I’ve mentioned this in other names threads, but my dad went to high school with a Dick Hertz.
I’m not so bothered by Paisley, amazingly.
I agree that the -lee/-ley/-leigh bullshit has to stop. Bayleigh? Kayley? Leighlee?
On one of those horrid soccer mom vans I saw four baseball or softball player graphics with names: Shon, Shonlee, Shea, and another Sh- variant for a girl. I wanted to run them off the road.
Shonlee? Seriously?
Naming kids is not hard but coming up with stripper names is getting difficult. Parents are using them all up.
“Kris” is short for Kristen. Sometimes.
OK, this made me laugh. Hilarious! 
On the Paisley subject, you do have to realize that some people will think your friend named the girl after the popular (male) country singer. Is that an association she’s willing to put out there?
I’m not a huge fan of the name; I prefer classic names like Theodore, Arthur and Evelyn.
I don’t get it 
Truman Capote (mentioned by suranyi). And funny too: in French capote is condom.
And his true name was Truman Streckfus Persons. Not much better.
Put me down as another one hating the last names as first names and, of course, all the cutesy trendy spellings.
Some older names can cycle back around- Addie sounds fine to me, and I, too, have heard of a baby named Mabel. Old, yes, but neither one clanks on the ear the way, say, Gladys or Gertrude does. Toward that end, I have to say I was horrified to learn from my wife that one of the new moms on a forum she reads named her daughter Enid. Enid??? That just sounds like ugly on a stick to me.
Siobhan - impossible to spell. Sounds NOTHING like is looks. Worst. Name. Evah.
I grew up with a girl named Mildred. She hated the name, and as an adult had it legally changed. She vowed she’d never saddle her kids with a sucky name.
Her two daughters: Brenna and Serena
Ugh
As the owner of an oddly-spelled name, don’t. Just don’t. Brenda isn’t much better, but I really am tired of spelling it, telling people it is pronounced “Brenda”, etc.
My mom hates guys’ names that start with “E”. I found this out when we were watching the credits of a movie so that she could see who played a particular character.
Upon reading it, she shuddered, “‘Earl’! I hate men’s names that start with ‘E’!”
Looking at my dad, I piped in, “Like your second husband here, Eugene?”
Then my dad said, “Like your first husband, Edwin?”
‘Tannenbaum’ is German for Christmas tree. And holly is a traditional element of Christmas garlands. Holly Tannenbaum is therefore a decorated Christmas tree, highly so.
Reminds me of an old friend of my brothers, who ran an excavating business (backhoes, bulldozers, etc.). His name was Barry Lowe (bury low).
To me, being from Texas, they sound very, very redneck.
Every pretentious or wannabe* first name.
Every pretentious and wanna-be* last name, particularly hyphenated and double last names:
Melissa Wilkinson-Brumbaugh
Jonathon Simpson Everett
and any other indecisive twit too cowardly too choose a name.
*Wannabe anything other than what you obviously are.
I went to high school with a girl named Kemm. Pronounced Kim. I really don’t get it. If you’re going to use a common name, spell it in the common fashion. If you don’t want to do that, find an uncommon name.
Oh, and please use whole names. Not Max, Liz, Becca, etc.
I know a girl named Andréa.
OK, I understand Brenna, but Serena? I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Someone upthread mentioned the name “Hennessey” and said it was an urban myth. At the welfare office where I work, I’ve run into some, shall we say, interesting names - I can vouch for someone actually being named Hennessey, because I’ve seen her birth certificate and that of her little brother, Courvoisiervalentino. I’m willing to swear on the Bible, the Koran, and the holy book of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whichever it is.
As others have mentioned before: virtue names. I know too many girls named Grace, and it drives me nuts. I also dislike names like John David Michael Smith - could you get any more vanilla than that?