Comments on: Name of the Day: Eamon http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eamonn Oliver Brown http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-29317 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:53:10 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-29317 My name Eamonn and i live in Ireland. the correct way to pronouce my name is
aim mon Once you get to know a person their name nearly always seems to suit them
Eamonn is no different, and its roots originate in Ireland.

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Edmund | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-21891 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:24:52 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-21891 [...] forms of the name include the Irish Eamon and surname form [...]

]]> By: March Madness: Boys’ Quarter Finals | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-19049 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:02:02 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-19049 [...] the Celtic showdown: cheerful Eamon (2) versus friendly Finn (10) View This PollMarket [...]

]]> By: March Madness: Boys’ Opening Round | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-18781 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 06:03:29 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-18781 [...] Irish Eamon (2) versus the ever-so English St. John (15) View This Pollonline [...]

]]> By: Rinn http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-18649 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:56:42 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-18649 Stumbled upon this cheery blog while looking for baby names. I wanted to re-iterate what the initial post states and that is that Eamon’s roots are Old English and not actually Irish.
I think in countries where modern English is used that the pronounciation should be phonetic and thus, “EE-mun.” I mean, do you know of any words that begin with ‘Ea’ and sound like ‘Ay’? Hint: there aren’t any.
This way you are not setting the kid up for a lifetime of correcting people on the pronounciation.
It’s a great name. But it’s a name that should be spoken like all other ‘Ea’ words like east, easy, eagle and easel.

]]> By: emily http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-10476 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:28:11 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-10476 My sons name is Eamon and I love it, so does the whole family. He is about 50% irish and is a fun loving kid with a name that fits him perfectly. We pronounce it more like Ay-min and if someone such as a nurse does not know the name, it is usually mis-pronounced. I expected it, and it’s always a story to tell about how it derives from Ireland and is a “true” Irish name. It beats being like everyone else. It’s not a made up name, but it is truly unique. Eamon Robert, one of a kind :)

]]> By: LC http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-5485 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:43:15 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-5485 My husband’s name is Ammon (ryhmes with salmon), which people often mispronounce as Eamon. I love his name and wonder if you’ve done a page on that one ever? It was derived from the Egyptian sun god Amon-Ra.

]]> By: Eamonn http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-3417 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:53:49 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-3417 Mind you, growing up in South Africa, I identified with the Janis Ian song “At Seventeen:” “A brown eyed girl in hand me downs, Whose name I never could pronounce….” Everyone got it wrong, including my own mother, until we moved to Eire.

]]> By: Eamonn http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-3416 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:47:28 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-3416 Eamonn Ivan Sterley, now there’s a name. He he, chuckle.

]]> By: Emmy Jo http://appellationmountain.net/2008/09/26/name-of-the-day-eamon/#comment-1861 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:38:19 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=676#comment-1861 I really like Eamon, and I think it’s a great alternative to Aidan, Ian, Evan, and all the other overused Irish/Scottish/Welsh names. I’m not against the two-syllable ends-in-N boys’ names as long as they sound distinctive, which I think Eamon does. I still prefer the S-endings (like Julius and Miles), but I doubt I’ll ever be able to talk my husband into these.

My favorite names are ones I have some sort of personal connection to (either through people I’ve known, books I’ve read, or history I’ve studied), so I’d probably never use Eamon on a son, but it’s definitely a name I’ll be suggesting to others.

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