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

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  • #1502
    Sand
    Registered Users Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Ufuk.

    Genuine Turkish name apparently - and its pronounced as you'd expect.


  • #1503
    joe stodge
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭joe stodge


    cantdecide wrote: »
    ...because I think I can beat them all. I swear I considered strangling the poor little bugger to death for his own good. Sit down. Calmly take a deep breath and prepare yourself...

    Isis.
    This name is so much worse now than 3years ago, class.


  • #1504
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I always hated the name Jacinta. For obvious reasons.
    It sounds horrible when shouted- JA-CIN-TAAAAAAH.
    Urgh.


  • #1505
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    No he isn't.

    Is to.


  • #1506
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    ewinslet wrote: »
    Síofra is another name to add to the list of Irish names given to children by their gob****e parents - parents who then send them to Irish speaking schools to learn crucially important subjects like maths through Irish and then wonder why their child is a total idiot.

    What would be the difference in learning maths through Irish and say Finnish, or Korean or any other non English language?


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  • #1507
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    This doublebarrelled surnames combination would sound appropriate:

    Irish-Waters !!!


  • #1508
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    Guy who worked with my old mans company years ago, had a son born in 1986. Called him Diego. Poor bastard.


  • #1509
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    glynf wrote: »
    Guy who worked with my old mans company years ago, had a son born in 1986. Called him Diego. Poor bastard.

    Always the case. Like the Rios and Ferdinands we see today.


  • #1510
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    Cianos wrote: »
    Is he going to name them all in sequence? Poor little BJ :(

    ^^This is still getting thanked three years later.


  • #1511
    To Elland Back
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    Spoke to a girl called Louvain today.


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  • #1512
    KatW4
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    Some names I came across while teaching in England were Desiree, Love, Beautiful, Princess and Promise. Hard to keep a straight face the first time you hear it!


  • #1513
    goiko
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭goiko


    I forgot this italian girl in my class whose name was Marika. That means f aggot in Spanish.

    Sunny is a horrible name too.


  • #1514
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    A friend of mine's brother named his son 'Gaius' after Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica.

    Now I like Battlestar Galactica but even I want to bully that kid, let alone his schoolmates.


  • #1515
    Hibernosaur
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Hibernosaur


    Gretchen. Awful name for a girl, great name for a goblin like creature.

    I know a bloke named Sharon and another named Maria. In fairness they are Israeli so they probably think we're strange for calling women Sharon and Maria. After all the Hebrews invented the names first.


  • #1516
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Ulick

    Especially if your surname is McGee/Magee


  • #1517
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Hibernosaur wrote: »
    Gretchen. Awful name for a girl, great name for a goblin like creature.

    It's a daft enough name in German - people would think you've jumped right out of Grimm's Fairy Tales, but at least it sounds kind of cute-ish.

    I nearly fell of my chair when I first heard it pronounced by an English speaker, awful hacking and spitting noise.

    Heidi is a pretty stupid name, too.


  • #1518
    Molester Stallone II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Especially if your surname is McGee/Magee

    Close


  • #1519
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Shenshen wrote: »
    It's a daft enough name in German - people would think you've jumped right out of Grimm's Fairy Tales, but at least it sounds kind of cute-ish.

    I nearly fell of my chair when I first heard it pronounced by an English speaker, awful hacking and spitting noise.

    Heidi is a pretty stupid name, too.

    grate-hyen?
    sounds nicer than gretchen as english I guess :D

    met a girl once who insisted imogen was pronounced with a hard g. Thankfully it wasn't her name or anyone else's present...


  • #1520
    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    Gretchen always make me think of the words Wretch/Retch ... neither is a nice association. I never actually realised it was pronounced differently by Germans!


  • #1521
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    bluewolf wrote: »
    grate-hyen?
    sounds nicer than gretchen as english I guess :D

    met a girl once who insisted imogen was pronounced with a hard g. Thankfully it wasn't her name or anyone else's present...

    Sort of, but with a soft "r", and a long "eh", not the English "ei" sound. :)

    Still not a nice name, either way.


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  • #1522
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I know someone had a baby girl quite recently and called her Nia. When I got a text about it I thought it was a misspelling


  • #1523
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    It's actually spelt Sadhbh. And I think it's a beautiful name.

    We called our daughter Sadhbh. I love the name.


  • #1524
    Wellyd
    Registered Users Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Wellyd


    Just watching teen mom 2 and someone had a child on it called Moxon. FFS like Moxon what is wrong with the world?!


  • #1525
    Woshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    ryanf1 wrote: »
    I know someone had a baby girl quite recently and called her Nia. When I got a text about it I thought it was a misspelling

    It's the Welsh version of Niamh. They have the same Celtic myth. It's not particularly unusual I would have thought.


  • #1526
    NotASheeple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭NotASheeple


    cantdecide wrote: »
    The worst kid's name you've ever heard?



    Enda.


  • #1527
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    There was a poo-pants Halford at my primary school. His parents didn't name him that, we did.

    He pooed his pants ffs, what were we supposed to do?


  • #1528
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Wellyd wrote: »
    Just watching teen mom 2 and someone had a child on it called Moxon. FFS like Moxon what is wrong with the world?!

    Sounds like a stock cube...


  • #1529
    stoneruile
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭stoneruile


    Bowie The Boss Dee wrote: »
    Because their not a pack of dirty squeaky innocent fools!!!

    Here Star Man you come on here moaning like a little China Girl giving people abuse. Making noise like a Little Drummer boy. I'll meet you down at that chipper. You'll be falling around like you're trapped in a labyrinth!


  • #1530
    crybaby
    Registered Users Posts: 852 ✭✭✭crybaby


    living in thailand for the past seven years and here everyone has two names - you have your official name on all of your official documents and then you have your nickname for daily life

    some of the nicknames given to children by intelligent parents are quite astounding but two two best so far have been

    Prince Paris Jackson - immediately after the death of Michael Jackson

    Georgebushjunior - all as one word


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  • #1531
    harrymagina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 126 ✭✭harrymagina


    Someone called their child "accident" True story.


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