What’s a character name that you hate?

Some of these are funny, amusing and true, but a lot of people in this thread don’t really understand how culture and language work, and how that evolution progresses — or does not — over the long term. Some are criticizing the character names in Dune, when I find those the most plausible of sf universes. Dune isn’t like Star Wars. It’s explicitly stated to be an evolution of this planet’s culture, just 10,000 years into the future.

I’d expect names like Paul, Jessica, et al. to continue 10,000 years and far more as they have been around thousands of years already. And since a lot of culture in Dune is just a farrago of tales and names and such from a past they don’t really understand, I also find “Duncan Idaho” to be a completely plausible name.

In real life — not in fiction — some Dutch people have very funny names indeed.

If that were fictional, many people would find it utterly implausible. Yet here we are.