Names you hate

Muskrat Love · #1 24th April 2009, 08:39 AM

Caitlin, when pronounced "kate-lin". Caitlin is pronounced "Kathleen". People started spelling the name phonetically because they were sick of people mispronouncing the name. Now people have gone back to spelling it correctly and saying it wrong.

-ayden names. In the preschool my wife works at, there is a Aiden, Jayden, Trayden, and Brayden.

Todd. I have never known a Todd who was not a jerk.

Hi, Neighbor! · #2 24th April 2009, 08:45 AM

Boris
Bertha
Mitch
Corbett
Linda
Regina

Who_me? · #3 24th April 2009, 08:46 AM

Fred. Fred is awful.

WednesdayAddams · #4 24th April 2009, 08:57 AM

Mike. Egotistical asses the lot of them.

Uthrecht · #5 24th April 2009, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MarissaW

Mike. Egotistical asses the lot of them.

HEY! Fuck you!

ETA: Never mind. realized I'm not named Mike. Screw Mikes.

Hi, Neighbor! · #6 24th April 2009, 09:07 AM

My name is Mike. Maybe I can break the mold.

Smithish · #7 24th April 2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Hi, Neighbor!

My name is Mike. Maybe I can break the mold.

SEE how egotistical you are??

SweetPea · #8 24th April 2009, 10:45 AM

Any name that has the spelling changed to be "cute"

Control-Z · #9 24th April 2009, 11:17 AM

All those names like Shamiqua or Teniqua or Tawanda or Shawanda.

Muskrat Love · #10 24th April 2009, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Control-Z

All those names like Shamiqua or Teniqua or Tawanda or Shawanda.

I worked in an office with a Kimesha, Shemika, and Mekisha. It wasn't even that big of an office (less than 30 employees).

There are some similar names that have actual meanings. It's sad that the movement to give children traditional African names in the 60s and 70s has been perverted with names that were made up to sound African.

Hi, Neighbor! · #11 24th April 2009, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Badtz Maru

I worked in an office with a Kimesha, Shemika, and Mekisha. It wasn't even that big of an office (less than 30 employees).

I work with a Magda, Yolanda, Yasmin, Thor, Brendaliz, and an Amarilis.

Doyle · #12 24th April 2009, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Hi, Neighbor!

I work with a Magda, Yolanda, Yasmin, Thor, Brendaliz, and an Amarilis.

Where do you work, Valhalla?

Hi, Neighbor! · #13 24th April 2009, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord of Night

Where do you work, Valhalla?

Yeah, man. Thor is an asshole, too. He stole my woman.

Joey P · #14 24th April 2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Control-Z

All those names like Shamiqua or Teniqua or Tawanda or Shawanda.

Ya mean like these? (Not entirely NSFW, but a bit racially insensitve, so turn your volume down).

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Originally Posted by Badtz Maru

I worked in an office with a Kimesha, Shemika, and Mekisha. It wasn't even that big of an office (less than 30 employees).

I had a math class with a Rashawn, Shaunte and something else, LaShonda maybe.

Zeener Diode · #15 24th April 2009, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Joey P

...I had a math class with a Rashawn, Shaunte and something else, LaShonda maybe.

You're not doing it right.

It's "RahShawunn", "ShawanTayye" and "LahShawnduh."

And then there's "Antawn", pronounced "An-twahn."

Joey P · #16 24th April 2009, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

You're not doing it right.

It's "RahShawunn", "ShawanTayye" and "LahShawnduh."

And then there's "Antawn", pronounced "An-twahn."

I'll never forget Rashawn. He puked in class. To make it worse he put his hand over his mouth which caused puke to shoot, literally, from one corner of the classroom to the other, bleh.

Zeener Diode · #17 24th April 2009, 12:06 PM

Was that before or after lunch?

Fish · #18 24th April 2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Hi, Neighbor!

Corbett

Hey!

Metallic Squink · #19 24th April 2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Hi, Neighbor!

Bertha

Hey!

mnemosyne · #20 24th April 2009, 05:20 PM

Bobby.

Robert is fine, as is Bob. I just hate the name Bobby.

timbicile · #21 24th April 2009, 05:30 PM

And Fredrick. Are you Fred or Rick? Make up your mind asshole.

HongKongFooey · #22 24th April 2009, 05:33 PM

I have yet to meet a non-white-trash Cody or Kody

Seeker of Truth & Beauty · #23 24th April 2009, 05:34 PM

On behalf of all the Michaels in the world, we aren't all bad.

