# Names you absolutely HATE **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132 "2001-04-16T05:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/41 "2001-04-17T00:48:45Z")
– Madison. I don’t like last-names-as-first-names anyway, especially for girls, but that has to be the worst of the bunch. I expect all Madisons to have loud, obnoxious mothers with too much makeup. – MiKayla. Yes, I’ve seriously come across that spelling. – McKenna, because it reflects _two_ trends I abhor – the last name as first name and the trendy pseudo-Celtic heritage name. And, of course, just about anything ending in -ney. (Actually, Sidney isn’t bad for a boy, but I think boys’ names should _stay_ boy’s names.) ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/42 "2001-04-17T00:56:49Z")
I knew a guy who changed this name from “Chris” to “Christ”, but still pronounced it with the short “i” sound like “Krist”. Uh, love yourself much? My Grandmother’s name is Agnes. And if that’s not bad enough, her middle name is Mazora. My brother named his son Seanathan. Yep. Bastard child of “Sean” and “Johnathan”. Inevitably, it is mispronounced, “…See-nathan?” Of course we just call him Sean. And, I must say that I MUCH prefer the spelling as “Sean” rather than “Shawn”. The latter just looks goofy. “Shawn” looks like a girly Americanized sissy-boy name. “Sean” is like Connery. Super cool. I’ve never liked “Janice”. Just awful. katie ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/43 "2001-04-17T01:11:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by missbunny \* > \*\ ***Dick** - how could any parents do such a horrible thing to their child? What, have they been living on Mars for their entire lives??? > > \*\* The name Dick doesn’t bother me all that much so long as the last name is innocent. I actually worked with a guy named Dick Bern when I was in high school. There’s a worse one. A friend of mine had a boss actually named Dick Whithers. His parents must have been on fucking glue when they thought of that one. I don’t care if the name has been in the family for generations. Time to start a new trend, you jack asses. The name that I hate the most is Cody. When you name your child you really need to be thinking of the future. Who’s going to take a 50 year old man named Cody seriously. What a stupid, stupid fucking name. I think that people are finally getting better about the middle name thing. If you meet an American woman born in the 1960’s it’s 50/50 that her middle name is either Michelle or Lynn. Hajario ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/44 "2001-04-17T01:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > **I loathe any English surname used as a girl’s first name… It all just looks so wrong.** Bite me. Kinsey ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/45 "2001-04-17T01:26:20Z")
My middle name…Renee. To see it’s sounds whiny and the fact my mother-who has no knowledge of the French lenguage INSISTS it should have an accent over the second e does not help. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/46 "2001-04-17T01:31:41Z")
Just a few more: Bertha - When I hear this I think of very large women. Hilda - My grandma was named this. Newton/Newt - a whiney Republican. Floyd - Just don’t like it! ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/47 "2001-04-17T02:07:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Queen Isabella \* > \*\* > I also know someone with the name **Kirstyn**. Not just the name, but the way it’s spelled disgusts me. > > \*\* I go to school with a Kjirstien. . . isn’t that just terrible? I really hate the name Matt (sorry, matt\_mcl). I like Matthew, but Matt just bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/48 "2001-04-17T02:08:28Z")
\*\* SIR ALOUICIOUS BILL \*\* 'Nuff Said. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/49 "2001-04-17T03:33:14Z")
Most of the names I don’t like have little to do wth the actual name, more to do with the first people I knew who answered to them- Meagan - Every Meagan or Megan I have known has not been a very nice person (bitch comes to mind). Kim or Kimberly - see Meagan Gladys - I just don’t like it Margaret - I don’t mind Maggie, just don’t like Margaret Bruce - Every bruce I’ve know is a bully - same with Bart Of course all of those older names, Mildred, Iris, Violet all of that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/50 "2001-04-17T04:10:53Z")
> [@](#): > > I loathe any English surname used as a girl’s first name. It is worth noting that this custom started as a way for hte mother to get HER madien name involved somewhere in there when she really had no option to keep it herself. I agree that it makes you think of irritating people (used to be an upper-class southern thing, now a yuppy thing) but if I met someone named Madison whose mother WAS a Madison or whatever, I would think that was cool. What is really funny are the surnames that now sound like first names–Shelby is the example that first comes to mind. As far a the ending with an “i” thing, I agree, but Heidis get an exemption. I find I like many of the names people hate on this board, esp. the old fashoined ones. I will be arrested for child abuse one day. Dislikes . . I dislike Tanisha just because it is getting way too common and sterotypical. I am not overly fond of states. I disliked the name Harold until I met a really cool man who wore the name well. Come to think of it, there isn’t any name I couldn’t come to appriciate if I met a person i liked with that handle. I have never understood why people name thier children Cassandra. It is a pretty name, but she was such a tragic figure. Name the next one Antigone, why don’t you? As far as funky spellings go, my sister-in-law takes the cake–she _misspelled_ her baby’s name. The little girl is named Angelique (which is an issue all on it’s own) but they spell it Angelic. They had apparently never seen it written out before. Literacy is not their strong point, to be frank. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/51 "2001-04-17T04:26:44Z")
