Fiadh

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Pronounced Fee-ah, this means deer in Irish (also an archaeological cooking pit depending on who you listen to). Thoughts?
I do think it is pretty but worry it'd sound like Thea/Fear in some accents, plus it did shoot up the Irish baby name charts.

Haha no work away - agree Fiach is lovely!
There's a lot of Irish names out there that are criminally underused. I met a 6 year old Enda a while back actually and thought it was lovely. If you can get past the Taoiseach connection that is!

I actually have Enda on the list! I don't know if it sounds a little cheesy with Eoin though. I also have Cormac, Donagh and Colm down but I'm not sure any of them are quite right.

For girls I was nearly decided on Cliona. I was also considering Emer and Roisín. But it's a boy so now I'm stuck!

Another girls name I like is Siún. Really pretty like Fiadh and recognisable without being very popular. See I'm sorted for girls - typical!

There just are more nice Irish girls' names than boys. I shortlisted Flan(nan) and Murtagh, and I also love Iarla (influenced perhaps by a lovely one I know).

Completely agree. Even Naoise has been hijacked by the girls nowadays when it was always a boys name. Iarla is lovely but turns into a tongue-twister with our surname.

I really like Cormac, and I've not met many of them teaching. I also thought Fionan, Daragh and Cathal were quite nice when I was thinking up boy baby names!

I had a (male) relative named Luan (like the day).

And then there are really old saints' names that have been Anglicised, like Moling and Laserian.

Luan afaik was a publican who had a hostelry at a fording point of the river Shannon. Hence Átha Luain, Athlone.

I love Fiadh, but I was put off by the 'Fear' thing too (due with DC1 shortly). I love how it sounds when my Irish friends/family say it but not how people here do. If I was living in Ireland I would definitely go for it.

Incidentally, to those posters saying you shouldn't go for something that might require spelling/explaining, I have one of those Irish names (not mentioned yet!) which requires spelling and explaining pronounciation ALL the time living over here, it's never bothered me and is a talking point with strangers so not everyone hates having to constantly explain their name. I don't!

Wow, Luan, that's nice. I like it.

Atha Luain to Athlone!? wow. I learn about Ireland here

Mawsy, I like Enda.

Most place names here are like that - they were all Anglicised from the Irish. So Dubh Linn changed to Dublin, Cill Airne to Killarney, Corcaigh to Cork - shame really, the Irish versions sound a lot nicer imo!

I met a Turlough yesterday if you're still name hunting mawsy, I thought that was nice.

Turlough! that's so ross o'carroll-kelly. blonde castlerock mothers standinng around the rugby pitch in belted camel max mara coats shouting not too loudly 'come on turlough'

I have the memory of an elephant. I'm a fan.