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Do you have a "unique" or "normal" real life name?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    afrodub wrote: »
    All my children have very typically Irish first names and my Senegalese surname,they love their names because it represents both of their heritages and tbh I think helps them integrate without compromising Who they are.
    No offense but I don't know what that means. I don't want to give the pc brigade an excuse to go tattling but what does that mean, I've never heard it before. Where are you from?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    No offense but I don't know what that means. I don't want to give the pc brigade an excuse to go tattling but what does that mean, I've never heard it before. Where are you from?

    I'm not usually one to just post a smiley, but - :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭B0X


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    No offense but I don't know what that means. I don't want to give the pc brigade an excuse to go tattling but what does that mean, I've never heard it before. Where are you from?

    Senegal, Co Cork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    B0X wrote: »
    Senegal, Co Cork.

    Howya, Pat Murphy :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭hacked


    My first name is very unusual, never heard of anyone else with it before. My last name is also quite unusual...very rare. It's a pain! No one can pronounce either name right!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Michael,from monday to friday....on the weekends Christina.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    I wish everyone could go unregged to post their really unique, unusual names!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭spudwiser


    hacked wrote: »
    My first name is very unusual, never heard of anyone else with it before. My last name is also quite unusual...very rare. It's a pain! No one can pronounce either name right!

    Have a first name that i've only seen once before, and he's dead. No one can pronounce it either. Second name is pretty common and more pronouncible


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    ElleEm wrote: »
    I wish everyone could go unregged to post their really unique, unusual names!!!

    I just did..........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Nobody has claimed to be Jesus Christ yet. Or have they ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭murraykil


    Suicide! :eek: (Murray Kilmurray)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭willow tree


    v unique surname thats also a first name so people often call me it as my first name by mistake, but i like it.. but then when people realise and ask me why i didnt correct them i feel a little silly...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Hitler?
    No, not that unusual.

    Although there is a gentleman living in Wismar, Germany with this name according to the German telephone book. Look it up.

    http://www3.dastelefonbuch.de/

    Interestingly, the prefix to the world wide web on that link is WW3. Co-incidence?!

    There are also many, many Adolfs. Sadly no Adolf Hitler.

    Vat is Adolf Hitler's number?! Poor dear must have passed away... I doubt anybody vould remember.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭Marcia Lustley


    my first name's máire its common enough in the gaeltacht but i get called marie or maire all the time in town. i've gotten used to people calling me maura now tho its just easier to pronounce!

    There used to be a tradition years ago that your first born boy would be named after st patrick and your first daughter named mary/maureen/maura after the virgin mary, makes me chuckle because my granny named me like this and i think i may have disappointed her ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I've a very common first name (Brendan) although I don't think it's that popular anymore. Might turn into an "old-man" name. :(

    My surname isn't too common over here but it's a lot more common in the US.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    All my Dad's family are called Hugh (Hughie), Charles (Charlie), John (Johnny) and Vincent (Vincent).

    The girls are all Maggies, Margories, Bridgets, Maureens and Mollies.

    They are literally had no more names in five generations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭GT_TDI_150


    my first name is after a 1940's little german **** who was obsesses with morning dew and trying to whipe is all out.... HATE me name btw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    I've got mind numbingly boring names, both first and last.

    There are some really weird (as in uncommon) surnames out there that are apparently as Irish as mine, but there must be just the one family out there with them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Mine was considered a fuddy-duddy oul wan's name when I got it (1982) but it's quite popular now. I use birth registers at work and haven't seen a John or Mary in months!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    pow wow wrote: »
    Mine was considered a fuddy-duddy oul wan's name when I got it (1982) but it's quite popular now. I use birth registers at work and haven't seen a John or Mary in months!
    As it happens I have a sister named Dinny and everyone remarks on what an usual name it is - for girls or for boys - in the modern era.

    If parents want an unusual or unique name, look to the past. There are going to be hundreds and thousands of Britneys, Kylies, Katelins and Dylans scrambling down the cyborg post office with their electronic pension books in 60 years times, but very very few Paddys, Seanies, Dinnies and Maires.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    What's Dinny short for?

    I've a posho name. I hate it so I try to get everyone to call me by the nickname my inner city Dub Dad gave me. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Shane. It's common as muck, I remember there was three of us in fifth year with the same name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭MGMTea


    Is Nathan a boring name ? I think it is, I dont like it :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    Biggins wrote: »
    First name fairly normal, last name unusual
    All my kids have unusual names.
    One after a state in America and sci-fi film star.
    One after a character in a classic sci-fi film.
    Two others after TV sc-fi characters.

    You might notice a trend above. :D

    oh yeah, there certainly is, hmm... it seems you started out with the one child, a first maybe but not unusual in itself. Then there came a second one, again nothing out of the ordinary there. However, there was definite evidence of a trend - as you put it - when the third child was born, and the fourth child was confirmation of a clear pattern:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Worse!

    Natalie!!!! I wasn't even born at xmas ffs!!!!!
    Charleen would be worse tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Larianne wrote: »
    What's Dinny short for?
    :)
    Nothin. Parents gave her a trannie name, just in case - awfully masculine child.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    I have a fairly unusual old irish first name, I only know 2 other people with the same first name and both my relations albeit distant ones. Clue: one of Brian Boru's sons had same name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Billy Ray Valentine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Worse!

    Natalie!!!! I wasn't even born at xmas ffs!!!!!

    Nothing wrong with Natalie :eek:

    I thought it was going to be Wayne.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭looky loo


    ll


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