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names

  • 18-10-2014 06:58AM
    #1
    user37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭


    Hi....just looking for people's opinions on the following names....

    Boys; James, Adam or Dylan
    Girls; Emily or Lauren

    Thanks


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  • #2
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    user37 wrote: »
    Hi....just looking for people's opinions on the following names....

    Boys; James, Adam or Dylan
    Girls; Emily or Lauren

    Thanks

    I love James, like Adam & not fussed on Dylan.
    Emily is so pretty - theres a lot of them about tho. I'm not mad about Lauren but I don't think its a horrible name or anything like that.


  • #3
    Blingy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Blingy


    user37 wrote: »
    Hi....just looking for people's opinions on the following names....

    Boys; James, Adam or Dylan
    Girls; Emily or Lauren

    Thanks

    Love all those names.
    Personally would like to have
    Dylan, Lauren and Emily on my list but they are getting v popular and OH isn't convinced by them!!!


  • #4
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    What do you think of shay or keelan or Jamie for a boy


  • #5
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    I like all those names.
    Keelan is one of those I like but I am unsure about,it sounds very like Caoilfhionn and Caolán and i think it has the same etymology but I would think of it as a surname.
    I think it sounds very girlie as a 1st name.


  • #6
    Frog Song
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Frog Song


    Keelan is lovely but I would use it for a girl more so.


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  • #7
    indigo twist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭indigo twist


    Sometime soon wrote: »
    What do you think of shay or keelan or Jamie for a boy

    Maybe I'm a bit old-school, but if I were to want to call a child Shay or Jamie, I'd probably call them James (or Seamus) and then maybe use the shortened version(s), depending on what suited them. (No reason you couldn't just register them as Shay or Jamie, of course, it's just a personal preference of mine.)

    I don't like Keelan, myself.


  • #8
    Kathnora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭Kathnora


    I'm the kind of person who doesn't like children being given shortened names like Bobby instead of Robert or Ollie for Oliver...a lot of people seem to be going for the "ie" sound at the end of names these days...agree?


  • #9
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Kathnora wrote: »
    I'm the kind of person who doesn't like children being given shortened names like Bobby instead of Robert or Ollie for Oliver...a lot of people seem to be going for the "ie" sound at the end of names these days...agree?

    Yup, I find it irritating! Just give the child the full name on the birth certificate and call him/her the shortened one if you like. Millie and Maisie may be cute now but they have to grow up!


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