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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭Percyxoxo


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Marian Finucane was just interviewing somebody named 'Moncon'.

    What kind of a name is Moncon?

    Is he the guy who used to do travel shows on TG4?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭gidget


    Came across another name today in the American Obituaries.


    One of the deceased had a grandson called Glock!


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


    Keish. What the actual fcuk is that about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    amtc wrote: »

    A good friend of mine called her only child Gobnait. It is a family name but still.

    Some parents can just sleep-walk into ignorant and unknowing cruelty & stupidity.

    This is one such case.

    Poor child.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Cath54


    D'kodagh - poor unfortunate baby girl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    I know a Nigerian called Tiny.



    She ain't tiny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    A Tory MP has named one of his children Sixtus, which is his sixth child.......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Bosco.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    A Tory MP has named one of his children Sixtus, which is his sixth child.......
    That was prominent man-of-the-people, Jacob Rees-Mogg who named his sixth child "Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg":

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/05/jacob-rees-mogg-announces-birth-of-his-sixth-child-sixtus

    Sixtus will not be standing out that much as his siblings are named Peter Theodore Alphege, Mary Anne Charlotte Emma, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Down at Inchydoney beach a couple of weeks ago, I saw a toddler wearing a jersey with the name "Maverick" on the back. I thought it might be a nickname but no, his parents were calling him that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    byronbay2 wrote: »
    Down at Inchydoney beach a couple of weeks ago, I saw a toddler wearing a jersey with the name "Maverick" on the back. I thought it might be a nickname but no, his parents were calling him that.

    You'd have to wonder if both parents actually agree on the name or if one insists on it or what way it works.Each to their own and all that but names like that will always raise eyebrows and be remarked on imo..it's unfair on the child unless theyre extremely confident,I think it's attention seeking by the parents tbh.


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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Fachtna.

    Its just sounds so guttural.
    LordSutch wrote: »
    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
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Con, I just hate Con (abbreviation or not) I just think it sounds awful as a boy/Man's name.

    Con artist, it's a con, you've been conned etc come to mind.....
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Irish names with the obscure spellings. Aoadbha, Caoimhseach, Concobharagh, or names like those with difficult spellings/pronunciations

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Fachtna.

    it's like a cross between feck, fack & foch ... na :(

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Its a con, you've been conned, swindled etc ....

    Then the question is, what is con really short for? is it always Cornelius, or might it be short for Conor, Connor or Connell? Or maybe the child is just called Con, full stop?

    I can think of better kids names than Con.

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Pronounced La-leisha, or is it Layleisha?
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Gobnait, Gobnet, Gobinet...

    Just sounds so Gobby.

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Gobnait yuk

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Wow! I honestly thought Gobnait was a 'made up' name from from the far wesht, from famine times/ from the pages of Peig. I'd put Concepta & Consumpta in the same bracket as Gobnait.
    LordSutch wrote: »
    I always associate Sadhbh with Scythe, an old fashioned implement for cutting long grass.
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Too close to Faecal for my liking.


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Oriel (now 48 years of age) and to this day people still call him Aerial.
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Marian Finucane was just interviewing somebody named 'Moncon'.

    What kind of a name is Moncon?

    It's more than pathetic how you pop up in every thread to feign some harmless ignorance that always transpires to be one of your West Brit digs at Irish culture/language/independence. As shown in the above posts your obsessiveness is almost matched by your repetitiveness.

    To take your most recent display of cultural bigotry against the Irish tradition, Manchán, to any Irish person whose head is not completely colonised by the English tradition, has a very obvious connection with 'manach', monk, which is found in numerous placenames from Fear Manach (Fermanagh) to Baile na Manach (Monkstown) to Sant Manchán of Mohill or any of the many other saints of the name. That you think it's a badge of honour not merely to sneer at it but to be ignorant of the tradition which the vast majority of Irish people come from speaks volumes for your character.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    Bluebell Madonna......

