Terrible names

saabsaab

Cletus and Chardonnay.

RandomViewer

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

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.

Depends where you live, I live in a gaeltacht area, no class system and many names from different countries as many the children of returned emigrants

Ekerot

Lynn Benfield wrote: »

Clive.

I like that one actually, uncommon enough to not know many people called it, but not uncommon enough that no one has ever heard of it.

Then again, the only people I know called "Clive" are Clive Barker and a videogame character from a game for the Nintendo DS.

iamwhoiam

Hamachi wrote: »

It is pronounced ‘Gubnet’. I met one in real life when I was a teenager at the Gaeltacht in west Cork for the summer in the late ‘90s.

The poor girl got a terrible slagging. Even the teachers were taken aback when calling out the attendance sheets at the start of class..

St Gobnait is very well known in West Cork and a St Gobnaits well in Baile Bhuirne is very popular . I am very surprised that any teacher in West Cork would not know that

saabsaab

Dougal or Rex. Dogs names?

piwyudo0fhn57b

Bob, Fred, Eugene

Not the biggest fan of these names.

Brian?

SineadSpears wrote: »

That's the second time that name has came up. I thought it was a piss take the first time. Surely thats not an actual name is it

I know 3 Gonbnaits. It’s not that rare in West Cork where St Gobnait is from.

Brian?

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

It’s the Irish for Deborah, I believe.

Deborah is the Anglicisation of Gobnait.

Brian?

Hamachi wrote: »

It is pronounced ‘Gubnet’. I met one in real life when I was a teenager at the Gaeltacht in west Cork for the summer in the late ‘90s.

The poor girl got a terrible slagging. Even the teachers were taken aback when calling out the attendance sheets at the start of class..

I find that hard to believe. St Gubnaits well is between Ballyvourney and Coolea. The only 2 Gaeltacht I know of in Cork.

2 of the Gubnaits I know are from Coolea and one is from Ballyvourney.

jojofizzio

SuperSean11 wrote: »

Terrance for a girl

Brian? wrote: »

I find that hard to believe. St Gubnaits well is between Ballyvourney and Coolea. The only 2 Gaeltacht I know of in Cork.

2 of the Gubnaits I know are from Coolea and one is from Ballyvourney.

Cape Clear is a Gaeltacht area

iamwhoiam

Brian? wrote: »

I find that hard to believe. St Gubnaits well is between Ballyvourney and Coolea. The only 2 Gaeltacht I know of in Cork.

2 of the Gubnaits I know are from Coolea and one is from Ballyvourney.

I know three Gobnaits from Beal Atha an Gaorthaidh not far from Coolea
Also a Gaeltacht area

EmmetSpiceland

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I know three Gobnaits from Beal Atha an Gaorthaidh not far from Coolea
Also a Gaeltacht area

Think I remember seeing a St. Gobnait’s on one of the Aran Islands, might have been Inis Oirr.

iamwhoiam

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Think I remember seeing a St. Gobnait’s on one of the Aran Islands, might have been Inis Oirr.

She was definitely in Baile Bhuirne anyway !

whisky_galore

Hamachi wrote: »

Don’t be ridiculous. They’re beautiful names, particularly Aoibheann.

Hi Caca Milis.

iamwhoiam

whisky_galore wrote: »

Hi Caca Milis.

Thankfully so many of the beautiful old Irish names have survived and are in use
Gorgeous to hear and beautiful names

RandomViewer

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I know three Gobnaits from Beal Atha an Gaorthaidh not far from Coolea
Also a Gaeltacht area

Its the Irish for Deborah,

iamwhoiam

RandomViewer wrote: »

Its the Irish for Deborah,

Not quite right .



FEAST DAY: FEBRUARY 11
Gobnait (Gobnet, Gobhnet, Gobnaid, Gobnata, or Gobnatae), was born in County Clare, Ireland, sometime in the 5th or 6th century. 
Gobnait is Irish for Abigail (“Brings Joy”). 

As the patron saint of beekeepers, her name also has been anglicized as Deborah, meaning "Honey Bee."

