Celtic girls names

[threeleftfeet]

bump is tiny, but thinking about names already!

She / he will be part Welsh, Scottish, Irish and English.

We like the more unusual names - to give you an idea, boys names we like include Inigo, Oisín and Taliesin.

I'm a bit stuck on girls names, I'd be grateful to hear any ideas!

TIA :)

Ooh I like Tesni too.

It means "warmth from the sun" (well according to the first google link I found. anyway)

Osia's lovely too. I hadn't heard of that before.

Do you know, that book looks very familiar. I think my dad got it for me when we were naming DC1. That was 3 house moves ago.

Now where is it now? Umm ...

Aufaniae: "Ooh I like Glensi, Ceinwen and Eithne."

Glesni is currently the hot fave for me. It's also the name of a lovely, lovely student gym teacher we had, who was offered a job with our school when she got back from travelling the world. Tragically she was killed in Thailand and the whole school was heartbroken.

It sort of means 'purity' and she was one of the loveliest people I ever met.

Bethan
Fallon

Definitely Ay-lee for Eilidh (like Ceilidh, the Scottish dance).

What is your DS's name? Am on the hunt for Scottish boys name for the totally hypothetical male dc3...

Once people are told once how to spell/pronounce a name they usually get the gist of it, so don't worry! There are lots of lovely names from Ireland, Scotland and Wales, so how about -

Ffion
Nia
Catrin
Tegan
Bethan
Ciara
Éabha/Aoibhe
Iona

Ciaran
Euan/Owen/Eoghan
Fergus

I like the simple Mairi or Mhari - which is pronounced Varry - I actually know a Varry too.

on my girls names list..

Sive (i prefer that spelling to Sadb etc)
Caoimhe
Sinead
Maeve
Laoise
Eimear
Aine
Aoibheann
Grainne
Mairead

(btw can you tell I'm irish lol!)

I have Sinead and Caoilfhionn, if I ever manage another I do like Eididh or Ruadhri