Aoife or Orla

[Baby2Sep22]

not long to go and we need to decide between

Aoife Lily
or
Orla ... (please suggest middle names)

Lily is a family name but I don’t think it goes with Orla and their are no other family names we would want to use.

Oh should add - living in the UK!

I prefer Orla

I was just going to say Caoimhe is a far prettier name! DS1 has a friend called Caoimhe (Irish mum) my friend (who is Irish) has an Aoife and a Cillian, and my best friend's daughter is Orlaith (Scottish mum but Irish grandparents). It's much easier if you're in Scotland as the connections between the 2 countries are far stronger/ pronunciation is similar at times. But no matter where you live, call your daughter what YOU want, not based on what others may say.

My 3 x DS all have Scottish names: my friends in England were a bit 🤔 at first, but they got used to it very quickly.

If I'd had a DD I'd have called her a beautiful Scottish name, Muirne (Murrin). You do you, OP.

Muirne is Irish, isn’t it?

Sorry, half my text disappeared, no idea why!

What i typed was:

If I'd had a DD I'd have called her a beautiful Scottish name, Murren (Murrin) or the Irish name Muirne (Mir-na). My mam was Irish, so the traditions are still close.

Ahh - that makes sense now! I live in Scotland and wondered if I’d missed a spelling of Murrin/Murren

Ah- ha, fellow Scott! I've always only seen Murren, but I suppose folk use Murrin so others pronounce it properly.

I also love Morven. And Murdo fir a boy! I must be in love with the M sound! My 3 DS don't have an M between them either 😅

Caoimhe IS a lovely name, but if people are struggling with Aoife I’d hate to see how they coped with a more complicated one!

We've had a Mirren and Murron at school recently. I don't mind Mirren but my great granny was Marion but known as Murron and was a dreadful woman so I couldn't warm to that name!

I get that. You're allowed to reject a name on that basis!

I'm a teacher and there's too many names that get rejected on the basis of that!

I know an Aofie! Lovely name, but I do prefer Orla, so pretty

I know an Aofie!
@Ancfib,That's a new spelling!

I love Aoife. Yes it's tricky to pronounce but people will soon get it.

If you like Irish names have you come across
Aileen Ay-leen (Ay pronounced as in abc)
Ashling (Aisling) Ash-ling

Love both Aoife and Orla (also spelled Orlagh/Orlaith)

People will get used to it and friends and family obviously. I think both are becoming common enough that she shouldn't struggle

Oh Orla is so pretty!