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Jack & Emily most popular names

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  • #2
    Chattastrophe!
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    Hitchens wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/jack-and-emily-favourite-baby-names-30316786.html

    Nice 'normal' names indeed. Some horrendous names given to babies by their mothers, a schooldays nightmare ahead.

    Is it just me, or is that alien-toes photo really creepy?


  • #3
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    It's odd that people now christen their boys Jack. It's like naming him Jimmy or Paddy instead of James or Patrick.


  • #4
    retro:electro
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    Sarah has always been my favourite name for a girl, it's just beautiful.


  • #5
    Hotale.com
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    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:


  • #6
    Hitchens
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    anna080 wrote: »
    Sarah has always been my favourite name for a girl, it's just beautiful.

    or it's diminutive, Sally


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  • #7
    Nodin
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:


    Doesn't sound that bad.


  • #8
    Hitchens
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:

    Mr & Mrs Earhart? :)


  • #9
    Hotale.com
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Doesn't sound that bad.

    Not as bad as Kayden or Kai I suppose, they sound like something out of a manga show...


  • #10
    Nodin
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Not as bad as Kayden or Kai I suppose, they sound like something out of a manga show...

    "poppy" is the one I thought sounded odd.

    Not sure the kind of abuse young wans give each other over names either. With lads certainly, a bad choice or combination could well haunt them for their formative years.


  • #11
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,495 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    in 2012 it was Jack and Emily

    http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/ibn/irishbabiesnames2012/#.U4iuX3JdVXE


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  • #12
    KungPao
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    If I have a kid I'll call him Percival or Percy for short.

    I think he'll be happy with that.


  • #13
    Chattastrophe!
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:

    I would. It's a really lovely pretty classic name. I don't see anything wrong with it?


  • #14
    KungPao
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    Nodin wrote: »
    "poppy" is the one I thought sounded odd.

    Not sure the kind of abuse young wans give each other over names either. With lads certainly, a bad choice or combination could well haunt them for their formative years.

    There was a kid called Russell in my year, he had a bad time with that.


  • #15
    SpaceTime
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    The only proviso is that there weren't actually that many of those 'conservative' name choices. There's a huge diversity of names being picked, they just happen to be the only ones that clump together as a largish number.

    http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/ibn/irishbabiesnames2013/

    Interesting when you compare it with 1963 when you basically got called John or Mary and that was it :)

    Jack 764 Emily 625 (2013)

    vs

    John 3,892 Mary 3,721 (1963)

    They didn't like any of those fancy names back then!


  • #16
    Nodin
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    KungPao wrote: »
    There was a kid called Russell in my year, he had a bad time with that.


    I met a lad once called "Majella". Not a nickname either.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
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    Chattastrophe! wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is that alien-toes photo really creepy?

    New baby toes aren't creepy! They're the cutest tootsies, all perfect and unwrinkled and brand new.

    Its nasty old calloused adult feet that are creepy!


  • #18
    Balmed Out
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    Nodin wrote: »
    "poppy" is the one I thought sounded odd.
    I knew a girl called poppy years ago. There were a lot of jokes about potatoes and when she lost weight about popping poppy. Wouldnt do it to a child.

    Much prefer most Irish names more so the conventional like shane, liam, darragh, aisling, niamh etc.


  • #19
    job seeker
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:

    That's Who!


  • #20
    Zebra3
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    Jack always makes me think of Jack Charlton or Jack Duckworth. An old man's name. :/


  • #21
    Barely There
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    My friend called her dog Jack because she loved the name, then when she had a kid a few years later she couldn't call him after the dog.


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  • #22
    Tony EH
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    Jack is a nickname, not a name.

    It's long form is John.


  • #23
    Chattastrophe!
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    Tony EH wrote: »
    Jack is a nickname, not a name.

    It's long form is John.

    They're the same length though ...


  • #24
    _Redzer_
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:

    You take one look at Amelia Clarke and you'll soon understand


  • #25
    Sunglasses Ron
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    Tony EH wrote: »
    Jack is a nickname, not a name.

    It's long form is John.

    Loads of shortened official names these days. I doubt most kids called Harry (seems to be reasonably common these days) are actually down as Harold on the birth cert.


  • #26
    MRnotlob606
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    smell
    off tem


  • #27
    anncoates
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    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Who would name their child Amelia? :confused:

    A distant authoritarian professor in an Enid Blyton yarn.

    Failing that, a middle class couple in South Dublin.


  • #28
    anncoates
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Jack always makes me think of Jack Charlton or Jack Duckworth. An old man's name. :/

    This . It's an 70s/80s uncle name.

    If a name could smoke Major, drink Harp and slip you 10p at your communion, Jack would be it.


  • #29
    M442
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    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    Loads of shortened official names these days. I doubt most kids called Harry (seems to be reasonably common these days) are actually down as Harold on the birth cert.

    Think its Henry, not Harold.


  • #30
    JohnMearsheimer
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    It's odd that people now christen their boys Jack. It's like naming him Jimmy or Paddy instead of James or Patrick.

    I'm working in the passport office so I get to see a lot of kid's birth certs at work. The amount of kids born in the 2000s with names like Jimmy, Tony, Billy etc on their birth certs instead of James, Anthony and William is mad.

    There's a really big number of double barrel surnames with kids born in the 2000s as well. The parents are just complicating things for the poor child.

    Personally I wouldn't be too gone on the names Jack and Emily.


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  • #31
    crockholm
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    Universal Knowledge Allah has pleaded guilty to stealing a Stradivarius violin in Milwaukee last week.

    Lots of crazy names in that sentence


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