Irish baby girl names

Hi that’s my name and yes spelt Cobhlaith

www.teanglann.ie/ga/fuaim/aoibhinn

The other contentious one. I don't think it's a traditional name as such, much like Saoirse, it's a word that has been made into a name in the 20th century.

@ilikechocolateandtea probably best to start your own thread on the baby names page .

FWIW, I love Fiadh and think it would fine in England. But if you start your own thread you will get more relevant answers.

You can get the correct pronunciation of Saoirse here for the three main dialects. I don't honestly know if An Rinn pronounces it differently.

www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Saoirse

You can also search 'saor' and listen to how that is indeed pronounced more like 'sayer' in Munster Irish but still it changes to 'see' when there's an 'i' after the 'ao'.

Listen carefully if you think it's an 'ah' sound at the end - it's not really. Think of how you say the Irish words 'te' and 'le' - they aren't 'tah' and 'lah'. Same applies to all the other names ending in 'e'.

Hi

We were originally thinking Cara as a name for our baby daughter who is due any day but I think we have changed our mind!...

We are now thinking Fiadh. What do you think? We are living in Uk!

Has anybody got some Irish name suggestions for a middle name to go with Fiadh please?

Thank you,

Ha ha. You must go to different practices to ones I've been to.

Current one is OK after they needed someone to translate for a patient. My knowledge of that language is weak but it was better than nothing.

Buidh = gentle, affable, gracious
Buidhe = yellow, tawny, sunburnt, sunny, summer like
Buidheach = thankful, grateful, kindly disposed, gentle, also little, small
Bid would have been the Old Irish pronunciation and like Sam does survive as a name. Bid and Biddy were obviously very popular names hence "old biddy" meaning an old lady.
There is an important ancient poem that begins
Mise Bid Sencaillec Beara
(I am Buidh, an old woman of Beara)
@PizzaTurtle @SionnachRua

Also I’m not being goady, I just object to the idea that I would be inflicting some kind of cruelty on my child by giving them a beautiful name that reflects their heritage. Mild inconvenience perhaps, but as I said before that arises with a multitude of English names too.

Caoimhe seems to have two pronunciations - in Ireland.

Yes, just two.

It's not like the problems TH causes all over the UK.

Please let us have 18 storms this year so the weather forecasters will have to try and pronounce Saidhbhín
www.rte.ie/news/weather/2020/0901/1162449-storm-names/

I'm pointing out that it could be a PITA if people get it wrong.

Yes, but life is like that. Lots of PITAs. We shrug and survive.

@Heh1991 Sabhdh is pronounced 'sive' to rhyme with 'five' or 'hive'.

How is Sadbh pronounced?

Please at the very least don't name the child Buí 😳

@SeanCailleach, where are you from? I’ve never come across a pronunciation of Buídh/Buí as anything other than ‘Bwee’.

Mind you, I’ve never come across it used as a name. (Or Yellow, come to think of it...)

No point lovely Irish names going extinct for fear kids will have to tell people how to pronounce it.. I work with plenty of Eastern Europeans with names I couldn't even attempt to say but they tell me it once, maybe twice, and that's it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Names like Órla meaning:
Solas - light (Solas)
Buidh - golden-yellow (Bid or Bee)
Sound:
Aurora (not Irish but lovely)
Honora

orla or Nianh

I think that medical and dental receptionists are a bit scary.

I wish doctors/ doctors' receptionists etc would keep a note of how to pronounce names.

I bring one of my DCs to a clinic every couple of weeks and they unfailingly get her name wrong, and seem embarrassed each time. I don't particularly like having to constantly correct them, and (fake) laugh it off.

Anyway, it's hardly a big issue, and not something I lose any sleep over!

Thanks @Shayisgreat.
There are worse things and the kid can always change his or her name if they don't like it.

I get your point entirely. I don't agree with you but I've had this almost exact discussion with my DH. He is British, he has agreed that we can give our children Irish names but his only condition is that he must be able to pronounce it correctly first time around. He doesn't want his children to have to regularly correct people. This obviously limits our options somewhat but we can compromise!

I just don't think that people should make decisions about their child's name based on the possibility that some people might not recognise thr name or be able to pronounce it properly. Sure it might be a PITA to correct regularly but there are definitely worse things in life.

I have nothing against somebody irish in Ireland, or anywhere else in the world, naming their DD something like Siobhán Ní Cheallaigh.
I'm pointing out that it could be a PITA if people get it wrong.

I do object to people naming their child something like Sorcha and pronouncing it Sawsha, and I'm not keen on anglicised spellings.

I'm neither a monoglot nor english.

You don't seem to accept that some names can be really tricky.

But you always show up on Irish name threads and say a version of this while wringing your hands, @MikeUniformMike, despite not having any skin in the game. Any Irish person who gives their child an Irish name accepts that non-Irish speakers will have to check spelling and pronunciation -- we get that. What we seem to differ on is whether, as a result, the naming of all children should be confined to names easily comprehensible to an English monoglot who has never travelled, lest little Siobhán Ní Cheallaigh grow up with a deep-seated identity crisis because dental receptionists don't know how to pronounce her name.

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