[name]Scout[/name] - get over yourself and call the poor child [name]Jean[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Scarlett[/name] - Miss O’[name]Hara[/name]'s name was [name]Katherine[/name]
[name]Posy[/name] - [name]Even[/name] in the book ‘Ballet Shoes’ it is lamented as a dreadful name given by a very young mother.
I think I cringe because these are (mainly) nicknames from some of the most wildly popular books ever written so they have a total association with one character and it’s not ever a subtle illusion, it’s the name of an incredibly well known central character. I love To Kill a Mocking [name]Bird[/name] but don’t get me started on the name [name]Atticus[/name] for similar reasons.
Names along these lines frustrate me. They are boys names not girls, and misspelling them doesn’t make them any more feminine. Although I will say I love [name]Avery[/name] on both genders, but [name]Averi[/name]/[name]Averie[/name] on a girl? [name]Don[/name]'t get me started.
[name]Phyllis[/name] is cringe worth to me, as well as [name]Calypso[/name] and [name]Circe[/name] - why name your little girl after sea nymphs (one in particular who seduces [name]Odysseus[/name].) Ugh! I hate [name]Clementine[/name] too because it reminds me of an orange. I hate poor spellings of names eg. where I live [name]Taylor[/name] is written Taylah because that’s the way aussies pronounce it; but it looks absolutely horrid!
[name]Nevaeh[/name] or [name]Neveah[/name]
[name]Adalyn[/name]
[name]Sophia[/name]
[name]Isabella[/name]
[name]Miley[/name]
[name]Posy[/name]
[name]Sara/name
[name]Emma[/name] (I only cringe b/c it’s so popular, I actually like the name itself.)
[name]Kaylie[/name]/[name]Kaylee[/name]/[name]Caylee[/name]/[name]Kailee[/name]/Kahley/[name]Kayley[/name]/[name]Kaley[/name]/[name]Caley[/name]/[name]Cayley[/name]/[name]Kaleigh[/name]/[name]Caleigh[/name]/[name]Kayleigh[/name]/[name]Cayleigh[/name]…I could keep going
[name]Mckenzie[/name]/[name]Mackenzie[/name]/[name]Makenzie[/name]…same
So funny that I love a lot of the names on your list but it just shows people have different tastes:
Ones I dislike tend to be overdone ones like
[name]Sarah[/name]
[name]Shelby[/name]
[name]Mackenzie[/name]
Or ones with O’s like
[name]Morgan[/name]
[name]Tory[/name]
[name]Devon[/name]
[name]Orly[/name]
[name]Sonora[/name]
or word names like
[name]Destiny[/name]
[name]Charity[/name]
[name]Chanel[/name]
[name]Chastity[/name] * BLECH worst for sure
Persistance - I don’t think that’s even a name.
Ooh, breastfeeding in the dark so I can’t check! I was sure that although her father calls her [name]Katie[/name] [name]Scarlett[/name] her grandmother’s name is given as [name]Katherine[/name]. Wikipedia is no use on this one as they give [name]Bonnie[/name]'s full name incorrectly so obviously they aren’t name nerd sticklers.
I don’t like names like [name]Henrietta[/name], [name]Erica[/name], names that are the opposite gender. I like [name]Henry[/name], but not the feminine [name]Henrietta[/name]. They seem tacky and unoriginal.
[name]Olive[/name] - [name]Just[/name] go with [name]Olivia[/name], popularity be damned! [name]Olive[/name] is her ugly cousin. Or you can name your baby Pickle or Jalapeno if you really want something uncommon…
[name]Alexis[/name] - Overused where I live to the point of ridiculousness. It is a nice name, and I would love it otherwise. Some of the french families get mad if you pronounce it ah-LEK-sis and they will correct you that it is ah-lek-SEE, which gets annoying.
[name]Bella[/name]/[name]Ella[/name]/[name]Elle[/name]/[name]Ellie[/name]/[name]Belle[/name] type names - Again because of overuse. I had a cat named [name]Bella[/name] years ago. I loved the name and would have considered using it for a daughter. Now I wouldn’t even use it on a goldfish. Like [name]Alexis[/name] they are lovely names, but I can’t stand them anymore. [name]Every[/name] other little girl I meet is an [name]Ella[/name] or [name]Bella[/name]. It takes everything I have inside me to say “[name]Ah[/name]! [name]How[/name] nice!” when I meet them, when I really just want to say “of course it is…”. Some of my other favorites names like [name]Elowen[/name] and [name]Elizabeth[/name] have lost some of their appeal because I fear the dreaded [name]Ella[/name] nickname!
Mine would be unisex names like [name]Taylor[/name] and [name]Riley[/name] and Occupation names like [name]Harper[/name] ([name]Taylor[/name]) and [name]Sawyer[/name]. I also really dislike hippy dippy names like [name]River[/name] and [name]Rain[/name] and [name]Savannah[/name], title names like [name]Princess[/name] and Duchess and luxary goods like [name]Diamond[/name] and [name]Mercedes[/name]. Not a fan of names like Brienne, [name]Rihanna[/name], Ritienne, [name]Jordan[/name], [name]Kayleigh[/name], Mkayla, [name]Mckenzie[/name] etc
Faux - unisex names like [name]Riley[/name] or [name]Addison[/name] on girls or surnames on girls, especially [name]Sloane[/name], I think [name]Sloane[/name] is probably the single most ugly name anyone has ever decided to saddle a girl with. I also intensely dislike ones like [name]Waverly[/name], [name]Everly[/name], [name]Sutton[/name]…[name]Sutton[/name] is right up there on the ugly scale with [name]Sloane[/name], honestly.
I also hate the whole -lyn / -ly trend. Tacking on lyn or ly/lie/lee/leigh is just ridiculous and juvenile.
