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The most unusual Irish name you ever came across

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Well what was it? Mines so fookin unusual id be recognised in minutes so not going there

In before yore ma, blast em with pish etc....

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later12

I have a friend named Aifric. She has no connection whatsoever to Africa, which is slightly perplexing.

TopOfTheRight wrote: »

MacDara MacDonncha

The engineer? I think I know him.

watna

Having any Irish name living overseas is a nightmare.

I spend a large proportion of my day spelling out my name on the phone while my colleagues piss themselves laughing around me. Conversation always goes like this:

"N.I.A.M.H - Neeve, yes N I A M for mother H and it's pronounced Neeve. Yes N for Nelly I A M for mother H. Yes it is an unusual name, it's Irish. Yes, there's no letter V in the Irish alphabet, like the name Siobhan? Yes, I am actually from Irelend. I'm from Dublin. Yes it's a beautiful place. Yes, it is an unusual name, it's from an Irish Myth. Yes, it is very rare in NZ but quite common in Ireland. Thank you - I quite like it myself"

on and on and on all day. It gets old really fast. I totally get why somone wouldn't know how to pronounce it but it does annoy me.

It's becoming more common here though, with babies and younger kids. People seem to really like it, although half the time they spell it Neeve which although from my experience I completely get it still annoys me for some reason.

ballsymchugh

degausserxo wrote: »

Met a girl called Dia once.

did you start singing 'my dialing, my dialing' like milhouse did in the simpsons?

The Radiator

i once met a person called sunday

later12

watna wrote: »

Having any Irish name living overseas is a nightmare.

I spend a large proportion of my day spelling out my name on the phone while my colleagues piss themselves laughing around me. Conversation always goes like this:

"N.I.A.M.H - Neeve, yes N I A M for mother H and it's pronounced Neeve. Yes N for Nelly I A M for mother H. Yes it is an unusual name, it's Irish. Yes, there's no letter V in the Irish alphabet

I get the same thing with Tadhg. T-A-D-H-G? Tadj? Tad-hag? I worked in Paris for a while and just had my supervisor re-name me Tike after a week in the office.

I sounded vaguely black, so I was ok with that.

ballsymchugh

watna wrote: »

Having any Irish name living overseas is a nightmare.

I spend a large proportion of my day spelling out my name on the phone while my colleagues piss themselves laughing around me. Conversation always goes like this:

"N.I.A.M.H - Neeve, yes N I A M for mother H and it's pronounced Neeve. Yes N for Nelly I A M for mother H. Yes it is an unusual name, it's Irish. Yes, there's no letter V in the Irish alphabet, like the name Siobhan? Yes, I am actually from Irelend. I'm from Dublin. Yes it's a beautiful place. Yes, it is an unusual name, it's from an Irish Myth. Yes, it is very rare in NZ but quite common in Ireland. Thank you - I quite like it myself"

used to work with a girl called niamh in england. the locals just called her nim, as she gave up on trying to get them to say the name right, and they just pronounced it as it was written.
as for siobhan, i knew a local over there called shervonne. :eek:

Ave Sodalis

I have a problem with Caoimhe in my own country very often...

Mostly abroad though. I get all sorts of spellings and pronouncations :rolleyes:

So far the record is 29 letters by some English person trying to spell my name...:cool:

Adriatic

Annraoi; I was told it was pronounced like Thierry Henry, does he want me to hate him immediately or what.

OPENROAD

Adriatic wrote: »

Annraoi; I was told it was pronounced like Thierry Henry, does he want me to hate him immediately or what.

Arsenal Legend

G Luxel

People are too lazy to even bother pronouncing unusual names. They act like they havent heard the name before,,,they probably have..''wha?,,oohwha??..huh??:rolleyes: but just laugh and take the piss of the person right in front of them...they just cant pronounce it - . Its just plain ignorance and stupidity on their part, the failures of the education system. The same people ask stupid questions like ''are u foreign?'' :eek: Arent they the same people who call their children Justin, Britney, Charlene, Darren, Keith, Kisha....etc...etc....thank the soaps for all these made up christian names....

Disleksic

degausserxo wrote: »

Met a girl called Dia once.

Hope her surname isn't Rea.

watna

ballsymchugh wrote: »

used to work with a girl called niamh in england. the locals just called her nim, as she gave up on trying to get them to say the name right, and they just pronounced it as it was written.
as for siobhan, i knew a local over there called shervonne. :eek:

Sometimes I don't bother correcting them either, my theory is though that if you tell people then when they come across another Niamh they'll know. I've had a few people know how to pronounce it straight away and I've been really surprised but they always tell me they know another Niamh.

Someone called me Nymph once - I wasn't going to let that slide at all

. I'd just prefer if people said straight out "your name is really unusual, how do you pronounce it?". I do that with people now because I know I'd prefer it.

