Names You Just Don't Understand...

[livytoo]

Beatrice or Beatrix. At first I liked it but didn't love it. It still sounds too old for me. But mostly people's crazy love for it has been driving me a bit crazy. I hate to say it, but it's true.

[jennipea382]

-Boden, Bodie, Beau, anything related to that. Just can't stand the "bo" sound.
-Rogue. I've seen this pop up on here a few times now. It's NOT A NAME. It's a type of character I can play on WoW. I could never take this name seriously.
-Tallulah. Speaking of taking names seriously, I can't with this one either.
-Paisley. It's a pattern. Not a name.
-Jasper and Dexter. I don't get the appeal of these names. I think they sound ugly.
-Elle. It's just so.. blah. Boring. It's just like saying the letter L.
-Most other Elle/Ella names. Especially ones that are typical names with it added on like Graciella. I'm just so over all the little Elles, Ellas and Bellas running around. I get it, you named her Arabella and you're going to call her Bella. How creative!
-Nevaeh. It isn't even pronounced the way I'd say it with that spelling. I'd pronounce it nuh-vah-eh. I really like people that misspell it because it seems that they lost the "point" of the name.
ETA: Thought of more
-Boy's names on girls. Elliott, Logan, Hayden, Devin, Noah, Riley, names like that. Also adding a y to make it "feminine". I've seen Kevyn, Aidyn, Landyn, Devyn, Camryn, Masyn and others like that on people's lists (not here I don't think). OH and the only "-son" name I can stand on girls is Allison. I don't know why I make that exception but I do.
-Evangeline. I really don't like the sound of it.
-Clementine. I can't explain how much this name bugs me or why it bugs me as much as it does, lol. Maybe it's that song?

Sorry, I know some of that was pretty snarky. I just had to get that off my chest lol. No offense meant to anyone that used those names or likes those names. I just don't understand them at all!

[essjay]

I got reminded of another name I don't understand the obsession with yesterday: Brianna. Bree just reminds me of the cheese, and Brianna/Briella/etc all just sound made up to me. Well, I get Briella can be a short form of Gabriella, but it just sounds so ugly. Arianna, too, sounds made up. And Elianna. I like Anna, I even like some names that end in -anna. Just not those ones.

[78special]

The 4 names I hate most in the world are Ava, Avery, Dylan and Jesse.

But I don't understand why people love:

Nevaeh/Neveah
Tallulah
Beatrice/Beatrix
Isabelle
Taylor
Tyler
Kayley/Kiley

[frustratedauthor]

I don't understand the love for Theodore. While I generally love vintage names, that one just feels too stuffy for me. Also, Bodhi.

[jennipea382]

I thought of another one. Jessamine. I don't get the appeal of it at all. It sounds so ugly to me. But I did also know someone with a similar name (the first two syllables, change out the J for a Ch) and.. I have nothing nice to say about her so I'll just stop there. So maybe that association doesn't help, but either way I think it's hideous. Sorry to those that like this name, there are quite a few around here...

[vivimay]

Seraphine/Seraphina- I don't see the appeal. I also really dislike Cora, which everyone else seems to love.

[youssarian]

Another one is Gideon. It sounds like "get it on" to me! And Simeon (I think that's how it's spelled). I think of primates. :/

[snacktress]

Ack. I appear to be alone in loving Penelope. My husband fought hard for it a couple of years ago when we were naming our daughter and, if #3 happens to be a girl, I know it will be at the top of the list.

BUT, names I can get behind hating:

Matilda. "ugly chic" or just ugly. I think it's so clunky and uncomfortable to say.
Clementine - cloyingly sweet and yet so awkward
Kaelyn, Braelyn, Shaelyn, etc - the staff list at the dollar store
Poppy - Just stupid
Rogue - See "Poppy"
Flora - one of the grandma names that just doesn't modernize for me
Matthew - never want to see another baby boy named this again
Jayden - for either gender
Dominick - ugly and greasy sounding
Dante - just brings to mind small, ill-behaved boys with euro-trash mullets
Matteo - see Dante
Gianluca - see Dante
Cooper, Parker, Cody, Bentley - names that are better saved for the dogs
Brooklyn - ugh
Sienna/Sierra
Alexis
Alessandra, Julianna, Vittoria, et al - trying so hard to be elegant, and yet sounding fussy and self-important instead

[ynnig]

Drusilla. Why? It's literally the name of an ugly sister.

There aren't many names I hate but I'm not a fan of surnames for first names e.g.:
McKenna (this is the son of Kenna, who was a man. And if you're not Scottish or Irish, puh-leeeaaase!)
Milton
Harrison
Reed
although some of these sound lovely and I wish I didn't know a Mrs Harrison or a Mr Reed.

Of course there are also names I dislike because they have belonged to mean or stupid people throughout my life:
Heidi
Anne-Marie
Jennifer
Isabella

Oh and there are the names that should belong only to babies that never grow up:
Milly
Molly
Daisy
Maisie
Ellie
Smelly
Silly
Olly
Charlie
Alfie
Archie
Davey
Baldy
Paultry
you get the point...

Apparently there ARE many names I dislike!!!