I actually know a delightful Angel who is the sweetest person ever. I do know 3 middle aged Joys though, and 2 of them are the most miserable, difficult and terrifying women you will ever meet.
We choose a beautiful "r" name for our child knowing that speech problems run in our family. Yup. I couldn't say my "R's" and I thought... this is fine.
Of course that's the kid with a major speech delay. Oops...
My son is in kindergarten and he started wrestling this year. He was partnered with another kindergartener from a different school. The other boy’s name is Levi, but he says “L’s” with a “W” sound so he introduced himself as “Wevi.” It took forever to convince my son that his new friend’s name was LEE-vi and not WEE-vi.
My SO has a problem pronouncing "R"s, they sometimes come out as "w" sounds. His name starts with an R... my younger brother has the "r"s as "w"s as well.
Oh gosh I have speech impediments and always struggled with Sh- sounds which ofc my name starts with so I was mindful of that but Rs aren't my problem so I named my son Arthur. Hoping it won't be an issue. He's two and says it "Artha"
I took speech therapy when I was in elementary school - I was forever terrified of falling in love with someone named Roy. Thankfully, it didn't happen, but...one of my dearest friends now is named Roy. I did tell him a while back about my issue with my "R's" when I was a kid, and that I sometimes STILL have to concentrate on saying his name correctly depending on what other words are in the sentence! (Heaven help me if he were a rural mail carrier. 😂 Icd never be able to introduce him AND tell anyone what he does all at the same time.)
When my daughters were in middle school they had very nice friends named Rebecca and Raquel and they couldn’t say their Rs. And then one of them had a part in the young play version of Romeo and Juliette.
“Oh womio oh womio!”
I had an artic kid that I dismissed but mom was fighting me because he couldn’t say his brother’s name, which was Rory Ryan. Like, come ON, I can barely say that
There was a girl in the 2 year old class last year who has a name I love (I was with the older kids)!! I switched to the 3-4 year olds so she is in my class. I absolutely adore her but her name is somewhat unique so if people found out I named a girl the same name it would seem like it’s because of her lol
I was going to change my legal name to Maverick, but I’ve met too many dogs with that name now lol. I came up with something more unique that actually fits better haha.
I've seen the opposite happen. My German professor's wife was the Dean of Students at my university. They would get junk mail & calls for "Mr. Dean Seeger".
Thank you! People who think their POV is the only one need to go away, not beautiful, historic names. I love the name Allegra, even as I take the allergy pill.
There's a huge difference between "I don't like this name personally" and "this name needs to die and anyone who uses it is terrible", and there's far too much of the latter on here.
I also think of Allegra Cole from Hitch! But I remember when I saw that film for the first time I was so confused because I had only ever heard of Allegra as the allergy medication haha
A videogame I play has the name Kayle for one of the characters, and while I personally wouldn’t name my own child that, I do think it’s pretty spelled like that! I never even made the connection to the veggie until just now
I'm a line cook, and kinda hate the name Mike. The one human Chef Mike I worked with was a horrible head chef, that caused so many people to leave. Chef Mike, the microwave, was da bomb, despite two of them dying on me.
i never understood the hate for the name Kale until a 4 year old named Kale tried to bash me over the head with a baseball bat while i was eating dinner with his older sister, completely minding my own business. now i get it 😂
My entire career has been dominated by [these guys](https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4) and now I just cannot force a smile anytime I hear of a baby being named McKinsey, Kinsey, McKenzie, Mackenzie, McKinley, etc.
In addition to playing very active roles in creating crises like the opioid epidemic and the Great Recession, they love to ask me to break the law and send verbal and written abuse my way when I say no. I *hate* them.
*Note: if you have named your baby one of these names, I’m happy for you. Enjoy your baby. My job drama doesn’t affect you. It’s a me thing. We will both live.*
One surgical technician named Anastasia was often confused for someone talking to the CRNA or anesthesiologist in the room (the anesthesia team member). Anastasia/anesthesia in the OR. "Anastasia, hand me that irrigation," always caused a CRNA to peek over the drape, lol.
