Help me find a beautiful Irish name that isn't too hard to pronounce/spell!

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Please help me! I am Irish, but my DH is English, and we live in England. I really want to give DD1 a beautiful Irish name,

My favourites are Aofie, Saoirse, Caoimhe and Aoibheann, but no-one is able pronounce/spell them!

DH is suggesting Niamh, because its quite common and well-known, but I'm not keen on Niamh.

Do you know any other Irish girls names that are easy for non-Irish people to say? Thank You!

I like Ciara but I might be biased :-) Also nice are :

Sinead
Orla
Roisin
Iseult
Muireann
Maeve

Irish Queen - I have a Caoimhe and a Maebh too!!

I love the name Maebh and you can anglify it to Maeve.

What about Sorcha - it's a lot more intuiative to spell than Saoirse

I can't believe that Caoimhe could become popular although it'll help poor dd1

There's a child model called Caoimhe on the latest M&S ad. She's cute as buttons. You wait...

Majella
Assumpta
Bridie
Biddy
Biddy-Ann
Peg

I know an Acushla which, I believe, means "beat of my heart", which I think is rather lovely.

now there's a name :o Some of the names I haven't even heard of. How do you pronounce Beinhinn? Benin?

Aisling (pronounced Ash-ling) and Aislinn (Ash-linn) are two different names. I like the -linn ending, it's softer to me.

I think one difficulty with having an Irish name in England is the fact that the letter 'r' is pronounced differently, and names can be that bit trickier to pronounce (I have two 'r's in my name, and have to constantly spell it and pronounce it for people).

My top name is Roise ( pronounced Row-sha).

My daughter is Bridget so I'm obviously a fan of that name!
My maiden name comes from Ireland and I have some Irish in my but by and large I'm English, so I didnt feel right naming DD anything too Irish. My favourites were Saoirse and Aoife, just like you OP, but we went for something very Anglisised (sp???).
Mind you I do still love Saoirse...
Grainne is lovely also. And Orla, as has been mentioned.

I love Bridget and Brigid and still regret not naming DD3 one of those, and it's been 12 years now. She would have been Biddy for short. [sigh]

I think 'Beinhinn' should be 'Beibhinn', pronounced Bevin. Lovely name.

Bridget is the best name ever, but I'm sure your DD3 has a beautiful name, too! She doesn't tend to get any of the lovely nns (Bee, Bridie, Birdie) and instead just gets called Bridge.

My Irish friends are called Alison, Denise and Fiona......!

roisin - rosheen

Roisin is a nice name that means Rose so would give your daughter the option of two names meaning the same.

Whatevs - which parts of Ireland is it pronounced Kweeva and which Keeva?

There are so many beautiful names on this thread!

not really "Irish" but very common in Ireland is Mary which I LOVE

I know Caoimhe as Kweeva too