What would you have liked to have been named?

[lolly]

Mary

Muscle?

 

[funky]

Mary

Christmas?

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Had a little lamb?

 

[funky]

Mary

Lou Retton?

 

[GNL]

Billie Bear-Meat

 

[Inner Smile]

Mary who lived down the road from me nana

 

[Marina Salty]

Jezebel

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Karizma Jelly Tits

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Bertie Bumhole

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Luckily I'm delighted by the name already given to me which is ARABELLA PONDMOTH. Yes, secret's out

HI GIRLS

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Rudolph the Red Nosed Cunt

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Fernella Buttplug

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I must confess that I was quite jealous of my friend in high school who was called BONGY HUMPSNUFF

 

[jyxz]

My little sisters name. We all got named after my Mothers siblings. No originality in deepest darkest Donegal.

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

Or there’s always EITHNE

Well I say ALWAYS. Once every seven years if you’re lucky with more of the same old rubbish more like

 

[RJN]

I would not like to be referred to please

 

[funky]

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

THIS IS JIM ON THE DRUMS BUT HE SPELLS IT J A H K I E O M

 

[jyxz]

Or there’s always EITHNE

Well I say ALWAYS. Once every seven years if you’re lucky with more of the same old rubbish more like

We had an Eithne in Brookside. She’s a regular at the Royal Court.

For boys, how about Gobnait.

 

[GNL]

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

I had a friend called Sinead on MSN messenger, and my friend Sean (who should have known better) was convinced she was called SINNYAD. I corrected him, he asked her, and when she explained how it was actually pronounced, he passed the buck and said it was ME that thought she was called SINNYAD.

The betrayal!

 

[Generic Account]

I've grown to like my name but if I could change it I'd be Dualta.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I've grown to like my name too but if I could change it I'd be King Ribena Berry III.

 

[Marina Salty]

Genevieve

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've grown to like my name too but if I could change it I'd be Condoleezza Rice

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've grown to like my name too but if I could change it I'd be Armitage Skanks.

 

[Rita]

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

Unfortunately not but we do have a Margaret.

 

[RossN]

Id demand one of those Irish names that never sound how you expect them to.

Saoirse Grainne Eibhleann Siobhan

Of those four Grainne ('Grawn-yeah') and Siobhan ('Shiv-vaughn') would be pretty common names here in Ireland.

The ones that shock me are names that are incredibly common in Ireland and thus presumably common among ex-pats getting hopelessly mangled by Brits. You'd think anyone living in London must have run into at least one Aisling ('Ash-ling'), Ciara ('Keira') or Niamh ('Knee-eve') in real life.

 

[disneyteletubby]

I'm quite happy with my real birth name (except for job applications, I suspect they reject me partly based on that) but if I had an Irish name, maybe Sibéal.

I think the first Irish name I came across and understood was Aoife, another girl when I was 6 (2009-ish and she migrated to Australia).
In highschool I got more exposure to Irish names; I was confused at first, because I made a friend called Niamh (I knew the spelling Nieve) and I thought she'd changed her name over the summer when I learnt how it was spelt the headteacher's called Roisin (without the accents, so I initially assumed 'roy-zin' haha) and when I was new, I wondered if she was American.

It seems like Eithne is pronounced Enya in that area of Donegal, but it seems to be pronounced Eth-na or Et-na for other places in Ireland.

 

[Santaliger007]

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Gray ligers cool

 

[Joseph]

Taryn Muhole