Another new one...

[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

[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.