Surprise baby no4 - need some Irish baby boy name help!

[sunny75]

Hi Ladies, I'm half way through a surprise pregnancy with DS3 (baby no.4) - and thought finding some names may help me get more used of the idea.

I'm Irish decent, so our first 3 children have the following names; Lorcan, Dervla, and Quinn. We've always gone for names that can be sounded out phonetically as we live in the UK, and wanted this name to fit in with our other children.

My ideas so far for new baby boy are:

Daithi (Gaelic - but has anyone heard of using Dahy as an alternative spelling?)
Torin (is this too similar to Lorcan and Quinn?)
Senan (again too similar?)


Any comments or suggestions very welcome.

Big thanks x

[TheAuthoress]

What about Ciaran, Ruari (Rory) or Cillian?

[Belazu84]

Cormac - love this name

[Flywheel]

Senan is great. Also Conal or Cillian.

[IvoryMadonna]

Lots here

I don't think the names you mention are similar at all, apart from ending with the same letter.

[3luckystars]

I like Senan.

Ferghal might be nice too. I really like the name Cathal and think it would be smashing with the other names.

[DramaAlpaca]

I love Senan & it's fine with your other names.

Rory, Ronan, Cormac & Cian are all good suggestions.

[wigglesrock]

Dara
Donal
Conal

One of my dds goes to school with a Senan it's lovely. Please don't use Dahy - it just looks silly and is makes a bit of a mockery of wanting to use Irish names but with your own unique spelling.

[ragged]

Cormac, Macaulay.
Dahy would work for me for reasons you give, but purists will be sniffy about it.

[IvoryMadonna]

I wouldn't know how to pronounce Dahy. Da-hee? Dah-hee? Day-hee? Day? I've never seen the name before, and doubt I'm alone there.

[ragged]

Maybe OP should use a more phonetic spelling, go full on since the purists will hate any deviation can never make them happy, anyway.

[3luckystars]

I think you are right about that Ivory Madonna. Daithi is pronounced DawHee.

There is a y in the Irish alphabet so it wouldn't be right to spell it any other way.

[3luckystars]

Sorry, that should have read "there is no Y in the Irish Alphabet" I am not sure really what a purist is, but I don't think I am one. I am just Irish and offering my opinion. I am definitely not sniffy! :)

Anyway I hope the OP gets a great name after this thread because the others are lovely. Good luck.

[Floggingmolly]

Don't spell it Dahy, it looks ridiculous.

[Newquay]

Sean (Shaun)?

[Devora]

Oisin?

[ImperialBlether]

TheAuthoress, you mention Ciaran and Ruari... Are you friends with someone in North Wales?

[Hadron21]

I love Cormac.

[Rubymay]

Ciaran, Conor, Liam, fiacra, Eoghan, Liam
Cahill, Dairy, Daragh, Patrick, Padraig,
Cian, Killian, Darcy, Peadar, Tadhg,
Dermot, Seamus.

[squoosh]

Dahy would not work. English people would pronounce it as day-hee, Irish people would have no clue it was even supposed to be an Anglo version of Daithí. I certainly wouldn't have made the connection.

I've never heard of Torin.

Call him Cormac, that's a good solid name.

Cillian
Ferdia
Ardal
Rory
Finbarr
Donal
Fergus

[5446]

Love Cormac and Cillian.

Conan
Finnian
Cathal
Eoin

[bouncingbelle]

Dominick?

[sunny75]

Thank-you so much, I did have the feeling the Daithi spelt any other way wouldn't work. I love the name but we've purposely made sure all our other children's names work phonetically.

Senan is lovely, although when I mentioned it to someone they thought of 'semen' -which worried me that this would be a school playground taunt! I'm still really liking it though, and not thinking of that at all. Could that just be one person with a naughtier mind than me?

Cormac is very nice also.

There are some really lovely suggestions - which I really appreciate x

[jugglingmonkey]

How about Daire (Dara), or Tadhg (Tai-g)? I know a Tadhg in real life, think it's a great name.

[sweetpeame]

Niall? Irish and relatively easy for non-Irish people to pronounce. It sounds like you're in agreemen but I could absolutely avoid spelling Daithi (sorry can't do fadas) Dahy. Lots of British people still won't know how to say it and it won't look at all Irish to Irish people. It's not a "purist" comment, it's just not an accepted spelling. It would be like a non-English speaker spelling Phoebe as Fee-bee iyswim.