Irish boys names?

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Can anyone recommend Irish boys names that aren't countdown conundrums and can't be easily pronounced by English people?

I quite like Cian (key-inn) but DH doesn't. Something short and sweet

CAN be pronounced by English!

Conor
Aidan
Ronan
Sean

Niall
Liam

Jarlath
Patrick

Finbar, maybe Finn for short. Same for Fintan
Fergus (Gus)
Fergal or Feargel
or.. Sean is a nice Irish name, due a comeback!

Fintan is nice. How do you pronounce jarleth?

Any more C names? (I'm pushing my luck here I think!)

Cillian?

Tiarnan
Joseph
Ciaran

Love an Irish name! 🍀

Callum
Connor
Fintan
Dylan
Finlay
Liam
Cillian
Daire
Rory
Dairmuid

Fergal.

Got my eye on that one myself.

Ciaran
Cillian
Colm
Cathal
Conal
Cormac
Conan
Caoimhin

Senan and Dara are quite popular among my kids friends at the minute. I know they're not C names. Conall floats about too, I have a secret longing for Cathal

My little boy has a friend called lorcan

Irish boys names that aren't countdown conundrums

Keir?

I know someone who wanted to call their son Conan! Thankfully they had a girl....

Ooh cillian or conal! Thank you

Connell or Callan

Ciar
Cianan
Colum
Conor
Cormac

I know an Irish couple with a little boy named Cashel. I'm not sure how routinely it's used as a name but I think it makes a lovely name.

Conor
Callum
Ciaran
Seamus
Sean

Not my cup of tea but Declan, Dermot, Lochlinn, Emmet and Brendan meet your spelling criteria. A bit longer but Setanta is also easy to pronounce.

I like lots of the C names already listed. I wouldn't say Conal is pronounced as written though, it's more a U sound - Cunn-ill.

Jarlath is pronounced almost as written "jar-let" with a softer T than let but not as breathy as a TH. It's pretty awful in my opinion and not widely used.

Have never heard of Cashel as a person's name.

I like Patrick.

Also Gerald and Gerard. Kevin. Columba for a longer C name. Seamus might be well enough known not to cause spelling problems?

Some nicknames strike me as almost exclusively Irish even if the full name isn't - Christy (Christopher), Gene (Eugene), Gerry/Jerry, Shay...

Brian. Enda. Noel or Pascal - not Irish in origin but I've never met one without Irish connections, usually born at Christmas and Easter respectively. Eoin or Owen. Neil. A bit more unusual is Ardal.

Peadar or Eanna at a push on the pronunciation front.

This is fun... I don't even particularly like some of them but thinking about the spelling is strangely pleasing to me.