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.

Fiadh is beautiful! I have never heard it before. Thank you

Laoise
Riona
Liadain
Roise
Roisin
Luisne
Aifric
Alannah
Blaithin
Muireann

I think Emer is a bit middle aged - in Ireland at least.

I've heard Senan used in Ireland for quite a few boys born recently. I like Aoife, seems reasonably popular in the UK too.

For boys: as you like Cillian what about Ciar, Cian, Ciaran?

Aoife is a beautiful name ! It's my daughters name. We live in the UK. Occasional misspellings/misprononciations but lots of compliments on her name also. She is 3 and knows to spell it out and correct people. It's defo getting more popular and there is another a year younger locally . We love her name - just have to accept she may need to spell it out a few times .

Shauna
Róisín (ro-sheen)
Róise (ro-shuh)
Máire (myra)
Treasa (tra-sah)
Síofra (she-frah)
Catriona (katrina)
Caitlín (catch-leen - but would probably get kate-lyn these days)
Brídín (bree-jeen)

All traditional Irish names I like. I am Irish but my fadas are probably all over the place so I'd double check those if you're keen on any!

I do love Aoife though, forgot to say that! Very common in Ireland but no less nice for it

I know a Fiadh (an older lady) I think it's a beautiful name. I also like Aoife.

Ravenwings, do you mind if I ask where abouts you live if you've heard of a few Senans? Just wonder if it's popular in particular areas. DH has a distant relative called this (from Galway but think he died about 20 years ago at a decent age) and my Donegal family didn't seem familiar with it. I like that it seems fairly unusual

In Dublin, Holy. It seems to be getting popular enough with the middle class (almost d4) set! I can think of about 4 of them aged under 3 that I know. I'd never have heard of it before this so I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or a trend taking off.

My sister is an Aoife & my name is on this thread. Go for it, our names were rare in London in the 80s but most people can say/read Aoife these days & if they can’t it’s a conversation starter.

Love Aoife- I liked it for DD but was put off due to its popularity (we’re in Ireland)- it’s pretty much a guarantee there will be at least one in every class 😂

I think Senan very popular in Dublin / east coast.

I am not sure of the spelling though because of the slendar vowel e and broad vowel a. They usually have to match in irish i.e two slender or two broad.

My boy would have been Aoife or Saoirse if he was a girl. I absolutely love Aoife and think you should go ahead and use if. We are so multicultural in the UK now that we have all manner of names where pronunciation is tricky. You correct people and they learn and it's not an issue.

It's pronounced keeva

If you're not in Ireland, I'd avoid it. I love the name Aoife, but having seen reception teachers spelling DC's names wrong, I gave DD a phonetically spelt name.

It's pronounced keeva

What, Aoife? Absolutely not. Unless you're talking about Caoimhe - and there's a mix of Kweeva/Keeva pronunciations there.

Aoife is spelt phonetically, just not in English. Aoi makes an ee sound in Irish.

I think it's lovely and goes well with Saoirse. I think it's becoming more popular in the UK so hopefully people will be familiar with it by the time she starts school etc.

lonesurvivor grainne is pronounced graw-nya not gra-na. Also Sadhbh is the usual spelling for "sive", and it's Derbhla/Dearbhla/Dervla not Dervala. Sorry to be pedantic!

LOL, OP. The point is whether it bothers your children; you remember, the ones who have to live with it their whole lives.

How silly.
And what are you implying about the intelligence of your fellow Brits?

Name suggestions:
Lasairfhíona
Dymphna
Sulán (a river in in Cúil Aodha in West Cork, where Sean O Riada lived and worked)
Siún
Seònaid (Scots Gaelic)
Angharad (Welsh)

I love the boy list. Love Senan too.

Harriet, I heard the harsher Gran-nya a lot when younger, it might be an Ulster/Donegal pronunciation, or just the accent. Grawn-nya is much more common though.
Math, I've never heard Lasairfhìona before - would that be law-sar-FEE-ehna? Or lawsarfiona? I always struggle with fadas.

I would never call a child in England 'Angharad' the English would murder it, and the poor child would become 'Anger- rad'

@HolyShmoly but the pp said it was gra-nah - ie missed the "nya" part off as well (like in Aine), which is mainly what I objected to.

Ah I get you. Sorry!

I don't think it blends in at all. I quite like it, but a lot of people will have trouble pronouncing it.

I don't think it blends in at all. I quite like it, but a lot of people will have trouble pronouncing it.