DP's last name is O'Donovan...

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Any no-no's suggestions for boy or girl names?
His last name makes it tricky!

Also there is no need to be rude

The whole thread is rude, though, isn't it?

Identifying a particular surname, of a particularly heritage, and saying how shit it is?

Seriously?

It's a fine name. If you don't like it, don't use it.

She's saying her surname is a joke name not her other half's. surely it's fine to slag off your own name?!

She's saying that her partner's name is problematic "because it has an O'"

i.e. that it's a shit-sounding weird name that "doesn't flow" and sounds crap with everything because it has a very common form that many Irish names have in common with it.

I don't really think it's very nice to slag off a surname on here for being shite sounding.

I have seen a million threads asking what will go with a surname, especially surnames starting with vowels or an 's'. Why is everyone jumping on this poor OP?

Back off! She wants a lovely thread about potential names for her baby not nasty comments for imaginary projected slights!

*Sorry, not a million, a lot, and not everyone.

Good grief JoinYourPlayfellows have a and unknot your knickers.

Giving a child the same surname as one of it's parents is hardly giving it someone else's name.
OP hasn't been rude at all, I have a popular surname also beginning with o and asked for name opinions. Loads of people do it.

She said it was 'tricky'. She didn't slag it off.

I would go for Jason.

I love my DP's name! WTF!
My name being Polish has NOTHING to do with why I don't like it! I have nothing against the Irish or Poles.
You're one crazy lady! Never posting on MN again!
Traumatised at being attacked like this.
Thanks for everyone who took my defense!

Jason is a good idea.
I don't think anyone has said the name is shit because it start with a o like Merry said, there are loads of threads asking what names go with surnames.
Op, MN can be a bit bonkers at times. Don't be put off.

I think you need to have a little lie down, joinyourplayfellows
OP, don't worry about it. There are literally gazillions of name posts. Personally I liked the suggestion of Amber O'Donovan for a girl - it both looks and sounds nice. I like Isaac for a boy, again flows well IMO and no dodgy initial

I love Issac, also love Joseph, Max, Seth, Alex, Jake.

Alexander / Alexandra? Also, easily translatable to Polish. I love Seth and also Silas but you will end up with the initials SOD

shit, I didn't think about that.

We had a similar problem with Seth and Silas. Was very irritated as I love those names. Grrrr

OP - don't leave mumsnet! Some people have an agenda whatever sort of thread they post on. You can hide threads so they don't appear in your active conversations or threads I'm on. I had to do that recently.

Elizabeth. Lydia. Ruth.

Stick with us OP :-)

I like that surname! It's much better than my situation of really really wanting the name Bailey and being stuck with a J surname

I think Annie sounds lovely with it, that's what came to mind first.

Jamie for a boy too..

(Lots really!)

'Traumatised at being attacked like this.'

Good grief.

Calm down, OP. No one is attacking you.

O'Donovan is an extremely common name in m bit of Ireland (my mother's maiden name, in fact), and I don't think limits you at all, other than that you might not want a four-syllable first name along with it. (Though, come to think of it, I do know an elderly Mary-Ellen O'Donovan, and a young Katharina O'Donovan.)

Large numbers of Irish names begin with 'O' - I genuinely don't see why you would think that's unduly restrictive.

And while I think JoinYourPlayFellows' tone was a little rebarbative, if you are new to Mn, you won't have had a chance to see the extent to which there are regular, pretty ignorant threads on Irish names in which people dismiss them as 'chavvy', unpronounceable etc. So some of us, understandably, get a bit tired of it.

OP, if you're that fragile a little flower I think this may not be the place that you call home in any case.