Whats your baby name?

mitchconnor16

I was having a look for a book with names and the only one I could find was called Baby Names. I found my name in it so I figured I have a baby name unbeknownst to me. Do you have a baby name?

Samaris

It's...the same as my current name.

I'm not sure I get the question.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I was a baby when I got my name.

lawlolawl

I thought all male babies were called Jack and female ones were called Emily?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

lawlolawl wrote: »

I thought all male babies were called Jack and female ones were called Emily?

In 2004!

Dravokivich

When I gave my kid a name. I thought long and hard of the kind of adult they would need to grow up to be.

So I called'm Sue.

Speedwell

Hmm, makes me wonder what my name would have been if I had been born to Irish parents or in Ireland. Of course I realise that's a super foolish question and I could never guess that. Also, it would be silly for me to adopt an Irish name at the age of going-on-50, even once I get citizenship, unless I wanted to make a political statement. Or at least that's what my husband says. What do you think?

lawlolawl

I know someone who had a baby recently and called him Eamonn.

May as well give the young lad a pint of Guinness, a flat cap and 20 Major now.

LordSutch

What's my baby's name? or what was my name as a baby?

Not sure I get the question

myshirt

Is this a thinly veiled reference to a one Justin of the Bieber clan?

pickarooney

Speedwell wrote: »

Hmm, makes me wonder what my name would have been if I had been born to Irish parents or in Ireland. Of course I realise that's a super foolish question and I could never guess that. Also, it would be silly for me to adopt an Irish name at the age of going-on-50, even once I get citizenship, unless I wanted to make a political statement. Or at least that's what my husband says. What do you think?

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

Your Face

Hitler

failinis

pickarooney wrote: »

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

I found it bizarre that they managed to "translate" my foreign first and surname into Irish for secondary school.
However I did use it on Facebook as a "fake" name to stop a stalker following me about online so its not all bad

duchalla

Duchy Muchy Puchy....

lawlolawl

lawlolawl wrote: »

I know someone who had a baby recently and called him Eamonn.

May as well give the young lad a pint of Guinness, a flat cap and 20 Major now.

:pac: If I ever have a boy, that's the name he's getting. It's after somebody special.

lawlolawl

Your Face wrote: »

Hitler

I was watching The Man in the High Castle last night and I genuinely wondered if many people are calling their children Adolf nowadays.

Just a random thought that popped into my head for some reason. I share a first name with a notorious historical bastard.

Dravokivich

lawlolawl wrote: »

I was watching The Man in the High Castle last night and I genuinely wondered if many people are calling their children Adolf nowadays.

Just a random thought that popped into my head for some reason. I share a first name with a notorious historical bastard.

Genghis?

pickarooney

lawlolawl wrote: »

I was watching The Man in the High Castle last night and I genuinely wondered if many people are calling their children Adolf nowadays.

Just a random thought that popped into my head for some reason. I share a first name with a notorious historical bastard.

I'm fairly certain it's banned in Germany and a few other places which have official name lists. You see them occasionally on documentaries about white power groups in the US. No such restrictions on Joseph though.

I knew a German guy, who would have been born in the fifties, whose parents gave him the middle names Hermann Heinrich Rudolf Josef. A nicer man you wouldn't meet.

Speedwell

pickarooney wrote: »

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

The name closest to the name I usually use (which is itself a holdover from a college language class!) is "Saoirse", but, no disrespect to anyone who legitimately has that name as a commemoration of their Irish roots, I think it is in poor taste for an American (I'm sick of the antics of the Tea Party) and a little over-trendy.

The nearest Irish equivalent to my "Jewish" name is variantly given as Saraid or Sorcha or Sadhbh, but if you asked me what I liked myself, I suppose it would be Siomha.

Of course if there was an Irish word for "you are totally overthinking this to f*ck", that would be an even better and more descriptive name for me.

Fluffy Cat 88

Dravokivich wrote: »

Genghis?

Benito?

suicide_circus

If it's a boy, L'tonquine

If it's a girl, L'queeffa

Speedwell

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

Benito?

Jesus?

What? Were his biological parents married?

looksee

I never did get this business of translating names. Your name is a particular bunch of letters, pronounced in a particular way. If your parents had wanted to give you an Irish (or any other) name, they would have done so. If an individual wants to change their own name, that's fine, but it is not the business of anyone else to change a given name.

ohnonotgmail

has anybody figured out what the OP is actually asking?

Speedwell

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

has anybody figured out what the OP is actually asking?

I'm treating it like modern art. The meaning exists in the space between the work and the observer.

liathróidí il-daite

daveyeh

An babog

lawred2

what's going on here?

SEPT 23 1989

de babby

Day Lewin

maybe, Dotey, or Chickie, Pet, Asthoreen, or some such.

