Irish girls names please for baby growing up in England

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I like Eabha and Saoirse but don't want a lifetime of mispronunciation and misspelling for my LO.

I quite like Roisin but not 100% sure. I'm also warming to Clodagh.

Any others please?

Niamh and Siobhan are very well known names in England.
I think Aoife and Saoirse are becoming more well known too.
Roisin shouldn't be a problem.

Do you like Roisin?

Yes.
Also Orla.

We used Roisin and have always called her Roisin or Rosie interchangeably. We always said she could be Rosie if she wants, but now (at 4) she loves having an Irish name. It is often misprnounced ro-SHEEN, but she has now started to correct people herself!

I've always liked Nuala.

Ailish
Keira
Tara
Colleen
Caitlin
Cara
Brianna
Alannah
Aisling

Erin, Aoife, Niamh or Orla seem to be popular choices for English people with an Irish connection.

I know these things are very personal but glad you like it bagel!

I like Orla too and it would work well with the surname but DH doesn't like it. He's very much of the "You can't call her Orla. I went to nursery school with a girl called Orla who ate with her mouth open" persuasion so most names are ruled out for completely arbitrary reasons.

That's very encouraging YellowHat. DH loves Roisin. I do too and I think I like it even more now that you've said that your DD loves it.

Doubleglazing Thanks for your suggestions. I like Erin but two good friends have Erins.

Roisin is a lovely name and I also love the Rosie/Roisin option.

i love cara or caragh. roisin is lovely. what about aine, fiadh, ailbhe, maire/maura, sadbh, sorcha? (sorry, can't do fadas!!!)

Aisling (Aysh - leen) - I like it but I am biased as I have a lovely friend called this. :)

We also call her Aysh.

My name is Siobhan, thats Irish :).

My DSD name is Orla thats also Irish :)

Roisin is lovely. (Ro-sheen isn't a mispronunciation, btw, its a very common pronunciation in Southern Ireland, rather than Rosh-een).

Orla / Orlaith
Sorcha (love this)
Grainne
Eithne
Mairead
Maeve
Bronagh
Una
Ciara

I have a Caoimhe (keeva) who loves it and a Maeve

I love Niamh and Sorcha, I think that most people know how to pronounce Niamh as well.

A good friend is called Roisin and no-one knows how to say it! She gets 'Ro-sian' or 'Roy-zin' usually. Although the lead singer of Moloko is Roisin Murphy and there was a lead character in a Lynda LaPlante TV drama called Roisin so maybe it will go the way of Siobhan and most people will get to know it?

Orla
Sorcha
Aisling
maura
Ciara
Ailis/ eilis
aine
Alana
alva
beibhinn
iseult
doireann
grainne
siofra

Yellowhat, I'm intrigued as to how you mispronounce your daughters name now.

Ró-sheen is the correct way.

No, not necessarily.

RO-sheen is how we would say it. Not Ro-SHEEN. I think that was what Yellowhat meant.

Thank you Turnbacktheclocks - that is exactly right.

Northern Irish / Scots say Rosh-een, southern Irish say RO-sheen. Both are correct, depending on your accent, but Ro-SHEEN isn't, hence DD spendoing her time explaining to people how to promounce her name

PS - I would have used Aisling, Niamh or Aoife, but have various neices with those names already. If we have another, I may use Aisling as a middle name!

Aisling is not Ayshling. It's Ash-ling.

Word of advice on Sorcha - it's my name and I lived in Liverpool for two years. My boss called me seeuuughhhka. Obviously that's probably a Scouse-only pronunciation but it's a very hard name to say with an English accent apparently. The "k" sound isn't quite a k, it's between a k and an h and that seems impossible to replicate in non-Irish accents!

Aine
Emer
Cliona
Caitriona
Maire
Tara

If she's growing up in England you want to go for one of the simpler names rather than something shemight come to view as a total head f* in terms of spelling it out 10 times a day.

Clíona (clee-uh-na) is quite nice.
Emer
Aisling

how do you say siofra i like the look of it so just wondering really. is it like shif-ra?

Its she-uf-ra firawla :)