Common baby names you dislike

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Anonymous wrote:I met a Maclaren recently. Seriously? After a stroller? I like the name - but not after every Tom, Dick, and Harry have a stroller emblazoned with the name on it.

Why do you think I named DS Bob? No need for vanity plates now. I'm thinking of naming DD Bugaboo.

What? Graco and Evenflo too common for you?!

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Anonymous wrote:Jebidiah, Jedidiah....really any of the "diah" names make my skin crawl.

I also dislike Gunner very much.....

I'm sure I'll think of some more groaners to post....

Does anyone really name their kid Gunner? If you do, beware you will get laughed at by anyone who ever went to law school. It's a slur name for the douchebags that shoot their hand up in class to answer every question.

I never knew a Gunner, but I knew a Gunnar (who's probably about 5 now). It's an old Nordic name and while I probably wouldn't name my child Gunnar I don't see anything wrong with the name. In fact, it's quite popular in Sweden and Norway.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike Colin, Collin, Maxwell, Brandon, Brendan, Conor, Conner, Justin, Jaden, and Gabriella.

Why all of those names and then Gabriella? Is it suddenly making a come back and why is that the only girl's name that you dislike?!? Seriously curious.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike Colin, Collin, Maxwell, Brandon, Brendan, Conor, Conner, Justin, Jaden, and Gabriella.

Why all of those names and then Gabriella? Is it suddenly making a come back and why is that the only girl's name that you dislike?!? Seriously curious.

I'm betting it's because the pp watched too many episodes of Real Housewives of NJ

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Hazel (makes me think of the old sitcom with a maid named Hazel), Sydney (for a girl -- it still makes me think of a nerdy boy), Gretchen (don't want a name with "retch" in the middle), Jed, Zeke or Jake (they sound too much like a hired man at a farm), Danielle (trashy), Kristin/Kristen (just don't like 'em), Emma, Ella, and Sophie (would have been nice, but WAY too overdone), anything starting with and/or including an "x" or a "z" -- except Alexander --Zoe, Alexa, etc. (sounds like you're trying to hard to be different). O.K., anyone else left to offend?

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Anonymous wrote:It took 18 pages, but my kids' name finally came up!

me too. . .do we have kids with the same name??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jebidiah, Jedidiah....really any of the "diah" names make my skin crawl.

I also dislike Gunner very much.....

I'm sure I'll think of some more groaners to post....

Does anyone really name their kid Gunner? If you do, beware you will get laughed at by anyone who ever went to law school. It's a slur name for the douchebags that shoot their hand up in class to answer every question.

I have come across a few Gunners, but when I was living in Chicago and WI-apparently it's a common Scandinavian name. . .so I was told anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: Alexander. I know a million of 'em too. Funny thing is, I wanted to name my baby Alexender, after two different great-grandfathers. (I had a girl, whose top-20 name hasn't shown up here... yet.) If I had a son named Alexander, I would feel as if I had some right to the name that all those other wannabes didn't. Which would be totally dumb, because names are obviously cyclical, and a bunch of the current crop of Alexanders are probably named after their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, too!

Why aren't we seeing preschool classes full of Carols and Donnas and Keiths and Jerrys, I wonder? Do you think the day will come?? Though I do know a little Stanley. Maybe he's ahead of the curve.

I've been thinking lately how much I like the sound of the name Amy. It was the Ella of my childhood, went out of vogue, but I hope it comes back...

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Nola for a girl

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The name Alexander is so popular because it is one of the best male names ever. However, it's not popular where I'm from & so my son is the only one in his school and I've only ever met one other. My second son also has an attractive and classic name...but it hasn't been mentioned.

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Funny that my name and my sister's name is on here but my kids, who have fairly common names, are not. Neither of us have ever liked our names so who knows what our parents were smoking in the late 60's/early 70's!

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Anonymous wrote:Jebidiah, Jedidiah....really any of the "diah" names make my skin crawl.

I also dislike Gunner very much.....

I'm sure I'll think of some more groaners to post....

Does anyone really name their kid Gunner? If you do, beware you will get laughed at by anyone who ever went to law school. It's a slur name for the douchebags that shoot their hand up in class to answer every question.

Gunnar, not Gunner. It is Scandinavian.

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wasn't Gunnar on Friends? He worked in the coffee shop and liked Rachel )I hate the name Rachael, by the way)

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Anonymous wrote:wasn't Gunnar on Friends? He worked in the coffee shop and liked Rachel )I hate the name Rachael, by the way)

No, that was Gunther.

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Well, I have had 2 nieces and 3 nephews have been names so far. My children seem to be left off of this page while my sister, my daughter and I have all been named on the other thread of likable names.