Terrible names

The Continental Op

Dameon

Maybe because the only person I know with that name is a total tool.

RobbingBandit

Richard Richards

Double Dicks

The Continental Op

If we are going down that route

I know a Carroll Carroll (through marriage).

NickNickleby

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I always wanted to know when 2 double barrelled surnamed people married what happens, complete fook up of people's lives, should be banned, one surname or fook off out of the country.

Amazing coincidence, I was in a pharmacy yesterday and heard someone announce themselves as Mary Pritchard-Murphy-Brennan, paraphrasing there, in case she's on here. Could be that Aonghus person in real life.

Now its possible that the second name was a second firstname if you get me.

Anyway, back on topic

Aonghus

:pac::pac::pac:

Antares35

No one name in particular but there seems to be an explosion of certain girls names being horrendously over used the last few years. If you Google say the top twenty names, it's all Ava, Olivia, Isabella, Sophia, Fiadh etc. With the exception of Fiadh, I think they are all really nice names in fact, but I wouldn't use one because I don't want my daughter to be in a class with six other girls the same name. I don't understand why parents pick them to be honest.

Antares35

NickNickleby wrote: »

Amazing coincidence, I was in a pharmacy yesterday and heard someone announce themselves as Mary Pritchard-Murphy-Brennan, paraphrasing there, in case she's on here. Could be that Aonghus person in real life.

Now its possible that the second name was a second firstname if you get me.

Anyway, back on topic

Aonghus

:pac::pac::pac:

Imagine having a name so convoluted that you couldn't even remember it yourself after a few drinks

Gregor Samsa

Don’t we have a foookin massive thread about this already, where literally every name ever used has been mentioned?

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056499044/166/#post116125736

McGinniesta

Happy4all wrote: »

Hank is a pretty cruel name to give a child.

I thought Hank was a shortened name for Henry.

The same way that chuck is a replacement for charles

McGinniesta

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Don’t we have a foookin massive thread about this already, where literally every name ever used has been mentioned?

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056499044/166/#post116125736

Relax there "Gregor".

doublejobbing 2

Larbre34 wrote: »

Aifric, Tiarnach, Caoilfhionn, Fachtna, Conchubar, Iarfhlaith, Medb, Sadhbh

Just **** off.

People "Gaelicising" their surname is bad enough. We never had a written Roman alphabet before the Brits arrived- you have no idea whether your ancestors were referred to as O'Raghalloidh or O'Reilly, it probably depended on where in the country they lived how the name was pronounced.

The most ludicrous however is people with surnames of blatantly British origin making up a Gaelic version of it. Gerry Adams or Gearoid Mac Adhaimh as he calls himself comes to mind. Imagine in 100 years a 50 year old whose grandparents came here from Poland in the mid 2000's named Pawel Lewandowski going around calling himself Pol O'Loudonchoi. It's equally as daft.

NickNickleby

NickNickleby wrote: »

Amazing coincidence, I was in a pharmacy yesterday and heard someone announce themselves as Mary Pritchard-Murphy-Brennan, paraphrasing there, in case she's on here. Could be that Aonghus person in real life.

Now its possible that the second name was a second firstname if you get me.

Anyway, back on topic

Aonghus

:pac::pac::pac:

Antares35 wrote: »

Imagine having a name so convoluted that you couldn't even remember it yourself after a few drinks

Perhaps her real name was Mary Murphy-Pritchard-Brennan, and she got confused.

appledrop

Larbre34 wrote: »

Aifric, Tiarnach, Caoilfhionn, Fachtna, Conchubar, Iarfhlaith, Medb, Sadhbh

Just **** off.

I have to agree. Even worse is when parents correct people on how to pronuce their child's name. What the parents don't actually realise is they are actually pronuced differently depending on part of Ireland people are from. Caoimhe and Roisin would be good example.

By the way I've no problem with the more 'traditional' Irish names that were around when I was growing up like Ciara, Brian, Orla, Ciaran etc.

Feisar

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

People "Gaelicising" their surname is bad enough. We never had a written Roman alphabet before the Brits arrived- you have no idea whether your ancestors were referred to as O'Raghalloidh or O'Reilly, it probably depended on where in the country they lived how the name was pronounced.

