Boys' names with an Irish Flavour

[AilsaGinLondon]

Hi All,

We need a boys name to go with our daughters name. She is called Neave. Something with a nod to my Irish heritage would be nice but not essential.

We like Finn but it clashes with our surname (Gillon). Names than finish in N, and/or have lots of L in them sound funny with our surname.

We'd like something a bit different but not weird.

We'd like to use Charles as a middle name.

Love my daughter's name so much. Really struggling with a boys name!

[KnittinKitten]

Cian (English form is Kyan but I like the Irish way more)

Those would be two different pronunciations so I wouldn’t consider Kyan to be the anglicisation of Cian.

[KnittinKitten]

Cian= PR: keeun/Kane

Kyan=PR: k-eye-an

[faithinthesound]

Just curious but why, when the OP specifically said that names ending in an N don't sound right with her surname, do at least fifty percent of the suggestions end in an N?

Did you read the OP at all, or just see the word "Irish" and race to respond? Drives me batty when people do that kind of thing.

[MikeUniformMike]

Logan

[MikeUniformMike]

especially for faithinthesound, who has a point.

[MikeUniformMike]

Changed my mind. It's not irish but Mr Moran is.
Dylan.

[MikeUniformMike]

Neave and Dylan are great names for siblings.

[SpacePenguin]

Oscar, Shay, Rory or Liam would be lovely with your surname.

For what it's worth, I don't think all the names ending in n would clash, it depends on the rest of the name. For instance, I think Declan works.

[KnittinKitten]

Dylan Gillon?

[MikeUniformMike]

Brilliant isn't it.
Ian is good too.

[EastDulwichWife]

Ruairí Gillon

[Rafflesway]

I have a cousin in Ireland named Pascal!

I absolutely love it!

[MikeUniformMike]

Guinness

[Juells]

I have a cousin in Ireland named Pascal!

AFAIK that's for a baby born at Easter.

[ChablisLover]

Eoin or eoghan
Oran or Odhran
Aidan or aodhan

Conor is lovely but I'm biased

Ethan is very popular now too

Sean

Ciaran

[zeebeedee]

Cian
Cavan
Patrick
Kelly
Michael

not necessarily 'proper' Irish names, but do give a nod to the heritage

[KelpianCasserole]

Darragh Darrah Darah

[missyB1]

Conal is my all time favourite Irish name

[Inkspellme]

By all means go for a beautiful Irish name but like a previous poster says - bother to spell it like it should be or just go for an equally beautiful English name. Neave is not an Irish name. Niamh is- There is no v in the Irish language.

[Pandora1box]

My favourites are Cilian (hard K sound) and Aidan.

[Squelchsquerch]

Don't know how you pronounce your surname, but if it's "Gill" as in a fish's gill, then i find a name containing Fin and Gill altogether too fishy! But perhaps you like fish?

[mathanxiety]

Killian Gillon would sound a bit funny though.

Faith - Some other names ending in N sound fine with the surname imo.
Brendan, Ronan, Owen/Eoin, for instance.
Additionally, it's quite an Irish thing to have internal alliteration between first name and surname.

Not to mention the fact that so many Irish boy names end in N.

[Leontine]

I think Daragh is so lovely! Other Irish boys names I love are Riordan, Cillian and Oisin, but they all end in N.

I think Finn Gillon sounds fine.

[popcorneveryminute]

My favourite Irish boys names are

Rory
Cillian
Cornac

[faithinthesound]

The point is not "some names that end in N sound fine with OP's surname". The point is that OP's first post said she didn't want names that end in N, presumably because she doesn't like how they sound with her surname.

If you're not here to actually help, by which I mean, listen to what she's asking and give her a reasonable answer based on what she actually says, then what actually is the point of you?