Childrens names

[slohairt]

Sean rules!!

Go for this spelling not Shaun or anything like that!!

Ha! You mean Seán!

Sean is actually the Gaelic (whether Irish or Scottish) word for old!

[slohairt]

Yeah, right on!

It's not James, it's Hamish..... Hamish Bond?

Bond. Hamish Bond....

Hamish is an Anglicisation.

James is Séamas (IRISH) or Seumas (SCOTTISH GAELIC). However, the vocative is Shéamais (IRISH) or Sheumais (SCOTTISH GAELIC) both of which are pronounced HAIM-ISH. So, I guess it's really more of a phonetic rendering than an Anglicisation.

Bonnd. Seumas Mac Boinnd

[Erisianmonkey]

My wife and I discussed kids names when we discussed whether we would eventually want any. We decided on four names. Two for boys and two for girls. For daughters, the names we decided on were: Emma Alice, after my grandmothers, and Discordia Anne, after the goddess of chaos and the fact that we like the name Anne. For boys we settled on Reuben Ray, after my grandfathers, and Cieran Hamish, because those are names we always liked. It was interesting that my wife and I had come up with most of these names for kids separately.

Now that being said, I can give you a fun name from my family tree. My maternal grandfather's middle name was Quintes. Not Quint, not Quinton, but Quintes. No one in the family, including him could ever tell me why. But when you think that his parents were named Columbus Alonzo Cox and Narcissa Miller, the picture becomes a little clearer.

One thing I must say about the naming of children and then I'm off the subject. Please, by all that is good and right in the universe do not ever do what my ex did and insist on giving a child the name Mary Marie. There's just no bloody need for something like that.

[slohairt]

My sister-in-law has a daughter named Caitlin (with the typical mistaken pronunciation KATE-LYN) and another named Cathleen. I've tried to explain to her that they are the same name, albeit one a mispronunciation and the other an Anglicisation, but she doesn't believe me!

For the non-Gaelic Omnastics nerds: Both names are from Caitlín (pronounced either CATCH-LEEN or CAT-LEEN) an Irish form of Catherine.

[Archangel]

Ha! You mean Seán!

Sean is actually the Gaelic (whether Irish or Scottish) word for old!

Would the pronunciation be different?

[slohairt]

Would the pronunciation be different?

Yes! Seán is pronounced SHAWN, while Sean is pronounced SHAN. Interestingly, Seán, while the most accepted Irish version of John today, is really the Irish form of the Norman-French form of John: Jehan or Jean.

In Scottish Gaelic, Seán is often rendered Seathan. It's rarely seen, as the usual Gaelic form of John in Scotland is Iain.

[Dirka Skene]

Aden, Bryce, Bryant, Ian?

Alexi, Renee, Fiona......Kristen?

[Bugbear]

With all these names, you'll have to have more children.

[Ian.MacAllan]

Make sure to check what the initals spell, . . .

My wife and I named our son "Timothy Ian" partly to make his initials spell his nickname. His college formed their network users' names by appending a three-digit serial number to the student's initials. Tim's friends thought it was "really cool" that his user name was "TIM001".

In my father-in-law's family the tradition of naming the first boy for his grandfathers was very strong, so he was rather annoyed that we didn't name Tim for him, and was only slightly mollified by our not naming Tim for my father either. My father-in-law's given names were "Grayson Hyman".

Anyone who remembers the TV sitcom "All in the Family" may remember that Archie wanted his grandson named "Archibald Stanislaus Stivik" but Gloria caught on to what the initials spelled.


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[Wompet]

Now that being said, I can give you a fun name from my family tree. My maternal grandfather's middle name was Quintes. Not Quint, not Quinton, but Quintes. No one in the family, including him could ever tell me why. But when you think that his parents were named Columbus Alonzo Cox and Narcissa Miller, the picture becomes a little clearer.

One thing I must say about the naming of children and then I'm off the subject. Please, by all that is good and right in the universe do not ever do what my ex did and insist on giving a child the name Mary Marie. There's just no bloody need for something like that.

Well, the brother of my maternal great-great-great-grandfather was Fernando Robertson. We're still wondering how a third generation Scots-American got that name.

And I used to work with a Margaret Mary. She went by Margie.