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A mixed race Seamus?!

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UsernamesHarderThanBabyNames · 15/12/2014 17:46

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?!

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Nyborg · 15/12/2014 17:46

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

Jennifersrabbit · 15/12/2014 17:47

Seamus Heaney? Why ever not!

GlitzAndGigglesx · 15/12/2014 17:49

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 · 15/12/2014 18:25

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

canweseethebunnies · 15/12/2014 18:26

Why not? Sounds fine to me!

HollyBdenum · 15/12/2014 18:29

Irish people can be black, too :-)

birdofthenorth · 15/12/2014 21:27

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

DramaAlpaca · 15/12/2014 21:29

It doesn't matter at all. Great name.

Mrsgrumble · 15/12/2014 21:32

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 · 15/12/2014 21:34

Go for it. Love the name.

Islander79 · 15/12/2014 21:35

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 · 15/12/2014 21:37

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

TenMinutesEarly · 15/12/2014 21:45

Great name. Go for it.

Baubelicious · 15/12/2014 23:03

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

squoosh · 15/12/2014 23:56

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 · 16/12/2014 00:00

My cousin is a mixed race Seamus, it suits him Smile

SunshineAndShadows · 17/12/2014 13:07

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

moxon · 17/12/2014 17:49

Loooooooove Seamus.

Chocolateteacake · 17/12/2014 18:27

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 · 17/12/2014 21:07

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 · 17/12/2014 21:12

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

TheScenicRoute · 17/12/2014 21:13

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

DramaAlpaca · 17/12/2014 21:14

It's Shay-mus.

MehsMum · 17/12/2014 21:25

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 · 17/12/2014 23:57

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.

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