Thelonious Monk

RandomViewer wrote: »

Depends where you live, I live in a gaeltacht area, no class system and many names from different countries as many the children of returned emigrants

Well it's still a tiny fraction. My Granny was from a Gaeltacht in Connemara, and they all had names like Sarah and Tom etc, even though spoke Irish.
I'm reading a book now and the Irish nobility feature in it, Anne Boleyn was to be wed to an Irish nobleman called James Butler, in the early 1500s. His family all had names like Margaret etc.
I think a lot of the unusual names are a Gaelic revival thing that didn't come around till the 20th century.

Hamachi

Brian? wrote: »

I find that hard to believe. St Gubnaits well is between Ballyvourney and Coolea. The only 2 Gaeltacht I know of in Cork.

2 of the Gubnaits I know are from Coolea and one is from Ballyvourney.

It was Coolea.

Neither the girl in question nor most of the teachers were local to the area. It was years ago, but from what I recall, the girl was from up around Donegal.

It was certainly my first time hearing the name. She got a pretty torrid time, particularly from kids from more urban areas.

I don’t doubt that there are quite a few Gobnaits in West Cork. I presume it is much older women though? This particular girl would still be in her mid-late 30s today.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

Ochras and Marbh

and elon musks kid 'X Æ A-Xii'

Samsgirl

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Ivan

It's terrible.....

Brian?

Hamachi wrote: »

It was Coolea.

Neither the girl in question nor most of the teachers were local to the area. It was years ago, but from what I recall, the girl was from up around Donegal.

It was certainly my first time hearing the name. She got a pretty torrid time, particularly from kids from more urban areas.

I don’t doubt that there are quite a few Gobnaits in West Cork. I presume it is much older women though? This particular girl would still be in her mid-late 30s today.

Fair enough. Surprised to hear that.

I’m in my early 40s, 2 Gubnaits were around my age. I can’t throw a stone in Coolea without hitting a distant cousin, so I’m probably over exposed to the name.

Count Basie

Count Basie wrote: »

My surname is Hugenschlong but I am literally 4 inches at full mast....why God, why?

Steroids?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Martin.

Has to be the dullest, least interesting name ever. When I hear the name, I imagine the persons parents at the time of their birth saying ‘oh look, it’s a boy, what will we call him’ and the other one answers ‘Ara fcuk, I couldn’t be bothered having to think of a name, just call him Martin’ and the other one replies ‘yeah whatever, Martin it is’

snowstorm445

Mortimer. How can a parent look at a baby and end up settling on that?

Samsonsmasher

Tarquin has to be the worst.
Anyone with that name gets wedgies at school or cuckolded later in life.

The best name for a boy is either Steve or Ulysses. If he turns out to be a dork or fat he's got a cool name so the other boys will still want him in their gang. Alternatively if he grows up to be a boss he made for life!

FTA69

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

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.

There’s nothing funnier than when blind ignorance is mixed with arrogance. Still chuckling at the absolute roasting this poster got for their nonsense and how they shnaked off then when caught rotten talking sh*te.

Brian?

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Well it's still a tiny fraction. My Granny was from a Gaeltacht in Connemara, and they all had names like Sarah and Tom etc, even though spoke Irish.
I'm reading a book now and the Irish nobility feature in it, Anne Boleyn was to be wed to an Irish nobleman called James Butler, in the early 1500s. His family all had names like Margaret etc.
I think a lot of the unusual names are a Gaelic revival thing that didn't come around till the 20th century.

The traditional Irish names never went away. It might seem like because our history was anglicised.

There is no way anyone called someone James Butler in Ireland in the 1500s, who wasn't actually English.

Grainne Mhaol is a pretty famous example. You'll often here her referred to as Grace O'Malley. This was a revision made after the fact by people who speak English.

The English sounding Christian names really took over after the famine. Irish was seen as a poor people's language before that, but the famine really broke it. My paternal grandparents grew up with their first language as Irish, yet somehow named most of their kids very English sounding names like William, Rose and John.

That generation is an aberration though as their children named their kids mostly Irish names.

This is true on both sides of my family. Geneations of Irish names with my parents and grandparents the odd ones with English names.

No one I know from the Gaeltacht has an English name. They might be called Tom, but they're really Tomás.

