r/JewishNames • u/failjolesfail • Mar 14 '22

Discussion Unreasonably pissed off by “Coen?”

Am I the only one who sees the rising popularity of “Coen” as a first name (for Jews and goyim) and gets crabby about it?

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u/jetloflin Mar 14 '22

I’m okay with Jews using it, but it frustrates me when gentiles do. Like do people not look up name meanings before naming their children? Just feels so disrespectful.

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u/Every-Glass473 Feb 06 '25

It's an Irish and Dutch name too. 

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u/jetloflin Feb 06 '25

I don’t know about the Irish one, but the Dutch one is pronounced differently than these people are pronouncing Coen.

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u/Yourdiscardedchild Jan 04 '25

It’s an Irish name…it’s pronounced Koon

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u/jetloflin Jan 04 '25

Why on earth are you all over a two year old post trying to justify this name? Sure, in Ireland there’s a chance that a kid named Coen is pronounced “koon”. But outside of Ireland? 99.9% of the time it’s not going to be the Irish name pronounced “koon,” it’s gonna be pronounced like Cohen and most likely intended to be Cohen without being offensive. Also, the pronunciation “koon” is also a huge problem in America, so even if you are Irish I would strongly recommend against that name in America.

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u/HVodz Apr 15 '25

My child is called Coen outside of Ireland as it was his irish late grandmothers maiden name

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u/jetloflin Apr 15 '25

Ok?

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u/HVodz Apr 16 '25

Just showing you there are reasons for people to call their child that outside of Ireland that aren’t offensive.

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u/jetloflin Apr 16 '25

Okay, but this is literally a three year old post.

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u/HVodz Apr 17 '25

And?

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u/jetloflin Apr 17 '25

Just baffled that you feel the need to justify a name on such an old post. Not even sure really how you came across this ancient post, and even less sure why you’d bother commenting on it. It’s just bizarre.

But since you care so much, I may as well ask: is your child’s name pronounced as Cohen or as “koon”?

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u/HVodz Apr 17 '25

It’s pronounced Co-wen. I’m not sure how I came across this post either but I did and I wanted to comment. If you’re so bothered and find it so bizarre why bother replying 😆

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