Before you get all worried that I shouldn’t be allowed to poke fun at north side baby names, let me say this:
- I have already begun the process with the A-Z of North Side Dublin Baby Boy Names without any major repercussion thus far (phew!)
- My dad is a north sider and my mam tells me that my granny was a child of the inner city – the north inner city.
- I once went for an audition for Red Rock and the casting director said ‘Use your normal voice’ before I started. Then she stopped me halfway through and said, ‘Sorry, are you not from Finglas?’ I’m not, but I somehow SEEM like I am and that’s cool with me.
Here are my favourite North Side Dublin Baby Boy Names And Their (Totally Made Up) Meanings:
1. GINGER
Pronounced: Ginger (with a ‘g’ and not with a ‘j’)
Definition: He who was most definitely born with ginger hair
Used in a sentence: “Howaya Ginger, how’s your cousin Bosco, have yeh heard from him lately?”
2. HEAD THE BALL
Pronounced: HeadDeBal
Definition: One who oozes charisma from every pore
Used in a sentence: “Did yeh hear what HeadDeBal said to the principal? Mad yoke”
3. IANO
Pronounced: Eeee-noh
Definition: He who knows a guy where can get cheap tires
Used in a sentence: “Eeee-noh would yeh give those a kick there, and tell us if yeh think they need changin’?”
4. JACKIE
Pronounced: Jackie’s Army
Definition: He who was named after the greatest leader of the Irish football team
Used in a sentence: “We’re all part of Jackie’s army.. we’re all off to Italeeeee”
5. KOWZER
Pronounced: Kowwsser
Definition: Most likely to run a gymnasiun
Used in a sentence: “Did yeh see the bleedin’ muscles on Kowwsser? Unreal, so they are”
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