Thelonious Monk

Brian? wrote: »

The traditional Irish names never went away. It might seem like because our history was anglicised.

Yeah I know Tomas and Peadair and Padraig etc were all common, but I would have thought the names like Caolfhionn, Doireann, Aoife even, only started to become popular in the late 20th century? Maybe I'm wrong but I'm not sure where you'd see these names in the past outside of ancient tales.

Brian?

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yeah I know Tomas and Peadair and Padraig etc were all common, but I would have thought the names like Caolfhionn, Doireann, Aoife even, only started to become popular in the late 20th century? Maybe I'm wrong but I'm not sure where you'd see these names in the past outside of ancient tales.

You won't see them because they were anglicised when written down. There is very little Irish history written in the Vernacular. It went no written history, Latin and then English.

Some of the names you see now are written with extra letters because phonetically it's the most accurate. But the names never went away. There are about 5 spelling of some names like Orla, Orlaith, Orflaith, Orlaigh. Some or regional inflections of the 2nd consonant. But Orla is definitely incorrect phonetically, it lacks the texture of Orlaith etc.

The problem is we use English letters to approximate Irish pronunciations.


The exception to all of thus is Saoirse. That's a new name.

RandomViewer

snowstorm445 wrote: »

Mortimer. How can a parent look at a baby and end up settling on that?

There's a tradition among CofI of naming the firstborn son the mothers maiden name, so Mortimer was likely his mums surname

EmmetSpiceland

RandomViewer wrote: »

There's a tradition among CofI of naming the firstborn son the mothers maiden name, so Mortimer was likely his mums surname

I knew a ‘Mort’ before. Fell for a Brazilian girl and moved over that way. He was a sound skin.

jmlad2020

Sorcha

Usually followed by an Anglo surname to cover the fact they have English heritage

Leg End Reject

How is Caolfhionn pronounced? I'm trying to figure out if I've ever met one.


For me:
Rosemary
Margaret
Bridget
Jacinta
Reginald
Majella
Proinsias
Dean
Nigel

corner of hells

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Sorcha

Usually followed by an Anglo surname to cover the fact they have English heritage

Sorcha's parents called her Sorcha to hide the fact they have English heritage? Have i got that right ?

Mister Vain

Leg End Reject wrote: »

How is Caolfhionn pronounced? I'm trying to figure out if I've ever met one.

I believe its Kee-lin.

Leg End Reject

Mister Vain wrote: »

I believe its Kee-lin.

Wow, I'd have never copped that. I just made noises like I was being strangled trying to get the first part.

Pherekydes

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Rosemary
Margaret

My first two wives. :pac:

iamwhoiam

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Wow, I'd have never copped that. I just made noises like I was being strangled trying to get the first part.

Its more like Quail in . But say it without the u in quail
Keelin is the anglised form of Caoilfhionn
Caol means slender and Fionn means fair
So a slender fair girl .

pc7

Gormlaith

saabsaab

Myfanwy. Not a terrible name really but it's Welsh.

The Wizards Sleeve

Donald.

Capt'n Midnight

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Wow, I'd have never copped that. I just made noises like I was being strangled trying to get the first part.

Now try Caoimhe.

mitchelsontour

The yanks calling girls Colleen

Leg End Reject

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Now try Caoimhe.

I know that one - qwee-va.

It's more common than the other one!

Samsgirl

Finbarr
How could anyone look at a baby and call him Finbarr.

Finn or Fionn are grand.

saabsaab

Samsgirl wrote: »

Finbarr
How could anyone look at a baby and call him Finbarr.

Finn or Fionn are grand.

Big Cork name. Saint Finbarr.

Mister Vain

Samsgirl wrote: »

Finbarr
How could anyone look at a baby and call him Finbarr.

Finn or Fionn are grand.

Hard to picture a baby Finbarr alright. When I hear that name I always think of an auld lad in a country pub drinking Guinness.

saabsaab

Mister Vain wrote: »

Hard to picture a baby Finbarr alright. When I hear that name I always think of an auld lad in a country pub drinking Guinness.

Beamish or Murphys!

Larbre34

saabsaab wrote: »

Beamish or Murphys!

Don't be ridiculous.