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Jack & Emily most popular names

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  • #62
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Magaggie wrote: »
    If people call their children Rachel, Sarah, David, Ruth... are they aspiring to be west bank Israelis?

    fyp :)


  • #63
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    I see no need to have people learn Irish beyond what is mandatory now. We gain nothing by letting the language die away completely in my opinion. I don't see why we would want it to disappear. I don't see the harm at all in children learning it. In fact I think it could help them adapt to learning other languages too.

    It is completely worthless.

    Teach kids an international language and they'll gain the same benefits and come out of the other side knowing something that will be worth knowing.

    The Irish language needs to be given the Old Yeller treatment. We may as well be teaching them how to make chocolate teapots.


  • #64
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    TheDriver wrote: »
    As a teacher, certain names unfortunately form an opinion in my mind and more unfortunately it happens to be correct generally.............

    Go on, tell us what the bad kid names are please ?


  • #65
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,363 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    It is completely worthless.

    Teach kids an international language and they'll gain the same benefits and come out of the other side knowing something that will be worth knowing.

    The Irish language needs to be given the Old Yeller treatment. We may as well be teaching them how to make chocolate teapots.

    I disagree but that's what makes life interesting. It would be boring if we all agreed.


  • #66
    Blisterman
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    Supercell wrote: »
    It conclusively shows that most Irish people aspire to be west brits these days. I'm a little sad to see the demise of Irish names and with it part of our our unique Irish identity.

    Well according to that article, the most popular names in 1963 were John, Patrick, Michael, Paul and James for boys, and Mary, Margaret, Catherine, Ann and Anne for girls. Not an Irish name in the bunch.


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm don't ever want kids but I am kinda sad that I won't get to ever pick names 'cause it's a fun thing to think about. Names like Jack and Emily are fine but they're so common; trying to find the balance between a name that's really common and one that's really faddy is quite difficult. I actually think Kai and Sienna are nice names. If I heard them and didn't know they were "celebrity" names I'd think they were lovely and unusual. It's a shame when a perfectly nice name becomes associated with celebrity culture.


  • #68
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    I did hear a mother call out to "f*ckin Shakira" in a Dublin branch of Burger King one day.


  • #69
    eviltwin
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What Irish thing? The language? This is not about the language. And i'm not pushing anything btw. Read my post.

    This is not the United Kingdom. This is Ireland. Why shouldn't we protect and promote our own culture and heritage? If you want nothing to do with being Irish or Irishness that's fine. But a lot of people do.

    How do you do that? You can't stop people calling their kids non Irish names. Those who like them will continue to use them but its no guarantee they will follow other Irish traditions. And its just a name, having an Irish moniker doesn't make you any more Irish than the kid next door with the English name.


  • #70
    deseil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭deseil


    In the dictionary Amelia means "the congenital absence of one or more limbs" seems a weird name to call a little girl!!

    Jack isn't a bad name but they are everywhere.
    Mia is lovely too but there was 6 baby girls born on the same day as mine 5 of whom we're named Mia.
    There's a few lovely names that would be knocked straight off any list I had because they are so common.
    I had 5 Daniels in my class in primary and there was only 8 boys in the class.


  • #71
    LordSutch
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    I think you'll find other countries like the UK actually protect and promote their own culture and traditions far more than we do. Same goes for countries across the continent.

    The UK is an interesting example, with at least four independent cultures within one overal culture? and regarding names, there are certainly regional differences between the four indigenous UK cultures, although its all a bit of a mish mash these days.


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  • #72
    tinyk68
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    Blisterman wrote: »
    Well according to that article, the most popular names in 1963 were John, Patrick, Michael, Paul and James for boys, and Mary, Margaret, Catherine, Ann and Anne for girls. Not an Irish name in the bunch.
    That's probably because children had to be given a saint's name to be baptised in a Catholic Church back then and there aren't many irish saint's names in common usage.


  • #73
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    LordSutch wrote: »
    The UK is an interesting example, with at least four independent cultures within one overal culture? and regarding names, there are certainly regional differences between the four indigenous UK cultures, although its all a bit of a mish mash these days.
    What are the 4 independent cultures in the UK Sutch?


  • #74
    Lando Griffin
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    What are the 4 independent cultures in the UK Sutch?