And don't call me Mike.

Mbossa · #24 24th April 2009, 05:41 PM

Dave. Whenever I'm interested in a girl, you can guarantee that she will turn out to have boyfriend called Dave.

Who_me? · #25 24th April 2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mbossa

Dave. Whenever I'm interested in a girl, you can guarantee that she will turn out to have boyfriend called Dave.

That's only because she has taste.

Dave.

Radical Edward · #26 24th April 2009, 05:52 PM

Any name that begins with D except Debbie. No, I don't like Debs or Deborahs. Also Emily, Mitch, and Stan.

*Veb* · #27 24th April 2009, 06:01 PM

Marcia, or any variant spelling.

I have met precisely one Marcia who wasn't an utter twit.

My cousin Marsha is one of the most selfish, passive-aggressive, hypocritical leeches ever. A former employee I finally unloaded, inches before coworkers waving pitchforks and torches...Marcia.

It should be a pretty name but it turns people into monsters.

timbicile · #28 24th April 2009, 06:05 PM

Marcia, Marcia , Marcia. It's always about Marcia.

mshar · #29 24th April 2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MarissaW

Mike. Egotistical asses the lot of them.

I'd defend my name, but you're not worth my precious time.

Doyle · #30 24th April 2009, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TVeblen

Marcia, or any variant spelling.

I have met precisely one Marcia who wasn't an utter twit.

My cousin Marsha is one of the most selfish, passive-aggressive, hypocritical leeches ever. A former employee I finally unloaded, inches before coworkers waving pitchforks and torches...Marcia.

It should be a pretty name but it turns people into monsters.

I think this runs a little deeper than the name Marsha, but I'm no shrink.

mshar · #31 24th April 2009, 06:53 PM

Oh, and Heather. Every girl I've ever met named Heather was trouble, in one way or another.

Doyle · #32 24th April 2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mshar

Oh, and Heather. Every girl I've ever met named Heather was trouble, in one way or another.

I love Heathers.

mshar · #33 24th April 2009, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord of Night

I love Heathers.

Then you're clearly an idiot.

Doyle · #34 24th April 2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mshar

Then you're clearly an idiot.

Maybe Pennsylvania just has crazy, ugly Heathers. They're quite attractive here.

mshar · #35 24th April 2009, 07:11 PM

I didn't say they were unattractive. On the contrary, they're the ones who seduce you at parties and you end up fooling around with them when you came to the party with someone else; or the ones who go home with you and tell you the next morning that they have a tough-guy boyfriend; or the ones who are, quite simply, batshit insane.

Even the script writers for Frasier agree with me!

Roz: Okay, so who is she?
Daphne: Who's who?
Roz: Niles' patient?
Daphne: All right. I saw one of his files by mistake. The woman is madly in love with him.
Roz: So who is she?
Daphne: Her name is Heather Murphy.
Roz: Heather, huh? That's trouble. What else do you know?

Doyle · #36 24th April 2009, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mshar

I didn't say they were unattractive. On the contrary, they're the ones who seduce you at parties and you end up fooling around with them when you came to the party with someone else; or the ones who go home with you and tell you the next morning that they have a tough-guy boyfriend; or the ones who are, quite simply, batshit insane.

And you regret these wonderful memories? I live on them.

I had a brief fling with a girl from Miami who's boyfriend was out to kill when I came to visit her. I've told this story a thousand times. Of course, if he'd succeeded it wouldn't have been cool.

mshar · #37 24th April 2009, 07:19 PM

Well, the girl with whom I had gone to the party in the first scenario was much more attractive than this Heather chick. And it should go without saying that that girl was a little put off by my antics that night.

But I'll stop using this thread for my personal therapy session now.

Doyle · #38 24th April 2009, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mshar

Well, the girl with whom I had gone to the party in the first scenario was much more attractive than this Heather chick. And it should go without saying that that girl was a little put off by my antics that night.

But I'll stop using this thread for my personal therapy session now.

Never stopped me. I'm listening.

*Veb* · #39 24th April 2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord of Night

I think this runs a little deeper than the name Marsha, but I'm no shrink.

As for my-cousin-Marsha, she undoubtedly instilled the first distaste for the name. But she really is a bitch on titanium wheels. Seems like every family has at least one flaming putz, and she's ours. She's an eye-rolling hoot from a safe distance though.

