Names you love/hate and why

[Jack Haywood]

Inspired by someone in the Personal Lolcows thread who said he ended up hating the name Zack because every Zack he met was a lolcow, I decided to make this thread.

I'm sure everyone has had at least one moment in their lives where they first heard someone's name they were being introduced to and upon hearing it either sank into a deep pit of despair at how cringeworthy it sounded or ascended into the highest levels of happiness at how glorious it sounded, so come talk about your opinions on names and how others made you associate a certain name with good or bad feelings or how the names themselves bothered or delighted you in some way!

 

[Megaroad 2012]

I don't know about hate but man I feel like I can guess someone's personality and life story if they're a Becky, Amanda, Jamie or has a Lynn or a Lee somewhere in their name. The Lynn is usually a redflag, so many irl psychos I know with Lynn in their name.

For the men, it tends to be Ryan, Ross, Rick or any other R name. What's up with Ricks?

 

[sadstuck]

I told someone my name once and they were so charmed they responded that they wanted to marry someone with that name one day...

 

[Edgeworth]

I've never, ever met a Madison that's been a decent person so the name's just sour to me now.

 

[Jack Haywood]

I don't know about hate but man I feel like I can guess someone's personality and life story if they're a Becky, Amanda, Jamie or has a Lynn or a Lee somewhere in their name. The Lynn is usually a redflag, so many irl psychos I know with Lynn in their name.

For the men, it tends to be Ryan, Ross, Rick or any other R name. What's up with Ricks?

Well, Rick/Richard also means dick, so...
Personally I've never had any negative experiences with people named some form of Richard - one was my teacher who I liked, although I haven't really met anyone called that besides that teacher. Celtic names such as Dylan or Kieran and Surname names like Tyler and Cameron tend to be more common among my peers where I live.

 

[Icasaracht]

There’s an old Russian joke about the correlate of being a slut and being called Natasha:

“Girl, what’s your name?”
“Natasha.”
“Wow, so young and already a Natasha!?”

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

Every Nichola is fated to work in HR - and they're cunty enough to make it stick

 

[AbyssStarer]

Kyle: Always assholes.
Bree-ann and variants: bitches n hoes
Heather: stripper name
Klaus/Hans: I think of guys in lederhosen with these two, just extremely German in a corny way.

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

Guys named Mark or Jared are bound to be lolcows. As others stated any girl with Lynn in their name is either super trashy or psycho. Which I can say the one I know has the Myer briggs of a serial killer.

 

[Pissmaster]

Guys named Mark or Jared are bound to be lolcows. As others stated any girl with Lynn in their name is either super trashy or psycho. Which I can say the one I know has the Myer briggs of a serial killer.

Every single Jared I've ever met has been a total fuckin' weirdo in some way. Like to the point where when the revelations about Subway Jared came to light, I wanted to say "well, yeah, that's what you get with Jareds".

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Levi.

Whether they're raping puppies, and molesting children, being a cannibal that was one of the inspirations for the Murfree Brood, one the most annoying gang in RDR2, arresting me, tying me to a chain-gang, and beating my friend in the same game, claiming to be the name of a painfully obvious Indian scammer calling me at four in the morning, being the name of the spoiled brat teenager that my neighbor refuses to parent, and who has stolen mail from basically everyone on the entire block, being some fucking old boomer who just will not stop asking me for fucking money, being the shitty, annoying tech support guy I had to call to get a refund after I got double-billed, or being the name of the character who has caused the vast majority of the problems in my used-to-be favorite series, the name Levi has brought me nothing, but trouble, and it's gotten to the point where my friends, and I joke that everyone named Levi is just out to ruin my life.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Cody - always exceptional idiots

Courtney - always some trailer trash skank

Christina - Chris jokes aside, every
Christina I've ever met has been a fat, smelly, slovenly idiot bordering on being actually re.tarded

Dan/Daniel - usually pretty cool guys. The ones that suck tend to be on the narcissistic side

David - Davids are awesome. Every David I've known has been an absolute bro.

 

[Digital Thunder]

I’m pretty sure Krystal is a name destined to be given to crazy chicks, and from what I’ve read that’s usually the case.

 

[AnimePrincess]

I hate the name Tyler, it sounds like a demon.

 

[Chan Fan]

Brittany - just reminds me of cheerleaders and of course, Britney Spears. Not good.

Ramona - just sounds gross.

Philip - Just go by Phil. That's better. (I know that's what DSP goes by but anyone else I ever knew named Phil was alright.)

Phyllis - I don't like the name but anyone named this was nice to me so I never dislike the person, just saying their name.

Nick - Known too many people with that name who were insufferable.

Merriweather - what even is this name? No.

Tyler - It's a name people give their sons who don't think about what it's like for a grown man to have to introduce himself as Tyler forever. It sounds like a baby name that's okay for little boys but not men.

Gladys - Nope. Just nope.

Anita - Weird name plus bad associations with it.

Todd - too many weird/bad associations.

 

[Pissmaster]

Todd - too many weird/bad associations.

Todd's definitely another weird one. There's always something wrong with anyone named Todd.

It's a common sentiment, too.

 

[Chan Fan]

Todd's definitely another weird one. There's always something wrong with anyone named Todd.

It's a common sentiment, too.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-mw2bCtCw

It doesn't help that the first person I ever met who was named Todd was legitimately very mentally challenged

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I might have been that person you're refering to who said that Zach is a lolcow name. Specifically that spelling though, Zack doesn't seem to be as cursed.

David - Davids are awesome. Every David I've known has been an absolute bro.

I've found that Davids are cool but Daves are assholes. Not all Daves, but it's been 50-50. They're either rad as fuck (Dave Brockie of GWAR, for
example) or their utter bastards.

For names I like:
Jethro is my favorite guy's name. I like J names in general but thats my favorite.
Mateo is such a pretty name, that's what I named my trumpet.
Every Alex I've ever met is a bro.

I met a girl around my age named Babs. It's so sassy. Babs sounds like the older lady that frequents the hair salon and spills ALL the tea. That and it reminds me of Pink Flamingos.

 

[Beluga]

I love Emma and Charlotte, I've met a few girls with those names and they were always lovely, smart and funny.

On the other hand, every Jessica I've known is a complete headcase with a side of whorish attitude. I used to love Violet but I've met such a gigantic cunt named Violet that she's completely ruined it for me.

Weirdly though I have no strong feelings towards any male name.

 

[Wraith]

Earl, Cooter, Booger, Lang - always "exceptional" people except in rare cases.
Any name that translates to 'pretty' or 'beautiful' or something along those lines. The ugliest people give their kids names like that who grow up plain or ugly, many times really ugly on the inside too, and I feel pity for them.
Any hippy name like Moon Sunshine or whatever.