What names do you like?

Ihatecuddles-old · 21-09-2013 3:04pm

Ben for a boy, Holly for a girl. But then it would be like Ben and Holly on the telly

Im getting a pug and calling it Paul, I think it would be really cute

Daveysil15 · 21-09-2013 3:23pm

Yung Thin Ho if I adopt a Chinese baby.

Karl Stein · 21-09-2013 3:44pm

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Rufus

Woof!?

pharmaton · 21-09-2013 4:16pm

Khaleesi, Arya, Shea, Sansa, Cersei
Theon, Jorah, Hodor.
my eight children.

Polka_Dot · 21-09-2013 4:27pm

Alice, Lucy and Grace would be my picks for girls. Boys names are harder, there aren't really any that stand out to me. I like George but that's about it.

Galwayguy35 · 21-09-2013 5:35pm

Dylan, Paddy and Tyler.

Míshásta · 21-09-2013 6:30pm

Daveysil15 wrote: »

That is true actually. Jack used to be such an old man's name. That's not the case now. I think its a bit too popular now though.

Yeah, but kids were never baptised with the name years ago. 'Twas just used as a nickname for John.

I can't understand it popularity as an official baptismal name though.

All the associations, Jack in the Box, Jack the Ripper, Jackass, Jack and the Beanstick, etc......................

Ah but! 'tis a free world.

TommiesTank · 21-09-2013 6:33pm

Ali Kebob

meoklmrk91 · 21-09-2013 6:36pm

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Woof!?

That's what everyone says, so even though I love it, I won't be using it, I just it for a dog instead.

ElvisChrist6 · 21-09-2013 7:15pm

Arthur and George are two of my favourite names. With boys names in general, I quite like strong English names - Philip, Thomas.

Although I'm also fond of some Irish names like Oisín and Fionn.

For a girl, Lucy or Alice as Polka_Dot said are nice names.

old hippy · 23-09-2013 11:10am

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

And you go on about someone sneering! And you know it's not odd, because Hannah is not an unusual name. No need for the disingenuousness.

Ok this forum can be read and posted to by anyone around the world, but the vast majority of people posting to it are Irish, so I'm thinking in terms of kids in Ireland. And kids aren't mature enough to be receptive to the exotic all the time. Yes it should be taken into consideration that a person might find their name a burden. And it's selfish of parents not to think about this. I'd expect a kid called Aoife in Japan to have a difficult time having to spell her name/explain how it's pronounced all the time. "It's other people's problem" would really be of no use to her.

Well forcing your beliefs on others... kinda cancels out your tolerance message. There's no point in pretending there are no cultural boundaries and pretending not to understand what people are saying when they're not familiar with something very exotic. Much as the idea of no cultural boundaries is lovely, it isn't the reality.

Not sneering at all. Names become acceptable over time; there's plenty of names that have Hewbrew origins and they are all over the western world.

A few of my friends worked in Japan and their kids were half Japanese with Irish names. They didn't encounter any problems.

old hippy · 23-09-2013 11:14am

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Yung Thin Ho if I adopt a Chinese baby.

I'm sure there's a forum for racial stereotyping elsewhere but sure as hell isn't this one.

Femme_Fatale · 23-09-2013 9:36pm

old hippy wrote: »

I'm sure there's a forum for racial stereotyping elsewhere but sure as hell isn't this one.

It's just jokey wordplay.

Tuco88 · 24-09-2013 12:52am

I like my Uncle and my Grandfather's name Fintan its also my middle name.

I hate it when people say "Fenton" at meetings like there calling the Duke of Kent of something. ahhh I hate that!

Of course my Uncle had "Fenton the dog" as his ringtone at one stage...... ha ha..