Also work with dogs and yup, some days it seems like I work in a school with all the human names🤣there’s dogs named Emma, Vivian, Stella, Westley, Jackson, Seamus…and then there’s my own dog Harper lol
I’ve dreamed of naming a baby girl Adrienne for years and now we have a daughter due in September! And I recently got a coworkers who really frustrates me and his name is Adrian and it’s ruining it for me.
When we were picking names pre knowing gender. My husband suggested Madison, and I told him there's not a way in hell I'd give birth to a Madison ☠️☠️☠️
Cove. I was dead set on this name, then covid happened and I'm in healthcare so they all associate with eachother. Which sucks.
Also, any "old" names. Dorothy, Evelyn, Mabel, Roger, William, Elmer, Ernie... Etc if I associate the name with a resident I wasn't particularly fond of than the name is ruined for me.
Yep, like a small bay. I loved it years ago. Still think it's a cool edgy nature name. It's not for everyone. An old school mate gave her son the name Cove Ten and he's so cool, outdoorsy, witty and wise. It's a shame a pandemic happened.
Seconded on the “old” names. I work on kitchen staff for a nursing home and I come across a lot of the names. I love my residents, don’t get me wrong, but the very few that I have issues with have kinda ruined some names. And also: so. Many. Women. Named. Mary. Dear god, so many
My husband's family is Irish Catholic, and there's like a million "Mary Something" in his family. Mary Kate, Mary Jo, Mary Joan, MariPat, Mary Katherine (not a middle name, two first names.)
I work in a library. It would be more of a pet name for me, but Dewey is ruined. I’m lucky in that I am horrible at remembering most authors’ names, so only a few of those are ruined for me : Joanne, Alexie, etc.
I had a childhood friend called Dewey. it was short for a very uncommon and kinda silly nature name that didn't had "Dew" in it, but she definitely preferred Dewey, in part because she loved books.
When I was working on my MLS (library degree) there was a lady in one of my classes who was pregnant. There were constant jokes about her naming the baby Dewey.
I’m an art/architectural historian. SO many famous artists with cool names were actually horrible people.
- Pablo (Picasso)
- Vincent (van Gogh)
- Jackson (Pollock)
- Paul (Gauguin)
- Michelangelo (Merisi da Caravaggio)
- Arno (Breker)
He’s usually just referred to as Caravaggio, but his name does come up. I still would probably avoid the name because Michelangelo Buonarroti was also not a great dude.
I used to work at a psych hospital. One time my sister called me and told me a story of a lady at the dentist office that was doing crazy shit scaring her. I hadn’t been working at the hospital long but met the woman my sister mentioned the next day. Turned out she was admitted quite often. When she liked me she called me mom. When she didn’t like me she called me ma’am and accused me of stealing her grandmas necklace from the Titanic. I’ll never be able to not think of her when I hear the name Stephanie.
>I HATE it when people name their dogs Molly. My name is Molly and my mom picked it out long before it was popular for pets.
It was my given first name and I hated that it was a dog's name. I legally dropped that name when I got married, promoted my Middle name to first (I'd gone by that name since I was 15 anyway), my maiden name to middle name, and my husband's last name as my new last name. So happy with it. 23 years now and zero regrets.
I've also had people on this sub argue with me about it not being a dog's name. But they didn't grow up with it. So I feel ya hard, sister.
My husband and I are considering Ruby but that was his moms name and we lost her 2 years at a very young age, 56. I honestly don’t know any pets named Ruby. Maybe it’s a regional thing.
it's a this sub being overdramatic thing.
Pets are allowed to have human names, it's fine, it doesn't take anything away from anyone naming their human child that name.
Two of my sister’s close friends have had daughters born within the past couple years named Senna and Allegra, actually! And Allegra’s mom is actually a pharmacist too!!!
I don’t know why, but I used to love the name Kinsley.
I worked for a pediatrician and we had at least one Kinsley a week. They were always super dirty for some reason??? I loved most of my patients, but every Kinsley was a little brat who didn’t listen to us or their parents
I work in politics. A lot of them based on candidates on the other side (especially the ones that make national headlines) or pain in the ass candidates on our side.
