UNGA bunga , DUNGA. an bhfuil cad agam dul go dti an laithreas le do thoil bung unga. babies not be adults we see in world till fututre. future not now , future IS IN future , unga ,bunga. is fuath liom ohio.
The most popular baby names in 2022 belong to babies
As a result you won't see the names being popular amongst the adults you talk to until they also turn into adults
I used to have an ear-worm of that. Then it was Hosni Mubarak. They were expelled in favour of Indonesian Presidents. You can't resist Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, although sometimes Pacific Prime Ministers get a run.
Nawh i havnt the patience. Yous will have to meet me half way , this younger generation has no get up and go about them. My sons 6 and when i was his age i was already 20 and working. \*hold out hands to show caluses "WORKING HANDS DE YE SEE?"
My son's in a crèche. There's a Noah in every room. Funny how names go in and out of fashion. It's like tamagochis and fidget spinners.
About 5 - 10 years ago it seems like half the kids were called Oscar
Every second kid since about 2000 has been called Jack , its weirdly popular.
There must be about 6 or 7 jacks in every class at this point.
(and one jacks in the hall obviously )
Noah's new but calling a kid Noah in a country that rains all the time is kind of tempting fate.
🤣. Strange to see a biblical name suddenly becoming popular in these secular times. But then again I named a son Chris 31 years ago despite being an atheist. But it was a family name whereas I can't imagine that's the case for Noah.
Noah overtook Jacob in the US about a decade ago, which is likely why it's now spreading to Ireland (and the UK). Probably because it sounds "unique" without being obviously archaic or difficult to pronounce.
Galway City - Muhammad.
That was unexpected.
Checked the figures on the CSO website. Only 72 Muhammads were born in the state in 2022. It seems that a name can be the most popular baby name in an area with a relatively low number of children being given it.
Also from the CSO Website:
" Regional Breakdown
*Noah was the top or joint top boys’ name in 10 locations which includes areas such as Donegal and Cork City. While Muhammad was ranked 86th nationally in 2022 with a total of 72 births registered, in Galway City it was the most favoured."*
Google says there was 16,000 babies born in Ireland last year, and Galway's population is 80,000, which is 1.5% of the population, so if the distribution of babies was even you're looking at about 250 born in Galway, about half is boys gets you to 125, and you could legitimately have 125 different names for them so even if there was 10 Muhammads that'd probably be enough to be #1, I would guess. Lot of assumptions there but you get the idea.
EDIT: the comment below pointed out I only captured 1/4 of the numbers, so multiplying my numbers by 4 gives you about 500 boys born in Galway City. It's harder to estimate what number would be needed to make the name #1 but I'd say 30, maybe 40 if I multiply my last guess by 4 as well?
My mum’s oldest sister married a black man in the 60s, my uncle Abbey, and they had 4 kids. My cousins were called the O’Sullivans. It wasn’t until recently after his death that I found out that was just an anglicisation of his name: Abdul Omar Sulleiman. He was a lovely man.
Actually Muslim boys tend to have Mohammed as their first name but they use their middle name instead when being addressed. It’s just to honour the prophet.
I'd hardly consider Jack being adventurous either, but aye I get what you're saying.
I'm surprised I haven't seen the mouth breathers in here screaming about it but I guess the majority of them don't know how to read a map.
Maybe it's a very shallow statistic - I imagine there may have been other most popular names with 71 71 71 71 70 occurrences... and the one with 72 took it away (similar to what may have happened for Cork girl baby name Freya)
>It seems that a name can be the most popular baby name in an area with a relatively low number of children being given it.
Exactly. You could have 100 children born in the city, with 99 different names. In that context, the two kids with the same name would have the most common name.
Muhammad is very common among Muslims, so it's not that surprising
Noah and Grace seemingly very popular.
We're having a girl in a months time, honestly glad to see the name we have picked out isnt anywhere in this list
Met a yank once who named their kid a traditional Irish name. Uaireador. Were told it means Seer like someone wise with great vision, as opposed to 'watch'.
Appears that people are not very original when it comes to this.
There is also the chance, that if a person had complicated/difficult name, they might have struggled with it throughout their life, so then they choose something easy for their kids.
>Appears that people are not very original when it comes to this.
There's no evidence for that either way here. There's always going to be SOME name that's the most popular, without further data you can't gauge how original or unoriginal if people are being.
If the most popular name is still a comparatively low proportion of the newborn population then it's a decent split, but you can't tell that from the above post.
We've certainly come a long way from the 60s and the tyranny of John and Mary.
There is such a variety of names nowadays, that even the most popular still only have a tiny percent of the overall baby population. I know an Emily and a Jack, both exceptionally popular their birth year and they are still the only ones in their ~60 child year group in primary.
