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are you named after anyone or anything?

hagoonabear

I was named after a Samuel Richardson novel, read the book recently not intirely impressed. wishing I had never read the book now ðŸ˜±

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YFlyer

Yes. I was named after a Saint.

libelula

'Notions' is where they got my name.
Pure and utter thinking-they-were-cool 1980's notions.

bodhrandude

Niall of the Nine Hostages, from the Book of Kells, my mother was inspired by the Four Masters Memorial in Leitrim. so its somewhere that was inspired locally to my mothers home place. My stoner mates later changed it to Niall of the Nine Hot Knives. :pac:

Peregrine

Nope, my name was completely made up. I've always hated it.

KatW4

gramar wrote:

Is that you Peig?

Thankfully not that bad! Username helps.

HalloweenJack

The hospital where my brother and sister were born.

[Deleted User]

Named after a relative. I'll probably give my son the same name.

HalloweenJack wrote: »

The hospital where my brother and sister were born.

Can't think of any maternity hospital with human names except... oh I really hope for your sake you weren't born in St Munchin's...

[Deleted User]

I'm named after a famous Argentinian footballer

bodice ripper

So named because my American mom thought it was the kind of thing that Irish people called their kids. She was wrong.

Shrap

I was born on St. Brigid's day, and was very lucky to escape the name. Paternal Grandmother disgusted by that, but the mother had different ideas (and no religion). Had an even luckier escape from "Saskia", but the Da talked her down to something relatively unusual and not at all laden with expectation or preconceptions. Thank fcuk for the distant great great aunt who made an impression on both parents. Could have been a lot worse.

PARlance

HalloweenJack wrote: »

The hospital where my brother and sister were born.

Hopefully you're the youngest of that trio.

Badly Drunk Boy

When I was a-stirrin' in the womb, my mother decided that I was going to be called one of 2 unusual but horrible, bully-worthy Irish names. Sadly, my maternal grandfather died before I was born, so thankfully for me, I was named after him with a nice, strong, simple name.

Funnily enough, I'm the grandson who's most like my grandfather, both physically and in personality. He was always referred to as a gentle giant, and I get that a lot too. Last year, in the waiting room of a doctor's clinic, a woman in her 60's who had never seen me, asked if I was his grandson.

Owldshtok

Crooked Jack wrote: »

This has always confused me.
MY granda is Patrick. my Da is patrick. My ma went into labour on St. Patrick's day (although I was born on the 18th.)
Naturally, my name is Martin

Happy Birthday Martin!

Bobby Baccala

I'm named after my grandad, and my dad is named after him too, so we're all called Paddy

[Deleted User]

My Mother thought she was naming me after one of the swans in the Children of Lir. But then found out years later it's the name of the evil stepmother that turned them into swans :rolleyes:

Zippie84

Are you named after anyone or anything?

Mine is an anything... a motorised scooter.

nullzero

Nothing

efb

I was going to be called after the pope but my brother luckily had one of his names so I got the other as a middle name. No idea where they got my name

Badly Drunk Boy

Lia_lia wrote: »

My Mother thought she was naming me after one of the swans in the Children of Lir. But then found out years later it's the name of the evil stepmother that turned them into swans :rolleyes:

I was nearly named after one of the Children of Lir (Fiachra). 'Twas a lucky escape...

johnny osbourne

i'm named after a racehorse

Copa Mundial

The Pope at the time, good ole JP2.

Kovu

Karen Carpenter.......apparently :pac: also have both grandmother's names, confirmation name and a double word surname. Ffs.

johnny osbourne

Kovu wrote: »

Karen Carpenter.......apparently :pac: also have both grandmother's names, confirmation name and a double word surname. Ffs.

do you want to talk about it?

wandatowell

Named after the old chap.

My dad that is.

Reiketsu

My grandmother. Her name was Margaret but I'm Mairéad. Thought Margaret was too old fashioned...although my own name is going that way now too

ProudDUB

My sister went out with a lad who was named after Steve McGarrett of Hawaii 5-0 fame, the 70's version.

He was the youngest in a family of 13, where 10 of them were boys. By the time he arrived, his parents had totally run out of grandparents names, parents names, saints names etc etc to name him after.

They were watching the telly one night, the infamous da da da da daaaaaaaaaaa theme music comes on....and the mammy says 'that's it, we're calling him Steve.'

Jack Lord was the shiznit back in the 70's ! :rolleyes:

Kevin McCloud

One of my best friends is called Tina, her parents let it slip she was conceived on the bonnet of a mk1 cortina.

NachoBusiness

Have a rare enough Christian name. Never met another person with it.

Other than a milk man that used to deliver round our way that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucpZjDCat0

creolebelle

I was named after a famous queen.
I think I would name my children after saints

FloatingVoter

I was named after a newspaper column.