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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the Jewish people who think it’s weird feel when people use Irish names? Think: Sinead or Siobhan Rosenblatt. Ok? What about Sinead or Siobhan Jackson...and the Jacksons are black.[/quote]

PP Jewish person who thinks it's weird when non-Jews use Jewish names: I roll my eyes at all the Irish-named non-Irish children. There are just so many of them that at some point I've come to accept: people just like Irish names. It seems like among a certain group of kids born in the 2000s, Irish names are neutral of cultural association.

Funny enough, I have some kids in my life who were born to parents who are a mix of Portuguese, German, Puerto Rican, and Jewish - and all of those kids have very Irish names. What can you do.

If Jewish names headed in that direction - stripped of cultural association or meaning - I'd be weirded out, I think. But, hey, maybe it would also lead to less anti-semitism - and we'd all take that, nu?

What do Irish people - whether from Ireland or just family history - think pf Irish names being so popular?
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I think there's a difference between very culturally Irish-Catholic/American Irish names like Patrick, Francis, and Mary Catherine; and names that are Irish but not common in the US, like Aoife, Nuala, and Seamus.  For the former -- yeah, I would be a bit weirded out to meed a Jewish Francis Xavier.  For the latter, I would think it was a little odd, but not as culturally tone-deaf.  And then, some of the Irish names have also been normalized as American secular names too, like  Brian, Sean, and Ryan, and now Declan and Finnian. So those seem like fair game for anyone.  [/quote]

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