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HelpRe: Names I Hate (edited to correct a mess)
in reply to a message by Billina
Margaret: Never saw the appeal in this name. Yeah, it's classic, but so what? Classic doesn't equal good.
Mallory: Yuck. Sounds like a snooty girls' boarding-school student circa 1987; her chief hangers-on/best friends are Meredith and Caroline.
Edith: Hate it. Seems to be a BTN favorite, which makes no sense to me. Probably just because it hasn't been popular for seventy-something years.
Primrose: It would be a silly name even for a milk cow, which is all it's fit for.
Abigail: It's all right, but I like Abby better.
Ashley: Second favorite girls' name.
Verity: Good name for an insurance company, maybe. Verity, Fidelity, and Compassion, Inc.
Avery: Never liked it, on a boy or a girl.
Ella: Hate it. Ellen is so much prettier.
Brooklyn: Lame.
Bella: Very much a dog's name to me.
Emerson: Yawn.
Addison: Yawn and gag.
Lola: A dog's name, or an outdated, trying-so-hard-to-be-sexy kind of name. Big poofy hair, makeup two inches thick, dragon-lady fingernails and a big fat butt crammed into skin-tight jeans, or rather the skin-tight jeans are crammed into a big fat butt.
Hope: Not bad.
Ireland: Lame.
Esme: Like a sneeze you try to smother and end up getting snot all over your sleeve.
London: Cheesy.
Isla: Does nothing for me.
Blaise/Blaze: Blaze is a good name for a horse. But on a person it sounds porntastic.
Cruz: Even more porntastic.
Cullen: It's a cull.
Jagger: Giant lips and a seventy-year-old man who thinks he still has what he had at twenty.
Brent: Mostly neutral on this.
Wade: No go.
Wayne: Very middle-aged man.
Channing: Silly.
Tanner: Becoming a very popular dog's name.
Hunter: I'm over it; I don't get all outraged over it but I never really liked it.
Kingston: Kingston Livingston III was a fun Muppet.
Curtis: Very redneck middle-aged kind of name, but there's way worse.
Atticus: Another BTN drool-collector. Dumb.
Brock: Sounds to me like somebody choking on a piece of broccoli.
Grady: Yuck.
Cash: I happen to love cash, but only in my pocket. A friend of mine had a baby shower for her sister a few years ago, and the sister was going to name the baby boy Cash. Well, people kept making jokes about her carrying Cash, and at the shower the activity was to decorate onesies for the baby. So I saw the person next to me drawing dollar signs on her onesie so I decided not to do it myself and instead drew frogs on it since that was how the nursery was decorated, but I had planned to do dollar signs. Anyway, everybody except me and one other woman (I forget what she drew) ended up making onesies with dollar signs, little cash registers, coins, etc, painted on them. The baby was eventually named either Daniel or Christopher, I forget which.
Ashton: Sounds like a sneeze but not as messy as Esme.
Asher: Another sneeze.
Chance: Ridiculous.
Braxton: More choking on broccoli.
Tucker: Tucker, Tucker bo bucker, banana-fana-fo ... nuff said.
Malachi: Ugly.
Ezra: Like throwing up.
Jace: Another of those cheap-romance-novel type names.
Mallory: Yuck. Sounds like a snooty girls' boarding-school student circa 1987; her chief hangers-on/best friends are Meredith and Caroline.
Edith: Hate it. Seems to be a BTN favorite, which makes no sense to me. Probably just because it hasn't been popular for seventy-something years.
Primrose: It would be a silly name even for a milk cow, which is all it's fit for.
Abigail: It's all right, but I like Abby better.
Ashley: Second favorite girls' name.
Verity: Good name for an insurance company, maybe. Verity, Fidelity, and Compassion, Inc.
Avery: Never liked it, on a boy or a girl.
Ella: Hate it. Ellen is so much prettier.
Brooklyn: Lame.
Bella: Very much a dog's name to me.
