We are due a boy later this year. We live in England, I'm 100% English, my partner is Irish (+ all family are Irish and live in Ireland) but he has an English accent because he grew up here. We do plan to take the baby to Ireland to visit GPs at least once or twice a year.
We like the Irish name Oisín (Ush-een) quite a lot, but I have some concerns that I'd like to check with others:
- Is it wanky to use a very Irish name like this if only one parent is Irish etc.?
- I have two older children with a different dad. However, they aren't very close to their Dad and feel more attached to my Irish partner. If we have one or two kids with Irish names, does it create a feeling of two 'separate' sets of kids/could it make my older kids feel less a part of his family as they get older? (Am I just being really paranoid here?)
- If we go with an Irish name for this baby, I feel quite strongly that a future baby should follow suit. I'm not sure why, tbh. I suppose it might feel like one kid has a more concrete tie to their Irish heritage while the other doesn't?
- Maybe most obviously, is this name going to be OK in England? Spelling + pronounciation-wise?
The other name I really like is Wilfred, which doesn't have any of these issues but my partner seems to really prefer Oisín.