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

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  • #702
    zoe 3619
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭zoe 3619


    Chuck was taken wrote: »
    What's so bad about that ?

    ?


  • #703
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The story is that the father, Robert Lane, decided to call his son Winner, thinking it would give the kid a boost in life. Three years later he had another son, and on the spur of the moment decided to call him Loser. As the Freakonomics authors say about his decision, "Robert wasn't unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name's bookend effect." If the guy had a third son he should have called him "Lover." That, at least, would have fit with the last name.

    The punchline to the story is that Winner Lane ended up as a loser in life, a petty criminal living homeless on the streets. Loser Lane, on the other hand, has been a success in life. He's a detective in the South Bronx. :)


  • #704
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Does anyone like their own name?
    I love my name :) it's nice having an unusual one!


  • #705
    zoe 3619
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭zoe 3619


    Went to school with a boy whose name was so badly chosen no one would take me seriously if I posted it.suffice it to say his surname was Head.


  • #706
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    zoe 3619 wrote: »
    Went to school with a boy whose name was so badly chosen no one would take me seriously if I posted it.suffice it to say his surname was Head.

    Not Flat head from Home and away?!
    Jebus!


  • #707
    keelanj69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    "Keelan..."

    "Kieran, is it?"

    "Keelan, K-E-E.."

    'Oh, Killian"

    "Yep" -.-"


  • #708
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    A family friend went to her debs with a guy called Cian Hoare.


  • #709
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    A family friend went to her debs with a guy called Cian Hoare.

    Oh come here, did he have a sister called Freda?!
    (I kid, I ddont know any hoares I swear....what. ..don't judge)


  • #710
    LoveChanel
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭LoveChanel


    Proudlock is a desperate name like wtf???


  • #711
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Not a kid, but a guy in New Zealand has changed his name to: Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova

    Do those mental name changes always seem to come from NZ?


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  • #712
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Do those mental name changes always seem to come from NZ?



    Tis very fashionable in Oz and NZ to give your kid Trouble or Danger as a second name. So you can say stuff like 'This is my son Spike. Danger is his middle name'.

    Harhar.

    I know someone who named their boy Spike. He shares that name with my childhood dog. :)


  • #713
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Seamus or Sean, boring auld names, ancient names should be brought back like Manach, Macha, Eochaid, Fiachu, Finnachta or Toirdelbach.

    Jordan, i hate that name on a fellow


  • #714
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    A Neurotic wrote: »
    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...

    I've met an African girl called Precious.

    Also used to be a little African restaurant in North Inner City Dublin called Decency which used to make me laugh.


  • #715
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    No joke but I know asmasn from Nigeria called 'innocent'


  • #716
    FairytaleGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭FairytaleGirl


    Friend of mine called her kid Darwin. Then have him a middle name of Castiel.

    I had no words.


  • #717
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Benson & Hedges


  • #718
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    lukesmom wrote: »
    No joke but I know asmasn from Nigeria called 'innocent'

    Yeah, I know a Congoan boy called Innocence.


  • #719
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    Harry...

    when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..


  • #720
    Knight who says Meh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Knight who says Meh


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Yeah, I know a Congoan boy called Innocence.

    Is he a bit of a smoothie?


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  • #721
    Knight who says Meh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Knight who says Meh


    zoe 3619 wrote: »
    Went to school with a boy whose name was so badly chosen no one would take me seriously if I posted it.suffice it to say his surname was Head.

    I know a Richard Head. What were the parents thinking?


  • #722
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Sinead
    Aoife
    Ciara

    ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
    Oisin is a particular bugbear.

    Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....


  • #723
    MonsterCookie
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭MonsterCookie


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    Harry...

    when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..

    I really like that name actually!

    Why does it make you cringe, just out of interest?


  • #724
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Knight who says Meh wrote: »
    Is he a bit of a smoothie?

    Am I the only one that got that?

    Well done Sir.


  • #725
    homemadecider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Yeah, I know a Congoan boy called Innocence.

    Congoan??


  • #726
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    homemadecider wrote: »
    Congoan??

    From The Congo




    It took me a minute too :)


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  • #727
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    lukesmom wrote: »
    No joke but I know asmasn from Nigeria called 'innocent'


    The Nigerian President is called Goodluck Jonathon. I think it's kind of charming to name babies after something you want for them, it's a common enough phenomena in Africa I think.


  • #728
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sinead
    Aoife
    Ciara

    ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
    Oisin is a particular bugbear.

    Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....

    Ah now some irish names are lovely, i would say Aoife and Ciara are lovely names the ones i can't stand are from those who clearly have no understanding of the language and name their child something stupid like "sneachta" (snow) or "fuinneog" (window) or "cuisneoir" (fridge) because they like how it sounds,


    although to be fair the mother of "sneachta" (snow) did afterwards at least try to claim she named her child after snow white....


  • #729
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    Ah now some irish names are lovely

    There are some bizarre prejudices around Irish names it seems. Bizarre because it's in Ireland, not Alaska or Mongolia.


