Fiadh or Roisin?

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Roisin is such a lovely name.

Fiadh wouldn’t work for me here in London. It sounds like someone saying Thea with a cockney accent.

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We're in the same position! I really like Fiadh. You're other choice is one of my name's and I find that it's difficult for English accents to get right even with corrections. I have a longer Irish first name and they find it much easier!

I actually love the look of Eabhla! But think if you're going to have a lovely Irish name you might as well be less popular in sound. What about Eadaoin? I've been pondering Eimear too

Fionn is great as a boys name!

Aoife by far the nicest option and additionally I think the pronunciation is pretty well known in England.

Aoibhe = Eva, just like Aoife is pronounced Efa.
Ava is Éabha

Both absolutely beautiful names, impossible choice.

I also love 'Fraoch' (Heather) sort of pronounced like Fray-uck. It's my favourite name, also appropriate for this time of the year, as the winter Heather is in bloom.

Or what about Nollaig?

Good luck with your impending arrival, and please come back and update

I love Fiadh

Roisin but only because she'll be asked how to spell / pronounce her name on a daily basis . Also when it comes to her learning to spell her name she'll be in a right pickle

Coming from someone who has another Celtic doesn't look how it's spelt name.

And Aoibhe should definitely be pronounced “Eva”

If you're planning on staying in the UK then you are setting your DC up for a lifetime of having their name butchered and misspelled.

Yawn.

The English can cope perfectly well with names that aren’t jane and jack.

OP please don’t anglicise beautiful Irish names to cater to lazy people. Those who want to pronounce her name will simply ask how its pronounced and then repeat what they hear. The U.K. is so diverse- they really can manage a name that doesn’t sound like how they would say it. And for those that can’t- the only way they will learn is by having to keep seeing and hearing these names- not by eradicating them from use!

are British people really so clueless and insular? I have an Irish name and live in the US. The majority of people manage it just fine once I tell them how to pronounce it. And I accept reasonable efforts with a smile because life is too short.

Not in my experience of having lived for almost 30 years in various parts of England, with an Irish first name and surname, eg Doireann Ní Dálaigh (fake surname, but I am called Doireann). As @mathanxiety says, pretty much everyone gets it once I tell them. But I don't fall apart if the new GP receptionalist says 'Umm -- Doyreen?'

Fiadh...

Only because I knew a girl at school called Roisin and she was a horrible person so that's what I associate that name with!

Roisin for me. I know a few little Fiadhs and always think they sound like someone saying Thea who can’t pronounce their Th properly.

What no Sorcha?! Every Aisling I know is an absolute delight so utterly biased there. Roisin is always Roisin Murphy to me, therefore cool as

I honestly would think Fionn was a girl.
Or a typo, sorry,

Cara and Niamh are in my top 5 girls Irish names.

Op I loved Finn too but when I told my East end of London in laws they laughed and said He would get jokes about being fat because they says Finn the same way as the say thin because of the way they say the 'th' sound.

I think it might he worth doing some more research into Fionn.
Ffion for a girl is a very well known name in England and Wales so it might cause some confusion. My first thought was you were choosing a female name for him so it might be worth your checking out how many people think it's too closely associated with the girl's name.
Of course, that may not be something you would be concerned about, in which case - great.

I like Fiadh - Roisin to me is an adults name. I also love Aoife - but I know of 3 born since January so getting very popular here!

Cara and Niamh are also some of my favourites!

I’d worry that people would misunderstand Fiadh and think you were just mispronouncing Thea. I think she’d get Thea a lot

Especially with young children who often can't pronounce th or in areas where it's common for th to be pronounced as f

I’d worry that people would misunderstand Fiadh and think you were just mispronouncing Thea. I think she’d get Thea a lot.

I love love Aoife and like Orla.

They are all beautiful as your baby will be. How lovely to have such gorgeous names to choose from ... you cant go wrong.

I agree with you @mathanxiety I have an unusual Irish name and honestly after two attempts most people here get it easily enough. Mind you I have lived in London for the last 16 years, maybe people are more insular elsewhere. That said I find the Americans seem to actually like Irish names, here in the UK anything that isn't traditionally British is approached with an air of mistrust.

And as for Caoimhe, can I just say: my DC1 is 7. He's been in two different nurseries, a preschool and his current class - and there has been a Caoimhe in every one. I don't think it's a rare name at all and I think it's this generation's Siobhán - the one name they'll all know!

Where we live in the uk Irish names are very popular so people don’t tend to have an issue with them and if they don’t know how to pronounce initially it’s quite easy to pick up. My ds has had a few issues with his name but he just corrects people and it’s not the end of the world. I would consider if names can be easily pronounced with the local accent as there are some Irish names that people with different accents just aren’t able to say. I really struggle with clodagh for example, I just can’t say it right.