Favourite Irish names

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Tell me your favourite Irish names, along with pronunciation.

Ciara, pronounced Keer-a
Aoife, pronounced Ee-fa

Niamh, pronounced Neev.

Róisín -Ro-sheen

Girls:
Clodagh (cloh-dah)
Saoirse (seer-sha)
Alannah
Orla
Riona (ree-ona)
Aoibheann (a-veen)

Boys:
Darragh (Dara)
Conor
Eoghan (similar to Owen)

Cillian 💖

Roisin (RoSHEEN)
Aoife (Eefa)

Sean

Naoise ( Nee-sha) boys name, unusual and lovely.

These are lovely names, but unless you live in Ireland or London, people will just say 'what , what? and even mock.

I know this because I have family members with names like these (one mentioned). I have seen the smirking with my own eyes.

*or possibly Wales

Aisling (ash-leen)

My favourite girls name is Caoimhe - pronounced Quee-Va - meaning gentle, precious, beautiful.

Four fried - well that would just be racism.

well, yes , I suppose you could call it that. There's a lot of it about , you know..

it's not 'Queeva' it's Keeva..

Niamh pronounced Neev, and Maeve pronounced Mayv.

Actually Caoimhe can be pronounced both ways. Keeva and Queeva depending on where you're from

Oh OK, I was just wondering if it was regional tbh.

Niamh, Maeve and Sinead.
Cian, Killian and Brennan

Maura rhymes with Laura

It's definitely pronounced Queeva in the Rebel county.

Girls:
Aine-Aww-n'ya
Cliona-Cleena
Eimear-Ee-mur
Fiadh-Fia
Orna
Una

Boys:
Áedán -Aidan
Cormac
Éimhín -Evin
Garbhán -Garvan
Riain-Ree-on
Torna

Saoirse- beautiful name

Seamus - love this too

Some gorgeous names here. My best friend's OH is Irish and wants an Irish name, it's been so informative looking at the pronunciations.

She loves Cormac and Saoirse

Erin

Caiomhe

k ee v a

Or Queeva