irish baby names

[irishqueen]

Clodagh, Maeve (Maebh) or Enya (Enya) for a girl
Dermot or Cormac for a boy

DP likes Dermot and Enya ( he is not irish)
Im keener on the others
grrrr

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Hi there - this thread is a little old. [[https://www.mumsnet.com/baby-names/most-popular-irish-baby-names
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i have this problem- am irish- partner not- he hates most irish names except the really common ones ( or ones I hate) I refuse to think about and I want kids to have irish name- Maybe I will name all my kids after nordic gods- may be easier

Some good Irish names come from the Vikings - Raghnall and Somhairle for example.

We know we are having a boy and I'm debating between Milo and Shay .. if it was a girl it would have probably been Caitlin or Roisin.

www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/niamh-oisin.html

This sites quite insteresting for Irish names. My 9 yr olds Niamh but shes not keen on it as she gets called Nee-am Ni-am. I printed this off now she likes$ it better. She has waste length blonde hair so its quite fitting

Orla, Keira, Eibhlean

I have a boy Francis, and 3 girls, Gracie, Oonagh and Caoimhe. Not one of them are called by their name, Doodles, A.C, OoMcOo and Diva.
Not what I had planned when naming them.
Thought I would share this as you are considering a couple of these names.

love clodagh and cillian but dh didn't ds and dds middle names instead
also like
aisling
fidelma

I have a kiara and a brayden. How about a Manx Gaelic name? Ishbel for a girl or kerron for a boy?

Seoirsin, oona, aine, mairin, grainne, grayse.

Eoin, aodhan.

My favourit Irish names ara Aoife and Oisin

mathsanxiety my DH is Ruadhán, haven't met any other Ruadhán's so was surpised to find it on your list!
Am 11 weeks and we are considering Tiarnán for a boy and Aoibhín or Aoife for a girl, love Béibhín always have and I think Dáithí is so cute for a boy... Síbhéal is another nice unusual girl's name.

I love those names, Recklesspixie. A cousin of mine has a little Aoibhín who is gorgeous. Sibéal always reminds me of the beautiful Dingle peninsula -- lovely classical name that's just as nice in Irish.

My DS is Declan. My husband is Irish but we chose the name Declan after watching 'Capital City' in the late 1980's - one of the characters was a Declan :)

My husband is Irish and our DS is called Finnard. Never met another one!

You can't go wrong with Declan. Very normal but not that many of them.

ps knew a Ruadhán, he was the first vegan I ever met, and an eccentric musician. RecklessPixie, I love those names. Dáithí and Síbhéal. is Sibeal pronounced Sheebale or see bale

I think it's Shib-ALE.

I quite like all the names you've mentioned, especially Enya.

Lovely to see some Irish names on here that vary from Erin, Orla and Niamh for a change!

LOVE Clodagh! I wanted it for DD but DP refused :(

Cormac is lovely too.

Having had a hard-to-prounounce Irish name for 35 years I recommend you go for one that's easy. I don't know how many times - yawn - I've had to spell it out over the phone and that's not to mention the attempts people have had at prounouncing it outside the UK when I've travelled. grr...

mine are shannon (normal, but not even really used as a name in Ireland!!)
Aoife (getting quite common now)
so this time we went for a something as unusual as we could find and actually liked - Tailte prononced talt-cha (female)not met another yet.

I love Etain with a fada on the e and the a, so Ay-tawn.

What about Diarmuid instead of Dermot if you want it to be really Irish?

p.s. anything with a 'bh' in the middle is pronounced 'v', as in Siobhán is shovawn

My friend has a Sibeal and I always wonder whether she got it from the waiting area in Holles St hospital where there is a memorial to the founder who was called Sibeal.

By the way, those of you who can do fadas on your posts, how do you do it?