Susie O'Brien on baby names - Adelaide Advertiser

[ezymay]

The only Erin I have personally known was male, and definitely never slept with the football team.
I read it as a random example of how a name can have negative associations for people.

Really a male Erin??? Unusual... I've not heard of a man being called Erin. The name means Irish goddess of peace and the old name for Ireland

Certainly name associations can be very strong but like Glam said i think once a child has that name and ppl get to know the child they then become the association.

[butterfly_warrior]

Marlene, Can I please get to meet your Mitchell? Please?

Funnily enough, every Samuel (or Sam) I ever taught was a pain in the bum. Fortunately there were few enough of them that they didn't completely obliterate the nice associations the name has for me and DH. But I've gone into those reasons many times before, I won't do it again.

And for what it's worth, to me, Erin is a very quiet, very intelligent and absolutely lovely young woman. I'd be very happy if my boy brought home an Erin like that when he's older!

BW