  • #730
    paperclip2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2


    Electric Sheep wrote: »

    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.

    Best one of these I saw was 'Airwrecka' (Erica) :eek:
    Not sure its true but I hope it is. :D


  • #731
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,721 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sinead
    Aoife
    Ciara

    ANY Irish name actually..they just look horrible when written and they don't sound nice either.
    Oisin is a particular bugbear.

    Eric, Eugene, Anne, Anna, Roberta, Emily, Josh, Jake, Abbey, Clare, Mary, Fiona, Vera...I could go on....

    Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.


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  • #732
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

    I am Irish. I think it's because when I was in school, almost everyone in the class had an Irish name and my ears became immune the pronunciations of them, if that makes any sense.
    A lot of the Irish names are spelled similarly and they sound rough when they roll off the tongue.

    Ah, it's just my opinion.....but I don't like weird celeb names either!
    Won't be naming any of my future kids Moon Unit or DweebHead!


  • #733
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.
    I'm Irish, can speak fluent Irish, love the Irish language, and I dislike Irish names. People just have different tastes.


  • #734
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,631 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

    Why should you automatically like (or dislike) Irish names simply because you're Irish?

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



  • #735
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Why should you automatically like (or dislike) Irish names simply because you're Irish?

    Because fádo, fádo, the bishops blessed all the saintly Catholic Irish people all with the ability to talk in tongues resulting in them being able to use phlegm to make hitherto unknown sounds. So delighted were the saintly Catholic Irish with this mystical ability that they reserved it only for the most special of reasons: the naming of their offspring.

    If you don't like the names, you've obviously got Protestant blood.


  • #736
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    All the peculiar celebrity names (e.g. Rihanna, Beyonce etc.) - it's just about the most petty minded thing to do; It's making the "hey, I'm an empty headed TV addict who can't even think up a name" statement through your child.

    Just for information about Irish names, don't be surprised if your daughter is called "Sorcha" and you get the evil eye every time you call her while on vacation in Italy. The word means vagina in Italian :D


  • #737
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    At work we had a guy from Asia called Schlong Long..I shít you not...they all pick English names for themselves so it's easier for Westerners to pronounce them.
    At a meeting one day we had a guy over from China who introduced himself in a major ELT meeting as Mary :D


  • #738
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Are you Irish? think being Irish and disliking Irish names is very weird. Think the three you mentioned are perfectly nice and far preferable to the non Irish list below. Much prefer them myself though not the maydee upeee or archaic ones.

    I don't like Irish names myself.


  • #739
    Salty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭Salty


    Candie wrote: »
    There are some bizarre prejudices around Irish names it seems. Bizarre because it's in Ireland, not Alaska or Mongolia.

    Have to agree with you, seems to be some vitriol towards them! Then again, I have an Irish name (as do two of my siblings) so can't help but take it that way I suppose.:o


  • #740
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,026 ✭✭✭Wossack


    another bugbear.. I know a few people with bizarre pronunciations to fairly normal names- Leon, pronounced LOAN, and Charles, pronounced SHAR-LEZ for example


  • #741
    homemadecider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    Lisha wrote: »
    From The Congo



    It took me a minute too :)

    So... Congolese. Not Congoan.


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  • #742
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    SamAK wrote: »
    To be fair, what other people call their children is none of our fcuking business.



    Ah it is though, it influences society in general. We should all aspire to have a scum free society.


  • #743
    MonsterCookie
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭MonsterCookie


    newmug wrote: »
    Ah it is though, it influences society in general. We should all aspire to have a scum free society.

    Eh ahem, and a child's name influences this how exactly?


  • #744
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #745
    Noo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Noo


    I'm pretty indifferent when it comes to baby names, I always like to know what name they gave for information purposes but never give a yay or nay reaction....except once...


    Clementine


    :eek:


  • #746
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    homemadecider wrote: »
    So... Congolese. Not Congoan.


    Aren't you the Great Educator. Well done you. Have a gold star.


  • #747
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,946 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    Harry...

    when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..

    I love that name!

    On the Aeneas thing, if you're pronouncing it Anus, then you are probably pronouncing it incorrectly.
    I think it's pronounced An-ayus.

    Ayrton. What an awful name.


  • #748
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    I love that name!

    On the Aeneas thing, if you're pronouncing it Anus, then you are probably pronouncing it incorrectly.
    I think it's pronounced An-ayus.

    Ayrton. What an awful name.

    No, Anus was how the person pronounced it, ( whose name it is) when he introduced himself.


  • #749
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    Harry...

    when i hear some one calling their son in public.. i cringe..
    MonsterCookie wrote: »
    Why does it make you cringe, just out of interest?

    That was my father's name, and it's now my son's name.

    You better have a good answer! :D


  • #750
    hession
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭hession


    blue little girls name


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  • #751
    LoveChanel
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭LoveChanel


    A girl I was in school with was called princess. It was so weird hearing the teachers call her princess. Too cringey.


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