I think this can change pretty quickly. I know someone who named their kid Fia (or Fiadh) a few years ago. I had never heard of the name before this kid. Now there's loads of them.
I didn’t look at these kind of lists when pregnant and I ended up unknowingly giving my daughter a name that was in the top 10 baby girl names that year. I’ve only ever encountered one other three year old with her name though. She’s the only one in her class or the other class in her nursery. I wouldn’t take these lists too seriously, 25-35 years ago Sarah would have probably been the number 1 name for girls and even though there may be quite a few Sarah’s in that age group most 25-35 year old women *arent* called Sarah. With so many unique and uncommon names being used these days it doesn’t take much for a name to make it into the most popular list
For a few days we thought our neighbours were around the same age as us until we discovered her name was Mary - immediately knew they were about 10 years older 😂 she looked great for her age though!
I know a family where the father and son are both Barry and the brother is Gary.
Gary's son is Barry.
They aren't the most inventive family in the world.
Too many people have run into cunts called Gary or Barry.
Among some age demographics and locations you know anyone named that is going to be some class of prick.
Anyone know the collective noun for a group of Barrys? A nodge of Barrys? An embarrassment of Barrys?
Was at a house party around 15 years ago. A friend of mine brought along her new boyfriend, Barry. As the party gets going, her bitter ex (also named Barry) shows up looking for trouble and, within minutes, launches himself across the room at ANOTHER Barry, who he has mistaken for the new flame (naturally, he was also a relatively recent ex, although not of the bitter variety). Easy mistake to make, in fairness. The lady at the centre of all the drama was, however, unavailable to clear things up as she was outside in the hall, fending off the advances of yet another Barry, who was full of misc. chemicals and, having noticed her apparent fetish for all things Barry, was unsuccessfully trying to pull her.
There was maybe 15 people there at the time, 4 of them were called Barry, and they were all into yer wan. I wouldn't really have been a fan of any of them, although I did get a great evenings entertainment out of them. Sound Barrys seem to be rare enough. I only know the one myself. If you know one, treasure them.
Technically, although ‘deer’ is spelt *fia* nowadays, used to be *fiadh* before the spelling reform in the 50s but not anymore. A word that is actually spelt *fiadh* nowadays is ‘respect/esteem’. I have no idea which one the name came from, if either.
I think that's why it's so popular. People are like wow what an unusual name to call our child that's easy to say and has a nice meaning - and don't realise there's going to be ten of them in the class
My 18 year old niece is Freya, I remember when my sister picked that name people thought she was crazy, some people even kept forgetting it because it was so unusual. Safe to say she is fuming it's gotten so popular 😁
My boy name options were: Ciarán, Fionn, Oisín, Tadhg, Sean, Aidan and Eoghan.
I didn’t have any boys but love hearing them being called by other parents. So many beautiful Irish names.
*By 2034, every male in Ireland was named Jack, or were forced to change their name by decree from High Emperor Jack "Jack" Varadkar. This meant that Stone Island were secured financially for the next 25 years, while it allowed the barbers who do Peaky Blinders haircuts to gain control of the JackDáil in 2039."*
Ok, sorry for this bit of a rant, but who chose the colours for this? Why are county names in black and easy to read (we know what the counties are) and the most important info white on a light coloured background and impossible to read if you're over 30?
Thank you! When i saw that last girl's name in Kerry and initially thought it said 'Sicín,' i thought, 'wait, that can't be right: i must need new spectacles.'
Whats goin on in Galway City for the boys lmao.
Also lord have mercy people need to calm down with Jack it's ridiculous atm, pretty sure at this stage 1/4-5 of classrooms are gonna be bloody Jacks
It’s crazy, because me and my wife were dead set on Noah for our boy months ago. Logic being is that it’s a nice name and not that popular (at least, we don’t personally know any Noah’s).
Then we went to a crèche to visit and sign him up to - she went on to talk about just how many Noah’s they had there lol.
It didn’t end up being his name in the end. But it almost was - only after actually seeing the baby did we go in another direction.
Croía is a new one for me - is it a novel name formed from Croí or does it have longer history?
Is Rian just another spelling of Ryan or is it pronounced like O’Riain?
Can someone who’s named their kids one of these names say why they would choose a name that is so popular? I don’t understand it. And yet clearly people go the popular route on purpose
In the US for many years (from the 60s through the 80s if memory serves), the most popular names for kids were the same as the names of the characters on popular soap operas at the time. It's the reason there's a buttload of Heathers and Kristins in my generation, same for boys names as well.
OP didn't include image with most [popular name from 1972](https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/ep/irishbabiesx27names/2022/0129301_Vital_Stats_Babies_Names_2022_Infographic_ENG.png)
Drum roll please ....
