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

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  • #652
    monocled mutiner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭monocled mutiner


    I remember being in a supermarket years ago and a mother called out "Sue Ellen and Bobby come here to me". True story


  • #653
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,506 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Aeneas

    You may have just made an enemy:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=403890


  • #654
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Rihanna - a castlebar name if I ever heard it...


  • #655
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Saw a kid once called Coist (after Ally McCoist the Rangers manager (then striker))


  • #656
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    zcorpian88 wrote: »
    Shaneese

    Jacinta

    Saoirse

    Just want to walk up to the parents, show them the back of my hand and say "Why I otta!" for giving their child such a stupid name!

    I quite like the name Saoirse. Jacinta would be cruel on a child however


  • #657
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    zcorpian88 wrote: »
    Shaneese

    Jacinta

    Saoirse

    Just want to walk up to the parents, show them the back of my hand and say "Why I otta!" for giving their child such a stupid name!

    Saoirse, really?

    I always thought that was a nice, inoffensive name. It will probably become even more popular with Saoirse Ronan popping up in even more films.


  • #658
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    Fontaine.


  • #659
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    Phoebe


  • #660
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    My cousin in Tallaght called his son Anfield. Serious.


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  • #661
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    My cousin in Tallaght called his son Anfield. Serious.

    Jesus that is awful


  • #662
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Yeah but it seems like there was a rebirth of these horrible names in the 80s. None of my older relatives or anyone I know from that generation (baby boomers) has one of these odd Irish names. They dug them out of stories about Na Fianna etc. when the whole Gaelic revival thing started, they should have been left where they were, as they are so gross and cause mass confusion outside of Ireland.

    You mean in your opinion they are gross. In mine they are lovely, neither of us are in anyway in a position to bar other persons choices in names.

    As for the bit in bold. That assumption (and that's all it is for the most part) písses me off no end. I bring my kids to different groups and the like, and due to the multiculturalism of Ireland I have come across people from all over the world, from Congo, Nigeria, India, America, Sweden, Poland, China etc. And 90% of the time those kids have had names from their parents homelands, none of which I could spell or pronounce, but I didn't make a fuss. I asked them, sometimes more than once, how to pronounce the names, and now I don't even have to think about it, I just know them. And as for people not knowing my daughter's name, they just did the same and commented that it is a lovely name. Thankfully a famous actress has the same name so they all immediately go "You mean like X?" is not her name BTW ;)

    It is a lazy excuse for the most part. If everyone in the world was to adhere to the "it would cause problems elsewhere" attitude we would all be Muhammad, Jack, John and Mary, Anne, etc.


  • #663
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Skyler
    Taylor
    Ruan
    Holly
    Roly
    Ross
    Cedance

    and those are only the ones that spring to mind at the minute


  • #664
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    La-A.
    Pronounced Ladasha. Seriously. There was a tattoo to prove it. Poor girl!


  • #665
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Rihanna - a castlebar name if I ever heard it...

    That is a name over here (think it is actually Welsh), only pronounced Ri-un-ah.


  • #666
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Mickayla
    Kayla
    Lily
    Ella
    Lily ella
    Ella lily
    Ellie
    Lexie
    Shakira
    Rihanna
    Rihannon
    LaToya

    Taylor
    Hugo
    Max
    Caolánn
    Odhrán
    Jamie
    Dylan


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  • #667
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Silly


  • #668
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Mickayla
    Kayla
    Lily
    Ella
    Lily ella
    Ella lily
    Ellie
    Lexie
    Shakira
    Rihanna
    Rihannon
    LaToya

    Taylor
    Hugo
    Max
    Caolánn
    Odhrán
    Jamie
    Dylan

    Both top 10 names last year according to the CAO.


  • #669
    Diemos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


    BBDBB wrote: »
    I was once served in McDonalds by a lad who had the name Thadeus on his name badge.

    I was served by Jesus in McDonalds once...... oh how the mighty have fallen. This recession has hit everyone!


  • #670
    Zed Bank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    The names pert, ru-pert


  • #671
    olliesgirl55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭olliesgirl55


    I once met a woman whose name was cylmidia I kid you not. I would dearly love to beat the crap out of her parents. I have also come across Princess, Trevon, Peaches, Karanda and a poor woman whose last name was Cum. This was in the states. They just make up names there cause they think they are cool.
    My favorite was in Cork where I heard a girl calling her child Nikita in that heavy Cork accent. It fairly destroyed that name in my eyes. Also Nikita is Russian and a boys name but I didn't point it out to the girl cause she'd probably give me a bashing.
    Where have all the sensible names gone I ask ya?


