are you named after anyone or anything?

Copa Mundial

The Pope at the time, good ole JP2.

Kovu

Karen Carpenter.......apparently :pac: also have both grandmother's names, confirmation name and a double word surname. Ffs.

johnny osbourne

Kovu wrote: »

Karen Carpenter.......apparently :pac: also have both grandmother's names, confirmation name and a double word surname. Ffs.

do you want to talk about it?

wandatowell

Named after the old chap.

My dad that is.

Reiketsu

My grandmother. Her name was Margaret but I'm Mairéad. Thought Margaret was too old fashioned...although my own name is going that way now too

ProudDUB

My sister went out with a lad who was named after Steve McGarrett of Hawaii 5-0 fame, the 70's version.

He was the youngest in a family of 13, where 10 of them were boys. By the time he arrived, his parents had totally run out of grandparents names, parents names, saints names etc etc to name him after.

They were watching the telly one night, the infamous da da da da daaaaaaaaaaa theme music comes on....and the mammy says 'that's it, we're calling him Steve.'

Jack Lord was the shiznit back in the 70's ! :rolleyes:

Kevin McCloud

One of my best friends is called Tina, her parents let it slip she was conceived on the bonnet of a mk1 cortina.

NachoBusiness

Have a rare enough Christian name. Never met another person with it.

Other than a milk man that used to deliver round our way that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucpZjDCat0

creolebelle

I was named after a famous queen.
I think I would name my children after saints

FloatingVoter

I was named after a newspaper column.

Gerinspain

I was named after my Dad....the girlie version of his name. It's not popular anymore and is very hard to pronounce for anyone outside of Ireland!

Day Lewin

My mother's old secondary school. True fact.

TheBeardedLady

RayM wrote: »

The lead singer of The Kinks. My dad was/is a massive fan and my mum just liked the name.

Cool :cool:

Lia_lia wrote: »

My Mother thought she was naming me after one of the swans in the Children of Lir. But then found out years later it's the name of the evil stepmother that turned them into swans :rolleyes:

Still one of the greatest stories ever told.



I'm named after a famous Irish poet.

TheCoolWay

Named after my uncle and my dad's closest brother who died in an accident several months before I was born

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Cormac... wrote: »

How can you tell if a Saint liked your name or not?

Well St. John Paul II said he liked the name when I met him in Galway some years back.

The Peanut

The priest at my baptism would not allow my parents christen me with the name they wanted as it was not the name of an Irish saint so he decided upon a name close to it. My God-fearing parents just agreed.:mad:

My name on my birth-cert is the name that the priest picked but I go by the name favoured by my folks.

Incredibly true.

Crooked Jack

Owldshtok wrote: »

Happy Birthday Martin!

I appreciate the sentiment but i can assure you that a birthday that takes place the day after paddy's day is rarely a good one

Tar.Aldarion

My first and middle name both come from the same prayer, the lazy ****!

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brummytom wrote: »

Mine's a family tradition - the eldest son in my mom's family has always been named Thomas or Andrew.

Which one are you, brummytom?

It BeeMee

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

My first and middle name both come from the same prayer, the lazy ****!

I get the "Mary" as a middle name, but I never met anyone called "Hail" before.
Is it an anglicised version of "Heil"?

Dog of Tears

My name happens to rhyme with the dog my parents owned when I was born.

Despite denials, I'm not entirely convinced that this was merely coincidental.

FunLover18

FunLover17

TheOtherBloke

Liam after Liam Gallagher. Nothing to be proud of. My Dad is a Huge fan

Rubberlegs

I was almost named Claire after the Gilbert O Sullivan song that was out when my mother was pregnant. But apparently I didn't look like a Claire, and looked like a name that she had never even considered before. I called my eldest girl after the Stephen King book I was reading whilst pregnant. And no, it's not It

johnny osbourne

my brother is named after a champion jockey

HalloweenJack

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Can't think of any maternity hospital with human names except... oh I really hope for your sake you weren't born in St Munchin's...

Down in Cork there is, least what I was told.