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Fiadh or Roisin?
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agteacht · 29/11/2019 23:44
Hi all
I know this has probably been done to death but any help with Irish girls names gratefully received. I'm Irish and DH is English, we are living in the UK.
Baby is due this week... we don't know what it is actually but if it's a boy I think we are set on Fionn. DH seems to be able to pronounce it okay!
I'm a bit more stuck on girls names for some reason and again think it's now down to Fiadh or Roisin.
Fiadh (fee-a) means wild or little deer, depending on what you read
Roisin (ro-sheen) means little rose
I liked Caoimhe but DH can't cope with the spelling and said it's like Quavers.... 
I've also thought about Aoife and I like Éabha but not mad about the spelling for some reason - I don't know why but I don't think it looks pretty!
Any views on Fiadh or Roisin, which do you think you would choose?
BuffaloCauliflower · 29/11/2019 23:47
Fiadh! It’s lovely. I’m English in England and knew how to pronounce it straight away. Roisin doesn’t sound right on a child to me, though is alright for an adult.
PreseaCombatir · 29/11/2019 23:48
I prefer Fiadh to Roisin. I heard Roisé (Roisin with an ah rather then een at the end) is becoming very popular now, I really like it
busybee987 · 29/11/2019 23:49
probs roisin though if I'm honest id go for one of the 3 your dismissing as one is my name, the other my daughters and one my nieces lol so i might b a bit biased
TinklyLittleLaugh · 29/11/2019 23:51
I think I would worry about her being called Fear.
And I thought Fionn was a girl’s name?
PreseaCombatir · 29/11/2019 23:52
Fionn is the same as Finn Tinkly
Youbethebadgirl · 29/11/2019 23:54
Roisin
DramaAlpaca · 29/11/2019 23:54
Fiadh is gorgeous. You could spell it Fia if you wanted to make it easier in the UK. The only thing is, in an English accent Fiadh will sound like 'fear'. I'm English, in Ireland, and have a friend whose daughter is Fiadh. I have to work really hard to say it properly 
Roisin is nice, but English people tend to say it Rosh-EEN, rather than ROE-sheen. That would annoy me.
Ciwirocks · 29/11/2019 23:55
I know a fiadh it does sound a bit like fear but that would depend on local accent. It also gets confused with Thea but it is a lovely name. I like both of your names
MrsFoxPlus4Again · 29/11/2019 23:56
I’d never heard of Fidah till the summer. It’s a great name!
DramaAlpaca · 29/11/2019 23:57
Fionn is the same as Finn
No it's not. Fionn is pronounced differently, more like 'fyunn'.
Ffion is the Welsh girls' name Tinkly is thinking of.
IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory · 29/11/2019 23:58
I’m all “fiadhed” out tbh. It’s become really popular in the last 5/6 years and it seems like every third girl is a fiadh.
I love Éabha.
Mummyshark2018 · 29/11/2019 23:58
I love Fiadh but also caoimhe doesn't have to sound like quaver. Northern Irish people say keeva which is much nicer imo.
agteacht · 30/11/2019 00:01
Thank you all!
Did you @BuffaloCauliflower? That's really reassuring!!
@PreseaCombatir I quite like Roise but would worry people think it's Rosie just spelled wrong...
@TinklyLittleLaugh Fionn is a boys name from Irish folklore 😊
Father of Oisin... which I also like but is already used in the family...
Aw sorry @busybee987
I do like all three, particularly Caoimhe but DH really can't seem to cope with it. Éabha maybe still...
DaffodilsAreMyFav · 30/11/2019 00:02
Roisin - any day of the week!
PreseaCombatir · 30/11/2019 00:02
No it's not. Fionn is pronounced differently, more like 'fyunn'
Oh really? I only knew one Fionn and it was just pronounced Finn.
Maybe it’s just an accent thing? Like Keeva vs Kweeva? Or maybe not, and he just says his name wrong.
busybee987 · 30/11/2019 00:03
yeah as mummyshark said, we're northern irish so caoimhe is pronounced more keeva, its so hard picking names, but u will get there. good luck with it all
agteacht · 30/11/2019 00:05
Oh god I'd never thought of 'fear'
I can't really hear it but I can imagine it...
I know it's quite popular back home but I don't have any friends or family who've actually used it.
@Mummyshark2018 I know what you mean but I'm not from the north so to me 'keeva' doesn't sound right and I'd go for the 'kwee-vah' version if I used it. But literally no one seems to be able to pronounce it when they see it written as Caoimhe 😬
DramaAlpaca · 30/11/2019 00:06
Presea I've only ever heard it as 'fyunn', and I know a few, but you could be right about it being regional. I'm in a Kweeva region
agteacht · 30/11/2019 00:06
I would say Finn and Fionn are definitely different names but same origins...
Fionn yes is like 'fyun'
PotteryWheel · 30/11/2019 00:11
Fiadhs do seem to be multiplying at a rate of knots. I’m not keen on any of the ‘een’ names — I find them cutesy. Of yours I’d probably go for your discards more.
We’re also Irish in England, and DS was almost Iarla or Ferdia, and if he’d been a girl he’d have been Méabh or Sadhbh.
PotteryWheel · 30/11/2019 00:12
I’m also of the Kweeva persuasion.
PreseaCombatir · 30/11/2019 00:13
I think he was from the north of Ireland (but not Northern Ireland).
To be fair, he might have just told us to call him Finn because it was easier 😂
He had a brother called Donal, if I remember. (First syllable like dough-nul)
I’m worried now we were butchering these poor boys names 🙈
agteacht · 30/11/2019 00:15
What did you go for in the end @PotteryWheel?
Is Aoibhe always pronounced Eva, never Ava?
DramaAlpaca · 30/11/2019 00:17
I'd say Donal the same - 'dough-nul'.
Sadhbh is my favourite Irish girls' name, but I couldn't have inflicted it on the English side of the family, they'd never have coped with it. And anyway, I had boys.
Astronica · 30/11/2019 00:22
From someone outside the UK, I think both are lovely but I prefer Roisin.
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