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WonderWoop · 2022-11-26T22:33:58+00:00

Help! We are expecting our second child, Irish living in London. Our daughter has an Irish name and we are keen to give DS one too. But we can't find a single one we like or haven't had to rule out. I've googled and googled, need some serious inspiration! Can't use the below for various reasons: Sean Oisin Niall Seamus Conor Liam Ruairi Fionn Considering but not loving: Tadhg Conan

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MissyB1 · 27/11/2022 18:29

Conleth, Cormac or Feargal. Three fantastic names.

mikado1 · 27/11/2022 18:24

Oran is gorgeous too. I know a Dilon, all Irish names so I take it that is the Irish spelling..

AppleCharlottie · 27/11/2022 18:23

Are you not going to use fadas? Éanna etc
I think I'd choose a name without fadas rather than just leave them out.

mikado1 · 27/11/2022 18:23

Éanna is lovely, I thought of it when I saw Enda suggested! Or maybe I posted it 😂 I assume you've left out the fadas as a pain on text? I agree with pp re Tadhg being constantly misspelled even in Ireland. I know a few who go by the misspelling! But generally I think why wouldn't the people in his life just learn the name and get on with it!

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WonderWoop · 27/11/2022 18:20

Oh and possibly two more

Oran/Odhran
Malachi

i like Dylan as well, has anyone seen it spelled Dillon?

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WonderWoop · 27/11/2022 18:18

Also hadn’t heard of Cahir or Cashel as names! I suppose place names are far game…

so our list is now:
Tadhg
Conan
Eoghan
Cuan
Darragh / Daire
Ruan / Ruadhan
Cormac
Eanna

did someone here suggest Eanna or did I find it through obsessive googling? Thoughts on it?

also what about Dualta? Not met a Dualta. If you remember from the Walter Macken book at school.

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Kellaher · 27/11/2022 18:14

KnickerlessParsons · 27/11/2022 00:01

My favourite Irish boy's name is Jarlath

Love this - I always throw this one up on these threads - first time I have seen it by someone else. Name of my cousins son.

I also add Cornelius, Aloysius and Ignatius - which are more Latin / RC names v popular in the inter war years in Ireland. One of mine has Cornelius as a middle name, named after a great grandfather which he loves.

Also does Malachi fall into the same frame - ie Biblical origin rather than Gaelic but popular?

AppleCharlottie · 27/11/2022 17:19

Speaking of Co Tipperary towns, Daniel Day Lewis has a son called Cashel.

mikado1 · 27/11/2022 16:11

LadyEloise1 · 27/11/2022 16:05

Michael Davitt, he of Land League fame, fighting the good fight so Irish people could own the land they lived on and/ or would have security of tenure - basically an Irish hero who worked with Charles Stewart Parnell, had a son with his American wife, Mary Yore called Cahir.
This son, Cahir Davitt became a Supreme Court judge ( Irish Courts ) 1966-1976.

I like it as a boy's name.

There was a documentary on tv fairly recently on the life of Michael Davitt.
Very interesting. He had a tough life.

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Is there a chance he just uses an Irish place-name as a name? Like a pp never heard of it as a name, though I do have links with the town itself! Generally though, the observations here are interesting Inc Austin as popular in Waterford.. I only know one, Austin Gleeson himself 😂 Torin, never heard of and to my eye doesnt look Irish iykwim, but you learn something new every day!

staybyyou · 27/11/2022 16:07

Fintan or Dara

LadyEloise1 · 27/11/2022 16:05

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 15:40

Cahir is not used very often but is definitely an Irish name

I'm Irish, living in Ireland, speak Irish, work in a university where I use Irish to communicate at times - never heard of it.

There's a trend to use names that have technically Irish meaning but aren't 'names' in the sense of having general usage (I don't mean popularly but that you'd at least have heard it once if you were somewhat acquainted with the Irish language)

Michael Davitt, he of Land League fame, fighting the good fight so Irish people could own the land they lived on and/ or would have security of tenure - basically an Irish hero who worked with Charles Stewart Parnell, had a son with his American wife, Mary Yore called Cahir.
This son, Cahir Davitt became a Supreme Court judge ( Irish Courts ) 1966-1976.

I like it as a boy's name.

There was a documentary on tv fairly recently on the life of Michael Davitt.
Very interesting. He had a tough life.

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 15:43

@bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza

I mean, I know. If you google most names that have Irish connection they will yield a similar result.

They may have existed in some format as you illustrate but in nearly 5 decades of being around Irish speakers to have never heard of it, indicates it's not an Irish name in use.

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 15:40

Cahir is not used very often but is definitely an Irish name

I'm Irish, living in Ireland, speak Irish, work in a university where I use Irish to communicate at times - never heard of it.

There's a trend to use names that have technically Irish meaning but aren't 'names' in the sense of having general usage (I don't mean popularly but that you'd at least have heard it once if you were somewhat acquainted with the Irish language)

bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza · 27/11/2022 14:24

My husbands name is also Irish Dary I have been told it's northern Irish

bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza · 27/11/2022 14:19

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 09:15

Torin and Corran are not Irish names.

(I know there's all sorts of claims to them being Irish names if you google them, but they are not. I've never heard of them)

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romdowa · 27/11/2022 11:13

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 09:15

Torin and Corran are not Irish names.

(I know there's all sorts of claims to them being Irish names if you google them, but they are not. I've never heard of them)

Coran is an Irish name. St coran is the patron Saint of youghal in co cork.

mikado1 · 27/11/2022 11:10

Luke is not Irish! What about Fionntán instead of Fintan? Cathal? There really are loads here.
For safety, if I bad to pick one that is lovely and also sensible, Darragh ticks all the boxes. I would like to have used it.

LadyEloise1 · 27/11/2022 10:54

Breifne. (Brefknee)
Tarlach
Mel ( St. Mel )

ProperVexed · 27/11/2022 10:37

I met a young Irish man called Finnigus ( or Finnigas) last week.
Cracker of a name!

Bumpsadaisie · 27/11/2022 10:29

Fintan?

Bumpsadaisie · 27/11/2022 10:29

Malachi?
Ciaran?

RoyKeaneisRight · 27/11/2022 10:27

WonderWoop · 26/11/2022 23:27

Didn’t expect so many responses!! Thanks all so much.

there’s a few names I had previously discounted but might add back to the list. Rian (don’t love Cian… makes me think of Kian from Westlife!), Cormac (don’t know why it doesn’t feel massively modern though), Oran is nice, Ruan/Ruadhan possibly

had thought Luan was a girls name @GrazingSheep (not sure why), but quite like it

@RoyKeaneisRight Uinseann - how do you say it?

Uinseann would be pronounced In-shin (with more emphasis on In). Irish for Vincent.
Lots of great Irish names in this thread, but I agree with @EarringsandLipstick that lots of them aren't actually people names, but are place names - just like Brooklyn Beckham.

CurlsandSwirls · 27/11/2022 09:45

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cosmiccosmos · 27/11/2022 09:42

Love Cillian and Daragh, also Malachy (cillian Murphy's sons name)

Mittens1717 · 27/11/2022 09:27

EarringsandLipstick · 27/11/2022 09:15

Also not an Irish name. A town, yes.

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Cahir is not used very often but is definitely an Irish name