Suin (Irish Name)

[Mollydoggerson]

This is for a friend,

Suin is an uncommon Irish name.

For those that have come across it, can you confirm how it is pronounced. If you know the meaning that would be great.

Thanks

It's spelt siun and pronounced shoon.

Shoon.

It's unusual even in Ireland though

There is a newsreader on rte 1 which is an Irish station called Siun Nic Ghearalt and yes it is pronounced Shoon! It's a beautiful name but not at all commonover here...even to the extent that a lot of Irish people probably have never heard of it! If you like Irish names here are a few more.....presume it's just for a girl!!

Niamh
Aoife
Roisin
Aisling
Aine
Caoimhe
Saoirse
Saidbh
Bronagh
Dearbhla
Grainne
Blathnaid

Must be really rare, I've never heard of it before.

It's nice though.

Thank you so much this is great info.

Oh I also think there is a fada on the i! You should double check this though as I'm not certain! A fada is a little line over the i instead of the dot!

If it's pronounced Shoon then the fada will be over the u.

Siún.

Yes, fada over the u, lovely name

Siún. Love it. Is there a weather girl called siún? Know somebody who has a Fraoch and a Siún. There are two gaelscoil(eanna) near me so I hear them all!!

The pronunciation is more Shoe-in than Shoon. It is a Donegal Irish version of Siobhán which is the Irish for Joan.

Well the one I know is defo shoon, not shoe-in.

It's like the Niamh thing, the second syllable would be quite gentle.

NEE-uv
SHOO-un

The Irish language will never knowingly try and limit the amount of possible syllables in a word

Gorgeous name - so long as you have an Irish connection

How do you say Saidbh?

Saidbh is "sive" to rhyme with five, I think?

Siun is a form of Siobhan, as far as I'm aware, and has a fada on the u, an accent mark. Rhymes with ciuin which means 'quiet' so could be a very good for a new baby

choice for a new baby

The fada is on the U -- Siún. (SHOO-un) The second syllable is a schwa.

Saidbh is actually Sadhbh, pronounced Sive (to rhyme with five)

These were both in my top three for my baby, if he'd been a girl. I still tell him to 'Bí ciúin' the odd time, and he roars laughing and then roars.

Siún is a lovely name.

Siún -it's lovely . My dd2 has an unusual(ish) Irish name, I'm amazed how many Irish people say "Huh? What does that mean?" btw my own Irish is not spectacular by any means (B3 in Leaving Cert!)

There are some pretty obscure Irish names though so it's not surprising that people have never come across some of them before. I quite like the fact there are tonnes of untapped names.

It's only really been since the early 70's that Irish people have given their children old Irish names. I'd imagine that Saoirses and Fiachras were pretty rare up until then.

I've only ever met one person with the name, which is lovely by the way, and they were called Shoe - in rather than Shoon.

I'd pronounce it 'sue-un'

I learned Irish in cork

It's a slender S so it should be SH even in Cork.