Irish boys names?

[leighdinglady]

Can anyone recommend Irish boys names that aren't countdown conundrums and can't be easily pronounced by English people?

I quite like Cian (key-inn) but DH doesn't. Something short and sweet

[leighdinglady]

CAN be pronounced by English!

[GingerAndTheBiscuits]

Conor
Aidan
Ronan
Sean

[Spottyladybird]

Niall
Liam

[Heratnumber7]

Jarlath
Patrick

[ShmooBooMoo]

Finbar, maybe Finn for short. Same for Fintan
Fergus (Gus)
Fergal or Feargel
or.. Sean is a nice Irish name, due a comeback!

[leighdinglady]

Fintan is nice. How do you pronounce jarleth?

[leighdinglady]

Any more C names? (I'm pushing my luck here I think!)

[bumblebee555]

Cillian?

[MessyBun247]

Tiarnan
Joseph
Ciaran

[sexymuthafunker]

Love an Irish name! 🍀

Callum
Connor
Fintan
Dylan
Finlay
Liam
Cillian
Daire
Rory
Dairmuid

[TheLegendOfBeans]

Fergal.

Got my eye on that one myself.

[Minniemagoo]

Ciaran
Cillian
Colm
Cathal
Conal
Cormac
Conan
Caoimhin

[wigglesrock]

Senan and Dara are quite popular among my kids friends at the minute. I know they're not C names. Conall floats about too, I have a secret longing for Cathal

[lauryloo]

My little boy has a friend called lorcan

[Mumchance]

Irish boys names that aren't countdown conundrums

[Lemondrop99]

Keir?

I know someone who wanted to call their son Conan! Thankfully they had a girl....

[leighdinglady]

Ooh cillian or conal! Thank you

[SheGotOffThePlane]

Connell or Callan

[Sophronia]

Ciar
Cianan
Colum
Conor
Cormac

[DrinkMilkAndKickAss]

I know an Irish couple with a little boy named Cashel. I'm not sure how routinely it's used as a name but I think it makes a lovely name.

[jennifer86]

Conor
Callum
Ciaran
Seamus
Sean

[sycamore54321]

Not my cup of tea but Declan, Dermot, Lochlinn, Emmet and Brendan meet your spelling criteria. A bit longer but Setanta is also easy to pronounce.

I like lots of the C names already listed. I wouldn't say Conal is pronounced as written though, it's more a U sound - Cunn-ill.

Jarlath is pronounced almost as written "jar-let" with a softer T than let but not as breathy as a TH. It's pretty awful in my opinion and not widely used.

Have never heard of Cashel as a person's name.

[SuperBeagle]

I like Patrick.

[sycamore54321]

Also Gerald and Gerard. Kevin. Columba for a longer C name. Seamus might be well enough known not to cause spelling problems?

Some nicknames strike me as almost exclusively Irish even if the full name isn't - Christy (Christopher), Gene (Eugene), Gerry/Jerry, Shay...

[sycamore54321]

Brian. Enda. Noel or Pascal - not Irish in origin but I've never met one without Irish connections, usually born at Christmas and Easter respectively. Eoin or Owen. Neil. A bit more unusual is Ardal.

Peadar or Eanna at a push on the pronunciation front.

This is fun... I don't even particularly like some of them but thinking about the spelling is strangely pleasing to me.