Baby names!

Hello Lady!

seosamh1980 wrote: »

Sorry but everyone won't think that. Maybe they don't live in Dublin? A lot of us don't. Where I'm from that name is totally reasonable (it was my first boyfriend's name and it wouldn't have occurred to any of us teenagers to mock his name), the only way that name is known where I'm from is because of a famous footballer with it. I don't even know what you're talking about re the radio station, a random Dub radio station that isn't even received in my area and a slot they have on it wouldn't affect my choice of a name. It's just a shorter version of Pàdraig.

Fair enough...just hope the kid never wants to work in Dublin when he's older!

ElleEm

Hello Lady! wrote: »

Fair enough...just hope the kid never wants to work in Dublin when he's older!

What is the link with the name and Dublin? I am so confused! I have lived here my whole life and have never met anyone called Páidí.

Hello Lady!

ElleEm wrote: »

What is the link with the name and Dublin? I am so confused! I have lived here my whole life and have never met anyone called Páudí.

Let's just say there are a fair number of paudies/paudge/paudgies in the joy! It tends to be a diminutive of padraig popular in a lot of the less desirable areas of Dublin. In my old job I used to work in the Training Unit in Mountjoy and there were a lot of paudies came through the doors.

Marty McFly

I'm sorry but that's crap. I have never associated that name with the lower elements of Dublin life. Born and raised here and went to school with a lot of people who would be less than desirable and never once came across it.

If anything pop culture names like Rihanna would be the kind of name to avoid.

lolademmers

I have to say I don't think Paidi=skanger!! It's the very last thing that would come to mind. Now if it's Damo,Jayo etc I would!

Roesy

Páidí is very much a country name where I'm from. My nephew Padraig has pretty much pretty been called it since birth. I've worked a lot with kids from disadvantaged areas and kids with troubled backgrounds and never come across it.

ElleEm

I wonder if it was men of a certain age. I would have worked with a lot of young lads who were en route to a life in St. Pats/ Mountjoy etc. but never once met a Páidí.

wolfpawnat

Every Podge I have ever heard of is named Patrick, not Paudi, Paudi is short for Padraig in my understanding, I lived in West Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway and am now in a rough part of Dublin and I can honestly say, if you asked the people here what they thought of the name Paudi, I can guarantee I would get "Ah, easy knowing you're from the country with a name like that".

I think it is a lovely name. I can see a toddler, child, teen, young adult and older man with the name Paudi and it suiting him every step of the way. As for the fada's, sure people forget them and other sort of marking in different languages, big whoop. I get asked how to spell my daughter's name, no big deal.

Hello Lady!

Marty McFly wrote: »

I'm sorry but that's crap. I have never associated that name with the lower elements of Dublin life. Born and raised here and went to school with a lot of people who would be less than desirable and never once came across it.

If anything pop culture names like Rihanna would be the kind of name to avoid.

In my experience its not crap. I have direct experience if it myself. At one point there were about 5 paudies on the wing so they were distinguished by 'big Paudie' 'paudie p', 'paudie mac' etc. I am also born and bred in north inner city dublin and its a fairly common nickname in most larger families where there is a padraig and maybe dad or uncles also called padraig. I know of at least 6 off the top of my head. You are entitled to your opinion just as I am mine. I hear paudie (paidi) I think skanger. Skanger or old country name regardless I still think it's sn affliction of a name either way.

Rihanna's and tyrones etc tend to be a younger phenomenon. Having said that I know of 2 Rihanna and 1 rihannon all over the age of 30. Its a very common welsh name.

Marty McFly

Hello Lady! wrote: »

In my experience its not crap. I have direct experience if it myself. At one point there were about 5 paudies on the wing so they were distinguished by 'big Paudie' 'paudie p', 'paudie mac' etc. I am also born and bred in north inner city dublin and its a fairly common nickname in most larger families where there is a padraig and maybe dad or uncles also called padraig. I know of at least 6 off the top of my head. You are entitled to your opinion just as I am mine. I hear paudie (paidi) I think skanger. Skanger or old country name regardless I still think it's sn affliction of a name either way.

Rihanna's and tyrones etc tend to be a younger phenomenon. Having said that I know of 2 Rihanna and 1 rihannon all over the age of 30. Its a very common welsh name.

That you are its boards it all about opinions . I just don't agree with your on the name Paidi .

Oh I know its a younger phenomenon that's exactly why I said pop culture names tend to be the ones to avoid was just using Rihanna as an example.

I work with someone who has a teenage daughter called Rihanna and he now hates the singer because everywhere he goes he hears Riiihaannnnnaaaaaa in a nice strong Dublin accent :pac:.

We can't foretell the future but ones that predominant now would be best avoided imo.

Moonbeam

on an android phone hold down the letter and choices of accented letters will come up.

madeinamerica

Hello Lady! wrote: »

Do you realise that in certain parts of Dublin a special class of 'character' is often called Paudie/Paudgie. Have a listen to FM104 (dublin station) if you want to know what I mean. Paudie's TV guide! Seriously do not inflict that abomination of a name on a child! Regardless of how you choose to spell it! Trust me, with a name like that the placement of fada will be the least of his worries! Everyone will think he's a light fingered skanger!

