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

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  • #872
    eyescreamcone
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    MJ23 wrote: »
    I was talking to a fella on the phone one day and his name was Lillian.
    I desperately tried to hold in the laughter.
    I should have asked him was his wife's name Derek.

    Lillian Thuram won a world cup with France in 98


  • #873
    janja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    Malachy


  • #874
    janja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    Horace and Eloise (overheard on a beach in spain, ) brother and sister !


  • #875
    NegativeCreep
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    janja wrote: »
    Horace and Eloise (overheard on a beach in spain, ) brother and sister !

    Is Eloise pronounced like elwaa? That's pretty nice I think. Horace is an abomination though.


  • #876
    janja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Is Eloise pronounced like elwaa? That's pretty nice I think. Horace is an abomination though.

    No elloeze


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  • #877
    Digital Solitude
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    Nev (Neev?) on a boy pronounced as Niamh


  • #878
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    ali Akbar raf sanjani


  • #879
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    boutros boutros


  • #880
    rannerap
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    Melissa30 wrote: »
    Whatever about the stupid names like Shakira and Chardonnay. I really hate when people spell normal names different like Jakki, Sharyn, Aimee etc. Even worse these people were christened Jackie, Sharon & Amy they just decided themselves to be an idiot and change them and then get mad when people spell their name wrong.

    My sisters name is Aimee. It's not a made up spelling it's just the French version of amy


  • #881
    tim3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭tim3000


    "Turlough" was a guys name in my sisters secondary school. It means disappearing lake in Irish apparently. I think it is the distilled essence of douchebaggery to call your kid something like that.

    Robin is another name I particularly despise due to the ambiguity of it.


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  • #882
    buyer95
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    Tommie. She's a girl.


  • #883
    dubhthach
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    tim3000 wrote: »
    "Turlough" was a guys name in my sisters secondary school. It means disappearing lake in Irish apparently. I think it is the distilled essence of douchebaggery to call your kid something like that.

    Robin is another name I particularly despise due to the ambiguity of it.

    Eh no it doesn't. You are conflating two completely different words which are anglicised to the same spelling:

    Tuarlach = seasonal lake, common in the likes of South-Galway

    Toirdhealbhach = name

    some examples from history:

    Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair -- King of Connacht, High-King of Ireland (1088–1156)
    his uncle:
    Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain (grandson of Brian Boru) -- King of Munster, effective King of Ireland (1009-1086)

    Toirdhealbhach Óg Donn mac Aodha meic Toirdhealbhaigh Ó Conchobair (d. 1406) -- King of Connacht, ancestor of the current "O'Conor Don"

    Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin (1670-1738) -- the "blind harper"

    That name can be anglicised to Terrence as well.


  • #884
    Arthur Beesley
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    Sydbert


  • #885
    tim3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭tim3000


    dubhthach wrote: »
    Eh no it doesn't. You are conflating two completely words which are anglicised to same spelling:

    Tuarlach = seasonal lake, common in the likes of South-Galway

    Toirdhealbhach = name some examples from history:

    Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair -- King of Connacht, High-King of Ireland (1088–1156)
    his uncle:
    Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain (grandson of Brian Boru) -- King of Munster, effective King of Ireland (1009-1086)

    Toirdhealbhach Óg Donn mac Aodha meic Toirdhealbhaigh Ó Conchobair (d. 1406) -- King of Connacht, ancestor of the current "O'Conor Don"

    Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin (1670-1738) -- the "blind harper"

    That name can be anglicised to Terrence as well.

    I understand where you are coming from. However from the point of view of a geologist a Turlough would mean a disappearing lake. A linguist would agree with you in your above reasoning.


  • #886
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    I don't believe for a second that people think Niamh, Sinéad, Conor, Aisling, Seán, Saoirse etc sound ridiculous or naff or whatever, so I presume when they say "Irish names" they mean the really obscure ones.


