ordinary names you have just never ever liked

what names have you just never really cared for?

does it have anything to do with a bad one you met, or had a particularly bad experience with?

or do you think it's just something about… the name… somehow…

there was this kid derek. what a clod.

at least he had the name spelled the right way. ever since every derrick i've met has seemed worse somehow.

Silly alternative spellings of otherwise boring names please

i've never felt totally comfortable with the number of a's in aaron. something egregious about those aarons because of it.

I am a Sh@ron

I hate Sharyn Sharron Sharrin etc

I also know a woman who spells her name the same as mine but prefers to go by Shar

DIE

you are a true sh@r0n. they are f4l53. this is clear.

lots of red state kayden type names are normal here and i just can't

i have always felt there was something unfair about seans, as if people should not be just granting that they are allowed to spell s-e-a-n but say s-h-a-(w / u)-n. like people are just letting them have their way.

won't somebody spare a thought for those of us who have less common variations of common names and so get our names misspelled 80% of the time :'(

never liked a chris tbh

i mean i guess as far as normal-normal names go, john is omipresent, and there are just too many johns in the bible, who is your namesake even

xxp but, in contrast, i feel like everyone can see what geoffs are up to and nobody is fooled for a second. there it is more like we all think: welp, you're stuck with it now. parents shoulda gone with jeff.

xps christopher is ok tho

likewise "ollie" / oliver i spose

consider julians my nemeses, have rarely been proved wrong

inner eyeroll whenever i meet a ben, seem like generic feebs

benjamin/benny is fine

Brandy, Candy, Andy, Sandy, Mandy, Wendy, etc.

jasons always derpy ime

Noah....yuck

i've liked some georges but it nevertheless arouses suspicion

in my experience, matts are generally featureless and have to work against that somehow to really distinguish themselves in any way, good or bad. i had a best friend who was a matt, but he had nordic ancestry and very very pale skin and blonde hair. i believe there were several matts in my school when i was young. they tended to go by last initials, matt p, matt s, that kind of thing. as if that helped.

i just realized i am posting this after a matt p post, oh well. your legendary wrath more than distinguishes you from your counterparts in my mind.

never met an alan that was even remotely likable

xp why thank you

Does Allen/Allan (my middle name) get a pass? xp

i've liked some georges but it nevertheless arouses suspicion

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:27 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmpf. George is a perfectly fine name. My dad's a George and he is the best. Mostly.

1980-1985 was ridiculous for matts, my father is nothing if not a guy who wants to fit in, and my mother probably had a dream involving one of her angels who said something about 'matthew' so

haha this is where we all take offense about silly name prejudices

Figured my name would be here for some reason. Just didn't think it'd lead the pack. Ouch!

Oliver has always sounded kinda gross to me. Like, every time I hear the name, I vividly picture raw liver stuffed with olives.

hey, there's no accounting for private onomastic mysteries xp

I love the name Oliver. I also live the name Olive.

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yknow what i pin my aversion to 'george' solely on myself. for me saying it requires some mild contortion of the mouth that i'm not entirely comfortable with, but maybe others don't have the same thing

Mildred and Bertha. Both of which were inflicted upon my great grandmother. I know they're very "of their time", but it's hard for me to imagine either of them ever sounding particularly mellifluous.

Also dislike George, Josh, Joe. They just sound kinda mealy-mouthed (also super negative experience with a George.) Actually I did meet a Josh who was super-cool, but he was actually a Joaquin. Joes can die in a fire (ex boyfriend thing haha) and while we're slagging off exes, I've never met a Paul who wasn't a dick. All Pauls are evil. It is the way of things.

I'm gonna be cap'n save-a-Julian coz all the Julians I've known have been lovely (and of course Julian Cope).

One of my favourite humans & the only person I'm proud to work for is a Julian

i've never felt totally comfortable with the number of a's in aaron. something egregious about those aarons because of it.

