Most Hated Baby Names

Kat - posted on 07/27/2012

Sorry we had Madeline for my second too

Kat - posted on 07/27/2012

I have to girls and expecting number 3 have no idea what lil tadpole is yet but have no clue we were goin to call my second Madison but went with samarah instead and my first girl had Emilia, felicity, and Olivia we named her Olivia
I think all the names Are nice up there everyone that was said I've thought of for this current bubby but we shall see in 8 weeks we find out the sex then I'll have a better idea

Katherine - posted on 07/14/2012

I wanted to name my daughter Madison!

Marsha - posted on 07/14/2012

My daughter is Madison, and I can't imagine her being named anything else, including the Madelyn that I petitioned hard for.

Aracely - posted on 07/13/2012

My sons name is Apollo and I love how different it is :). He is named after my father (Apolonio) I did change it a bit and his middle name is Rance after his father.

Jakki - posted on 07/05/2012

My middle child is called Felix which means happiness in Latin. Unfortunately when he was a baby he screamed a lot, and a friend commented I should have called him Tristan (sad in Latin). I always thought it would be tough to be called Tristan if you knew it meant sad.

In Australia (or at least around where I live) people are pretty conservative with their baby names. I 'm tired of the very common names like Ella, Sophie, Isabella, Emily (OK they are beautiful names, just overdone). At one point I knew three families with girls called Isabella and Olivia.

Heather - posted on 07/01/2012

I have a friend who's a pediatrician and a very common name lately in the baby ward is "Abcde" pronounced Ab-city, Absidy. Which I think is ridiculous but understand everyone's different. :-)

I love the name Aiden btw. One of my favorites!!

Tori - posted on 06/09/2012

I wanted names that weren't to weird, but not to common either, names people had heard of but not THAT many people had with common middle names. My 2 daughters are Alexandra (Lexi) Marie (names after my grandfather Alex), and Tera Nicole (My mom Teresa). both names became very popular the year my child was born. When Lexi started school there were 2 other girls with the same sounding name (Lexie and Lexy) one of them even had the same last name as her!

My three sons are Lane David (Lane is my sister's maiden name and David is my husbands name), Drew Martin (Drew is named for hubbies grandmother and Martin is my mother's maiden name), and Chase Bryan (My husbands father is Charles Bryan) . Only one I regret is Chase, never name a child a verb! All I do is chase him around everywhere!

My oldest is 17 and she hates that everyone is named for someone else, but I think the tradition is important

Dora - posted on 06/07/2012

We went with Rowan Larkin as the name for our 1st little cutie and Grayson Matthew as the name for our 2nd little cute. Rowan was a name I heard in a movie (The Wickerman) many years before we were even considering having kids. It just stuck with me. The name Grayson we got from a name book. We both liked the sound of it. If we had a girl then her name would have been Larkin. It's a very old family name on my husbands side so we wanted to keep it in the family especially since out of his siblings we were the only ones that had boys.Our sons have 6 girl cousins and then its just them as the 2 boys :) Matthew is my husband middle name so it meant a lot to him to use it.

Sylvia - posted on 06/07/2012

Nevaeh makes me want to barf. I'm also not a fan of Destiny -- although at least Destiny is better than Destyne (pronounced "Destiny"), which is what a coworker of mine named her daughter. Many of the names on that list I think are seriously overused (Kaitlyn, Hunter, Jayden, Madison, Mackenzie, McKenna...), a couple I actually like (Michael, Tristan), a couple are very old-fashioned (Bertha, Gertrude), but most of them probably wouldn't make my "most hated" list.

It's interesting that the people surveyed dislike surnames used as boys' names and boys' names used as girls' names, since both of these are longstanding historical trends (Fitzwilliam Darcy, anyone? It was VERY COMMON in English-speaking countries for a long time to give a boy his mother's maiden name as a first name, to keep that name in the family). For example, Lindsay -- that's a Scots clan name (they even have their own tartan) that presumably at a certain point became common as a boys' first name via the mechanism above, and then sometime during my childhood made the transition to girls' name territory (I can date it so precisely because I remember in what grade my (boy) classmate Lindsay G. started using his middle name, Michael, instead).

I'm not a big fan of "trendeigh" names -- believe me, you really don't want your kid to be one of 5 kids in his/her class with the same name. (I am a child of the 1970s; throughout my school years I never had less than 1 Jennifer and 1 Jason in my class, and generally there were 2 or more of each. Srsly ppl.) A trend I really think is unfortunate, because I spent almost 2 decades of my life having to spell my last name for people (my birth surname is Italian and has 2 zeds in it), is the thing where parents give their kids a fairly common name but spell it all funny to make it "unique". (Not picking on ethnic or traditional spellings, like Caitlin instead of Kathleen, or on existing variations like Anne/Ann or Ian/Iain; I'm talking about spellings people just make up.) Because all this means is that your kid will go through life saying "No, my name isn't Jennifer, it's Genifrrr. But pronounced like 'Jennifer'." (I'm making that example up, obviously ... but people do actually name their kids things like Mykynzy and Destyne and Zavyaire.)

