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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...

Isis.

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RacoonQueen

jonnycivic wrote: »

Naming your child Bear...... now thats just nuts!

F*cking stupid name. F*cking bear. Might as well call it dog...

RacoonQueen

jonnycivic wrote: »

Naming your child Bear...... now thats just nuts!

RacoonQueen wrote: »

F*cking stupid name. F*cking bear. Might as well call it dog...

Yeah, I've realised I'm not finished.

Imagine sitting there with your newborn in your arms, the two of you blissfully looking down at your new bundle of joy and one of you turns to the other and says.

"Honey, I think he looks like a Conor or a Bear"
"Oh god yeah honey he DOES look like a Bear"
"Lets call him Bear so"
"Bear it is"

Idiots.

and still ricky villa

RacoonQueen wrote: »

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Imagine sitting there with your newborn in your arms, the two of you blissfully looking down at your new bundle of joy and one of you turns to the other and says.

"Honey, I think he looks like a Conor or a Bear"
"Oh god yeah honey he DOES look like a Bear"
"Lets call him Bear so"
"Bear it is"

The reverse is true too
Bear Grylls and the wife (I know it's not his real name) staring down at their newborn:
'I think he looks like a Marmaduke'
'What, like the cartoon dog?'
'Yes, the very same'
'Marmaduke it is. Jesse and Huckleberry will be pleased'

Posh idiots

Wossack

overheard on the radio a while back Jamie Oliver has a new book/show/column on parenting advice (or some such) which I thought a bit rich. If anything, child protection should be involved over the naming of his kids

PARlance

Beer was the first thing that came into my mind once I left the labour ward.

Widdershins

Hortense, Hector, Assumpta, Attracta ( a tractor), Tarquin, Reuben and Jasper.

gutenberg

Temple (a boy).

biddyearley

Eenamail.
Heard this boys name in the US. I remarked to his Mom that it was a name I had never come across, and she said "oh it's a colour". Seeing I was confused she said " I saw this man painting a wall with a pretty colour and I asked him what it was. He said it was on the tin and that's where I got it".
Turns out she named the kid enamel.

heldel00

LynnGrace wrote: »

Heard Savannah and Ontario recently...
Couldn't wait to post on this thread, tbh.

I met a little girl called "Omaha" (pronounced O ma haw) at a wedding a few years ago. It's a town in Midwest America apparently!

D0NNELLY

heldel00 wrote: »

I met a little girl called "Omaha" (pronounced O ma haw) at a wedding a few years ago. It's a town in Midwest America apparently!

It was also a beach in France for a while a few years ago.

Alf Stewart.

The man that lives across a few fields from me calls his lad "Arthur the third" and I mean literally calls him Arthur the third (young bucks about 9 or Ten)

"Arthur the third, come in here and get a coat on"
"Arthur the third, hurry up and get in the car"
"Arthur the third, dinners ready"

Etc etc etc.

They're a fairly well off family, and they live in a fairly big country abode. But ****ing royalty they are not. :cool:

Noveight

Widdershins wrote: »

Attracta ( a tractor)

That's the patron saint of our parish and the fact that it sounds like a tractor just dawned on me now. Life will never be the same...

D0NNELLY

Noveight wrote: »

That's the patron saint of our parish and the fact that it sounds like a tractor just dawned on me now. Life will never be the same...

Hang on a bleeeeeeeeedin' minute. Each parish has their own patron saint?

Mountainsandh

D0NNELLY wrote: »

It was also a beach in France for a while a few years ago.

Still is (called that).
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Omaha+Beach/@49.3725459,-0.9026947,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x480b08081a97b07b:0x652b44ab64e81d92!8m2!3d49.3696815!4d-0.8710842?hl=en

Quazzie

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

The man that lives across a few fields from me calls his lad "Arthur the third" and I mean literally calls him Arthur the third (young bucks about 9 or Ten)

"Arthur the third, come in here and get a coat on"
"Arthur the third, hurry up and get in the car"
"Arthur the third, dinners ready"

Etc etc etc.

They're a fairly well off family, and they live in a fairly big country abode. But ****ing royalty they are not. :cool:

What's Royalty got to do with it. The kids name is Arthur, the Dad's name is Arther Jr, and the grandfather's name is Arthur senior. Therefore the kid is Arthur III

Cortina_MK_IV

Just seen a story about Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Jonathon O'Keeffe) and his son born Dec '16 is called Wolf. So Christened Wolf O'Keefe? (WOK).

