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Son's name :o)

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 18:43

My son's name didn't exist on the baby name finder here so i added it yesterday and it appears as the name of the day today !!

We have sort of made it up but not really.....I liked Keir or Kerr, OH liked Ciaran. Ciaran means the little dark one and we didn't think he would be little so we took the "an" bit which is the "little" bit and kept the Ciar - pronounced exactly the same way as Keir so everybody happy. :o)

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 22:26

Jeez you lot are hard work (well some of you are!) - beginning to think it might not be worth the bother, yes it is the original gaelic spelling but isn't commonly used as most people go for Keir, which incidentally is a completely different strain of the name and not just the anglised spelling.

Yes, what i meant was that i had added the name to the name finder on here as it wasn't on and then magically the next day it was on as "name of the day"......that's what the post was about - didn't realise that I had to be asking something - next I'll have the grammar gestapo and the apostrophe police on my back!!!

I honestly couldn't give a massive smelly poo whether people like the name or not - and my "baby" is actually nearly 11. I joined the site as I came across a post relating to something local to me and I thought i could help out. Stayed for a wee while and joined in a bit.

I was always taught if you can't say something nice then keep your gob shut - obviously doesn't seem to apply to some people.

my post back to the first person was not nasty i think - it was a bit of an odd response form them i thought

Anyhoo, I would rather be able to shout my child's name and have only one child turn round rather than half the playground but I know some people like their kids to have a popular name as it maybe helps them to fit in better, i don't know, everyone makes their own choices for their own reasons. However, Gaelic spelling or usual spelling, that name is actually quite popular in the area that we now live but wasn't where we lived when he was born, if that makes sense!

On that note, i'm off to get organised for tomorrow so feel free to be as nasty as you like and I'll have a good read tomorrow.........NOT!!!

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GetOrfMoiiLand · 13/06/2012 22:44

amck - plenty of us think it is a lovely name, and in any case, you don't have to explain yourself to us!

DashingRedhead · 13/06/2012 22:51

Well, as I'm still fuming about 'Rosheen' and 'Neeve' I think Ciar is fine. Not my cup of tea but that's not the point. Feel the same way about somebody fearfully English sounding posh who chose a really Celtic name. They all sounded a bit silly but they liked it.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/06/2012 22:56

I think it's a nice name.

But I am a sucker for Gaelic.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 22:58

You are right GOML. But it just amazes me that some cowards are happy to say anything to anyone because of the anonymity that sitting on a computer gives them when i am damned sure that they wouldn't say the same when face to face with someone. This case going through court about the internet trolls is making for some interesting reading and may make the wisest amongst a certain group of Internet society think a little differently about their behaviour.

I have no objection to people having a different opinion to me as i don't believe I am perfect - well not quite :)

I know that I have brought my children up to look for the best in people and to be kind, good, honest citizens - i wonder how the children (however plainly named) of some other posters are being brought up when you see the behaviour that they themselves exhibit.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 22:59

...and I am Scottish and OH has an Irish background......way, way back!!

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Xmasbaby11 · 13/06/2012 23:02

Well done OP, that's lovely! Enjoy your beautiful baby.

GnomeDePlume · 13/06/2012 23:06

Congratulations on your DS OP.

As someone who gave their DS an unusual name (8 in the UK since DS was born 13 years ago) I can honestly say that it has never turned him into a laughing stock, victim of bullies or all the other daftness you will hear.

I wish you joy of your son!

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:07

thanks all - and xmas, he is nearly 11, 5' 2 & 8 and half stone - but he is still my baby and still beautiful :)

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:10

Thanks GnomeDePlume, people rarely spell it right but he doesn't get any bother at school and as i said, the name itself isn't that uncommon here - there is another one in his school of 220 but spelled the other way.

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threeleftfeet · 13/06/2012 23:17

What a lovely name :)

My DS also has a Celtic name (our roots include Scottish, Welsh and Irish!)

I think some English people's absolute hatred of non-English names is spectacularly ignorant.

No idea if certain posters here fall into that category, but they certainly have no manners! I hope they haven't upset you.

lisaro · 13/06/2012 23:23

No you don't know, three and that's a very large leap.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:25

not at all threeleftfeet. I just feel sad that some people have no manners/hide behind a screen. I am a pretty scary woman (so I have been told!!) so i am sure that they wouldn't say those things to me face to face.

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GnomeDePlume · 13/06/2012 23:26

aaahhh! becomes clear, sorry, I thought he was brand new. Any road up, I wish you joy of him nonetheless!

My DS is named after a 7th century Northumbrian king/saint of such obscurity that no one really knows why he was sainted.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:27

It will be interesting to see if this court ruling about websites having to provide details of the identities of internet trolls will have any effect on people behaviour.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:28

lol Gnome......I hope it is a normal name and you haven't spelt it funny

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threeleftfeet · 13/06/2012 23:29

lisaro I have no idea whether you fall into that category nor do I care. However you certainly have no manners.

Why on earth would you want to tell someone their child had a horrible name?
I don't like most really (IMO) boring, ordinary names, but I don't hang out on their baby name threads telling OPs that! If I don't like the name I say nothing, especially if the child already exists! It's spectacularly mean.

And your first post "What do you want OP? You didn't ask a question or even make a point yet somebody still commented" was totally uncalled for! The OP wanted to have a char about something nice (obviously) if you don't want to share in it then do us a favour and crawl back under your stone, please.

threeleftfeet · 13/06/2012 23:30

*A chat, not a char!

GnomeDePlume · 13/06/2012 23:55

It is a strange thing about naming a child. All sorts of people think it okay to make negative comments about the name parents have chosen.

We were careful not to tell anyone what we were naming each of our children until after they were born. Our attitude was that if you were rejecting the name you were rejecting the child (and hell hath no fury....).

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amck5700 · 14/06/2012 00:04

lol gnome - our older son didn't have a name for 3 days, Ciar didn't have a name for a week and a half - we had a name all picked out for No1 son and it just didn't look right when he was born so we had to start again! with No 2 we didn't bother even thinking about it until he was born as we thought that something would come to us when we saw him.......it didn't!! Strangely we had a couple of girls names picked out for both but we always knew deep down that they'd be boys. No2 son didn't even look like our child when he was born - he was a section as was No1 - and I was half convinced that it was someone elses baby they showed me over the barrier thingy. It's okay, i know he's mine now lol. We chose the name Ciar because of the meaning too as he is quite olive skinned and had lovely dark hair - then he lost the hair and became blond so it didn't really fit anymore!! - i'm sure he'll go dark eventually........

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thisisyesterday · 14/06/2012 14:46

uh lisaro yes, yes it IS nasty.

are you always this spiteful and unkind? or just when anonymous on the internet?

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 14:51

It might have been clearer at the outset if OP had said then (as she did later) that she had chosen the older spelling, rather than having 'sort of made it up' as the "not really" seemed to apply to varying existing names, not using a rare one.

But precise drafting isn't many people's strong point immediately post-natally and I hope you are having a wonderful time with your new DS.

badtime · 14/06/2012 15:15

I know of a similar case: a little boy called Aedan, which is an older spelling than Aidan but some people think is made up.
It must be very annoying for the parents.

thisisyesterday · 14/06/2012 16:07

really edith? so if someone has made a name up that means people can be nasty about it? but if it's an alternative spelling that's ok and people should be nice?

interesting

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 17:08

I didn't say that.

What is interesting is the way you have invented a prejudice about "made up" names onto my post.

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