What did your friends call their kids and you had to stop the snort..

[charliebat]

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none of them are as bad as my and my brother's names

Gwen Marie and John William - blurghh...... (and our surname was Dobson...)

absolutely nothing wrong with john william imho...

Caitlin and I have no Irish connections either so ner
Eilish (pronounced Eye-lish) - again Irish name, causes a lot of confusion now we live in Scotland as people pronounce it Ay-lish (also know an Irish Eilish who pronounces her name Ay-lish - you following me here? )
And Calum. Dh is one quarter Scottish, so is that allowed?

Other choices for Calum - Cameron, Connor, Hamish. If he was a girl he would have been Ishbel.

bossykate, I'm right behind you on caitlin!! Another one is Shannon, it is not a name Irish people ever gave their children, it was made up by Irish Americans, fgs it is a RIVER!!!!!

Countess Dracula, am dying to know what Orla is in Hebrew, over here I'm a golden princess!!

its like Colleen - another US=Irish nonsense name. In Ireland it's a not particularly nice way of saying "lass"

well miaou, since you ask...

ay - lish would get my vote
calum - ok if your dh is somewhat scottish
other names - connor's irish, isn't it? cameron, hamish - they sound scottish to me, but i'm not scottish so will defer to other mnetters on that.

love caitlin and callum

Ishbel??
Que???
Sounds as if you're pissed trying to say Isabel...

akaik, ishbel is the scottish form of isa/o/bel.

We debated long and hard over whether to pronounce Ay-lish or Eye-lish. We first heard the name when we watched a documentary about Irish conjoined twins called Katie and Eilish (pronounced Eye-lish), so that's what we went with.

And Caitlin is pronounced Kate-Lynn, obviously. Quite a popular name up here.

Sasha definitely isn't just a girl's name. it is short for AlexandRA as well as AlexandER. My v posh bona fide Russian friend is called Sasha (short for Alexandra).

I like Talitha (like the Getty heiress who died of a heroin overdose in the 60s)

I know kids called
girls - willow, peaches and peta (pronounced peter)
boys - levi, baxter and wilson.

When their mum's told me what they were calling their babies I managed to keep a straight face and say 'oh how nice'.

I know a Talitha.
I don't think she has ever met another though.

You're right bossykate. Again, popular name up here. Gaelic spelling is Iseabail but felt it would never be spelt right.

not a friend but heard a woman in manchester the other day shout at her child "Oi Armani, come 'ere"

hmm - i saw that documentary - they pronounced it ay-lish!!!

look, this is why i normally stay away from name threads, someone is bound to get offended, and after all naming children is clearly one of those subjects where reasonable people may disagree.

so good night from me.

i suppose i've never met anyone who called their daughter sasha that was even aware it was of russian origin - so perhaps that has coloured my views. meeow.

now now lockets, I have met BK's lovely children - kevin, shane, chardonnay and jocasta - and I don't like the aspersions you are casting with that question

my dd is a Willow.

I really like Sascha - is that a variant or my mispelling?

(oh and the shane is pronounced "shah-nay"