How popular are these names in Ireland??

[LuellaLovesLavender]

I really don't want anything too popular! I am considering Beatrix, Tabitha, Florence and Cordelia........I know some of these are very popular in Britain but are they popular in Ireland? I have never ever met any child in Ireland with those names but if any Irish mums out there can tell me if these are on the rise here I would really appreciate it! Thanks

Of course Florence was traditionally a boys name in Ireland.

They are very uncommon and I believe will stay that way because as another poster said, they're seen as v English.

DD (21 months) has a name along those lines. We have never had anything but positive comments but rudeness would be fucking glacially received so maybe people are too scared.

I don't completely agree wth that. I thinhk that Emily /Sophie /Isabel/Clara would have been seen as very English twenty years ago. We will always have the Irish names being used as well alongside English (language) names, which means that their popularity is less, but then the UK has a lot of different nationalities.

Always positive! She's three and a half now. My MIL thought I had made it up at first, but pointing out it was a biblical name put paid to that.

DS had a similarly unusual name and now there are two smaller ones with the same name in the town. I was slightly annoyed, especially when one of the mother's was his nursery worker. Doesn't bother me now. much

Renegade apostrophe there. Sorry.