Keiran or Ciaran?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

In my family, most of whom are second-to-fourth-generation Americans from Ireland and Wales, Americanizing the spelling of a Gaelic name would be the move that would have others scratching their heads. We spelled our children's names the Gaelic way-- Niamh (not Neve), Aine (not Anya), and Cillian (not Killian). It isn't unique; it is honoring our heritage.

Hate to break it to you, but Ciaran is not “wildly popular” in Ireland. If you wanted that, you’d name your kid Jack.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/mainresults/

That's the statistic for 2022. You do realize there are far more people born in years outside of 2022 than there are born in 2022?

Ciaran is the name of 26 different saints, and it has been a very popular name in Ireland, especially in certain regions, since at least the 1950s. Taking into account that I still have aunts, uncles, and many dozens of cousins living across the Republic, and I am intimately involved with one of the societies of Ireland, Iso I interact with hundreds of Irish people,, 'll stand by my claim that it is a wildly popular name in Ireland.

Of course it’s for 2022. Are you seriously expecting stats for a year we’re currently in? But hey, I guess because you say it’s “wildly popular,” we should all just accept that over actual stats from Ireland that don’t even put it in the top 100 names: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/data/

NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 100!

But let’s go back five years to 2018. Again, not even in the top 100:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2018/babiesnames2018tables/

So please, PP, continue to stand by you having some relative in Ireland you know that it’s wildly popular as a baby name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the love of all things holy, please pair that with a vanilla, easy-to-pronounce middle name so your dc can go by that in middle school. Kieran Jack Thomas, or whatever. Some kids get so down with their names being butchered by every sub.

I’m so baffled by the people who consider this name out there?

You’d think I was naming my kid something like Balthazar. Does everyone in DC name their kids top ten only?

All the white kids at HYPS are named Daniel. Anything else is a failure to invest in your child's future.

[Anonymous]

OP, definitely go with the K. It’s really not that unusual here (and fwiw, that’s how my BIL in Ireland spells it, too).

[Anonymous]

I have a kieran. The only time anyone mistakes it for karen is the autocorrect on phones, mine included. That being said he has to repeat his name more than any of my other kids, and I do too when telling people his name. I think spelling it with a C would only make it that much worse. But it's a great Irish name; don't let the naysayers tell you otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of all things holy, please pair that with a vanilla, easy-to-pronounce middle name so your dc can go by that in middle school. Kieran Jack Thomas, or whatever. Some kids get so down with their names being butchered by every sub.

I’m so baffled by the people who consider this name out there?

You’d think I was naming my kid something like Balthazar. Does everyone in DC name their kids top ten only?

All the white kids at HYPS are named Daniel. Anything else is a failure to invest in your child's future.

I was flipping through the PAW the other day and was struck by how conservative the baby names were. James, David, Arthur, Louis, and the most out there… Mac Edwin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you want people to pronounce it? I’d read Ciaran as se-yaran.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

In my family, most of whom are second-to-fourth-generation Americans from Ireland and Wales, Americanizing the spelling of a Gaelic name would be the move that would have others scratching their heads. We spelled our children's names the Gaelic way-- Niamh (not Neve), Aine (not Anya), and Cillian (not Killian). It isn't unique; it is honoring our heritage.

Hate to break it to you, but Ciaran is not “wildly popular” in Ireland. If you wanted that, you’d name your kid Jack.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/mainresults/

That's the statistic for 2022. You do realize there are far more people born in years outside of 2022 than there are born in 2022?

Ciaran is the name of 26 different saints, and it has been a very popular name in Ireland, especially in certain regions, since at least the 1950s. Taking into account that I still have aunts, uncles, and many dozens of cousins living across the Republic, and I am intimately involved with one of the societies of Ireland, Iso I interact with hundreds of Irish people,, 'll stand by my claim that it is a wildly popular name in Ireland.

Of course it’s for 2022. Are you seriously expecting stats for a year we’re currently in? But hey, I guess because you say it’s “wildly popular,” we should all just accept that over actual stats from Ireland that don’t even put it in the top 100 names: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/data/

NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 100!

But let’s go back five years to 2018. Again, not even in the top 100:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2018/babiesnames2018tables/

So please, PP, continue to stand by you having some relative in Ireland you know that it’s wildly popular as a baby name.

Never claimed to have a relative in Ireland or that is widely popular.

I just said I don’t consider it that out there or totally unusual.

You seem like you just like to piss people off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

In my family, most of whom are second-to-fourth-generation Americans from Ireland and Wales, Americanizing the spelling of a Gaelic name would be the move that would have others scratching their heads. We spelled our children's names the Gaelic way-- Niamh (not Neve), Aine (not Anya), and Cillian (not Killian). It isn't unique; it is honoring our heritage.

