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

Nettle Soup · 30-09-2017 01:55PM

Crea wrote: »

Eugene is a dreadful name

4 popes disagreed but yeah it's not great.

What about Gene (Kelly, Wilder, Hackman)?

biZrb · 30-09-2017 01:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I just met a Bonead. Like Sinead only Bon. Can't do fadas on my laptop.

Never heard it before but apparently it is a name! I just think it's a bit ugly.

I just did a Google for the name Bonead, first search returned was for a guy on Facebook with the name Bonead Lemon :eek:

amtc · 01-10-2017 10:02AM

My friend who is called Lucy married a guy with the surname Lucy. She changed her name for personal reasons but not for work. She has recently had her first baby which she named Lucy. We all thought it was a joke, but no

iamwhoiam · 01-10-2017 10:42AM

Bear Payne makes me smile every time .Did Cheryl and Liam not put both names together and see that it actually meant something ? I mean bear pain ? Really ?

FCIM · 01-10-2017 10:46AM

Dash.

...and it seems to be becoming more popular.

I know it's short for Dashiel, which is an awful name in its own right anyway, but it sounds like you've named the child after a punctuation sign/couldn't be bothered to give the child a real name.

01-10-2017 11:40AM

wrote:

I just met a Bonead. Like Sinead only Bon. Can't do fadas on my laptop.

Never heard it before but apparently it is a name! I just think it's a bit ugly.

That's not an Irish name, most obviously because it's not fulfilling the 'caol le caol, leathan le leathan' spelling rule. Although it's a good story to tell 13-year-old boys. The only name in the Irish approximating Sinéad with a 'B' that I can think of is the surname Binéid, which is the Irish for the common Hiberno-Norman surname Bénet (from the first name Benoît), which is anglicised Bennett.

Widdershins · 01-10-2017 12:25PM

Ryan Murphy.

Gwynplaine · 01-10-2017 12:57PM

Surnames as firstnames, and firstnames as surnames. There's a lad on the Wexford hurling team, and his name is Redmond Barry. What were the parents thinking?
I also know a lad and his name is Dermot McDermot. I call him Seamus McSeamus.

heldel00 · 01-10-2017 02:36PM

FCIM wrote: »

Dash.

.....but it sounds like you've named the child after a punctuation sign/couldn't be bothered to give the child a real name.

Same could be said of Mark!!!

Cortina_MK_IV · 01-10-2017 03:03PM

heldel00 wrote: »

Same could be said of Mark!!!

Except there was no gospel according to Dash.

Romantic Rose · 22-10-2017 10:14AM

I don't usually get too offended by names but I was reading an article and a child was called Woolf with the double O. Poor child. He's a child, not an animal.

DoozerT6 · 22-10-2017 10:32AM

Romantic Rose wrote: »

I don't usually get too offended by names but I was reading an article and a child was called Woolf with the double O. Poor child. He's a child, not an animal.

Daily Mail? Free range kids?

Romantic Rose · 22-10-2017 10:37AM

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Daily Mail? Free range kids?

Yip

gutenberg · 22-10-2017 11:04AM

A girl named Eira. Pronounced air-ah. Poor child is basically called Ireland.

22-10-2017 11:35AM

When I was in school I knew a girl called Eurika, with younger brothers Elton and Elvis.

Conor Bourke · 22-10-2017 11:55AM

gutenberg wrote: »

A girl named Eira. Pronounced air-ah. Poor child is basically called Ireland.

I've only ever heard of one Eira, she's a friend of mine from schoolI... you talking about my mate?! I like it, apparently it's actually a Welsh name meaning "Snowy"

Larbre34 · 22-10-2017 12:05PM

I was introduced, in Scotland, to a fella from Galway. I didnt catch the spelling, but his name was either Erk, Irk or Urk. All I can think is that he mustve been a difficult birth.

Also, i like traditional Irish names like Conor and Orla, but I encountered a family from south Dublin who named all their 5 kids after obscure Irish mythological characters, there was a Tiarnach and a Raghnaill and a Brustaighort and a Fochnochnochnochnoch and a few others. W@nky enough in Ireland, but imagine trying to travel with them.

