The name Erin, I dislike it, it is my wrongness

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I have a problem with the name Erin. It does something strange to me. Objectively it is a normal kind of name but when I hear it, it makes my scalp tingle. I know this my fault; I have nothing against the name. Does anyone else have this kind of thing? I don't mean like when people say the name Margot reminds them of maggots. I have no time for that nonsense. This is a visceral thing.

What a horrible thread.

I know loads of Irish ppl and have never come across a single Erin!

Well I know more 🤣🤣 and plenty of Erins

I guess I thought I was giving off some kind of bad energy or something!

Surely you can understand why that might be unpleasant for me!

I love it and it was on my short list for DD. Eimear is a name that makes me shudder but I think it's because I've met so many horrible ones. Nowadays Erin makes me think of the daughter in blue bloods .

I didn’t mean to sound harsh...however there is nothing to worry about. Her brain interprets sounds/etc differently, that’s all.

I'm also Irish and am yet to meet an Erin. I know it's a popular enough name these days in Ireland so I'm guessing the majority of Erins are young kids.

Well lots of white Americans have Irish ancestry 🤷🏻‍♀️

threecups, steady on now

Erin is one of my least favourite names.

I feel like this about Phoebe. It doesn’t even sound like a name. FEE BEE.

I have synaesthesia too in that all names have colours to me.

irish descent. I have two cousins and a niece called Erin. We are English though. Perhaps it’s for the English people who wannabe Irish?

Are you me??? 😁

Names that end in Th give me bad vibes. A nice couple called Kenneth and Elspeth? No, they would murder you as you slept and feast on your brain.

Beth and Keith.
Remind me of breath and keish.

Well this has rained on my parade 🤣🤣🤣

ExH (who was Irish and spoke Irish too) always maintained no Irish person would call their child Erin.

don’t know how true that is.

Erin Is the anglicised version of the Irish word eireann ... which is the Irish for Ireland. So definitely not American

I struggle with names that have an strong, e i sound, it makes my teeth itch

Erin
Keith
Nieve
Neville
Even Maeve 🤷‍♀️

I can't imagine a gaeilgeoir (fluent Irish speaker) calling their daughter Erin. It has an Irish root but has come back to Ireland as a first name from America. Like Shannon (name of an Irish river). Or Colleen (Irish word for 'girl').

Happy to be corrected.

@LucySno , I don't like th names either. I's ok if at the end and there ar other consonants, Like in Elizabeth or Ruth or Dorothy, but Thea, Theo etc thound tho lithpy

I once met someone with synaesthesia who said that the name Margaret tasted of mangoes to her. What does it do for you OP?

I don’t have synaesthesia, although I love the word “curmudgeon”, it’s like toffee in the mouth. But that’s the only word I have a reaction to.

Cloudhopping heartface beautiful lovely

I went to school with lots of Erins ( catholic school in England in an area with a high Irish population). They were all snotty little tell tales with awful stuck up judgmental mothers and for these very irrational reasons i think its an awful name .

romdowa, I did not know this before, thank you.

I don't really have synaesthesia but the book title Lorna Doone tastes and looks like homemade Victoria Sandwich with buttercream and strawberry jam. And the word split feels like cream cakes.

I also have a visceral reaction to the sound of wind chimes- an uncomfortable scalp tingle.