Indeed he does. I like my martinis stirred, not shaken. I don’t like people who like them the other way around.
I assumed the OP was seeking tongue-in-cheek answers, which I gave. No offense to Siobhan, it’s a lovely name—without the pretentious accent over the ‘a’.
Stanley. It always connotes cringing pusillanimous weakness to me. Or incurable social awkwardness. The only "Stanley"s I can think of who don’t have that image - Laurel, Musial, Lee, and Kroenke - go by “Stan”.
My grandmother saddled my poor father with that name; he hates it and legally ditched it as soon as he could.
Interesting. So far, my mom has three great-grandchildren, all from one grandchild (my niece). All three have interesting spellings, and she is on the low-end economically. In addition (I’m going to sound a bit racist here as an old white guy) - the fathers are two Black men and the names ‘feel’ Black to me. I have no idea if the fathers had input into the names and/or she was trying to name them to fit into the Black community.
In my daughter’s daycare was a three year old (maybe 4) named Joshua (last name redacted). He bit someone and his parents received a warning. My daughter was aghast! She knew biting was bad.
When Joshua bit again, I was there when his dad was told not to return. Poor guy had no other options locally and was literally begging. Joshua is probably currently doing time upstate.
So many, many awful names, some that make me grit my teeth, some that make me shake my head as I wonder what the parents were thinking.
But as for a name that gives me an unfair, prejudiced, reaction toward the actual bearer of the name, it’s got to be Travis.
I can’t remember any Travis I’ve met who wasn’t a jerk, a redneck, a bully or some combination. (Apologies to all the sensitive intellectual Travises who must be out there.)
Reasonably close to mine: Trey. Never known a nice/trustworthy one. Either as an actual name (1) or as a nickname for Tracy (2). Interestingly, the two male Tracy’s I know are both wonderful people.
On one of the early seasons of Big Brother there was a single mother who named her son “Justus” because it was “just us”. I always thought that was a sad and selfish name to burden a child with. Might as well name him “Nodad” or “Bro Kenhome”.
Debbie from Addams Family Values: So I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren’t I a human being? Don’t I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don’t I deserve love … and jewelry?