unusual pretty irish girl names

[mum4five]

hi im 38weeks pregnant an looking some unusual girls names

If names like Maude and Mabel are making a comeback why not use an Irish name that some people consider an old lady's name if you like it?
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I think Nabla is an Irish version of Mabel

My surname is irish and I have to spell it al the time. Doesn't bother me.

I love the names Orchil or Eithne.

Orchil? Is that an actual name or one you've just made up post-pub?

Sile (cee-lay). Lovely name with a lovely meaning of "pure and musical".

Even the recommended pronunciations are mispronounced which might be a good indicator as to why some names are better left unused! Sile is pronounced the same as Sheila and it would not be considered particularly pretty or unusual by most Irish people.

If you're 38 weeks, Siún might be nice. Just because it rhymes with June, when she'll probably arrive.

What about Erin?

Erin really isn't an Irish name. Like Shannon or Colleen it's something people of Irish decent have come up with.
I live in London and both my daughter and I have Irish names. It's really not that bad.

To answer your question OP my favourites are;
Siún
Nollaig(maybe wrong time of year)
Sadhbh
Ailbhe

The woman I know called Sile pronounces it cee-lay. I'd never heard it before I met her. Is it not possible there are two ways to say it?

Cee-lay. Yes, there are two ways to say it.

The right way, and the wrong way.

Ceelay! Good heavens, where did she get that pronunciation from???

I like Nuala and Mairead

I have a Macushla, means pulse, pronounced as it looks. It is also beautiful song by opera singer John McCormac.

Caraiósa

I think there's a very clear gap between the kinds of name an emigrant or second-generation Irish person somewhere outside Ireland might consider acceptable and what an Irish person in Ireland would consider. Like Nuala would be like calling your child "Maureen" or "Angela" or "Mildred" or something in the UK.

Macushla is an example of a name that would not ever remotely crop up for consideration in Ireland.

Éabha
Caoimhe
Fiadh
Alfie
Dervla

Alfie??

I think she might mean Aoife.

Ha! Stupid auto correct, it was Aoife!

hi have a caoimhe an a saoirse an a clodagh already im really liking cuisle (kush-la) but nobody else does I also like fiadh fianna and maybe aoibhlinn

Nuala, Orla and Oona are my faves

How strange. I've met two Macushla's from Ireland, both under 30. And I have family who know others.

Really? Well then I take it back and maybe it's a regional thing - in the Southwest and the East, the two places I have lived for most of my life, it would be seen as a real "Plastic Paddy" name, the kind an American who was 1/24th Irish would give their child.