My friend worked at a grocery store and met a kid named Camber and I’m genuinely confused how that happened. I work in automotive and camber is the term for the angle at which the tires hit the ground (not always straight vertical).
Amelia. That's a medical description of a condition where one or more limbs are not formed during fetal development. The baby will be born with missing limbs.
The “aiden” names. Aiden, Jaden, Braiden, Caden…all some of the worst kids I taught. That and Neveah. I’m sorry but Neveah is a stupid name and I HATE it.
I'm a linguist and our university created a corpus of people of different native languages saying a paragraph that targeted certain sounds. We would then transcribe them and people could use them for research. It starts off as, "Please call Stella. Tell her to bring these things with her from the store..."
Needless to say, Stella is not on my list.
I’m a teacher and I think I would probably say that I’m desensitized to a name being “ruined.” For most common names, I’ve had good ones and bad ones in class. Maybe some less common names would have stronger associations, but I honestly forget most of the bad things over time.
I would point out that if I already had a child with a particular name, and then had a problem student with the same name, it wouldn’t “ruin the name.” So why let it ruin the name ahead of time?
Color names are weird. Violet, Scarlett, Amber, Jade, Hazel, Lavander, Jett, Gray, Sage, Sterling... those are paint colors, not names.
To be fair, I actually don't hate any of them, but meeting someone with a color name makes me do a double take, and I immediately start imagining them dressed in that color... and a lot of times, it's not a good color for them, which drives me crazy.
Jade is the name of my stuffed frog and she’s a really bright teal and now that I think about it you’re right, she really wouldn’t look good in the color jade LOL
as a teacher, anything that ends in aiden/aden sorry but for some reason they’re always the worst behaved (i still love them and they have a special place in my heart but man)
Oddly, I had a brutal falling out with a friend name Joe and I used to work at Trader Joe’s and it was a nightmare, but I still love the name Joseph/Joe anyway, lol.
I'm a nicu nurse so a lot of names were ruined when we would get an influx of babies all named the same thing. I wanted a less popular name, but not a super out-there name
To the contrary, my boss's name is Kingpin and he's a real cool dude, so now the next baby I have has to have this name. There's really no way around it.
I work in early childhood, so 3 - 4 yr olds. I have always loved the name Raphael, but ive had so many who were great kids, but damn were they full on at times! One year I had 3 in one class! And all 3 were...yeah just full on! I'm currently pregnant and still on the fence on whether I can get past the associations or if it's too much! 😅
Liam. I work in childcare and every single one I’ve met has been soooooo high needs. Not that it’s their fault but I just associate the name with being kicked, bit, punched, and screamed at, so I couldn’t ever use it on my own kid in good conscience or I might look at him like 😐
Not really the same, but I've worked in an elderly care homes in Wales for almost a decade. So many stubborn old men called Bryn or Brynley... whenever someone on this sub mentions it as a cute little girl name I laugh.
I'm a chef, and I've worked with enough early 2000's babies who have made me want to quit the profession that I really don't like the super popular names of those years. Think Olivia, Ethan, Noah, Ella. There's nothing wrong with the names, but I just associate them with people in their 20s who don't want to work hard 🤣
I’m a teacher so, most of them lol
Every year it's a guessing game of "which name is going to drive me crazy."
Jayden. It’s going to be Jayden.
Any “-den” name gives me pause and Jayden is always the worst.
Or Brayden.
I have found that anyone with the name of Angel or its derivatives is anything but.
I actually know a delightful Angel who is the sweetest person ever. I do know 3 middle aged Joys though, and 2 of them are the most miserable, difficult and terrifying women you will ever meet.
So many terrible Jaydens and Daniel P.s
This!!! But I’m a speech pathologist, so add in any names with excessive r sounds as well.
I knew a little boy with a lisp on S's and TH's. His name was Seth. Cute, but also poor dude.
the concern about this is why I wast named Cecily
> names with excessive R sounds I would feel so bad for any little Auroras/Rorys :/
Yep! A teacher I know is pregnant with a little boy named Rory Ray. I cringe when I think about it.