As long as Paidi stays out of those 'certain parts of Dublin' he'll be grand, then.

Hello Lady! wrote: »

Let's just say there are a fair number of paudies/paudge/paudgies in the joy! It tends to be a diminutive of padraig popular in a lot of the less desirable areas of Dublin. In my old job I used to work in the Training Unit in Mountjoy and there were a lot of paudies came through the doors.

I'm sure the Joy isn't high on most parents' lists of places they hope their son will end up



You'll get this kind of thing everywhere. A really 'low-life' girls name where I'm from (kind of a bad joke) is a 'nice' name in 'nice' Dublin, my previous boss's wife was called it and I couldn't take to it for ages. Very childish of me!

SusieBlue

Not a huge fan of Paidi but its a perfectly good name that would serve any boy, teen, man and gentleman well in life. My only thought would be to use it as a nickname for Padraig to give him more options when he's older ie. he could be Padraig at work and Paidi at home with the family, if you know what I mean. Its not exactly my cup of tea but its a good name!

seosamh1980

madeinamerica wrote: »

You'll get this kind of thing everywhere. A really 'low-life' girls name where I'm from (kind of a bad joke) is a 'nice' name in 'nice' Dublin, my previous boss's wife was called it and I couldn't take to it for ages. Very childish of me!

I'm dying to know what name that is now!

Hello Lady!

madeinamerica wrote: »

I'm sure the Joy isn't high on most parents' lists of places they hope their son will end up

eh yeah, you're kind of missing the point there.... :rolleyes:

Sarah Bear

I loved the name Rhiannon.. Until the singer rhianna came along! She wrecked it for me!

madeinamerica

seosamh1980 wrote: »

I'm dying to know what name that is now!

Ah, that'd be telling

In my previous workplace before that, we had a mini christmas tree that was so covered in tinsel and decorations that one of the lads decided it looked like a girl with tons of cheap crappy goldy jewelry and so the christmas tree was named THAT name, said in full accent. That was all I could think of every time I met my boss's wife, sniggering like a kid!

Lucuma

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Of all the reasons to not choose a name. "We loved the name, but I had a certain phone, it couldn't do fada's so we decided not to bother with it" Most people will know Paidi when they see it in Ireland.

Any phone can do fadas you just hold down the letter and pick which accent you want on it

RedPeppers

Sarah Bear wrote: »

I loved the name Rhiannon.. Until the singer rhianna came along! She wrecked it for me!

I love the name too after Fleetwood Mac song but OH was not of same opinion, in the end it didnt matter as just had a little boy and called him Leon

Tombo2001

Hello Lady! wrote: »

Let's just say there are a fair number of paudies/paudge/paudgies in the joy! It tends to be a diminutive of padraig popular in a lot of the less desirable areas of Dublin. In my old job I used to work in the Training Unit in Mountjoy and there were a lot of paudies came through the doors.

Is this some sort of April Fools......

In the 'less desirable parts of Dublin'.....where the kids end up in the 'Joy.......well go on, which parts of Dublin would they be?

Have a look at the baby names list over the past twenty years. Padraig is nowhere near the top 50 names. So its not like its a popular name in any part of Dublin, desirable or otherwise, and hasnt been for a long time....and by extension, there may have been heaps of 20 year old Paidi's rolling into prison in the 1980s. But there certainly arent today.

As such, if it has any 'connotations', it could only be for people over a certain age.

Reminds me of my grandmother.....she was christened Bridget, but they called her a different name as they were worried people would call her Biddy, a sort of servants name.

I dont think any kids, or indeed parents with young kids, would be making that association now.

Bridget would be a perfectly fine name, with no 'connotations'. And the same applies to Padraig, or Paidi.

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/birthsdm/2000/babiesnames_2000.pdf

eyescreamcone

RedPeppers wrote: »

I love the name too after Fleetwood Mac song but OH was not of same opinion, in the end it didnt matter as just had a little boy and called him Leon

I like Leon

I recently came across a foreign girl named Leonne (pronounced Leon). Nice for a girl too.

Synyster Shadow

I've always liked Leon but hubby went to school with one and wouldn't agree to it.
I've a cousin Leonie she was the only I knew of until recently but its making a comeback

Chattastrophe!

Imogen. Beautiful name.

First Jemima, now Imogen ... what is with me and the weirdo names these days?

Moonbeam

I love Leonie and like Imogen.

Hello Lady!

Chattastrophe! wrote: »

Imogen. Beautiful name.

First Jemima, now Imogen ... what is with me and the weirdo names these days?

I like Imogen too.

javagal

Our little madam is Zoe and I love it. If we have another girl, she will probably be Olivia and Elijah/Jude for a boy..

sopretty

javagal wrote: »

Our little madam is Zoe and I love it. If we have another girl, she will probably be Olivia and Elijah/Jude for a boy..

Don't take Jude. That's my name!

Ah no, have yet to meet a Jude. Everyone knows the name, but nobody knows anyone called that name. That's why I love it. Love the sound of it too.

Stereomaniac

What about Julian instead of Jude?

Chattastrophe!

Stereomaniac wrote: »

What about Julian instead of Jude?

I absolutely love the name Julian!

Marty McFly

I like Imogen not one I would have thought of before.