https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:35:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857469 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:03:48 +0000 Alba4 2857469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’m a teacher so many names I would never, ever use🤣 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857444 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:02:26 +0000 avivoca 2857444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Evelyn (too close to our last name), Jonathan, and Greg. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857442 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:58:01 +0000 lindseykaye 2857442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Names are really only 'ruined' (crossed off the possible lists) if they are ex's, if family/close friends have used it, or if it's a super notable pop culture trend/character/celebrity for me.</p> <p>Thankfully our taste doesn't really run in line with these but any time friends have had babies before us while pregnant we've been sort of anxious it would be 'our name' because we never tell before birth. So far, so good! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857437 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:49:34 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2857437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I :heart: Naomi... too bad!!</p> <p>Delilah is the only name that makes my skin crawl. The song a few years back was so good, but why did it have to be that name!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857432 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:33:48 +0000 josina 2857432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always liked the name Charlie for a girl (after my dad) but DH went to school with a girl Charli and so veto'd it.</p> <p>Funny one - when DS was born, we were between the name Ethan and Kipton... my mom was there right after he was born and started calling him Kippy. Um, no mom. Ethan it is.</p> <p>I also love the name Evan but can't use it b/c of a prior relationship. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857431 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:29:49 +0000 Ajsmommy 2857431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not ruined in a bad way, but a way that I couldn't use them for a child are:<br /> William<br /> Zachary<br /> Charla </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857427 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:24:50 +0000 LCTBQE 2857427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: hahaha<br /> @Mrs. Carrot: yeah for me Leo = wifebeating drug dealer thug from Twin Peaks. it's so popular now though!</p> <p>The bee @Sweetiepie: 's two boys are named (same spelling) the names of my only two serious ex-boyfriends before I met my husband, and the fact that her beautiful babies have those names have *completely* healed them for me :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857419 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:30:43 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2857419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs.kiwi: I'm an Anna, and no one has ever called me by the Frozen pronunciation. </p> <p>The name that's been ruined for me is Leo. I adore it and would have loved to use it if we had a boy, but it's the name of my most loathed relative, and I just can't bring myself to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857407 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:53:27 +0000 mrs.kiwi 2857407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: lol!!!</p> <p>@Foodnerd81: I have an anna (pronounces Anne-ah, not like the frozen on-ah) .. only one person consistently accidentally calls her the frozen way </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857394 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:46:21 +0000 Sams Mom 2857394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There has been a couple names that I love, then when I tell my husband its something like "you know how many so and sos I've found dope on and arrested!?" So then whenever I mention it he's like "so and so the meth head, has a nice ring to it" 🙄 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857392 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:43:25 +0000 Mama Bird 2857392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Michael and Alice. I love both names, but for personal reasons it would be weird to use them :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857390 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:35:01 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2857390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2littlepumpkins: oh!!! Ha. I get it now </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857389 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:07:08 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2857389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CatchAFallingStar: "I moan." Or at least that's how I read it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857388 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:02:50 +0000 Hypatia 2857388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eleanor. I love Sense and Sensibility (I prefer Eleanor to the book's spelling of Elinor), and it was one of my top names. But my DH can't stand Eleanor Roosevelt, so he vetoed it. </p> <p>Similarly, I like the name Elizabeth (again because of Jane Austen), but I despise Queen Elizabeth I so there's no way I could ever use it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857385 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:33:27 +0000 FaithFertility 2857385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Josh, for just personal reasons :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857384 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:25:29 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2857384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: what does imoan mean? Why would it be bad? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857372 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 17:26:18 +0000 lady baltimore 2857372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: For what it's worth, my initials, which I use for my email address among other things, spell a dirty word when written backwards, and no one has ever noticed. I didn't even notice until adulthood! :silly: </p> <p>I am a teacher and DH works with at least 6 different athletic teams a year. The number of names that were ruined for one or the other of us probably outnumber those that weren't! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857324 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:59:20 +0000 mediagirl 2857324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: it's just stuck in my head now. 😩 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857322 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:41:49 +0000 Foodnerd81 2857322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: lol. I don’t think that’s a great reason not to use a name. :silly: </p> <p>Mostly I have had names be “ruined” because of someone who used it- family or really close friends, but also celebrities or when it just gets way too popular- like I always liked the name Anna (rhymes with can, not on). Frozen kind of ruined it though since I feel like there is a generation of little girls who would pronounce it like the movie. My older daughter was born shortly after North West and I was nervous kim k would use the C name we picked out and spell it with a K and ruin it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-names-have-been-ruined-for-you-m#post-2857302 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:50:58 +0000 mediagirl 2857302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I was googling "middle names for the name Naomi" and someone posted that Naomi spelled backwards is "Imoan" and it may not be great as a teenager... I'm done. </p>