Horrible names

xzanti · 14-01-2008 11:10am

I find 'Ann' boring as hell...

Caveat · 14-01-2008 11:18am

Dympna and Regina

Tadhg and Nigel

Maximilian · 14-01-2008 11:35am

The Al Lad wrote: »

Terry, for a man - shocking

I predict someone taking issue with this very shortly......

My name originates from the volume control on the large hi-fi I was conceived on and I like it.

Caveat · 14-01-2008 11:53am

Maximilian wrote: »

My name originates from the volume control on the large hi-fi I was conceived on and I like it.

Linoge · 14-01-2008 3:03pm

goodgodholmes wrote: »

me into thinking it's less awful.

BOY:
I know a man with the name Ronnie Pius Mary - thought it was funny given all three of these names have been mentioned as completely awful.
Homer
Cormac
Gary
Edward (even though one of my friends is called Ed, I still think this name is horrible)
Juan - I know it's a Spanish name but it hurts my throat to say it
Tomás
Victor
Tod
Oisin
Oscar
Finbar
.

Oh well fck u!:D

I understand the dislike for Irish names but some are worse than others!

Strange, some of the names mentioned in here I quite like? At the start someone even said Abigail?? WTF is wrong with that name

I think most peoples likes and dislike for names stems from a person that they know whos called that and whether they like or dislike them. By that logic I'm calling my kids Heather and Graham:)

Terry · 14-01-2008 3:22pm

goodgodholmes wrote: »

I'm glad that in all the Irish name slagging, my name (Maeve) hasn't been mentioned. I think it's pretty awful, it sounds so... round.

Names I hate:

GIRL
Doireann (pronounced Dirin - reminds me of intestines for some reason)

Catriona - not sure why

I like the first one.
I know a girl who gave that name to her daughter.
The second one I dislike, but that's most likely due to the nutball ex of the same name.

rainbowtrout wrote: »

i have a cousin called kevin, married to kelly, children are kelsie, kira and kayleigh. it's a bit obsessive.

My neighbour is named Joe and all his kids names begin with "J". I think it's funny.

I'd like to add American 'I'm gonna be on a Jerry springer type show when I grow up' type names:
laTanya
LaBarbara
LaMentalist.
Pretty much any name that's meant to sound French and/ or posh, but just means that you will end up pregnant at 15 and not know who the father is.

Maximilian · 14-01-2008 3:25pm

Linoge wrote: »

I think most peoples likes and dislike for names stems from a person that they know whos called that and whether they like or dislike them. By that logic I'm calling my kids Heather and Graham:)

I don't think stuff you like makes for great logic for naming kids either, unless you think "Girlfriend's Abortion" is a fetching name.

Apologies in advance - I'll get my coat now.

ChippingSodbury · 14-01-2008 4:00pm

Slow coach wrote: »

Ah, such ignorance. It's pronounced Ay-nee-as, and it's a fine, if unusual, name. My next door neighbour was an Aeneas.

I also worked with a Camillus, a Patrick Mary, an Ignatius and a Cornelius. I dunno why people have problems with these names.

Terrence can also be spelt Terence (mine) or Terrance. It's a great name.

I beg to differ on the ignorance jibe: I think he just spelled it incorrectly. I'd wager Aonas is the Irish name he was looking for and yes, it is pronounced "Anus" ('cos I know one)
I went to school with an Irish guy (bred, born and starved) called Ksawery pronounced Saveery. He also had a standard surname which made it sound ridiculous.

Maximilian · 14-01-2008 4:52pm

Terry wrote: »

I like the first one.
I know a girl who gave that name to her daughter.
The second one I dislike, but that's most likely due to the nutball ex of the same name.

My neighbour is named Joe and all his kids names begin with "J". I think it's funny.

I'd like to add American 'I'm gonna be on a Jerry springer type show when I grow up' type names:
laTanya
LaBarbara
LaMentalist.
Pretty much any name that's meant to sound French and/ or posh, but just means that you will end up pregnant at 15 and not know who the father is.

