Three week old- no name - help!

[mamaof3kiddos]

Help choosing baby name please!

Baby girl. Now three weeks old... no name!

Dad is Welsh. Mum is Irish. We'd like something reflective of our heritage (so an Irish, Welsh or Celtic name) but not so much that the spelling is wild or that there is huge difficult to pronounce.

Any ideas?!

I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this information.

Bethan
Orla
Maeve
Telyn

Incidentally, a colleague of mine had a baby girl last week and announced they were calling her Maeve - well, they're pronouncing it Maeve but spelling it MEAVE!!! Condemning the poor girl to a lifetime of having her name spelt wrong...

Congratulations on your new arrival.

Clodagh
Beti
Helen
Selena
Sinead
Della
Bryony
Sian
Cara
Shannon
Bethan
Catrin

Rhian
Rhiannon
Orla
Beth
Anwen

Apparently Erin is the old welsh name for Ireland which might be nice. im welsh so can’t give you many Irish suggestions but will do some welsh ones:

nia
cadi
elin
fflur
megan
gwen
sioned
mari
ela
eiriana
arianwen
anwen
lili-wen
eirlys
Heulwen
efa
beca
mali
awen
elen
elan
elain
elsi
tesni
sian
cerys
carys
catrin
alaw
ffion
eleri
llinos
lleucu
rhian
rhianwen
rhiannon
ceriann
ceri
bethan
deryn
aderyn
bronwen
Alys

@Squashedraddish , you've got some dodgy entries in that list (Eiriana, Deryn, Aderyn, Lili-wen, Ceriann, Rhianwen) and quite a few of the others do not match the OP's brief.

I think that Erin was a sort of poetic name for Ireland, not specifically Welsh. Erin is used as a welsh girl's name, probably because of it's similarity to Elin.
Erina is quite nice.

Haf, a nice sweet name, not overused as a first name and with the perfect meaning for a little girl born in the summer

Teegan?

Sloane

Another vote for Seren or Maeve.

Yeah, Seren, Maeve or Erin.
I've never heard of Mabli - that's lovely, too.

Angharad
Morgan
Gwendoline
Nia

What about Bernice, or Fionnula?

Op I'd buy Welsh and Irish name books and go through them see what you come up with

Siobhan

There aren't many nice Irish girls names which is a pity as there are some very lovely and very strong boys names.

What about using a Welsh girl's name and if you ever have a boy, use an Irish name then?
Carys?
Seren?

Or Erin would fit both your criteria?

I like Niamh because it's pronounced Neeve so confuses people

@Sqeebling , it's Nee-uv not Neeve. Neeve is spelt Naomh

Ciara or Claire .

Neeve is spelt Naomh.

No, it's not.

www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/naomh

@LizzieAnt , it can be spelt in other ways, but Niamh is Nee-uv, not Neeve.

cf Liam is Lee-um not Leem, Cian is Kee-un not Keen etc

Yes, I agree, @KirstenBlest, Niamh isn't properly pronounced Neeve in Irish. (Lots of Irish people do say Neeve though - this has probably developed because English is the first language for most people here and not everyone speaks Irish well.)

But Naomh isn't pronounced 'Neeve' in Irish either, that's the point I was making.

Oh, ok. I think it is sad when names lose their original pronunciation - they sound so much nicer. I get confused with Niall - it looks like it should be Nee-ul but some irish neighbours call their son Nigh-ul

@KirstenBlest Yes, Nigh-ul for Niall is the default pronunciation where I am too. As far as I know it's the more usual pronunciation in Ireland now, except in the Gaeltacht areas. However, it's not the correct Irish language pronunciation of the name, which is Nee-ul as you say. And most Irish people probably don't know that unless they speak Irish well. I didn't realise it for ages at least.

To be fair, I do know people who speak Irish well who say Nigh-ul too...they just prefer the 'anglicised' pronunciation (as do I in this case as it happens). So they called their dc that rather than Nee-ul. There's a mix of approaches to Irish names.