Which would you hate to be called?
Keith.
Dick.
Edeltraut
Kunegonde
Sidney
Regis
Late for Dinner.
Maud.
I just can’t imagine gazing in rapture at your tiny newborn baby girl and deciding to call her Maud.
In the 19th century Tennyson wrote:
Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the rose is blown.
Back then, it was regarded as a sweet and dainty name. It was popular. One of Edward VII’s daughters was named Princess Maud. She later became Queen Maud of Norway.
The problem with the name nowadays is that we associate it with Bea Arthur, who was anything but sweet and dainty.
My niece named her son Sidney Carroll (last name) after his grandfathers. Nice gesture, but he grew up tough.
Some of the above, but I’ve always had an irrational dislike to “Warren.”
That’s Maude; Maud always makes me think of the luscious Ms. Adams.
No, not Mrs. Cecil. I don’t think…
I’d hate to be called any name that wasn’t mine.
I don’t much care what names other people use. Some are amusing.
“I’m getting really sick of guys named Todd…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8CrY_ZfFk
I came to post this and you got it in one.
One of my sons is named Keith. I’m not so sure that this thread is a good idea, as people are very likely to be insulted at some point.
Bubba.
Bartholomew
My daughter and I were discussing this last night.
I hate the name Dave. Or David. I could never be married to a Dave. I know a few. They have been, for the most part, fine people, and its a perfectly good name - but the sound of the name is like nails on a chalkboard for some completely irrational and mysterious reason.
My first name has an old-fashioned diminutive that is rarely used nowadays, and I’ve had to tell a few people that the diminutive is not my name and I have never gone by that.
It’s not a bad name; it’s just not mine.
Kelly. I hate that name for some reason. I had a good friend named that once, and I still hate it.
I also hate the diminutive “Becky” for Rebecca/Rebekah. When I first came to Indiana, I enrolled in high school as Rebecca, because I thought the hicks would handle it better that Rivkah. I discovered that 1 in 3 Hoosiers will call a Rebecca “Becky” without having been invited to do so (and a few of the others will go for the even more odious “Becca”). Sophomore year, I switched everything back to Rivkah. A lot of people already called me Rivkah anyway, because my cousin did.
I find the “medieval occupations” naming trend kind of funny. Connor, Cooper, Thatcher, Mason, Fletcher, Chandler, Reeve, Marshall, Porter, Shepherd, Palmer, Harper, Piper, Hunter, Franklin, Brewster, Tanner, Smith, Currier, Lorimer, Sawyer, Porter, Carter, Farrier-- I personally know someone under 6 named every one of these names. Some more than once. I’m waiting for little Yeoman, Jester, Plaguedoctor, or Gravedigger.