WDTY of this real family of names

General Name Discussion
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I rarely write on here despite my constant browsing and checking up on names but just had to share the names of the kids of a family I have become close to over the winter huddled in freezing hockey rinks together. They are Irish and Polish and have an O’ last name that I feel goes perfectly with each childs name. Mom and Dad have traditional names but the kids incorporate many family names and are as follows:

[name]Dempsey[/name] [name]James[/name]
[name]Egan[/name] [name]Daniel[/name]
[name]McCormack[/name] [name]Reid[/name] “[name]Mack[/name]”
[name]Connelly[/name] [name]Grace[/name] “[name]Coco[/name]”
[name]Burke[/name] [name]Thomas[/name]
[name]Quincey[/name] [name]Louise[/name] “[name]Quinn[/name]”
[name]Callahan[/name] [name]Josephine[/name] “[name]Calla[/name]”, “[name]Calla[/name] [name]Jo[/name]” or CJ
[name]Rooney[/name] [name]Patrick[/name] “Ryno” affectionately by his older brothers
Sheahan [name]Alexandra[/name] “[name]Shea[/name]”

Maybe its just because I love the family but I adore all kids names, what are your honest thoughts?

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I think, to be honest, they sound a little bit like roll call in an army barracks. That’s a lot of surnames.

3

I rather like the Irishness of each child’s name, and the fact that they are family names. I also like them paired with the traditional middle names.

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It’s difficult to find first names that sound good with O’ last names (like mine.) With that in mind, I think they did a good job. Ordinarily I’m not a fan of surname names on girls, but I quite like the nicknames they’re using.