10 illegal baby names!

u_c_thesecond · 14-01-2011 01:43AM

The only reason The Pope wants Christian names is so his priests know who to abuse and know their parents wont believe them becaue they are "CHRISTIAN"!

DUH! :P

Nulty · 14-01-2011 01:48AM

I heard there was a jockey named Bastard (Bis-taard or the like..not Baas-terd) who named his kid Robin.

Robin Bastard

mehfesto · 14-01-2011 01:50AM

Not sure if it's been mentioned already. But in work in the 90s (In Dublin City Centre), I had the pleasure of being introduced to a Pochahontas.

Wel, 'introduced' is a bit strong. Was more along the lines of:

"he-yur, Pochahontas. Give the man yer bleedin' magazine. Jaysus I'm awwfil sorry. She does be always actin' like dah. Messin' like."

Met a Brian O'Brien there too...

Sir Gallagher · 14-01-2011 01:59AM

what about the Indian politician called Dikshit.. this guy took it too far and got the sack over mocking her name and race..niiiice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5dUyiRKuA

TrollHammaren · 14-01-2011 02:15AM

I'm quite partial to Flex Buttocks and White Power, just to get them on some sort of "No Fly List".

El Horseboxo · 14-01-2011 02:29AM

Even though i use my Irish first name my mother gave me the name of Mezcal after the alcohol that's famous in the Oaxaca region of Mexico as her father was from there. It's the first name on my Mexican passport. I really should have switched it around and used the Irish one over there because the name raises a few eyebrows.

Terry · 14-01-2011 03:07AM

If you are willing to give your children ridiculous names, then you should be castrated and whatever the women thingy version is.

Too tired to make further points. I'm right though. No point in arguing against me.

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

terry

How can I help you?

What's that? I can't help you?
Well, you wouldn't be the first person beyond help. It's ok. We all have our problems.

thecornflake · 14-01-2011 04:28AM

I remember hearing a father call his kid "Oat", pretentious clown.

lawhec · 14-01-2011 04:36AM

Some of the names mentioned are outrageous, but there's also plenty of "skanger" names out there as well. Girls called Rhianna, Beyonce, Britney or which are deliberately misspelt e.g. Treyc. Boys are perhaps a bit more lucky that they don't tend to suffer as much from "exotic" pop music names although I'm sure Dappy is there somewhere down the line.

I remember a few years ago on another message board around the time of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's divorce, one poster implied that their two children were called Billy-Joe and Cletus. Cue several replies asking if those were the kids real names!

The idea that Britney Spears had the "white thrash" background on her made some people seriously believe that her children really had those names without checking somewhere else.

cc-offe · 14-01-2011 06:08AM

When we were picking our 'saint' names for our confirmation, a boy in my class chose St. Sexburga.

Silas seems to be becoming a very popular name for boys.....Silas like WTF?

The name I hate more than any is Cait, pronounced kind of like kyte...it just sounds ridiculous, now that should be illegal, i'd rather be called tallulah does the hula from hawaii anyday over that!

Cat Melodeon · 14-01-2011 09:37AM

Micilin Muc wrote: »

I've heard of a girl in a Gaelscoil called Ailse (meaning Cancer)

Ailse is a common enough name. I've met a few. There was a character called Ailse on Home and Away for donkey's years. It's closer to 'Elsa', means 'island'.

FatherLen · 14-01-2011 10:18AM

there a couple of gandalfs floating around.

kelle · 14-01-2011 12:42PM

Back in the mid-80s, girls were choosing Madonna as their confirmation name and the priests were ecstatic because it was another name for the Virgin Mary! Obviously they didn't know the one they were really naming themselves after...

vinchick · 14-01-2011 12:50PM

rainbowdrop wrote: »

There a two little traveller girls (sisters) who live near me, called Mariah and Shakira.

Always thought that was bad but some of these names are waay worse. MINGUS:eek: ffs why would anyone want to put their child through the horror of having that name?

*500 posts! w00t:D

I also have a young traveller girl called Shakira living near me! Maybe it's a new trend.

vinchick · 14-01-2011 12:55PM

Sarannewrap wrote: »

when I worked in the trinity dental hospital we had three walls of fame for crazily names patients, each patients chart would have stickers with their name in so if we found a good one we would stick it to the wall, I can only remember a few at this stage, there was a teenage girl called baby, anothe rone called xena, pat mcgee, ita mgee, quite a few john players, one guy was just called x

I used to work in housing and we also had quite a good laugh at some of the names. We had people named after dance music, loads of Kenzies, Beyonce (but no Kelly Rowland) Princess, Baby, and one poor kid whose name involved a rocket and a celestial body. Some people are just cruel but it did fill the gaps in the day.