At least, those are what my mother always called babies - all babies, everywhere. So all of them were my baby-names.

Speedwell

I already knew that my grandmother was "bubbe" (pronounced "boo-bee") in Yiddish, and "bubelah" ("boo-beh-lah") if we were being especially affectionate (the first word means "grandmother" and the second can be used toward anyone to mean "sweetie"). So when she referred to little kids as something that sounded like "kuhkelah", I thought it was an affectionate name that added the diminutive "-lah" to the word "cookie". I didn't find out until I was in my 40s that it actually means "little sh!t", from Yiddish "kock". Chalk another one up to you, bubbe.

Winterlong

Funny thing. When I was born I was called James. But by the time I got home from hostpital a shop had opened beside our home called 'James's'...so they change my name to what it is now.

Well, perhaps that is not so funny.....

jackwigan

Baby McBabyface

Winterlong

No one puts Baby in a corner.

ScumLord

lawlolawl wrote: »

I know someone who had a baby recently and called him Eamonn.

May as well give the young lad a pint of Guinness, a flat cap and 20 Major now.

It's funny how well suited babies are to that look.

looksee wrote: »

I never did get this business of translating names.

I wouldn't have thought most people would have to have their name translated, it's just that there is an Irish translation of your name.

MilesMorales1

I was called prisoner 24601, then Jean ValJean.

Ciaran_B

My name is Ciarán (see username) but the 2nd choice name my parents had for me was Simon. I quite like the name Simon and I often wonder what my life would be like with that name. Much the same probably, but still............

maudgonner

Ciaran_B wrote: »

My name is Ciarán (see username) but the 2nd choice name my parents had for me was Simon. I quite like the name Simon and I often wonder what my life would be like with that name. Much the same probably, but still............

You would have been nicknamed Simple Simon for most of your life.

I think you had a lucky escape really

Skylinehead

maudgonner wrote: »

You would have been nicknamed Simple Simon for most of your life.

I think you had a lucky escape really

Yes, Clueless Ciaran, you sure did :pac:

me_irl

mitchconnor16 wrote: »

I was having a look for a book with names and the only one I could find was called Baby Names. I found my name in it so I figured I have a baby name unbeknownst to me. Do you have a baby name?

I've read this three times now.

andekwarhola

Nate.

me_irl

andekwarhola wrote: »

Nate.

Post-Nate or Pre-Nate?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

My parents apparently had three names chosen for me. Tara Louise was 1, Clodagh was the other. I'm quite grateful they didn't choose either of those.

lawlolawl

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Tara Louise was 1

Show band singer.

Clodagh was the other.

Insufferable vegan.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

And my name now, people think I'm one of dem forrideners

Sapphire

pickarooney wrote: »

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

And if there is no direct translation then they just pluck the Saint's name nearest to that dodgy forrign name you have and call you that. I'm not bitter. *mutters bitterly*

Keane2baMused

me_irl wrote: »

Post-Nate or Pre-Nate?

Too funny

OP I think you're missing the concept of a baby name book. A name is for life, not just for babies or Christmas.

Hercule Poirot

My baby name was Pichu

During my teenage years it was Pikachu

I am now known as the mighty Raichu

IvyTheTerrible

pickarooney wrote: »

I'm fairly certain it's banned in Germany and a few other places which have official name lists. You see them occasionally on documentaries about white power groups in the US. No such restrictions on Joseph though.

I knew a German guy, who would have been born in the fifties, whose parents gave him the middle names Hermann Heinrich Rudolf Josef. A nicer man you wouldn't meet.

My husband's uncle was born in Sicily into a very fascist family, he was baptised Benito. He left home at 17 and now he goes by Marcello. (Somewhat ironically, his current partner's surname is a variation of Mussolini...)

Samaris

Sapphire wrote: »

And if there is no direct translation then they just pluck the Saint's name nearest to that dodgy forrign name you have and call you that. I'm not bitter. *mutters bitterly*

Yeah, it's a really weird tradition when you think about it. Was never keen on my Irish name (not least as I still have trouble spelling the surname in Irish), but it was normal, so I didn't think too much of it.

I can kinda see doing it in Gaelscoils (although even that's a bit strange), but in English-speaking schools, it's just a bit of a daft tradition. It was a bit hit and miss in my school though. Anyone with an obvious Irish translation would get it, a few teachers attempted to creatively translate some of the more unusual names but they didn't stick and I'm pretty sure by the end of primary school, girls with either odd names or short names (like Katie as a baptised name rather than Kathleen or whatever), tended to just get called in English.

Conor Bourke

My ma wanted to call me Thelma.

Fcuking THELMA

Thankfully my father had the good sense not to let his woman lose the run of herself with her notions and insisted on giving me a name I'm very happy with.