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

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  • #6512
    Marty Xavier
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Marty Xavier


    Talc , heard it today, asked the person to spell it. claims it is an old gaelic word meaning pillar or some ****


  • #6513
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I like Irish names but names like Feilimíd, Nollaig and Breffni are a bit too much for me


  • #6514
    TM2015
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭TM2015


    Have met 2 brothers, Bobby and Kennedy. Why?!


  • #6515
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Marty Xavier wrote: »
    Talc , heard it today, asked the person to spell it. claims it is an old gaelic word meaning pillar or some ****

    I hope he's related to Timotei. If they go missing in the supermarket, you should find them both in the same aisle.


  • #6516
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,216 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    From Reddit:

    Am I The Asshole for wanting to name my daughter after a Star Wars character?
    Throwaway, of course, since we are 99% set on the name and don’t need my child’s name tied to my Reddit history.

    My wife and I are huge fans of the Star Wars movies. Huge. We met while camping out for the premiere of The Force Awakens. Our spark was instant, and just a year later, I proposed with a ring hanging from the arm of a Rey Funko figure and she said yes.

    Everything about us is Star Wars, and I mean everything from what we watch, to what we play, to our home decor. Our friends think we are a bit nutty but have always respected it until my wife got pregnant and we shared the name we wanted when we found out we are having a girl.

    Captain-Phasma. The whole name, like Mary-Kate.

    She’s due in 6 weeks, and once we announced the name on a Zoom meeting with our family and closest friends, they went from being happy and excited to appalled. They think we are messing up the child for this.

    My wife and I were both bullied as kids, including myself for having a name associated with a girl (example: Jordan), and we think a strong name would make other kids in awe of our daughter. Especially once you have the tie-in to Gwendolyn Christie, who is basically a warrior. Our daughter should be both respected and feared.

    My parents are begging us to consider naming our girl Gwendolyn or Brienne even (for Christie’s Game of Thrones character). Honestly it’s a sore point with my wife and me because she watched the show behind my back, and it bothers me. And my parents know this. So I definitely would not consent to naming her Brienne, even though I respect Christie and her talents in the clips I’ve seen.

    So AITA (or are we the asshole) for wanting to name our daughter after a strong female character from our favorite movies? I feel like between Star Wars being where we got our start and our lives basically that it shouldn’t be so bad.


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  • #6517
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Just came across this thread - definitely laughing out loud material. I recall the BBC sit-com "Me Mammy", written by Hugh Leonard, and the young female character called Concepta - she was pregnant. She denied it and claimed she'd been eating new bread.


  • #6518
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,856 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Really? You'd weep for society after reading a few pages...

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #6519
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Really? You'd weep for society after reading a few pages...
    Well.....yes.
    Some of them were funny though, unintentionally of course.


  • #6520
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Marty Xavier wrote: »
    Talc , heard it today, asked the person to spell it. claims it is an old gaelic word meaning pillar or some ****

    Obviously from Irish Freemason stock.

    Tyler, Mason, Roslyn are also masonic names that have become common place without the public realising it. Deacon, Warden and Worshipful Master also as of yet have to be realised.


  • #6521
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,526 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Obviously from Irish Freemason stock.

    Tyler, Mason, Roslyn are also masonic names that have become common place without the public realising it. Deacon, Warden and Worshipful Master also as of yet have to be realised.

    Nothing wrong with “Masonic” names, the normal ones, like the ones listed above, anyway.

    Too many people let their “imagination” run away with themselves after reading too many Dan Brown books, when it comes to Freemasonry.

    It’s just like any other meeting “group”, these days. Their charitable works, which is what their main focus has been on for a long time now, often go unnoticed and unsung.

    The tide is turning…



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  • #6522
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with “Masonic” names, the normal ones, like the ones listed above, anyway.

    Too many people let their “imagination” run away with themselves after reading too many Dan Brown books, when it comes to Freemasonry.

    It’s just like any other meeting “group”, these days. Their charitable works, which is what their main focus has been on for a long time now, often go unnoticed and unsung.