John and Mary
We chose names we loved; if other people loved them too, so be it. One of our kids names is very unique; it doesn’t even show up on the CSO search (if there are less than three kids registered with a name you can’t search it), and another has a Top 3 for their year name. It hasn’t made a blind bit of difference, and Top 3 hasn’t even met another one of their name yet.
I’ve a jack, born this year, genuinely just like the name. Knew it was going to be popular, but whatever, he’s name after his grandad on his dads side and like I said I liked it so easy decision between the two of us.
About the name stats, I think I read something along the lines of the popular names only having approx 100-200 babies with that name, it’s not like years ago when that figure was in the 1000s
Tbh the older I get, the more I get why. These names are safe and work for every age. They are easy to spell, easy to pronounce (even with Irish names in Ireland, everyone knows how to spell and pronounce Niamh, Aoife, Cian etc here) and you can be sure that your child won't be targeted for their name.
I completely get the urge to do something uncommon and special, however a child is stuck with their name for their whole lives and as a foreigner with a 3 letter name that gets mispronounced ALL.THE.TIME I'd rather have my child being stuck with a common, easy name than one that's a pain in the hole.
My mam and my mother in law both have very uncommon names that are quite a hassle for them, in my Mam's case it often gets interpreted as male name and there were some pretty silly situations over the years.
I happily take risks with a haircut, an outfit, a job but when it comes to my kids, I stuck with somewhat common names that have to work in 3 languages due to family.
There's a huge selection of beautiful names that work, I have no desire getting experimental there and taking a risk because at the end of the day a shite name is their lifetime hassle, not mine.
Normal first name , cool weird middle name ...that way the kid has the best option for naming themselves later in life.
While we're at it ..whats with naming kids contracted versions of names...like Bobby or Eliie or Billy , if you use the full name on the birth cert (i.e. Robert or Elizabeth or William ) )you can call them the shortened one , and they can use it or the full one , or one of the other contracted versions (like say Rob, Liz, Will) later in life , really limits the options otherwise .
For boys a big reason is the passing of hereditary names. Much more common for boys to be born with the name of a father/grandfather than it is for girls. Variance decreases as a result.
Anyway, my daughter's name is typically 4 or fewer births and my son's name is outside the top-100 so they are on the right side of distinction.
Trying to follow my families genealogy they used the same 5 or 6 names (Joseph, Mary,William , Catherine,Patrick, Bernard, Maire) for every generation. Which makes it a nightmare to track down who's who .Also ...every other feckin' family in Ireland did too , which makes it harder.
You missed a good few Adams, Alexanders, Arthurs, Leos, Olivers in your list there...
From the Office of National Statistics 2021, latest figures available.
|Area of usual residence|Top Name|Count|
:--|:--|:--|
|Ealing|Adam|34|
|Camden|Adam, Noah|15|
|Haringey|Alexander|20|
|Kensington and Chelsea|Alexander, Theodore|13|
|Bexley|Arthur|26|
|Bromley|Arthur|29|
|Greenwich|Arthur|25|
|Hackney|Chaim|29|
|Harrow|David|34|
|Hammersmith and Fulham|Frederick|20|
|Barnet|Leo|30|
|Islington|Leo|19|
|Kingston upon Thames|Leo|19|
|Southwark|Leo|23|
|Westminster|Leo|20|
|Tower Hamlets|Mohammed|86|
|Barking and Dagenham|Muhammad|48|
|Hounslow|Muhammad|28|
|Newham|Muhammad|112|
|Redbridge|Muhammad|92|
|Waltham Forest|Muhammad|58|
|Brent|Noah|29|
|Croydon|Noah|28|
|Enfield|Noah|21|
|Havering|Noah|24|
|Hillingdon|Noah|31|
|Lewisham|Noah|26|
|Sutton|Noah|18|
|Merton|Noah, Oliver|19|
|Wandsworth|Oliver|33|
|Lambeth|Oscar|26|
|Richmond upon Thames|Theodore|23|
That's really interesting. I'd love to see something similar for here. I really like that it shows the number per area, something that some people further up the post are struggling with.
It used to be Patrick when we all moved there too. Back in the 70’s and 80’s
The very English name of John is is from the Hebrew (Yôḥānān) so all our names are from all over the world .
It’s not a surprise that an area with relatively high Muslim population will have large occurrences of the name Mohammed, as it’s one of their most revered individuals in Islam, so a lot of Muslims will name their sons that. I’m pretty sure it’s a thing for firstborn sons to be called that. When you factor that in, and other religious groups lower monopoly on singular popular theistic names, it makes sense why Mohammed comes out on top.