You seem to have missed it. I refer your attention to Post #161.

JustCoz · 14-01-2008 4:57pm

Ignatious(sp?) what a terrible name
Finbarr
Mary
Agyness
Carmel
Oliver
George

mucker23 · 14-01-2008 5:04pm

imagine being called

gay (like gay burn),
Fanny (girls have actually being called fanny)
Aonghus ( not sure but irish name that sounds like a word for an ass)

Terry · 14-01-2008 5:08pm

Maximilian wrote: »

You seem to have missed it. I refer your attention to Post #161.

I saw it. I just didn't feel it deserved my attention.

Maximilian · 14-01-2008 5:09pm

All that popcorn will now go to waste.

yaynay · 14-01-2008 5:12pm

So glad nobody has mentioned my name... yet! The other half is consistantly telling me how much she hates it (at least I think she's talking about my name

!).

I hate the name Eja (spelling?) pronounced Asia. I also dislike Ava, especially when said with an inner city accent.

briantwin · 14-01-2008 5:18pm

Pandora.......
One of my sisters old school friends was called pandora... WTF were the parents thinking!!?? I mean it leaves her wide open (pardon the pun) for slagging!!

Pherekydes · 14-01-2008 5:22pm

Linoge wrote: »

I understand the dislike for Irish names but some are worse than others!

Fair play to to you. I don't. This is Ireland; one would expect Irish names, so why dislike them? I'm totally baffled by (presumably) Irish people disliking Irish names.

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

I beg to differ on the ignorance jibe: I think he just spelled it incorrectly. I'd wager Aonas is the Irish name he was looking for and yes, it is pronounced "Anus" ('cos I know one)

It wasn't a jibe. Either he misspelled it or he mispronounced it. Either way it's ignorance. It's not meant as a jibe; it's just a simple statement of fact.

Linoge · 14-01-2008 6:00pm

Slow coach wrote: »

Fair play to to you. I don't. This is Ireland; one would expect Irish names, so why dislike them? I'm totally baffled by (presumably) Irish people disliking Irish names..

You can expect and dislike at the same time. I like the majority of Irish names, but some are quite sharp sounding and don't roll nicely off the tongue etc. Some are hard foreigners to pronounce, much harder again to spell (Meadhbh for example).

For me, the names I don't like are the ones that are too much in your face, irish dancing, gael scoil going, ta se tu se's like Fiachra and Oisin.

Hrududu · 14-01-2008 6:05pm

All those nun names mentioned already. Along with the terrible sounding Irish names: Fiachra, Oisin, Grainne, Gobnait.

I also hate all those trendy names that are showing up: Ella and Jack being the worst contenders.

WindSock · 14-01-2008 6:08pm

Fergal=ewwwwwww. Why?

I like many Irish names, but some are just rank.

galah · 14-01-2008 7:28pm

Zoe
Cloe (too lazy to find the accent thingy on my keyboard)
Chantelle/Chantal
Britney/Brittany/Britni (and all other forms of that name)
Lorcan (and any other name that ever occured on my super sweet 16)

Terry · 14-01-2008 7:31pm

Slow coach wrote: »

Fair play to to you. I don't. This is Ireland; one would expect Irish names, so why dislike them? I'm totally baffled by (presumably) Irish people disliking Irish names.

An awful lot of it comes down to people trying to sound cool by disliking anything Irish.

Pherekydes · 14-01-2008 8:11pm

Terry wrote: »

An awful lot of it comes down to people trying to sound cool by disliking anything Irish.

I agree with you fully, there. My own kids have Irish names (very difficult for Irish to pronounce, let alone furriners), do Irish dancing and attend Gaelscoileanna. Nobody ever says to your face that they dislike your kids' names, except the wife's sister (who called her kids Jason and Sarah

).

fricatus · 14-01-2008 9:43pm

goodgodholmes wrote: »

I'm glad that in all the Irish name slagging, my name (Maeve) hasn't been mentioned. I think it's pretty awful, it sounds so... round.