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  • #672
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    A few years back I worked as a substitute teacher in Central Florida. Subs would get an attendance sheet from the front office with the full given names of each child who was supposed to be the class (or classes for secondary schools). A few favorites:

    Fabulous
    Scooby
    Ne-Ne
    Edwige

    and my personal favorite: Spirichul King


  • #673
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Genuinely know a kid called "Neo" - am assured it's nothing to do with Keanu Reeves or the MAtrix.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #674
    La_Gordy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    I know a girl that named her kids ...Levity and Phoenix...


  • #675
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    So he should choose names to make the jobs of people who write down and pronounce names easier?

    No, he should choose names to make the life of the name bearer easier.


  • #676
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    gammygils wrote: »
    I knew a Cornelius as well. we called him Con for short
    I knew one and we called him Neilis.


  • #677
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Diemos wrote: »
    I was served by Jesus in McDonalds once...... oh how the mighty have fallen. This recession has hit everyone!

    I got a Ballygowan with my meal off him but it tasted a bit funny, was a weird red colour too


  • #678
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Muhammad served me in Burger King


  • #679
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    I like most "classic" names, even the older and more unusual (in Ireland at any rate) like Abigail, Rebecca, etc.

    I do feel sorry for kids with the sort of name that pretty much labels them as having idiotic parents - the ones named after the currect soap or music star, the ones who have a perfectly normal name spelled in a ridiculous "yewneek" fashion, the ones named after inanimate objects or placenames.

    And I feel sorry for people with the previously perfectly respectable name Jordan, now tainted by association.


  • #680
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Ezra


  • #681
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    A girl I went to school with named her newborn boy 'Moonbeam.'

    The poor fcuking child.


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  • #682
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    A girl I went to school with named her newborn boy 'Moonbeam.'

    The poor fcuking child.


  • #683
    Red Crow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭Red Crow


    Some fcuktard named their child Georges but they pronounce is gorgeous! She was running down the isle in the supermarket screaming "Gorgeous... Gorgeous O'Toole get back here!?!"

    The child turns around with a sticker on his school uniform with the name 'Georges' written on it. Jesus wept.


  • #684
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    green_screen wrote: »
    A girl I went to school with named her newborn boy 'Moonbeam.'

    The poor fcuking child.
    green_screen wrote: »
    A girl I went to school with named her newborn boy 'Moonbeam.'

    The poor fcuking child.

    So good they named her twice?


  • #685
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    my sister in law had a child in her creche called caesar. The poor little bollix


  • #686
    alrightso
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭alrightso


    Paris. Named by a mother who wears pyjamas to the pub... nuff said


  • #687
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    my sister in law had a child in her creche called caesar. The poor little bollix


    He's definitely getting battered in secondary


  • #688
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,521 ✭✭✭tigger123


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    He's definitely getting battered in secondary

    Either that or he'll run the place.


  • #689
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Look if you want to be a kunt and ruin the fcuking child's life, what you do is you pick a name like Willem, Derren or Byron.... all names that at first appearance seem to be normal but on closer inspection are just annoyingly, slightly different to common names .....

    Just so that your child has to keep correcting people and spelling it out for them for the rest of their miserable lives and also to make people think your children are cocks for having stupid fking cock names.


  • #690
    pauld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭pauld


    Ye little ****ing **** is the worst, heard mom say it in the shopping centre to son. Personaly thought it was somewhat long winded


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  • #691
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    Prettyblack wrote: »
    Bort.

    Love it! You don't see too many nameplates with that name! Must be sold out.


  • #692
    irishjig69b
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭irishjig69b


    My friend and she will kill me......calling her son Raleigh ( like the bike) not sure if she's taking the p iss


  • #693
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    In Zambia, lots of people are named after character traits or arbitrary adjectives. I met a Polite and a Clever.

    Then I met someone who'd met a kid called Hatred. Whole other level...


  • #694
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    New baby in the area called Radish. I wish I was joking. I'm not even sure of the sex. And if you knew the parents, the poor child's name is the least if it's problems. Dysfunction doesn't come into it.


  • #695
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Fifi TrixieBelle. Christ Bob; what the fcuk were you thinking of?


  • #696
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    not quite a child's name but a 22 year old Dunedin man has legally changed his name to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova"
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11217129


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  • #697
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    Ardan- as in the Irish for platform. Poor lad.. heard a man telling his son ' ardan' how to eat an ice pop outside the shop in donabate. Kid was about 8.


  • #698
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Rodney named after Dave.


  • #699
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Rasheed wrote: »
    New baby in the area called Radish. I wish I was joking. I'm not even sure of the sex.

    Sounds like it was good.


  • #700
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Does anyone like their own name?


  • #701
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Not that bad but I do hate all those boys names so in fashion at the moment: Brandon, Tyler etc.

    Or all those pseudo jazz singer names for girls : Lily, Lily May, Ella etc.


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