I’ve always liked the name [name]Ivy[/name]. It was always cute in my mind. But I was at someone’s house who had a dog named [name]Ivy[/name] and then, the entire time, I felt like I was saying IV. Like they use in hospitals. So it’s definitely scratched off my list haha!
I used to babysit a [name]Cody[/name] who was a budding sociopath.
I’ve never had that. If anything I’ve had the opposite. I’ll meet someone with a name and then I’ll like it even more!
I think I did with [name]Charlotte[/name]. Before I met a [name]Charlotte[/name] I was head over heals for the name. More than that I had an image of what a little [name]Charlotte[/name] would be like, a tiny little girl with a round angelic face, with blue eyes and fair hair just like my childhood doll named [name]Charlotte[/name]. I would have used it even if it was a top ten name. But then one day a women came into the library where I work with her two daughters, one of which was a [name]Charlotte[/name]. This was the first [name]Charlotte[/name] I had ever encountered. [name]Charlotte[/name] was around three or four and totally not what I pictured a [name]Charlotte[/name] to look like. It sort of put me off the name because she wasn’t how I pictured a [name]Charlotte[/name] to be, but it also gave me a reality check. I always picture specific children along with the names I like and it made me realize that the children I imagine in my head won’t be the children I’ll get if I ever have children and use those names.
I used to like [name]Shoshana[/name].
Then I heard it on GIRLS, and without knowing that [name]Shoshana[/name] was the character’s name, I though they were all saying [name]Shauna[/name] with a stammer (sh-shauna). I spent two episodes trying to figure out how that could happen before I realised what they were saying. Now I would sadly never consider the name…
Yes! I always thought [name]Paloma[/name] was a lovely Spanish name, and I’d love to meet a little [name]Paloma[/name], but then I did, and I was just so revolted, haha. It’s not my style at all, and I never planned on using it, but I expected to be happy to meet a little [name]Paloma[/name].
However, I work at a restaurant that’s essentially the hoity-toity-rich-people’s fast-food/hipster cafe place to be, and it attracts lots of lovely people, but also lots of conceited, upity, self-entitled, full-of-themselves, pretentious people that are more frustrating than you could believe, hahaha. And just the littlest things they say and do just turn me off, and when I heard this young mom (who, quite frankly, struck me as a girl I would have found on Teen Mom) calling her daughter [name]Paloma[/name] (sometimes nn [name]Lola[/name]), I was just so revolted. The kid wasn’t ugly (wasn’t especially cute, either, though), and it did look like they did have some Hispanic blood, but for some reason it just rubbed me the wrong way. I instantly hated [name]Paloma[/name], and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. 
I was afraid it had turned me off to any unusual name I might come across that’s appealing on Nameberry that I like, but isn’t really something I would use. But then I saw a mom today calling her daughter [name]Luna[/name], and I had the total opposite reaction, it made me fall in love with [name]Luna[/name] all over again, so who knows. I’m known for taking things personally, being a terrible drama queen, judging in my head way more than I should, and holding grudges (at least I know I do it! I’m not sure how many other people recognize that I do it. I’m not terribly proud of that part of my personality!), so I’m hoping it was all that and that every time I come across a [name]Juliet[/name], [name]Theodore[/name], [name]Henry[/name], [name]Penelope[/name], [name]Caroline[/name], or [name]Georgia[/name], I won’t turn up my nose in disgust. 
I still regret making snap judgments like that, I wish I could undo what my brain did, but I think [name]Paloma[/name] will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth, sadly.
I liked [name]Marlowe[/name] and then I was ordering a drink from Jamba Juice, and it was on the nametag of the chick making the drink. And, I don’t know why, it just seemed…different. Maybe it was because it was a very striking name and the girl was a bit plain in appearance/mannerisms, but it just made me think that maybe it’s a hard name to pull off. Dunno. The charm just kind of faded to me after that.
Yeah, I normally experience the opposite, haha. Example: I came across the name [name]Thea[/name] awhile ago, and found it very underwhelming. But then, helping with my church’s bible school program the other night, I met a little [name]Thea[/name] in the kindergarten class. She was adorable! (prn thee-uh) I fell head over heels for the name [name]Thea[/name]. Rocketed right to the top of my list. I can’t think of an example where a real example turned me off of a name. I have met a [name]Genevieve[/name], and know a [name]Savannah[/name], which are two of my top names. But they haven’t affected my opinion of the names.
Opposite happened to me with [name]Beatrix[/name], my guilty pleasure favorite name. I met this little girl named [name]Trixie[/name] and I never wouldve thought twice about it but she was soooo cute!! and then I found out her name was [name]Beatrix[/name] and I loved it even more. I want a little [name]Trixie[/name] so bad but everyone I mention it to hates it That’s why it must remain a guilty pleasure.
And, in regards to your post, there are names that I would like but I know people that I dislike with the name and I could never use it. [name]Allie[/name], for instance, is a favorite nn of mine but I know a girl I don’t get along with from college with that name and so I can no longer use it without thinking of that haha
[name]Quincy[/name]. I thought it was one of the cutest things until I read about a real little boy named [name]Quincy[/name]. It just didn’t seem like they were writing about a human, and not because of anything in the piece.
[name]Genevieve[/name]. I had a grad professor with this name, and she was a nasty piece of work. When I hear the name, I can’t separate it from her, and it’s a shame, because it’s fits with my style.