My DD's name is Shaina. We could have spelled it Shayna or Sheyna or Sheina (it's a Yiddish name, so the real spelling is in a whole 'nother alphabet) and I kind of wish we'd gone with Shayna because this country singer called Shania Twain was apparently very popular when DD was a baby, and people kept calling her Shania, which was irritating ... but totally our own fault :P

S. - posted on 06/06/2012

@candace I have a friend with twins Jacob and Oscar, Oakley is a great name we have a cartoon in the Uk and the big wise tree in it is Oakley :)
@Diana you can get Anything made up with names on now a days.

Candace - posted on 06/06/2012

I have two sons. Our first son, 2.5 years old is Oscar Jacob. Oscar was my grandpa's name and Jacob was my husband's grandpa. I didn't know a family name was important to me until we had to name a child. Our second son is 9 months old and names Oakley Drew. Oakley was just a fluke. I took out the name book, went to the O's and it was the second name on the list. It wasn't really my intention to have two O names. Drew is short for Andrew, my husband. If he had been a girl, we were going to name her Oaklie Dru. I agree with an ealier post. Kids get judged on too many aspects of their lives they can't control already. Why are their names getting added to the list?

Diana - posted on 06/05/2012

I just hate misspelling of names. How is a kid ever going to find a cute item with their name on it when people go all silly spelling names. My kids all have basic names.

Amanda - posted on 06/01/2012

I have one child. His name is Daniel. I am super happy with his name. I agree with most of the names on the list, especially for boys. I also hate girls with boyish names. I mean, they are GIRLS and not BOYS after all, but whatever floats your boat; it's your kid!

Anna - posted on 05/31/2012

I have a daughter named Makenzie. I love the way we spelled it, though. People can hate her name all they want. When it comes down to it, I didn't ask! We chose that name for our daughter and I could care less what other's think. :)

Katherine - posted on 05/31/2012

Some of them are on there because of popularity.

Maureen - posted on 05/31/2012

Surprised to see 'Tristan' on the list (my 3rd son). I wonder why?

Jaclyn - posted on 05/29/2012

I have a Savannah and a Scarlett, most people either love or hate the names but I loved them and thats all that matters, even my husband did not have a say.

Clair - posted on 05/29/2012

Same here!

S. - posted on 05/29/2012

@kathrine I was not having a dig at you if it's come across that way :)

Clair - posted on 05/28/2012

@Stacey: Thank you! @Katerine: No I realise you didn't research it yourself. Do you know whether this is the opinion in the States, or somewhere else?

Katherine - posted on 05/28/2012

I didn't actually research this. It's from The Stir.

S. - posted on 05/28/2012

I'm from England and never heard of the name ELin before it's lovely.

Clair - posted on 05/28/2012

Hi Stacey I love those names! Funny isn't it, how people can be so judgemental about baby names? Especially if they are really quite normal! I guess you would pronounce it Aylyn. It is quite common in Scandinavia, and there are a few people in Holland called Elin now, but it is not very popular anywhere else :-)

S. - posted on 05/28/2012

I have 3 girls cydnee, Sienna and Kaden (I am the first person to comment on this post) with having two girls with "boys" or "unisex" names people rather love them or hate them and especially on com I find some people can be sometimes a bit nasty but you know what it has nothing to do with anyone else I love my girls names and kaden's name is up there as a most hated boys name but not in my house it isn't, it's a most loved girls name :)
Is Elin pronounced E-Lin I'v never heard that before it's nice.

Clair - posted on 05/28/2012

Thank you Stacey! What name(s) did you pick?

S. - posted on 05/28/2012

@Clair triston/ tryston is a lovely name and I don't think Many people do hate the name, don't give it a second thought hun. I think it is totally clear we all have our own opinions on name otherwise we would all want to call our children the same names.

Clair - posted on 05/28/2012

My son is called Trystan, I am surprised to see it (well, Tristan) on the list. My husband is Welsh and wanted Welsh names for our children. I am Dutch and we live in the Netherlands, so I wanted names that can be pronounced easily in Dutch. We ended up naming them Elin and Trystan and are still pretty happy with that! I am quite curious why many people would hate the name Tristan. To be honest, I am also a little suprised someone would research which baby names are most hated?

Katherine - posted on 05/27/2012

Madison was my all time favorite name from Splash. I actually wanted to name my baby that if I had a girl and then my best friend stole it lol.

Melissa - posted on 05/26/2012

My daughters name is on the most hated list you mentioned ... her name is Madison.
I don't know why I picked it, something about the name stuck with me.... I sometimes wish I stuck with Mya which was the other choice...... she suits a Mya not so much a Madison. ;-)
Anyhow, for a boys name that i love, I would have chosen Liam or Caleb. If I had a boy.

