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in reply to a message by pixie_btrfly
I really don't, sorry. I can see how it's appealing on paper for sure, but I hate the way it sounds. My old boss had a son named Declan, who I guess would be around 8 now. It just sounded so awkward to me whenever anyone said his name; it totally has an weird emptiness to it.
It also felt sort of... artificial on this rich NYC kid. Honestly in the U.S., I highly associate Declan with the "faux-Irish" trend of upper middle class families with some distant Irish heritage that they likely don't know much about. Declan conveniently fits in nicely with other modern naming trends, so the parents can say, "It's cuz we're Irish!"
(I say this as an American who loves Irish names too.)
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"We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out." - Harris Wittels
It also felt sort of... artificial on this rich NYC kid. Honestly in the U.S., I highly associate Declan with the "faux-Irish" trend of upper middle class families with some distant Irish heritage that they likely don't know much about. Declan conveniently fits in nicely with other modern naming trends, so the parents can say, "It's cuz we're Irish!"
(I say this as an American who loves Irish names too.)
"We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out." - Harris Wittels
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