Irish names

[Invisiblewoman1]

Hi all,
Can you hit me with a list of good Irish names for boys and girls please
Thanks

Never sure why it's not more popular @Tullig. Such a cool name.

@irishfarmer..Saoirse and Sorcha are two different names. They are not pronounced the same. Seersha... Sorsha

Sorcha is sometimes pronounced Sorsha, but it's not the correct pronunciation (Surr-a-cha) @Dubgirl1212.

Bernard
Bernadette
Patrick
Dennis
Gerald
Michael
Brigid
Fionnula

Geraldine is a popular girl's name at home and a favourite of mine. Not Irish per se but known to be favoured by the Irish.

I have two English-born daughters with Irish names. Both look easy to pronounce (if you ask me: no agh at the end), but I work with my eldest and she has to explain how to pronounce her name to at least one client daily.

They went to catholic schools and had no name problems there, but when she was in college she went by a different name as she was mortified by pronunciation screw-ups. However, she likes her name these days and is proud of her roots (and Irish passport).

The other one has a shorter and even more obvious name pronunciation wise, plus she is bolshy, so she has no probs 👍🏻

Sorcha pronounced soresha really bugs me, but it seems to be a thing that's creeping in.

Does anyone ever pronounce dorcha as doresha? Of course not. Because that would be silly.

Hmph.

I love Muireann (mirren) but it got vetoed by dh as being too hard to spell.
Cara
Niamh
Síofra
Caoimhe
Sinead
Clodagh
Eilish

Aidan
Lorcan
Oisín
Oran
Cian
Cillian
Ciaran
Finn/Finbar

Emer (rhymes with lemur)

No. It doesn't. Em-er, like it's spelt. No U sound

I love Muireann (mirren

Oh dear God. Please don't ever pronounce Muireann like this. You sound out the whole word, like it's spelt.

Bloody 'Catastrophe'

@Classica

Sorcha pronounced soresha really bugs me, but it seems to be a thing that's creeping in.

Does anyone ever pronounce dorcha as doresha? Of course not. Because that would be silly.

Hmph.

I would 100% pronounce dorcha that way if I was reading it :-D

But I only recently heard of the pronunciation of sorcha being sorka.. like a few months ago! And I'm mid 30s! I've only ever heard of it pronounced like sore-sha!

@EarringsandLipstick my niece is Emer and with our accents it would rhyme with lemur.

In saying that, the way we say lemur, it's pretty much leem-er! Hence why it rhymes with Emer!

@EarringsandLipstick, wtf? Emer is absolutely not pronounced em-er. It has a long ee sound at the start followed by an urr sound.

Apparently we're all pronouncing Emer/Eimear wrong anyway afaik. It should have an mh, not an m, in modern Irish, but that wasn't realised when the name was first revived.

If you say emer look at the wee lemur in a Belfast accent it rhymes.

I must have met 100 Emers over the years, from all corners of the country, and every single one of them pronounced their names as ee-murr.

Cliona

Cian

What was your partners mother’s name OP?

Muireann - I pronounce that as Mwir-en

Eimear -Eee-mer

Yes, everyone does now Classica.

Aine
Maeve
Erin
Caitlin

Oisin
Ronan
Senan
Shea

No ones said Siobhan yet ( sorry can't do the fada on my phone ).

Is that less popular now? I'm called Siobhan and I'm 50 shortly and English born ( lived here most of my life ) I have an English mother and my lovely dad was from Cork. I've spent my whole life spelling and saying my name.

Even yesterday someone actually called me she-obri- han

I wouldn't give your dc anything that can't be said as it's spelt, take it from someone who has spent their whole life explaining, I do love it btw but it's hard to have in the U.K.

@Classica

@EarringsandLipstick, wtf? Emer is absolutely not pronounced em-er. It has a long ee sound at the start followed by an urr sound.

No it doesn't have an 'urr' sound! Where in Ireland are you?

It does have a long e at the start, yes.

Apologies if some are not irish but favourite girls names are Naoise(pronounced Nee-sha), Aoife, Deirdre, Orla, Siobhàn, Aisling, Roisìn (check the fada on Roisin and Siobhan think it's pointing the wrong way but phone won't let me pick that option!!) And boys: Donnacha, Liam, Brian, Conor, Patrick, Fergal (pronounced Fer-gul), Dara . Best of luck OP! Ps do remember with some of them your child will be faced with constantly having to spell or say their name again- I know an Aoibheann (ave-een), a Deirdre, a Siobhan and a Saoirse and all regularly have to spell out or explain their names!!

@EarringsandLipstick
Yes it does have an urr sound, I'm Munster and you might be from the North but it's pronounced Ee-murr

We have a Liam and an Oisín.
If we had a girl she would’ve been an Aoife.

"Sorcha" is both a noun and an adjective.
"Soirche" is the noun, meaning "radiance". Prizes for correct pronunciation.

"Emer" is an Old Irish spelling of a name which even back then was pronounced "Ever". The Modern Irish spelling would be "Eimhear". I'd go with "Ever" because I'm bolshy.

"Éimear" would be a different name, roughly "Aymer". I would look it up but I should be parenting. There's a name people seem to pronounce Ee-mer.

Muireann is pronounced "Mirren". Unless you actally speak Irish, don't torture the poor name. But learn Irish, it's the most beautiful language in the world.

Any more for any more? Let's not Róisín/Roisín/Róisín again. There's a thread or two ...