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What names do you like?

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  • #32
    Lad Of Banter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Lad Of Banter


    Siobhán

    instantly fall in love with anybody with this name.


  • #33
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    Boys: Conor, Darragh, Joseph, Noah, Dillon, Ruairi
    Girls: Cleo, Lucy, Charlotte, Clodagh, Kate

    The correct Irish spelling is Dara.


  • #34
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I've often fantasised of the genial Ulsterman's face contorted in the throes of passionate lovemaking to a cake.

    You didn't finish that sentence.


  • #35
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    The correct Irish spelling is Dara.

    I didn't say anything about it being the correct Irish spelling - it could be the German spelling for all I care - the question was what names do you like


  • #36
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    kneemos wrote: »
    Who'd name their kid Ashok.Seriously?

    Common enough amongst Indians etc. However any white Irish fella calling his son Ashok or his daughter Yayoi would want a toe up his hole.


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  • #37
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    As a giant nerd there are quite a few names I'd like to give my kids that I couldn't simply because either I wouldn't be able to take my mother's eye rolling, or because they'd get bullied in school. Chianna, Nausicaa, Dargo, Arya, Angua, and many more.

    My brother gave his daughter an unusual middle name but didn't really tell anyone. Cue his father in law declaring 'They're calling the child what??' loudly in the middle of the service.


  • #38
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I like universal names, usually biblical like Sarah, Ben, Thomas etc.


  • #39
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    I also love Harry - my husband hates it though and says we can never have a son named this as it's 'too English' - lol


  • #40
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I'm like Frank Zappa...in that I like the names Dweezil and Moon Unit.


  • #41
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    biko wrote: »
    I like universal names, usually biblical like Sarah, Ben, Thomas etc.

    I don't remember a Ben in the Bible?


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like traditional names like James, Robert or George. For girls I love the names Lydia and Lillian.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I don't remember a Ben in the Bible?

    A son of Jacob.


  • #44
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Deleted User wrote: »
    A son of Jacob.

    One of the Jacob's was he?


  • #45
    19543261
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭19543261


    I would name both my daughter and son Comgella and put little blue boats on both of their heads and paint them white. The boats white, I mean. The children would be be brown in colour.

    ...

    Any Indian ladies reading this? Hunky hunky man here wanting some action... D&D free.


  • #46
    NapoleonInRags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    All Eamonns are sexy, universal fact.


    That's right, yeah.

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  • #47
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Junior.


  • #48
    Raminahobbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Raminahobbin


    Definitely Meadhbh or Alannah for a girl, Oisin or Fionn for a boy. I love Arya too, just can't seem to get around the tackiness of naming a kid after a fictional character :P Might use it for a pet cat.


  • #49
    pundy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pundy


    a lot of "new-age" suggestions here.


  • #50
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Meriadoc and/or Peregrine


  • #51
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Common enough amongst Indians etc. However any white Irish fella calling his son Ashok or his daughter Yayoi would want a toe up his hole.

    And what if that fella is married to an Asian lady? :)

    I think names can cross international and cultural barriers - whyever not?


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  • #52
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    old hippy wrote: »
    And what if that fella is married to an Asian lady? :)

    I think names can cross international and cultural barriers - whyever not?

    If the child is half-Asian you can get a pass I suppose. Something tells me people would raise an eyebrow if myself and my Irish old doll called a son of ours "Jamal" though.


  • #53
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    FTA69 wrote: »
    If the child is half-Asian you can get a pass I suppose. Something tells me people would raise an eyebrow if myself and my Irish old doll called a son of ours "Jamal" though.

    My schoolbus driver was called Jamal. He was from Kerry.


  • #54
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    FTA69 wrote: »
    If the child is half-Asian you can get a pass I suppose. Something tells me people would raise an eyebrow if myself and my Irish old doll called a son of ours "Jamal" though.

    Fair enough, if you don't care for the name :)


  • #55
    CatLou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭CatLou


    Alexander, David, James, William, Colin

    Margaret, Catherine, Ada, Diana, Sophie


  • #56
    heretochat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭heretochat


    CatLou wrote: »
    Alexander, David, James, William, Colin

    Margaret, Catherine, Ada, Diana, Sophie

    All very regal sounding... :P


  • #57
    Amerika
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭Amerika


    About 40 years ago I named my daughter Autumn, before it was ever a name. I thought it would be a groovy name for a girl -- damn those drug-induced psychedelic hippie years. Nowadays it is all too common a name in these parts.


  • #58
    CatLou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭CatLou


    heretochat wrote: »
    All very regal sounding... :P

    Indeed :o I hadn't thought of it before.


  • #59
    heretochat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭heretochat


    What ever happened to good old names like Peigín, Michilín and all the other íns...


  • #60
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    heretochat wrote: »
    What ever happened to good old names like Peigín, Michilín and all the other íns...

    She took over the Queen Vic, I believe.


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  • #61
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I like normal average names. Very hard to get it right, if you were naming a child. Too common, they'll be in a class with 3 others that share their name. Too obscure, they could get picked on or dislike it majorly as they get older. I like continuing family names too, some dislike that.


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