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Americans using our surnames as first names

  • 28-04-2016 08:20PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭


    America has given us a wonderful catalogue (catalog?) of English terms and expressions. Where would we be without words like stoolpigeon, ballpark, bellhop, dude etc. but they've gone a step too far when they began (don't know exactly when) hijacking (there's another) our Irish surnames and using them for first names. First was Ryan, then Kelly, Bradley, Casey, Carey, Doyle and God forgive them . . . Brady. The worst one though, is one that came to light 2 years ago via television is (you guessed it) NOLAN. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. Can we soon expect McGillacudy Penn, Fitzpatrick Fitzgibbon, MacSharry Muldoon?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Don't think so...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    OP, I just had a look around to find a f*ck to give about the point you've raised. . .nope, couldn't find one.

    Sorry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Talk to Joe etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    What are Americans supposed to do for names then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭Digs


    I have a pregnancy and baby app on my phone which is predominately used by American posters, I check in and out on in but can't look too long or my brain explodes.

    You'll be "pleased" to know Ryan, Finn, Rory, Quinn, Shea and Sean for example are currently very popular for girls names.

    Finnegan and Fitzpatrick are coming up again and again as first names too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Americans use their grandmother's maiden name for a child's first name. It's a nice touch.

    Nolan Ryan is a baseball legend. He's almost 70. I believe he was called after his father's mother.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Fitzpatrick Fitzgibbon and Fitzgibbon Fitzpatrick.

    The story of one mans love for his gorilla.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,998 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Ice Cube's first name is O'Shea

    Puff Daddy's first name is Shawn, I guess Seán was too much of a mindfeck!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Oh wow another boards thread of someone slagging Americanism's and feeling superior.

    It's almost as if they are a different country to us.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Digs wrote: »
    I have a pregnancy and baby app on my phone which is predominately used by American posters, I check in and out on in but can't look too long or my brain explodes.

    You'll be "pleased" to know Ryan, Finn, Rory, Quinn, Shea and Sean for example are currently very popular for girls names.

    Finnegan and Fitzpatrick are coming up again and again as first names too.


    Rory for a girl?
    Getawayta****...???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I was saying the exact same thing to my good friend Gallagher Kawolski from New York but he said he hasn't come across it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I had a pet lamb called Kelly once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively called their daughter James.

    In greys anatomy there's 2 characters called Harper and Jackson Avery....you're right Op it is annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Friend of mine in Utah has 4 daughters....McKenzie, Peyton, Regan & Chandler. (It sounds like a bloody law firm. :rolleyes: )

    Little McKenzie is one of three McKenzie's in her class at school & they are all spelt differently.

    I think the other 2 are McKenzee and McKenseigh. I mean FFS like....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    OP, I just had a look around to find a f*ck to give about the point you've raised. . .nope, couldn't find one.

    Sorry.

    These sort of replies are so pointless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭keno-daytrader


    Next it will be Kenny!!!

    ☀️ 8.2kWp ⚡4kWp south, ⚡4.20kWp west



  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think those sort of names are really nice. Rory as a girl's name is one I'm fond of.
    Of course I would be the sort to call my first born female Autumn so don't mind me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    I've got an Irish-American relative who's child is called Kennedy. It's not an exclusively American thing though - there's more than a few Brian O' Brien's and Patrick Fitzpatrick's here.

    Worst I ever came across, and I know this woman personally, named her child Casey which is her maiden name. Split up with her husband and reverted to her maiden name so now her daughter is Casey Casey.

    She's the divil!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Fluffy Cat 88


    What about irish people giving their kids dumb american names like Makenzie or Dakota? Just as bad imo!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Well its a country with no indigenous population due to the natives being almost entirely wiped out. Names had to come from the immigrant populations..most being British, Irish ,French, German, Spanish , Portuguese and Italian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    I think those sort of names are really nice. Rory as a girl's name is one I'm fond of.
    Of course I would be the sort to call my first born female Autumn so don't mind me.

    One of the royals (Princess Anne's son, I think) is married to an American woman called Autumn.

    One of the female Kennedy grandchildren (RFK's daughter) is called Rory. She married one of the Guildford Four.

    So sorry, you aren't as zany & original as you think. :P


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    One of the royals (Princess Anne's son, I think) is married to an American woman called Autumn.

    One of the female Kennedy grandchildren (RFK's daughter) is called Rory. She married one of the Guildford Four.

    So sorry, you aren't as zany & original as you think. :P

    That's right. Autumn Philips :)

    Interesting to hear that one of the Kennedy grandkids married one of the Guildford Four. I must away to Google

    Oh and don't be ridiculous. Of course I'm zany and original!! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Or it might be one of the men accused of the Birmingham Bombings. I tend to get them mixed up. I know all this, coz I worked at their wedding. Got to meet Jackie O too. :D

    And in an amazing coincidence (given what the thread about,) JFK Jr said that if ever had a son, he wouldn't call him after himself, or his dad. He thought that the JFK name is just too much of a burden for a small boy to live up to. He said that he'd probably name his son Flynn, as he just liked the name.


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Or it might be one of the men accused of the Birmingham Bombings. I tend to get them mixed up. I know all this, coz I worked at their wedding. Got to meet Jackie O too. :D

    Oh that's interesting indeed. I know I'm straying off topic now but my mam loved the Kennedys. Jackie was like a style icon to her and man did my mammy know how to dress in her heyday :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    I have two American female relatives whose first names are Carson and Henderson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Is it Maurice Fitzgerald or Gerald fitzmaurice

    Mind. Blown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Stop using Flynn for **** sake!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I always thought the referring to someone by their surname was a British thing. Been happening to me since I was a wee man.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭liam7831


    I think Healy-Rae would be a good name for a yank


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