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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...

Isis.

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Keane2baMused

I heard Beyoncé being told to "get over here NOW" on grafton street.

It wasn't Jay Z calling her either.

Keane2baMused

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

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.

But the name came before the instrument?!

Olishi4

I'd be tempted to call a future daughter Maybelline. I love the name and song by Chuck Berry but not the cosmetic brand so I wouldn't use it.

cowboyBuilder

Regina ... what the hell were they thinking!!?

keano_afc

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

My daughter is called Sadhbh. We've had fun explaining it to foreigners and Ulster planters. Its best if they dont read it first.

moycullen14

keano_afc wrote: »

My daughter is called Sadhbh. We've had fun explaining it to foreigners and Ulster planters. Its best if they dont read it first.

Daughter has two friends: Niamh & Sadhbh.

Former know as 'Knee-am-huh' and the latter 'Sad-huh-buh-huh' in our house.

God love them if they ever live in the UK. Brits CANNOT pronounce Gaelic names.

Ezra Wibberley

ibarelycare wrote: »

I hate when people add redundant letters to names, it's so pretentious.

Totally agreed. I know a girl called Orfhlaith... a step above and beyond the already unnecessary Orlaith. Orla. It's Orla.

dubhthach

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

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.

I'd be more concerned about people using pre-reform spelling when there exists often a simplified spelling that deletes characters that are no longer pronounced.

Compare:
Ruaidhrí -> Ruairí
Clíodhna -> Clíona
Sadbh -> Sabh
Meadhbh -> Méabh
Odhrán -> Oran

fatknacker

The worst is those who get arsey if a foreigner doesn't pronounce their name correctly. Wtf do you expect? How is a non Irish speaker supposed to understand crazy Gaelic pronounciations?

cowboyBuilder

How does one pronounce Sadhbh ?

Boom_Bap

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

How does one pronounce Sadhbh ?

sighvv

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Sive, it sounds like a skin condition.

cowboyBuilder

Sive maybe ?

furiousox

Assumpta
Padraigin (For a girl)

northgirl

crispin

Gunslinger92

furiousox wrote: »

Padraigin (For a girl)

Ah lord above please tell me you're ripping the piss. That's child abuse

furiousox

Nope, true I'm afraid.
It's even mentioned in wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig%C3%ADn

maudgonner

Gunslinger92 wrote: »

Ah lord above please tell me you're ripping the piss. That's child abuse

I'm guessing you're not Irish? It's not at all unusual, although less common now than it would have been 20 years ago, even.

It's the feminine of Padraig, the Irish equivalent of Patricia.

smash

maudgonner wrote: »

I'm guessing you're not Irish? It's not at all unusual, although less common now than it would have been 20 years ago, even.

It's the feminine of Padraig, the Irish equivalent of Patricia.

I've literally never heard that name before.

dubhthach

smash wrote: »

I've literally never heard that name before.

It's fairly common in Kerry and I've heard it in Galway, than again both counties have Gaeltachtaí

As pointed out it's equivalent of calling your daughter Patricia.

maudgonner

smash wrote: »

I've literally never heard that name before.

I know at least five of them, off the top of my head. Maybe it's a west coast thing.

smash

maudgonner wrote: »

I know at least five of them, off the top of my head. Maybe it's a west coast thing.

poor girls

maudgonner

smash wrote: »

poor girls

I don't see anything wrong with the name? Maybe you need to hear it pronounced - it's not as guttural as it looks written down (like most Irish words).

smash

maudgonner wrote: »

I don't see anything wrong with the name? Maybe you need to hear it pronounced - it's not as guttural as it looks written down (like most Irish words).

I don't care if people go on about heritage etc etc. It's a horrendous name to give a child.

dubhthach

smash wrote: »

I don't care if people go on about heritage etc etc. It's a horrendous name to give a child.

No more horrendous than Pádraig

maudgonner

dubhthach wrote: »

No more horrendous than Pádraig

Exactly, I genuinely don't see why people think it's a horrible name?

parttime

But Irish names aren't hard to pronounce, just hard to read.
It's not that hard to make an effort.
My kids are
Eoghan
Ruairí
Donnacha.
Good strong Irish names.

cowboyBuilder

furiousox wrote: »

Assumpta
Padraigin (For a girl)

So that wasn't just in a Fr. Ted episode so ! :eek:

furiousox

Josh.
More a noise than a name.

Kovu

I agree that Padraigin sounds much much better than it looks, more like paw-ree-geen than prouncing the hard 'ig' in the middle of Padraig.