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

cantdecide

...because I think I can beat them all. I swear I considered strangling the poor little bugger to death for his own good. Sit down. Calmly take a deep breath and prepare yourself...

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eyescreamcone

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

janja

Malachy

janja

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

NegativeCreep

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.

janja

NegativeCreep wrote: »

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

No elloeze

Digital Solitude

Nev (Neev?) on a boy pronounced as Niamh

Wacker The Attacker

ali Akbar raf sanjani

Wacker The Attacker

boutros boutros

rannerap

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

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.

buyer95

Tommie. She's a girl.

dubhthach

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.

Arthur Beesley

Sydbert

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.

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.

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.

Realtine

Meadow - not joking.

MJ23

Realtine wrote: »

Meadow - not joking.

Meadow Soprano

daRobot

Worked with an Apache Indian/American called Lake.

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

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

Teyla Emmagan

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.

Banjoxed

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.

Sunglasses Ron

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.

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...

pickarooney

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?

Sunglasses Ron

pickarooney wrote: »

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

Touche :pac:

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.

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.

Johnny_Fontane

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

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.