How do you feel about traditional Irish names?

I have a common Irish name and still have to spell it out all the time. It's even worse outside the UK as nobody can pronounce it right even with help, let alone spell it... If you are fixed on Aoife, you could also anglicise the spelling to make it phonetic although I appreciate that might not be for puritans. Some friends of mine did that for an easier life, although they were christened with the complicated spelling.
I don't think bullying would be an issue at all

Clodagh is a beautiful name.

Also went to RC school with a tonne of Irish names . DH is Irish so DD has an Irish name and there's the full range ah her school from Aoife (quite popular) to Saoirse . We're in NE England .

Aoife's incredibly popular at the minute in England. If I was going to avoid it it'd be for that reason.

Gobnait = Gub nit.

I actually like it

Because it's a different language with different rules.

It's the 'adh' that gives the i sound and 'bh' gives the soft v. I don't know how to explain it other than that that's how those letters together sound.

It is a gorgeous name but the hassle would rule it out for me. That and I remember doing a story with a Sadhbh in it at secondary school and it always made me think of a sieve!

Older than you think, Irish is not a Germanic or Romance language.l like English French or German. It has a different alphabet, hence different sounds.

Aoife is just so unimaginative. Nothing so ubiquitous in Ireland will still be causing difficulties in the UK by the time she is old enough to reach secondary school. Niamh entered the top 100 girls names in the UK when my DD was born.

How the f do these names have spellings like that??
Like in English, French and German most letters have vaguely similar sounds and a load of English words that come from Irish resemble the original Irish word but how does sadhbh have an si sound in it.

Saoirse kinda half makes sense and eoghen does too.

(No offence intended I'm just curious)

I love Irish names. I live in NW England but went to RC school, so I know a fair few Sineads, Siobhans, Roisins etc. Never had an issue with bullying in Lancashire in the 80s/90s so I can't see there being a problem in London in 2017.

No bullying problems but they will spend their life spelling it out and correcting pronunciation errors!

How on earth do you even pronounce Gobnait?

I love Irish names ! 😄☘

It's pronounced Sive, to rhyme with 5.

Nice. My daughter has one of those easy-to-say, hard-to-spell names, I'm sure she will be in for a lifetime of spelling it out if she ever moves outside our country but hey, we can't all be called Marta, Silvia and Lisa!

Irish names are very common round here (north england) I work with children and see a lot of Aoife's wouldn't be seen as unusual all all

It's pronounced Sive, to rhyme with 5.

Lila how DO you pronounce Sadhbh?

I'm interested to learn something

I am (Northern) Irish and love traditional Irish names. I speak a little Irish but some of the more unusual ones still get me a bit. Though nothing a quick how do you spell/pronounce that? doesn't solve. For example I had no clue how to go about saying Sadhbh when I first saw it so I just asked and now it's one of my faves. You have options with spellings of so many names too eg Keelan is easier to guess the pronunciation than Caolan to a non-Irish person. Likewise if you don't like the Orla/Oral thing spell it Orlagh or Orlaith.

I LOVE Aoife, both my sister (who's expecting) and me (going to be ttc in the near future) have it at the top of our lists. We are Irish, with Irish DP's, but living in other countries, and both like Irish names. I'd prefer names that are more phonetic, but Aoife is just so beautiful.
I also love Maeve, Niamh and Eibhlin (although I'd probably go for the anglicised spelling of Eibhlin, partly because both DH and I would struggle with the spellings!)

Did kids 50/60 years ago get bullied for having traditional Irish names such as Kevin & Deirdre? Why would it be different now?

I have a Scottish name which is spelt one way and pronounced another. Living in London it gets pronounced v weirdly as folks just don't know where they're going with it, especially phone calls at work.

Be prepared to be regularly correcting the spelling of Aoife forever. And then when your daughter grows older, it'll be her frustration.

My surname can also be spelt various ways so all in all, I'm quite unique!

I love Orla, but kids will spell it Oral

Yuffy

Well good on them for trying!

Aoife is lovely and I would have thought lots of people would be familiar with it.

Always reminds me of that Vicar of Dibley episode when Dawn French asks how the name is spelled. "A-O-I-F-E", comes the reply.

"Oh well don't leave any vowels for anyone else then!"

Plymouth it's pronounced ee-fa. Like Eva but with an F sound. My friend Aoife gets called Yuffy a lot by people making valiant attempts to pronounce it 😬

Gobnait will probably result in bullying

I hate the name Gobnait so much that I've almost got a soft spot for it 😄

I like Irish names when I hear them but I usually have no idea how to pronounce them. How should I say Aoife? Looks like 'oif' to my ignorant eyes.