First names that don't suit children:

[CanuckAmok]

When I was a kid, there was a kid in my neighbourhood named "Hugh".

Imagine some six-year-old "Hugh". Can't do it, can you?

Also: Millicent, Daphne, Earl, Roger, Earnest.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I don't think Daphne's too bad.

I don't think ANYONE should be named Millicent though

[Danmel]

23. Salvatore

It just seems weird to call a little toddler Salvatore. (What can I say- I live on Long Islanad- lots of little Salvatores and Dominics running around these parts!)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

56. Hey! I'm a Domenic!!

I'm also the only one I know though.

[Danmel]

58. Nothing wrong with Dominic

It's Salvatore I think is really too adult. Dom is OK. Just lots of really Italian names around these parts. Lots of little Vincents and Salvatores and Dominics. Half expect the 5 year olds to have tattoos.

[hippywife]

62. I have a cousin named Salvatore.

We just always called him Sully. It worked.

[Shell Beau]

2. Linda, Mildred, Nancy, Brenda, Richard, etc.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. uhmmm...

What's wrong with those?

I've gotta wonder, especially since my name is Brenda... :D

Mildred's a little mature sounding, but Milly works ok.

[Shell Beau]

70. There is nothing wrong with those names.

I guess as I was younger, all of my mom's friends were named Brenda, or Nancy or something to that effect. I guess those were the popular names at the time she was born. I just don't know anyone my age with those names. But they aren't ugly names at all. That is not what I meant. :)

[bleedingheart]

68. Hey now....

I am a Nancy Beth...

[Shell Beau]

71. See my reply above!!

Nothing wrong with the names! :)

[bleedingheart]

72. funny thing is that my mother named me after her...

but gave me the "nicknames" associated with her name.

her name is Anna Elizabeth....I got Nancy Beth...

Now she was going to name me Salome...after her grandmother and that would have been a real interesting name to have in CCD classes.

[Shell Beau]

76. I like that name Salome. That is different. I've never

heard it before. I never knew Nancy was a nickname for Anna. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

84. LOL! You would've gotten silver platters for your birthday...

hopefully without heads upon them!

[Left Is Write]

74. Brenda, Nancy and Linda definitely seem okay for kids to me, because...

the only Lindas, Nancys, and Brendas I knew were my peers when I was a kid!

[Momgonepostal]

3. I like some of those

I'm actually more a fan of "grown-up" names for children than I am of cutesy-wootsey names on adults.

[Blue-Jay]

4. Shit. "Hi! I'm Shit Smith. Glad to meetcha!"

[kanrok]

19. Yeah...or "Douchebag" is kinda grown up too!

Hi, Millicent, have you met my son Douchebag? HEY! DOUCHEBAG! GET OFF THE COUCH AND MEET MILLICENT!!!

[alarcojon]

44. It's Ass-wee-pay!

B-)

[alarcojon]

46. Poindexter

[HEyHEY]

5. Bob

[Shell Beau]

6. I never got the name Buffy! I just don't get it!

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

7. Agnes

George
Penelope
Sloan

[LaraMN]

8. Boise.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Winnifred, Ethel, Edna, Thelma, Frida, Ferd, Leroy, Enola

[Shell Beau]

11. Yes, those all sound grandma and grandpa-ish!

[Zuni]

13. you never meet young people with those names

it is like some people were born old :P

[Shell Beau]

16. I know! I have yet to know anyone named Winifred!

[no name no slogan]

25. That was my grandmothers name

She was married to Lyle until she passed away nine years ago.

[Shell Beau]

27. My grandma is a Milly. My other one was Geraldine.

My grandpa's sister's names were Mavis and Edna. Old people names!

[Zuni]

35. there is NEVER a young person named Edna. Ever

It is like, at the age of 65, they adopt a new name.

[CanuckAmok]

32. There are lots of 20-something Chinese women in Vancouver with...

..old-fashioned names: Winnifred, Myrna, Lucille, Bea, Agnes, Ethyl, Alice, Mavis. I had an assistant named "Mavis".

[xmas74]

17. There was an Enola at my daughter's preschool.

She was named after someone in her family(never got the whole story).

[qnr]

59. Maybe the parents were fans of Waterworld? n/t

[xmas74]

83. I heard the mother say something about family.

The way it was said I think the name came from the father's side. Maybe one of those guilt things.

[tonkatoy57]

22. Enola

She's the bomb.

[Redstone]

34. But is she gay?

Redstone

[wildhorses]

64. Enola Gay?

wasn't that a WW11 airplane:shrug:

[MN ChimpH8R]

81. It was the name of the plane that dropped the A-bomb

on Hiroshima. Named for the captain's mother.

[Trigger Hippie]

10. Cora.

The name of my 1 year old cousin. Ick.

[xmas74]

18. Worked w/ someone who named her daughter Cora.

Named her after her grandmother who raised her from birth.

[lakemonster11]

42. Cora actually means "girl"

It's actually more fitting for a child than for a grandmother (though it is my grandmother's name).

[trackfan]

12. Blanch doesn't seem to suit a kid.

[Left Is Write]

75. I'd agree with that.

Blanche = not a kid name

[xmas74]

14. My grandfather was Hugo.

I always see him as 70-something and cranky, preaching the word of God. He made all his children promise never to name a child after him because he hated his name so much.