Katherine - posted on 05/07/2012

I think that's a cool name. I like unique, but not over the top.

Kim - posted on 05/07/2012

I think that a child's name should have meaning to the parents and it doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks. We named our son Brooks which has elicited extreme reactions in people who either love it or hate it. All that matters to us is that we like it and have a story behind it.

Katherine - posted on 05/06/2012

I do like a lot of the names on this list. I think what the OP is saying is that they are too popular now.

Catherine - posted on 05/06/2012

For us, we weren't looking for names that had specific meaning but rather, names that make it hard for other kids to make fun of. We named them Tyler and Kimberly but then their last name is DOWNER, oh well, we tried. LOL

Chantel - posted on 05/02/2012

I have an Aiden and love it and to be honest I dont care who likes the name or not. We as his parents do and that is all that matters. Some people should get over themselves and spend time doing something productive rather than producing lists of the most hate names - seriously!

Rhonda - posted on 05/02/2012

I have a Brylen Mary and an Addison Kinsley and I love their names very much!

Kia - posted on 05/01/2012

As a mom and a teacher my 2 favorite names that I don't like are Semaj (James spelled backwards. The worst girls name is Jealousy. I named my son Evan, something much better than Semaj.

Mami♥ - posted on 04/25/2012

I named my daughter Myla Leigh, her middle name after mine in which i got from an aunt and as for her first name, I thought I made it up but it turns out i didnt. lol her nurses name was Myla also my neice has a friend in class with the same name.



My 4 year old step sons name is Karter Rey. My husband came up with it through listening to music (lil waynes real name "Wayne Carter" and they decided to use a "K" to make it different! I personally love both my kids' names even though Carter is becoming more popular in childrens names ours has a K which makes it unique!

Michelle - posted on 04/25/2012

I named my son "Ocean" and love it!!! I'm sure some people may not agree, but most have liked it.

Michelle - posted on 04/23/2012

My son's name is Brayden he is 11 so when I named him it was not popular like it is now. I still love it.

Chasity - posted on 04/23/2012

I love different names my brother name is cephas kane. My mother belived on different ones i got chasity

Nicole - posted on 04/23/2012

I love the name Hunter- I used it to name my son after my dad( Carl Edward) who is an avid hunter. My son is named Hunter Edward, I think that all children should have reason or meaning behind there name.

Katherine - posted on 04/22/2012

Braydon isn't bad either! A lot of the names on here aren't, but some are because of the popularity. Like Neveah, gorgeous name, too many people have it.

Renee - posted on 04/21/2012

My son has one of the names, Braidyn. I think it is just ridiculous to have a list of hated names, kids get judged all the time for not talking the same as other children, potty training, eating, being able to read or write when people think they should etc etc now they get judged on their names, just plain silly

Heather - posted on 04/20/2012

My daughter is five and has a very unique name, Mahalya Denise! She was named after her great great grandmother and means tender female. Her middle name comes from her grandma, my mom, who has passed away and who has only seen her from heaven! I think her name is beautiful and it is funny that she corrects people when they say it wrong, (ma hail ya)! She is as unique as her name is and I love her very very much!

Sarah - posted on 04/20/2012

I stuck to classic names for my two and then gave my kids 2 middle names to be different. My 11 year old girl is Emma Autumn Jai and my 5 year old son is Henry Alan James. Both of their middle names are named after family members that mean a lot to us. :) And now, so funny, their first names are becoming so common which was, me and my husband's problem with ours too growing up (mine is Sarah and his is Ben, lol). So we are now a family of common names, but I have no regrets. Still love their names.

Fawn - posted on 04/19/2012

I have 2 daughters Skieler Ciera she is 10 and Mya Lily who is 6 and a 2 yr old boy Max Orion. I love their names...Skieler don't like it too much yet. Once she is older she will though.

S. - posted on 04/19/2012

I have to agree with you on Gertrude.
I honestly believes a person makes a name and not a name makes a person.
my cousin called her boy Noah, bible, animals and old man sprang to mind back then and I really wasn't keen. now I think of the name Noah I think of a very happy, cheeky, adorable 9 year old boy and it suits him 100%.

Katherine - posted on 04/19/2012

I love Sydney (obviously lol). Kaden isn't bad, but Gertrude is!!!

S. - posted on 04/19/2012

I have 3 girls cydnee, Sienna and Kaden (kaden up there as a hated boys name) cydnee and kadie's name's people seem to rather love there names or hate them, do i care what others think NO as long as people arnt rude about it.

Cydnee loves her name too she's nearly 13.

There's a few of my friends children who's names I really don't like but I tend to keep it to myself so not to offend.

My best friend has just called her baby girl elspyth she knows people won't like it but they do and she gets Ellie for short.