The most ludicrous however is people with surnames of blatantly British origin making up a Gaelic version of it. Gerry Adams or Gearoid Mac Adhaimh as he calls himself comes to mind. Imagine in 100 years a 50 year old whose grandparents came here from Poland in the mid 2000's named Pawel Lewandowski going around calling himself Pol O'Loudonchoi. It's equally as daft.

This x 100.

Plus I don't think one can legitimately translate a name. One can't decide another collection of letters is the same thing.

barney shamrock

Padraigin, terrible name to inflict on an infant girl.

doublejobbing 2

Men's names altered/ made up and given to D4 women, like Josepha, Thomasina and Edwina. They reek of pretentiousness and it just conjures an image of a father who was absolutely devastated a male heir to the family business didn't arrive as expected so he made do with what he got. Must be a terrible cross to bear if the much wanted brother never did arrive :pac:

corner of hells

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

Men's names altered/ made up and given to D4 women, like Josepha, Thomasina and Edwina. They reek of pretentiousness and it just conjures an image of a father who was absolutely devastated a male heir to the family business didn't arrive as expected so he made do with what he got. Must be a terrible cross to bear if the much wanted brother never did arrive :pac:

All three are not contrived names , Jospeha is Hebrew and the other two are old English names.

I know a halfwit who changed her surmane to an "Irish" version giving herself a male version of the name.

Thelonious Monk

appledrop wrote: »

I have to agree. Even worse is when parents correct people on how to pronuce their child's name. What the parents don't actually realise is they are actually pronuced differently depending on part of Ireland people are from. Caoimhe and Roisin would be good example.

By the way I've no problem with the more 'traditional' Irish names that were around when I was growing up like Ciara, Brian, Orla, Ciaran etc.

Don't you live in Skerries? I used to go out with someone from there and she and all of her friends had such names. The likes of Skerries and Malahide are the epicentres of these names! I think they really gained popularity from about 1980 onwards.

When I was working in USA I had a colleague called Ainus, from Lithuania. Ouch.

I have an irrational hatred of the name Derek. I honestly can't explain why but it just annoys me.

Samsgirl

Jayden
Jaxon
Madison

corner of hells

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I have an irrational hatred of the name Derek. I honestly can't explain why but it just annoys me.

Did you watch Dr Who when you were a kid ?

Exterminate , exterminate...

doublejobbing 2

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

People "Gaelicising" their surname is bad enough. We never had a written Roman alphabet before the Brits arrived- you have no idea whether your ancestors were referred to as O'Raghalloidh or O'Reilly, it probably depended on where in the country they lived how the name was pronounced.

The most ludicrous however is people with surnames of blatantly British origin making up a Gaelic version of it. Gerry Adams or Gearoid Mac Adhaimh as he calls himself comes to mind. Imagine in 100 years a 50 year old whose grandparents came here from Poland in the mid 2000's named Pawel Lewandowski going around calling himself Pol O'Loudonchoi. It's equally as daft.

That’s pretty cretinous. Of course we had writing before the brits arrived. Writing came to Ireland with Christianity centuries before.

Someone mentioned Conchobar. Centuries old.

Feisar wrote: »

This x 100.

Plus I don't think one can legitimately translate a name. One can't decide another collection of letters is the same thing.

Names are often transliterated - which isn’t the same as translating. A translation would take the meaning of the word and translate that , Newbridge from Droichead Nua. The other way is to try spell it phonetically in the other language. Like Drogheda.

whisky_galore

Sh1tkicker names like PJ, DJ, Pa and Podge.

The Wizards Sleeve

Bridget.

Zebra3

Agnus.

corner of hells

Zebra3 wrote: »

Agnus.

A cross between Agnes and anus ?

JasonStatham

Lot of tossers in this thread.

Montage of Feck

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

People "Gaelicising" their surname is bad enough. We never had a written Roman alphabet before the Brits arrived- you have no idea whether your ancestors were referred to as O'Raghalloidh or O'Reilly, it probably depended on where in the country they lived how the name was pronounced.

The most ludicrous however is people with surnames of blatantly British origin making up a Gaelic version of it. Gerry Adams or Gearoid Mac Adhaimh as he calls himself comes to mind. Imagine in 100 years a 50 year old whose grandparents came here from Poland in the mid 2000's named Pawel Lewandowski going around calling himself Pol O'Loudonchoi. It's equally as daft.

