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

Someone slagged off both my sons' names at one go on the first page of this thread!

While my instant reaction was one of indignation, I am not genuinely offended.
It's extremely unlikely that she has ever met my sons, and I'm sure she would have a much better opinion of those names if she had

There are quite a few names I dislike but I wouldn’t post them simply as wouldn’t want to upset anyone with the same name, so I’m going to post a few names I love instead, Amanda Elsie,Olivia Leonie. Harrison, Nathan, Jake Dave, None of which are my AC names, as don’t want to be reconised

Ro60

When I was in high school for some odd reason my friend & I thought the name Amelia was soo old fashioned & hilarious - would have us in fits of laughter.
Now it's a popular name I can't imagine what caused the amusement.

One of my grandmothers was Amelia. The other was Hannah. When I was little I thought they were fusty old-lady names, and both were young women by the time Queen Victoria died. Both names have become very fashionable since.

I think we're probably all influenced by people we have known, especially in childhood. For a long time I had a downer on Rachels even though I've known some lovely Rachels (and the less common but more authentic Rachael) and I suspect that it's because the Rachels I knew in childhood were "goody-goodies"!

Amelia, Hannah, Emily or Alice may have come back into fashion but for some reason names like Ethel or Bertha never do. I wonder why?

Some precious stones - Ruby, Emerald, Pearl - come back but Beryl never does (despite my teenage hero Beryl Burton, novelist Beryl Bainbridge and the wonderful Beryl Reid). Sapphire has never really been, I think, it seems to belong to drag queens, and I've never heard of a Zircon (I refuse to accept diamonds and would always rather have a nice zircon instead, though nobody is offering me either these days!

When I was in the park last summer there was a little girl called Barbara, and my granddaughter has a swimming friend called Norman, both fairly unusual.

I like Ethel as a name, LadyHonoriaDedlock - it reminds me of the long-suffering big sister in the Just William books. Names mooted for the granddaughters I never had were Edie, Ada and Maud. I think it's lovely that names go round in circles like this.

David and Victoria Coren Mitchell's little girl is called Barbara.

I had an Aunt Gertrude. I wonder if that name will ever come back again?

Florence - an old family name I refused to encumbered my DDs with. One had a French exchange pal with the name & lamented "why didn't you call me that?''
Now it's top of the charts! I
I wonder if either of my expected GCs will have it ?

Lady Honoria, you have tempted me to post on this somewhat dodgy thread. My neighbour’s daughter Onyx is a lovely, characterful toddler.

Gwyneth
I know a young family with two daughters, Gertrude and Agatha.
I love the name Florence, we have one in our family.

Sara1954 That’s nice to hear and I like the name Florence too. I once played Florence in the Magic Roundabout so the name always brings happy memories for me.

I went to school with a boy whose surname was Ellis, he was not very clean and used to smell quite a bit.

I always said I’d never marry anyone with that surname. Guess what!

Not the smelly boy though.

Elrel

Lady Honoria, you have tempted me to post on this somewhat dodgy thread. My neighbour’s daughter Onyx is a lovely, characterful toddler.

Ooh, Onyx. Interesting.
That's quite a harsh sound. It sounds more masculine to my ears. It's a bit Sci-Fi too.