no, Chlamydia is NOT a lovely name , why do you think Roald Dahl chose Verruca Salt?) or obvious villains of history - Adolf Hitler ffortescue-Smythe for instance would be a no-no - look at the person not the name and if a name reminds you of somebody you didn’t like, to paraphrase a well-known saying, don’t judge a book by its title.

The name Donna,iv`e known two women with this name and they were only happy when making others lives a misery.
Apologies to those nice Donna`s out there.

BlueSapphire I was the same when teaching.

My most troublesome pupils were Elvis and Troy!

Some of it’s generational. As mentioned earlier, Mumsnet has regular no-holds-barred threads about baby names. One that’s always met with horror and the chav accusation is Jay. I got that reaction from my lot a few years ago when I said how much I liked it. My point of reference was Jay Gatsby.

If anyone on here has that name in their family, good for you - I still love it!

Alison (sorry Alisons!) - maybe this is because I have known 3 Alisons and none of them have been very nice. Fiona is another name I'm not fond of. My sister was going to call her baby Fiona and I mentioned it to a new neighbour whom I'd just met and said that I hope she (my sister) didn't as I thought it wasn't a nice name - my neighbour then said that her daughter was called Fiona (ooops!). My neighbour and I did go on to be good friends and her daughter, Fiona was a lovely girl.

I once hated Vivienne, because it was the name of a really vicious little bully at my school.

Changed my mind completely in my 20s when I met a Vivienne who’s lovely and still a close friend. So often IMO it’s the connotations that put you off.

There are a couple of boys’ names I really dislike - enough to have told dds, please don’t ever bring one of those home and tell me you’re going to marry him!
But I won’t state them here for fear of causing offence.

If we all liked the same names, we would all be called the same, could get confusing.
One of my grandchildren has a
Classic but rarely used name, I really like it, but a lot of people don’t, including some of our family, but that’s who he is, and I can’t imagine him being anything else.

Isis is a nice name, I agree but you wouldn’t be game to name someone that now. A shame. Karen might be another one, too. I used to dislike Benjamin but I liked Ben so could get over that. Only because I knew a Benjamin years ago who was very loud and vulgar.

I don't think there's anything to be get offended about here - just because someone doesn't like YOUR name or that of your son, daughter, grandchild etc, doesn't mean they wouldn't like you personally! It's just a name - they're not talking about the actual person. Jeez...let's all hop aboard the easily offended bus!

One of the most unfortunate names to have must be Isis, I know a young girl called that. It’s such a classic, pretty name, but the connotations put on it now are so bad.

Jackyb

My brothers and grandads names are mentioned as well, I really don’t think they’d be at all bothered.

Sorry, as I said DS1 is named after his great grandfather. I think my phone just prefers writing DS1 to DS2. In my 2nd post I wanted to say that DS2 is named after my Dad.

Here in Germany names have completely different connotations. My name is considered really chav-like and is used as a typical name for dumb blonde jokes.

I absolutely hate my middle name, which is also my mothers name, I never use it unless I’m absolutely forced to, and then it makes me cringe.

There is a girl's name which I hated when I was little as it belonged to a girl in my class whom I didn't like. However, I then acquired a lovely little cousin with that name, and I started to like it so much that we gave it to DD as a middle name.

My DS1 is named after my Dad. Nonetheless, all the boys I know with that name have been real terrors (including DS2). I did begin to think it was connected with the name.

My DS1's name has been listed as belonging to unpleasant people but I didn't take it personally, although I was surprised.

I always thought of it as quite neutral and anyway it was the name of his paternal great grandfather.