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

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    #5642
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    antipuker wrote: »
    Shantelle McGee...I sh!t you not!!
    That sounds like it could be illegal in a few states in the US!


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    #5643
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    garyskeepers wrote: »
    I was in temple street with the little one a few weeks back and yer wan next to me was talking to her kid, which i heard the name "Missy" .

    That was ok, until the nurse came out and called, "Missy Elliot"

    JAAAAAAAASSSSSSSUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS

    That is a misdemeanor...




    I’ll get my coat.


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    #5644
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Any Irish language name nobody can pronounce and spell, where the unlucky recipient will spend a lifetime explaining the spelling to others.

    Siobhan is another name, it always reminds me of shove-on your knickers, the teacher is coming. And eamin'....aiming for what?


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    #5645
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    janfebmar wrote: »
    And eamin'....aiming for what?

    Amen


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    #5646
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Maelsheachlainn Ó Conchubhair

    Case in point


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    #5647
    holliehobbie
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭holliehobbie


    Baltazhar. Think I spelled it correctly! Charlotte granddaughter of Princess Grace called her son this!


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    #5648
    holliehobbie
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭holliehobbie


    Baltazhar. Think I spelled it correctly! Charlotte granddaughter of Princess Grace called her son this!


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    #5649
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,012 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Baby born near me recently called Heidi Belle.
    There is a great onus on her shoulder now to grow up stunningly beautiful, I think.

    To thine own self be true



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    #5650
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    holliehobbie wrote: »
    Baltazhar. Think I spelled it correctly! Charlotte granddaughter of Princess Grace called her son this!

    Balthazar isn’t that unusual....I knew 2 as a child (one in Dublin, one in Galway). Balthazar Getty (of the Getty family - google them if you’re not familiar with them or watch the recent Danny Boyle TV series about them) was quite a famous actor/“heart throb” for a time in the late 80s/early 90s - his face was everywhere for a while.


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    #5651
    Rhyme
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rhyme


    citygal93 wrote: »
    I know someone who's daughter is called Neveah and she pronounces it "Nih-vay-ih" - but that's in a thick Dublin accent

    It's usually 'Heaven' spelled backwards, 'Nevaeh' :(


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    #5652
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    A cousin of mine has named her son Ferdiadh.

    She's from Ardee Co. Louth. The battle place of CuCullain and Ferdia.


    It's not right to saddle a child with such an obscure name


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    #5653
    thenumber3
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭thenumber3


    There were two sisters in my school called Asumpta and Concepta


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    #5654
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    A cousin of mine has named her son Ferdiadh.

    She's from Ardee Co. Louth. The battle place of CuCullain and Ferdia.


    It's not right to saddle a child with such an obscure name

    Its not that obscure , I knew two or three Ferdias when I was young


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    #5655
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    A cousin of mine has named her son Ferdiadh.

    What's your name?

    Ferdia... with a ''dh''

    Welcome aboard, Dh'Ferdia


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    #5656
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Omackeral wrote: »
    What's your name?

    Ferdia... with a ''dh''

    Welcome aboard, Dh'Ferdia

    Why would he have to spell his name if he is just asked his name ?


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    #5657
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users Posts: 7,198 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    janfebmar wrote: »
    Any Irish language name nobody can pronounce and spell, where the unlucky recipient will spend a lifetime explaining the spelling to others.

    Siobhan is another name, it always reminds me of shove-on your knickers, the teacher is coming. And eamin'....aiming for what?

    Give me a Sadhbh or a Meadhbh any day over a Belle, Ella, Emma etc...


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    #5658
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Its a strange phenomenon that some Irish people seem to struggle with Irish names yet will happily try to pronounce Polish or Lithuanian names . We are not unique in have old names that might be difficult for others .
    I have an old Irish name and lived in Germany and had no problems at all , people listened and made a good effort to pronounce it and usually managed well


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    #5659
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    Actual suggestions on a post looking for name ideas in a UK/Irish group for women.
    I love when these threads pop up cause there's usually some very eccentric, colourful suggestion. There is a recurring theme of random spellings and excessive hyphens in most of the contributions.
    The boys always get away lightly, the girl suggestions are way more unique and out there.

    Kc-Louize
    Lily-Queenie (for a little queen, obviously)
    Alonnagh
    Bianca-Chanel
    Skyla-Sky
    Aruzielle
    Renesmee (stolen from the Twilight series)
    Paddy-Mai

    Jagger
    Madox
    Ransom
    Sonny-Jake
    Breighden
    Ace


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    #5660
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,919 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    None of these people should be allowed reproduce. The human race is doomed.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #5661
    Harvey Weinstein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Harvey Weinstein


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Its a strange phenomenon that some Irish people seem to struggle with Irish names yet will happily try to pronounce Polish or Lithuanian names . We are not unique in have old names that might be difficult for others .
    I have an old Irish name and lived in Germany and had no problems at all , people listened and made a good effort to pronounce it and usually managed well

    Its Cultural Cringe, a form of cultural or national self loathing. You can see it all over this thread. Seem like some people associate anything remotely 'Irish' as inherently backward and basically 'wrong'


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    #5662
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Alonnagh

    Alonnagh-gain, naturally.


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    #5663
    Kitty6277
    Registered Users Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    I’m sorry but Paddy-Mai has me cracking up


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    Jupiter Mulligan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Jupiter Mulligan


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Goretti is another one.

    The missus took that for her confirmation name (under pressure from the nuns, or so she claims!) - seemingly Saint Maria Goretti was a young girl who was murdered by a man for resisting his lewd advances. She died a virgin, although I don't know how that made her eligible to be a saint. I can understand why the nuns tried to foist it onto impressionable young girls under their tutelage!


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    #5665
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    The missus took that for her confirmation name (under pressure from the nuns, or so she claims!) - seemingly Saint Maria Goretti was a young girl who was murdered by a man for resisting his lewd advances. She died a virgin, although I don't know how that made her eligible to be a saint. I can understand why the nuns tried to foist it onto impressionable young girls under their tutelage!

    We had a picture of Maria Goretti on the landing when we were kids . She was one of those pictures who’s eyes follow you and her mouth seemed to move
    I would sneak past her going upstairs and hope she wouldn’t follow me . She petrified me


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    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    The missus took that for her confirmation name (under pressure from the nuns, or so she claims!) - seemingly Saint Maria Goretti was a young girl who was murdered by a man for resisting his lewd advances. She died a virgin, although I don't know how that made her eligible to be a saint. I can understand why the nuns tried to foist it onto impressionable young girls under their tutelage!

    Oooh! Matron.......


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    #5667
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Jupiter Mulligan wrote: »
    The missus took that for her confirmation name (under pressure from the nuns, or so she claims!) - seemingly Saint Maria Goretti was a young girl who was murdered by a man for resisting his lewd advances. She died a virgin, although I don't know how that made her eligible to be a saint. I can understand why the nuns tried to foist it onto impressionable young girls under their tutelage!

    Remember the 'good' nuns hammering that story into us alright. Better to die a virgin, fighting for your life than 'allow' yourself to be defiled.


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    #5668
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Cyra and Levi!


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    #5669
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    "Harlem"


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    #5670
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    B_ecke_r wrote: »
    "Harlem"

    I'm praying the middle name is Globe and the surname is Trotter.


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    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,908 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    B_ecke_r wrote: »
    "Harlem"

    Probably that's where he was conceived.


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