    The problem is everyone is using them. I believe your name should be chosen from some ancestor predecessor or something in you linage. The problem with that theory is that then everyone would have been called Ugg or the female Ugge.


  • #6523
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,856 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with “Masonic” names, the normal ones, like the ones listed above, anyway.

    Tyler? Mason? Total knack-bag names.

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #6524
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Tyler? Mason? Total knack-bag names.

    Now they are, long ago those names actually meant something. They were name that had something to live up to. When you were given a name it carried weight and you aspired to maintain that name. I used to love the name Mercedes, after the Count of Monte Cristo, now? not so much


  • #6525
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Penn wrote: »
    From Reddit:

    Am I The Asshole for wanting to name my daughter after a Star Wars character?

    That’s brilliant


  • #6526
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Anus McNulty


  • #6527
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    JJayoo wrote: »
    Anus McNulty

    wasnt he a presenter on kids tv on RTE in the 80's


  • #6528
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Lex Luthor wrote: »
    wasnt he a presenter on kids tv on RTE in the 80's

    You are thinking of Dr Aidan McNulty or Angeus McAnally.


  • #6529
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...


  • #6530
    js35
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭js35


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...

    Bridger :pac: :pac:


  • #6531
    Ashbourne hoop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Ashbourne hoop


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...

    Luke really lucked out there.


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  • #6532
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,072 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...

    Must have taken her ages to come up with the alternative spellings . Luke is the lucky one there .!!Journee !!! Really ?


  • #6533
    Bob Gray
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Bob Gray


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...

    And Ledger, either a nod to the actor or affirming her love of bookkeeping.


  • #6534
    blindside88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Bob Gray wrote: »
    And Ledger, either a nod to the actor or affirming her love of bookkeeping.

    Based on the litter of pups she’s had and the list of terrible names I’d imagine it’s the actor :)


  • #6535
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    blindside88 wrote: »
    Based on the litter of pups she’s had and the list of terrible names I’d imagine it’s the actor :)

    I’m only dissappointed there was no wee-wee.

    Luke got lucky.


  • #6536
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Just read an article about a mum of 16 kids... Christ, the names!! Attached...
    She needs her VaaGee sewn up, NOW!


  • #6537
    Alejandro68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    Kilron. Always made me think they wanted to kill someone named Ron.


  • #6538
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Bellend McManus


  • #6539
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    The Radford family in the UK have 22 kids, their names aren’t bad but they obviously ran out of inspiration half way through cause a lot of the girls names rhyme and sound similar. I’d still rather their names than Bridger & Ledger though :pac:
    Their eldest is 31 and their youngest is just a few months old :eek:

    Chris
    Sophie
    Chloe
    Jack
    Daniel
    Luke
    Millie
    Katie
    James
    Ellie
    Aimee
    Josh
    Max
    Tillie
    Oscar
    Casper
    Hallie
    Alfie
    Phoebe
    Archie
    Bonnie
    Heidi


  • #6540
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    The Radford family in the UK have 22 kids, their names aren’t bad but they obviously ran out of inspiration half way through cause a lot of the girls names rhyme and sound similar. I’d still rather their names than Bridger & Ledger though :pac:
    Their eldest is 31 and their youngest is just a few months old :eek:

    Chris
    Sophie
    Chloe
    Jack
    Daniel
    Luke
    Millie
    Katie
    James
    Ellie
    Aimee
    Josh
    Max
    Tillie
    Oscar
    Casper
    Hallie
    Alfie
    Phoebe
    Archie
    Bonnie
    Heidi

    If this was on "The Savage Eye" they would have Mick the Bull, the barman of the year commenting "how did they get a days work done with all the ridin'?"


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  • #6541
    maxsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭maxsmum


    Two new baby boys I saw on Insta (regular Irish mammies)

    Jasper-Wren
    Rupert-Wren

    Where the hell did this come from
    They're not related at all, so it must be a thing. What kind of thing is beyond me.


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