Conor or Connor

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I love this name (I know others won't!) but am trying to decide on a spelling. I'm in the UK and want my baby to have the easiest spelling possible so he's not having to correct people all the time. I've grown up with a similar issue and found it very tedious. I think Connor would be the most well known spelling but just wondering what others think. How would you spell it?

If anyone has any other Irish boys' names that are easy for Brits to say and spell, I'm open to suggestions. Cillian and Cormac are both ruled out unfortunately.

Conor is afaik is correct and looks nicer and all the ones I’ve know have had this spelling (Scottish and Irish).
Connor is a surname spelling.

I know. It's most unusual. Particularly anti-Irish xenophobia.

Yup, so so rare.

(Also joining the university lecturers with multiple Conors in class. Why are so many of the Irish posters on here academics? It is a bit weird.)

Girls (and boys) also get the impossible to spell or reminds me of anal or shit or some other not very name-appropriate word.

Yes. It is weird. Possibly because some of the boards can be quite good for interesting discussions.

We're on here at the moment because we're addle-headed from mark-inputting, internal boards and awaiting the externs?

I find I can't put my mind to research properly until I stop shutting my eyes and seeing Excel sheets with 67.457 % RAISE/CHECK SPECIAL CIRCS, POSS MEDICAL CERTS IN YEAR COMMITTEE everywhere.

But maybe everyone else is just taking a little lighthearted time out from an archive.

I'm looking forward to remarking an incompetent colleague's full cohort of scripts on Monday. Fun fun.

I thought it was that some Irish (or some other language or culture) names become very popular and appeal to certain types of parents despite not having a connection with the language/culture.

Conor/Connor had a bit of a moment in the1990s, as did Ryan.

This 100 times over. Although thankfully the school office look after sick certs, special circumstances etc.

I'm currently writing autumn exam papers and bitterly regretting using case studies in one subject..I have a few written but I need at least another 2 or 3 more to get to the point where I can rotate with slight changes.

And what types of parents are those?

Are you suggesting Irish boys' names hold some form of magnetic attraction to the Wrong Types of Brits?

Ugh. I had to do that last year with a colleague who is casually employed to co-teach a couple of modules. It took me way longer than if I'd just corrected the lot myself as I spot checked, sent him off to re-mark and repeated the process twice more.

@LongIslander , the sort of parents who have unruly children.

This gentleman is also casually employed. I'm sure you're shocked by that revelation.

Any hint of Irish ethnicity does seem to imply certain things to some people.

You might have a point if this was the only type of anti-Irish xenophobia in evidence here, but it's not. Also doesn't explain the "sounds like anal" type of comments.

Our school office are particularly efficient angels, but there is still so MUCH twiddling. And so much stuff we seem to develop annual amnesia on every year until it's internal boards again. Like groundhog day, but with illness certs, compensation bands etc.

Funnily enough I have met many unruly children with English names. I suspect most teachers in English schools have had similar experiences. It's also rarely a teacher who makes these comments but moreso bigots stating "ask any teacher"

We used to have to deal with that stuff but it's the job of the school office now. To ensure consistency apparently.

It's about the only piece of admin they've taken off us. The centre just keeps pushing admin that they used to do back on us.

And yes, the annual amnesia drives me mad.

Ahh. I'm a bit slow on the uptake today.

And which kind of parents are those? Minor aristocracy whose 'spare' heir has gone off the rails a bit and is snorting his allowance with his fellow Yahs? Professional middle-class parents who are mortified that their offspring is up in front of the magistrates' court for drink driving? Aspirant 'respectable' LMC aghast their boy, who got such good A-levels, knocked someone up in Freshers' Week?

And funnily enough, it's always the female members of staff who get stuck with the clean up.

I've started refusing some of the crap. I point out I dealt with it last time so it's someone else's turn now.

I know a few teachers and some of them have commented on some names but not necessarily Irish ones.

I don't doubt that there might be prejudice towards Irish heritage.
(Was it a coincidence that the families in tv's Shameless had Irish surnames?)

The comments about a name making a poster think of something are just opinions, but wouldn't you prefer to find out before using the name. (e.g. Gowan Knightly)

@LongIslander , parents who have unruly children. No other socio-economic marker.

But all those scenarios I posted above involved unruly children.

Those children, however, were unlikely to have been called Conor.

@LongIslander , I don't really understand what you are trying to say.