I hate to hijack my own thread, but I have to put in a couple I like to balance it out. Oh yeah, and I don’t like Bart either, or Betty, Jessica, or Veronica. Names I like: Danielle–only good experiences, nice name in general Kim–Again, great name, Kimmi rolls off your tongue 🙂 Amber–Only bad experiences, but I like Amber Elizabeth–Very regal Alexandra/ia–Again, regal, and nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/52 "2001-04-17T05:20:08Z")
> [@](#): > > I have never understood why people name thier children Cassandra. It is a pretty name, but she was such a tragic figure. Name the next one Antigone, why don’t you? > > \*\* [minor hijack] Sometimes I feel like Cassandra ::sigh:: [/end minor hijack] I actually knew someone named Antigone. She went by None (No-nee) and was totally cool. For women born in 1965-66 there is a minor spike in the probability of being named Marnie. Without exception, the ones that I have asked were named after the Hitchcock movie. Either the dumbass parents never saw the movie or [SPOILER WARNING] they intentionally named their little baby girl after a character who was the daughter of a whore, never knew her father and killed one of her mother’s clients after witnessing him beating the shit out of her mother. [END SPOILER] If I can leave any advice to the future parents of the world it is this: If you insist on naming your child after the charater in a movie GO TO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE FIRST. I wonder if there will a bunch of baby boys named Hannibal this year. Hajario ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/53 "2001-04-17T05:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > **I’ve always hated Helen.** I must admit I’ve never liked Helen much either. Probably because my name is Helena but I get called Helen or Helen-a all the time. Actually my name is Swedish and it’s pronounced He-LAY-na. We spent three years in Newfoundland, and while we were there I worked with people named Olga, Gladys, Wanda, and Zena. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/54 "2001-04-17T05:34:28Z")
I hate the name “Jim” (And all variances thereof: Jimbo, Jim-Bob, Jimmy, etc) It grates on my nerves! Because my fiance’s name is Jaime. It’s pronounced Hi-May. It’s not Jamie, and it certianly is not JIM!!! And people call him Jim all of the time! It drives me up a wall. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/55 "2001-04-17T06:14:59Z")
Sheryl, or any variation–It just drives me crazy, I don’t know why Dave–I like David, and it’s cool, but Dave just grates on me to no end. [moment of gloating]My first multi-page thread!!! YEAH! :D[/moment of gloating] ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/56 "2001-04-17T06:36:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > **I actually knew someone named Antigone. She went by None (No-nee) and was totally cool.** I went to college with an Antigone. She was one of the most messed-up people I’ve ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/57 "2001-04-17T06:57:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\* > Elizabeth–Very regal > > \*\* Why thankyou. - Elizabeth a.k.a, Broken Doll ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/58 "2001-04-17T12:19:43Z")
Patricia. Trish. Tish (yes, I knew someone named Tish). ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/59 "2001-04-17T15:01:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tattva \* > Try living with Susannah as a middle name. Oh yeah, gotta love that creativity. And yes, it’s from the song. I have a cousin named Susanne. She’s German, though, so it’s pronounced it “Sus-sah-neh” instead of “Su-zann-uh.” Either way, I think it’s a rather pretty name, as long as you don’t overdo the southern twang, which causes people to hear banjoes in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132/60 "2001-04-17T15:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > humm is it me or am I seeing a trend here… Hummm, is it just me or do you (1) know an unusual amount of skanky females, (2) date guys who flirt with other women (not a lot of women will throw themselves at guys who are taken unless they see some possibilities), or (3) you are seeing something that really isn’t there (I’ll be nice and leave out the “insecure” word). I despise trendy names or those that are too obviously creations of parents who are sorely lacking any kind of taste and trying to be to cleaver. I know a Davinda (father’s name is David, mother’s name is Linda), La Tanisha-Lyn (parents got carried away and didn’t know when to stop), and a friend’s three daughters, Arly, Kashley, and Rio :::shiver::: I like names that seem to be timeless. Helena, Lily (although it is starting to get too trendy), Kathryn, Timothy, Andrew, Charles, Thomas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-absolutely-hate/62132.md?page=4)