Irish girls names- easy to spell

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I love Celtic names, particularly Irish names, but they're so hard to spell. Living in England I don't want to give her a lifetime of people not being able to pronounce/spell her name. Any ideas for beautiful Celtic names which are simple?! Thanks!

Orla, Ciara, Una, Maura, Emer.

Orla
Siobhán
Ciara
Aoife

Some reasonably straightforward and common Anglicised spellings:

Maeve (Madhbh)
Neve (Niamh)
Maureen (Máirín)
Moira (Máire)
Sive (Sadhbh)
Alva (Ailbhe)
Keeva (Caoimhe)

Also nice:

Áine (AWN-ya)
Sibéal (shi-BAYL)
Mairéad (mu-RADE, like parade with an m)

Nuala
Cáit
Siobhán (common enough that most people know how to spell /pronounce it)

Una, Roisin, Orla, Dara

I really like the names Aisling and Aoife, although if you didn't know the names you may not know how to spell them if you was hearing it for the first time

Sinaed

Tara.

Clodagh

Cara
Tara
Orla
Orna
Una
Aoife
Riona
Caoimhe (not easy, but popular(ish)

Saoirse (also not easy, but Saoirse Ronan has made it 'known')??

Iseult

Thanks. I like Orla and Una but husband is not so keen. Any other thoughts?

Ciara spelled Kiera
Caoilfhionn spelled Keelin
Aoibh spelled Eve
Aoibheann spelled Eavan
Éabha spelled Ava
Éadaoin spelled Aideen
Fia (fee-ah)

Maev

Riona (ree-ohna)
Laoise (leesha)

Cara is lovely and its easy to manage.
Doireann...Dirin
Muireann...Murin
Deidre
Treasa...lrish for Teresa.Trasa
Eibhlin...I/lean

Emer/Eimear
Maeve
Cliona
Clodagh
Sinead
Bronagh

I don’t know why you’d take an extremely well known Irish name like Ciara (I know three and have never been anywhere even remotely near Ireland) and spell it Keira, blergh. Some beautiful Irish names around I’m sure you’ll find a lovely one. I personally like Derval (a friends name, easy to spell and pronounce and not common).

Ciara or Tara - though I do think Orla is a great name.

God, please stop misspelling Irish names! That's taking away the whole point of them being Irish!
OP, go with an accepted shortening like Fia, Cara, Orla, Dara (traditionally a boy's name spelled Darragh but I've seen it as Dara for a girl). Please don't call your daughter Doireann and spell it Dirrin. The Irish language has suffered enough at the hands of careless anglicisation.

Exactly CherryBlossom23.

If someone wanted to call their DD Hermyoknee instead of Hermione they’d be told to wise up and use the actual spelling.

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it’s almost arrogant to say you like Irish names, but you’ve made up your own “better spelling” - not aimed at you OP, there’s plenty of Irish names that fit your brief without bastardising the spelling.

Warning about "Orla".

Many years ago in college I shared a house with an Irish girl called Orla. It became a running joke to refer to her as "Oral", instead or "Orla". But I heard she lived up to it

Seriously, people today are much more open to different names, spellings, etc than in the past. Many of the Irish & Welsh names are really nice, but stay away from Orla!

Saw this thread just after I watched this on FB. Very apt. 😁

Haha soloula, you beat me to it. I was about to post that video!

Some fairly well-known Anglicised names and names associated with Ireland - spellings may be easier:

Finola
Nessa
Enya
Alvy
Bridget
Dervla or Derval
Devnet
Nora, Honora
Mella
Morna
Alannah
Brona
Rona
Darina
Eily