Seoirse??

[sorchatallulah]

I quite like Seoirse for a boy, I met one a few weeks ago but it doesn't seem to be very common anymore, would it get confused with Saoirse? Someone I work with said there were two in his class at school but he's quite a bit older than me! Pronounciation: shor-sheh, it's the "Irish version" of George :P Opinions?

Yeah, I'm in Ireland and I don't recall meeting one of these. I think, if I'm reading it right it'd be pronounced very like georgia. shorgia? So, to my ear it sounds feminine.......... but I don't know if that matters. elliot and noah and finn sound quite feminine sounding to my ear.

I like Georgie! That'd be cute. Are you looking for an Irish name? or does George have any significance ?

I've always heard Shore-sheh/Shorsha that sort of thing, but the Sh sound at the start isn't too harsh, it's more soft like an S? I don't know how to explain it better haha. There isn't really any significance with George, I'm still in the TTC stage and just looking at different names so I have a shortlist of sorts :)

I didn't think it sounded feminine, but maybe it was because the only face I've been able to put the name to was a drunken student rugby player type who seemed quite macho! I worried about the similarity to Saoirse though, and seeing it written down people could assume I'd just spelt Saoirse wrong or something :p

sounds like a skin infection

If I saw it I'd assume it was a misspelling of Saoirse but I'm not very clued up on Irish names. Quite like it though.

Nice, and unusual. I would say very few people in the UK would have the mental image of the name Saoirse in their heads to the extent they would confuse the two.

I thought Seoiras was the male name?

I'm afraid I'd think you couldn't spell Saoirse which I think is a well known name in the UK.

Seoras, without the i, is the Gaelic form on George

ShowofHands - Thanks, I was worried that's what it would appear because Saoirse's getting quite well known!

Xavielli - I've never heard that one, but then again I know next to nothing about Gaelic, just Irish!

My first thought when I clicked on the name was also a misspelling of Saoirse, sorry :( I do like the name though

Seoirse

I've lived in Ireland from the age of 7 and have never come across a Seoirse tbh... I assumed you'd misspelled Saoirse when I read the title.

What about the composer/music professor Seoirse Bodley?

+1 to thinking you'd misspelled Saoirse

Never heard of him... should I have?

He is rather obscure, I suppose