Just for fun: names that are off-limits

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Anonymous wrote:Any nature names, seeming to try too hard to seem like hippies or something:
Melody
Meadow
Daisy
Summer
Prairie
Misty
Willow

Might be more common in the Midwest than DMV (I have several cousins/second cousins in South Dakota with names above)

I love many of these! The only one I really don't like is Misty. The rest are pretty though. I have known several girls and women named Summer and they are universally wonderful. Something about that name. But I also love Daisy and Willow.

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I have always hated the name Bertha. And yes, Berthe can sound pretty-ish in other languages like French and maaaaaaybe German. But Bertha is horrible in English.

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Anonymous wrote:Lavinia or Laverne. Any name starting in lav. I grew up saying lav for bathroom and I feel sorry for any girl named this.

Eugenia reminds of eugenics which is bad.

Willamena or wilhelmina nn Minnie. I just can’t tolerate this name after an insufferable coworker named her dd this 4 years ago and never shuts up about it.

I generally dislike the “old lady but look how cool I am for naming my DB this” names. But that might be because coworker!

Sebastian is a crab.

Felix is a cat or an old man.

Donald. My dad but can never use this because of the stain in office right now.

Any name starting with P because our last name starts with P.

I’ve nixxed all pace names dh has brought up in the past.

This post is from 2019 and I feel like this bit aged really poorly. The "old lady names" are so ubiquitous that I can't imagine having a general dislike of them. This PP must just be absolutely beside herself when she goes to school events and like 70% of the girls are named Lydia, Josephine, Geraldine, Clara, Margaret, etc.

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I have loved the name Willow since the 80s... after all, Joan Armatrading!

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I prefer Willa, after Willa Cather

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Anonymous wrote:Donald, Ivanka, Eric, melania

Was about to post this.

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Anonymous wrote:Barack

ugh

I actually love the name Barack.

ewww

Yes, dear, we heard you. You don’t like the name.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Donald, Ivanka, Eric, melania

Was about to post this.

+1. Donald was never a good name but now it’s up there with Adolf.

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Anonymous wrote:Wayne and Keith. Two of the most spineless men I ever met were named Wayne and Keith. They’re also just ugly names.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Wayne and Keith. Two of the most spineless men I ever met were named Wayne and Keith. They’re also just ugly names.

+1

Funny. My favorite cousin is named Keith Wayne. He goes by both, too.

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huh, I really like the name Melody

I also like Harmony and Cadence

(yes, I was a band geek)

I was hoping to figure out a way to use these as middle names or something, but they just don't flow nicely with a lot of things.

I did wind up using a nature name for my first child's middle name and my second daughter's name is also a nature name (not a well known one - kind of incognito

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Barack worse than Donald

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Anonymous wrote:Barack worse than Donald

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Anonymous wrote:LOL. My dad wanted to name my sister Agnes.

I love this name but I also love all classic saint names.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd never give my children rhyming or versions of the one same name.

Examples from real life include; twins Joey and Zoey, and sisters born eight years apart, Melissa and Melinda.

Grew up with sisters Lisa and Elizabeth (lisa is Italian for Elizabeth).

And I'd never go the all same first letter name pattern for multiple children. I knew a family - let's call them the Harrisons; mom Hazel, dad Harvey and children were Helen, Heather and Heidi. Awful.

I was an adult expecting my own child when I realized my grandma named her first two kids Michelle and Michael. I asked her about it and she told me that Mike was the only name she’s ever liked, and my mom came first so she went with the nearest girl name.

TBF, she didn’t have the best sounding board. Her mother, my great-grandma, named my twin aunts Sharon and Karen. *shudder*

How can you have a great-grandma who was birthing in the age of Karen, ie 1960s? My great-grandma was bearing children in the 1910s and I'm only 35.

I think you have unusually long generations in your family, pp. I’m 32. Great aunts were born in 1951, when my own grandma was 11 years old. Not strange for a catholic family with six kids to have those ages. I think you misplaced Karen as a sixties name. It’s definitely 1950s. My MIL was born in 1954 and is a Karen too.

My great grandma was having babies in the 1930s; my grandma was having babies in the 1950s (including a baby named Karen); my mom had me and my sibling in the 1980s. If you’re 35 and your great grandma had her kids (including your grandparent) in the 1910s, those are some very long age/generational gaps. Around 30 years between each generation being born is more common whereas you had grandparents being born almost 80 years before you were.