Fionnuala?

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We're expecting DC3 (already have 2 DSs) and as DH is Irish we were thinking of using an Irish name. Top of our list for a DD is Fionnuala but it's had mixed reviews from family and friends? What do you think and would it be spellable/prenouncable for a child growing up in England?

Lovely, I know a Fionuala, known as Nuala pronounced Nula.

I love it. Always receiving compliments the world over it means fair shouldered in Irish and refers to the story the Children of Lir

I quite like it. I am Irish but imo it's quite flouncy like Matilda and Emilia so the sound of it is very contemporary.

Some people are strange about Irish names! Ffion is awelsh name and the wife of that politician, his name escapes me now, she was called Ffion, and English people got to grips with that. Fionnuala is not any harder is it?

I know a Fionnuala, uses that for work and Nuala (noo-la) family and friends.
Nice name, she has a twin called Philomena (sp)

go for it!

Ffs zombie thread AND I answered it before!

I love it! I knew a Nuala from NI and she was lovely. My DH is Irish but we shied away from Irish names as we thought it would immediately identify them as Irish and DH suffered racism when he came here in the 1990s. I also love Orla/Orlagh and would have chosen Sorcha (English spelling!) but it is too similar to DD1's name and I wanted them to have different initials.