ALSO SEE: Lloyd

that seems harsh coming from a pplains.

lloyds seem more blundersome to me, like they couldn't hellp it

http://www.ofthefittestcomic.com/comics/2012-03-13-primaries.jpg

that seems harsh coming from a pplains.

ftr, I pronounce it with two p's, kinda like how Randy Bachman would.

i say 'pee plains' fyi

use the 'ccch' welsh pronunciation for lloyd it helps imo

http://elissasue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/theseyellowplains6.jpg

xp

Chad
Crystal

Gary

(i've just never met a good one and i don't like the sound it makes)

It's pronounced "yoyd" noobs

george and jack are very weird names. they're really only appropriate for old men.

Theresa

except i know about one person IRL called Jack and have met very few otherwise. Maybe it's a UK thing?

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, August 15, 2014 8:57 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jack is WAY more popular as a given name in the UK then it is in the US. These days, at least. Lots of little kids named Jack.

Let's all offer the caveat here that any ordinary name one of us doesn't like is also going to be the name of a fellow ILXor or their awesome brother or their best friend from elementary.

No personal offense should be taken.

I don't like three of my four names, the surname being the only one I'm fine with.

yeah jack has been the most popular boy's name for years n years. but i think we're only now getting to the point where we're getting an influx of jacks who are ostensibly adults.

When I was a kid, I wanted my name to be Jack. I don't know why.

My grandfather was nicknamed Jack to distinguish from his father, who was also John. My dad was John III, but was always called Michael/Mike (and eventually changed it officially). On my dad's side, there are a lot of Johns and Marys who used their middle names day-to-day, pretty much dating back to the 17th century, on both sides. On my mother's side, lots of Annes and Elizabeths (and the records don't go quite so far back, because they're working-class Swedes and Poles rather than eternally literate Huguenots and Norn Irish doctors).

Nigel

Callums are all bastards, or maybe I'm just biased based on ILX trolls of yore.

Feel like I gotta stick up for Connors, though, given one of my middle names is a variant of that name. :-/

Never thought much of Lee.

Also everyone I've ever known with the surname Skinner has been a bit of a tosser.

So Lee Skinner best watch out. Unless the two negate each other.

crystal

krystal

krystle

YESSSSS otm

the crystal i know and dislike presently, i forwarded her a job posting yesterday and told her it's a great organization, she'd fit right in

ime crystal is short for "don't ever trust me lol"

Any crystalline names just make me think of kidney stones

i seriously dated a crystal once, i just had to not give any thought to her name

I dated a crazy Crystal once, but one of my close stoner friends in high school was a Krystal. Super chill chick. Into ferrets and Mr. Bungle.

We don't get too many Crystals down England way.

hard to think of a Chad I haven't found punchable

& I ain't talking about palm beach county

i have always felt there was something unfair about seans, as if people should not be just granting that they are allowed to spell s-e-a-n but say s-h-a-(w / u)-n. like people are just letting them have their way.

― j., Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk I feel like Sean is the evocative/legit gaelic version and all the variants are ugly cloddish anglicisations - see also Kieran

also "Aiofe" knocks "Eva" into a cocked hat

in the UK c.95% of Ollies are untrustworthy middle class guys with daddy issues and curly hair iirc

http://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/people/180x200/t/thick_of_it_ollie.jpg

I forgot about that guy!

it was the 1st thing that popped into my head. That & olly murs.

feels like too much work to keep straight who prefers Jen, Jenny, Jenna, or the full Jennifer.

I will happily answer to any of these although IME "Jenna" is usually it's own name rather than a nickname for Jennifer. I get irrationally annoyed when people address me in writing as "Jenn" however.

My contribution to this thread: Cheryl

These are all irrational hatreds below:

FRANK - Weird, right? It's a man's man name. FDR. Frank's Wild Years. Just not big on the sound it makes in my mouth. I also don't like Frankie. Fran's ok, though.

