Name associations - would you call your child....?

For me it's got to be Victor. It was my grandfathers name and I can't get the idea out of my head that it's an old mans name. However,

it's h's favorite name for a boy. Probably a good job we're not having kids as I couldn't land a child with that name.

Dexter is cool - my first thought was dexter's laboratory.

My next door neighbour's kids are called Darryl (Birds of a Feather criminal), Shania (yee-haw! hillbilly) and Tyler (chav).

See, for me Tyler is Fight Club, not chav, but still not a good name ? You surprise me with your Birds of a Feather knowledge, though baron. I thought you were cooler than that. ?

I don't appear to have an association for Victor at all.

I couldn't call a child of mine Sophie - there was an awful girl at school who made my life a misery called Sophie, and then one of the local mums has also named her awful, badly behaved child Sophie too.

I liked Natasha until my husband pointed out Kaplinsky, and now I can't face that too. Hopefully this one will be a boy as we've got that sussed!

Obviously apologies to all Sophies and Natashas that aren't awful or orange.

Yeah, there are plenty, just for exactly the reasons you said - didn't like someone with that name etc.

I love the name Peter, but it's H's dad's name and while you might think that is not a bad thing, they don't talk and he is an arrogant pig so no way could we call a child the same name, even though it would be the same name rather than after him iykwim.

Oscar, it was my cat's name!

A few years ago, friend of a friend called her son Barney - All I could think of was big purple dinasour.

Martin - because of a little ditty I knew as a child:

Martin, Martin, went down fartin'

Got up stinkin', went out blinkin'

And my boss is called Martin and he's an arse.

H wants to call our first son Linus (to mark his Irish heritage etc) but I keep thinking about that neurotic kid from Peanuts. I wanted to call our first daughter Eleanor but H's cousin pipped us at the post.

Back on topic, I have read somewhere that naming babies Myra suddenly dipped off the scale in the 60s. I probably wouldn't give a baby a real serial killer's name (unless it was non-generic eg David or Jeffrey, unlike Myra) but I guess the association with a fictional serial killer from a TV show would be distant enough for it not to matter too much.

I await the naming of a child "Zodiac" to stand corrected. ?

Eyes of a frog. ?

On the eye(brow) theme, I think the name Alistair is another worrying one, despite it being a lovely name. I like the name George but if he was to have the middle name of Wilberforce or even just William, it might be unfortunate.

I couldn't call my child David (Dickenson), Tony (Robinson), Carole (Thatcher), Natasha (Kaplinski)...

I love the name Andrew so why did I have have to fall in love with a dickhead of the same name? ? I couldn't call a child Laurie-Anne, Kerri, Hamilton or Ross after 'lovely' people at school.

I'm a big family name fan, I know there are a million (well maybe not quite) lovely names out there but I love family names. The current favourites for me are Murray and Fergus (from surnames), George and Charles as middle names (Grandfathers), Isobel, Catherine, Jane and Martha (various people) as well as Sadie, Elsie, Flora, Angus and Blair (I love Scottish names.)

The series went downhill when they let Quirke and Robson sing the theme tune ?. Damn my parents for subjecting me to that bilge.

I named my first son Dan because all the Dans (and Daniels) I knew were lovely. He's never been Danny, because they're all 'orrible ?

The trouble with being a teacher is that you get associations with names, so naming your own children is really difficult. For example, all boys called Liam, Shaun, Lewis or Josh are incapable of behaving and are deserving of a good ding round the ear - so they're out. Jordans and Dexters are also revolting, as are any children - male or female - with "interesting" names with double letters, x's or z's, or not enough vowels. All Katies are slappers and Jades are hideous juvenile fishwives who look like bulldogs chewing a wasp*

And, had I been teaching when I had No1 son, I wouldn't have called him Daniel because of the sheer weight of diabolical Daniels I had to deal with.

*OK, so I've probably offended loads of people with really nice children with those names. Sorry!

You can blame your parents, but no one forced you to watch. I bet you had a little crush on the fat one, didn't you? Or was it the terrifying neighbour? That's why you were home watching BOAF instead of out with your mates, oh yes.

Dar(r)yl will always be Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform for me.

there are definitely names i couldn't use, associated with people I don't like. Some are current, so that might change as i move away from them, and they fade into history. Though I could never call a child Glenis, for more than one reason!

