Irish Boy Names

[RaisedByPuffins]

Help needed for DS2 due in a couple of weeks!

Husband is Irish, I'm English and we live in London. We already have a 3 year old boy called Cuilean (pr. Quillan) and are totally stuck on boys names for this one. We want to give him a fairly unusual but not too hard to say Irish name. Particularly as we live in London so lots of lovely names won't work so well without the accent.

The spelling is less of a thing as I have a very dull/ordinary name that has 3 spellings so I always have to spell mine as do so many people I know Claire/Clare Sara/Sarah Rebekah/Rebecca etc.

We like but are not totally in love with:

Diarmuid
Ferdia
Lorcan
Donnacha
Tiernach

Middle name will be Thomas and we like but can't have:

Cillian
Colm
Ronan

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Why are people saying Naoise?

Probably because it's a boys' name.

Calloway well i have never met a boy named Naoise in my whole life living in Dublin.

And yet whaddyaknow, the fact remains that it's a boys' name.

Naoise was the husband of Deirdre in Irish mythology.

Aidan is Irish, not Aiden as told to me by my Irish midwife as that’s my ds’s name.

Oran
Cian
Rian

You are maybe thinking of Laoise, Lone. DS was almost Naoise.

keener no I'm thinking of Naoise alright, although Laoise is a bit nicer.
I just searched it in on facebool out of curiosity and almost all girls came up, 2 boys and thats from a long list (not friends obviously I just searched the name to see)

I'd assume anyone who used it for a girl didn't know their Irish myth, though. Naoise is one of the sons of Uisneach in the Táin, and the lover of Deirdre, who Conchobhar Mac Neasa also fancies, which sets off all kind of skulduggery -- so it would be a bit like calling your daughter Romeo, in terms of being named after a famous doomed male lover.

The only reason we ended up not using it for DS is that, if mispronounced, it sounded too like the Indian girl's name Nisha, and we lived in a very Asian area (in the UK) at the time.

Oddly, I don't like Laoise at all, possibly because the two I know are awful.

I don't doubt that people have called their daughters Naoise, but that still doesn't make it a girls' name. Same as calling your daughter James (as is becoming a trend) doesn't make Jamea a girls' name.