My grandmother's name was Frances. Her third husband was a Frank. He was a nice guy, but I feel like I never really got to know the guy because of all that name business.

JOSH/JERRY - I've got best friends with these names, but no. Agree with the wet sneaker/Josh. Not sure why I'm not big on Jerry since I'm ok with Jimmy or Johnny. Maybe because it rhymes with a food, which could also lead the way to why I don't like Frank.

PAT - Love Patrick. It's my abandoned baptismal name. Don't like Pat, and not just because of the "lol @ transgendered people" connotation it has now. Maybe because it's a verb, a very PATronizing verb at that.

HEATH - I'm really starting to convince myself this food thing is real. Not a fan of Chuck either.

I'm also not a big fan the name I go by IRL, Tre.

First, it's basically my dad naming me Pleasant P. Plains Jr. Jr.

Second, the long-A sound it makes is pretty much the most common sound heard here in the Western World. When the barista asks for my name, I tell her anything but my name (Josh would be pretty good, now that I think of it) because hearing someone calling out from across the room 'AY? will go right past my hearing radar.

Third <--- see what I did there - it's spelled too many different ways. Trey is the most common, which is a dog's jaw. Then there's my spelling, Tre. My dad insists on accenting it like Tré, which doesn't seem right. My newspaper quoted a lawyer recently who said his name was Tre', with the accent coming after the 'e', which is despicable. Then there are the guys named Tres or Trae, and the whole world wants to spell it Tray in the first place. Such a tiny name and all this trouble.

When my grandfather died, my name appeared in his obituary as Pleasant "Tré" Plains III. Mother of God, I'm still pissed off about that.

I know a couple of guys named François who prefer Frank and I thought lol you crazy, but I guess when your name is that common...

Pat is my bf's preferred name and it works for him but he's a guy. I usually call him Pats. My mom and a couple of our friends call him Patty which I hate.

Oliver/Ollie are beautiful names.

Chas as a shortener for Charles. I don't get it I hate it, hearing ppl say it makes me so IA

especially when the person doesnt even go by Chas ever

Also Jas. for James. I mean, you've got be in a hurry to use that one.

what about Jno. for John?

second "matt" from the discussion above. i don't know why this name was so popular in the early 80s. in one group of friends i hung out with there were 4 other matts for a total of 5 matts. there were so many other matts around i grew up being called either by my last name or a nickname, so i barely register it as my first name.

Toby

I have a really strong aversion to this name for no good reason, I don't even know anyone with it. I always picture all Tobys as the kid who gets picked on all the time but you secretly feel he kind of deserves it. I really also dislike the name "Brock" because I picture him as the kid who always picks on the other kids.

toby = mug or dog

names that end in the long 'e' sound that don't have a non-diminutive form.

no one sounds good introducing themselves as theo. you can't do much about your parents' awful taste & changing your name opens you up to new levels of ridicule, so I suppose you've got to find a way to own it. but theo, ugh.

the worst chipmunk

But Theo is such a better name than the alternative diminutive, Ted. Which no grown adult over the age of 12 should use.

(But then again, I like Topher and dislike Chris so I might just be contrarian.)

wikipedia's list of notable people named Theo is pretty inauspicious for the most part, but I learned that the singer from Hurts is called Theo Hutchcraft, which seems pretty good, I think?

xp what about stopher?

theodore is fine & the most charming chipmunk iirc. hurts bloke is an old friend of a friend who I've heard invoked a few times, somehow hearing about a millionaire going out w/ alexa chung wld be more palatable to me if he was a ted. v fond of ted.

Alice. I'm pinning that directly on a bratty whiny lying stealing childhood neighbour.

Wasn't there a Huxtable called Theo?

Dirk
Kirk

(but I do know one very nice Kirk who has sort of made that name less disliked)

theodore should be shortened to 'odo' imo

http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/db_articles/55d738aac90a80914bb546df8c5427e81c076f80.jpg

Good idea.