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Whats your baby name?

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  • #32
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭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.....


  • #33
    jackwigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭jackwigan


    Baby McBabyface


  • #34
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    No one puts Baby in a corner.


  • #35
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I was called prisoner 24601, then Jean ValJean.


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  • #37
    Ciaran_B
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    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............


  • #38
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #39
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #40
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Nate.


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  • #42
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Nate.

    Post-Nate or Pre-Nate?


  • #43
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    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.


  • #44
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Tara Louise was 1

    Show band singer.
    Clodagh was the other.

    Insufferable vegan.


  • #45
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    And my name now, people think I'm one of dem forrideners


  • #46
    Sapphire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭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*


  • #47
    Keane2baMused
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Keane2baMused


    me_irl wrote: »
    Post-Nate or Pre-Nate?

    Too funny :D

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


  • #48
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    My baby name was Pichu

    During my teenage years it was Pikachu

    I am now known as the mighty Raichu


  • #49
    IvyTheTerrible
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    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...)


  • #50
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    MarkR
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    Little **** I believe. I don't remember much, I was very young at the time...


  • #53
    Dravokivich
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    Samaris wrote: »
    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.

    When I started school they were onto my parents because I showing up. 4 year old on the Mitch :P honest mistake though. The school did roll call in Irish. I never knew my name other than how it was in English.

    They should address the kids by the name presented to them by the parents.


  • #54
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.

    Michael?


  • #55
    Sapphire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭Sapphire


    Cornelius Crow wrote: »
    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.

    Ah now. Might be a bit before your time but Thelma Mansfield with her Live at 3 precursor to Dempsey's Den was apparently responsible for many a young lad's sexual awakening. She was fairly hawt apparently. Maybe your dad had a little crush on her.
    Samaris wrote: »
    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.

    Could you imagine the head-fcuk of trying to do that with all the unusual names around these days? :pac:

    "Right Kamil, your Irish name is Caoimhín. Jamal, yours is Seán. Zdzislawa, em... you can be...ah fcuk it, I cant be arsed with this anymore your
    Irish name is Bríd, OK??"


  • #56
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    Sapphire wrote: »
    Ah now. Might be a bit before your time but Thelma Mansfield with her Live at 3 precursor to Dempsey's Den was apparently responsible for many a young lad's sexual awakening. She was fairly hawt apparently. Maybe your dad had a little crush on her.

    Dad mustn't have liked her though or he'd have let Mam have her way and call me that. She acknowledges that it was inspired by Thelma Mansfield, I can just about remember her on Live At Three alright :D


  • #57
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Cornelius Crow wrote: »
    Dad mustn't have liked her though or he'd have let Mam have her way and call me that. She acknowledges that it was inspired by Thelma Mansfield, I can just about remember her on Live At Three alright :D

    I had a bit of a crush on Viggo Mortensen in LOTR, but I wouldn't curse a poor, defenseless baby with the name :D No idea if it's a usual name wherever he's from, but in Ireland? Nooo.


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