Emerson: Yawn.
Addison: Yawn and gag.
Lola: A dog's name, or an outdated, trying-so-hard-to-be-sexy kind of name. Big poofy hair, makeup two inches thick, dragon-lady fingernails and a big fat butt crammed into skin-tight jeans, or rather the skin-tight jeans are crammed into a big fat butt.
Hope: Not bad.
Ireland: Lame.
Esme: Like a sneeze you try to smother and end up getting snot all over your sleeve.
London: Cheesy.
Isla: Does nothing for me.
Blaise/Blaze: Blaze is a good name for a horse. But on a person it sounds porntastic.
Cruz: Even more porntastic.
Cullen: It's a cull.
Jagger: Giant lips and a seventy-year-old man who thinks he still has what he had at twenty.
Brent: Mostly neutral on this.
Wade: No go.
Wayne: Very middle-aged man.
Channing: Silly.
Tanner: Becoming a very popular dog's name.
Hunter: I'm over it; I don't get all outraged over it but I never really liked it.
Kingston: Kingston Livingston III was a fun Muppet.
Curtis: Very redneck middle-aged kind of name, but there's way worse.
Atticus: Another BTN drool-collector. Dumb.
Brock: Sounds to me like somebody choking on a piece of broccoli.
Grady: Yuck.
Cash: I happen to love cash, but only in my pocket. A friend of mine had a baby shower for her sister a few years ago, and the sister was going to name the baby boy Cash. Well, people kept making jokes about her carrying Cash, and at the shower the activity was to decorate onesies for the baby. So I saw the person next to me drawing dollar signs on her onesie so I decided not to do it myself and instead drew frogs on it since that was how the nursery was decorated, but I had planned to do dollar signs. Anyway, everybody except me and one other woman (I forget what she drew) ended up making onesies with dollar signs, little cash registers, coins, etc, painted on them. The baby was eventually named either Daniel or Christopher, I forget which.
Ashton: Sounds like a sneeze but not as messy as Esme.
Asher: Another sneeze.
Chance: Ridiculous.
Braxton: More choking on broccoli.
Tucker: Tucker, Tucker bo bucker, banana-fana-fo ... nuff said.
Malachi: Ugly.
Ezra: Like throwing up.
Jace: Another of those cheap-romance-novel type names.
This message was edited 8/15/2014, 8:52 AM
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Edith is jumping at least ten spots each year.
BtN is a good indicator of trends and popularity.
BtN is a good indicator of trends and popularity.
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I personally love Edith, and highly agree with your assesment of the pretty Ellen.
I love Blaise (but it's a family name, and said family member was definitely not a porn star). Agree with a lot of your boy comments... and find it distasteful that a whole room of people would make fun of a baby's name like that.
Poor mama.
I love Blaise (but it's a family name, and said family member was definitely not a porn star). Agree with a lot of your boy comments... and find it distasteful that a whole room of people would make fun of a baby's name like that.
Poor mama.
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nobody was deliberately trying to hurt the mother's feelings ...
And I'm pretty sure it wasn't planned because nobody knew what the activity was going to be. Cash just means money, that's all.
And I'm pretty sure it wasn't planned because nobody knew what the activity was going to be. Cash just means money, that's all.
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Ah. I see.
From what you wrote, I thought people were making fun of the name en masse.
In any case, she probably did feel bad that so many people made the same onesie. I used to love the name Soraya, but my mom kept saying Psoriasis. She meant it as a joke, but my daughter quickly lost the name Soraya (luckily before it was announced).
Well, at least she found out the extent of people's connection with the name before she used it.
From what you wrote, I thought people were making fun of the name en masse.
In any case, she probably did feel bad that so many people made the same onesie. I used to love the name Soraya, but my mom kept saying Psoriasis. She meant it as a joke, but my daughter quickly lost the name Soraya (luckily before it was announced).
Well, at least she found out the extent of people's connection with the name before she used it.
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