caoimhe

[MissMoodyMoo]

Pronounced keeva?

What are other Irish names?

Still leaning toward
Fiona Nn Fifi or ailise or Alice 🙈

[MikeUniformMike]

Use Fiona.

[MissMoodyMoo]

We live in Scotland and have Scottish accents but Irish heritage on both sides

[aRespectableBureaudeChange]

I'll put a vote in for Fiona then as in Scotland - sounds nicer with Scottish accent than an English accent which is how I'd be imagining it.

[aRespectableBureaudeChange]

"been"

[PhelanThePain]

sionead eimear nhiamn

What the actual fuck is this?? 😂😂😂

Do you also go on Chinese, German, French name threads and throw random letters together? If you don’t know, don’t answer.

[ThatsWotSheSaid]

I know a caoimhe in England and lots of people comment that it sounds like ‘queefer’ (Not to the parents faces) Just something to consider.

[crocodarl]

That's OK then. Sounds good with a Scottish accent. And plenty of people in Scotland will know how to pronounce it. And maybe it's only me who thinks of Quavers.

[Duckeggloo]

Nope, if I had I’d have spelt them properly. I know one of each of those names so they’re in common use.

Fiona doesn’t have Gaelic heritage, it was created by an author in the 1700s which is actually really nice.

[PhelanThePain]

You know someone called Sionead and someone called Nhiamn? No you don’t.

[Duckeggloo]

...I can’t spell them, I didn’t claim I could! Although it probably does demonstrate the pain of having a name which is not straight forward to spell.

[creamcheeseandlox]

Roisin pronounces ro-sheen is nice.

[Rainbowsandflowers78]

Go for a Scottish name like Alisa

[Rainbowsandflowers78]

Sorry auto correct ailsa

[MissMoodyMoo]

Our local mental hospital is called ailsa 🙈🙈

[Tawdrylocalbrouhaha]

I'm Irish and all the (many) Caoimhes I know pronounce it QUEE-vuh.

If you live in the UK, are british and want her to be called "Keeva" you could just put Keeva on the birth certificate?

Fiona is nice too.

[Manupprincess]

I do actually know someone called sionead- but they are Welsh 😁

[Bimbler]

Fiona doesn’t have Gaelic heritage, it was created by an author in the 1700s which is actually really nice.

well it does in that it's based on the Irish/Gaelic word fionn meaning fair.

[RaininSummer]

I love the way it sounds when explained but I would have had no idea.

[PhelanThePain]

Although it probably does demonstrate the pain of having a name which is not straight forward to spell.

It is straightforward to spell. You just don’t speak the language it’s spelt in.

[PhelanThePain]

I do actually know someone called sionead- but they are Welsh 😁

My mistake. I Assume this is the name duck knows them.

[Duckeggloo]

On checking, I was combining the two spellings, seonaid is the spelling that’s more common here. As in Shona.

Did you think I’d made it up

[PhelanThePain]

Seonaid? Where do you live? That’s not an Irish name. It’s certainly not a spelling of Shona

[Bimbler]

Seonaid is a Scottish name.

[MammieBear]

Sounds like you should go with Fiona then.

[PhelanThePain]

Thanks bimbler.