Fiadh or Roisin?

[agteacht]

Hi all

I know this has probably been done to death but any help with Irish girls names gratefully received. I'm Irish and DH is English, we are living in the UK.

Baby is due this week... we don't know what it is actually but if it's a boy I think we are set on Fionn. DH seems to be able to pronounce it okay!

I'm a bit more stuck on girls names for some reason and again think it's now down to Fiadh or Roisin.

Fiadh (fee-a) means wild or little deer, depending on what you read
Roisin (ro-sheen) means little rose

I liked Caoimhe but DH can't cope with the spelling and said it's like Quavers....

I've also thought about Aoife and I like Éabha but not mad about the spelling for some reason - I don't know why but I don't think it looks pretty!

Any views on Fiadh or Roisin, which do you think you would choose?

[BuffaloCauliflower]

Fiadh! It’s lovely. I’m English in England and knew how to pronounce it straight away. Roisin doesn’t sound right on a child to me, though is alright for an adult.

[PreseaCombatir]

I prefer Fiadh to Roisin. I heard Roisé (Roisin with an ah rather then een at the end) is becoming very popular now, I really like it

[busybee987]

probs roisin though if I'm honest id go for one of the 3 your dismissing as one is my name, the other my daughters and one my nieces lol so i might b a bit biased

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

I think I would worry about her being called Fear.

And I thought Fionn was a girl’s name?

[PreseaCombatir]

Fionn is the same as Finn Tinkly

[Youbethebadgirl]

Roisin

[DramaAlpaca]

Fiadh is gorgeous. You could spell it Fia if you wanted to make it easier in the UK. The only thing is, in an English accent Fiadh will sound like 'fear'. I'm English, in Ireland, and have a friend whose daughter is Fiadh. I have to work really hard to say it properly

Roisin is nice, but English people tend to say it Rosh-EEN, rather than ROE-sheen. That would annoy me.

[Ciwirocks]

I know a fiadh it does sound a bit like fear but that would depend on local accent. It also gets confused with Thea but it is a lovely name. I like both of your names

[MrsFoxPlus4Again]

I’d never heard of Fidah till the summer. It’s a great name!

[DramaAlpaca]

Fionn is the same as Finn

No it's not. Fionn is pronounced differently, more like 'fyunn'.

Ffion is the Welsh girls' name Tinkly is thinking of.

[IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory]

I’m all “fiadhed” out tbh. It’s become really popular in the last 5/6 years and it seems like every third girl is a fiadh.

I love Éabha.

[Mummyshark2018]

I love Fiadh but also caoimhe doesn't have to sound like quaver. Northern Irish people say keeva which is much nicer imo.

[agteacht]

Thank you all!

Did you @BuffaloCauliflower? That's really reassuring!!

@PreseaCombatir I quite like Roise but would worry people think it's Rosie just spelled wrong...

@TinklyLittleLaugh Fionn is a boys name from Irish folklore 😊
Father of Oisin... which I also like but is already used in the family...

Aw sorry @busybee987
I do like all three, particularly Caoimhe but DH really can't seem to cope with it. Éabha maybe still...

[DaffodilsAreMyFav]

Roisin - any day of the week!

[PreseaCombatir]

No it's not. Fionn is pronounced differently, more like 'fyunn'

Oh really? I only knew one Fionn and it was just pronounced Finn.
Maybe it’s just an accent thing? Like Keeva vs Kweeva? Or maybe not, and he just says his name wrong.

[busybee987]

yeah as mummyshark said, we're northern irish so caoimhe is pronounced more keeva, its so hard picking names, but u will get there. good luck with it all

[agteacht]

Oh god I'd never thought of 'fear'
I can't really hear it but I can imagine it...

I know it's quite popular back home but I don't have any friends or family who've actually used it.

@Mummyshark2018 I know what you mean but I'm not from the north so to me 'keeva' doesn't sound right and I'd go for the 'kwee-vah' version if I used it. But literally no one seems to be able to pronounce it when they see it written as Caoimhe 😬

[DramaAlpaca]

Presea I've only ever heard it as 'fyunn', and I know a few, but you could be right about it being regional. I'm in a Kweeva region

[agteacht]

I would say Finn and Fionn are definitely different names but same origins...
Fionn yes is like 'fyun'

[PotteryWheel]

Fiadhs do seem to be multiplying at a rate of knots. I’m not keen on any of the ‘een’ names — I find them cutesy. Of yours I’d probably go for your discards more.

We’re also Irish in England, and DS was almost Iarla or Ferdia, and if he’d been a girl he’d have been Méabh or Sadhbh.

[PotteryWheel]

I’m also of the Kweeva persuasion.

[PreseaCombatir]

I think he was from the north of Ireland (but not Northern Ireland).
To be fair, he might have just told us to call him Finn because it was easier 😂
He had a brother called Donal, if I remember. (First syllable like dough-nul)
I’m worried now we were butchering these poor boys names 🙈

[agteacht]

What did you go for in the end @PotteryWheel?

Is Aoibhe always pronounced Eva, never Ava?

[DramaAlpaca]

I'd say Donal the same - 'dough-nul'.

Sadhbh is my favourite Irish girls' name, but I couldn't have inflicted it on the English side of the family, they'd never have coped with it. And anyway, I had boys.

[Astronica]

From someone outside the UK, I think both are lovely but I prefer Roisin.