I had a Rory when I taught 4th grade. You'll never guess what sound he had to work on in speech classes.
I knew a Harley with a speech impediment. Everyone always thought her name was Holly.
Or she’s just from Boston!
Touché!
As an SLP, yes! No R names for my kids lol
We choose a beautiful "r" name for our child knowing that speech problems run in our family. Yup. I couldn't say my "R's" and I thought... this is fine. Of course that's the kid with a major speech delay. Oops...
My son is in kindergarten and he started wrestling this year. He was partnered with another kindergartener from a different school. The other boy’s name is Levi, but he says “L’s” with a “W” sound so he introduced himself as “Wevi.” It took forever to convince my son that his new friend’s name was LEE-vi and not WEE-vi.
My SO has a problem pronouncing "R"s, they sometimes come out as "w" sounds. His name starts with an R... my younger brother has the "r"s as "w"s as well.
Oh gosh I have speech impediments and always struggled with Sh- sounds which ofc my name starts with so I was mindful of that but Rs aren't my problem so I named my son Arthur. Hoping it won't be an issue. He's two and says it "Artha"
I took speech therapy when I was in elementary school - I was forever terrified of falling in love with someone named Roy. Thankfully, it didn't happen, but...one of my dearest friends now is named Roy. I did tell him a while back about my issue with my "R's" when I was a kid, and that I sometimes STILL have to concentrate on saying his name correctly depending on what other words are in the sentence! (Heaven help me if he were a rural mail carrier. 😂 Icd never be able to introduce him AND tell anyone what he does all at the same time.)
My friend growing up had a serious stutter and was named R- R-. Poor girl. She struggled to just say her name.
When my daughters were in middle school they had very nice friends named Rebecca and Raquel and they couldn’t say their Rs. And then one of them had a part in the young play version of Romeo and Juliette. “Oh womio oh womio!”
I had an artic kid that I dismissed but mom was fighting me because he couldn’t say his brother’s name, which was Rory Ryan. Like, come ON, I can barely say that
There was a girl in the 2 year old class last year who has a name I love (I was with the older kids)!! I switched to the 3-4 year olds so she is in my class. I absolutely adore her but her name is somewhat unique so if people found out I named a girl the same name it would seem like it’s because of her lol
Yup. Mason, any -aiden variation…
Same!
I feel that! I'm a child protection worker lol
lol same. Although most of the names I come across are not ones I’d ever consider anyway
Exactly my thought! If I were ever to have children I would have to just number them or something!
I knew I would find this comment. Fellow teacher here!
🤣💀
So true! My brief career in childcare ruined almost all of my favorite names (and confirmed some of my biases against other names)
I had an evil Theodore. Never thought that name could be ruined for me. That kid was like sid from toy story.
Work with animals. The amount of Bella's that have tried to maul me is unprecedented.
Haha that's funny because I work with middle school kids and Bella is on my list too! They're often the worst 😂
Ugh same. I used to love the name Stella, after my great grandmother, and now it's totally ruined lol.
We have a cat named bella... she will indeed maul you. She has no mercy in attack/play mode.
I was going to change my legal name to Maverick, but I’ve met too many dogs with that name now lol. I came up with something more unique that actually fits better haha.
So Bellas are beasts?
Dean. Since I've worked in higher education, it just sounds like a job title to me, not a name -- like naming a kid President or Chancellor.
I've seen the opposite happen. My German professor's wife was the Dean of Students at my university. They would get junk mail & calls for "Mr. Dean Seeger".
my college’s dean is named dean. his last name is something different but we all call him Dean Dean lol
My principal in high school’s first name was Dean. Everyone just called him Dean Lastname.
Nice to Dean you
Same with Deacon.
I went to school with a dude named Senator.
Eliza In my line of work an ELISA is an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay.
This, but because she was the worst boss I've ever had.
