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Horrible names

  • 11-01-2008 6:18pm
    #1
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    What does everyone think is a really horrible name? personally I think Gobnait, (girls name) is awful.


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  • #2
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Siobhan
    Lorcan
    Abbigail
    Dymphna
    Davina

    More to follow..


  • #3
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Dymphna always sounded like some kind of vaginal disease to me.


  • #4
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    wtf is wrong with siobhan?


  • #5
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    Just imagine naming an unfortunate child Oswald.


  • #6
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    connundrum wrote: »
    Siobhan
    Lorcan
    Abbigail
    Dymphna
    Davina

    More to follow..

    I reckon Siobhan, Dymphna are ok. I ptwah on the davinias of this world.


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  • #7
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    Roneth (sp?) Ronet perhaps for a girl. Either way it's awful!
    Any girl's name that comes from a boy's name, like Noeleen or Phillipa I dislike also.


  • #8
    LovelyTom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭LovelyTom


    Gurtrude!
    Alistair


  • #9
    'Ol Jack Chance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭'Ol Jack Chance


    rufus is pretty bad imo. once knew a girl called dorkus when i was a kid. not sure if thats how it was spelt but thats definitely how u pronounced it! I mean come on wtf?

    Dorkus! Your dinner is ready!


  • #10
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Jacintha
    Majella
    Tracey
    that is all.


  • #11
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Dorcas... not too difficult now was it?


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  • #12
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Anything double barrelled.


  • #13
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Norbert. Seriously, it's the male Gobnait.
    Oh and Aloisius....way to f*ck up your kid's life...

    Plenty of new fangled names that are awful too, but I wouldn't like to offend any new parents on the forum...


  • #14
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    Humphrey
    Agnes
    Gene


  • #15
    Jay P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Tanya

    Ewwww


  • #16
    'Ol Jack Chance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭'Ol Jack Chance


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Dorcas... not too difficult now was it?

    still a woeful name imo


  • #17
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Wertz wrote: »
    Norbert. Seriously, it's the male Gobnait.
    Oh and Aloisius....way to f*ck up your kid's life...

    Plenty of new fangled names that are awful too, but I wouldn't like to offend any new parents on the forum...



    I know a guy called Jeorg who's an absolute a-hole. I seen a letter in his flat once and noticed his first name is actually Norbert, I nearly pissed myself laughing. :D


  • #18
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    LadyJ wrote: »
    Humphrey
    Agnes
    Gene

    Agreed Agnes is absolutely awful.


  • #19
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Gladys
    Assumpta
    Concepta
    Helen


  • #20
    thecleverone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭thecleverone


    Geraldine
    Pierce
    Enda
    Cornelius


  • #21
    briantwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭briantwin


    Haha one of ours tenants names is Dorkus..very funny indeed.
    Also my dads father (my granfather) was a bit of a sadist and he gave my dad the most attrocious middle name : Grignion


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  • #22
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    Jemima
    Ronald
    Theobald
    Virginia


  • #23
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,125 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Nigella Lawson's parents had no imagination whatsoever, especially Nigel.


  • #24
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Seth


  • #25
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Mordeth wrote: »
    wtf is wrong with siobhan?


    Wtf is right with it :p


  • #26
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    On the topic of Irish (although I think Spanish/Mexican catholics use similar) female names, our church/latin mass inspired ones like Consepta and Assumpta are pretty terrible, even when you shorten them. No offence if anyone of that name is reading.

    [edit] Damn you MrMicro

    [edit2]
    briantwin wrote:
    Grignion
    ...and we have a winner.


  • #27
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,125 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Wertz wrote: »
    On the topic of Irish (although I think Spanish/Mexican catholics use similar) female names, our church/latin mass inspired ones like Consepta and Assumpta are pretty terrible, even when you shorten them. No offence if anyone of that name is reading.

    [edit] Damn you MrMicro

    [edit2] Grignion : we have a winner.

    I have the urge to refer to these unfortunates as Contracepta.


  • #28
    monkey tennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭monkey tennis


    Leslie (horrible for either gender)


  • #29
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Louis. A whole bunch of American names like McKenzie for one and using Kelly for a boy. :/
    ed. "Celebrities" using weird names too, Apples, Paris, etc


  • #30
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    connundrum wrote: »
    Davina

    I work with a couple of Davinas, I don't think it's too bad, although they're both very nice so maybe that has something to do with my opinion.

    purplengold wrote: »
    Just imagine naming an unfortunate child Oswald.