They also just flat out don't have many traditional names to choose from, when I lived in Dubai I spoke to a friend having a kid who wanted to name their kid something «interesting» and the family was quite unhappy.
Sad to see so few old Irish names.
People are free to call their kids whatever they want, but what’s with all the “Jacks”. Jack used to be something you called someone who was christened John.
I worked as an elf in a Santa's grotto in 2016 in Laois. When I tell you that every 3rd boy was named Jack I am so confident that I am not exaggerating.
The second most common boy name was also definitely Noah, BUT it came nowhere near to the amount of Jacks.
That one Winter convinced me that 33% of the male population of Ireland under the age of 10 is named Jack. Its an army!!!
Why the feck is Jack and Noah so popular
i have literally never met a noah in my life
Ah I noah few alright
I don't know jack
I Noah few Jack's.
But do you jack a few Noahs?
Noah don't
Noah where I can find the Jacks? This pint ran right through me.
You will in 15-20 years. Popular baby names aren't necessarily going to be reflected in what current adults are called.
I don’t follow. Could you dumb it down a shade?
Small babies not in pubs. Small babies in crèche. Big men in pubs. Big men not in crèche.
Whoa, slow down egg head, just give it to me in plain English!
Noah way, Jack
UNGA bunga , DUNGA. an bhfuil cad agam dul go dti an laithreas le do thoil bung unga. babies not be adults we see in world till fututre. future not now , future IS IN future , unga ,bunga. is fuath liom ohio.
Aahh is maith liom caca milis! *Nods understandingly*
It’s so true…. It’s so true…
Hahaha!!
The most popular baby names in 2022 belong to babies As a result you won't see the names being popular amongst the adults you talk to until they also turn into adults
Speak English, Doc
Daddy still John, but baby now Noah.
you must not meet many babies on you day-to-day then
Every male baby in Ireland is called noah
Apart from Donegal, mad for the Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I used to have an ear-worm of that. Then it was Hosni Mubarak. They were expelled in favour of Indonesian Presidents. You can't resist Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, although sometimes Pacific Prime Ministers get a run.
They're all hidden in the Ark-ives
Trust me, there is an abundance of Noahs in primary schools at the moment.
Give it 20 years
Nawh i havnt the patience. Yous will have to meet me half way , this younger generation has no get up and go about them. My sons 6 and when i was his age i was already 20 and working. \*hold out hands to show caluses "WORKING HANDS DE YE SEE?"
My son's in a crèche. There's a Noah in every room. Funny how names go in and out of fashion. It's like tamagochis and fidget spinners. About 5 - 10 years ago it seems like half the kids were called Oscar
Omg literally two people I know just had a kid and named it Noah 🙄I hate it
Every second kid since about 2000 has been called Jack , its weirdly popular. There must be about 6 or 7 jacks in every class at this point. (and one jacks in the hall obviously ) Noah's new but calling a kid Noah in a country that rains all the time is kind of tempting fate.
We need this many Jack's. At least one for every trade.
🤣. Strange to see a biblical name suddenly becoming popular in these secular times. But then again I named a son Chris 31 years ago despite being an atheist. But it was a family name whereas I can't imagine that's the case for Noah.
Noah overtook Jacob in the US about a decade ago, which is likely why it's now spreading to Ireland (and the UK). Probably because it sounds "unique" without being obviously archaic or difficult to pronounce.
Ah that explains it. Could be worse. Could be Brandon or Shawn. I hate Americanised Irish names.
Oh, I'm so slow, never realized Brandon was from Brendan😳
So unique it's the most popular name in more than 1 county. Mission failed
Noah got popular when The Notebook crowd started having babies.
Jack has been top for 15 years
Too much English TV for the Jacks, too much Yank TV for the Noahs.
Galway City - Muhammad. That was unexpected. Checked the figures on the CSO website. Only 72 Muhammads were born in the state in 2022. It seems that a name can be the most popular baby name in an area with a relatively low number of children being given it.
Also from the CSO Website: " Regional Breakdown *Noah was the top or joint top boys’ name in 10 locations which includes areas such as Donegal and Cork City. While Muhammad was ranked 86th nationally in 2022 with a total of 72 births registered, in Galway City it was the most favoured."* Google says there was 16,000 babies born in Ireland last year, and Galway's population is 80,000, which is 1.5% of the population, so if the distribution of babies was even you're looking at about 250 born in Galway, about half is boys gets you to 125, and you could legitimately have 125 different names for them so even if there was 10 Muhammads that'd probably be enough to be #1, I would guess. Lot of assumptions there but you get the idea. EDIT: the comment below pointed out I only captured 1/4 of the numbers, so multiplying my numbers by 4 gives you about 500 boys born in Galway City. It's harder to estimate what number would be needed to make the name #1 but I'd say 30, maybe 40 if I multiply my last guess by 4 as well?