Martina1991 · 22-10-2017 12:06PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Surnames as firstnames, and firstnames as surnames. There's a lad on the Wexford hurling team, and his name is Redmond Barry. What were the parents thinking?
I also know a lad and his name is Dermot McDermot. I call him Seamus McSeamus.

I work with a lady called Lyndsey Lyndsay. (Lyndsay being her married name).

Iv'e seen Dermot McDermot before and a Hugh McHugh.

Lorelli! · 22-10-2017 12:14PM

Martina1991 wrote: »

I work with a lady called Lyndsey Lyndsay. (Lyndsay being her married name).
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When I first started listening to Fleetwood mac, I only had the CD cover to go by. I was reading the names on it and trying to figure out who was who so I assumed Lyndsey was one of the girls and Stevie, one of the boys

Missyelliot2 · 22-10-2017 12:44PM

Kelsey-Mae

heldel00 · 22-10-2017 12:48PM

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

Kelsey-Mae

Insertnamehere-Mae.
Lucy-Mae, Josie-Mae, Ruby-Mae, Ella-Mae ....

Madd Finn · 22-10-2017 12:51PM

Is there really a worse girl's name than Gubnet?

IamtheWalrus · 22-10-2017 12:53PM

Cillit Bang

thesandeman · 22-10-2017 01:18PM

Madd Finn wrote: »

Is there really a worse girl's name than Gubnet?

Isn't that a guy's name? I think one of Frank Kelly's characters was a Gubnet O' Lunasa.

Missyelliot2 · 22-10-2017 01:28PM

thesandeman wrote: »

Isn't that a guy's name? I think one of Frank Kelly's characters was a Gubnet O' Lunasa.

I thought it was Irish for Deborah?

vampyre · 22-10-2017 01:32PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

I was introduced, in Scotland, to a fella from Galway. I didnt catch the spelling, but his name was either Erk, Irk or Urk. All I can think is that he mustve been a difficult birth.

Also, i like traditional Irish names like Conor and Orla, but I encountered a family from south Dublin who named all their 5 kids after obscure Irish mythological characters, there was a Tiarnach and a Raghnaill and a Brustaighort and a Fochnochnochnochnoch and a few others. W@nky enough in Ireland, but imagine trying to travel with them.

It might be Erc. There's a lot of St Erc stuff where I live and a fair few Erics who might be named after him.

iamwhoiam · 22-10-2017 06:40PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

I was introduced, in Scotland, to a fella from Galway. I didnt catch the spelling, but his name was either Erk, Irk or Urk. All I can think is that he mustve been a difficult birth.

Also, i like traditional Irish names like Conor and Orla, but I encountered a family from south Dublin who named all their 5 kids after obscure Irish mythological characters, there was a Tiarnach and a Raghnaill and a Brustaighort and a Fochnochnochnochnoch and a few others. W@nky enough in Ireland, but imagine trying to travel with them.

Tiarnach ( Lord ) is a lovely name . And do you mean Fachtna with that last name . I have a family member with that name and he has travelled far and wide with no problem . And i am quite sure non of them are called Brustaighort either
Funnily enough it's mainly in Ireland that people seem to have issues with our names . I have a traditional Irish name and found foreign people very willing to learn how to say it

griffin100 · 22-10-2017 07:08PM

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coincidence-family-welcomes-second-set-of-twins-born-on-identical-date-1.3263542?mode=amp

Jackpot!!

Joeseph Balls · 22-10-2017 07:32PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When I was in school I knew a girl called Eurika, with younger brothers Elton and Elvis.

Hahaha I know them.

mimimcmc · 23-10-2017 11:09AM

heldel00 wrote: »

Insertnamehere-Mae.
Lucy-Mae, Josie-Mae, Ruby-Mae, Ella-Mae ....

a girl on teen mom uk called her daughter dulcie-mae.... she was an absolute pavee..

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

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