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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Patricia
Teresa
Sharon
Angela
Deborah
Suzanne[/quote]

I never met an Irish-American Deborah or Suzanne or Sharon.  Theresa yes, but add the h.[/quote]

No “h” for my Irish-born mother named Teresa.  I would strike that requirement.  [/quote]

I don't have a dog in this T(h)eresa fight but Irish-born names and Irish-American names are not the same.  OP is looking for Irish American naming conventions specifically.[/quote]

And she is receiving them. Earlier “h” PP is not the arbiter of Irish-American names. Frankly, I can’t take her opinion seriously if she hasn’t heard of an Irish-American named Sharon before.[/quote]

Well, I didn’t meant to try to be an arbiter.  But I really have never met an Irish Catholic named Sharon!  I’m one of 10 from an Irish family (and yes my name and all my sisters’ names have been listed multiple times here), plus my mom has about 50 cousins  (her dad was one of 9)  and another 40 or so second cousins, plus she went to a Catholic women’s school that was predominantly Irish background and I know all her classmates from school in the 1950s.  So those are my credentials, such as they are….I think of Sharon as being a Jewish name, actually, along with Deborah.  [/quote]

+1 from big Irish-American families on both sides where the fewest number of kids was 5 until my generation. Reading this thread is just reading my relatives names over and over. No Sharons or Deborahs. I definitely do not think of them as Irish-American names. But I agree that Irish names and Irish-American names are different though overlapping. [/quote]

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