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

Balmed Out · 27-11-2016 08:06PM

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 · 27-11-2016 08:09PM

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 · 27-11-2016 08:09PM

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 · 27-11-2016 08:16PM

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 · 27-11-2016 09:06PM

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 · 27-11-2016 09:12PM

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 · 27-11-2016 09:58PM

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 · 28-11-2016 11:08AM

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.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/the-young-ones/images/0/0d/Vyvyan.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/220?cb=20150529192533

cantdecide · 14-12-2016 08:48AM

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 · 14-12-2016 03:05PM

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 · 23-12-2016 10:49AM

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 · 23-12-2016 11:00AM

Ultimate chav names

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

Clayton
Brandon
Shannon

LordSutch · 23-12-2016 11:57AM

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 · 23-12-2016 12:03PM

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 · 23-12-2016 01:02PM

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 · 24-12-2016 09:19PM

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 · 29-12-2016 04:08PM

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

29-12-2016 04:11PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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

That's ruff

Autosport · 29-12-2016 10:36PM

Heard a child being called Sheldon today

pickarooney · 29-12-2016 10:39PM

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 · 29-12-2016 10:53PM

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 · 29-12-2016 11:01PM

Honey, Ariel and beau, all siblings.

retalivity · 29-12-2016 11:01PM

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 · 29-12-2016 11:09PM

Someone that watched Dynasty... Krystle Carrington.

maudgonner · 29-12-2016 11:10PM

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 · 29-12-2016 11:13PM

Skyler

madmaggie · 30-12-2016 12:31AM

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 · 30-12-2016 12:37AM

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 · 30-12-2016 12:41AM

Perhaps meadow brings back happy memories for the parents.

maudgonner · 30-12-2016 12:45AM

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'?

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

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