Also Siobhan is oddly common here, most people know how to pronounce it and when I compare the mh to the bh in Siobhan is seems to click. Makes me wonder why that girls name in particular caught on here. Sometimes people at work call me, read out a name for me and ask me how to pronounce it for them - I've been asked about Oisin, Tadhg and also Caoilfhionn (that is way worse than Niamh for the pronunciation!)

entropi

Adriatic wrote: »

Annraoi; I was told it was pronounced like Thierry Henry, does he want me to hate him immediately or what.

If it sounded like that, I'd pronounce it "cnut".

I know I've met a Caoimhe, a Muireann, a Beibhinn, an Aodh, a Jarlath, an Aoibheann, a Cliodhna, a Tadgh, a Turlough, and a Maedbh off the top of my head. Those would be the less common ones.

degausserxo

Disleksic wrote: »

Hope her surname isn't Rea.

It was actually pronounced jee-a; she was named after the Irish word for god!

Truley

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

How do you pronounce Iarflaith? Bizarre name.

Ear - lah. It's actually quite a nice name. I work with children so I'm noticing a lot of the trends for more obscure Irish names. I know three Uisce's. A Trasa (not sure how to spell it, it's like an Irish version of Teresa), and a couple of Caitlins pronounced Cawt - leen not kate-lynn.

Also I notice the name Brigid is becoming very popular in recent years. I would normally have associated it as an old biddy's name but seeing so many young children with the name now has made it take on a nice, fresh new meaning for me.

keano_afc

Superbus wrote: »

Sadhbh.

Thats my daughters name. It rocks. Always been a favourite of mine.

ballsymchugh

Truley wrote: »

Ear - lah. It's actually quite a nice name. I work with children so I'm noticing a lot of the trends for more obscure Irish names. I know three Uisce's. A Trasa (not sure how to spell it, it's like an Irish version of Teresa), and a couple of Caitlins pronounced Cawt - leen not kate-lynn.

pronouncing caitlín as kate-lynn bugs the tits off me. there are some really nice irish names that have been bastardised like that. add to that list ciara being pronounced seeyara. :mad:

iamwhoiam

ballsymchugh wrote: »

pronouncing caitlín as kate-lynn bugs the tits off me. there are some really nice irish names that have been bastardised like that. add to that list ciara being pronounced seeyara. :mad:

And the lovely Sorcha being now pronounced Sore Sha :mad:

rebel without a clue

keano_afc wrote: »

Thats my daughters name. It rocks. Always been a favourite of mine.

i totally love that name and the spelling too. if i had a kid id call her maebh(sp?) not maeve.

Soups123

Calaba, weird but what ever took there fancy

rebel without a clue

iamwhoiam wrote: »

And the lovely Sorcha being now pronounced Sore Sha :mad:

i agree. whats with the name saoirse? is it not pronounced saor sha?? why do people insist on saying seer sha?:mad:

iamwhoiam

keano_afc wrote: »

Thats my daughters name. It rocks. Always been a favourite of mine.

Sadhbh is a beatiful name , Oisins mother from ancient tales .I love it .,

iamwhoiam

rebel without a clue wrote: »

i agree. whats with the name saoirse? is it not pronounced saor sha?? why do people insist on saying seer sha?:mad:

I am open to correction now but saor and saoirse are pronounced a little differently . Saor is free and saoirse is freedom and the added i makes the sound softer as in seersha and not saor sha .

later12

The above is correct. In all dialects as far as I have ever heard, the pronunciation for Saoirse is closer to Seeur-sheh. I have never heard the pronounciation Sayer-sheh.

Lady Chatterton

Cara Iosa - "Friend of God" (Girl's name)
Tola - was an Irish Saint (Boy's name)
Bronagh - "Sorrowful one" (Girl's name)
Laoise - Irish version of Louise

Azureus

Bronwyn...well the girl who is called it claims its Irish but its actually welsh afaik.
Still an odd name imo.

LordSutch

Muireann (Girls name).

Came across it once many years ago . . .

MagicSean

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I heard a request read out on TV3 the other morning for a baby called Ceol-Rince .

That's disgraceful. Parents should be imprisoned.

Enkidu

watna wrote: »

Having any Irish name living overseas is a nightmare.

I have a relation who has an Irish name with one of the non-English sounds in it (the broad gh, big throaty sound), people have asked her: "Is it Persian or Arabic?"

conlufc

Seanbeag1 wrote: »

That's disgraceful. Parents should be imprisoned.

remember dis photo from nationwide a few years ago. whoever da **** named him would wanna be imprisoned
http://www.fugly.com/pictures/11353/Willie_Stroker.html#comments