# First names you hate **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/81 "2016-09-30T22:39:55Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I always feel bad about it because the only person I’ve ever run across with this name killed herself after being bullied (it was in the news), but seriously…who names their kid “Rehtaeh”? :rolleyes: Heather spelled backwards. Never been fond of that name either. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/82 "2016-09-30T22:50:51Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Adam. > > And Eve. For me, Adam’s an OK name, but I’ve always like the name Eve. There’s a poster on another board who said she loves the name Laszlo but wouldn’t burden her son with it if she would ever have one. She did recently give birth to a boy, and I wonder if his given name is Matthew Laszlo. 🆒 Don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/83 "2016-09-30T23:56:49Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > My mom wanted to name me Michelle, and call me Mickey. Mickey! What kind of sick person would do that to a kid? Just curious, are you mousy looking? :o ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/84 "2016-10-01T00:14:33Z")
any of the countless spins on AidenBradenBraydenBraedenJadenJaedenJaydenKadenKayden. Guilty by association are Bryson, Jacen, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/85 "2016-10-01T00:33:31Z")
I hate names that are jokes, like North West. I went to school with a girl named Anice Butt - I am not making that up. The stupidity of parents who do things like this is staggering to me. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/86 "2016-10-01T00:35:18Z")
I don’t like any name that is commonly used for both boys and girls (Terry, Pat, Shannon etc) And I don’t like any name that is common slang for genitals or Backside (Peter, Dick, Willy, Fanny, Gladys (Glad-Ass)). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/87 "2016-10-01T00:46:46Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I know this will be a shocker . . . my first name is Jennifer! > > I am very insistent on being called “Jenn” and won’t answer to “Jenny” or “Jennifer.” I’ve never like my name, but I didn’t have any say in it 🙂 I would have named myself “Scout” (yes, really!) > > As an educator of young adults I am thoroughly exhausted by all the Caitlins, Brittanys, and the thousand variants on these names. I’m noticing a developing trend in 18 and 19-year-olds having rather classic names: Joshua, Susan, Jennifer, Robert – rather nice after years of having 12 students in a classroom with the same frickin name! Wait…are you my sister? On second thought, obviously not - she’s a social worker, not a teacher. But she equally hates “Jenny/Jenni”, dislikes-but-doesn’t-loathe “Jennifer”, and goes by “Jen”. I was intrigiued to find out that “Jennifer” derives from the Welsh “Gwenhwyfar”, which comes into modern English, by way of medieval French, as “Guinevere”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/88 "2016-10-01T04:20:50Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Heather spelled backwards. > > Never been fond of that name either. Yeah, I got that it was Heather spelled backwards. But is that a thing now? Naming your kids things spelled backwards? I get the whole “Nevaeh” thing (I think it’s stupid, but I get it), but there’s nothing particularly saintly about “Heather.” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/89 "2016-10-01T04:28:58Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Adam. > > And Eve. I miss **Eve**. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/90 "2016-10-01T05:37:00Z")
I’m just a simmering pot of rage today. Boring names: 50’s names, Linda, Cathy, Ann, Lisa, Nancy, Barbara, Dorothy. I went to school with a whole heap of douchebags with boring 50’s names. (Honorable mention: religioso names like Anna-Maria-Theresa - half my class had one or both or three of those names). Whorish/stripper names: Krystal, Peaches, Tiffany, Chantelle, Ruby… Boring straight-white-man names: Kevin, Gary, Alan, Leonard, Francis, Fred, George, Harry, Bill. Special mention: Bob. And Louie. Apologies to nice people with these perfectly nice names, it’s not you, it’s definitely ME. (I hate my own name. I never met anyone else with my name! It conjures up images of a farm wife during the Dustbowl, feeding the chickens, wearing an apron.) ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/91 "2016-10-01T05:53:44Z")
