Just for fun: names that are off-limits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

I would nix a name that means something strange in another language
Like Marika, Melina, girls name ending in o, boys name ending in a

Pascal and Pierre can also be awful in some cultural contexts

Long names have become unusual

[Anonymous]

Dick
John
Johnson

La Trina
La anything

Jughead
(Though Archie is fine!)
Moose
Bubba

Krystal
Kandi
Any Stripper name
Any PIMP name

[Anonymous]

Declan

[Anonymous]

I know someone who just named a baby John

I am a weirdo that actually likes the name Crystal (my big sister in my sorority who is now a doctor) and Candice (my best friend and one of the smartest people you will ever meet)

I also like Amber and Jade.

My first child’s middle name is Dawn and we considered it as a first name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who just named a baby John

I am a weirdo that actually likes the name Crystal (my big sister in my sorority who is now a doctor) and Candice (my best friend and one of the smartest people you will ever meet)

I also like Amber and Jade.

My first child’s middle name is Dawn and we considered it as a first name.

What's wrong with John?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would nix a name that means something strange in another language
Like Marika, Melina, girls name ending in o, boys name ending in a

Pascal and Pierre can also be awful in some cultural contexts

Long names have become unusual

I’m curious about this. What do you mean?

I know one of each!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm sure it was out there in the 50s, but it peaked in the mid to late 60s or maybe ca 1970. That's why Karen's a meme now about persnickety middle aged white women, not grandmas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any name that whose pronunciation has to be explained as a first name. Knew an Anna whose parents pronounced it the European way ( Ah-na). She was livid whenever someone mispronounced her name. She just got so sick of having the same conversation over and over. I would never do that to my kid.

Other examples:

Maria pronounced with a long I ( Mariah)
Clive pronounced the a long e ( Cleve)
Joanna with the syllable juncture in a different place.
( Joan-na)

Totally fine if that’s the standard pronunciation in your home country . Otherwise, it’s mean.

Agreed. I'm a Moira pronounced More-uh. When I see my name on paper I think Moi-rah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who just named a baby John

I am a weirdo that actually likes the name Crystal (my big sister in my sorority who is now a doctor) and Candice (my best friend and one of the smartest people you will ever meet)

I also like Amber and Jade.

My first child’s middle name is Dawn and we considered it as a first name.

What's wrong with John?

I'm not the pp you quoted but i assume it's because it's often a name for something negative:

John=person who patronizes prostiutes
John=another name for the bathroom

[Anonymous]

Wallace
Grover
Zeke

Bertha
Agnes
Gertrude

[Anonymous]

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 can you do you one better - I knew a family that was like Mike and Mary who had Michael, Megan, and then a few years later had Sarah. Poor Sarah! If you’re going for that single letter you have to commit!!

[Anonymous]

It just so happened that Joseph married Mary
But why did they name their son Andrew

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just so happened that Joseph married Mary
But why did they name their son Andrew

Mary and Joseph were the most popular name choice for b/g twins in the US for decades.

[Anonymous]

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)