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Modern Irish childrens names

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    #62
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Ludraman :pac:


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    #63
    Teyla Emmagan
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    Caoimhe is a funny one. I think it's lovely pronounced without the 'w' sound, but I don't like it otherwise.

    Love Irish names though, they're mostly beautiful.

    Except Gobnait.


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    #64
    DanielODonnell
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    I heard about some calling their baby Kyle which is a Protestant sort of name around here, you can usually guess the relgiion and heritage by their first name never mind the surname. If I have babies they will be called after high kings.


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    #65
    Balmed Out
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    I don't get the dislike at all. Is Caoimhe not a fairly common name (and imo a very nice one has been on our top ten when naming kids)?

    Perhaps different in various parts of the country but in my own experience most middle class kids have Irish or Judaic names with upper and working class going with the more popular English ones though there are plenty of exceptions.


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    #66
    CelticRambler
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    I wanted to name our first-born after one of the pre-Norman Saxon kings, in honour of his place of brith in SE England. MrsCR refused to entertain the idea on the grounds of weirdness, so instead he goes by the name of a Celtic mythological figure.

    (Pregnant women can be very difficult to talk to ... :pac: )


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    #67
    AnLonDubh
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    But yes I find the "more Irish" names a pain to pronounce - Caoimhe is a perfect example.. HTF is that "K(w)eeva"
    It's spelled using the orthographic conventions of another language. The symbol "C" or "a", e.t.c. were not handed down by God with a fixed pronunciation, different languages attach a different sound to them.


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    #68
    AnLonDubh
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    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    Combination vowels like 'ae', 'ea' and 'ao' are diphthongs. In any language these are confusing. Dialects add extra confusion.

    In Irish, the 'ao' often sounds like an 'ee' sound. Maybe they once had more distinctive sounds
    Just for interest, ao, ea and ae are all pure vowels, not diphthongs.

    It's actually Irish consonants that are broad and slender not the vowels (although we are often taught in school that the vowels are broad/slender).

    So in "ea", the vowel is actually just "a", the "e" indicates that the preceding consonant is slender. Same with "buí", the only actual vowel is í, the "u" indicates that the "b" is broad.

    ao and ae did indeed used to be separate sounds in the 16th century, but have since collapsed into a single sound.


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    #69
    dee_mc
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    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    I heard about some calling their baby Kyle which is a Protestant sort of name around here, you can usually guess the relgiion and heritage by their first name never mind the surname. If I have babies they will be called after high kings.

    So Finbarr, Martin, Brian and Darren? Good strong names.


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    #70
    Cold War Kid
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    pmasterson95 wrote: »
    Asia is actually a country. If you equate Asia to being a pornstar then you yourself are watching to much porn and must have failed Geography, and possibly described yourself.
    Asia is also a woman's name though, and presumably is a popular name among porn actresses.
    Links234 wrote: »
    ****ing Kevin, ruining it for everyone as usual. Thanks Kevin, you bastard! :rolleyes:
    Little ****er - mother's little golden boy, thinks I'm a cabbage because I hate University Challenge, in love with himself. :mad:


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    #71
    MarkY91
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    Sergei Malatov wrote: »
    Joshua..
    Travis....
    Keegan...
    Christian...
    Dylan...
    Wade...
    Justin...

    Thoughts?

    What happened to Patrick, David, John, Joseph, Kevin, Keith?

    I've never heard of anyone in my life called them names bar Dylan which is rather common and not exactly new


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    #72
    Filmer Paradise
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    I think they're terrible. Any irish name is terrible, stupid spelling an unpronounceable.

    I'd agree with you there on most counts.

    Names like Sean or Tara though aren't so bad really.


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    #73
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭worded


    I overheard a kid being called Zeus, their parents have high hopes obviously


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    #74
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    dee_mc wrote: »
    So Finbarr, Martin, Brian and Darren? Good strong names.

    More like Aodh, Muirchertach, Donnchad and Fearghus. Niall was ruined by One Direction, he is probably better known than Niall of the Nine Hostages himself.


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    #75
    dee_mc
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    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    More like Aodh, Muirchertach, Donnchad and Fearghus. Niall was ruined by One Direction, he is probably better known than Niall of the Nine Hostages himself.

    That was a joke, those are the names of the members of a band called the High Kings. I promise I had to Google it!


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    custard gannet
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    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    .

    Except Gobnait.

    How's that pronounced? Never heard/ seen it before.


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    #77
    Sergei Malatov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭Sergei Malatov


    custard gannet wrote: »
    How's that pronounced? Never heard/ seen it before.

    dʒɒn


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    Joe prim
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    pmasterson95 wrote: »
    Asia is actually a country. If you equate Asia to being a pornstar then you yourself are watching to much porn and must have failed Geography, and possibly described yourself.

    You're Sarah Palin, aren't you?


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    #79
    Turtyturd
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    custard gannet wrote: »
    How's that pronounced? Never heard/ seen it before.

    Only exists on Boards.


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    #80
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    custard gannet wrote: »
    How's that pronounced? Never heard/ seen it before.

    Gub nett.


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    #81
    custard gannet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭custard gannet


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Gub nett.

    It is appallingly meh so.


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    #82
    nuac
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    Sergei Malatov wrote: »
    I'm partial to Gobnait.

    First time I heard "Gobnait" was in UCG in the fifties. Seems there was a saint of that name in Co Clare. The Gobnait I knew was beautiful girl. but I wonder if she changed it later.


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    #83
    Sergei Malatov
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    I think Saoirse is a lovely name.


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    #84
    nuac
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Many parent's go for the ancient Irish vibe these days.

    Cuchulainn/Setanta.

    Ferdia

    Iarlaith

    Eunan

    Tiernan

    Macdaragh, this name makes no sense if the fathers name is not Daragh.

    An island, and church named after Macdara in south Connemara. Regatta held on Macdara's Day. Sailing boats passing the island dip their sails.


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    #85
    nuac
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    lameusername wrote: »
    Kevin is Irish?!?!

    Cripes.

    Yup. Check in Glendalough


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    #86
    Monkeysgomad
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    I love the name Lachlan


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    #87
    nuac
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    I think they're terrible. Any irish name is terrible, stupid spelling an unpronounceable.


    The pronunciation of Caoimhe could not be simpler.

    For spelling just remember the rule "caol le caol, leathan le leathan"

    A lovely name. Glad people do not use the English version Keva.


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    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    One year in my class I had:

    Ava, Eabha, Aobha, Aoibhe,

    All pronounced Ava according to the Mammies. Have no problem with the first 3 but the last is most certainly not "Ava"


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    #89
    Red King
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    Shakira.

    Or even worse, Sianna which they got from Sienna Miller but they can't pronounce her name properly so they think it is Sianna.


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