Hate to break it to you, but Ciaran is not “wildly popular” in Ireland. If you wanted that, you’d name your kid Jack.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/mainresults/

That's the statistic for 2022. You do realize there are far more people born in years outside of 2022 than there are born in 2022?

Ciaran is the name of 26 different saints, and it has been a very popular name in Ireland, especially in certain regions, since at least the 1950s. Taking into account that I still have aunts, uncles, and many dozens of cousins living across the Republic, and I am intimately involved with one of the societies of Ireland, Iso I interact with hundreds of Irish people,, 'll stand by my claim that it is a wildly popular name in Ireland.

Of course it’s for 2022. Are you seriously expecting stats for a year we’re currently in? But hey, I guess because you say it’s “wildly popular,” we should all just accept that over actual stats from Ireland that don’t even put it in the top 100 names: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/data/

NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 100!

But let’s go back five years to 2018. Again, not even in the top 100:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2018/babiesnames2018tables/

So please, PP, continue to stand by you having some relative in Ireland you know that it’s wildly popular as a baby name.

I am Irish, and while I live in the states now, I have far more than "some relative" in Ireland. I would expect statistics from approximately 1940 through 2022 to assess the popularity of a name. As I stated, in some regions of the Republic, the name is very popular, Having six saints with a variant of the name generally leads to popularity in a Catholic country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

In my family, most of whom are second-to-fourth-generation Americans from Ireland and Wales, Americanizing the spelling of a Gaelic name would be the move that would have others scratching their heads. We spelled our children's names the Gaelic way-- Niamh (not Neve), Aine (not Anya), and Cillian (not Killian). It isn't unique; it is honoring our heritage.

Hate to break it to you, but Ciaran is not “wildly popular” in Ireland. If you wanted that, you’d name your kid Jack.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/mainresults/

That's the statistic for 2022. You do realize there are far more people born in years outside of 2022 than there are born in 2022?

Ciaran is the name of 26 different saints, and it has been a very popular name in Ireland, especially in certain regions, since at least the 1950s. Taking into account that I still have aunts, uncles, and many dozens of cousins living across the Republic, and I am intimately involved with one of the societies of Ireland, Iso I interact with hundreds of Irish people,, 'll stand by my claim that it is a wildly popular name in Ireland.

Of course it’s for 2022. Are you seriously expecting stats for a year we’re currently in? But hey, I guess because you say it’s “wildly popular,” we should all just accept that over actual stats from Ireland that don’t even put it in the top 100 names: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2022/data/

NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 100!

But let’s go back five years to 2018. Again, not even in the top 100:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ibn/irishbabiesnames2018/babiesnames2018tables/

So please, PP, continue to stand by you having some relative in Ireland you know that it’s wildly popular as a baby name.

Never claimed to have a relative in Ireland or that is widely popular.

I just said I don’t consider it that out there or totally unusual.

You seem like you just like to piss people off.

+1 This person is clearly a malcontented individual

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of all things holy, please pair that with a vanilla, easy-to-pronounce middle name so your dc can go by that in middle school. Kieran Jack Thomas, or whatever. Some kids get so down with their names being butchered by every sub.

I’m so baffled by the people who consider this name out there?

You’d think I was naming my kid something like Balthazar. Does everyone in DC name their kids top ten only?

All the white kids at HYPS are named Daniel. Anything else is a failure to invest in your child's future.

I was flipping through the PAW the other day and was struck by how conservative the baby names were. James, David, Arthur, Louis, and the most out there… Mac Edwin.

Isn't the return of Arthur and Louis symbolic of the return of the granddad names. My grandparents were born in the first decade of the 1900s and their names are pretty popular now. Growing up the names sounded so old to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

This is DCUrbanMom, not DublinUrbanMom.

I'm on team “Trying too hard to be unique”.

[Anonymous]

It's a very nice name. Go with Kieran. FWIW, I'm Irish, and my relatives in Ireland DO pronounce Ciaran slightly differently. To me, Kieran is KEE-ren and Ciaran is more like Kee-RON.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tells me “Trying too hard to be unique”.

How is it unique? Ciaran is a wildly-popular name in Ireland.

This is DCUrbanMom, not DublinUrbanMom.

I'm on team “Trying too hard to be unique”.

What an ethnocentric response! The DC area is a diverse area, with names from around the world being the norm here. The children in my neighborhood have names quite common in India, Italy, Pakistan, China, El Salvador, South Korea, Russia, and Ireland, as well as a variety of other countries.. That's the reality of where we live!

[Anonymous]

I think you have to go with Ciaran to avoid the psychopath upthread who would block you from her mommy get together based on the name. Very useful to have a way to repel those types.

[Anonymous]

I am your typical well-educated, born in Virginia DCUM demographic and would hesitate on Ciaran’s pronunciation (though I think I would guess it correctly). Kieran is easy, and a nice name. I do not associate it with Karen. My spouse, who is not a native English speaker, would butcher Ciaran and get Kieran close enough on the first try.