I will stand up and be counted here: my son has a pretty pretentious name, I feel this fact qualifies me to compile this list of pretentious names.
Sidenote: These baby names are not strictly Irish but rather inspired in part by Irish culture.
10 Irish Baby Names That Scream Pretentious NOTIONS:
1. Beckett
The baby could be star of a modernist play “Waiting For Boddle”.
2. Heaney
Heaney said: “I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original centre.”
If your baby came out with gems such as these then the Heaney moniker would be well-deserved.
3. Viscount
Mispronounced natch.
4. Carrigeen
For any moss fans….
5. Flann
As in O’Brien.
6. Wilde
Tick the gender neutral trend and literary aspirations in one pretentious little package. Full disclosure: This one is totally on my current baby name list. Wilde White has a nice ring.
7. Wolfe Tone
For your little rebel.
8. Cromwell
Ensure a lifetime of bullying for your little one…
9. Bloom
They’d get a whole day to themselves every year.
10. Ulysses
New parents are uniquely placed to enjoy Ulysses’ convoluted, chaotic stream of consciousness style of prose. Famously it features one 4,391-word sentence and frankly, as parents, we feel at home in that kind of deluge of crazy.
11. Grogans
Where mum and dad first locked eyes during Trinity Freshers week over a Guinness and a dog-eared copy of Camus… awwwwwh.
12. Burdock
Name your progeny after the Dublin chipper for a hint of hipster with a side of batter burger.
13. Proinsias
Actually Irish for pretentious – ah no it isn’t, it just sounds like it is! It’s the Irish for Francis and frankly, it’s a deadly name.
14. Yeats
An Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th Century literature… so no presh on the little one then, but we’re expecting great things from their ‘What I did on my Summer holidays’ essay.
15. Sean Nós
Sometimes sean nós can sound quite like babies crying, s’all I’m sayin’.
16. Boxty
We love potatoes and we love babies: what better way to merge those two loves than calling a baby Boxty?
17. Fada
Is this not ultimate patriotism?
18. Colcannon
Again with the spud love. In fact, you could call little Colcannon ‘Spud’ for short.
19. Clannad
Every baby needs an injection of Celtic Mysticism.
20. Bosco
Because BOSCO!
Main image via My Poetic Side
