Aoife

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Do you think Aoife blends in too much with all the Eva's and Ava's about? Obviously the spelling makes it stand out but is the pronunciation too similar? My daughter has a traditional irish name and looking for another.

Seer-sha

I pronounce it Seer-sha. 🙂

caoimhe is a lovely name, I just do t like it as much as Saoirse though! Maybe Maeve?

Emer?

Not sold by Emer. Not sure why, it's a perfectly lovely name

I love Maeve /Medbh/Maedbh/

Well it appears to depend on whether you could stand to have her called eefer.

I love that name so much. No matter how many times I look up the correct pronunciation, to me it's pronounced 'Woofie'

I think many people would have no idea how to spell or pronounce it, me included.

Woofie????

I love the Irish spellings of maeve.

The spelling doesn't bother me.
LOL, OP. The point is whether it bothers your children; you remember, the ones who have to live with it their whole lives.

To answer your question, though. Yes, they will constantly get mixed up with Eva.

Tabby.. it doesn't bother me as it causes her no problems.

Nice name.

Sorry user...I know!! Somehow Woofie has just stuck with me. I've never actually met an Aoife though...perhaps when/if I do the correct pronunciation will stick. It's such a pretty name but anyone with it will surely be asked to say/spell it all the time. I'm mum to an Isaac. I never dreamed it would be a problem but so many people mispronounce and misspell it.

Tabby your comment was incredibly rude actually.

Aofie may get confused with Eva but so does Amelie/Emily, Annabel/Amabel and lots of other names. Once corrected I’m sure it wouldn’t be a problem. It’s a lovely name :)

I love the name Aoife, reminds me of a wonderful Irish TA at my secondary school who was kind, clever and helped me massively with loads of stuff. ❤❤

Irish names
Ciara
Caragh/Cara
Aoife
Eabha (ava)
Ailish
Eilish
Deirdre (Deird reh)
Sinead
Grainne (gra nah)
Dervala
Siobhan (shiv oen)
Siabh (sive)
Crionne

Niamh?

Aoife is top of our shortlist, living in England and both Irish.
Also love Maeve but DH isn't as keen.

(now have you any nice boys names suggestions?)

its a pretty name and goes well with sairoise

My boys shortlist is;

Callum
Brendan
Ciaran
Seamus
Cormac
Euan
Struan
Benedict

A bit of a mix of irish and Scottish.

Fiadh ❤️ means graceful becoming pretty popular in Ireland atm

Is Straun Scottish? I don't think I've heard of it before. Currently we like Senan and Declan, but DH is trying to push for Padraig which I'm not a fan of.

Yes, Struan is a Scottish name. I think it's getting quite popular now. I have never heard is Senan but it's really lovely as is Declan. I also quite like Cillian but it's already used in the family.