Quite wrong there Maeve, it's a fcukin' gorgeous name. PM me your number baby - you could never be a munter with a name like Maeve...

goodgodholmes wrote: »

My friend's mother is a primary school teacher, and she was telling us about an African boy in her class named Destiny, with sisters called Blessing, Charity, Faith, and... Mary.

(vomits)

embee wrote: »

Chloe - worst name ever. I know I'm more than likely offending a parent out there, but it is disgusting and as common as muck now.

Lovely name until it became common as muck...

embee wrote: »

I hate all these stupid names for boys like Corey and Jayden... total chav names.

Corey? :eek: Jayden? :eek: Dear Lord, NOOOOOOO!!!!!

goslie wrote: »

HERMOINE....worst name ever! How do you even pronounce it?

I'd concentrate on learning to spell it first if I were you: H-E-R-M-I-O-N-E

galah wrote: »

Cloe (too lazy to find the accent thingy on my keyboard)

Too lazy to find the "H" too, by the looks of it... :rolleyes:

Terry · 14-01-2008 10:03pm

Slow coach wrote: »

I agree with you fully, there. My own kids have Irish names (very difficult for Irish to pronounce, let alone furriners), do Irish dancing and attend Gaelscoileanna. Nobody ever says to your face that they dislike your kids' names, except the wife's sister (who called her kids Jason and Sarah ).

Dude. I can't believe you have your kids doing all that Irish crap. That's loike soooo not cool.
Actually, I find it quite impressive and wish more Irish people would do the same.
My own kids will all have names beginning with the letter "G". The initials of my surname are O'D.

Anyway, someone mentioned the name "Maedbh" earlier.
I remember seeing some cartoon (American made, I believe) about vampires or some such crap.
It was set in Ireland hundreds of years ago and queen Maedbh was a central character (or maybe it was just that episode). They pronounced it MAB.
Quite obvious that the writer just looked for some old Irish name, found queen Maedbh and had no idea how to pronounce it and didn't really give a crap that it was pronounced wrong.
See several bastardisations of Irish names for reference to this phenomonon.

Jimbo · 14-01-2008 10:05pm

Brandine,
Cletus

Terry · 14-01-2008 10:07pm

jimbo78 wrote: »

Brandine,
Cletus

Best names ever.

highlydebased · 14-01-2008 10:07pm

Bernadette
Garbhan
Marie

stratospheres · 14-01-2008 10:37pm

Tallulah

Gaylord

tk123 · 14-01-2008 10:40pm

Diarmuid - because i worked with somebody who pronouced it Deeeeeeeeeeeer-muuuich when talking about their kid
Reilly ..its a surname dammit!
Chase ..wtf?!
Topher..a gopher
Reeny..don't try to be posh and pronounce it Renee
Kimberly ...mikado and coconut cream
Nikita .. you hear parents roaring Naaahkeeeeeeaaaaah!
Jessica ...fletcher

McSandwich · 14-01-2008 10:47pm

Bodhran, yes I heard the offending Mother call it out in Tesco last week, poor kid...

Randy is another awful name.

stratospheres · 14-01-2008 10:53pm

Makes me think of Peter Griffin saying "Raaandy"

Rowena

Thats another awful one

anotherlostie · 14-01-2008 10:56pm

McSandwich wrote: »

Bodhran, yes I heard the offending Mother call it out in Tesco last week, poor kid...

Randy is another awful name.

Are ya sure it wasn't Odhrán?

The names Chloe and Naomi have been destroyed by that weapon Twink and the infamous phone message she left for her ex.

McSandwich · 14-01-2008 11:02pm

anotherlostie wrote: »

Are ya sure it wasn't Odhrán?

