Using Irish names if you're not Irish...Saoirse

I do love it, but the endless spelling and pronunciation corrections get a bit tedious sometimes

I have an unusual name and agree with you 100%. Often thought about changing it for that reason. I don't even correct people any more. They can call me what they like

I always thought it was pronounced "Ser-sha" as Saoirse Ronan pronounces it, or is that a regional variation?

Disclaimer: I am not Irish and know nothing useful about this. Pretty name though!

Read more: metro.co.uk/2018/12/11/pronounce-saoirse-ronans-name-2-8232265/?ito=cbshare

On a very practical level, be prepared to have to spell and pronounce it every single time for your daughter and then for her to have to do that for the rest of her life.

I am half Irish and have a very unusual Irish name. No one (apart from Irish people) ever gets my name right. Most of the time they don't even know what country the name is from, let alone that its Irish or how to say it.

I do love it, but the endless spelling and pronunciation corrections get a bit tedious sometimes.

I wouldn't have a problem with you using an Irish name so long as it's spelled and pronounced correctly (which you are). I might think it's a bit strange, but that's all.

I do agree that in some circles that name has Republican connotations. I never realised it growing up in Dublin, but now live in Belfast and would assume someone using it here would have republican leanings. If someone English chose the name Saoirse I may idly wonder if that was why, whereas I probably wouldn't with someone from Galway, if that makes sense. It's up to you whether that would bother you, and not even all Irish people would think of it, never mind English people.

I don’t know about cultural appropriation...but it’s a VERY strong Irish name.

Quite common now, but it originally (and to some extent still has) had strong Irish Republican connotations.

It’s a beautiful name, but I would find it strange for a child with no Irish heritage at all. Especially if you’re British .