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

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    #1172
    kikidelvin
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭kikidelvin


    Goodluck?


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    #1173
    guppy
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭guppy


    Glen. Thankfully not popular any more.


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    #1174
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Sicily.

    I overheard some skanger in a pub refer to her child in this manner


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    #1175
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    When I was in college back home I did a placement with the school public health nurses. I remember going to a class in one school where there were twins. The girl was named 'Vodka' and the boy 'Holden' (a popular make of car in NZ, I think they are called Opel here).


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    #1176
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    My father knows a fellow called Brutus.I always found it funny. A guy my age I know is called Billy Joe Bob Fitzpatrick. As in people call him"Billy Joe Bob," not Billy.


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    #1177
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    I know a black lad called innocent


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    #1178
    chughes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    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.
    Wouldn't it be great if the child's surname is Ferguson.


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    #1179
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    lukesmom wrote: »
    I know a black lad called innocent

    It's a cultural thing - I teach in a school, where we have a 'Peace', 'Precious', and 'Mercy', but they are all girls, so the names sound fine.

    Have 'Destinee' (with Irish surname) playing on football team!:rolleyes:


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    #1180
    [Deleted User]
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    Know someone who is calling their son Oberon O'Brien.


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    #1181
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Know someone who is calling their son Oberon O'Brien.

    NOOOOOOO! Surely that can't be allowed - poor, poor kid!


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    #1182
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Missyelliot2 wrote: »
    It's a cultural thing - I teach in a school, where we have a 'Peace', 'Precious', and 'Mercy', but they are all girls, so the names sound fine.

    Have 'Destinee' (with Irish surname) playing on football team!:rolleyes:

    We had a guy at school called Precious once. It's quite a nice idea, naming a child according to your aspiration for them.

    Excuse me while I put Not preggers by 16 to bed.


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    #1183
    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    It's increasingly common and it's never really been rare, but I truly hate the modern chav pronunciation of Aaron, i.e. ARRIN. (Must be shouted at lung-bursting volume.)

    It's Air-un, you complete knackers.


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    #1184
    [Deleted User]
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    Missyelliot2 wrote: »
    NOOOOOOO! Surely that can't be allowed - poor, poor kid!

    What makes it even worse us that Oberon is the name given to the king of the fairies. The kid is in for years of abuse at s hool


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    #1185
    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    Obi Wan O'Brien now, that has a certain ring to it.


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    #1186
    chughes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Know someone who is calling their son Oberon O'Brien.
    Did they call a daughter Titania?


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    #1187
    [Deleted User]
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    daveohdave wrote: »
    Obi Wan O'Brien now, that has a certain ring to it.

    Even then the kids still getting beaten up on a regular basis. When I first heard it I thought they were calling it Obi Wan and had to tell then that Obi Wan's birth name was Ben


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    #1188
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    dubhthach wrote: »
    According to the 1901 census there are were only 5 people bearing the name "Niall" in Ireland, all of them under age of 12.

    By 1911, 52 people were recorded as Niall, and 31 of them were older than 10, so they existed in 1901. Lots of the Niall's in 1911 have their surname in Irish, too, and were probably recorded as Neal O'Doherty instead of Niall Ní Dhochartaigh or whatever.

    There is one poor fecker called Thomas Niile Gill in 1901, but his brothers are John Crawford and Harold Stanley, while his sister is Margaret Eileen, so it's a toss up whether Nile is a mangled Niall or the river in Egypt.


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    #1189
    Bradt Pitt
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Bradt Pitt


    Sníomh (not sure of the spelling), but basically pronounced sh-neeve.
    Poor boy.


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    #1190
    TrustedApple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    Theres a person i know who used to go out with a lad that I used to work with who's poor little girl was called Aphrodite after the greek god :eek:

    To make it worse the mother called her by the full name :eek:

    The poor child


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    #1191
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    samapple789 wrote: »
    Theres a person i know who used to go out with a lad that I used to work with who's poor little girl was called Aphrodite after the great god :eek:

    To make it worse the mother called her by the full name :eek:

    The poor child

    What great god?


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    #1192
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    What great god?

    Aphrodite, the Greek (I'm guessing great is an autocorrect) goddess of love, beauty and sexuality. And the goddess of tweaking your left nipple if the statues are anything to go by…


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    #1193
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    daveohdave wrote: »
    It's increasingly common and it's never really been rare, but I truly hate the modern chav pronunciation of Aaron, i.e. ARRIN. (Must be shouted at lung-bursting volume.)

    It's Air-un, you complete knackers.

    I always say arrun... and I'm pretty sure loads of people do
    Surely it's both

    In its original Hebrew, Aaron (אהרן) is pronounced a-ha-ron with the first two vowels similar to (and probably derived from the same root as) "sahara".

    The English pronunciation of the biblical Aaron's name was derived by anglicising the Latin during the Church of England's translation of the Authorized King James Bible in 1611 ... ... all define this modern English pronunciation as /ɛərən/ ("air-run", where "air" is the same sound as in "dairy")
    In the twentieth century, ambiguity over the pronunciation of "Aaron" was created by naming children after Elvis Aaron Presley rather than after the biblical Aaron.


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    #1194
    Mars Bar
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    Grayson wrote: »
    If you had a son you could call them Uachtar Reoite :rolleyes:

    ?


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    #1195
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I always say arrun... and I'm pretty sure loads of people do
    Surely it's both

    In its original Hebrew, Aaron (אהרן) is pronounced a-ha-ron with the first two vowels similar to (and probably derived from the same root as) "sahara".

    The English pronunciation of the biblical Aaron's name was derived by anglicising the Latin during the Church of England's translation of the Authorized King James Bible in 1611 ... ... all define this modern English pronunciation as /ɛərən/ ("air-run", where "air" is the same sound as in "dairy")
    In the twentieth century, ambiguity over the pronunciation of "Aaron" was created by naming children after Elvis Aaron Presley rather than after the biblical Aaron.

    I'd pronounce arrun, they same as I would Aardvark. I wouldn't say Airdvark…


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    #1196
    paperclip2
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    jca wrote: »
    Poor aul Nigel was obviously wanting two boys.

    Three actually, her other sister is Horatia :eek::D:D


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    #1197
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    paperclip2 wrote: »
    Three actually, her other sister is Horatia :eek::D:D

    He definitely had a boy child complex.


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    #1198
    Rory Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Rory Gallagher


    Rupert.


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    #1199
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Rory Gallagher wrote: »
    Rupert.

    I went to college with a guy who had "Rupert" and "Heath" as his middlenames. And he had the cheek to slag me for mine, "Catherine"!


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    #1200
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Stella and Colette, hate them names... Colette sounds like a disease


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    #1201
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    The worst I heard of was Blaize. The problem was the surname, Furey.......


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