    Must have been missing that day in school were we?
    The four are English; Welsh; Scotish and Northern Ireland.


  • #75
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Must have been missing that day in school were we?
    The four are English; Welsh; Scotish and Northern Ireland.
    LOL! When did Northern Ireland become a culture?


  • #76
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    What are the 4 independent cultures in the UK Sutch?

    Well I did put a questionmark after that, so maybe its not as clear cut as it once was, but I was refering to the four regions which have traditionally had their own names in a very informal way. Take Ffion Myfanwe or Gwynedd from Wales, with Angus Alistair of Bruce from Scotland, throw in Shona Aoife Ethan & Edwin from NI and then add all the English regions and you have a right mix of names.


  • #77
    MistyCheese
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    deseil wrote: »
    Mia is lovely too but there was 6 baby girls born on the same day as mine 5 of whom we're named Mia.

    My baby's middle name is Mia. 'Mia' is the Spanish word for 'mine' so her name is (Baby) Mine. (Her first name isn't actually 'Baby' of course!)

    Heard of a girl called 'Tiara' on the Jeremy Kyle show.


  • #78
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Well I did put a questionmark after that, so maybe its not as clear cut as it once was, but I was refering to the four regions which have traditionally had their own names in a very informal way. Take Ffion Myfanwe or Gwynedd from Wales, with Angus Alistair of Bruce from Scotland, throw in Shona Aoife Ethan & Edwin from NI and then add all the English regions and you have a right mix of names.
    So what are the 4 cultures you were referring to?


  • #79
    dizzymiss
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    TheDriver wrote: »
    As a teacher, certain names unfortunately form an opinion in my mind and more unfortunately it happens to be correct generally.............

    Examples please :D my father in law is a teacher and says the same thing :) some are hilarious.


  • #80
    hoodwinked
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    Lisha wrote: »
    Go on, tell us what the bad kid names are please ?

    at a guess, one of the worst i can think of,


    Rihanna Murphy-Sullivan

    or

    Shakira O'Brien-Twomey

    (i have a severe dislike of double barreled surnames, and ridiculous stage names of celebs being used as first names)


    or worse


    Cuisneoir O'Leary

    or

    Sneachta O'Callaghan.


    or words that mean something stupid in English but "sound pretty" in another language, imo save the name for your pets!


  • #81
    dizzymiss
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    Cuisneoir??? Seriously? Oh god.


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  • #82
    hoodwinked
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    dizzymiss wrote: »
    Cuisneoir??? Seriously? Oh god.

    but...it sounds posh! :rolleyes: :pac:


  • #83
    LordSutch
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    So what are the 4 cultures you were referring to?

    As per the four regions mentioned, under one overall umbrella of British culture.


  • #84
    Duckworth_Luas
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    As per the four regions mentioned, under one overall umbrella of British culture.
    What are the four cultures? Name them.


  • #85
    Lando Griffin
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    LOL! When did Northern Ireland become a culture?

    Since the beginning when they came to live there from Scotland.


  • #86
    Adamantium
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    The early 90's had a scattering of John, Jason, Daniel, James, Thomas, Michelle and Brians.

    Elizabeth is a great elegant name for girls except if you were to name a child it's eventually end up been called "lizzy ot liz", but makes me think of a granny or elderly woman and I loathe that shorthand. Or Liz McDonald off Coronantion Street.

    One name that I really like is Kara, not with C. Love that name, but the K is more bold, looks less childish when wrote and more mature.


  • #87
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Since the beginning when they came to live there from Scotland.
    What was there before this "beginning" you talk about?


  • #88
    Tony EH
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    Vito Corleone wrote: »
    Gonna name my kid Davin if I have one.

    Sonny or Michael would be better.


  • #89
    Greenmachine
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    When the first time I heard a name was in porn I wince when I hear kids with those names. e.g. Lexi, Teagan, Jayden, Jada.

    Those are names?


  • #90
    anncoates
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    What was there before this "beginning" you talk about?

    Is there a single thread in here that can be exempt from this bullsh1t?


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  • #91
    Larianne
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    I like to read the Irish Times 'Births' section to see what's in vogue for names of the *middle class* of Ireland ( :pac: ).
    A week or two ago, it wasn't the child's name that made me pull a face, but the father of the child...

    Lancelot :eek:


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