  • #887
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    I don't believe for a second that people think Niamh, Sinéad, Conor, Aisling, Seán, Saoirse etc sound ridiculous or naff or whatever, so I presume when they say "Irish names" they mean the really obscure ones.

    You be surprised plenty of anglophone monoglot bigots about.


  • #888
    Realtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Realtine


    Meadow - not joking.


  • #889
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Realtine wrote: »
    Meadow - not joking.

    Meadow Soprano


  • #890
    daRobot
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    Worked with an Apache Indian/American called Lake.

    That said, the Native Indians have some fairly 'earthy' names.


  • #891
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    My parents were hippies, so they had lots of hippy friends and I grew up playing with their kids. Earthy names like Dawn, Skye, Rainbow, Leaf, Peace and a variety of hindu names like Asha and Shanker were common :p


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  • #892
    Teyla Emmagan
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    janja wrote: »
    Horace and Eloise (overheard on a beach in spain, ) brother and sister !

    My favourite girl's name!! I think Eloise is so pretty. It's definitely what I'm calling all 17 of my daughters.


  • #893
    Banjoxed
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    tim3000 wrote: »
    "Turlough" was a guys name in my sisters secondary school. It means disappearing lake in Irish apparently. I think it is the distilled essence of douchebaggery to call your kid something like that.

    Robin is another name I particularly despise due to the ambiguity of it.

    Unless of course it's Robin in HIMYM.


  • #894
    Sunglasses Ron
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    tim3000 wrote: »

    Robin is another name I particularly despise due to the ambiguity of it.

    Given the tendency of people in showbiz to disproportionately have ambiguous names, there is no higher grade of poor journalism than this new media trend of referring to all thespians as actors (as opposed to actors and actresses).

    The English equivalent of the trend for fabricated Irish names among social climbers is even worse. Parents reverting to names that died out with the aristocracy by the forties. Wallys calling their kids Finlay, Horatio, Florence, Beatrix, Prudence, Patience, all truly awful wanky names.


  • #895
    Prettyblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Prettyblack


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    Finlay, Horatio, Florence, Beatrix, Prudence, Patience

    All very posh names. Though I do like Prudence from the Beatles song "Dear Prudence". And Florence might start becoming popular cos of yer wan, you know, from The Machine... :)

    Would be great if people started naming their kids after Jeeves and Wooster characters, the likes of Bertie, Gussie, Myrtle, Freddie, Hildebrand, Percy, Reginald... ah I can see the cricket jumpers now...


  • #896
    pickarooney
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    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    Given the tendency of people in showbiz to disproportionately have ambiguous names, there is no higher grade of poor journalism than this new media trend of referring to all thespians as actors (as opposed to actors and actresses).

    What's high grade poor journalism like? Average journalism?


  • #897
    Sunglasses Ron
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's high grade poor journalism like? Average journalism?

    Touche :pac:


  • #898
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    MJ23 wrote: »
    When the first name is almost the same as the surname.
    Zumo Bishop on Fair City, his name is Patrick Fitzpatrick.
    I met a lad before and his name was Dermot McDermot.
    What do parents be thinking sometimes?
    Any of those unpronounceable and unspellable Irish names are stupid too.
    Or normal names that are spelt differently to be cool. Shaymus

    On a similar note, parents with the surname 'Hunt' who call their son Michael. I know of at least three Mike/Mick Hunts.


  • #899
    2013LEO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭2013LEO


    I was in Dunnes one day & heard a woman roaring at the top of her voice "Shakira", as a little girl was running around.


  • #900
    Johnny_Fontane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭Johnny_Fontane


    heard recently of the name 'carra' for a girl. Guy is a big liverpool fan.


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  • #901
    Slaygal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭Slaygal


    Please excuse my awful spelling. On hols as a child my younger sister was playing in the pool and starts talking to and playing with a little girl.
    My Sister asked for her name Gethsamne Rainbow ! Little Gethsemane was not shy and in fact roared out her name for all to hear.


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