Neasa, Cara or Emer?

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Interested in opinions for these names to go with Brendan. Don't know if having a girl or a boy yet!

Neasa - pronounced nassa or NASA
Cara - as it looks
Emer - pretty much as it looks: Ee-mer

We are also thinking of Orla and Sive and have an O'Something name.

Thanks!

I have a name that ends with 'a' and an O'Surname and I hate the run of vowels. You have to stop after the first name before saying the surname or it sounds garbled. I'd stay away from a vowel surname so on that basis would choose Emer from your list.

OP, I woluldn't associate Cara with Irish Americans at all. That for me is reserved for Erin and Shannon (which say 'Soup Brand' and 'Industrial Estate and Airport' to me), and the eternal Caitlin pronounced Kate-Lynne. And don't even get me started on the American cousins who anglicised a mispronounced version of my Irish-language first name and gave it to their daughter...

Cara

Cara or Ciara

I don't think of Cara as a name, I think of the Aer Lingus magazine, or the craft shop, or even the nanny agency!

Have to agree with happy on the vowel run, with an O' name I'd be picking something with a consonant at the end.

I love Neasa and Sadhbh.

I think Cara sounds quite American. In Irish it would be pronounced Corra (meaning 'friend') but when used as a name it is usually Cah-ra, and sounds unIrish, more Italian or Italian-American. (Irene Cara, Rafaella Carra)

Beibhinn is lovely and you wouldn't have that problem with the R inserted before the O' surname.

Other names ending in consonants:
Maebh (or Maeve)
Niamh
Liadán
Caoilfhionn
Aoibninn
Eilís
Róisín
Doireann
Éinín (modern name; means 'little bird')
Muireann
Mairéad
Sibéal

Ailbhe and Siofra might work too even though they end in a vowel sound. (I think. Maybe I'm too optimistic).

Cara is lovely. I think Neasa could be pronounced Nessa by people reading her name, have come across that issue before!