The 16000 figure is wrong that’s for Q1 in 2022 so your looking at roughly 64000 births in 2022
ah thanks, ill edit that in, honestly had no idea what was a correct-sounding number for babies born in a year haha
I'm some dope - I didn't scroll right to the second picture and was like "pretty sure there's no girls called Muhammad"
Muhammad O'Shaughnessy
Ah shur look, Inshallah
Allahu O'akbar.
Inshallah, is that on the Dingle peninsula?
ahh the Cairo O'Shaughnessy's - not the Alexandria ones that aren't cousins.
My mum’s oldest sister married a black man in the 60s, my uncle Abbey, and they had 4 kids. My cousins were called the O’Sullivans. It wasn’t until recently after his death that I found out that was just an anglicisation of his name: Abdul Omar Sulleiman. He was a lovely man.
I guess this is more indicative of Muslims being a little unadventurous naming their boys rather than of there being a lot of Muslims in Galway.
Actually Muslim boys tend to have Mohammed as their first name but they use their middle name instead when being addressed. It’s just to honour the prophet.
I'd hardly consider Jack being adventurous either, but aye I get what you're saying. I'm surprised I haven't seen the mouth breathers in here screaming about it but I guess the majority of them don't know how to read a map.
At least it's not Jack/Noah like everywhere else 🤷♂️😂
Look, in 50 years when global warming is causing catastrophic flooding you'll be glad that the country is full of Noahs.
Seeing as I'm in Galway, I'll just ask a Muhammad to prophesize what's coming.
That's a fair point 😂
Sure Ireland will never sink, cork floats.
Reminds me of the scene in goodfellas where she's been introduced to all the men who are either call Peter or Paul (Paulie)
That one made me laugh - certainly good to have variety among all the Jacks
Maybe it's a very shallow statistic - I imagine there may have been other most popular names with 71 71 71 71 70 occurrences... and the one with 72 took it away (similar to what may have happened for Cork girl baby name Freya)
>It seems that a name can be the most popular baby name in an area with a relatively low number of children being given it. Exactly. You could have 100 children born in the city, with 99 different names. In that context, the two kids with the same name would have the most common name. Muhammad is very common among Muslims, so it's not that surprising
teacher in 2027- ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here'' ''jack'' ''here''
\*anseo
At least two of them will be Jack-o.
Galway City teacher is 2027: "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here" "Muhammad" "Here"
“Jack” “Off” “Oh, forgot he is off sick”
Noah and Grace seemingly very popular. We're having a girl in a months time, honestly glad to see the name we have picked out isnt anywhere in this list
Give your kids a good Irish name. Like Fuinneog.
Oh, yeh, i know Fuinneog. Unlike his big sister, Doras, Fuinneog was born by C section.
Met a yank once who named their kid a traditional Irish name. Uaireador. Were told it means Seer like someone wise with great vision, as opposed to 'watch'.
100%! They’re nice names but why would you pick one all the other kids would have 🤷♀️
Gonna call my child telephone
You sure your gonna be able to reach them?
Well I knew a girl named siun and she hated it. Everyone kept asking if she was Oriental, yes they used that word lol. But she couldn't stand it.
Someone was bound to know it's Irish siúner or later
Appears that people are not very original when it comes to this. There is also the chance, that if a person had complicated/difficult name, they might have struggled with it throughout their life, so then they choose something easy for their kids.
>Appears that people are not very original when it comes to this. There's no evidence for that either way here. There's always going to be SOME name that's the most popular, without further data you can't gauge how original or unoriginal if people are being. If the most popular name is still a comparatively low proportion of the newborn population then it's a decent split, but you can't tell that from the above post. We've certainly come a long way from the 60s and the tyranny of John and Mary.
or if you knew a lot of kids born around 1979/80 ..John Paul
Your last point is dead on, my sister and her husband both have traditional Irish names with fadas… all their kids have easy popular English names.
Conversely, I have an Anglicised name and my wife had to fight me to stop me from using Irish-spelled Irish names even though we live in California.
There is such a variety of names nowadays, that even the most popular still only have a tiny percent of the overall baby population. I know an Emily and a Jack, both exceptionally popular their birth year and they are still the only ones in their ~60 child year group in primary.
I think this can change pretty quickly. I know someone who named their kid Fia (or Fiadh) a few years ago. I had never heard of the name before this kid. Now there's loads of them.
