Suggestions please - Irish names!

[TheMadHatter74]

We already have a 2 DSs with distictly Irish names and are struggling to come up for ANY names for DC3. We are only 20 weeks so plenty of time yet but I want to be sorted when he or she arrives. So far we have a few ideas, none that we love though. Opinions on the following names and suggestions of similar names would be gratefully recieved.

Boys
Fergus
Brady
Cormac
Murphy
Seamus/Shat

Girls
Alannah
Niamh
Talulla

Sorry that should be Shay

Fergus or Seamus for a boy, Alannah or Talulla for a girl.

How about

Ethan, Reece, Aidan, Liam, Ciaran

Caitlin, Aoife, Roisin, Colleen, Abigail

Maeve is my all time favourite Irish girls name, my dc4 is a Maeve... I have a Conor and a Caitlin too which I love (obv)... Fergus & Tallulah nicest from your list. Aoife and Liam lovely too per Towndons suggestions... Good luck!

Always loved Orla for a girl. There's probably a strange way of spelling it involving b's and stuff

I was just about to suggest Aoife, it is lovely as is Maeve and Roisin

I like Ciara, Dervla and Orla too.

Cathall, Ossian, Conall, Donnacha, Dermot, Poraig

I have an Orla!
In my family there is Aoibhinn, Maeve, Cormac, Tara, Brendan, Aoife, Colm, Dearbhail and many more!
I also love Oisin.

I love Orla too; pretty yet strong.

We have an Eoin, so naturally I like that too!

Of your list, my favourites are Seamus and Alannah. But they're all lovely.

I love Fidelma (fiddle for short!) and Bridie for girls and Seoirse (pronounced showsha and meaning george) and Ruairi or Rory for boys. Roisin and Peig and Colm and Eamon are nice too.

Murphy is a great name!

I would have called dd Aoife if I had heard of it before she was named! As it is she has the english version, and I thought dh was terribly unreasonable not to let me change it. ;)

My mum is Irish and I have a lot of Irish names that Dh vetoed

I love Seamus, Fergus, Dara, Ronan and Ruairi for boys and Orla, Aisling, Aoife, Sorcha, Caoimhe for girls.

One of my uni tutors is called Gráinne (pronounced Grawn-ya) .I think it is a pretty name.

I like Orla, Aoife and Roisin for girls

Cormac and Seamus for boys

Oh, thank heaven ... I was just trying to think of a way of asking a bit more about the origins of the name, "Shat".

I like Eileen.

I like Cormac and Shay, not a fan of Murphy, what about Caolan, Cillian, Lorcan also a fan of Ronan.

For girls : Aoife
Aoibh (Eve)
Aine
Niamh
Sinead
Ciara

Murphy is a surname

I wouldn't consider Murphy, Brady or Talulla to be Irish names. I've lived here nearly 40 years and have only heard the first two as surnames and have never known anyone called Talulla.

There's lots of beautiful Irish names, most of my favourites are listed above; also love Sean for a boy and Aobh (eve) for a girl.

I've got a kian, Liam and a Jayden

Thanks for the suggestions, I won't divulge but both DS's names have already been suggested so you have good taste :o

At the moment we are really struggling with girl's names - neither of us really like Clodagh, Aoife, Aisling, Sinead or Siobhan. We are liking Mairead and Orla though so keep them coming!

Love Maeve. But then have a thing for Maeve Binchy books

What bout
boys

Tadgh
Finbarr
Rian(ryan)
Cathal
girls
Blaithnaid
Bronagh
Colleen
EIMEAR
Eithne
THats all i can think of for now.

Saoirse
Aisling
Maire
Bernadette
Caoimhe
Nuala
Fionnuala

Donal
Malachy
Patrick
Declan
Colm
Ffion (or is that Welsh?)

P.s. Love Mairead

If I ever had another baby girl I would call her Orla, DH is Irish and I am Scottish, so my dc have names that have a Scottish/Irish connection. I find girls names harder to choose than boys, ds has a middle name, whereas dd nearly got called Finn (was her nn when I was pg).