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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anything Irish, unless you are of Irish descent.  [/quote]

Yes one thousand times over. Maeve, Declan, Mairead, Declan, Aidan, Eamon. Cut it out wanna be Irish Americans! [/quote]

I find this very weird too.  As an Irish-American from both sides, our family is literally riddled (cousins on both sides) with all sorts of Irish names.  So I am used to this in my own family, but then if I meet someone who has like 1% drop of Irish blood and they have names such as the above, I am kind of like, "Huh?"  I mean, of course it's their choice, but I admit to finding it just a little weird. I  guess I feel it would be equally weird if I named my kids names such as "Carlos," "Jose," and "Juanita."  A totally different ethnicity than my own!    [/quote]

PS  I guess people just love us Irish so much they want to imitate us! ;)  "Imitation is the best form of flattery." ;)  [/quote]

true.

FWIW, My parents gave me an irish name to honor that part of my heritage - even though it was only 25% of my heritage or something?  I'm a European mutt.  I could also easily have been named Danica to honor the Slavic side of my heritage.

My poor kid is even more muddled - we added German and Czech to the already mixed together heritage.  I just say she's all american ;)[/quote]

For some reason my mother is really big on all things celtic, so I I've grown up with an Irish name that I never liked.  I'm adopted and recently found my firstmom and ironically I'm 100% French.  Oh well, too late to change it now...[/quote]

I am the first AP up above, and this is interesting to me b/c I am an adoptive mom (of two) too.  I have a cousin who was adopted who was given a very Irish first name and middle name, and their family had a very Irish last name too.  When he was in his teens, he was bugged by some adoption-related stuff including his name b/c he had found out that he was very Italian-American biologically and so he felt his Irish names did not "fit" him.  (I did have 3 other adopted cousins too and none of them felt this way, or, at least, not to the same extent he did.)  But, anyway, this always sort of stuck with me and so, when we adopted our daughters internationally), I steered towards giving them names which were not necessarily any given ethnicity.  I hoped they would feel later on that they could "make" their names to be whoever they are, ethnically, and individually.  Oh well, we'll see!    [/quote]

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