Pretty sure, she shouted at him to "come here" enough times for others to take notice too..

roccabella · 14-01-2008 11:34pm

know a guy whose second name is Po (pronounced pee ooo) not sure how he spells it.

malaria (welsh girls name)

Susannahmia · 14-01-2008 11:48pm

I know a guy from kerry called Micilin. (Not sure how to spell it and have no clue how to make fadas!)

blackbox · 15-01-2008 12:02am

anotherlostie wrote: »

My brother's wife wants to call their newborn son Zane. Thankfully my brother is putting the foot down!

He's wasting his time - if he get's his way with this one the next one will be called Zak or something equally insane.

rainbowtrout · 15-01-2008 12:11am

my neighbours have kids called kimberley, michelene and levi, when they were in primary school the other kids used to sing 'biscuits, tyres and levis jeans' to them.

i met a woman at an inservice a while back who had just had a new baby, did the usual polite enquires, boy or girl, etc , but when she told me the baby was called Rosco (a boy) it was a grit the teeth and go 'oh that's.... unusual'

...only askin for trouble...

oh ya and Caitlyn or any of the myriad of spellings of this name. is this not just Caitlín/Kathleen with all the fadas gone awol?

embee · 15-01-2008 2:18am

The Yanks have to out-do us all on the terrible names front....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bob_Duggar

17 kids - all names start with the letter J

Dudess · 15-01-2008 2:24am

Some Irish names are nice, some are awful. I love Sorcha, Roisin and Aisling.

embee · 15-01-2008 2:47am

Dudess wrote: »

Some Irish names are nice, some are awful. I love Sorcha, Roisin and Aisling.

Sorcha FTW - not that I'm biased or anything

Endasaurus · 15-01-2008 2:51am

Re the Hermione scandal - I always read it as Her My Own in my head until those wretched movies ruined it by pronouncing it as Her Mine Eeee which I dont like as much

:mad:

Not that either are great at all hahahaha

I quite like Godfrey actually, I can imagine quite the reserved, wealthy little industrialist I plan to raise owning that name, as he later takes over Microsoft :eek:

Godfrey - a name that demands respect.

Fergal on the other hand...

goodgodholmes · 15-01-2008 3:07am

embee wrote: »

Sorcha FTW - not that I'm biased or anything

Maeve FTW... not that I'm biased either! I liked Ciara before everyone's name was Ciara. Not such a fan of Roisin or Sinead.

Awful name, went to tennis camp when I was a kid with 2 kids called Philomena and Clarabelle... i kid you not.

KIVES · 15-01-2008 3:59am

Maurice, Dymphna, Assumpta, Concepta...blahdy,blah...actually Maurice stands up well against the other abberations; Might consider taking Maurice out if only for it's useful comedy potential

Donegal Lass · 15-01-2008 10:24am

Morag, Morgan, Seamus, Charlene, Christopher...

FunkZ · 15-01-2008 10:26am

I'd hate to be called Jonaton, what a crap name.

Donegal Lass · 15-01-2008 10:28am

Nigel... i forgot that one.. ooh and Alesha!!

FunkZ · 15-01-2008 10:31am

I knew a lad called Nigel. He had red hair and red freckles...

Donegal Lass · 15-01-2008 10:34am

bet he didnt have a soul...

Terry · 15-01-2008 10:35am

FunkZ wrote: »

I knew a lad called Nigel. He had red hair and red freckles...

I know a Nigel.
I'm making plans for him.

K_P · 15-01-2008 11:34am

I'd like to reiterate hatred for the name Gobnait. It sounds like somone choking, looks and sounds ugly and the only Gobnait I ever knew was a pretty odd character.

Also:
Agatha
Attracta
Lourda
Rosarie
Concepta

Horrible auld wimminy names. Same goes for new-fangled skangery names. Having previoulsy worked in a local authority, I would while away my time looking up bizzarely named children on databases. Among the best were a family with three daughters called Porsche, Mercedes and Chanel. Saw a few Chardonnays, Shakiras and Beyonces too.

Horrible names

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