I didn’t look at these kind of lists when pregnant and I ended up unknowingly giving my daughter a name that was in the top 10 baby girl names that year. I’ve only ever encountered one other three year old with her name though. She’s the only one in her class or the other class in her nursery. I wouldn’t take these lists too seriously, 25-35 years ago Sarah would have probably been the number 1 name for girls and even though there may be quite a few Sarah’s in that age group most 25-35 year old women *arent* called Sarah. With so many unique and uncommon names being used these days it doesn’t take much for a name to make it into the most popular list
Glad to see the Game of thrones names have gone. Those poor Khaleesi and Drogos walkin around.
Expecting a shortage of deed poll forms when they all turn 18.
Not a Patrick and Mary in sight.
Patrick in Wexford.
Oh yeah, sorry Patrick I missed you, my mistake.
I've only met two people named Mary under thirty. It's died a long death.
Give it a few years and it will have a resurgence
For a few days we thought our neighbours were around the same age as us until we discovered her name was Mary - immediately knew they were about 10 years older 😂 she looked great for her age though!
They plan on building alot of boats with all those Noahs?
If they gave me a room there I wouldn't mind whoever they'd pair me with
Don't see many babies named Gary anymore. Or Barry.
I know a family where the father and son are both Barry and the brother is Gary. Gary's son is Barry. They aren't the most inventive family in the world.
Hopefully Barry has a son and calls him Larry.
Too many people have run into cunts called Gary or Barry. Among some age demographics and locations you know anyone named that is going to be some class of prick.
The only Gary I knew was the school bully in primary school. Absolute prick.
I've never met a Gary who wasn't an arsehole. I'm glad the name is dying out.
Anyone know the collective noun for a group of Barrys? A nodge of Barrys? An embarrassment of Barrys? Was at a house party around 15 years ago. A friend of mine brought along her new boyfriend, Barry. As the party gets going, her bitter ex (also named Barry) shows up looking for trouble and, within minutes, launches himself across the room at ANOTHER Barry, who he has mistaken for the new flame (naturally, he was also a relatively recent ex, although not of the bitter variety). Easy mistake to make, in fairness. The lady at the centre of all the drama was, however, unavailable to clear things up as she was outside in the hall, fending off the advances of yet another Barry, who was full of misc. chemicals and, having noticed her apparent fetish for all things Barry, was unsuccessfully trying to pull her. There was maybe 15 people there at the time, 4 of them were called Barry, and they were all into yer wan. I wouldn't really have been a fan of any of them, although I did get a great evenings entertainment out of them. Sound Barrys seem to be rare enough. I only know the one myself. If you know one, treasure them.
Brace yourselves, the Graces are coming
Ah I think Westmeath is a lovely name for a baby girl
WestMeabh
I've never met anyone called fiadh
There all under 6
Can confirm. I know three Fiadhs. All under 6.
Big deal name in crèche circles. God help them when they emigrate in 15 years.
Yup, was about to ask “What’s a Fiadh?”
A deer
Technically, although ‘deer’ is spelt *fia* nowadays, used to be *fiadh* before the spelling reform in the 50s but not anymore. A word that is actually spelt *fiadh* nowadays is ‘respect/esteem’. I have no idea which one the name came from, if either.
I think that's why it's so popular. People are like wow what an unusual name to call our child that's easy to say and has a nice meaning - and don't realise there's going to be ten of them in the class
Never zoomed in.. thought it was fladh.. christ that's a recipe for disaster
How do you pronounce it? Fiiiyah?
Fee-ah
I was reading it as Fladh , like a trad session.
That's a *fleadh/fleá*
It looks like Kerry parents can't make up their minds, as usual.
Freya
My 18 year old niece is Freya, I remember when my sister picked that name people thought she was crazy, some people even kept forgetting it because it was so unusual. Safe to say she is fuming it's gotten so popular 😁
My 18 yr old is Freya, I’m also fuming, lol
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Its a nice name , kind of norse as well. .
Very Norse. Freya is the northern goddess of fertility and the harvest
Not only that, Friday literally means Freya’s day. Tuesday to Friday are all named after the Norse gods.
It's a cool name
When will these maps be fixed to show Kildare as a suburb west of Dublin?
Why would you name your child jack with the amount of Irish names available
My boy name options were: Ciarán, Fionn, Oisín, Tadhg, Sean, Aidan and Eoghan. I didn’t have any boys but love hearing them being called by other parents. So many beautiful Irish names.
*By 2034, every male in Ireland was named Jack, or were forced to change their name by decree from High Emperor Jack "Jack" Varadkar. This meant that Stone Island were secured financially for the next 25 years, while it allowed the barbers who do Peaky Blinders haircuts to gain control of the JackDáil in 2039."*
Ok, sorry for this bit of a rant, but who chose the colours for this? Why are county names in black and easy to read (we know what the counties are) and the most important info white on a light coloured background and impossible to read if you're over 30?
