The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

looking_around

ewinslet wrote: »

Sorcha, Fiachra, Fionn, Aoife, Saoirse. Basically all Irish names.

Also Jenny. Jennifer is fine, but Jenny just wrecks my head.

Saoirse & aoife are lovely names.

I cant say I've heard of Sorcha or Fiachra (I just pronounced that very close to ..something else entirely..)

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Worst names, cailin (the irish for girl..however its spelt)..someone named their kid that.

Usanavy

Skye

___and because I had a dog called Vanessa, I can't take anyone with that name seriously.

Mars Bar

I don't really mind Irish names all that much. We have a girl on our soccer team called Roise and I really like that name. That would top the list of girls names I would give my child.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

But here in Cork, the surname Coughlan is pronounced Caugh-lan, whereas in other parts of Ireland it's pronounced Coq-lan.

Don't know which is right/wrong or is it ignorance of the english language?

Yeah here in Tipp it's pronounced cock lan. Another one is Walsh, some people pronounce it Welsh.

dubhthach

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

But here in Cork, the surname Coughlan is pronounced Caugh-lan, whereas in other parts of Ireland it's pronounced Coq-lan.

Don't know which is right/wrong or is it ignorance of the english language?

The pronunciation you have for the anglicized bastardization of an original Irish language surname (Ó Cochláin or Mac Cochláin -- both pronounced as spelt) has what to do with Niall? If you really want to rhyme Niall with Nile then change the spelling, don't continue using the Irish spelling let refuse to pronounce it in correct Irish way.

Rips

I don't know which is worse, the people who can't stand Irish names in an Irish country, or the people who can't stand anglicised Irish names, in a country where most everything is anglicised, never mind the differences in dialects.

If people started calling their sons Nyle ... they would be ridiculed for trying to be unique and different!

You can't win!

Diane Selwyn

I know someone who called their kid Ishmael although in fairness the father has Greek heritage so maybe that accounts for it. Also many years ago in Mexico City I met an Englishman by the name of Icarus Monk - I'm sure I still have his business card somewhere (travel agent obviously) - must have been someone's kid at some point I guess. No I didn't book any flights with him.

eyescreamcone

...specialist in flights to the sun? 

Diane Selwyn

eyescreamcone wrote: »

...specialist in flights to the sun? 

we were looking to get back to Dublin at the time so he was not the man for us although he seemed a nice fella.

shruikan2553

Majella. Probably spelling it wrong, its Ma as in term for mother and jella like in bonjella.

channro

I know a lad called <mod snip>removed name and name owner persons request</mod snip>

I've seen his passport

eisenberg1

eyescreamcone wrote: »

...specialist in flights to the sun? 

For the clergy:D

ewinslet

Róisín is another one.

Lord, God, how could you name your child Róisín.

Grayson

Mars Bar wrote: »

I don't really mind Irish names all that much. We have a girl on our soccer team called Roise and I really like that name. That would top the list of girls names I would give my child.

If you had a son you could call them Uachtar Reoite :rolleyes:

Grayson

Rips wrote: »

I don't know which is worse, the people who can't stand Irish names in an Irish country, or the people who can't stand anglicised Irish names, in a country where most everything is anglicised, never mind the differences in dialects.

If people started calling their sons Nyle ... they would be ridiculed for trying to be unique and different!

You can't win!

I can't stand the new makey uppy irish names. There's so many pretentious names floating around. It's like the middle class equivalent of naming your kid Lexie or Tupaq.

buyer95

looking_around wrote: »

Saoirse & aoife are lovely names.

I cant say I've heard of Sorcha or Fiachra (I just pronounced that very close to ..something else entirely..)

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Worst names, cailin (the irish for girl..however its spelt)..someone named their kid that.

Usanavy

Skye

___and because I had a dog called Vanessa, I can't take anyone with that name seriously.

I cant take anyone seriously who names their dog Vanessa. Whats wrong with Max?

allandanyways

My housemate works in a creche in Dublin's inner city and no word of a lie, she has little one called Rihanna in her group whose mother is no older than about 16 and arrives every evening, still in her pajamas, cigarette hanging out of the mouth (accompanied by a 4 pack of Blue WKD on Fridays) looking to pick up her "Princess Ri-Ri".

buyer95

allandanyways wrote: »

My housemate works in a creche in Dublin's inner city and no word of a lie, she has little one called Rihanna in her group whose mother is no older than about 16 and arrives every evening, still in her pajamas, cigarette hanging out of the mouth (accompanied by a 4 pack of Blue WKD on Fridays) looking to pick up her "Princess Ri-Ri".

Yeah, I'm a student teacher in Mary I and was on teaching practice in Limerick city. One of my students was called Rihanna also. I also had a Britney, and a girl called Tommie. Lovely class though.:)

nc19

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

As in Niamh, Ciara, Liam, Ian, Rian, Brian and every Irish word with that 'ia' in it.

OK, the Brians have been even more thoroughly mangled, and only actual Irish speakers use Bree-an.

Lots of the people who are referred to as Nye-al are actually called Knee-al, and are just tired correcting people.

