Final 3 boys names - I hope!

[Daphnedolittle]

Hi all,

These are the names we have narrowed our list down to!
DH is Irish and grew up in Ireland. I'm English and we live in England.
Our top name for ages was Rex but I quite like a name I can shorten and you can't shorten Rex. I also stupidly mentioned it to parents and was met with 'do many humans get called that?' Which put me off slightly.
Corey and Seamus are recent additions to the list. Dh loves Seamus for its Irish roots and I have to admit Its really grown on me. Shay or Seami are cute nn's.
We both love Corey but have a feeling it would have mixed reactions. I've heard it can be slang for penis but i've grown up in or near London and never heard it so wonder if people think this is an issue?
Please be kind as it has taken months for us to come up with any kind of list!

Santa - good to hear everyone copes with the pronunciation of Ruairi where you are. Does it get said the same as Rory? I don't mind too much if it people just said Rory, at least me and dh and his irish family would all say Rure-ee and we could also use the nickname Ru when he's little which is cute.

In terms of our surname it is short and easy to pronounce. It's irish but not obviously so, so think that would be fine with Seamus.
I think Corey is now off the list. Can't risk the penis thing seeing as we are so close to London, it seems the least popular anyway.

I like Evan too!

Ive gone off Rex a bit as it has no irish connection and with all the lovely Irish names around it would be nice to recognise his background.

Ruairi is pronounced more Ruu-a-ree than Rory. That's not exact - but closer to that sound than Rory .

My favourite is Seamus nn Shay. Corey is fine, struck me as quite American but there's nothing wrong with that. I really don't like Rex - to me it's a dog's name, sorry!

In Scotland it tends to be Roo-ree.

I think I would have to take quite a relaxed approach to the pronunciation if we go with Ruairi as it seems everyone pronounces it slightly different. I wouldn't mind that though.
Just hope little one doesn't get annoyed by it! That would be my only concern, but I'd hope he would be quite proud of his Irish spelling

Seamus

Seamus is very cool in Ireland. Like Arthur or Wilfred. Not as keen on old man chic as I am on old lady chic though

I prefer Rex! The King!

I don't like Corey.

Seamus for me.

Daphne, my son has an Irish spelled name (we thought it was the Scots Gaelic ) and he likes that it's different, isn't put off that some people are initially not sure how to pronounce it or that people who've only heard it, spell it completely wrongly. We are Scottish, living in Scotland but with an Irish surname that people think is Scottish.....just to confuse matters :)

Stephen - that's interesting, I didn't realise Seamus was cool in Ireland. That bumps it back up the list
My DH hasn't lived in Ireland for 15 years so he wasn't sure how it would be received over there. We were worried some of his cousins would laugh at it!
One magnum - that's good to hear that your son doesn't mind the mis-spellings etc!

He's coming up for 15 now so has had plenty of years to be bothered by it if he was inclined :)

I like Cormac which a PP suggested. Along with Seamus, what about Oisin, Connor or Liam. All nice (IMO) but not hard to pronounce Irish names?

Have never come across a dog called Rex?! Maybe a few 100 years ago all dogs were called a handful of names. Clearly not the case now! Bewildered by peoples love of holding on to very outdated connections with names which says more about their mindset than the general opinion on the name, stating "its a dogs name" per se is just false, it may be for you, but get over it!

Seamus is great, but if grown up/living in ireland/with an iirhs accent. To me it sounds so overtly Iirish if I met a man without iirish accent or having grown up in ireland called this name, it would feel a bit try hard/fake.

Corey sounds like a 90s pop star to me, very cheese.

For me, Rex is best- strong, quirky, individual, simple but different.

My husband and his brother both use Corey for their bits! Shame because I actually like the name.
I like Rex best- on my boys list too

I love Seamus, in fact if we didn't already have a Patrick it would be top of the list for this one. X

Love Rex and Seamus.
Think Seamus Finnegan from Harry Potter has taken the name from old man/stereotype to cool young guy.
Ruairi is a nice name as well. I'm English, and whilst the spelling wouldn't phase me, I would pronounce it "Rory". Is it supposed to have 3 syllables? Roo-air-ee?

Love Seamus and Cormac. I also really like Rex but my husband always accuses me of liking dog's names!

Rex

Another Seamus fan. Lovely name, lovely nicknames. Ruari also nice but Seamus better, IMO

If it helps, here in Scotland I know a v cool young man named Seamus.

If using Ruaidhri -another v good name - it would be nicer IMHO to use 'proper' Gaelic spelling...

OP what did you go for?! This is a bit of a zombie thread btw- was from Feb.
Hope you went for Rex!

I really dislike Rex, that's a dog name to me. The other two are fine, but I prefer Corey :)

I like Rex, not Seamus or Corey
Never heard of Tadhg ( or any idea of how to say it )
Ruarhi is good ( I'd spell it Rory though )
But he's not my baby , so what do I know
Never heard of the penis nickname , but it still makes me snort if someone is named John Thomas ...