Posted on 06/15/2018 5:05:19 AM PDT by Simon Green
Really it is. It sounds more lovely than it looks, but it is very Irish and very distinctive. My dad was south side Chicago Irish and he made sure his children carried on the heritage.
And Dweezil
“Read your Bible.”
That’s the problem. These people do not have a Bible.
Siobhan is a beautiful Irish name. The Irish have some wonderful female names. One of my second cousins is named Aylish and she is an Irish beauty. I also love the Welsh name Myfawnwy. These are great names with a wonderful cultural history. Not the mispelled names of the modern times. :)
I wonder what causal relationship there may be.
In particular, I wonder if "strange names" (or having to live with them) don't cause "bad behavior" so much as they can be an indicator. I wouldn't be surprised if parents who choose questionable names are more likely to rear children questionably as well. Some parents may be ignorant or heedless of the practical disadvantages of a more difficult name; others may be flippant about the consequences, others openly "defiant." Now imagine these characteristics in other parts of life.
Aha......beware the Jabberwock my son.... good one :)
It took me years to figure out for sure which of the six "Samuel Robinsons", all cousins, all of similar ages in the same area I descended from.
Amazon will be happy to deliver one to their front door. Amazon will be happy to deliver one to their phone.
That's an easily solved problem.
Well, if she had named her Latakeisha Shanonada she would have that problem...................
I think it is an indicator of attitudes and behavior at home.
When we were naming our kids, my wife said it needs to be a name they can find on mini license plates at the tourist trap stores.
1) Thanks to the ‘creative’ names given to many, if not most, blacks, it’s easy for employers to ‘sift’ them out when reviewing resume’s, should they want to. So not only does that work against blacks, if others (i.e., whites) have similar names, they’ll end up being ‘sifted’ too.
I don't know how rigorous or tendentious the research was (and I won't look right now for any details), but there've been studies about this sort of thing.
2) If you are lucky enough to have a common last name, and then you couple it with a common first name for your kid, it will be MUCH HARDER for others to do a public web search for background information on that kid.
And to take it further, if your kid is given a name that is also the name of a famous person, like “James Carter” (for lack of a better name), any search results will be dominated by the more famous person.
I've discovered these things for myself and am happy to have a common-enough name.
Another consideration about naming a child for a famous person is that some people may assume the wrong things. If I were a Carter and named my son James, someone may guess that I like Jimmy Carter (heh!) or that I chose the name simply as a joke.
I like a name that is the only one to show up in a google search. Elon Musk, for example, and Idris Elba. Unique but not weird.
My kid worked at a Chick-Fil-A. When he first started, an Indian guy at church stopped in. We know him by his Indian name but unbeknownst to us, he also has an American nickname. Kevin or something. He’s a regular at the store and the employees only know him by his American name.
So my son just typed his Indian name on the order. The person who packed the order starts stumbling over his name and wondering who that was.
That’s when my kid found out about his other name.
Some new parents are reverting to classic names that haven’t been popular for decades. My daughter’s 3 year old is named Matilda and her newborn is Helena. Just saying.
Names from my elementary school in the 60s: Larry, Steve, Kevin, Ray, Charles, Greg, Dabney, Danny, Ronnie, Yvonne, Renee, Donna, Judy, Gail. Strange names from my father’s 1940s college yearbook: Batsell, Flavell, Oral, Fanning, Elvis, Purvis.
Some of those girls names are quite pretty.
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