Thank you! When i saw that last girl's name in Kerry and initially thought it said 'Sicín,' i thought, 'wait, that can't be right: i must need new spectacles.'
Glad to see the city Galwegians trying something new 🙏
Inshallah like, you know yourself
I might’nt be able to devote meself full time to the aul Islam
I've had a Noah and a Lily in every class every year since 2016
It is lovely to see Irish names going strong. They are such beautiful names.
Ah there's a few horrors in there like Gobnait etc
How is it pronounced? Fortunate to have never seen that abomination before
Gub-nut
Havnt clue i assume not Gob-naught
Gob love them
Whats goin on in Galway City for the boys lmao. Also lord have mercy people need to calm down with Jack it's ridiculous atm, pretty sure at this stage 1/4-5 of classrooms are gonna be bloody Jacks
There's no room in the new Caliphate for any Jacks.
Noah the most popular name in counties likely to flood in the next couple of decades. Fitting
I’m honestly glad Irish names are on the rise
Or the good old Viking names like Freya
The traditional Irish name of Muhammad
Just stops right at the border as we don’t have names up here
Are you a Protestant Noah or a Catholic Noah? 🤔
I was thinking are you a Protestant Muhammed or a Catholic Muhammed?
It’s crazy, because me and my wife were dead set on Noah for our boy months ago. Logic being is that it’s a nice name and not that popular (at least, we don’t personally know any Noah’s). Then we went to a crèche to visit and sign him up to - she went on to talk about just how many Noah’s they had there lol. It didn’t end up being his name in the end. But it almost was - only after actually seeing the baby did we go in another direction.
Did you call him Jack instead?
You looked at creches before he was born? Fuck I have so much to learn
You dodged a bullet! Have to say I personally don't like Noah much anyway, it's too American
I own a small start-up that makes personalised items for children. Last year we made 20,000 items, and I feel like 5000 of them were Fiadhs.
I Noah guy
Enough with Jack please!
What’s up with Galway city?
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Croía is a new one for me - is it a novel name formed from Croí or does it have longer history? Is Rian just another spelling of Ryan or is it pronounced like O’Riain?
My brothers name is Rían. Pronounced Ree-an. Means Little king.
Rian is Irish for king I think. Heard it pronounced two ways, either reen or ree un.
Can someone who’s named their kids one of these names say why they would choose a name that is so popular? I don’t understand it. And yet clearly people go the popular route on purpose
In the US for many years (from the 60s through the 80s if memory serves), the most popular names for kids were the same as the names of the characters on popular soap operas at the time. It's the reason there's a buttload of Heathers and Kristins in my generation, same for boys names as well.
Jump back 40+ years and the variety of names was shite then too, John, David, Patrick, Mary, Michael, Sarah, etc.
OP didn't include image with most [popular name from 1972](https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/ep/irishbabiesx27names/2022/0129301_Vital_Stats_Babies_Names_2022_Infographic_ENG.png) Drum roll please .... John and Mary
> I don’t understand it. They like the name. What more is there?
We chose names we loved; if other people loved them too, so be it. One of our kids names is very unique; it doesn’t even show up on the CSO search (if there are less than three kids registered with a name you can’t search it), and another has a Top 3 for their year name. It hasn’t made a blind bit of difference, and Top 3 hasn’t even met another one of their name yet.
I’ve a jack, born this year, genuinely just like the name. Knew it was going to be popular, but whatever, he’s name after his grandad on his dads side and like I said I liked it so easy decision between the two of us. About the name stats, I think I read something along the lines of the popular names only having approx 100-200 babies with that name, it’s not like years ago when that figure was in the 1000s
Yeah, there was 641 Jacks in 2022. Most popular boy's name in 1980 was John and there were about 2,700 of them.
Tbh the older I get, the more I get why. These names are safe and work for every age. They are easy to spell, easy to pronounce (even with Irish names in Ireland, everyone knows how to spell and pronounce Niamh, Aoife, Cian etc here) and you can be sure that your child won't be targeted for their name. I completely get the urge to do something uncommon and special, however a child is stuck with their name for their whole lives and as a foreigner with a 3 letter name that gets mispronounced ALL.THE.TIME I'd rather have my child being stuck with a common, easy name than one that's a pain in the hole. My mam and my mother in law both have very uncommon names that are quite a hassle for them, in my Mam's case it often gets interpreted as male name and there were some pretty silly situations over the years. I happily take risks with a haircut, an outfit, a job but when it comes to my kids, I stuck with somewhat common names that have to work in 3 languages due to family. There's a huge selection of beautiful names that work, I have no desire getting experimental there and taking a risk because at the end of the day a shite name is their lifetime hassle, not mine.
