Irish short list

Oh please, please, please post the other names on your DP's list. I'm wetting myself here at the idea of a little baby Concepta.

In fact, why not go the whole hog with Immaculata?

I don't quite get the 'Saoirse as inertia' thing

I say seersha. My cousin who is called saoirse pronounces it sersha. I am from ulster, she is from [northern town near manchester]

a young Irish man

Sorry OP - are you sure you are not being wound up from a height?

My lovely friend Connie (born on the feast of the Immaculate Conception aka culchie Christmas shopping day) allows people to believe her full name is Constance.

Connie sounds like a wise woman! People probably suspect she's a Concepta but don't want to humiliate her by asking

Concepta et al which were on his original list.

This is all very troubling.

I suspect you've had some kind of timeslip romance OP, it's the only explanation. You fell over, hit your head and when you came round you found yourself at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress where you fell in love with your DH. So in our world he's actually 108.

The above seems more believable to me than the idea that a young Irish man would seriously suggest his daughter be called Concepta!

Concepta et al which were on his original list.

LTB!

'Saoirse as inertia' It's the Dub accent !

Attracta!

Concepta, Assumpta might be nice

Why no Welsh names under consideration?

Leonardo Di Caprio referred to Domhnall as 'Dumble Gleeson'

I don't quite get the 'Saoirse as inertia' thing, I must say. Whatever about regionality (and we've had this conversation on Irish baby name threads a million times, I know), I can't think offhand of other words with the 'aoi' sound in them that are pronounced anything other than 'ee' (roughly). I mean, Caoimhe can be Keeva or Queeva, but never Kevva, and Aoife is never Evva...? Or not that I've ever heard in reasonable amounts of time spent in Gaeltacht areas...

OP, are you serious that Concepta was on a list of possibles, ever at any point since 1950?

My lovely friend Connie (born on the feast of the Immaculate Conception aka culchie Christmas shopping day) allows people to believe her full name is Constance. It isn't...

I like Bláithín. Also love Éadaoin, Niamh, Aoibheann, Eimear, Mairéad, Orlaith, Siobhán, Maebh, Caoimhe, Laoise, Gráinne. There are so many lovely irish names to choose from!

Leonardo Di Caprio referred to Domhnall as 'Dumble Gleeson'.

So funny. I woman in the US told me one of her classmates called Siobhan was called out for her high school diploma as "slob-on"

Always loved the name Liadan. Probably because there was a v glam and super cool Liadan a couple of years above me in school.

Saoirse Like Inertia

Domhnall Glesson says 'Domhnall like tonal'.

Lads, don't come to Hollywood with your fierce fancy names unless you've thought up a helpful little rhyme!

Although I did snigger (mean of me I know) when in one of his recent awards acceptance speeches Leonardo Di Caprio referred to Domhnall as 'Dumble Gleeson'.

To be fair you are stuffed if you are in the UK anyway even with a fairly well known name. I know someone called Aisling who worked here for a few years. She bitterly regretted not using the more phonetic Ashling but was called anything from Ay-Sling to Ashley.

Oh dear - I never made the connection between Breed and Bríd. That would be awkward. I work with a Niamh and a Siobhain in a large company and regularly get called by internal random folk to check their pronounciation before they call them up. They still butcher it. Niamh has worked for the same woman for 5 years who still mispronounces it. I'd have murdered her by now.

Then there's the Saoirse Like Inertia issue where the same name is pronounced completely differently on a regional basis.

OP - do you or your husband have overtly Irish names? Will your daughter blend if you call her Gormflaith or will you be Michael, Caroline and Gormflaith? If you are Sean/Tadg Og , Laoibhoise and Gormflaith then that's a little different. Easy to be romantic about the auld sod if you are not the one dealing with the puzzled looks every day.

I've never come across Liadan before. That's pretty, also easy phonetically and can be shortened to Lia if preferred.

I would suggest Aileen [Ay-leen] too. It's simple and fairly easy, means Noble apparently.
Cara - means friend.
Una - oona
Tara

The only good thing is that in the UK people won't realise how horrendous a couple of them are. They may think it entirely plausible that someone is called Máire Bríd or.....Gormley.

The poor kid will still be mispronounced until the day she dies though.

like a coven of religious teachers on an Irish language retreat in Carraroe

From my observations of what happens in general in Carraroe, those occasions can be pretty wild...

Dearbhla if you're not wild about the spelling of Deirbhile, OP? Though I much prefer it the way you've suggested. Either will leave your daughter the option of fully anglicising to Dervla when she's older if she turns out to be someone who is crushed by people not knowing how to say her name.

Liadan is lovely.

My sister is Bríd and absolutely loathes her name, and always has. She's lived mostly outside of Ireland for long periods and claimed people associated it with animal husbandry - she says people would say 'Breed? As in breeding pigs/spaniels/racehorses?' And in Ireland she says it's the most boring name possible, and makes people think of nuns and elderly aunts giving you Communion money.

Just to say OP, I live abroad (not UK) and plan on using an Irish name and spelling it the Irish way as well.. I don't see the harm in it and I'm not keen on the anglicanised versions of Irish names.

Love Deirbhile - it's on my baby name list for our girl

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the name discussions in your house OP!

Would you consider Aedemar? Irish saint who lived near Monaghan I think.

Or Liadan. Mother of St. Kevin. A nun (might appeal to your dh) who fell asleep with her mouth open and a star fell in ... and conceived St. Kevin (love the way Irish catholicism has loads of complete paganism in it, including Bridget). Frank O Connor (of short story fame) called his daughter Liadan.

Gormfhlaith, good god don't do that to a child. The rest are fine but Maire Brid is a bit of a mouthful (sorry can't be arsed with fadas this morning).
These are all far too glamorous to be Nuns names, all ours at school seemed to have male saints names. So how about Benignus? You are welcome.

Love Bláithín.