Should Ireland regulate baby names?

Quin_Dub · 12-09-2014 02:54PM

cml387 wrote: »

The true story (from Freakonomics) about the brothers called Winner and Loser.

Winner became a drug addict, a petty criminal who lived in a homeless shelter.

Loser (Loser Lane) became a detective in the NYPD.

Freakonomics also had the story of Sh!thead (apparently pronounced SHEETEEED)..Couldn't understand why they never got replies to job applications...

ThisRegard · 12-09-2014 02:56PM

anncoates wrote: »

I was relatively sanguine about manes

I can give or take them too in fairness, how a horse chooses to look is entirely up to themselves. Can't quite make the connection from a horse to how a child is named though.

SnitchingBubs · 12-09-2014 02:59PM

I don't believe so, once people turn 18 they can have their name changed to what they like.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 12-09-2014 03:00PM

A friends sister named her little girl Haley and her middle name is Mary.
And a girl that used to do my hair had been trying for ages to have a baby, finally got pregnant and had a little girl that she named "rhea hope". So when you say it out loud it sounds like she's Ray a (of) Hope.

Some people do need to be regulated!

The Corinthian · 12-09-2014 03:01PM

It depends on how such a regulation is structured, but in theory it would be designed to stop children being named things like Hitler or even imaginary characters like Katniss or Khaleesi.

Of course, this is not a new phenomenon; the girl's name Madison (which no longer raises quite as many eyebrows in the US as it once did) appeared only after the 1984 film Splash, after Daryl Hannah's mermaid character.

Of course a 'legit' name can still be odd. Imagine being named after an ancestor who lived 500 years ago and who's name you'd be hard pushed to find anywhere today, outside of Dante's Inferno. Welcome to my life.

12-09-2014 03:12PM

anncoates wrote: »

I was relatively sanguine about manes until I read the baby names thread in the parenting forum.

Now I want a baby names department established with draconian powers.

A manes and names department? Regulating hairdo's and names so both the hairstyle and the name suit the child?

I think you might be on to something there but it has to be limited to babies, otherwise the Sex Pistols would never have happened on either count.

I've read the babies names proposed in that forum, and I feel so sorry for some of those kids entering adulthood with the names mentioned. And I say that as someone with an unusual but not ridiculous name (I hope).

Tiercel Dave · 12-09-2014 03:12PM

Slightly off track, but former Attorney General, Harry Whelehan, had two older(?) brothers called Tom and Dick. His father obviously had a wry sense of humour! Dave

eyescreamcone · 12-09-2014 03:14PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Shakira is a very old Arabic name meaning "thankful", but in practice you'll find that the only demograph that names their offspring after that Colombian-born pop-tartlet is the pyjama-clad, pony-tail-facelifted one.

And does that make it wrong?

jimgoose · 12-09-2014 03:22PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

And does that make it wrong?

I'll have to get back to you. Young Miley Chardonnay Goose has just puked her Wesht Cork Breakfasht all over the Chippendale.

eyescreamcone · 12-09-2014 03:23PM

I know an Irish girl who had to make a case in Germany for her son to be named 'Ronan'.
I think she had to prove that it was a common enough name in her own country.

eyescreamcone · 12-09-2014 03:25PM

jimgoose wrote: »

I'll have to get back to you. Young Miley Chardonnay Goose has just puked her Wesht Cork Breakfasht all over the Chippendale.

The chippendale in question being a well muscled young man with a reputation for getting his kit off?

Donald73 · 12-09-2014 03:26PM

mrsbyrne wrote: »

I dont believe anyone would call a child Nidge.

I have this picked for my next child actually...

jimgoose · 12-09-2014 03:27PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

I know an Irish girl who had to make a case in Germany for her son to be named 'Ronan'.
I think she had to prove that it was a common enough name in her own country.

Wouldn't surprise me. They're not in the habit of entertaining bullshít in Germany.

eyescreamcone wrote: »

The chippendale in question being a well muscled young man with a reputation for getting his kit off?

Spoken like someone who considers "Shakira" a luvverly name for a baby.

12-09-2014 03:32PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Didn't someone have Danger as their middle name?

"Danger is my middle name!!!"

