If I like Roisin..

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Baby due next week.. we know it's a girl.. we really like Roisin.. pronounced RO- SHEEN ( it's an Irish name).
Any ideas for something similar?
Another family member has a DD with the same name and although we don't cross paths very often, I'm still a little loathe to use it as it feels like it's been 'taken' already by them..
Thanks!

Oh, and Eadaoin (fada over E, can't do them on my phone)
Pronounced Aideen

OP, if you use Róisín, you have to use the appropriate síneadh fada on the o and final i. Otherwise it would be pronounced entirely differently. (Same for any Irish name.)

Naoise is actually a boys name...

Yes traditionally, but it is quite commonly used as a girls name in more recent years and accepted as either. Perhaps because if Neesha on other languages.
Another boys name that's now used as a girls name is Kaelen/Caelen. I'm sure there are others.

DS was nearly Naoise. I could no more call a girl Naoise than I could call her Jonathan.

Roisin is a lovely name.
I have a Niamh with no connections to Ireland.

Caoimhe (though maybe in the UK she'd be persecuted with spelling her name)
Siobhra (again maybe the spelling would drive her mad)
Keelin - more straightforward on the spelling and pronunciation

Apologies in advance for my probably incorrect spelling variations, I've been out of Ireland awhile. I like Aoibhin (Ave-een), Eabha (Ava), Etain, Sibeal, Aisling, Laoise and Eibhlin.
Roisin is lovely too though and I've come across it several times in the UK. People misspell English names all the time and I've seen people from all cultures use their names in the UK so I wouldn't worry about that to be honest.

Are you actually Irish OP? If not, how about a Scottish name - name Celtic roots but maybe a bit more recognisable in the UK.

Mairi/Mhairi
Eilidh
Aileen
Ailsa
Catriona (also Irish)

I have a Roisin.
I did have a moment of regret shortly after naming her that I hadn't called her Roise. (Sorry don't know how to do fada's)
Other names I had considered were:
Aifric
Muireann
Orlaith
Eimear
Meabh

Thank you to one and all for the suggestions. Yes I'm Irish and so is my partner.. we live in Ireland and have no problem pronouncing the name..
I'm on my phone so can't do fadas but would have them over the o and the i.

I like all the aspects of the name really- beginning middle and end..
I like the "een" sound at the end so would prefer it to Roise really.
There's some lovely helpful comments on this thread..

I guess I have some serious thinking and narrowing down to do!

I love, love, love Caoimhe and Saoirse. Exdp said no when we had ds 15 years ago, because it would be silly as we are Welsh. Good job we had a boy or I would still be giving him evil eyes over it.

I think it means little rose. Rosa (Rosia) is an alternative. Love Croiadh but if in UK pronounciation might be an issue.

Is Croiadh a real name? I've never come across it before. I presume it's something to do with heart so is maybe one of those term of endearment names like Alannah.

I thought it was the oil stuff you put on a violin bow.

Hilarious, Romany. Assuming you are yourself Romany, I’m surprised you’re throwing around ethnic slurs.

Rosin is the stuff for the bow, so only a letter away!

I love Roisin I think it's beautiful.

Never heard those pronunciations! It's Ayv-een or Eve-een

Challenge you to name one other word in Irish where Aoi makes an "Ay" sound, or "eann" makes "een".

I think some people have Aoibhínn which would be Ee-veen. But yeah loads of people have their name wrong. Ay-veen would be something like Éibhínn. Happy to be corrected by a native speaker.

Btw Jane, I love your username. It makes me smile every time I see it.

@MindyStClaire you're 100% right - aoi makes ee, and ea can only make a short a sound. To make ay-veen I'd probably also have to spell it like you did - Éibhínn. For some reason the mispronunciation of Aoibheann has "caught on" but Irish as a language isn't really malleable at all WRT pronunciation variation - within its dialects the orthography/phonology/etc are still very rigid. The Aoibheann mistake is comparable to people pronouncing Sorcha as sore-sha and Caitlín as kate-lyn. It just got popular among non-Gaeilgeorí I guess

Also I love your username!

Clíodhna

Following this thread for inspiration, DH is Irish and really wants an Irish name for our DD due in August.

There's a couple of names that we both love, but we live in England and worry that she will have a lifetime of misspelling and mispronunciations and as a result hate her name.

If you like Róisín, go for it. Names don't have to be unique and as you said, it's not someone you're crossing paths with often.

If you go for something second best rather than the name you really love, you'll always be comparing it in your head. Call her Róisín and let her make the name her own.

Thanks Mindy. I'm in the West and that's the way they pronounce it here.