Cosmicfox

Jaxon

Also since moving to Scotland I've met a few Morags.

SimpleDimples

Lio - Stephen Gerrard's new son

Bear - Cheryl Cole's son

Hotblack Desiato

ibarelycare wrote: »

People love throwing redundant letters into Irish names to make them more obnoxious. Laoise is a beautiful name, spelling it like "Laoghaise/Laobhaise" is ridiculous.

Other similar examples are:

Caoilfhionn -> Caoilinn
Maedbh -> Maebh
Caoimhseach -> I don't know any other version of this but I just thought I'd throw it in there cos I hate it :pac:

And before any Gaelgeoirs attack me, I know some of the above are the more traditional spellings, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about them

The traditional spellings were officially abolished sometime approx. 1950-1960.

E.g. Eoghan -> Eoin

So any Eoghan who is under 60 has tossers for parents.

I'm an Eoin and the inability of anyone in a call centre to spell a not unusual Irish name consisting of only four f**king letters never ceases to bug the sh*t out of me.

It's not like I even like it, but I'm stuck with it. My surname is a well known Irish name but without fail I have to spell it out every time I talk to a call centre monkey :rolleyes:

D0NNELLY wrote: »

It was also a beach in France for a while a few years ago.

I was at Omaha Beach in Normandy for the D-Day +60 commemerations in 2004, a good number of US veterans made the trip, due to their advancing age it was pretty much their last opportunity... poignant.

They put their ass on the line to free Europe from Europe's f**k-ups. They didn't have to. And thousands of them never made it home.

A particularly poignant moment - one evening we were having a few beers in a bar near the beach watching the sun go down. A US vet and his extended family were at the next table, people started walking up to him and shaking his hand (he was >80). One of the recreationists (who drive around in jeeps wearing WWII uniforms) lent him a WWII US helmet and he put it on. "It's been a long time" he said, and everyone applauded.

heldel00

SimpleDimples wrote: »

Lio - Stephen Gerrard's new son

Bear - Cheryl Cole's son

Are they just pronouncing this as "Leo" or is there some bizarre way that we must decipher?

Cantona's Collars

heldel00 wrote: »

Are they just pronouncing this as "Leo" or is there some bizarre way that we must decipher?

LIO,it reminds him of the time he slipped...League Is Over:):):)

SimpleDimples

heldel00 wrote: »

Are they just pronouncing this as "Leo" or is there some bizarre way that we must decipher?

After lionel messi so think it's prounced as its spelt!

Mena Mitty

Overheard a lady today call her son Deveney...the more I say it the more I like it.

Cortina_MK_IV

To me Deveney = Off-licence. (And I don't drink).

gutenberg

Avaeah. I think it's pronounced Av-ia. But fancy spelling that one out for people your whole life...

farmerwifelet

HugsiePie wrote: »

Ive always found Tarquin to be a weird name..........

Heard a mother at the zoo a couple of months ago calling her sons Tarquin and Quentin. must like q names

[Deleted User]

farmerwifelet wrote: »

Heard a mother at the zoo a couple of months ago calling her sons Tarquin and Quentin. must like q names

Must be a qunt.

[Deleted User]

Just heard of an Irish couple who are calling their child...Victoria. As in the Famine Queen. Jesus. Everybody (well, the polite ones!) is saying "Oh that's lovely" followed by a general eyes raising up at the notions of the two of them. Major cringefest.

...And Justice

Just heard "Brody" in aldi. What the actual fcuk?.. is this my 4 wife's? Such a shíte name for a child.

Poor kid.

[Deleted User]

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The traditional spellings were officially abolished sometime approx. 1950-1960.

E.g. Eoghan -> Eoin

So any Eoghan who is under 60 has tossers for parents.

Quite untrue. Eoin and Eoghan are two very distinct names. Nothing whatsoever in common other than they sound similar in English. Eoin is the newer of the two names, a loan from the biblical Latin name Joannes. Thus Eoin Baiste is Ioannes Baptista/Jean le Baptiste/John the Baptist.

Eoghan, meaning 'born of the yew', was one of the most common of all firstnames in early Ireland.