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

cantdecide

...because I think I can beat them all. I swear I considered strangling the poor little bugger to death for his own good. Sit down. Calmly take a deep breath and prepare yourself...

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Balmed Out

McChubbin wrote: »

I recently discovered that the name Caoimbhe is pronounced to ryhme with Aoife.
Yet, I can't help think it sounds too much like Queef-ah...

Im presuming you mean Caoimhe which is surely a fairly common name ? Grow up / live in Ireland?

Balmed Out

LordSutch wrote: »

Con.

I know a couple of Conleth's, two from west Cork one from Kilkenny, all go by Con. Not my favorite but not terrible.

LordSutch

Balmed Out wrote: »

Im presuming you mean Caoimhe which is surely a fairly common name ? Grow up / live in Ireland?

A lot of 'tricky to pronounce' Irish names have only recently become commonplace within the last thirty odd years. When I was growing up nobody but nobody would have known how to pronounce Caoimhe (apart from my Irish teacher of course)

Grayson

maudgonner wrote: »

Traditionally short for Cornelius, so I think Con is the better option really.

I know two Con's and they're both short for Conan.

Conall Cernach

Deleted User wrote: »

Just saw this one: Fladnait.

I've never heard of Fladhnait but I have a niece called Fiadhnait. I think it's after one of the children of Lír. It's pronounced sort of like Fee-anna.

ibarelycare

McChubbin wrote: »

I recently discovered that the name Caoimbhe is pronounced to ryhme with Aoife.
Yet, I can't help think it sounds too much like Queef-ah...

Caoimhe doesn't rhyme with Aoife, it's pronounced with a "v" sound (Kweeva)

Witchie

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I've never heard of Fladhnait but I have a niece called Fiadhnait. I think it's after one of the children of Lír. It's pronounced sort of like Fee-anna.

How the heck is that Fee-anna? Jaysus!

Hotblack Desiato

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

In the village I grew up in the male dentist's name was Vivian. Always seemed like a feminine name to me

Vyvyan Basterd says hi.

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cantdecide

I come across some weird and wonderful names while noodling around in peoples personal details in work.

I thought she had mis-spelled Jasmine but no; to complete my child-was-supposed-to-be-the-opposite-sex series - Jamesina.

gidget

Just been reading an article about a woman in Australia who named her child Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn's a nice enough name it's her spelling that's going to cause some headaches down the road "KVIIIlyn"

Vojera

ibarelycare wrote: »

Caoimhe doesn't rhyme with Aoife, it's pronounced with a "v" sound (Kweeva)

In Donegal it's "Keeva". I'm still not used to hearing it the "Kweeva" way.

mb30

Ultimate chav names

Paddy
Martin
"Our Nelly's" John
John Joe
Big Joe
Big Tom
Little Tom
Christy
Mick
Simey

Clayton
Brandon
Shannon

LordSutch

McChubbin wrote: »

I recently discovered that the name Caoimbhe is pronounced to ryhme with Aoife.
Yet, I can't help think it sounds too much like Queef-ah...

Nightmare for the child as she grows up and lives anywhere outside Ireland. Actually, even inside Ireland it can spark debate as to the correct pronunciation.

Irish names like that one^ cause chaos in peoples linguistic heads

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Rosie Gold

I was teaching a class one year and had a little girl called Meadow in my class. It was a Junior Infants so I had never met the group before or saw them around the school. When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more and at least we all knew who Meadow was in the school.
Calling your child a generic, popular name is worse I think. The more I hear names, the less I like them. I'm all for original names that actually suit the child now.

Cortina_MK_IV

Rosie Gold wrote: »

I was teaching a class one year and had a little girl called Meadow in my class. It was a Junior Infants so I had never met the group before or saw them around the school. When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more and at least we all knew who Meadow was in the school.
Calling your child a generic, popular name is worse I think. The more I hear names, the less I like them. I'm all for original names that actually suit the child now.

I wonder how many people think about the child in 10 or 20 years from now. When we chose names (20+ years ago) I don't remember there being any fads. We appeased grandparents but luckily I asked mine a while ago (maybe this topic in mind) if they liked their names and they thought I'd lost the plot. The are happy enough with fairly "generic" names as it doesn't cause them any emotional distress.

Against that I think one of the first posts I made on here was a lad I knew that hated his name so much he changed it in adulthood. This fad now of using a trade as a name. My niece's son hangs around with Hunter and Fletcher. So I presume Fletcher makes the arrows for Hunter to hunt in the wilds of Crumlin. Of course Fletcher's mother will know what a fletcher was.

Along with "A puppy is for life not just for Christmas" we need car stickers that says, "A baby's name is for life, not just for likes on Facebook."

Hotblack Desiato

Rosie Gold wrote: »

When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more

What, she was covered in ****ing grass or something? :rolleyes:

Hotblack Desiato

That poor girl who died after her flight was diverted to Shannon was called Madra

[Deleted User]

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

That poor girl who died after her flight was diverted to Shannon was called Madra

That's ruff

Autosport

Heard a child being called Sheldon today

pickarooney

Rosie Gold wrote: »

I was teaching a class one year and had a little girl called Meadow in my class. It was a Junior Infants so I had never met the group before or saw them around the school. When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more and at least we all knew who Meadow was in the school.
Calling your child a generic, popular name is worse I think. The more I hear names, the less I like them. I'm all for original names that actually suit the child now.

Tell it to Tony Soprano.

kurtainsider

Rosie Gold wrote: »

I was teaching a class one year and had a little girl called Meadow in my class. It was a Junior Infants so I had never met the group before or saw them around the school. When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more and at least we all knew who Meadow was in the school.
Calling your child a generic, popular name is worse I think. The more I hear names, the less I like them. I'm all for original names that actually suit the child now.

"I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more" Why? Did she look as if she'd been run over by a haybob? (No questions from Dublin people will be answered on this one)

afkasurfjunkie

Honey, Ariel and beau, all siblings.

retalivity

Had someone out doing work in the house and he had a call from hisnother half called 'krystle' - and spelled like thay, i saw his phone.

This lad was im his mid 30s, so presumably the other half is 20s at least but still...who called their kid krystle in the late 80s/early 90s???

Cortina_MK_IV

Someone that watched Dynasty... Krystle Carrington.

maudgonner

retalivity wrote: »

Had someone out doing work in the house and he had a call from hisnother half called 'krystle' - and spelled like thay, i saw his phone.

This lad was im his mid 30s, so presumably the other half is 20s at least but still...who called their kid krystle in the late 80s/early 90s???

A Dynasty fan. Did the other half wear huge shoulder pads? :pac:

con___manx1

Skyler

madmaggie

I was at the doctors one day, a woman there had a little girl called Jasmine. I said that's a beautiful flower, she said I dunno, I got it off X Factor.

rainbowtrout

Rosie Gold wrote: »

I was teaching a class one year and had a little girl called Meadow in my class. It was a Junior Infants so I had never met the group before or saw them around the school. When I saw the class list at first, I was thinking how could anyone call their child Meadow. Then I saw the girl and I can honestly say I've never seen a girl who suited a name more and at least we all knew who Meadow was in the school.
Calling your child a generic, popular name is worse I think. The more I hear names, the less I like them. I'm all for original names that actually suit the child now.

They were hardly able to predict that when she was a few days old.

madmaggie

Perhaps meadow brings back happy memories for the parents.

maudgonner

madmaggie wrote: »

Perhaps meadow brings back happy memories for the parents.

Middle names 'ow, I've got a stone digging into my back' and 'mind the cow shít beside your knee'?