Wow, such a self prejudiced and ill informed post.

the purple tin

Samsgirl wrote: »

Jayden
Jaxon
Madison

Nobody was called Madison until after that film Splash came out!
Remember the mermaid called herself it because she was found on Madison Ave or something.

Montage of Feck

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Wow, such a self prejudiced and ill informed post.

Bout the dumbest thing I ever read. And I’ve read comments on YouTube.

Airyfairy12

I dont particularly like allot of Irish names but I do like theyre used here, in a small way people are still holding onto Irish culture, language & traditions.
In my experience of listening to people who criticise others for naming their children Irish names, theyre often the same people who give out about foreigners living here and "destroying our culture"! Some Irish names are beautiful and I would much rather have an unusual name that has a bit of thought put into it rather than something common that you hear 20 times a day. It's ok to be different.

To answer the question, ones that spring to mind are Gobnait, Geraldine, Michelle, Deborah, Winifred, Sharon, Gerald, Gerard, Margaret, Mark, Stuart, Suzanne, Susan, Karan, Caroline, Bertie, Cecil, Noel, Felicia... Anything really common.

McGinniesta

Jack.

Pure aul lad

OscarMIlde

appledrop wrote: »

I have to agree. Even worse is when parents correct people on how to pronuce their child's name. What the parents don't actually realise is they are actually pronuced differently depending on part of Ireland people are from. Caoimhe and Roisin would be good example.

By the way I've no problem with the more 'traditional' Irish names that were around when I was growing up like Ciara, Brian, Orla, Ciaran etc.

I'm 37 and I knew people with those 'less traditional' Irish names growing up. I can't stand the cultural cringe regarding our native language.

Thelonious Monk

OscarMIlde wrote: »

I'm 37 and I knew people with those 'less traditional' Irish names growing up. I can't stand the cultural cringe regarding our native language.

It hasnt been our native language in centuries though. The Irish names seem to be a middle class thing. You dont get Astraids and Sadbhs in de flats.
I like most of the Irish names, I have one myself.

Zebra3

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

You dont get Astraids and Sadbhs in de flats.

Rihanna and Britney instead.

Capt'n Midnight

olestoepoke wrote: »

Imagine Irish names Ireland. Terrible indeed, let's just scrap the whole language eh and stick to American names.

Nevermind that, all names should have ONE spelling :mad:

Fancy spellings allowed if you send in an email, get a case reference and quote it when you call back tomorrow, thank you and have a nice day.

Kaylee , Kayleigh , Kailey , Kaylie , Caylee , Kailee , Kaleigh , Kaley , Keily , Kayley , Caleigh , Kayli , Cailey , Cayleigh , Kaily , Kayle , Kaylei , Keylee , Kaileigh , Keyli , Kaili , Kaylea , Kalie , Kaeli , Cailee , Kailea , Caylie , Calie , Kalee , Caileigh , Caeli , Kalei , Kaely , Kaeleigh , Caley , Kailie , Cayley , Calee , Kaelee , Keilee , Keiley , Kayelee , Kaelie , Keileigh , Klee , Kayliegh , Kailei , Kayly , Keyly , Keyleigh , Kaeley , Cayli , Kaliegh Caeley, Caylei , Kaile , Keylie , Kleigh , Kayliee , Kaly , Kalii , Khailee , Khaylee , Khaleigh , Keylei , Keyle , Caeley , Caily , Caeleigh , Caelie , Keili , Keyley , Khailey , Khalee , Khalei , Keighley , Caelee , Kayeleigh , Caliegh

ari101

ari101 wrote: »

Gertie, Winnie and their full versions *shudder

Lol, that's mad...

A very close relation of mine took her confirmation name as her first name...to escape Winifred!

Honest to fúck I'm not lying here - Her best friend was called Gertie, but Gertie passed.

Hamachi

I once knew a guy called Crispin Wigglesworth.

The first name is bad enough, without being paired with that God-awful surname.

Didn’t help that he was also the image of Will in the Inbetweeners.

NickNickleby

corner of hells wrote: »

Did you watch Dr Who when you were a kid ?

Exterminate , exterminate...

hahaha,, that's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw it!!

Filmer Paradise

Julian.

A woeful name to inflict on a child.

