How did your parents pick your name...?

cil_aine · 10-08-2005 11:44AM

that film star who played laurence of arabia... whats his name? peter o'toole? well apparently he was going through a custody battle with his wife, over his son, lorcan (irish for laurence) around the time i was due to be born. my parents like the name so it stuck.

galwaydude · 10-08-2005 12:09PM

very original i know but my dad!!

impr0v · 10-08-2005 12:42PM

From the brand name of their favorite sparkplugs.

chillywilly · 10-08-2005 12:48PM

my name is Emmet, i was named after the Irish rebel Robert Emmet....I feel so patriotic right now......

I LOVE MY COUNTRY!!!!! /me sheds tear

Kiera · 10-08-2005 12:54PM

My name is Siobhán (Irish for Joanne, Joan and Sarah). My Mam and Dad thought it would be funny having two kids with the same name in my family. My sisters name is Joanne.

Naos · 10-08-2005 07:31PM

I wonder why Siobhan has to be Irish for anything and why not just an Irish name....

Anyway, mine comes from Brian Boru.

boneless · 10-08-2005 07:34PM

Born on the day that Galway won their third football final in a row. Named after the captain (Enda Colleran) on the insistance of a Galway Granddad. In a way I was lucky... 25th September in St. Finbarrs day... (I'll have the Cork gang after me for that!!!)

Catsmokinpot · 10-08-2005 07:37PM

adam - was supposed to be called luke, but apparently i whinged like my uncle adam

Sparky · 10-08-2005 07:38PM

Granfather, Denis James
dad, Denis Joseph
me, Denis Anthony

3rd generation, me

AdMMM · 10-08-2005 07:48PM

My mother orginally wanted to call me UG. Yes thats right "UG". But then my father persuaded her to call me Adam instead. Don't know why they called me Adam... maybe they got bored after the 2nd page of The Book of Baby Names and settled on Adam that way...

the_syco · 10-08-2005 07:53PM

I was named after my grandfather, named after his father... and so on.

mp3guy · 10-08-2005 09:34PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

This is my brother Tom, and Tomás and Thomas and my other brother Tom and....

Ha, actually i ment i'm the 6th generation of thomas, my dad is thomas, my grandad thomas, great-grandad thomas, great-great-grandad thomas, great-great-great-grandad thomas.

qz · 10-08-2005 09:35PM

My mum didn't want to give me a name that couldn't be abbreviated, so she chose Mark. Unfortunatley, people call me Mar :mad:

(Joke

)

THEZAPPA · 10-08-2005 09:41PM

sometimes ppl call me melon-cose my name is helen!

golden gal · 10-08-2005 09:42PM

my mum had 5 boys then me so it took awhile to name me. it was a toss up between Precilla or Leslie. thank god she chose Leslie!!(no offence to anyone called precilla!!)

Aisling(",) · 11-08-2005 12:15AM

they were going to call me susan but the name Aisling mcgovern was called out over the intercom in the hospital but there was acctually no one called aisling Mcgovern so they decided the name sounded good so thats why i am one of the many Aislings I know.(THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T CALL ME SUSAN!!!!sorry to anyone called susan)

Oral Slang · 11-08-2005 08:25AM

I was named after a lesser know irish saint. But my mam decided it was too long a name for a child to spell so shortened it...
Therefore I have a name that no one knows & spend my days spelling it for everyone - much to the amusement of my work colleagues..

qz · 11-08-2005 09:01AM

Ah go on, what is it?!

Oral Slang · 11-08-2005 09:07AM

Lasra

MorningStar · 11-08-2005 09:26AM

My parents disliked having another child :mad:

But I know a guy who's parents must have really disliked him his name is Micheal Car Micheal (SP)

qz · 11-08-2005 10:07AM

Oral Slang wrote:

Lasra

Funky

Oral Slang · 11-08-2005 10:11AM

qz wrote:

Funky

Ah thanks!
The saints name is Lasarina - glad they shortened it, cos I don't really like it!

Bard · 11-08-2005 10:37AM

My parents just liked the name "Niall". Nothing to do with my uncle or some great great grandfather or other having the same name...

Son_of_Belial · 01-09-2005 06:50PM

Alastair. My Dad wanted to call me Matthew after a Great Uncle who died at the Somme in 1917 aged 17 years (met the business end of a shell, very sad) but my mam objected because she thought everyone would call me Matt or Mattie. My mother had lived in London for a while before she was married and liked the name Alastair, so that's what I was called.

Scarinae · 01-09-2005 06:59PM

My name's Ailbhe. My parents wanted us to have Irish names (I have a sister and brother called Aisling and Rory)... They were going to call me Ciaran if I was a boy. When I turned out to be a girl they considered names like Sadbh and Fionnuala but Ailbhe was the only one they could agree on, so that's what I got. Unfortunately it is a name that people always spell and pronounce wrong

Gazza22 · 01-09-2005 07:06PM

'Gary'

Well i suppose they just liked it, there's no other Gary's in my family
I did hear though it was between Gary and Wayne...thankfully they didn't pick Wayne, i don't like that name!

Nightwish · 01-09-2005 07:13PM

i was called Aine cos they didnt want to call me Flora

Macka · 01-09-2005 07:19PM

I think my parents named me after the James in the bible (I think thats where they got the idea for my name anyway). Middle name is Sebastian after the saint. I would've been called Sophie had I been a girl