Her annual Christmas tantrums are legendary. The entire family makes bets on who long it will take her to manufacture offense and storm off in a huff. Last year she made it just past the midnight service on Christmas Eve. See, she was deeply offended because the pastor actually smiled, the fiend, while shaking parishioners' hands as they left the church. See, he was recently divorced.

Marsha is fervently, vocally Christian and does not believe in divorce. The minister looked too happy. He was divorced, thus he had no business smiling.

Marsha is divorced, btw.

Couldn't make up this stuff. Plenty of great Marsha stories in our family.

LurkMeister · #40 24th April 2009, 07:55 PM

Karen - for strictly personal reasons, which I really don't want to go into.

threnody · #41 24th April 2009, 07:58 PM

I can't think of any names I hate. But I can think of lots that I really like!

EJsGirl · #42 24th April 2009, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by starwarsfreek42

Any name that begins with D except Debbie.

Sweet! Sez Debbie...

You even spelled it correctly...

Eliahna · #43 24th April 2009, 09:04 PM

I love names! Am fascinated by names! And, therefore, I have strong opinions on loads of names so I probably shouldn't start naming names, lest I fill the Giraffe Servers and cause offence to dozens of people who I'm sure I'd just love (other than their names).

But!

Fiona. As long as I can remember, I've had an inexplicable hatred for the name Fiona. Can't stand it. Yuck, yuck, yuck! And this is in spite of actually knowing some very lovely Fionas. However, purely by chance (and in just the last decade), I finally recalled that the awful little girl who used to bully me in kindergarten was named Fiona. So I guess it's not that inexplicable after all, it's just my four-year-old self living on in me.

Radical Edward · #44 24th April 2009, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by EJsGirl

Sweet! Sez Debbie...

You even spelled it correctly...

Well spelling it with a y would just be unnatural.

wring · #45 24th April 2009, 09:17 PM

Kevin.

the twit hitme in the head w/a brick when I was 7 and never even got in trouble. Bastid.

timbicile · #46 24th April 2009, 09:24 PM

Tim.

Every single one I have met was an ignorant, know it all son of a bitch.

Radical Edward · #47 25th April 2009, 06:59 PM

It's good to know that nobody hates my name. Though I'm willing to bet that most people haven't met many people with my name.

eleanorigby · #48 25th April 2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by threnody

I can't think of any names I hate. But I can think of lots that I really like!

Clearly you have not seen enough of the world...

Ralph--really, is this name necessary?
Fred-pushy, mouthy.
Elliot-in the immortal words of Gib ("The Sure Thing"): Elliot is a fat boy with glasses who eats paste in Kindergarten.
Walter
Sharon--have yet to meet one who isn't passive-aggressive in some way.
Wendy-words fail me.
Elizabeth--lovely name, too bad 99% of them are bossy, bossy, bossy.
George--I hated it long before W polished it up.
Dave--David is a lovely name. What happened?
Florence-this screams Miss Priss to me

Pierce--could we be more pretentious? Yes, we could name him--
Logan.
Muriel. Let it die
Girls named after jewels: Opal, Ruby, Tiffany (close enough)--wretched.
Any girl's name that is spelled to reflect the girl's uniqueness. Gag. Any girl's name that ends in "i".
And for threnody's sake: Bindi--it meets 2 of my requirements--it ends in "i" AND it's "special". I'm ralphing up those shrimps on the barbie as I type, mate!

And let me include Uneek and U'nique, 2 girls in my daughter's graduating class. God help them.

threnody · #49 25th April 2009, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by eleanorigby

Clearly you have not seen enough of the world...
And for threnody's sake: Bindi--it meets 2 of my requirements--it ends in "i" AND it's "special". I'm ralphing up those shrimps on the barbie as I type, mate!

Aww none of them inspire hate in me. Maybe it's because I've seen so much of the world, I've had the chance to experience the good Freds and Elizabeth's of the world.

Bindi is a "special" name but I don't hate it.

Silver Fire · #50 25th April 2009, 07:34 PM

My sister is pregnant with a baby of undetermined sex. This is the second baby she has had with her husband (they'll have four kids between them) and when she was pregnant with the last one the deal was she would pick the name if it were a girl and he would pick the name if it were boy, since they couldn't really agree. She had a girl and named her Lillian Grace, which is fine.

The deal apparently goes on to say that whoever didn't get to name that baby would get to name the next baby regardless of gender.

If it's a boy, the husband wants to name him Dakota Hunter.

I hate the name Dakota Hunter.

I think a girl's name is still undecided. I shudder to think.