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Rich people names

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  • #52
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    I think John Paul is an OK name, obviously popular with catholics.

    and Beatles fans;)


  • #53
    _ZeeK_
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭_ZeeK_


    Rupert Murdoch.

    Tara Palmer-Tomkinson


  • #54
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Byron Colossal Vermin wrote: »
    'John Paul Joyce' ... For crying out loud, who'd call their child 'John Paul' :p

    Talk about rich sounding!.

    .
    A huge number a children born in the year the pope visited Ireland were named John Paul. I'd consider it a working class name.


  • #55
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Aren't Cornelius and Breffni symbolic Cork and Cavan names, respectively? When this thread comes up in 10 years it'll be all about the skobes calling their sprogs Charlotte and Geoffrey.


  • #56
    3qsmavrod5twfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭3qsmavrod5twfe


    Darragh Fiachra O'Cleirigh-MacAenghus

    Doesn't it just reek of pretension!

    Irish names, and lots of them, unless you're from Inis Boffin, sounds like you were born with a whole silver cutlery set in the gob.


  • #57
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Dick! Is there a finer male name? First of all, your male friends call you Dick, immediately women assume that's your nickname because of your robust crotch. It also makes people wonder how "Dick" is another name for Richard. A mystery indeed.
    Really? May have to start using my middle name more so, (it's dick) combined with my first name it's more innuendo than you can shake a stick at. (First names Mick).


  • #58
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    A huge number a children born in the year the pope visited Ireland were named John Paul. I'd consider it a working class name.

    A lot of 30 year olds are called John Paul. It's not fancy or posh in anyway, believe me.


  • #59
    triple-M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭triple-M


    Diamond or pearl,who could ever call a child that


  • #60
    triple-M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭triple-M


    I would have loved to have gone to a rich peoples school,i'd say role calling in the morning was great craic


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  • #61
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    muffy wrote: »
    Mr. William Gates.....definitely a bit posh.

    And Willy Gates??


  • #62
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    triple-M wrote: »
    Diamond or pearl,who could ever call a child that

    s26902622857_870836_7894.jpg


  • #63
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    On the girls side
    Gertrude
    Whitney
    Tiffany
    Sorcha
    Erica
    Taimse

    And for the lads
    Fionnton
    Fiachra
    Setanta
    Turlough
    Dulta

    And sadly I have a double barrelled name and I hate it!!!!!!!!!! I only use one of them most of the time!


  • #64
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Whitney
    Tiffany

    Come on, they're skanger names!


  • #65
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Popular 'rich' people names become the most popular poor people's names after about 10-15 years.
    Interesting chapter on baby names in a book called Freakonomics.

    Anyhow, the real problem is when the kids with double barrelled names start marrying each other. :-/
    +1 for Freakonomics, great read!


  • #66
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    Come on, they're skanger names!

    No they are not. Tihhhh-faaaaa-NIIIIII is the scanger name. You're confusing them ;)

    Heard a mother calling her child Canada the other day. Cahhh-nahhh-daaaaah.


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  • #67
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Cheerilee wrote: »
    its not the english names its the makey upey uber irish names you find in the ahem wealthier areas of ireland
    Sneachta and Fuinneog etc etc:pac:


    there was a kid at the tree huggers camp in offaly on the radio about a month or two ago called uisce. she was only 9, i doubt she realised what her parents had done to her.
    as for freakonomics, everyone should read that!!


  • #68
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    Come on, they're skanger names!

    Not in the context of D4 girls with their ugg boots and fake LA accents, they aren't!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #69
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Gertrude
    Topping yourself must be high on the list of priorites with a name like that.


  • #70
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Aidric wrote: »
    Topping yourself must be high on the list of priorites with a name like that.


    I know 3 people with that name. They all call themselves Gertie


  • #71
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    I know 3 people with that name. They all call themselves Gertie

    There's one of them! Get 'em!


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  • #72
    Little_miss_syn
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Little_miss_syn


    I'm thinkin Charles....especially if theyre called Charles and not Charlie or Charlo....


  • #73
    g5fd6ow0hseima
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    And sadly I have a double barrelled name and I hate it!!!!!!!!!! I only use one of them most of the time!

    If you truly disliked it, you'd never use it.


  • #74
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Ugh if my name were Charles I'd slap anyone for calling me Charlo.


  • #75
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    Piste wrote: »
    Ugh if my name were Charles I'd slap anyone for calling me Charlo.

    I call my Uncle Charlo to, yes you guessed it, piss him off. ;)


  • #76
    iLoveTwilight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭iLoveTwilight


    brummytom wrote: »
    Any double barrelled names sound amazing pretentious.

    You can bet your arse anyone with one is a cunt

    Eh people have double barrelled names cos their parents are divorced / seperated .. Doesnt mean they are rich

    Guy i know his last name is Heddrington . Sounds posh but he is far from it :P


  • #77
    banshee_bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    tl;dr


    Christian
    Sebastian


    etc....


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