Celtic-ish names

[galaxyfairy]

We like the names on our list so far, but I'm wondering if I've missed any that are on a similar vein to the ones we have chosen, that we might like even more. Both myself and DP were born, brought up and live in Scotland, my mum is Welsh and dad Cornish, and DP's family are Irish, so the names we have chosen reflect this.
DP really hates names that are too 'charactery' (so sadly veto'd Antigone, Gaia and Arietty ). We also liked Freya but felt it was just a bit too popular.

Girl names
Cariad, Welsh
Elowen, Cornish

Boy names
Elwyn, Welsh
Oisin (Irish), or Oisean (Scottish) - pronounced Osh-een (Like Roisin but without the R)

Any similar, lovely names that we might have missed, that tie to our heritage and wouldn't be too tricky for people in Scotland to remember/pronounce?

Boys

Rian
Tiernan
Maddox
Cormac
Séamus
Donnacha
Donal
Tadhg

Girls
Sorcha
Doireann
Ciara
Sadhbh
Niamh
Orla
Aine
Caoimhe
Aoife

My lists are probably mostly Irish names.

Love Oisin/Oisean.

Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar, Iseult/Esyllt - British/Welsh
Sholto, Fingal - Scottish

For girls, I love:

Cerys, Eira, Eirlys, Nia, Eleri, Eluned and Mabli (Welsh)

And Kerensa / Kerenza (Cornish)

Also Imogen and Sabrina (Celtic roots)

Girl names
Cariad, Welsh - not really a name, just the word for love/sweetheart/darling
Elowen, Cornish - pronunciation. It's El-OW-en not ELLE-oh-en

Boy names
Elwyn, Welsh - not Welsh, but used in Wales
Oisin (Irish), or Oisean (Scottish) - pronounced Osh-een (Like Roisin but without the R) - Osian (OSH-ann) is the Welsh version.

Suggestions

Girl
Iona (YONN-ah in Welsh, Eye-OH-na otherwise )
Catriona
Eilidh

Boy
Angus
Alec

Lorca for a boy, Morven for a girl?

Lowenna
Esyld
Morven

@Mammymar

Boys

Rian
Tiernan
Maddox
Cormac
Séamus
Donnacha
Donal
Tadhg

Girls
Sorcha
Doireann
Ciara
Sadhbh
Niamh
Orla
Aine
Caoimhe
Aoife

My lists are probably mostly Irish names.

Oh wow, I love Rian, and I love how Aine is spelt... what's the pronounciation?

@TatianaBis

Love Oisin/Oisean.

Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar, Iseult/Esyllt - British/Welsh
Sholto, Fingal - Scottish

Oooh, thanks for these!

@Hippohappiness

For girls, I love:

Cerys, Eira, Eirlys, Nia, Eleri, Eluned and Mabli (Welsh)

And Kerensa / Kerenza (Cornish)

Also Imogen and Sabrina (Celtic roots)

Wow, lots of these are gorgeous. I'm learning that I really, really like Welsh names. Thank you!

@DacwMamYnDwad

Girl names Cariad, Welsh - not really a name, just the word for love/sweetheart/darling Elowen, Cornish - pronunciation. It's El-OW-en not ELLE-oh-en

Boy names
Elwyn, Welsh - not Welsh, but used in Wales
Oisin (Irish), or Oisean (Scottish) - pronounced Osh-een (Like Roisin but without the R) - Osian (OSH-ann) is the Welsh version.

Haha, I know quite a few Cariads, and I did say it was Elowen :)

I like Osh-ann more than Osh-een but my partner does not, sadly.

@DacwMamYnDwad

Suggestions

Girl
Iona (YONN-ah in Welsh, Eye-OH-na otherwise )
Catriona
Eilidh

Boy
Angus
Alec

Oh wow I've never heard the Welsh version of Iona! That's gorgeous.

@NaToth

Lorca for a boy, Morven for a girl?

Oh I do like Morven! Thank you :)

@Greendaisydays

Lowenna Esyld Morven

Oh wow, how is Esyld pronounced? Sounds like a name I'd like on paper!

Rian means little king, I think it's lovely. Áine is pronounced Awn ya

Oisin (Irish), or Oisean (Scottish) - pronounced Osh-een (Like Roisin but without the R)

I don't know how Oisean is pronounced in Scotland and, as far as I know, your pronunciations are correct for Northern Ireland, but a majority of Irish people say Ush-een for Oisín (and Roe-sheen for Róisín). I mention this only to let you know that there are different ways of pronouncing Oisín in case this would bother you. Oisín also correctly has a fada on the second i so some people may include it in the spelling.
forvo.com/word/oisín

Áine is pronounce awn-ya (yawn without the y - ya)

Senan also really nice, means little wise one, pronounced, Sen-nan

With Elowen, what I meant was it will get said as L O N as opposed to El Owen.

Iona (welsh) is a different name to Iona (scottish island). It's usually given to girls born in January. It's dated, was probably popular in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Idris
Ishmael (Arabic, but also a Welsh saint and I love it)

(sorry, I think it's actually Hebrew rather than Arabic)

Jura for a little girl?

Morven
Ishbel
Eilidh

Alys (Alice)
Eira (EY-ra, ey as in hey and ra as in rabbit)
Elin
Eleri (El-erry, rhymes with Terry, not celery)
Carys
Nerys
Nia (NEE-ah)
Mali (Malley, Welsh for Molly)
Mari (Marry, one of several Welsh versions of Mary)
Aneira
Mabli (Welsh for Mabel)
Tesni (TESS-nee, means 'the warmth from the sun, possibly the Welsh name with the loveliest meaning)
Morwenna - (Welsh and Cornish. In Welsh the r is rolled - MORR-wenna, I believe in Cornwall it is pronounced as it looks - More-wenna).
Nansi (Nancy)

Esyllt is my favourite Welsh name but it's very tricky to say due to the letter Ll. It's Welsh for Iseult. Iseult and the Cornish version Eseld (Ez-eld) are also lovely.

For boys:
Osian (shame your DH doesn't agree)
Tomos (Welsh for Thomas, both the Os are a short O, like in moss)
Macsen (MAX-en, (en as in hen), in Welsh Magnus Maximus is known as Macsen Wledig)
Aled (bit old fashioned but easy to say)
Idris
Emrys (Welsh for Ambrose)
Emlyn
Harri (Harry)

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/04/cornish-names.html

Some Cornish names. I like Costentyn, Jago and Massen for boys in particular.

For some reason only Cornish names got their own list of the Celtic languages on British Baby Names but they have 3 name lists from a mix of Celtic languages:

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/11/clunky-celtic.html

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/10/cool-celtic.html

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/10/cosy-celtic.html

@Pigeonorcoot, I think the Welsh saint was Ismael. St Ishmael is the anglicised name.
In the Bible, Ishmael was Abraham's son, Ismael is the arabic version.