Irish Girls Names

[HappyHugs]

Right ladies, need some ideas for my friend's baby girl to be. She wants an Irish name to match her other kids but most of her favourites have been used by other family members. So other than

Aoife
Orla
Sinead
Grainne
Emer
Caoimhe
Aine

all of which she can't use/won't repeat, do you have any other nice ideas?

i've got a Nuala, really love it but nobody has ever heard before so find i'm always repeating it..

Thanks for correcting, carciofi.

If my Irish dh can't even pronounce Caoimhe correctly I don't hold out much hope for the average Brit!

Caoilfhionn -- 'Kee-lin' (slender and fair)
Davnat / Damhnait -- Dav-nat (little fawn)
Riona -- Ree-uhna (regal/ Regina)
Alannah ("dear baby")
Sadhbh -- Sive (rhymes with five) (wisdom)
Liadan -- Leah-dawn (grey lady)
Finola
Fionnuala -- 'Fin-nuala
Beibhinn -- Bev-inn (
Blaithin -- Blaw-heen
Una
Eithne -- 'Enya' (graceful)
Darina/ Dairine -- 'Darina
Raghnailt -- 'Rah-nyult
Sibeal -- 'Shi-bale (Sybil)
Siomha -- 'Sheeva' (soft, gentle)

Davnat/ Damhnait is more like 'Dove-nat' now I think of it.

No i don't know! off to google..

TheNextMrsDepp Aine is actually pronounced Ahn-ya as opposed to 'Orn-ya'.

I claim authority as it's....ahem.....my name .

That's a lovely name Bunny! may stash that one away for any future babies! do people know how to pronounce it?

When English people write 'it's pronounced Orn-ya' I don't think they actually mean that there's a R in it. Not an R as we'd know it! More like, well, Maw. But the Maw sound would be written More to an English ear.

complicated?!!?!?

Thank you for the link, i had a wee look but hadn't found it. that made me laugh!
my kids will love that!

Thanks all, I'll print this out and pass it on. Loads of options here....

TheNextMrsDepp, my dh (also Irish) couldn't pronounce it either.