If a name like “Rehteah” meant anything (I realize it doesn’t), I’d assume it meant the un- or the anti-Heather. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/92 "2016-10-01T06:04:18Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > If a name like “Rehteah” meant anything (I realize it doesn’t), I’d assume it meant the un- or the anti-Heather. I’m not even sure how you’d \*pronounce \* it. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/93 "2016-10-01T10:28:44Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > If a name like “Rehteah” meant anything (I realize it doesn’t), I’d assume it meant the un- or the anti-Heather. Don’t forget “Nevaeh.” It’s “heaven” spelled backwards _swoon_ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/94 "2016-10-01T11:05:24Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Heather spelled backwards. > > Never been fond of that name either. When I read that news story, I couldn’t help wondering if one of the things she was teased for was her name. > [@jz78817](#): > > Don’t forget “Nevaeh.” It’s “heaven” spelled backwards _swoon_ Or if you are particularly unobservant, Neveah. That was a chart-topper for girls that actually out-performed Nevaeh one year. I hate kre8tiv names. [It did produce this hilarious forum, though,](http://bigbadbabynames.net/forum/index.php) and [here’s the original blog that inspired it.](http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/blog/category/badbabynames/) Completely made up named bug me a little, but what really gets under my skin are the ordinary names that have made up spellings. Parents who burden kids with these names can be hell on teachers, who might have five different “Birttanys” in a class, each one spelled differently, and are supposed to remember which spelling goes with which child, or suffer the wrath of the parents. My parents did something I consider a cardinal naming sin, and game me a sound that doesn’t occur in English. In my middle name (at least it’s my middle name) the “ch” is like the ch in Chanukah, a glottal fricative. People just pronounce my name “Haya,” like “Hi, ya,” and I really wish my parents had just spelled it “Haya.” At least I’m not like this kid I used to babysit named Michal (a very Israeli name), whose parents used to harass people into pronouncing the glottal fricative in her name, including gentiles, who found the experience surreal. As an adult, she started going by “Michelle.” ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/95 "2016-10-01T11:48:03Z")
I think it’s just borne out of a severe case of USI (Unwarranted Self Importance.) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/96 "2016-10-01T19:02:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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. Swineherd? > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Kaylee, Kayden, Braden, Jayden, Caitlin…anything similar to that. It’s not ugly, it’s just been done. To death. > [@notfrommensa](#): > > I don’t like any name that is commonly used for both boys and girls (Terry, Pat, Shannon etc) > [@elfkin477](#): > > I hate the name Sloane. It sounds like an action hero, not a little girl. or a bothersome band. > [@Periwinkle](#): > > I hate names that are jokes, like North West. I went to school with a girl named Anice Butt - I am not making that up. The stupidity of parents who do things like this is staggering to me. Hilarious! Sure, her name’s a riot, but _your_ username, actually… This gardener has a list of irksome plant names, like Hens and Chickens, Black-Eyed Susans (no but seriously that’s a fucking repulsive name) Fever Few, and… hate to say this, but… yes…Periwinkle. UGH!..just saying that name…it’s like…gets me all…GRR! (no - not that username) to add just a couple more: Brant Hopwell Dante (ooooo that one makes me _fucking seethe_ for some reason - seems to exude some sorta douchey, pretentious, asshat poser, to me) Chi-Chi and Bo-bo (twins) Unicorn Over the Rainbow Reince Estragon Twyla at least it’s ok that that My Name is Earl nob named his kid Pilot Inspektor ---
**Author:** ![CerebrAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@CerebrAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CerebrAl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/97 "2016-10-01T23:36:05Z")
JoJo Once is enough… ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/98 "2016-10-02T00:05:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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 Connor? I guess I could see Conner as an occupational name, if one considers swindling to be an occupation, but Connor? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/99 "2016-10-02T00:24:18Z")
(I am aware that the occupational name conner relates to weights and measures, but when I saw that someone had named their baby “Conner”, all I could see was “one who cons, con artist”). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/100 "2016-10-02T00:27:14Z")
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