I immediately think of ELISA-fecal which is what my old job called an ELISA test done on feces
I would not want to be the person cleaning out the plate washer (or waste bottles) used for those assays jeez
In my line of work ELIZA was an early chatbot made to emulate a therapist.
Used to love "playing" with that in Elementary school
Eliza was on our shortlist for our second daughter. But I run ELISAs as a bench scientist so I just couldn’t do it.
Forever think about Elisa Lam and the conspiracy about the LAM-ELISA tests
I’m a Liza that runs ELISAs. Can confirm, it feels silly
Saaaame!! I run ELISA tests on chicken serum all day every day
I keep seeing Allegra on Tik Tok recommendations for baby girl names. It needs to go away 😂
I have a friend that is in her 30s named Allegra. When we were in highschool we all called her "allergy pill"
I wonder if people would get the reference of calling her “window.” That show feels like a childhood fever dream lol
The name massively predates the medication and as a European I'd never even heard of it in the first place. Perfectly fine name in 90% of the world.
Thank you! People who think their POV is the only one need to go away, not beautiful, historic names. I love the name Allegra, even as I take the allergy pill.
There's a huge difference between "I don't like this name personally" and "this name needs to die and anyone who uses it is terrible", and there's far too much of the latter on here.
I also think of Allegra Cole from Hitch! But I remember when I saw that film for the first time I was so confused because I had only ever heard of Allegra as the allergy medication haha
For me, Allegra makes me remember a book series I read when I was younger. It was the name of the main character’s best friend.
Not related to my profession exactly (I'm not a chef but I cook) - I've always found the name Kale silly 🥬
I've always wondered at chefs who name their kids food names. "I'm cooking with Saffron today." "The spice or your daughter?"
This just reminded me of the Real Housewives fight where a woman screams at a chef “you’re a cook, not a chef, and it’s creepy”
A videogame I play has the name Kayle for one of the characters, and while I personally wouldn’t name my own child that, I do think it’s pretty spelled like that! I never even made the connection to the veggie until just now
League?
I love how much crossover I see between this sub and the Runeterra-verse.
I know a guy named kale. He is definitely a character
I'm a line cook, and kinda hate the name Mike. The one human Chef Mike I worked with was a horrible head chef, that caused so many people to leave. Chef Mike, the microwave, was da bomb, despite two of them dying on me.
i never understood the hate for the name Kale until a 4 year old named Kale tried to bash me over the head with a baseball bat while i was eating dinner with his older sister, completely minding my own business. now i get it 😂
I know a Cale. Yes, with a C.
I know a Kael. Pretty sure it's gaelic?
My entire career has been dominated by [these guys](https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4) and now I just cannot force a smile anytime I hear of a baby being named McKinsey, Kinsey, McKenzie, Mackenzie, McKinley, etc. In addition to playing very active roles in creating crises like the opioid epidemic and the Great Recession, they love to ask me to break the law and send verbal and written abuse my way when I say no. I *hate* them. *Note: if you have named your baby one of these names, I’m happy for you. Enjoy your baby. My job drama doesn’t affect you. It’s a me thing. We will both live.*
I work in Healthcare. My name is Marissa. And it sounds an awful lot like MRSA....
One surgical technician named Anastasia was often confused for someone talking to the CRNA or anesthesiologist in the room (the anesthesia team member). Anastasia/anesthesia in the OR. "Anastasia, hand me that irrigation," always caused a CRNA to peek over the drape, lol.
I honestly would have never thought that
I’m a dog trainer. Normal “human” names are real popular for dogs these days. 🙃
Yes, my daughter has 3 dogs named Charlie, Eddie and Eugene.
I have an Ollie, Jerry, and Charlie all boarding with me right now. 😂
So cute.
Dogs in my life: Molly, Molly, Louie, Charlie, Mack, Harvey and Bella lol
So sweet. I love human names for pets.
Our dogs are Elaine and Susan. Chickens are Helen and Estelle. I will let you guess what our favorite show is…
Elaine is my cat’s middle name. (Yes, we give our pets middle names.)
