I actually like a lot of the names that are listed here as dislikes. Oh well! Different strokes, etc!
I agree that I tend to dislike [name]Declan[/name], even though I try to like it (and even though it’s [name]Elvis[/name] Costello’s real name). All I can ever see is ‘declaw’ as in ‘declaw a cat’. Yuck!
And the one nameberry name I cannot get at all no matter how hard I try is:
[name]Carys[/name]
It just sounds and looks harsh and hard and hissy and mean to me. Like a noise a snake or angry cat would say. And it also makes me think of Calibos from Clash of the Titans for some reason.
I agree with disliking [name]Rufus[/name]. It is the name of my great-grandfather who I could not admire more but I still couldn’t use that name!
I will probably use [name]Reed[/name] as it has the same meaning.
[name]Greer[/name] - It just doesn’t sound like a name to me. It’s just a weird sound and not a very attractive one to me.
[name]Audrey[/name] - This goes for a lot of ‘old lady’ names for me aswell. Maybe it’s because my mother didn’t have me until almost 40 so the names my grandparents generation had are more like great-grandparents to some people now and ready for a come back but I just don’t find them attractive.
[name]Felix[/name] - Fleix to me conjures up one image. That of a scrawny 13 year old with frizzy, curly hair and terrible acne.
[name]Seraphina[/name] - Too sickly sweet for me and much too girly. It sounds like a good name for a character in a fantasy book but not a real person.