First names you would never call a child of yours

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Reply 160

Tiger Rag

Anything that's a surname.

Reply 161

Anonymous #1

Would not name a kid India.

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Reply 162

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Original post by Pikachū

What about al-Baghdadi?

The meaning of that to my knowledge is 'a person from Baghdad'
It's not a name.

Reply 163

Anonymous #2

Cecil, if it only because it means blind.

Reply 164

markova21

When I was little there was a girl on our street called Twiggy. [1960's model, for those who haven't heard of her]. I heard a few years later she was taken into care.

Reply 165

markova21

Original post by Tiger Rag

Anything that's a surname.

There was a boy at my school [can't remember whether it was primary or secondary] that was called Alan Allen !

Reply 166

loveleest

Nothing religious and nothing too "ethnic"- sad but it's true.

Bilal

I had to go through a list of names to find some random ones I would find unacceptable.

If a girl:
Stacey
Tracey
Sharon
Pamela
Jade
Crystal

If a boy:
Jordan
Derek
Bailey
Kieran
Connor

I would also not accept odd spellings of names whose only purpose is to make the individual seem unique. I see this a lot and usually just assume it is a spelling mistake.

Reply 169

Tiger Rag

Original post by markova21

There was a boy at my school [can't remember whether it was primary or secondary] that was called Alan Allen !

My dad told me he knows a man called Andrew Andrews.

A relative does have his grandmother's maiden name as his middle name. But it is a proper boys name, rather than what quite clearly is a surname, like Cooper. (or mine, which I'm not going to reveal)

Shlomo

Original post by l'etranger

Noah has fast become a chav tier name, George is a definite no-no now and this trend of White middle class people calling their kids ''India'' just has to be criminalised.

umm... it's usually black people who name their kids India. It's a very common African American name

Reply 172

comebackseason

Original post by agrew

Mercedes, before watching Glee, I had no idea it can be used as a name.

It's a Spanish name which is extremely common in Latino people, it's basically the Spanish version of the Virgin Mary.

Being culturally ignorant isn't cute

Reply 173

comebackseason

Eastern European names like Anja, Zoran, Filip, Anastasia, Vlad,Tatiana

Don't know why but I always thought those were really cool

Reply 174

fandom-queen

Cordelia, Jane, Shamaima (ugh, I knew a bully called this)

Asia, America, India, Europa. Just no.

Reply 175

agrew

Original post by comebackseason

It's a Spanish name which is extremely common in Latino people, it's basically the Spanish version of the Virgin Mary.

Being culturally ignorant isn't cute

The thread is about the names you don't like; being the Spanish version of the Virgin Mary and being common among others don't make the name more appealing to me.

Some people pointed out here that they don't like Eastern European names. I'm myself from such background, but you don't see me screaming around about cultural ignorance, even though most of slaving names also have strong meaning behind them.