Irish mumsnetters-Ishka?

[AdmirablePlatypus]

Hi mumsnet (and Irish mumsnet in particular).

we are trying to pin down baby names here in Australia. I’ve strong Irish heritage and love the word (name?) Ishka.

however, as I understand it, there is a packaged water brand in Ireland which has similar or same name.🙄

Therefore, I am asking if it’s one of those names that would attract ridicule in the UK Ireland? Like would people associate it with the water brand or something?😝😝

thanks so much
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Don't do it. I know someone is a similar situation to yours. They named their child Bainne (Milk)

Yes I would assume it was a (nice) name from another culture/language and either wouldn't notice that it sounded like uisce or more likely would notice and think it mildly amusing.

Not something I would ridicule but also not something I would remotely link to Ireland or the Irish language.

I’m Irish and would probably think it’s Scandinavian or Baltic if I saw it. I have seen it used as a dog name but certainly wouldn’t associate it with Ireland.

That's bad. At least Uisce is a legit, if little used, name.

Did they have a sister called Cáca Milis?

If you lived in Ireland and called your DD Ishka I would think you had called your dd water. My grasp of the Irish language is terrible but even I know that one. Also that brand is in my local garage.

But as and Irish person who lived in oz, if you introduced your dd to me as Ishka I would not think it had any connection to Ireland at all.

If you like the water connection how about after a river Clodagh/ Avoca/ Shannon?

I'm Irish and I think of the water bottles branded Ishka from Aldi.

Did they have a sister called Cáca Milis?
Reminds me of Joe Rooney's stand up sketch about Trinity students called uachtar reoite, etc.

Even better!

Just don't give Beatha as a middle name😂

What about Vaha @BorderlineHappy ?

Ishka is not an Irish word.
No letter K in Irish.
If I saw that spelling for a child's name .I would think you were daft.

I came across someone called Iska recently. I didn't get to ask what language community they were from, although it's unlikely that they were Irish. Something East European I think but could have been Scandi.

I love names ending ishka, ushka so it's a yes from me. Tashka, Mishka, Pashka. Although I think they are diminutives in Russian or something Slavic.

Báine - "whiteness" is an Irish name listed in Ó Corráin and Maguire "Irish Names", but not Báinne - "milk". Lachtín, Lachtna, Lachtnán all meaning milk are names though.

*Bainne is milk, not Báinne. typo.