I have terrible taste in names - Guillaume was nearly named Geronimo or Naboo, in fact Mango was on the short list as well- luckily my H had some say in the matter. My problem is that I have a good memory of people's faces and names, hence I can't really separate them so always associate that person with that name. One of the reasons I like Hitched is that people very rarely have their names as their usernames so I don't picture someone else, IYSWIM - although Lilly was the name of the cleaning lady at school so I'm afraid you always have a broom in your head in my mind!

I agree with accosiations from people at school, I just can't seem to shake mine to be honest! Even nowadays when I see certain names I think "bitch" even though I've never met them, or "no personality suck up" when they're the opposite.

Strange ?

How very worrying!! ?

I remember there was a girl at school called Myra. A perfectly lovely girl IIRC but I couldn't fathom someone giving their child the same first name as Myra Hindley. It's almost like calling your son Adolf IMO ?

Oh dear - that makes it sounds like I go around attacking people called Lilly with brooms, obviously I meant hand! Living in France is seriously removing my ability to speak English!

Ooh that'll teach me to read the whole thread eh ?

Another vote for Oscar - and Alfie. I know loads of babies with those names, but they are (well, were in the case of Oscar - RIP boy) my parents dogs' names.

Oh god I have loads I can't use.

Timothy - mostly they are just a bit odd (only exception is my cousin so that gave me a vaid excuse to kaibosh that one)

Adam - Name of particularly obnoxious lad I went to school with

Gavin - Ditto

Christopher - I used to live with one and the only thing that I can hear when I hear the name is the clapping sound that used to eminate from his room when he was bonking his jailbait girlfriend.... yeuch.

There are loads more. Thankfully we are stopping with the 2 girls we have so I don't need to worry anymore ?.

H associates a lot of names with how they might get changed to tease the poor child. I am liking the name Dylan at the moment but H just says 'd i l d o' when I mention it.

My manager when I worked in America had a son called Quinn... H just thinks that is hysterical!

I heard a woman pulling a 2 year old along behind her say "come along Bernard, let's not dawdle!" - Bernard's an old man's name! ?

Christine, Melanie, Faye, Sara, Fiona, Shelley - the gang of beetches that bullied me at school.

Jerome was the kid with the frosted lens NHS specs (although I know a Jerome now who's nice, and seriously cool, but alas, the name had already been tarnished).

Malcolm, Timothy, Martin, Matthew, Steven, Ryan - they were all of the juvenile delinquents. Particularly Timothy.

Natalie, Rhian, Louise were always nice.

Honor, Jenny, Katie, Lisa, Mary and Anouska were also nice.

A girl at work who is currently on mat leave called her ? Logie. As soon as everyone read the email announcing it we were like "oh no Logie the Bogie" ?

For me it's Vivien/Vivienne - I think it's such an ugly, ugly name. There was girl girl at school called Vivien, and she was an absolute nightmare. Built like a brick shitehouse (not fat, just absolutely solid) and very handy with her fists - she'd punch anyone from little firstyears to teachers. I remember seeing her punch a girl who had just had a back operation - she punched her on the back! On purpose. For some reason, she seemed to quite like me, no idea why, but thank goodness! She vanished from school after she was approached by a girl at the 'unders' (under 18 nightclub) and asked for a snog! ? I really feel for the little Angelina Jolie twin with that name. Poor wee mite.

George - fat kid's name

Georgina - as above.

Joanne/Joanna - likely to be two-faced

Julia - evil

Erica - unpleasant

Dominic - charming, verging on slimy

There was a boy in my class at primary school called victor. not only was he a vicious, arrogant wee bully but he had bug eyes and he shat himself in class once. no redeeming qualities at all.

Sounds like a real catch!

The two horrid bullying girls in my class as school were called Claire and Sarah - and bizarrely, Mr Caterpillar reckons those were the names of the two most horrid girls at his school too! However, I have recently met a really nice girl called Sarah (who is married to Mr Caterpillar's workmate), and a nice Claire has recently started at my work, so maybe those names will now develop more positive connotations for me!

(disclaimer - I'm sure there are some lovely Claires and Sarahs on here too!)

A girl at work has just names her baby boy Percy ?

All I can imagine is Percy Thrower ?

going off at a total tangent there was a boy in my class in 2nd year at high school (so, 13 - 14 years old?) who used to sh1t himself in class ? the stench was disgusting. And he used to fancy me and asked me out all the time wooing me with gifts of opened boxes of chocolates. Erm wonder how I resisted his charms. His name was Neil btw.