Nope, can't see a kid w/ that name.

[ceile]

15. Dorothy n/t

[xmas74]

20. My cousin is a Dorothy.

I remember it very well. She renamed herself Dee.

[DawgHouse]

53. Two of my Dorothy friends prefer to be called Dot. NT

[xmas74]

57. Cousin was named after her grandmother.

[fudge stripe cookays]

79. Yep, I have a bud here named Dot.

She signs her e-mails "." That's so cool! I want a name like that! It's almost like Prince, with the symbol thing.

:D
FSC

[Lars39]

21. Dorcas

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Dorky for short?

Yeah...That's pretty bad.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. nymphadora tonks

:evilgrin:

[redsoxliberal]

40. severus snape

[pdx_prog]

26. Hmmm....

Claude, Rufus, Sam, Merlene, Erna-lou, Martha, Betty, Wanda, Pearl..

[anarch]

28. Adolph

Jean-Claude. Dick. Gertrude. Cesare.

[wildhorses]

29. Zelig...

[rurallib]

30. I love those parents who name the kid after the conception spot

Like 'Alburquerque' or 'Dallas' or 'Behindthefootballstands'

[formerrepuke]

31. Stockard, Cloris, Celine.. talented ladies, but don't name your

daughters after them.. it'll make people think of: A defunct automobile maker; a household cleaning product, a bodily fluid.

[philosophie_en_rose]

33. Delores, Mulva, Regina.

.

[amerikat]

61. great episode (nt)

[MN ChimpH8R]

36. Orville, Oscar

Ole, Sven, Erling (had an uncle by that name) Edna and Ada (ditto, aunts) Bertha and Effie (grandmothers). Lotsa Scandihoovian handles up here in Minnuh-Soduh.

[Left Is Write]

77. You've managed to name both of my grandfathers in that list.

:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Better Hugh than Huey...

When I was in 6th grade, one of my first big crushes was a guy named Hugh. :loveya:

[Enraged_Ape]

41. Jedediah (AKA Jebediah)

Somehow, I don't think there's anyone under the age of 96 named "Jedediah". And if there actually is, I truly feel sorry for them.

Other names that won't work anymore:

Zebulon
Agnes
Gladys
Lemuel (Lem)
Cletus
Bruford
Rufus
Chaka Khan

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

48. Fort Wayne, Indiana? (nt)

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[Enraged_Ape]

51. Harry Beevers was a respected biology professor at UCSC

He passed away last fall. Here's his obituary. He was a great guy.

http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/09-20/inmemoriam-beevers.asp

[kwassa]

65. Harry Brown Motors, a real car dealership

somewhere in Ohio that we wandered by

[DS1]

45. Beatrix

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

47. Ebenezer. Only old people are called Ebenezer. (nt)

[Tallison]

49. Brad

Unless it looked like this little hustler:

[DawgHouse]

54. Now THAT is a cute baby!! NT

[qnr]

52. Cornelius n/t

[TallahasseeGrannie]

55. Maurice, Myrtle, Daphne, Oliver

[TheDebbieDee]

60. Bertha for girls and Homer for boys. Neither name should

ever be given to a child.......nor an adult, for that matter!

[SoCalDem]

63. Eunice, Bertha, Edgar, Howard, Buford, Lucille, Martha,

Arnold, Beverly, Betty, Bernice, Constance, Durwood, Evelyn, Freida, Gloria, Georgina, Georgette, Hortense, Hubert, Harold, Ivan, Irene, Orville, Ophelia,

[Deja Q]

66. Mercedes, Dakota, ESPN, Chevrolet, L'Oreal, Armani, Noxema, Chanel...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm features a bunch of names.

It is hardly individuality to name your offspring after a corporate name. It's free advertising for a bunch of leaches.

[bleedingheart]

69. Mercedes is actually a girls name that a car maker used...

Gender: Girl
Pronunciation: mer-SAY-dees
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: "Mercies."
Notes: Used in reference to the Virgin Mary, Santa Maria de las Mercedes as "Our Lady of Mercies." Literary: the name of the lost love of Edmond Dantes in Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo." Also the name of the German luxury car, which was named for a little girl named Mercedes. Mostly Catholic use. See also Mercy. Actresses Mercedes McCambridge, Mercedes Ruehl.

courtesy of www.thinkbabynames.com

[hyphenate]

67. Bubba eom

[Left Is Write]

73. Daphne was on my short list when I was pregnant with my 2nd.

It was my grandmother's middle name, and I've always liked it. My husband nixed it, though, because it reminded him of Scooby Doo.

[yellowcanine]

78. "Clarence" doesn't really work for a little boy. Even less for a little

girl.

[Art_from_Ark]

80. Moon Unit

[miss_kitty]

82. Clive, Edgar, Gertrude, Winston

That's all I got.

[jackelope72]

85. My mother's first name is Ada; her younger sister is Clora Jean.

My grandmother was Clora Cordelia. I had a great-aunt and great-uncle named Dorothy and Harold; other great aunts named Elna and Vivian. I can't imagine young people having those names. (no offense to any young people here who have them, though.)