The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

fussyonion · 12-03-2014 10:28AM

Sinead
Aoife
Ciara

ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
Oisin is a particular bugbear.

Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....

MonsterCookie · 12-03-2014 10:31AM

neil_hosey wrote: »

Harry...

when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..

I really like that name actually!

Why does it make you cringe, just out of interest?

stefan idiot jones · 12-03-2014 10:38AM

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

Is he a bit of a smoothie?

Am I the only one that got that?

Well done Sir.

homemadecider · 12-03-2014 10:40AM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Yeah, I know a Congoan boy called Innocence.

Congoan??

Lisha · 12-03-2014 10:47AM

homemadecider wrote: »

Congoan??

From The Congo

It took me a minute too

12-03-2014 10:48AM

lukesmom wrote: »

No joke but I know asmasn from Nigeria called 'innocent'

The Nigerian President is called Goodluck Jonathon. I think it's kind of charming to name babies after something you want for them, it's a common enough phenomena in Africa I think.

hoodwinked · 12-03-2014 10:55AM

fussyonion wrote: »

Sinead
Aoife
Ciara

ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
Oisin is a particular bugbear.

Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....

Ah now some irish names are lovely, i would say Aoife and Ciara are lovely names the ones i can't stand are from those who clearly have no understanding of the language and name their child something stupid like "sneachta" (snow) or "fuinneog" (window) or "cuisneoir" (fridge) because they like how it sounds,

although to be fair the mother of "sneachta" (snow) did afterwards at least try to claim she named her child after snow white....

12-03-2014 11:02AM

hoodwinked wrote: »

Ah now some irish names are lovely

There are some bizarre prejudices around Irish names it seems. Bizarre because it's in Ireland, not Alaska or Mongolia.

paperclip2 · 12-03-2014 11:12AM

Electric Sheep wrote: »

I do feel sorry for kids with the sort of name that pretty much labels them as having idiotic parents - the ones named after the currect soap or music star, the ones who have a perfectly normal name spelled in a ridiculous "yewneek" fashion, the ones named after inanimate objects or placenames.

Best one of these I saw was 'Airwrecka' (Erica) :eek:
Not sure its true but I hope it is.

Balmed Out · 12-03-2014 11:22AM

fussyonion wrote: »

Sinead
Aoife
Ciara

ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
Oisin is a particular bugbear.

Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....

Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

fussyonion · 12-03-2014 11:24AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

I am Irish. I think it's because when I was in school, almost everyone in the class had an Irish name and my ears became immune the pronunciations of them, if that makes any sense.
A lot of the Irish names are spelled similarly and they sound rough when they roll off the tongue.

Ah, it's just my opinion.....but I don't like weird celeb names either!
Won't be naming any of my future kids Moon Unit or DweebHead!

Toto Wolfcastle · 12-03-2014 11:24AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

I'm Irish, can speak fluent Irish, love the Irish language, and I dislike Irish names. People just have different tastes.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-03-2014 11:24AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

Why should you automatically like (or dislike) Irish names simply because you're Irish?

kunst nugget · 12-03-2014 11:33AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Why should you automatically like (or dislike) Irish names simply because you're Irish?

Because fádo, fádo, the bishops blessed all the saintly Catholic Irish people all with the ability to talk in tongues resulting in them being able to use phlegm to make hitherto unknown sounds. So delighted were the saintly Catholic Irish with this mystical ability that they reserved it only for the most special of reasons: the naming of their offspring.

If you don't like the names, you've obviously got Protestant blood.

H3llR4iser · 12-03-2014 11:52AM

All the peculiar celebrity names (e.g. Rihanna, Beyonce etc.) - it's just about the most petty minded thing to do; It's making the "hey, I'm an empty headed TV addict who can't even think up a name" statement through your child.

Just for information about Irish names, don't be surprised if your daughter is called "Sorcha" and you get the evil eye every time you call her while on vacation in Italy. The word means vagina in Italian

Blazer · 12-03-2014 12:00PM

At work we had a guy from Asia called Schlong Long..I shít you not...they all pick English names for themselves so it's easier for Westerners to pronounce them.
At a meeting one day we had a guy over from China who introduced himself in a major ELT meeting as Mary

eyescreamcone · 12-03-2014 12:10PM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

I don't like Irish names myself.

Salty · 12-03-2014 12:18PM

Candie wrote: »

There are some bizarre prejudices around Irish names it seems. Bizarre because it's in Ireland, not Alaska or Mongolia.

Have to agree with you, seems to be some vitriol towards them! Then again, I have an Irish name (as do two of my siblings) so can't help but take it that way I suppose.:o

Wossack · 12-03-2014 12:35PM

another bugbear.. I know a few people with bizarre pronunciations to fairly normal names- Leon, pronounced LOAN, and Charles, pronounced SHAR-LEZ for example

homemadecider · 12-03-2014 12:44PM

Lisha wrote: »

From The Congo

It took me a minute too

So... Congolese. Not Congoan.

newmug · 12-03-2014 12:46PM

SamAK wrote: »

To be fair, what other people call their children is none of our fcuking business.

Ah it is though, it influences society in general. We should all aspire to have a scum free society.

MonsterCookie · 12-03-2014 12:49PM

newmug wrote: »

Ah it is though, it influences society in general. We should all aspire to have a scum free society.

Eh ahem, and a child's name influences this how exactly?

FizzleSticks · 12-03-2014 12:50PM

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Noo · 12-03-2014 12:57PM

I'm pretty indifferent when it comes to baby names, I always like to know what name they gave for information purposes but never give a yay or nay reaction....except once...

Clementine

:eek:

12-03-2014 01:00PM

homemadecider wrote: »

So... Congolese. Not Congoan.

Aren't you the Great Educator. Well done you. Have a gold star.

Mars Bar · 12-03-2014 01:05PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

Harry...

when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..

I love that name!

On the Aeneas thing, if you're pronouncing it Anus, then you are probably pronouncing it incorrectly.
I think it's pronounced An-ayus.

Ayrton. What an awful name.

eisenberg1 · 12-03-2014 01:16PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

I love that name!

On the Aeneas thing, if you're pronouncing it Anus, then you are probably pronouncing it incorrectly.
I think it's pronounced An-ayus.

Ayrton. What an awful name.

No, Anus was how the person pronounced it, ( whose name it is) when he introduced himself.

fricatus · 12-03-2014 01:18PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

Harry...

when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..

MonsterCookie wrote: »

Why does it make you cringe, just out of interest?

That was my father's name, and it's now my son's name.

You better have a good answer!

hession · 12-03-2014 01:20PM

blue little girls name

LoveChanel · 12-03-2014 01:31PM

A girl I was in school with was called princess. It was so weird hearing the teachers call her princess. Too cringey.

The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

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