# First names you hate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 21, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527 "2016-09-21T19:46:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/1 "2016-09-21T19:46:13Z")
Which would you hate to be called?
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/2 "2016-09-21T19:52:29Z")
Keith.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/3 "2016-09-21T20:00:11Z")
Dick.
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/4 "2016-09-21T20:01:16Z")
Edeltraut
Kunegonde
Sidney
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/5 "2016-09-21T20:43:13Z")
Regis
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/6 "2016-09-21T20:46:09Z")
Late for Dinner.
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### Author:  [@Dorabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorabella)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/7 "2016-09-21T20:54:12Z")
Maud.
I just can’t imagine gazing in rapture at your tiny newborn baby girl and deciding to call her Maud.
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/8 "2016-09-21T21:35:33Z")
> [@Dorabella](#):
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> Maud.
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/9 "2016-09-21T21:44:48Z")
My niece named her son Sidney Carroll (last name) after his grandfathers. Nice gesture, but he grew up tough.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/10 "2016-09-21T21:57:58Z")
Some of the above, but I’ve always had an irrational dislike to “Warren.”
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/11 "2016-09-21T22:00:12Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#):
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> The problem with the name nowadays is that we associate it with Bea Arthur, who was anything but sweet and dainty.
That’s Maude; Maud always makes me think of the luscious [Ms. Adams](https://www.google.com/search?q=maud+adams&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie_djluqHPAhUF04MKHSdFAOgQ_AUICCgB).
No, not Mrs. Cecil. I don’t think…
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/12 "2016-09-21T22:11:05Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Lydia\_Phalfav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lydia_Phalfav)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/13 "2016-09-21T22:57:44Z")
“I’m getting really sick of guys named Todd…”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8CrY\_ZfFk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8CrY_ZfFk)
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/14 "2016-09-21T23:04:54Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> Keith.
I came to post this and you got it in one.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/15 "2016-09-21T23:17:32Z")
> [@lost4life](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/16 "2016-09-21T23:54:16Z")
Bubba.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/17 "2016-09-22T00:02:41Z")
Bartholomew
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/18 "2016-09-22T02:39:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/19 "2016-09-22T02:47:02Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/20 "2016-09-22T03:57:38Z")
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.
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