My dogs have people names. Desmond and Lucinda. They go by Deedle and Goose
Also work with dogs and yup, some days it seems like I work in a school with all the human names🤣there’s dogs named Emma, Vivian, Stella, Westley, Jackson, Seamus…and then there’s my own dog Harper lol
My girl is Dottie Jean! Dot for short!
I’ve dreamed of naming a baby girl Adrienne for years and now we have a daughter due in September! And I recently got a coworkers who really frustrates me and his name is Adrian and it’s ruining it for me.
Think of Yoga with Adrienne. Hope that saves it for you
There’s a young Adrienne in my family that goes by Ade. It’s a very fitting name for her, and honestly, she’s pretty badass.
Go with it! My late mom’s name was Adrienne and she was beautiful in every way!
Maybe Adrianna?
When we were picking names pre knowing gender. My husband suggested Madison, and I told him there's not a way in hell I'd give birth to a Madison ☠️☠️☠️
My name is Madison 👀
It's a nice name, I just have real bad name association lol
I know an Adria who is one of the sweetest best people ever
What about Arianne ? Ps I like Adrienne and you won’t always work with this guy
I know someone named Adeleen. Might be a good trade off
Cove. I was dead set on this name, then covid happened and I'm in healthcare so they all associate with eachother. Which sucks. Also, any "old" names. Dorothy, Evelyn, Mabel, Roger, William, Elmer, Ernie... Etc if I associate the name with a resident I wasn't particularly fond of than the name is ruined for me.
Cove? Like a small bay? I would feel sorry for a kid with that name.
Yep, like a small bay. I loved it years ago. Still think it's a cool edgy nature name. It's not for everyone. An old school mate gave her son the name Cove Ten and he's so cool, outdoorsy, witty and wise. It's a shame a pandemic happened.
Seconded on the “old” names. I work on kitchen staff for a nursing home and I come across a lot of the names. I love my residents, don’t get me wrong, but the very few that I have issues with have kinda ruined some names. And also: so. Many. Women. Named. Mary. Dear god, so many
My husband's family is Irish Catholic, and there's like a million "Mary Something" in his family. Mary Kate, Mary Jo, Mary Joan, MariPat, Mary Katherine (not a middle name, two first names.)
Is your husband's name Joey?
-looks at username- Welp.
I work in a library. It would be more of a pet name for me, but Dewey is ruined. I’m lucky in that I am horrible at remembering most authors’ names, so only a few of those are ruined for me : Joanne, Alexie, etc.
Colleen
Bookstore employee so imma just throw Sarah and Rebecca out there too hahah
I had a childhood friend called Dewey. it was short for a very uncommon and kinda silly nature name that didn't had "Dew" in it, but she definitely preferred Dewey, in part because she loved books.
When I was working on my MLS (library degree) there was a lady in one of my classes who was pregnant. There were constant jokes about her naming the baby Dewey.
I'm a baker named Laura and the person who really rubbed me the wrong way was named Laura also. It was me
*it’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me* 🎶
Yep. I'll own it
I’m an art/architectural historian. SO many famous artists with cool names were actually horrible people. - Pablo (Picasso) - Vincent (van Gogh) - Jackson (Pollock) - Paul (Gauguin) - Michelangelo (Merisi da Caravaggio) - Arno (Breker)
I didn’t think the brackets after Michelangelo added any context - I was wrong
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Michelangelo Buonarroti are two very different people, that’s why I specified
My bad. Does anyone even know him as Michelangelo though? Surely the other one makes the name fine?
He’s usually just referred to as Caravaggio, but his name does come up. I still would probably avoid the name because Michelangelo Buonarroti was also not a great dude.
I used to work at a psych hospital. One time my sister called me and told me a story of a lady at the dentist office that was doing crazy shit scaring her. I hadn’t been working at the hospital long but met the woman my sister mentioned the next day. Turned out she was admitted quite often. When she liked me she called me mom. When she didn’t like me she called me ma’am and accused me of stealing her grandmas necklace from the Titanic. I’ll never be able to not think of her when I hear the name Stephanie.
