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

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  • #3122
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    A quick search tells me that i's come up a few times over the years, but "Attracta" is an awful name I have come across. She is about 60.

    I also know of "Eucharia" who is 28 years old.


  • #3123
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Con, I just hate Con (abbreviation or not) I just think it sounds awful as a boy/Man's name.

    Con artist, it's a con, you've been conned etc come to mind.....


  • #3124
    PaddyWilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Jaaayzus, I assume they didn't google the second one before deciding on it!

    Could have been their inspiration?! :D:D


  • #3125
    Estrellita
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    I was in a park cafe recently, everyone sipping their drinks and chatting away in a sort of low murmur. Then at the top of her voice a woman calls out to her toddler son, in such a way that we were all meant to take notice. Stops again short of our table and shouts again, 'Jasper!'.

    My cup went down in a slow decent before throwing her a filthy. For the combination of her - look at me and what I've called my son antics, shouting beside me, but also for burdening an innocent child with a name like that. A real air of 'my child is better than everyone else's from her, insufferable twit.

    Jasper Carrot anyone?


  • #3126
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Estrellita wrote: »
    Jasper Carrot anyone?

    Jasper Carrot & Jasper the ghost!


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  • #3127
    Estrellita
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Jasper Carrot & Jasper the ghost!

    Thats Casper the ghost :D


  • #3128
    Falthyron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    Jaydee and Jaxson.

    /thread


  • #3129
    chughes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Con, I just hate Con (abbreviation or not) I just think it sounds awful as a boy/Man's name.

    Con artist, it's a con, you've been conned etc come to mind.....

    Isn't that name, or a version of it, mentioned in the last line of our national anthem? "Shoving Connie around the field......".


  • #3130
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Tyson
    Caleb
    Jordan
    Breffni
    Luke
    Oisin


  • #3131
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Yardley


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  • #3132
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Means Of Escape wrote:
    Tyson Caleb Jordan Breffni Luke Oisin


    Luke?
    Really?

    I don't like it either but not exactly a ridiculous name


  • #3133
    _Godot_
    Registered Users Posts: 877 ✭✭✭_Godot_


    I was in tesco the other day and the lady scanning my shopping was called Cheyenne. I thought I'd never get to post in this thread!


  • #3134
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Fionn - but pronounced Fee-On and not Fee-Yun.

    Pretentious.


  • #3135
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    valoren wrote: »
    Fionn - but pronounced Fee-On and not Fee-Yun.

    Pretentious.
    not really, it's a welsh name.


  • #3136
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Aoifey! wrote: »
    My uncle is called JJ. He just had a little boy and named him AJ.

    Could have been worse..could have called him BJ.


  • #3137
    irishgrover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    she was an adult before I met her but |I worked with a lady in the states for years, she was lovely and all, but here name was "Velvet Beard", she was born in the '60s or early 70's, I imagine to hippies...


  • #3138
    NUTLEY BOY
    Registered Users Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭NUTLEY BOY


    Tarquin :rolleyes:


  • #3139
    and still ricky villa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭and still ricky villa


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    Could have been worse..could have called him BJ.

    My ex's father was BJ. Very proud of it too
    Lovely man


  • #3140
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Girl I worked with as a teen called her baby boy Jaxxon. Poor kid.


  • #3141
    PaddyWilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Girl I worked with as a teen called her baby boy Jaxxon. Poor kid.

    Sweet Jesus

    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaxxon


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  • #3142
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Oh she's not even a nerdy type, just pure scaldy Hunzo.


  • #3143
    Smondie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    I was reading an article earlier about a woman in Maryland, USA. She called her child oillite. A name she heard in England.

    Nobody in maryland could pronounce it. This was stressing her out so much, 3months later she changed it to Margot.


    Daily mail I think it was


  • #3144
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    I think Iona is pretty grim.


  • #3145
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I think Iona is pretty grim.

    Prtetty grim but nowhere near the grimness levels of Isolda


  • #3146
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I think Iona is pretty grim.

    My name's Ina (I'm austrian) and nobody in Ireland can pronounce it properly.

    My sister's called Agnes. She is only partly happy about it.


  • #3147
    failinis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I think Iona is pretty grim.

    Likely due to association with Iona Institute?

    I really dislike Eleanor - no idea why. But it is not the worst I have heard.


  • #3148
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Smondie wrote: »
    I was reading an article earlier about a woman in Maryland, USA. She called her child oillite. A name she heard in England.

    Nobody in maryland could pronounce it. This was stressing her out so much, 3months later she changed it to Margot. Daily mail I think it was

    She must have pulled into Kwik Fit for something.


  • #3149
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Michael Phelps has a son named 'Boomer'.

    I quite like it but some people seem to think it's a ridiculous name.

    It's certainly not as bad as some other American names. Sarah Palin has children named 'Track Cj' and 'Trig Parxson Van", which sounds like some sort of getaway vehicle.


  • #3150
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    LirW wrote: »
    My name's Ina (I'm austrian) and nobody in Ireland can pronounce it properly.

    I know an Ina. She pronounces it eye-na.

    I used to know an Ira. Not an Irish person. Not many Irish Iras, for some reason :)


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  • #3151
    failinis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I know an Ina. She pronounces it eye-na.

    I used to know an Ira. Not an Irish person. Not many Irish Iras, for some reason :)

    Going the same way as the name Isis. Which is a shame that it is tainted.


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