Peter or Tiernan

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DH and I have kind of "settled" on Peter if DC2 is a boy but I find it hard to be inspired by boys' names.

I was just reading throught he unusual baby names thread and come across the name Tiernan. It has irish roots and DH is irish. Is it too unusual though? Would it get shortened and if so to what?

The middle name would be Michael and we already have a DS called Owen.

Which would you choose - Peter or Tiernan?

How is Tiernan pronounced?

It's "Teer-nan"

Tiernan is lovely. Sounds solid, masculine and is not overused.

Peter is ok but I don't like Pete.

Not keen on Tiernan, and although I like Peter I can't get past the fact it means "to fart" in French.

Tiernan for me.

Oh no BiscuitNibbler - I didn't know that!!
Out of interest what would be your boys names list? I'm just not feeling particularly inspired and at 40+11, we need to get this sorted!

I like Tiernan, and don't consider it to be particularly odd, but I'm Irish.

I will say this for it as an Irish name - it is anglicised, so it is easy to spell and pronounce for the English (presume you are English), and I think it's a name that works really well in English.

I agree with eva that it is solid and masculine.

I like Peter too BTW, but I think Owen and Tiernan go really nicely together.

AThingIn YourLife - that's good to hear. We are living in England and my mum has spoken about how she doesn't like the idea of "a strange irish name that no one can spell".
If it's a girl, we're calling her Aoife so she'll have fun with that

:o

Aoife is gorgeous, and actually very easy to say.

Spelling is another another matter if you don't speak Irish :o

Tiernan is a surname to me.

Having said that there was a boy called Tiernan Flynn who fingered kissed my friend at the disco when we were 14.

Err... thanks for that image Squoosh !

I have a Tiernan Micheal (Irish living in the U.S.). No one has had any problems with it pronunciation-wise.
BTW I am 39weeks and if we have a boy he will be Eoghan (Owen).

Sorry!!!! Your boy won't get up to any of that nonsense.

Oh and no one has really tried to shorten it, except to T. He's almost 4.

turtleturtleturtle - ooh bit of a coincidence!

Tiernan without a doubt

Right so I think it's at least worth running it by DH to see what he thinks!

Peter.

I can't get beyond Tiernan sounding a) like a surname and b) beginning with 'tear', which makes me think of sadness and teardrops. It's not one for me.

Peter, for the same reasons as Stellan

Peter

Ok so now DH has suggested Callum. What do you think?
I'm not sure we'd be able to have Callum Michael - too much of a mouthful? Could do Callum Peter?

Callum is quite nice, though I still prefer Peter.

Callum Michael is awkward with the m sounds running together. Callum Peter works well though, or Peter Callum?

Well baby was born yesterday morning and was a girl so she is named Aoife Grace. The debate about boys names turned out to be o
Irrelevant! I think we would have gone with Callum Peter though.

Congratulations on Aoife's arrival :)

Fab name