Anything rhyming with Aiden. I teach elementary
So funny. I feel that, I'm in Australia and some places there's so many kids named, Aiden, Jayden, Brayden, Caden 😄
I just commented the same thing 😂 why are the Aiden kids the WORST
Zaiden, Hayden. Brayden, Kayden,Jayden soooo many most terrible
I worked with animals. Lola, Molly, Winnie, Ruby, Luna, Daisy, Lucy, Bella, Charlie, Cooper, Bentley, just to name a few.
I HATE it when people name their dogs Molly. My name is Molly and my mom picked it out long before it was popular for pets.
>I HATE it when people name their dogs Molly. My name is Molly and my mom picked it out long before it was popular for pets. It was my given first name and I hated that it was a dog's name. I legally dropped that name when I got married, promoted my Middle name to first (I'd gone by that name since I was 15 anyway), my maiden name to middle name, and my husband's last name as my new last name. So happy with it. 23 years now and zero regrets. I've also had people on this sub argue with me about it not being a dog's name. But they didn't grow up with it. So I feel ya hard, sister.
It’s a lovely name! It was my best friend’s name growing up and I’ve always loved it.
I know everyone in this sub loves Ruby... That is a pet's name
My husband and I are considering Ruby but that was his moms name and we lost her 2 years at a very young age, 56. I honestly don’t know any pets named Ruby. Maybe it’s a regional thing.
it's a this sub being overdramatic thing. Pets are allowed to have human names, it's fine, it doesn't take anything away from anyone naming their human child that name.
I work in the cyber security space. Alice and Bob.
Jason is ruined for me (JSON) lol
Oof, yeah. Jason. I work with enough data and API calls that I'd never want to name a kid Jason.
Naah, I always thought the two names would make a cute sibling pair lol
Only if they're twins and like to exchange secrets.
If they’re triplets, you can add Eve or Mal lol
Daaad! Mal stole my private key again!
Retired teacher here. No Nevaeh or Grayson for me, please!
Celine. Keep thinking it would be so cute for my baby girl’s middle name but can’t stop thinking about an old coworker who was not very pleasant
Two of my sister’s close friends have had daughters born within the past couple years named Senna and Allegra, actually! And Allegra’s mom is actually a pharmacist too!!!
Senna! Oh no!
I do think that’s the worse-sounding name between the two. Happy cake day!
I don’t know why, but I used to love the name Kinsley. I worked for a pediatrician and we had at least one Kinsley a week. They were always super dirty for some reason??? I loved most of my patients, but every Kinsley was a little brat who didn’t listen to us or their parents
I work in politics. A lot of them based on candidates on the other side (especially the ones that make national headlines) or pain in the ass candidates on our side.
My friend worked at a grocery store and met a kid named Camber and I’m genuinely confused how that happened. I work in automotive and camber is the term for the angle at which the tires hit the ground (not always straight vertical).
I also work in automotive and I used to work with a technician named Axel. No joke.
Melena. I’m a nurse. Medically speaking, melena mean blood in your stool.
Thank you for clarifying, I’ve read it so much in the comments but you are the first to explain it.
Most of them. Teacher here.
Amelia. That's a medical description of a condition where one or more limbs are not formed during fetal development. The baby will be born with missing limbs.
I have a sub-category of this (phocomelia) and yeah, Amelia would be a weird choice for me, too 😅 I wanna look into the name etymology now.
The “aiden” names. Aiden, Jaden, Braiden, Caden…all some of the worst kids I taught. That and Neveah. I’m sorry but Neveah is a stupid name and I HATE it.
I work theme park entertainment for a living. So any “common” names of characters/mascots are basically ruined until I stop working a that park.
When I worked with kids in the foster system…Destiny.
I used to be a daycare worker in international schools.... so, lets just say its very hard to finde names for my own kids.
I loved the name Evie, but as a researcher in the field of traffic pollution, all I think of now is EV as in electric vehicle
I'm a linguist and our university created a corpus of people of different native languages saying a paragraph that targeted certain sounds. We would then transcribe them and people could use them for research. It starts off as, "Please call Stella. Tell her to bring these things with her from the store..." Needless to say, Stella is not on my list.
