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Homer: D'oh! Hate it, always have.
Leon: Has a sly, creepy vibe. Understand it's fairly popular in the UK right now.
Walter: Comically stuffy.
Mortimer: Can't be taken seriously. Mortimer Snerd.
Cecil: Wimp city.
Bernard: Don't like it, but there used to be an older couple living near my mother and stepfather. Their names were Bernie and Rosemary, and they were from New Jersey, or New York, I forget which. Rosemary often called Bernie Beh'Nahd. I never actualy met them but my mother and stepdad thought very highly of them.
Edgar: Creepy and sly. The worst of the Ed names.
Floyd: Ugly sound.
Harvey: Definitely an old-man name, but the kind of cantankerous, opinionated old man you can't help but like in spite of it all.
Milton: Like Walter.
Ralph: The sound of upchucking.
Stanley: The Flat Stanley series is very popular now.
Earl: Ugly ugly ugly.
Alvin: Has a vague fun quality to it. "Alvin. Alvin! Aaaaaal-Viiiin!!!"
Lester: Hate it.
Melvin: AKA Wedgie.
Gus: Hipster chic right now, or seems to be. Good name for an overweight, flatulent dog.
Calvin: Much less old-man than most of the others on this list.
Felix: Not old-mannish to me. Weak and hipster instead.
Clarence: This is kind of nice.
Roger: Went to school with a boy named Roger. I think he might have been a junior. He was very nice. Don't like his name.
Otis: Ug lee. Red neck.
Wallace: Needs a brother named Grommit.
Julian: This is not old-man, it's fairly trendy. Whiny.
Leslie: This is a girl's name now and has been for a couple generations.
Norman: Namby-pamby.
Garfield: Good name for a fat orange cat with a wised-up voice and a fondness for lasagna.
Randolph: Stuffy.
Gilbert: Kind of goofy but not really too bad.

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