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[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Hello! I've browsed this community before, but decided to join after I saw it in the spotlight this morning. I'm a boring old Jennifer, and my husband is the male boring name equivalent of Michael Peter, haha, so when we had our son in July, we wanted to give him an interesting name, but not a crazy weird one that could be made fun of too easily. We're both Pete's all Irish, and I'm half-Irish, so we were sticking to those sorts of names. Anyway, If it was a girl, she would have been Fiona, but it ended up being a boy, so we went with Finn McCool Young. We based the name on the Irish folk hero -- I know the original spelling is Fionn mac Cumhaill, but the pronunciation is Finn McCool, so we went with the easier spelling, for his sake, hahaha! Anyway, I guess my question is, what do you think? Weird? I know Finn is becoming pretty common, with the whole Glee thing, but I thought McCool was a different and kind of neat middle name. Obviously I'm not going to change his name or anything, I'm just wondering about your opinions.

Also, just so this isn't only about my son, here are some other names of some children of friends of mine, what do you think of these?
Kai
Baine
Bastien

And behind the cut are a couple of pictures of my little Finn.

Comments

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

What a cute kid!! :D I like Finn, and McCool is different - strong name alltogether

I like Kai and Bastien is kind of cute, but more as a nn for Sebastien, but naming your kid Baine seems kind of mean!

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm not sure about Baine either -- sounds like a videogame character to me! Bastien is a french name of some sort, I'm sure, but I agree, I'd like it better as a nn for Sebastien.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

McCool is such a different name! He'll definitely love it when he enter school. :)

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

I figured since it was a middle name, we could have some fun with it! Thanks!

[ealexsism.livejournal.com]

Your boy's adorable.

Honestly, Finn goes into the category of trendy/popular for me... although I'm not sure how common it is among babies. Not a fan of McCool, it seems like you're trying really hard to make him... cool lol. But it is unique, which you were going for :)

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I was a little disheartened to learn how popular/trendy Finn was the past few years -- it's always been on our boy's name list, but I figured that it wouldn't be as bad as a Michael or a Christopher yet!

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Finn is cute, both the name and the baby. I think the middle name seems like you're trying too hard to give him a "cool" name, which is unfortunate because I think the idea of naming him after a folk hero in your heritage is a neat idea. I would have preferred to see Finn mac Cumhaill, even though most, including me, would butcher it. I do think the name you chose flows well with your last name sound-wise.

Kai and Bastien are okay, although I would prefer to see Bastien as a nickname for Sebastien.

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I can see what you mean about the 'cool' part of the name -- the problem with the mac Cumhaill part, is that I could never bear to give my kid the burden of trying to explain to people how to pronounce it, and there's no way I'd give him a name with 'cum' in it, because kids are wicked cruel, hahaha!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I like Finn but I prefer it as a nn for Finley or Finnegan.

McCool is interesting. I'm indifferent about it. I would have used the original spelling, especially since it's a middle name. I like where it came from!

I like Bastien as a nn for Sebastien. I don't like Baine (Bane reference) and I think Kai seems like a "trying too hard" name.

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

The original spelling is fone, except that kids are cruel... I think the 'cum' part of it would become a very mean joke later on for him, and he'd always be explaining to people how the name was pronounced. I love the legend as well, and I'm happy we chose it. =)

I thought the same thing about Kai -- it's okay, but kinda meh for me. Baine sounds like a videogame character to me, I'm not a big fan.

[disrupted-sky.livejournal.com]

I know 3 Kai/Kye's, one of which is my younger brother, so while I always loved it, sadly I feel it is too overused in my family/friendship group. I also have 3 Chris' in my family too! I love the name Finn though, and what a gorgeous little chap you have too :D

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I love my little goober.

It sucks when a name gets so overused in people close to you that it just seems common. We have a lot of Chris', Jens and Michaels!

[sarahk-2009.livejournal.com]

Haha McCool (reminds me of Grey's Anatomy McDreamy and McSteamy!, LOL! LOVE it!) and HE is ADORBS! :D

Anyway just here to say your icon is Flawless! ;D

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Charrrrrrlie, we're going to Candy Mountain! =D

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

he was the one that led the Fianna tribe, right? My name is Fiana- no, I'm not Irish and it's not pronounced like I've been told the tribe name is and does not have anything to do with it, but one of my high school teachers told me about it and I thought it was kind of interesting. My parents thought of Fiona for me, but they wanted a twist on it.

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Fiana is a very neat name -- nothing too crazy, but super unique all the same, I like it! We were thinking of Fiona or Fionna for a girl.

And yes, that was him. =)

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

How is Fionna pronounced? It looks like it would be like my name which is
Fee-ah-nuh. I think that's right.. Is it a "real"/common name?

[biggerstaff.livejournal.com]

It can be pronounced Fee-oh-na or Fee-ah-nuh, I believe. It's a real name -- a variant of Fiona, but it's in the family history books, anyway, so it's not an "Uhmahnduh" or anything, hahahaha!