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Irish Boys names

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Cloeycat · 05/09/2016 09:55

I'm Irish and DP and his family are very English. We've agreed on a nice Irish girls name however I am struggling with a boys name that won't be butchered by the English side of the family.

My favorites at the moment are the following, but any suggestions would be welcome- especially ones that are not considered 'difficult' to people from the UK (obviously I don't find any of them difficult as I grew up with them so struggling with this!)

Fionn
Conor
Liam
Oisin
Sean
Donal

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Cloeycat · 05/09/2016 14:40

Some of my favorites have been mentioned above (Cathal!) and unfortunately already been ruled out by OH as being too difficult 😢 So really trying to stick with simple ones so I can get my wish off calling my kids Irish names while also pleasing himself.

Senan is quite cool and one I had forgotten about, will add that to my list for sure. Niall and Ronan are both easy and I like them in theory- but there was two mean boys in my class with those names growing up!

Thanks for your help so far guys. Also I'm strongly resisting the urge to pretend to have a particular fondness for something 'impossible' like Aodhgan or Feidhlim so my actual choices suddenly seem much more palatable 😜

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PleaseGetOffTheTableDarling · 05/09/2016 14:25

Don't worry too much about English family butchering the names - it'll happen no matter what you choose! Within my immediate family we have a Sean, a Seamus and a Cillian, which I would have thought were fairly well known/easy to guess.
They are, with depressing regularity, rechristened Seen, See-mus and Silly-un.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 05/09/2016 14:20

Joseph
Patrick
Michael
Conrad
James
Thomas

Tabsicle · 05/09/2016 14:04

Donal
Fergal
Cormac

I love those. They are all names I'd love to give my DS if we had any Irish heritage closer than great-grandparent!

DramaAlpaca · 05/09/2016 10:45

We had the same dilemma, OP, trying to pick Irish names that the English side of the family (mine) could say without mangling them.

We managed it - two of my sons' names are on this thread Grin

Get your DP to say each name, & if he can pronounce them so they sound OK to you, you might be able to narrow down your list.

I love all the names on your list, btw.

wigglesrock · 05/09/2016 10:10

Dara
Senan
Conall
Cathal

Sophronia · 05/09/2016 10:09

I love Oisin and like Fionn and Sean

Suggestions...

Aidan
Ciaran
Cormac
Dara
Declan
Donovan
Fergal
Fergus
Lorcan
Malachy
Niall
Oran
Ronan
Rory
Seamus
Shea
Tiernan
Torin

Tollygunge · 05/09/2016 09:56

We're considering some of these so following with interest

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