I know that I am probably the last person who should comment on the names people give their children, due to the fact that I have the daughter with a name no one can say properly, but honestly, how old do you think the mother of Nikki-Heavenly-Dawn is? I am guessing about 14 and she had probably just finished reading Heaven by V.C. Andrews. Or how about the parents of Sara-gobad? Just what do they have in mind for their daughter's future? Or the rather funky parents of C-iara. There was apparently too much rap in that birthing room. Or the mother was very drugged up when she filled out her registration form. A slip of the pen perhaps.
My mother takes care of all the registration forms at our nearby hospital and she is amazed by the names she sees. There was a couple who wanted to name their child The Saviour Has Arrived, a name that the Government of Alberta is all their wiseness rejected.
I am looking at the Vital Statistics list of names for 2005 to see what I might or might not call this baby who is due to arrive sometime this summer. I want something Irish or Scottish and something that I will not hear everywhere I go. Unlike Liam. William and I can't agree on a girls name, he has given a resounding no to all my choices, yet will not come up with one of his own. I like Caoimhe, of which there are none, Niamh (there was one), Mairead (there was one, this is William's most hated name, he considers it an IRA name) and a host of other names that didn't appear on the list. For boys he likes Declan (too many at 38) and he vetoed my choices of Cathal (0) and Cormac (1) but said he could live with Calum (3, but 17 spelled Callum.)
So what to do? I'm looking for opinions people.
02 March, 2006
Who in their right mind would call their baby Balyog?
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ooh I'll help, I'll dig out the list we had and post it for you - k?
Off the top of my head though:
Boys
Eamonn
Séamus or Sé for short - W might like this sounds just like Che Guevarra
Shane
Finn or Fionn - kinda getting popular tho, big Ulster hero
Conor
Cillian
Cian
Girls
Fiona
Fionnuala
Emer
Aoife
Aisling
Grainne
Maeve
Ciara
Sinead
Siobhan
Kate
That's all I can think of right now...have you any feeline one way or another as to gender? I can't remember are you going to find out beforehand?
boliath
"Finn or Fionn - kinda getting popular tho, big Ulster hero"
He wasn't an Ulster hero.
Boliath,
Liam was almost called Eamonn, and his middle name is Seamus. William not a fan of Eamonn at all. I do like Finn, and I like for a girl also, but quite popular here. Conor is in the top ten here so way too common for me. Cillian scares me! Moot point now, since it is a girl (will post in other blog about it!)
I love Fionnuala, Grainne, Aoife and Aisling but all get a no from William plus no one can here can pronounce them. Saoirse's middle name is Maeve. I'm really going to have to work at a girl's name.
UI,
Was he not from the province of Ulster? Would that not make him a big Ulster hero? He can't be a Munster one can he?
UI - mixed him up with Cuchulainn, sorry.
Hang on a sec, I was actually thinking of Setanta/Cuchulainn when I said big Ulster hero, but Fionn was also an Ulsterman. Just for the record like.
Anyway it's a girl so it doesn't matter now.
What about Una? or Orla or Aine all are easy to pronounce.
Scottish girls names... Iona, Eilidh, Ailsa or Elsa, Isla, Elspeth, Kyla, Mairi. Hazel is very popular in Scotland though its not really Scottish I suppose.
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