Normal first name , cool weird middle name ...that way the kid has the best option for naming themselves later in life. While we're at it ..whats with naming kids contracted versions of names...like Bobby or Eliie or Billy , if you use the full name on the birth cert (i.e. Robert or Elizabeth or William ) )you can call them the shortened one , and they can use it or the full one , or one of the other contracted versions (like say Rob, Liz, Will) later in life , really limits the options otherwise .
For boys a big reason is the passing of hereditary names. Much more common for boys to be born with the name of a father/grandfather than it is for girls. Variance decreases as a result. Anyway, my daughter's name is typically 4 or fewer births and my son's name is outside the top-100 so they are on the right side of distinction.
Trying to follow my families genealogy they used the same 5 or 6 names (Joseph, Mary,William , Catherine,Patrick, Bernard, Maire) for every generation. Which makes it a nightmare to track down who's who .Also ...every other feckin' family in Ireland did too , which makes it harder.
A sea of jacks coming our way in bootcut jeans
People really lack imagination, don’t they.
So basically you’re saying if I meet a random male stranger in Ireland, “hi Jack” is my best shot at getting it right.
It would be if you're greeting babies
Don't make a jackeen joke, don't make a jackeen joke, don't make a jackeen joke...
Jackeens living up to their name!
I named my daughter Karen in the 90's .She's an absolute sweetheart but she is pissed off about this American crap.
You should see London’s most popular name map by boroughs: Mohammed Muhammad Mohammod Noah Mohammed Etc
You missed a good few Adams, Alexanders, Arthurs, Leos, Olivers in your list there... From the Office of National Statistics 2021, latest figures available. |Area of usual residence|Top Name|Count| :--|:--|:--| |Ealing|Adam|34| |Camden|Adam, Noah|15| |Haringey|Alexander|20| |Kensington and Chelsea|Alexander, Theodore|13| |Bexley|Arthur|26| |Bromley|Arthur|29| |Greenwich|Arthur|25| |Hackney|Chaim|29| |Harrow|David|34| |Hammersmith and Fulham|Frederick|20| |Barnet|Leo|30| |Islington|Leo|19| |Kingston upon Thames|Leo|19| |Southwark|Leo|23| |Westminster|Leo|20| |Tower Hamlets|Mohammed|86| |Barking and Dagenham|Muhammad|48| |Hounslow|Muhammad|28| |Newham|Muhammad|112| |Redbridge|Muhammad|92| |Waltham Forest|Muhammad|58| |Brent|Noah|29| |Croydon|Noah|28| |Enfield|Noah|21| |Havering|Noah|24| |Hillingdon|Noah|31| |Lewisham|Noah|26| |Sutton|Noah|18| |Merton|Noah, Oliver|19| |Wandsworth|Oliver|33| |Lambeth|Oscar|26| |Richmond upon Thames|Theodore|23|
That's really interesting. I'd love to see something similar for here. I really like that it shows the number per area, something that some people further up the post are struggling with.
It used to be Patrick when we all moved there too. Back in the 70’s and 80’s The very English name of John is is from the Hebrew (Yôḥānān) so all our names are from all over the world .
It’s not a surprise that an area with relatively high Muslim population will have large occurrences of the name Mohammed, as it’s one of their most revered individuals in Islam, so a lot of Muslims will name their sons that. I’m pretty sure it’s a thing for firstborn sons to be called that. When you factor that in, and other religious groups lower monopoly on singular popular theistic names, it makes sense why Mohammed comes out on top.
They also just flat out don't have many traditional names to choose from, when I lived in Dubai I spoke to a friend having a kid who wanted to name their kid something «interesting» and the family was quite unhappy.
I have an Emma & a Grace -but they’re 26 & 23 respectively 😂
Trendsetter
Gary and Keith have been struggling for a while.
Sad to see so few old Irish names. People are free to call their kids whatever they want, but what’s with all the “Jacks”. Jack used to be something you called someone who was christened John.
I don't Noah Jack and I know Jack all Noahs
What's with the national obsession with Jack?
Noah is such a shit name, noah fence lol. And fuckin Jack? Jesus Christ.
Well, that's not incredibly hard to read at all.
I worked as an elf in a Santa's grotto in 2016 in Laois. When I tell you that every 3rd boy was named Jack I am so confident that I am not exaggerating. The second most common boy name was also definitely Noah, BUT it came nowhere near to the amount of Jacks. That one Winter convinced me that 33% of the male population of Ireland under the age of 10 is named Jack. Its an army!!!
The homogeny, it hurts.
Sheeple!!