Also, why is anybody called Dean such bad news?

SineadSpears

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nevermind that, all names should have ONE spelling :mad:

Fancy spellings allowed if you send in an email, get a case reference and quote it when you call back tomorrow, thank you and have a nice day.

Kaylee , Kayleigh , Kailey , Kaylie , Caylee , Kailee , Kaleigh , Kaley , Keily , Kayley , Caleigh , Kayli , Cailey , Cayleigh , Kaily , Kayle , Kaylei , Keylee , Kaileigh , Keyli , Kaili , Kaylea , Kalie , Kaeli , Cailee , Kailea , Caylie , Calie , Kalee , Caileigh , Caeli , Kalei , Kaely , Kaeleigh , Caley , Kailie , Cayley , Calee , Kaelee , Keilee , Keiley , Kayelee , Kaelie , Keileigh , Klee , Kayliegh , Kailei , Kayly , Keyly , Keyleigh , Kaeley , Cayli , Kaliegh Caeley, Caylei , Kaile , Keylie , Kleigh , Kayliee , Kaly , Kalii , Khailee , Khaylee , Khaleigh , Keylei , Keyle , Caeley , Caily , Caeleigh , Caelie , Keili , Keyley , Khailey , Khalee , Khalei , Keighley , Caelee , Kayeleigh , Caliegh

Wow thats impressive. I kinda like that name now :pac:

Rikand

The sigh of relief when you realise none of your kids names have been mentioned...... yet

the purple tin

It was mentioned already- Norman urgh! What a passion killer

Capt'n Midnight

SineadSpears wrote: »

Wow thats impressive. I kinda like that name now :pac:

That's only the common ones. There's way more variations.

SineadSpears

SineadSpears wrote: »

Wow thats impressive. I kinda like that name now :pac:

Is it too late to say I'm sorry?

ari101

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nevermind that, all names should have ONE spelling :mad:

Fancy spellings allowed if you send in an email, get a case reference and quote it when you call back tomorrow, thank you and have a nice day.

Kaylee , Kayleigh , Kailey , Kaylie , Caylee , Kailee , Kaleigh , Kaley , Keily , Kayley , Caleigh , Kayli , Cailey , Cayleigh , Kaily , Kayle , Kaylei , Keylee , Kaileigh , Keyli , Kaili , Kaylea , Kalie , Kaeli , Cailee , Kailea , Caylie , Calie , Kalee , Caileigh , Caeli , Kalei , Kaely , Kaeleigh , Caley , Kailie , Cayley , Calee , Kaelee , Keilee , Keiley , Kayelee , Kaelie , Keileigh , Klee , Kayliegh , Kailei , Kayly , Keyly , Keyleigh , Kaeley , Cayli , Kaliegh Caeley, Caylei , Kaile , Keylie , Kleigh , Kayliee , Kaly , Kalii , Khailee , Khaylee , Khaleigh , Keylei , Keyle , Caeley , Caily , Caeleigh , Caelie , Keili , Keyley , Khailey , Khalee , Khalei , Keighley , Caelee , Kayeleigh , Caliegh

Don't forget Keeley - like Keeley Hawes

JustAThought

Some countries used have lists of ‘approved’ names that you had to choose from - explains why half of Sweden is named after an icecream bar.

I’ve always loved Irish names.

I’d also hate to have a name that agestamps you like rings in a tree - Brittney, Shakira, Dianah, Harry, Ronaldo, JP...

Montage of Feck

Ivan

barney shamrock

JasonStatham wrote: »

Lot of tossers in this thread.

Apologies Derek.

doublejobbing 2

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Wow, such a self prejudiced and ill informed post.

Can anybody here read Ogham census records? Because some people seem to be hinting that they can :pac:

Your written name likely derives from the spelling the census taker used for it when your illiterate forbearers talked to them in, I believe, 1801. A time that pre dates Neo Celt historical revisionism.

There are people like your one Phil Ni Sheagahsdhsdhajash from the nurses union who are just on a wind up frankly.

ari101

California tried to get Elon Musk and Grimes to see sense but they still called their kid "X Æ A-Xii" :eek:

https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/elon-musk-grimes-tweak-their-sons-name-to-comply-with-californias-naming-laws-and-yet-it-remains-weird-8409381.html/amp