Superwhy · 14-01-2011 01:09PM

Barrington wrote: »

God

Well I know of a kid called Godknows...

jackiebaron · 14-01-2011 01:43PM

davetherave wrote: »

Naming a kid after it's place of conception....nice and classy :P

Yep. I was conceived in the jacks.

(so was my brother, Lou)

jackiebaron · 14-01-2011 01:59PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

It is. The founder of Ferrari was Enzo Ferrari.
Same with most car companies. They're named after the people who founded the company. Bentley, Rolls Royce, Mercedes (named after the founder's daughter i think), Lamborghini, Bugatti, McLaren, Porsche, Renault, Honda, Citroen etc.

In fact there are few car companies which aren't named after their founder. Jaguar, Land Rover, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, BMW, VW, Audi and a few more I cant think of now...

Actually the car was named after the daughter of one of the company founders who were, if my memory serves me correctly, Gottlieb von Daimler and Otto Benz.

fwiw.

Lumen · 14-01-2011 02:03PM

faceman wrote: »

Isn't Ferrari a real name tho?

Surname.

I used to work with an Argentinian named "Mercedes".

jackiebaron · 14-01-2011 02:08PM

Superwhy wrote: »

Well I know of a kid called Godknows...

Godfrey
Godwin
(Godfail?)

Johnny_Trotter · 14-01-2011 02:37PM

I think most people have forgotten the case where Mr. and Mrs. Peacock named their son Drew

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article95505.ece

Drew Peacock...:rolleyes:

iguana · 14-01-2011 03:05PM

Irish_Elect_Eng wrote: »

So perhaps the recent trend for using Irish names was our generation projecting a latent desire to be able to speak Irish or have tighter ties to our more traditional culture through our children.

The trend isn't just for Irish names though, it's largely for pre-Christian Irish names. So if it means anything it's probably a subconscious desire to scratch out the influence the church has had on the country. Irish but not Catholic.

prinz · 14-01-2011 03:10PM

iguana wrote: »

The trend isn't just for Irish names though, it's largely for pre-Christian Irish names. So if it means anything it's probably a subconscious desire to scratch out the influence the church has had on the country. Irish but not Catholic.

Or a conscious desire to be 'fashionable' more like.

iguana · 14-01-2011 03:26PM

prinz wrote: »

Or a conscious desire to be 'fashionable' more like.

I don't think so. It only became "fashionable" because an awful lot of people were doing it. And it became a popular trend at the same time as the Church's decline gathered momentum. I doubt that's a total coincidence.

prinz · 14-01-2011 03:46PM

iguana wrote: »

I don't think so. It only became "fashionable" because an awful lot of people were doing it. And it became a popular trend at the same time as the Church's decline gathered momentum. I doubt that's a total coincidence.

Coinciding with the rise in popularity of Gaelscoileanna etc. I don't think you can pin it on any one factor that's all. Is calling your kid Beyoncé/Shakira/Princess (which I've heard recently - poor kid) a subconscious political/social statement? Names like all fashions tend to go in circles anyway.

Rented Mule · 14-01-2011 03:56PM

Barrington wrote: »

God

God Shammgod played basketball for Providence College in the 90's and was later drafted by the Washington Wizards.

iguana · 14-01-2011 03:59PM

prinz wrote: »

Coinciding with the rise in popularity of Gaelscoileanna etc.

But it's not just Irish names that rose in popularity, it was specifically pre-Christian Irish names that had the biggest rise in popularity. It's not so long ago that priests were refusing to baptise children with those names, do you truly believe that the fall of the Church's influence alongside the rise in popularity of previously "forbidden" names are two events in isolation?

Calling your child after a prominent figure is nothing new. Look at the amount of boys named Henry or Edward in mediaeval and renaissance era England. Of course it's a (at the very least) subconscious attempt to elevate the child's status in later life.

prinz · 14-01-2011 04:11PM

iguana wrote: »

But it's not just Irish names that rose in popularity, it was specifically pre-Christian Irish names that had the biggest rise in popularity..

Almost all traditional old Irish names are pre-Christian.

Kimono-Girl · 14-01-2011 05:34PM

prinz wrote: »

Coinciding with the rise in popularity of Gaelscoileanna etc. I don't think you can pin it on any one factor that's all. Is calling your kid Beyoncé/Shakira/Princess (which I've heard recently - poor kid) a subconscious political/social statement? Names like all fashions tend to go in circles anyway.

but is it just me or does anyone else think Beyoncé Murphy, or Princess O Sullivan, or Shakira O Connor, just sound wrong???

they are stage names for a reason!

iguana · 14-01-2011 05:55PM

prinz wrote: »

Almost all traditional old Irish names are pre-Christian.

No they aren't, plenty of them are Irish versions of biblical/other Christian names. Sean, Seamus, Padraig, Áine, Máire, etc. None of which have seen the same rise in popularity as Oisín, Finn/Fionn, Aisling, Saoirse, etc.

10 illegal baby names!

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