A mixed race Seamus?!

[UsernamesHarderThanBabyNames]

Seamus is one of the only boy names we both like. I have Irish-ish roots and he's black/mixed-race. The baby will presumably be quite dark and we have a French surname so can we pull off Seamus? Family seem to think it's a ridiculous idea and picture a ruddy cheeked old Irishman not a mixed race baby but surely this doesn't matter?!

[Nyborg]

I don't think it does. It's a great name!

[Jennifersrabbit]

Seamus Heaney? Why ever not!

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

My nephew is mixed race with an Irish name and it suits him so well. I'm English/Greek with a Hebrew name and no ones ever questioned why I have it

[LynetteScavo]

I think it's great name, and I'm sure your ds will be able yo carry it off.

[canweseethebunnies]

Why not? Sounds fine to me!

[HollyBdenum]

Irish people can be black, too :-)

[birdofthenorth]

Fab name. I get the family reaction but he'll own the name in know time and you'll all forget previous associations.

[DramaAlpaca]

It doesn't matter at all. Great name.

[Mrsgrumble]

Beautiful name. Absolutely go for it, it will be gorgeous on him

Tell your family nothing...keep your name choice until baby arrives as everyone has an opinion but it's your priviledge and choice to make

[LowLieTheFields]

Go for it. Love the name.

[Islander79]

HollyBdenum has it spot on! What an odd idea - that's like saying a Jean-Paul or in fact a John couldn't be black...

[DefiniteMaybe]

My ds has an asian friend called Seamus, it suits him well.

[TenMinutesEarly]

Great name. Go for it.

[Baubelicious]

To me it would maybe suggest that the white half comes from Ireland. Don't over think it.

[squoosh]

I know mixed race Irish babies called Oisín and Cormac. They carry their names with aplomb as your Seamus will.

Seamus is a great name, it does have a farmer image but there's a whole new generation of Seamuses being born

[MrsRhettButler]

My cousin is a mixed race Seamus, it suits him

[SunshineAndShadows]

Surely by your family's 'logic' that limits you to only traditional black-African names Very odd
Seamus is lovely

[moxon]

Loooooooove Seamus.

[Chocolateteacake]

I've worked with a few Seamus's and I like it as a name. Is the surname very very French, or French as in St something? I live names that 'dont match' DS being a perfect case in point!

[TheScenicRoute]

I cannot see a problem on any level, I can see how other people have an idea of what a name represents and can't move on from that, but once baby is here it will become completely normal to them.

[FranKatzenjammer]

I teach a mixed race Seamus. It really suits him.

[TheScenicRoute]

May I ask how you pronounce it? As its spelt? Sea-mus or is it Shay-mus?

[DramaAlpaca]

It's Shay-mus.

[MehsMum]

Yer wot? Of course it's fine. How is it any less fine than a Black Martin or Monica, or a white/Asian James or Isabel? Those are all people I have known...

[Beangarda]

As a pp poster said, there are black and mixed-race Irish people! I know a black teenage Cormac and a mixed-race baby Diarmuid.