What was your Confirmation name?

Schwiiing · 23-03-2014 08:01PM

What's the story with people having to write essays on why they picked their names? Mine was Mark btw.

SmurfX · 23-03-2014 08:09PM

Owen to commemorate wrestler Owen Hart.

Red Nissan · 23-03-2014 08:11PM

Schwiiing wrote: »

What's the story with people having to write essays on why they picked their names? Mine was Mark btw.

That was news to me too, or that it was supposed to be a Saint's name.

sunbeam · 23-03-2014 09:13PM

ElleEm wrote: »

I didn't make my confirmation, but a girl in my class picked Toni... after Tony Mortimer, the lead singer of East 17!!

Way back in the 80s I picked Alison as I was an Alison Moyet fan at the time. Nobody told us it had to be a saint's name though I think there was a saint Alice who became a child nun at the age of seven.

Galwayguy35 · 23-03-2014 09:18PM

Martin

Paddy Cow · 23-03-2014 09:30PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Mine was Luke after St Luke, very imaginative.

Does anybody use their taken name as part of their full name, I add it in whenever I'm filling out forms, I like it it, it rings well with my two middles and first name. I can do cool initials with it.

Say it was because of Star Wars.

Novella · 23-03-2014 09:39PM

Gemma.

FudgeBrownie · 23-03-2014 09:40PM

Cinnamon.

bodice ripper · 23-03-2014 09:42PM

Joan.

Had to be a saint, and this was the only one acceptable to little girl me.

The Th!ng · 23-03-2014 09:47PM

Beelzebub

3mm · 23-03-2014 09:50PM

Colm , after the gooch

Ruu · 23-03-2014 09:51PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Martin

Martins a lovely name.

I picked Oliver, was the name of my best friend at the time. Did anyone ever hear of a name getting rejected by the bishop? A few of the lads dared each up to come up with ridiculous names to tell the bishop but dont think they went through with it.

Rasheed · 23-03-2014 09:52PM

Just plain aul Anne. I wasn't like the rebels that took the 'out there' names like Fidelma and Agnes.

Temptamperu · 23-03-2014 09:58PM

Anto after saint anto of the soap-bar.

iDave · 23-03-2014 09:59PM

Patrick

scottp68877 · 23-03-2014 10:00PM

I took the name Martin. Never even thought about it but my other middle name was Austin. Took me a few years to realise my middle names were Austin Martin

Chucken · 23-03-2014 10:07PM

Cathriona

I had picked Emma but the morning of the confirmation, the beeatch teacher handed me the badge with "Cathriona" on it.
Turns out, the class swot got Emma. It seems she picked it first :mad:

We didn't really have a big pool of names to pick from back in the day so I was delighted to have found an "unusual" name.
Sure everyone we knew were called Mary, John, Michael and Teresa!!!

Anyway, years go by and it's my own childrens turn to face the bishop.
At the time, my son was madly in love with Baby Spice and my daughter with David Beckham so my son took David and my daughter took Emma.
Pure coincidence

sunbeam · 23-03-2014 10:12PM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Martins a lovely name.

I picked Oliver, was the name of my best friend at the time. Did anyone ever hear of a name getting rejected by the bishop? A few of the lads dared each up to come up with ridiculous names to tell the bishop but dont think they went through with it.

Well the Bishop looked very confused for a minute when I said Alison, but was grand when the priest repeated it loudly and slowly to him. I reckon he was just a bit deaf.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 23-03-2014 10:16PM

scottp68877 wrote: »

I took the name Martin. Never even thought about it but my other middle name was Austin. Took me a few years to realise my middle names were Austin Martin

You should change your surname to Vanquish.

Stavros Murphy · 23-03-2014 10:21PM

My youngest picked "Sylvester" for the laugh, then decided he quite liked it, so Sylvester it was.

Ghost Buster · 23-03-2014 10:35PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

My daughter only has a first name too.

I can't remember what she chose as her confirmation name *bad mummy*

Didn't take the bestowing of The Holy Spirit and sealing of the covenant of baptism seriously then?

beks101 · 23-03-2014 10:37PM

Jessica. I have absolutely zero clue how I came up with that. I knew no Jessicas as a child. Probably my 12 year old self saw some Jessica on TV - actually it could've been yer wan out of Sweet Valley High.

Pretty ridiculous when I think about it. What a load of bollix.

Paddy Cow · 23-03-2014 10:37PM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Martins a lovely name.

I picked Oliver, was the name of my best friend at the time. Did anyone ever hear of a name getting rejected by the bishop? A few of the lads dared each up to come up with ridiculous names to tell the bishop but dont think they went through with it.

I know someone who wanted to take Jessica and the nuns kicked up a huge fuss saying it wasn't a saint's name. Her grandmother sent a letter to the parish priest referencing St Jesse from the bible. She was allowed take the name but the nuns were not happy.

Vito Corleone · 23-03-2014 10:37PM

I picked the name Colm. I wasn't given a middle name.

23-03-2014 10:39PM

JASON after my brother

Stained Class · 23-03-2014 10:40PM

scottp68877 wrote: »

I took the name Martin. Never even thought about it but my other middle name was Austin. Took me a few years to realise my middle names were Austin Martin

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

You should change your surname to Vanquish.

Just to clear this up, before it gets out of hand.

No such thing as an Austin Martin. It's Aston Martin.

James Bond would not have been seen dead in anything related to a Metro!

Mickey H · 23-03-2014 11:15PM

Dermott.

With 2 Ts.

job seeker · 24-03-2014 12:08AM

My first name is Pete, named after my uncle who was named after my grandad on my mothers side. My Second name is named after my father Gerard and so I decided I would pick Christopher after my grandad on my dads side.

Im OCD. :pac:

Mars Bar · 24-03-2014 12:08AM

Sarah, she was a wife of a friend of jesus or something.

Remember the confirmation books? We used to fight over the gold and silver pens to decorate our books.

Looking back now, all of it was a pile of poo.

Anne Other · 24-03-2014 12:11AM

green_screen wrote: »

Lucy.

I remember having to write about the saint. Theymade me do three essays because there were three different stories about how she died. :mad:

I picked Lucy also, but I only had to write one story:p:p:p:p:p

What was your Confirmation name?

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