Irish bumf

[avram]

Without even thinking about it I put on a bright orange shirt this morning.

The Irish Name Generator (I refuse to call anything a quiz that does nothing more than ask for your name and sex) says my Irish name is “Kane Fitzgerald”. Kane seems to be an Anglicized form of Cathán, which is Irish for guerilla. Not my name at all. An Irish version of my first name ought to be something like the word for father (athair) with an honorific attached; I can’t find a common Irish name built along those lines.

When I was a kid (that’s right, it’s time for me to thump my cane and tell y’all how you disobey your elders and your LJ quizzes are just noise) we used to generate pseudo-names using amusing formulas. Like, fer instance, your porn star name was the name of your childhood pet followed by the name of the street where you grew up. bugsybanana and her siblings wound up inventing a whole backstory for their shared porn star, Willy Pacific. (I seem to recall that he was born de la Paz, but changed his name for showbiz.) There was something wonderful and surprising about those old formulations that you just can’t get out of a lame CGI doing a rough alphabet match. (Assuming it’s doing even that much work, and not just randomizing.)

Update: camwyn suggested “Patrick” (or “Padraig”), which means “nobly born”, but is derived from the Latin patricius, which is in turn derived from pater, which means father.

Comments

[redbird]

Alternatively, find an Irish Gaelic Bible and see how "Abraham" comes out there.

[avram]

Looks like it’s just “Abraham”.

Actually, I’d want to look for “Abram”, but I assume that’s also printed literally.

[volund.livejournal.com]

I tried it. It seems to be a rather lame and idiotic random name generator. Probably the parameters it uses are the gender you tick off and possibly something randomly generated, either using the name you put in or not.

It certainly did not give me the Gaelic for "Mark," which I gather is something like "Marc" or "Marcas."

And from what little I looked at, you're right ... it's simply "Abram."

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

The Irish name generator gave me "Fidelma Sheridan," which makes no sense to me at all. The Irish for Christine happens to be, well, "Christine." and I'd expect a surname to either have a connotation of farming, as "Quinones" does, or at the very least to start with Q, which a few Irish surnames do as far as I know.

BTW, Willy Pacific isn't my pornstar name because I didn't grow up where my brother and sisters did. My pornstar name is Jean-Pierre Ashford. I can probably create a story for this if you want one.