What do you think of Aoise?

Aoise (ee-sha) is short for Labhaoise (La-vee-sha) meaning warrior maiden in old Irish.

This is a ZOMBIE thread. OP's child will be 10 by now.

Pretty sound and strong meaning.
Go for it OP.

My daughter is called Aoise, i found the name in a very old church headstone in the west of ireland, it was a few hundread years old (i know very morbid but great way to find very old names) i loved the name and was expecting my daughter at the time. I am a fluent irish speaker and to me the name translates as 'Wise' and pending on where you live its prounounced differently like many irish names, so its 'A-sha' in west kerry and 'EE-sha' in Dublin. I pronounce it EE-sha. Best of Luck !!!

Aoiseliadin -- I don't think Taoiseach has that etymology, and I also don't think there was ever any such person as a 'wise one' of a village. The resemblance to 'aois' is coincidental.
Aois (meaning age) is a feminine noun, 2nd declension, whereas taoiseach is a masculine noun, 1st declension.

'Taoiseach'
From Old Irish toísech (?leader?)
Ogham tovisaci
Proto-Celtic towissāko- ?leader?
Welsh tywysog ?prince?

either Proto-Indo-European *wedh- ?lead? or weid- ?know, see?. More likely 'wedh-'

The T is inseparable from the rest of the word.

'aois'
from old Irish áes, which has a few meanings:
Age
Era/stage or period/lifetime
People/group (like the áes dána)

Hate the ignorance re: Irish names. Irish is a different language (doh!)

If I saw it I would assume it was Irish, not made up.

OP I think it is a beautiful name and I have met one before with the name (was told it was Swahilii but no comment on it being changed in spelling - this was about 4 years ago)

and to the poster about why naming your child something no one can pronounce. well they learn and then I have done my bit towards educating them..
on a serious note I would hope everyone names their child because they like thename or its meaning. Elsewise we could just stick with numbers 123

Hi I just want to add I have a baby daughter called Aoise (pro:ee sha) it is in fact AN IRISH name the Aoise of a village was the wise one, An taois is the male version of the wise one of a village!!!! Our government leader is called. An Taoiseach, which means The Leader... It is derived from the masculine and feminine for or Aoise.... I love the name, she is absolutely gorgeous, I also love the fact that Aoise is a girls name in slot of languages but ours was Irish version, we also have a daughter Liadin derived from Liadan means grey lady but the names comes from a beautiful woman who the famous Irish poet Cuiritheoir wrote about her beauty and his love for her..

If I saw Aoise, I would think it was definitely made up. Because it is, no matter what the fella from SF said.
The Swahili explanation makes a lot of sense.
It is Irishy, as in 'truthy'.

Goddess -- English pronunciation rules do not apply to Irish names. 'Aoi' is 'ee' in Irish.

Leonie -- 'Neibh' would be pronounced 'Nev', not Neeve.

Liadán would be pronounced Lee-a-dawn (the D is pronounced as in French, not English). Maybe 'Lee-a dhawn' conveys it better...

I would be very surprised if it wasn't of Irish origin.

N. Ireland MLA and MP Michelle Gildernew called her little girl Aoise. Her two sons have Irish names and as a member of SF i'd be surprised if this wasn't also Irish.

Thanks Clara. Most English people don't struggle with the names at all. Only some Irish catholics with whom I went to school just can never get those damn spellings right ;-)

Turnip- Naimh and Liadan beautiful names . Only difficulty is when they are mixed with other hard to spell names eg Eoghann.

As Kate said, it's a non-Irish name spelled so it's phonetically correct in Irish, like the common names Naoise (NEE-sha), Aoife (EE-fa), Laoise (LEE-sha)etc. I think it's lovely, but if I were naming a baby 'Aoise' in Ireland, I would probably take into consideration that 'aois' in Irish means 'age', in case you didn't like the associations it would have for Irish speakers!

Turnip, the name Liadan is gorgeous, and on my potentials list for the baby I'm carrying. It's nice to think of other Liadans in London!

I saw it and thought it would be pronounced eee-sha. Like Laiose without the L. I'm not Irish. It's hardly an impossible name if I'm right.

Leonie and Thehill - it's Irish Gaelic, that's why it looks strange to you. I have to say, your attitudes are pretty ignorant.

Hi- my daughters name is Aoise. We are Irish however the name is not Irish, I chose to spell it that way. The way to pronounce it is E-SHA. Its similar to Aoife which is why I spelled it as Aoise. The real way to spell this name is Eshe and its Swahili meaning life. Some people do find it hard to pronounce it but not as many as I thought would. I love the name and loads of people comment on it, its nice to have a different name without been too out there.

As I grew up near Esher, it really wouldn't work here

Yes, perhaps I am too fussy. Anyway dd2 only 3 weeks old so will be a while before I have to think of Irish girls' names again

I would probably think it was both made up and quite nice.

Naoise is a boy's name. Lovely.

Turniphead - I love the name Liadan but have an English DH I worry about the soft d being mispronounced. Have you had any issues with that?

i actually like it but i fail to understand how aoi pronounces eee lol

ignore the fact that people can't pronounce it, no one gets my dd's name right and she just corrects them, its no big deal in the grand scheme of things