[name_f]Penelope[/name_f]…it still sounds clunky and fusty to me. I’m also sick of hearing it, at least on nb.
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]…just sounds like feet, and no good nicknames.
[name_f]Elodie[/name_f]…it’s a cute sound, but it just seems like melody with the m hacked off.
[name_f]Wren[/name_f]…not a very pretty bird name [name_f]IMO[/name_f]. And doesn’t sound feminine either.
[name_u]Finley[/name_u]…on a girl, I can’t stand it. So trendy, yet I’ve seen some like it on nb.
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]…I don’t really hate it, but I think of the chipmunk.
[name_f]Clementine[/name_f]…so fruity and childish. Yes,I know it was a name first, but making it a fruit really damaged it as a name I think.
[name_f]Eulalie[/name_f]/a…such a mouthful. I pity a small child trying to say this.
[name_f]Olive[/name_f]…ick,I don’t get this one at all. [name_f]Olive[/name_f]? Yes, because olives are so glamorous.
[name_f]Leah[/name_f]…so…plain. Unimaginative.
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]…I’ve been hearing it so much that its lost its appeal
Could not agree more! My oldest son was named [name_u]Ryan[/name_u] 20 years ago. The name was chose for family reasons, and it didn’t seem very popular back then (1993 was before the internet, so the luxury of researching names to death wasn’t available). My second and third are popular names NOW, but weren’t 10 & 7 years ago … one of which was mason… whose name I believe wasn’t in the top 50 then. Unless people are willing to go [name_m]WAY[/name_m] outside of the box in naming their kids, your going to run into a few with the same name. I’m not a top 20 intending mom, but certainly don’t wish for my kids to be ridiculed with odd monikers either. I say find a name you love that can fit in with the era of names already trending…
Two off the top of my head are [name_f]Ellie[/name_f] and [name_u]Ruby[/name_u].
I love both [name_f]Elle[/name_f] and [name_f]Ella[/name_f] but for some reason I just can’t stand [name_f]Ellie[/name_f]. And even though a lot of people seem to like it and use it, [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] just sounds cheap to me.
[name_f]ELIZABETH[/name_f] oh my gosh [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] hands down. It gets so much love on this site, no one can seem to mention it without swooning. I just see it as so blah and it seems like it has so many nicknames that it’s not really choosing one name.
[name_f]Willa[/name_f] and [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f], which get brought up a lot. Ugh.
Also the ugly-cute names? [name_f]Winifred[/name_f], [name_f]Agnes[/name_f], [name_f]Agatha[/name_f], [name_u]Meredith[/name_u]. Nnnnope.
I love [name_f]Kaylee[/name_f]! The trendy names can be beautiful. [name_f]Kaylee[/name_f] and [name_u]Jayden[/name_u] and [name_u]Piper[/name_u] are so nice, even if they aren’t old.
Some of them are perfectly great names with a ton of history and may very well be inspired by family (eg. [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]), but you can’t tell me that ALL of the super-trendy Jaydens and Madisons are based off family (some yes, the majority no). I find naming a baby a huge responsibility and I think some parents just get lazy about it.
And I don’t know why you’re offended. [name_m]Henry[/name_m] was #43 last year. Not even in the subset I used.
There is nothing wrong with common names. The reason there so popular is because so many people like them. And there are names that you can love but if doesnt mean you can use them, sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who had to compromise with my husband on my childrens name :-P. All three of my children have somewhat common names but so far they like there names.
I don’t get the appeal of the grandparent name trend right now, but those names will become overused soon and there will a new trend. I love unisex names for girls and dislike unisex names for boys.
I’m not offended just trying to clarify that grouping the top 20 as “names I can’t stand” just because they are in the top 20 is uncreative and lazy in itself.
I don’t think most parents intend on being “lazy” with their naming, they just are not as willing to take risks as others and possibly come from less enlightened worlds than many folks on nameberry appear to. So, I think it’s unfair to judge. Yes, I also feel that the names you mention above are very unappealing because of their popularity but also because they don’t have much substantiality to them. That said, labeling their parents “lazy” because they chose a popular name is really not fair. I’m sure most of the moms of “Jaydens” out there got just as excited and thought about what their child would be like and about naming their child as anyone has, but perhaps comes from a much different background with less exposure to unique names.
