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The worst kid's name you've ever heard?

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  • #2642
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    They sound like characters from star trek.


  • #2643
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    English tv presenter Julia Bradbury has a son named Zepherus and twin daughters Zena and Xanthe.


  • #2644
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    jimmy blevins wrote: »
    They sound like characters from star trek.

    I'm pretty sure they're long lost members of the Targaryen family from Game of Thrones.


  • #2645
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    English tv presenter Julia Bradbury has a son named Zepherus and twin daughters Zena and Xanthe.

    That's rough. Ford Zepherus and Citroen's latest models the Zena and the Xanthe I see where she's going with this trend. Those poor children...


  • #2646
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    English tv presenter Julia Bradbury has a son named Zepherus and twin daughters Zena and Xanthe.

    Zanteee....ZANTEEEE CUM IN FER YORE DINNERRR


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  • #2647
    Keane2baMused
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    Skye. The 'e' is silent don't you know.


  • #2648
    smash
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    Sadhbh or Tadhg. At least give a child a name that can be pronounced when someone tries to read it ffs.


  • #2649
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Robert McGrath wrote: »
    Pretty sure that was a girl's name before it was a car's name

    Yep,

    I think mister Benz named the car after his daughter....or Mr Daimler's daughter. Something like that.


  • #2650
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    The car was named after the owner's designer's daughter I believe.

    FYP


  • #2651
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Ahorseofaman wrote: »
    I was doing a delivery about 20 years go and heard Blake and Krystal being called in for their tea and a mates sister in one of the rougher area's of Cork city called her children Daylon ,Taygon and Joron which she invented herself as she wanted them to be unique.(Taygon is a girl the other 2 are lads.):eek:

    Porn star names right there. Hope their surname isn't Cummings


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  • #2652
    josip
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Timmy.


    South Park have ruined that name for me

    Woof.


  • #2653
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    HensVassal wrote: »
    FYP

    'Pologies! Honestly, I completely blanked on the word designer so decided that owner might be a close enough one!


  • #2654
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Samaris wrote: »
    Ofelia is the Latinate* form of the name afaik, Ophelia...hrm. Well, it appears in Shakespeare (Hamlet), so it was a "known" name in Shakespearean England. Huh, looked it up, and it's from a Greek word. Probably invented as a name by a 15thC poet for "Arcadia".


    *I may be using that term wrong - I mean in the Romance/Latin-influenced languages such as Spanish, Italian, French.


    Nice, like the spelling too.


  • #2655
    experiMental
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    Dick


  • #2656
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    experiMental wrote: »
    Dick

    There were 2 elderly brothers near me years ago who spent a good deal of time in the pub. Early in the day they were quite happy to be called Jack and Dick. However if you referred to them by these names late in the evening you'd quickly be corrected and be told they were Sean and Richard!!!


  • #2657
    Nemanrio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Nemanrio


    Tarquin
    Toby
    Chantelle
    Shalequa
    Clarence


  • #2658
    Liamario
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭Liamario


    I was reading a thread a couple of months ago on another site and the person in question was suggesting that he call his son Galahad. Needless to say, he was ripped apart for that idea.


  • #2659
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    smash wrote: »
    Sadhbh or Tadhg. At least give a child a name that can be pronounced when someone tries to read it ffs.

    At least these names, while unusual are ok if you are in Ireland. When you travel/live/work abroad you're in for a world of exasperation. I worked for a summer in the US in a country club with a bunch of other J-1ers. There was was a Sean, a Siobhain and a Niamh amongst us. Were were waiters and waitresses with name tags. The 3 I mentioned had to have their name tags remade with their names spelt phonetically, i.e. Shaun, Shivaun and Neeve because the punters were calling them "Seen", "Sib-hane" and (wait for it) "Nymph" :pac:

    Fuck knows what they'd mangle Sadhbh into


  • #2660
    HensVassal
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    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    'Pologies! Honestly, I completely blanked on the word designer so decided that owner might be a close enough one!

    It happens.....I was going to put "inventer" myself but that wasn't really right either.


  • #2661
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    HensVassal wrote: »
    At least these names, while unusual are ok if you are in Ireland. When you travel/live/work abroad you're in for a world of exasperation. I worked for a summer in the US in a country club with a bunch of other J-1ers. There was was a Sean, a Siobhain and a Niamh amongst us. Were were waiters and waitresses with name tags. The 3 I mentioned had to have their name tags remade with their names spelt phonetically, i.e. Shaun, Shivaun and Neeve because the punters were calling them "Seen", "Sib-hane" and (wait for it) "Nymph" :pac:

    Fuck knows what they'd mangle Sadhbh into

    Funniest I've heard living in london is people trying to pronounce "Ruaraidgh".
    Came out like 'Roo-are-ayee-de-guh".


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  • #2662
    smash
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    BizzyC wrote: »
    Funniest I've heard living in london is people trying to pronounce "Ruaraidgh".
    Came out like 'Roo-are-ayee-de-guh".

    He could have just changed his name to Rory


  • #2663
    [Deleted User]
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    Bríd.

    Only 70+ year old grannies are allowed to be called Bríd.


  • #2664
    smash
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bríd.

    Only 70+ year old grannies are allowed to be called Bríd.
    Or Maureen or Noleen.


  • #2665
    Salty
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    smash wrote: »
    Or Maureen or Noleen.

    Or Bernie


  • #2666
    Caoimhgh1n
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    smash wrote: »
    He could have just changed his name to Rory

    Some people don't want to change their name.


  • #2667
    Ahorseofaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Ahorseofaman


    HensVassal wrote: »
    Porn star names right there. Hope their surname isn't Cummings
    I wont give their real surname for obvious reasons but its as Irish and common as McCarthy or Murphy.


  • #2668
    ibarelycare
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    BizzyC wrote: »
    Funniest I've heard living in london is people trying to pronounce "Ruaraidgh".
    Came out like 'Roo-are-ayee-de-guh".

    That's a fucking ridiculous way to spell that name in fairness. There's at least 3 letters more than are needed. I hate when people add redundant letters to names, it's so pretentious.


  • #2669
    [Deleted User]
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    fatknacker wrote: »
    Zanteee....ZANTEEEE CUM IN FER YORE DINNERRR


    If this thread is to be believed, there's an epidemic of working class children with exotic names going malnourished. They're never in for their meals. It's very sad.


  • #2670
    rainbow kirby
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    BizzyC wrote: »
    Funniest I've heard living in london is people trying to pronounce "Ruaraidgh".
    Came out like 'Roo-are-ayee-de-guh".

    This is pretty much exactly the reason why we ruled out every tough to pronounce Irish name for our son...


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  • #2671
    MRnotlob606
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    I am not a hater of our beloved Irish culture. But I think we have some very stupid sounding names in the Irish Language like Odhrán, like put a B in front of it an you're a f&*cking percussion instrument.


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