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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Culturally, you are not French, so no big deal not having a French name.

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Whatev.  PP, feel whatever you want about your own name and don't let random internet know-nothings tell you how you should or shouldn't fee.  [/quote]

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