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Mallory is the first thing that popped into my head.

In my family a couple of boys named Reinier all died too young. It's the only name I'd not actually use solely bc it 'feels' unlucky.

Mallory is the first name that comes to mind. Desdemona, Persephone, Tristan, and Dolores.

I don't usually think of names as lucky or unlucky, but there are names with poor associations that I would feel extremely unlucky if I was stuck with them for instance: Dolores (meaning sorrow), Lolita (famous fictional abuse victim), Delilah (meaning weak, languishing and a famous hooker), Jabez (meaning borne in pain), etc..

I don’t believe in luck, good or bad, but one branch of my family tree contains a family where they named a son Henry (after the father) 3 times and lost the baby in infancy three times. Finally they gave up and named the next boy Harry instead, and he lived to a ripe old age!