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babys names unusual

  • 16-07-2004 6:17am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭


    unusual baby s names. we will start with
    A Anton or Atomick or Arowmist


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭munkeehaven


    B Bathsheeba or Benedict or Bandai


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭df001i6876


    Billyjoe billyjean billyboy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Caolfhionn
    Calbhach
    Caolán
    Cuthbert
    Cathán
    Caoileann
    Calliope


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    This isn't really an issue for the English forum.

    Moved to Parenting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Spare a thought for the wee boys called as gaeilge sweet little Jaysis - how can parents do this to them?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭df001i6876


    Dine e mow chinese

    don,t ask me what it means . just read about it in a paper.

    Dino italian ==switzerland

    Decker jones now that welsh. isnt it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    Read a book about a pair of twins called Lilly and Esme.

    I like the name Esme for a girl its an old name but i like it just the same


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Taylor (girl) born 26 July 2004. I'm always the uncle, never the father :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭lilo moo


    Victor wrote:
    Taylor (girl) born 26 July 2004.

    that's my stepmom's birthday. she's pregnant, and if it's another girl, they're thinking of naming her zsa zsa...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭df001i6876


    jessy little girl or a man who act like one


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    why babys names?

    couldnt it just have been names!?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭df001i6876


    yes it can be . adult names as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭knifey_spoonie


    Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadou


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭flikflak


    Don't really know what the fixation with calling your child a bizarre name is all about. Sometimes it seems the more ridiculous the better - whets wrong with good old fashioned names there are enough of them without having to resort to objects, fruit and completely made up ones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭shiv


    just asking a question here..

    what's up with people not wanting to give their children irish names?
    when my cousin and his wife were expecting last year they ruled them all out completely, as if it was old-fashioned or something..

    any insights?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    it is old fashioned .

    cherno , now thats an unusual name .(Its the name of a Millwall footballer)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    shiv wrote:
    what's up with people not wanting to give their children irish names?
    I think people are thinking the "Fiacra" names etc. are a bit like "Maud" and "Concepta" and outdated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭robbie1876


    I was nearly named after the footballer Alan Ball. Which makes me think, I wonder how many kids are named after foreign premiership footballers. Thierry, Ruud, Jose, Rio, Djemba, El Hadji, and er...... Roy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    My name? :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    robbie1876 wrote:
    I was nearly named after the footballer Alan Ball. Which makes me think, I wonder how many kids are named after foreign premiership footballers. Thierry, Ruud, Jose, Rio, Djemba, El Hadji, and er...... Roy.

    Jose would be a very common name in Spanish speaking countries .

    Y o u s s e f : sounds Morrocan to me for some reason .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Healio


    Emmanuel is in the top 100 boys names!! what has the country come to?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭elivsvonchiaing


    It strikes me that most parents will choose a popular name for their child. I think this is important for self-esteem (school yard etc). However, an unusual name can strengthen character.

    No idea whether this more true of girls than boys. In my experience (from what I've observed) this is not a decision to be taken likely by parents. A name can actually shape a person. Especially when they're twelve and find out what their name means.

    I would really take naming a child seriously and not just entertain - her/your father's name (sons), her/your mothers name (daughters). Please yourselves not them and serve the child.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    My dads Egyptian so that explains my name! Close tho with Moroccan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    My dads Egyptian so that explains my name! Close tho with Moroccan.

    aye , I knew it had that north African feel to it .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It strikes me that most parents will choose a popular name for their child. I think this is important for self-esteem (school yard etc). However, an unusual name can strengthen character.
    Cue Johnny Cash's "A Boy Called Sue"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭elivsvonchiaing


    What I didn't consider in my previous post - is diminutive names of the parent - this probably made sense when the parent was chief of the tribe or something. Think the issue is more a male thing. I know several Rosíns - no issue - I know a couple of Sezhinho's (little José) and think there could be issue here. Can't think of Irish diminutive equivalent? Sezhinho's I know are all Josés on passport - it just stick's with them - has to suck. Worst I've ever heard is "mouse". Similar story - pre-legal instinct stfu!

    Youssef out of curiosity are there such diminutive naming conventions in Egypt?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Blinda


    One should be thoughtful when matching first names to sirnames.
    For instance Phylan is a nice name, but one should think twice if the sirname happens to be Mycock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    Youssef out of curiosity are there such diminutive naming conventions in Egypt?
    I'm not too sure what ya mean, but if it's a joke... HA!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    My name? :)

    Isn't youssef = joseph (joe)?

    Shows the common roots between muslims and christians, doesn't it :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Micheal Wittman


    I know of this girl that went to my school who called her child Latrina :eek: :o:o :eek: She said it was classy and exotic :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭elivsvonchiaing


    I know of this girl that went to my school who called her child Latrina :eek: :o:o :eek: She said it was classy and exotic :rolleyes:
    That HAS to be one of the worst childrens names I've ever heard.

    A South African girl I know claims she knows someone who knows someone with the surname Beer who called the kid Bottled. This must be an urban legend though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Micheal Wittman


    I laughed for hours after hearing the neighbours talking about it.You think someone would tell her she was pratically calling the child a toilet.It certainly is unusual


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Seraphine & Loic.

    MrP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭df001i6876


    I remember a kid at school his name was.

    Hermon


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 jitzer


    Flosstina for a girl! Also know of a family in Dublin where the kids are called Orlando, Pierre and Fraulein (yah, I know - she didn't). Now thats character building.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    i know a mother who named her son Jack.....the family name is Potter!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Lisapeep


    Or what dya think about calling their kids after the place of their conception - a bit weird!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Healio


    Lisapeep wrote:
    Or what dya think about calling their kids after the place of their conception - a bit weird!


    Could be alrite..............




    .................. 'toilet in leisureplex'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,200 ✭✭✭kensutz


    What about a kid name Drew Peacock, was topic of convo on the radio in England last weekend.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    I have two daughters. :D Eldest is called Siobahn 16 and the youngest Rhianne 12.
    I also have two boys. :D Eldest Chase 2 and youngest Morgan 10mths.

    All names were chosen based on two basic criteria..
    1. Try to be slightly different, but not silly.
    2. Wouldn't be thought of as easily ridiculed, eg: Rosie Flowers or Prince Michael Jackson or something like that.


    So far we're happy! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Or what dya think about calling their kids after the place of their conception - a bit weird!

    Healio wrote:
    Could be alrite..............




    .................. 'toilet in leisureplex'.


    lol... or "Hotel Kilkenny". :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Then there were the identical twin boys called Juan and Ahmal.

    As the saying goes "When you've seen Juan you've seen Ahmal" Boom Boom :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    I knew a guy whose surname was Pipe. All through school he went by "Dwayne", even the teachers called out "Dwayne Pipe", think his real name was Mark.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭cajun_tiger


    My name? :)
    i know a guy same name as you....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    what does everyone think of the name clamida?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    i know a guy same name as you....
    Cool, Who is he, I could be him!!! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭elivsvonchiaing


    kev boy wrote:
    what does everyone think of the name clamida?
    Has to be up there with "Placenta" (no joke!! for girl). Might work better in non-english speaking culture - but not a good idea in general. Where will "clamida" be in 20 years - no parent knows!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    kev boy wrote:
    what does everyone think of the name clamida?
    Sounds too close to chlamydia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,415 ✭✭✭Optikus


    Cool, Who is he, I could be him!!! ;)


    AFAIK Youssef is a Morroccan name, i used to know a couple of people with that name when i was living in Spain.


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