Mobhí (boy)

[Aiwo]

I thought we had settled on a boy name months ago but then my DH throws this out in his crisis that the boy name isn't 'priestly' enough.

So thoughts?
(We don't live in Ireland)

lol at looking for a priestly baby name! who's the baby daddy? bishop Eamon Casey :-p

Father Brian D'arcy? He's very trendy.

I would know how to pronounce it but frankly it sounds awful. It's the name of a road to me!

MoeVee
It's sn Irish saint's name
There is a Mobhi Road in Dublin.
There are so many different cultures with their associated names that I don't think it matters anymore. People can be taught how it is pronounced. If it bothers you that your child will have to keep correcting people re it's pronounciation then don't use it.

Just out of interest, "priestly"?

Very near St. Mobhi Road in Glasnevin is St. Canice's Road.
Canice is pronounced Caniss ( as in hiss)

So if it's "MUH-vee" rather than "MOH-vee", it's the Irish version of Murphy (or Murphy is the anglicised version?)?

No its not the name murphy in Irish. Two different names.

But I think most people unfamiliar with Irish names would say 'Moby'

Yes they would - I would. Unfair to compare it with Siobhan and Niamh which are in much more common usage.

Sorry it has taken me an age.

As to the spelling: that is the way it is written in DHs martyrology.
We aren't bothered that much about the issues of having Gaelic names in the UK, we want a Gaelic name and realise they can come with issues

Priestly: if my DH ever lost his job he would do well choosing names for nuns, that is very much his taste: old fashioned, not that used and better suited to a convent (in the last millennium) than Tescos.
Priestly was the only thing I could come up with as a descriptor for the same sort of feel for a boy.
He has thrown a spanner in the works because the baby is due in a matter of weeks

Is this the guy who wanted to call your daughter Concepta/Honora/Attracta or something along those lines?

squoosh
You mean my darling husband? Yep that is him.

I think I know what he means by Priestly, , although I expressed it as a kind of ecclesiastically inspired classic :-p (women are more verbal :-p) i WAS an irish person living in London when I had my DC and I wanted Classic names, but classic in a solid ''catholic'' way. Not in a royal classic way, which bored me. I'm Irish but not even catholic, however, i liked Pope names like Domenic, Louis, Gregory, Peter, Columba. Also, Donal, Donald, Manus, Inis, Skye, things that had a slightly abboty / monky island vibe

I worked out Mo-vee. However, as The Jungle Book film is due out any day I think people might mis-hear it as Mowgli.