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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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[Deleted User]

NickD wrote: »

In my town there is a teenage Tiger Lily walking around.

You should probably inform a zookeeper then. Sounds potentially dangerous.

NickD

Omackeral wrote: »

You should probably inform a zookeeper then. Sounds potentially dangerous.

You know the family as well?

dubhthach

LordSutch wrote: »

That's really unfair, many Irish names are lovely, however, my personal gripe is with those impenetrable ones that are impossible to spell & equally impossible to pronounce!

Met a Mum in the park recently and her daughters name was 'Ava', how lovely I thought, "a bit like the Hollywood actress Ava Gardner I said", a'hemm she said, actually I'm her granny and my daughter named her the Irish way, Its spelt Aoidbhe, although some people leave out the d I think? or maybe its the b? and there's a fadda over the e although most people don't use it, I think she herself might spell it Ava when she grows up she said, as she smiled ) I nodded and we carried on chatting . . . . . .

That's the kind of Irish name that wrecks my head, from filling in forms to passports, to people looking at the name and thinking, what the' is that?

Technically speaking if they called the child Aoibhe and are using the pronunciation "Ava" then they are mispronouncing it it even in Irish. Just way english speakers mispronounce the name Niall by rhyming it with a river in Egypt, and don't start me with Eithne (hint: "Enya")

To get a pronunciation like "Ava" you'd have to use the name Éabha

Gloomtastic!

There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.

Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'

cloud493

Nigel.

eisenberg1

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Aeneus, has to up there as one of the worst, I mean life is hard enough without setting a kid up like that.

There are some terrible monikers being inflicted on kids, but I reckon Aeneus is still the worst, by Myles.;)

ShiftStorm

Elbert

stefan idiot jones

OH was an Au Pair in Germany for a tribe of Fritzs and the sixth child was called 'Sechs', (Six).

[Deleted User]

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.

Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'

Ok that's it. Stop the planet, I want to get off.

Slanu

kaison

eviltimeban

darkdubh wrote: »

I was in the doctors waiting room one time and a mother was calling her young lad Ace.I kid you you not.And it sounded like it was his actual name too not a nickname.

That's the most f**king awesome thing I've ever heard. I wish I'd named one of my kids Ace.

F**kin' ACE!!!

ewinslet

Sorcha, Fiachra, Fionn, Aoife, Saoirse. Basically all Irish names.

Also Jenny. Jennifer is fine, but Jenny just wrecks my head.

eisenberg1

ewinslet wrote: »

Sorcha, Fiachra, Fionn, Aoife, Saoirse. Basically all Irish names.

Also Jenny. Jennifer is fine, but Jenny just wrecks my head.

All Irish names?? And if jenny is one of the worst kids names you have ever heard, I think you need to get out a bit more.

eyescreamcone

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'

You do realise that all names were made up by somebody!
Some were made up further back than others.
Not mad about Bellamia but at least it's not Caolfhionn is it?

[Deleted User]

"My beautiful", I suppose it could be worse even if it sounds like a restaurant

eisenberg1

bluewolf wrote: »

"My beautiful", I suppose it could be worse even if it sounds like a restaurant

Sounds more like a pasta range in Lidl:D

[Deleted User]

I admit caoilfhionn gets me as well
Why isn't it keel - yun

Aglomerado

I hate "Clodagh" as well. Always the propgeny of BMW X5 drivers with Ugg boots & sunglasses on top of their heads.

lucylu

a little boy called Púca (irish for ghost)
the poor little fecker

whirlpool

How many of you have had your names mentioned in this thread? Mine was mentioned, just once that I can see, but the comment wasn't too cutting!

nc19

dubhthach wrote: »

Just way english speakers mispronounce the name Niall by rhyming it with a river in Egypt, and don't start me with Eithne (hint: "Enya")

So in your infinite wisdom myself and every other Niall out there(Niall Quinn, Niall Carroll from Newstalk etc) have been pronouncing our own names wrong all our lives?

Neil is Neil - Niall is Nile

FatherTed

nc19 wrote: »

So in your infinite wisdom myself and every other Niall out there(Niall Quinn, Niall Carroll from Newstalk etc) have been pronouncing our own names wrong all our lives?

Neil is Neil - Niall is Nile

He's just in denial.

Zubeneschamali

nc19 wrote: »

So in your infinite wisdom myself and every other Niall out there(Niall Quinn,

For some reason Niall and Brian both got mangled in English while Niamh, Liam, Ciara and so on did not. (And Niall Quinn's Mammy called him Niall pronounced correctly, not Nyall).

Missyelliot2

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

For some reason Niall and Brian both got mangled in English while Niamh, Liam, Ciara and so on did not. (And Niall Quinn's Mammy called him Niall pronounced correctly, not Nyall).

Am completely confused - how is Niall supposed to be pronounced? Every Niall I know (cousin included) pronounces their name as Nye-al, whereas Neil is 'kneel'.

Zubeneschamali

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

Am completely confused - how is Niall supposed to be pronounced? Every Niall I know (cousin included) pronounces their name as Nye-al, whereas Neil is 'kneel'.

As in Niamh, Ciara, Liam, Ian, Rian, Brian and every Irish word with that 'ia' in it.

OK, the Brians have been even more thoroughly mangled, and only actual Irish speakers use Bree-an.

Lots of the people who are referred to as Nye-al are actually called Knee-al, and are just tired correcting people.

Ice Storm

whirlpool wrote: »

How many of you have had your names mentioned in this thread? Mine was mentioned, just once that I can see, but the comment wasn't too cutting!

Both my first name and surname were mentioned, in the same post! I think that poster has it in for me. :mad:

My name is pretty common (among my age group) and inoffensive.

dubhthach

nc19 wrote: »

So in your infinite wisdom myself and every other Niall out there(Niall Quinn, Niall Carroll from Newstalk etc) have been pronouncing our own names wrong all our lives?

Neil is Neil - Niall is Nile

Yup, that sums it up exactly. It's impossible to get the pronunciation "Nile" from Niall other than through ignorance of the Irish language, of course the scots don't seem to have the same issue funnily enough.

DEFTLEFTHAND

lucylu wrote: »

a little boy called Púca (irish for ghost)
the poor little fecker

That's terrible, you'd think other family members would step in to stop this kind of thing.

Missyelliot2

dubhthach wrote: »

Yup, that sums it up exactly. It's impossible to get the pronunciation "Nile" from Niall other than through ignorance of the Irish language, of course the scots don't seem to have the same issue funnily enough.

But here in Cork, the surname Coughlan is pronounced Caugh-lan, whereas in other parts of Ireland it's pronounced Coq-lan.

Don't know which is right/wrong or is it ignorance of the english language?

rannerap

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

There's a Braxton out there in Dublin 3 somewhere.

Also talking to a little lad at a Christening recently. 'That's my niece Bellamia over there', he said.
'That's unusual, I've never heard that name before', I replied.
'You won't have, my sister made it up!'

Someone I used to work with named their kid miabella