    I know that child. He grew up across the road from me, named after his father and grandfather. The really weird thing about it is that he has three older brothers who all somehow escaped the name.

    Wertz wrote: »
    Norbert. Seriously, it's the male Gobnait.
    Oh and Aloisius....way to f*ck up your kid's life...

    In addition to the Davinas I also work with a Norbert. Nice guy, terribly unfortunate in the name department. The father of a guy I knew years ago was named Alphonsus Aloisius. Not surprisingly he called himself Al.


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  • #31
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Phyllis
    Hanora


  • #32
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    I know a girl called Dorcas - not the worst name out there.

    Assumpta conjures up victorian parents poisoned by their mentally deranged attic children imo. Cornelius is a planet of the apes name - full stop and parents will go to hell for Anel its just a bad bad name.
    Probably worth a good old chuckle in the park on a sunday afternoon but the mental damage has got to be substantial.


  • #33
    the dee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭the dee


    Ursula
    Audrey
    Magenta

    Of new horrible names for Children: Shania and Beyonce are the worst offenders

    Ignatius
    Oliver
    Leopold
    and Vincent for boys


  • #34
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    Apparently a lot of kids were called Pocahontas after the film came out.


  • #35
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    daphne
    pat (as a girl's name)
    samantha
    winifred


  • #36
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Dennis
    Mona
    Hilda
    Veronica like Verruca
    Edith
    Sharon
    Dawn


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  • #37
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I once knew a guy who's middle name was Mary.... I kid you not! :eek::D


  • #38
    Electric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Electric


    There were these kids in my class in school called Cuan and Caolain. Awful awful names.

    Pamela
    Denise
    Crystal
    Fidelma
    Penelope
    Priscilla
    Noreen
    Agatha
    Fiadh?!
    Banabh!
    Siadh!

    I have to say that all of the above are pretty horrible but the link below shows just how stupid some parents really are! Like anyone with the name Sunshine will EVER be taken seriously!!

    http://www.ireland.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/04/irish-times-readers-common/


  • #39
    RxQueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    we had a woman in the shop a while back and kept calling her child princess didnt think anything until i had to issue up a documnet and her kids names where princess and India :eek:


  • #40
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Birwhale the avenger!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkYJaBV43I


  • #41
    briantwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭briantwin


    Concepta , Aquinus or Brendan Smith. Anything from the catholic church is pants.


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  • #42
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    I went to school with a guy who had the middle name Pius.


  • #43
    Homer J Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Homer J Simpson


    Aeneas...... ( Pronounced "Anus"). Absolutely deadful name.


  • #44
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Alacoque
    Noeleen
    Gerardine
    Concepta
    Agnes
    Ann
    Josephine
    Nora


  • #45
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,125 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Joe Robot wrote: »
    I once knew a guy who's middle name was Mary.... I kid you not! :eek::D

    Weren't most of the Mary men born in 1953? Poor b*stards!


  • #46
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Weren't most of the Mary men born in 1953? Poor b*stards!
    My aunt gave all eight of her children the second name "Mary". Including the two boys.


  • #47
    Poppy78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Poppy78


    emo!! wrote: »
    we had a woman in the shop a while back and kept calling her child princess didnt think anything until i had to issue up a documnet and her kids names where princess and India :eek:

    Ha, Ha! How would you ever give out to that child. "Go to your room Princess" "Princess stop hitting your little sister" The woman deserves all the **** that child is going to give her.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I was browsing the 1911 census last night and there were 2 Sineads and 50+k Marys. In a population of 250K females.


  • #49
    the dee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭the dee


    A lot of African women are calling their children things like Blessing and Promise. Very sweet.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    thecleverone wrote: »
    Geraldine
    Pierce
    Enda
    Cornelius


    You are pulling the piss? You've picked my "if" names, except "if" I am going to spell it Piaras.


  • #51
    Fad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Mr.Micro wrote: »
    Gladys
    Assumpta
    Concepta

    theyre just names nuns take except gladys, which along with Biddy is a crazy cat woman name :)


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