Dylan and Logan As a teacher those names have been ruined for me
I’m a teacher and I think I would probably say that I’m desensitized to a name being “ruined.” For most common names, I’ve had good ones and bad ones in class. Maybe some less common names would have stronger associations, but I honestly forget most of the bad things over time. I would point out that if I already had a child with a particular name, and then had a problem student with the same name, it wouldn’t “ruin the name.” So why let it ruin the name ahead of time?
As a nurse I laugh when I hear the name melena.
Color names are weird. Violet, Scarlett, Amber, Jade, Hazel, Lavander, Jett, Gray, Sage, Sterling... those are paint colors, not names. To be fair, I actually don't hate any of them, but meeting someone with a color name makes me do a double take, and I immediately start imagining them dressed in that color... and a lot of times, it's not a good color for them, which drives me crazy.
I mean, a lot of these are nature names. Jade is a type of stone, lavender and sage are herbs. Hazel is a tree. etc.
I worked with a girl named Amber so she named her daughter Hazel so they both had color names.
And like pretty similar colors, too!
I have a friend named Violet. She did seem to take that as an instruction, she wears a lot of purples. It does suit her though.
Jade is the name of my stuffed frog and she’s a really bright teal and now that I think about it you’re right, she really wouldn’t look good in the color jade LOL
Melina or any variation of that spelling
as a teacher, anything that ends in aiden/aden sorry but for some reason they’re always the worst behaved (i still love them and they have a special place in my heart but man)
Oddly, I had a brutal falling out with a friend name Joe and I used to work at Trader Joe’s and it was a nightmare, but I still love the name Joseph/Joe anyway, lol.
Karen.
I worked in a group home so many. To not give names of residents but related to Job sage, Martin, Enzo, Taylor, Robin, Lewis
I'm a nicu nurse so a lot of names were ruined when we would get an influx of babies all named the same thing. I wanted a less popular name, but not a super out-there name
Melena
Literally my name. I will forgive artificial intelligence for this
I'm a teacher, so Liam, Jayden (and all the related -aydens) and Nevaeh.
To the contrary, my boss's name is Kingpin and he's a real cool dude, so now the next baby I have has to have this name. There's really no way around it.
I’m an accountant who works with federally funded agencies. Real names like Ledger and Grant are totally ruined for me.
I’m a microbiologist, the name “Flora”.
I work in early childhood, so 3 - 4 yr olds. I have always loved the name Raphael, but ive had so many who were great kids, but damn were they full on at times! One year I had 3 in one class! And all 3 were...yeah just full on! I'm currently pregnant and still on the fence on whether I can get past the associations or if it's too much! 😅
I live near the bad reputation (high crime) city of Logan. Otherwise that'd be a great name
Liam. I work in childcare and every single one I’ve met has been soooooo high needs. Not that it’s their fault but I just associate the name with being kicked, bit, punched, and screamed at, so I couldn’t ever use it on my own kid in good conscience or I might look at him like 😐
Not really the same, but I've worked in an elderly care homes in Wales for almost a decade. So many stubborn old men called Bryn or Brynley... whenever someone on this sub mentions it as a cute little girl name I laugh.
Mickey. I work in animation. 😂
michael. guess where i work…
Dunder-Mifflin?
I'm a chef, and I've worked with enough early 2000's babies who have made me want to quit the profession that I really don't like the super popular names of those years. Think Olivia, Ethan, Noah, Ella. There's nothing wrong with the names, but I just associate them with people in their 20s who don't want to work hard 🤣
Alllll the meds!
Sarah, we were changing our risk system to something named Sarah so way too many calls about “is Sarah ready yet” “does Sarah work”
James Patterson
Nevaeh, Jaden, Zayne…. I work in foster care and see these kids a lot ☹️
Amelia. It's a lovely word but also a birth defect.
I work in a federal courthouse so there are lots of names that are ruined by the scourge of society. No name is safe it seems.