Donnacha

My dude, the above (or below) poster, Donnacha, it's five years later but still your comment is so much a thing it needs addressing... for real right now, nobody is rejecting you socially or romantically just based on your (not offensive) name. Get real. If it is causing you so much emotional distress that you need therapy, maybe you need to a) touch grass (if your NAME is even in the top ten worst things ever to happen to you, you live a very blessed life) and b) think about changing your name or c) ask yourself what the deeper issues at play are. I think the bigger reason you feel rejected is because you're so dramatic about something you can (comparatively speaking) VERY EASILY change, and which is ultimately in the grand scheme of life (again, comparatively speaking) fairly unremarkable or important.

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To anyone considering naming their child Donnacha, no, you're not going to traumatise your child. Needing therapy for a name that's not offensive is wild. But Donnacha is not a name I'd personally use, I find it rather uncool - not as deeply uncool as Duncan but it also lacks that Macbethian edge. It's like a 3.5 or 4 out of 10. Reasonably below average, but not utterly disgusting and so terrible that you need therapy for life. That said, if I met a dude called 'Donnacha' I'd be like "Hi Donnacha", not "EW, get away from me you monster, I don't like your name!", because I am a sane adult. Maybe we'd be friends, hell, maybe I'd end up marrying him (as long as he wasn't a neurotic loon) or something because I'm not gonna be turning down a nice dude cos I don't like his name of all things. Either way, as long as he was chill, I'd probably then be here going 'NMS but I know this great guy called Donnacha'. That's the actual impact naming your kid Donnacha will have on his life. So use it if you like it, and don't lose sleep about the fact that I don't.