Im tired correcting people when they call me Neil

when i was in primary all the names were called out in irish and spelt in irish and my name in irish is spelt Neil and pronounced as such but i was christened Niall pronouced Nile

thanks very much

dubhthach

nc19 wrote: »

Im tired correcting people when they call me Neil

when i was in primary all the names were called out in irish and spelt in irish and my name in irish is spelt Neil and pronounced as such but i was christened Niall pronouced Nile

thanks very much

The name in Irish is spelt as Niall, ffs it's one of the oldest commonly used Irish languages names to this day. It been found for example in Ogham ("MAQI NILI")

Do you think that "Niall Noígiallach" (d. circa 450AD), "Niall Frossach" (d. 778AD), "Niall Caille" (d. 846AD) and "Niall Glúndubh" (d. 919AD) went around rhyming their name with a river in Africa?

It's phonologically impossible to rhyme the name with "Nile" in the Irish language. The genitive case for Niall is Néill eg. "mac néill" (son of Niall) or "Ó Néill" (grandson of Niall).

Néill by the way rhymes with english word "nail" (or "Nayle").

According to the 1901 census there are were only 5 people bearing the name "Niall" in Ireland, all of them under age of 12. In comparison there was

Neal: 954
Neil: 1456
Neill: 141
Total: 2,551

It's fairly obvious that the actual Irish language spelling was revived at the time as part of the Gaelic renewal, sort of as a trendy spelling -- kinda like fad for names like Fiachra today (Fiachrae was a half-brother of Niall Noígiallach, who also had a son called Fiachrae). Only problem is people decided to use a makey uppy pronunciation instead of the actual proper pronunciation.

jigglypuffstuff

Kalen for a boy...absolutely horrible name

Sounds like a cleaning item you'd find under the sink...

uch

John

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my daughter has a friend in kindergarten called Bella,

always reminds me of bella doyle:D

Missyelliot2

dubhthach wrote: »

The name in Irish is spelt as Niall, ffs it's one of the oldest commonly used Irish languages names to this day. It been found for example in Ogham ("MAQI NILI")

Do you think that "Niall Noígiallach" (d. circa 450AD), "Niall Frossach" (d. 778AD), "Niall Caille" (d. 846AD) and "Niall Glúndubh" (d. 919AD) went around rhyming their name with a river in Africa?

It's phonologically impossible to rhyme the name with "Nile" in the Irish language. The genitive case for Niall is Néill eg. "mac néill" (son of Niall) or "Ó Néill" (grandson of Niall).

Néill by the way rhymes with english word "nail" (or "Nayle").

According to the 1901 census there are were only 5 people bearing the name "Niall" in Ireland, all of them under age of 12. In comparison there was

Neal: 954
Neil: 1456
Neill: 141
Total: 2,551

It's fairly obvious that the actual Irish language spelling was revived at the time as part of the Gaelic renewal, sort of as a trendy spelling -- kinda like fad for names like Fiachra today (Fiachrae was a half-brother of Niall Noígiallach, who also had a son called Fiachrae). Only problem is people decided to use a makey uppy pronunciation instead of the actual proper pronunciation.

Your attention to detail is to be applauded! However, it's quite depressing that you are talking about the genitive case and the pronounciation of an irish name, while others are calling their offspring Braxton!

I really don't feel there is a need to be so pedantic about pronounciation.
Asforementioned, I do appreciate you knowledge of the Irish language, but FFS go easy on the rest of us that are just trying........

pasty

Thurman merman (from bad Santa) oh and Billy-bob as well

Ken.

My neighbour had a baby recently. Called her Macie. Her niece put it up on facebook as Massy. Near pee'd myself laughing.

Flaming Juno

uch wrote: »

John

Hey now, lets not get carried away.

jca

Wurly wrote: »

Bowie Starr..... Seriously!!!:mad:

I can top that. A woman I know called her son Bowie and her surname is Dee. Yep he's Bowie Dee.

jca

MrsD007 wrote: »

Nigella Lawson had a sister called Thomasina. Nigella is a pretty unusual name too in fairness..

Poor aul Nigel was obviously wanting two boys.

jca

ken wrote: »

My neighbour had a baby recently. Called her Macie. Her niece put it up on facebook as Massy. Near pee'd myself laughing.

Some day she'll be a-tract-ive to someone.....

jca

dubhthach wrote: »

The name in Irish is spelt as Niall, ffs it's one of the oldest commonly used Irish languages names to this day. It been found for example in Ogham ("MAQI NILI")

Do you think that "Niall Noígiallach" (d. circa 450AD), "Niall Frossach" (d. 778AD), "Niall Caille" (d. 846AD) and "Niall Glúndubh" (d. 919AD) went around rhyming their name with a river in Africa?

It's phonologically impossible to rhyme the name with "Nile" in the Irish language. The genitive case for Niall is Néill eg. "mac néill" (son of Niall) or "Ó Néill" (grandson of Niall).

Néill by the way rhymes with english word "nail" (or "Nayle").

According to the 1901 census there are were only 5 people bearing the name "Niall" in Ireland, all of them under age of 12. In comparison there was

Neal: 954
Neil: 1456
Neill: 141
Total: 2,551

It's fairly obvious that the actual Irish language spelling was revived at the time as part of the Gaelic renewal, sort of as a trendy spelling -- kinda like fad for names like Fiachra today (Fiachrae was a half-brother of Niall Noígiallach, who also had a son called Fiachrae). Only problem is people decided to use a makey uppy pronunciation instead of the actual proper pronunciation.

Someone needs to get out more.