Celtic girls’ names?

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Lacking inspiration. Looking for something Celtic/Irish but not necessarily “as Gaeilge” and not as common as Aoife/Sadhbh/Caoimhe etc.

Would be a sister to Iseult and Aifric, so something along those lines would be helpful.

Réalta
Síle
Áine

If you're interested in Cornish (as you said Celtic) you could have:

Elowen (elm tree)
Kerenza/Kerensa (love)
Lowenna (Joy)

I think Elowen especially could go nicely with the other two?

Eluned is another Welsh name I remember from a book years ago.

Roisin has reminded me of another I like Blaithín. Too cutesy maybe (little flower/bloom?)

I'd check my hearing T00much. It isn't, it rhymes with Kerry.
Eluned is pronounced El-IN-ed

North Walian here though Mike, defo El-airy here (with stress on 2nd 'e'), and Eluned here is Elle-inn-ed

Although my hearing is quite dodgy

Beibhinn or Grainne

Eiira, I think it means snow.

It's not El-airy - Welsh is phonetic and it doesn't give that pronunciation. Agree with you on Eluned. Both tend to get the E not enunciated. I know several Eleris, and they are called Lerry in speech, Eluned gets said as Linn-ed.
If you are hearing El-airy, is it by people who aren't first language Welsh speakers? It is a name that was popular in the 1960s, so seems a bit dated.

I know Eleri's of a variety of ages. It's pronounced to rhyme with Mary. Which obviously differs between areas / people.

Yes Welsh first language as am I!! Maybe it's a regional thing

I disagree. Welsh is phonetic. It can't rhyme with Mary because there is no sound in Welsh that gives the a in Mary. There really isn't. There is no point arguing about it.
For the record, Eleri is welsh for Hilary, is a girl's name and was pretty popular in the 1960s. It is pronounce El-ERR-y to rhyme with Kerry.
The welsh Kerry is Ceri, and can be a girl or a boy.

Well that's how it's pronounced where I come from. Ceri would have a short 'e' and Eleri would have a longer one.

I'm not a Welsh speaker but I know a couple of Eleris from Welsh families and they both pronounce it El-airy with stress on the second syllable.

Saoirse is my favourite girls name, I love it. Eilidh is also lovely and more well known.

-eri in Ceri and Eleri sounds exactly the same. An unaccented e in Welsh with no adjacent vowel will either be e as in the English word leg or a long flat e like in the welsh word Hen, and it has no English equivalent.
You'll be telling me next that Huw and Hugh sound the same, and that Siôn and Shaun sound the same. They don't.

Of course, maybe the tens of Eleris I know are just saying their names wrongly. I have seen on MN baby names, that Eleri rhymes with Celery.

We'll have to agree to disagree. To me, the 2nd 'e' in Eleri has the same sound as 'e' in hen . Anyway we're highjacking poor OP's thread (sorry OP).

Rac ofn bod chdi'n meddwl bod fi ddim yn legit dwi yn siarad Cymraeg a wedi ers cael fy ngeni amser maith yn ôl!

Surely there must be different accents and variations in dialect though. The e in leg sounds completely different in N Ireland and the south of England for example.

Mae'n ddrwg gennyf ond rydych yn anghywir. Mae fy nghymraeg i yn llawer gwell na'ch Cymraeg chi. Ydych chi yng Ngwynedd?

Sorry for hijacking your thread OP. I'd say that unless you are either of the culture or speak the language, stick to names that are easy to say and spell. If you'd like a safe Welsh name, Nia (same as Niamh) rhymes with Mia.

Siobhan
Caitlin
Cerys
Eirlys
Rhiannon
Grainne
Dervla

I know a Rhianydd, always thought it was lovely.

Blaithin (bla heen)
Cliodhna (Klee uh na)
Roise (rosha)
Aibhlinn (eve Lin)

well I have a friend called Cliodhna and she actually changed it to her middle name, as she was sick of being called 'Cleaner'. Not in Ireland I might add.

Ethna

Sinéad (Shin Aid)
Úna (ooh na)
Noirín (nore een)
Niamh (neeve)
Aifric
Mairéad (mar aid)
Aoife (e fah)
Áine (awn yah)