I know of a couple who named their son Trouble (as a middle name), presumably to distinguish themselves from the riff-raff who give their kids Danger as a middle name.

anncoates · 12-09-2014 03:33PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

I can give or take them too in fairness, how a horse chooses to look is entirely up to themselves. Can't quite make the connection from a horse to how a child is named though.

Candie wrote: »

A manes and names department? Regulating hairdo's and names so both the hairstyle and the name suit the child?

I think you might be on to something there but it has to be limited to babies, otherwise the Sex Pistols would never have happened on either count.

I've read the babies names proposed in that forum, and I feel so sorry for some of those kids entering adulthood with the names mentioned. And I say that as someone with an unusual but not ridiculous name (I hope).

OK, OK, fcukers.

:pac:

mrsbyrne · 12-09-2014 07:25PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Why is Shakira so bad?

Too modern?
Or too foreign?

Or is it the family that she comes from that you disapprove of?

I'd prefer it to any version of Mary, Maire, Maura, Mairead etc

What's it about Mary that you find so offensive?

Johngoose · 12-09-2014 07:30PM

A great chance for the government to get extra tax.Put a tax on names other than John,Mary,Tom,etc. "Fancy Name Levee?" Next budget...

Augmerson · 12-09-2014 07:36PM

They should limit the amount of Ronaldo's and Cristiano's.

Turtyturd · 12-09-2014 07:48PM

Augmerson wrote: »

They should limit the amount of Ronaldo's and Cristiano's.

Well there's only one real Ronaldo.

GaelMise · 12-09-2014 07:58PM

My gut reaction would be no, but I don't like the idea of stupid parents calling their child something that may be potentially harmful to them and the kid just being stuck with it.
However its a minefield that could very easily run amok if state intervention was not strictly limited.

GaelMise · 12-09-2014 08:04PM

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

I pity my first born son.....

Molester Stallone III?

eyescreamcone · 12-09-2014 08:48PM

mrsbyrne wrote: »

What's it about Mary that you find so offensive?

Obviously I don't find it offensive.
However, in Ireland Mary and it's derivatives has been done to death. Every family has one as either a first name or a second name. I would like to see more names used with lower frequency. Less Mary's would be a good start.

eyescreamcone · 12-09-2014 08:52PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Spoken like someone who considers "Shakira" a luvverly name for a baby.

I wouldn't choose Shakira myself but it's not as bad as say Brid or Maire is it?

recylingbin · 12-09-2014 09:00PM

Anyone else read the thread title as:
Should ireland mutilate babies?

No?
Ok, carry on.

deseil · 12-09-2014 09:25PM

I know someone who called her son Sam (nice name imo) and her daughter Ella ( also a nice name imo) but put them together......"Sam n Ella chicken dinner is ready"

Diemos · 12-09-2014 10:58PM

I met an Anakin once in Canada....his parents must have been nerds.

Oh and a Guy Candy......he parent just must not have liked him.

wendell borton · 12-09-2014 11:31PM

Diemos wrote: »

I met an Anakin once in Canada....his parents must have been nerds.
Oh and a Guy Candy......he parent just must not have liked him.

Was it John Candy he's a Canadian.

mrsbyrne · 12-09-2014 11:59PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Obviously I don't find it offensive.
However, in Ireland Mary and it's derivatives has been done to death. Every family has one as either a first name or a second name. I would like to see more names used with lower frequency. Less Mary's would be a good start.

My daughter's name is a Mary derivative. In a 600 girl school there are only 2 others and none in her year of 105. The Amys however all have to be addressed as their full name.
What should be condemned Is givng a child a meaningless trite name in an effort to somehow appear edgy or alternative. At some stage in every parents life they have the child standing at their elbow saying " mam....why did you call me Dakota Cherise?" How are you going to answer.

eyescreamcone · 13-09-2014 12:30AM

I'd also prefer Dakota Cherise to Mary.

Who decided Mary wasn't a meaningless name?
All names were made up by someone you know!

Blind Faith · 13-09-2014 12:38AM

Dakota Cherise . . Bad a name for a child . . Good name for a 4x4 off road vehicle.

Should Ireland regulate baby names?

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