Is Róise a 'real' name?

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I'm of Irish origin (but currently living here)

Thinking of names for expected DC and have come across Róise. I've never met one, although plenty of Róisíns. I really like it but don't want to give DD (if it is a DD) a 'made up' name.

Irish MNetters have you met any Róises? What are your thoughts?

Good to know askance, thank you! I think it's beautiful too

I really love Róise, I prefer it to Róisín.

I love Eimear as well, so I'm not much help!

Irish here.
I love Róise. I've heard it pronounced several ways depending on the region in Ireland they come from.
Row-shuh
Row-sha
Rosh-a

I'd pronounce it the first way.

I know one, aged about 18 and not in Ireland. Pronounces it Ro-sha.

I do like it but thought for a long time (before I saw it written down) it was Rocha like the designer John Rocha and thought it was a tiny bit naff for that reason

There are two in my daughter's school year (NI). I like it, I much prefer it to Roisin.

Thanks all, some food for thought. Need to re-run this past DH as we had kind of settled on a name but I'm now not sure!

Oh I love Roisé, much more than Roisin (sorry for missing off the fadas!). It was our girl's name if we'd had a DD, although we were worried about it as we're in the UK too. It will probably end up being pronounced Royse or mistaken for Rosie, but we were willing to go with it!

Instead we've had all boys and the littlest is Breffni. Completely phonetic, not hard to pronounce, yet it's proving impossible for folk to get their head around so far! 'Breath? Bethany? Banoffi?' have been some of the favourite attempts! We're only a month in though, so hoping that a bit of effort now to correct it will just bed it in amongst our circle and it'll become the norm.

With Roisé, you have the added trickiness of it not being phonetic in English, plus also having to add in the fada, but it's just such a beautiful name that I'd go with it anyway! Good luck with your choice

Realised I've put the fada all in the entirely wrong place for Roíse anyway, so I'm just as bad!! Apologies

And again!!

Backs away. Makes more coffee......

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Breffni is a lovely name!

Banoffi is a distinguished old Irish name

Im In England and I’ve given my son an Irish name but have left the fadas off in the spelling. I figured it would be hard enough for him to spell his name out/teach people how to pronounce it without the added complication.

Róise is a beautiful name by the way

I think with Banoffee as a first name, using a greek letter as a middle name would be ideal. Pi obvs.

If she lives in England, she'll spend a lot of time correcting people who think she's Rose or Rosie.

Roise is lovely, I teach in Ireland, I know of one.

Eimear also sounds lovely, but it's a bit of a middle aged name to me - like Sandra or Michelle in English.

Great thread, I had the same question! Although my Dad (who is a big Irish speaker) was not convinced it was a 'real' Irish name when I mentioned it to him. Interested to see that others disagree as I really like it too.

I have a niece Róise. It's a gorgeous name. Her sister is Éabha (Ava). Their parents are both native Irish speakers if that's relevant at all!

I've got a non phonetic, non European name, and it's been ok coping with peoples' mispronunciations. People remember best if you can give them an auditory clue, like
" it's not Royce, it's Rosha, like Rosa with a sh. "( or kosher with an R??!)
I hope I'm making sense, I don't want to out myself by putting my very distinctive name on here as the example!
But what I'm saying is it's such a lovely name, I would go with it, she, and people around her will cope.

Thanks everyone for feedback. DH is still resistant so we're going to have a discussion tonight! He only likes one girls name so we're stuck on that at the moment...

Ohyesiam I also have a non phonetic (in English) Irish name and I know what you mean, I have a few examples I use for my own one!

I’ve never come across it before but it’s really beautiful OP, I hope you can win your DH around

*RÓIS, RÓISE, RÓS (rōs’, rōs) f. This name appears to derive from the Old German hros ‘horse’ though at an early period it was identified with the flower of that name. It was brought into England by the Normans and reached Ireland much later. It was in use among the Uí Chatháin (O Kanes) of Ulster in the sixteenth century and was still common in Derry and Omeath, at the beginning of this century, among the O Kanes and the O Murrays. Róisín is a popular diminutive form.

*RÓIS, RÓISE, RÓS (rōs’, rōs) f. This name appears to derive from the Old German hros ‘horse’ though at an early period it was identified with the flower of that name. It was brought into England by the Normans and reached Ireland much later. It was in use among the Uí Chatháin (O Kanes) of Ulster in the sixteenth century and was still common in Derry and Omeath, at the beginning of this century, among the O Kanes and the O Murrays. Róisín is a popular diminutive form.

I’ve heard of two - one of them a baby and one I went to school with so would be (well into) in her thirties now. Both pronounced Raw-shuh, but could be a Belfast thing.