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I'm not so keen on it. There is a news reporter called Paraic O'Brien, his name is pronounced "poric". Finbar is ok but all in all they sound like they should be older than they are!

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I was at a bus stop recently and there was an older couple and the woman kept speaking to her husband (I presume) and he was called Finbar. "Oh, look at that woman, Finbar, she's giving her baby some water to drink." "Here's the bus coming, Finbar," etc, etc.

Not digging Poric -- but I would love Padraic / Padraig. Adore Finbar / Finbarr and Joanne is a nice classic for someone else's child.

Interesting! The usual Welsh version of Patrick is Padrig, so I'm guessing they wanted it to sound more like the 'paw ric' pronunciation of Pádraic. It's interesting to see a young Joanne, too - can't be many of those about.

Finbar is so cool! But Poric, ick. Makes me think of porridge, pork, pores and porn.

Reminds me of "porridge". Poor kid.

I want to like it, especially reading your etymology of it below, but it sounds so close to "pork!"

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I like Finbar and Joanne though, and think all the names are interestingly unexpected together.

If it was Þórrik, that wold be okay. But we don't have that letter that looks like a p but sounds like th in English anymore.