    Geri Halliwell's kid

    WTF


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Thor and Tiger. Just heard those today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    It's more than pathetic how you pop up in every thread to feign some harmless ignorance that always transpires to be one of your West Brit digs at Irish culture/language/independence. As shown in the above posts your obsessiveness is almost matched by your repetitiveness.

    Oh dear, where to start :(

    So if you actually analyse & reduce the Irish names (I don't like) it boils down to; Fachtna, Con, Gobnait, Aoadbha, Concobharagh, Moncon, & Caoimhseach, Bosco, Asumpta & Cocsepta.

    .....but then again you might list Irish names which I personally do like, which would include Siobhan, Tara, Patrick, Mylo, Cillian, Dermot, Enda, Maeve, Aidan, Darragh & Liam.

    Surely the whole point of the name thread is down to personal choice?

    You obviously have a problem with me Fuaranach, so I'll say no more apart fom this comment of mine which I posted in this recent Thread titled. "Things you love about Ireland".
    LordSutch wrote: »
    The people, scenery, fresh air + the fact that it's relatively peaceful .....

    Nice country to bring up children.

    and for this, I also got 4 thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    bee06 wrote: »
    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.
    Or for race fans. :)

    Indy500.png


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    bee06 wrote: »
    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.

    It sounds like a girl's name to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Heard little Selma being called to "get back here" yesterday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    bee06 wrote: »
    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.

    If you want yr little boy to get bullied in school call him Indy.
    The poor kid will get an awful time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    If you want yr little boy to get bullied in school call him Indy.
    The poor kid will get an awful time.

    He can stand in the corner with all the other kids with terrible names. By the sounds of it there's a lot of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,335 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Heard some nice names on a farm I visited last week,Dawn the cow,Molly and Belle the two ponies,Arthur the bull and "get down you little f...er",the boy that got up on the tractor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    bee06 wrote: »
    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.

    Far from the worst tbh.

    Different but not mad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭fima


    bee06 wrote: »
    My husband has suggested Indy (after Indiana Jones) if we have a boy. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not and I also don't exactly hate it.

    My sons name, we love it. Not after Indiana Jones though. I am curious why you posted it in this thread though if you 'don't exactly hate it' ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭vampyre


    Cynthia. A bloke called Cynthia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭fima


    If you want yr little boy to get bullied in school call him Indy.
    The poor kid will get an awful time.

    I really wonder about the kind of person that assumes a child will get bullied over his name. Everywhere we go people love my sons name (Indy) ... tbh the kind of person that would bully a child over his name is the kind of person I'm teaching my son to dismiss in life. He's nearly 4 now and surrounded by Jacks and Leo's, I'm glad he has a different name. His older brothers also have different names and they are extremely popular in school and around where we're from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭vampyre


    fima wrote: »
    I really wonder about the kind of person that assumes a child will get bullied over his name. Everywhere we go people love my sons name (Indy) ... tbh the kind of person that would bully a child over his name is the kind of person I'm teaching my son to dismiss in life. He's nearly 4 now and surrounded by Jacks and Leo's, I'm glad he has a different name. His older brothers also have different names and they are extremely popular in school and around where we're from.

    I got bullied as a child and still get smart arse remarks from adults over an unusual name. Not a difficult name, just different.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Ah Indi from Home And Away. Grand aul doll. Very ratty and a brutal resting b*tch face but it goes with the territory I guess. Nice name, short for Indigo isn't it? Couldn't see it as a name for a man though. Might be cute to see a boy named it but when he's a grown man I'm not so sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    fima wrote: »
    My sons name, we love it. Not after Indiana Jones though. I am curious why you posted it in this thread though if you 'don't exactly hate it' ?

    Because firstly, my husband is talking about naming our child after Indiana Jones and secondly, I was expecting it would get strong reactions like it did.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭fima


    bee06 wrote: »
    Because firstly, my husband is talking about naming our child after Indiana Jones and secondly, I was expecting it would get strong reactions like it did.

    I've been waiting for it to appear in this thread on some shape or form for years


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