I absolutely hate the name [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] and [name_f]Imogen[/name_f], and it just for some reason seems to be really popular on this sight
I love the name [name_u]Brennan[/name_u] for a girl, I’m really not sure why, but it is just a guilty pleasure name for me.
[name_u]Addison[/name_u], [name_f]Emmaline[/name_f], [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u], [name_f]Makayla[/name_f], and [name_f]Neveah[/name_f] I cant stand.
I like the name Tammin but there are a hundred different reasons why everyone else hates it.
I like [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u] better for a boy. It sounds masculine to me. [name_u]Cheyenne[/name_u] is a little outdated but no one is going to make fun of her for it and its a “normal” name.
I don’t see the appeal of [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] and [name_f]Agnes[/name_f] I love [name_f]Eulalia[/name_f] and [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] though.
I love the names [name_m]Cooper[/name_m] and [name_u]Jai[/name_u] pronounced either way. I also love [name_f]Holly[/name_f] and [name_f]Summer[/name_f]. Sadly [name_f]Holly[/name_f] is out for me (its my cousins daughters name) but I still love summer. I did go through a stage where I decided I hated all of the names I had loved and started again which gave me my signature.
Thank you again, I totally agree
[name_f]Imogen[/name_f], [name_f]Pearl[/name_f], [name_u]Rowen[/name_u] and [name_f]Harriet[/name_f] is it for me. They just don’t appeal to me at all, although I do like [name_f]Rowena[/name_f], which is weird. And I love the name [name_u]Pepper[/name_u] and [name_f]Gillian[/name_f] (pronounced with a hard G) but no else really does.
I actually have a bane of my existence list, some that fall in this category on this thread include:
For girls: [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f], [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] (bad experiences with girls with this name), Imogen, [name_f]Astrid[/name_f], [name_f]Ingrid[/name_f], [name_f]Bridget[/name_f], [name_f]Ivy[/name_f], [name_u]Harper[/name_u], & [name_f]Holly[/name_f]. Oh, and Pearl. The first few I hate worse than the later ones.
For boys: [name_m]Phillip[/name_m]
On Nameberry, a lot of people seem to love [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f], [name_f]Pearl[/name_f], [name_f]Violet[/name_f], [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f], [name_f]Cornelia[/name_f] and [name_f]Persephone[/name_f]. I understand that there’s nothing wrong with those names but I find them rather cringe-worthy.
I love [name_f]Dixie[/name_f] and a lot of people dislike it and says its more of an animal/dog name. Which unfortuneately I have to agree with them.
Names I dislike are the [name_f]Kylee[/name_f], [name_f]Kalie[/name_f], [name_f]Kayla[/name_f], [name_f]Kaylea[/name_f], [name_f]Kali[/name_f] names. I just feel like they are so overused and all sound so alike. The boy names I dislike the most is [name_m]Paul[/name_m] and [name_m]Jeffrey[/name_m]. They are just plain BORING to my ears and imagination.
I find it interesting that a lot of people don’t like the classics such as [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Imogene[/name_f], and [name_f]Helen[/name_f] right now just because a lot of people like them. That’s just the trend we are in right now as a human race. There’s bound to be more in the future that I’m sure will be a lot worse!
I really dislike [name_f]Gemma[/name_f]. It feels made up to me … like two tween girls talking about modifying [name_f]Jenna[/name_f] to make [name_f]Gemma[/name_f], because it’s so much more awesome. I know it’s an old name … still feels like a mispronunciation to me.
A lot of names are NMS but I don’t feel any particular ill will toward (i.e. I have random mental associations with a name because it reminds me of a particular food or color or word I don’t like).
However, I really really dislike invited names and creative (kreatyve?) spelling. Specifically, I don’t like the overuse of “k” in the place of “c” and “y” in the place of “i” and tacking “lee/leigh/li” and “lynn/lyn/lin” onto the end of every name. I think it’s just mean to the kid who gets stuck with that name for the rest of their life.
I’m not sure I have a favorite at the moment. I suppose knowing what you don’t like is the first step in figuring out what you do like.
I love [name_f]Gemma[/name_f], and while Berries seem to support me on this, ?I don’t get a lot of response from friends and family on it. I feel [name_f]Ellie[/name_f] and [name_f]Bella[/name_f]/[name_f]Isabella[/name_f] are a little overused, as is [name_f]Rose[/name_f] as a middle name.
[name_f]Felicity[/name_f] – ugh. Kill it with fire.