Irish name for a boy, really stuck!

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Help!

We are expecting our second child, Irish living in London. Our daughter has an Irish name and we are keen to give DS one too. But we can't find a single one we like or haven't had to rule out. I've googled and googled, need some serious inspiration!

Can't use the below for various reasons:
Sean
Oisin
Niall
Seamus
Conor
Liam
Ruairi
Fionn

Considering but not loving:
Tadhg
Conan

My husbands name is also Irish Dary I have been told it's northern Irish

Cahir is not used very often but is definitely an Irish name

I'm Irish, living in Ireland, speak Irish, work in a university where I use Irish to communicate at times - never heard of it.

There's a trend to use names that have technically Irish meaning but aren't 'names' in the sense of having general usage (I don't mean popularly but that you'd at least have heard it once if you were somewhat acquainted with the Irish language)

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I mean, I know. If you google most names that have Irish connection they will yield a similar result.

They may have existed in some format as you illustrate but in nearly 5 decades of being around Irish speakers to have never heard of it, indicates it's not an Irish name in use.

Michael Davitt, he of Land League fame, fighting the good fight so Irish people could own the land they lived on and/ or would have security of tenure - basically an Irish hero who worked with Charles Stewart Parnell, had a son with his American wife, Mary Yore called Cahir.
This son, Cahir Davitt became a Supreme Court judge ( Irish Courts ) 1966-1976.

I like it as a boy's name.

There was a documentary on tv fairly recently on the life of Michael Davitt.
Very interesting. He had a tough life.

Fintan or Dara

Is there a chance he just uses an Irish place-name as a name? Like a pp never heard of it as a name, though I do have links with the town itself! Generally though, the observations here are interesting Inc Austin as popular in Waterford.. I only know one, Austin Gleeson himself 😂 Torin, never heard of and to my eye doesnt look Irish iykwim, but you learn something new every day!

Speaking of Co Tipperary towns, Daniel Day Lewis has a son called Cashel.

Love this - I always throw this one up on these threads - first time I have seen it by someone else. Name of my cousins son.

I also add Cornelius, Aloysius and Ignatius - which are more Latin / RC names v popular in the inter war years in Ireland. One of mine has Cornelius as a middle name, named after a great grandfather which he loves.

Also does Malachi fall into the same frame - ie Biblical origin rather than Gaelic but popular?

Also hadn’t heard of Cahir or Cashel as names! I suppose place names are far game…

so our list is now:
Tadhg
Conan
Eoghan
Cuan
Darragh / Daire
Ruan / Ruadhan
Cormac
Eanna

did someone here suggest Eanna or did I find it through obsessive googling? Thoughts on it?

also what about Dualta? Not met a Dualta. If you remember from the Walter Macken book at school.

Oh and possibly two more

Oran/Odhran
Malachi

i like Dylan as well, has anyone seen it spelled Dillon?

Éanna is lovely, I thought of it when I saw Enda suggested! Or maybe I posted it 😂 I assume you've left out the fadas as a pain on text? I agree with pp re Tadhg being constantly misspelled even in Ireland. I know a few who go by the misspelling! But generally I think why wouldn't the people in his life just learn the name and get on with it!

Are you not going to use fadas? Éanna etc
I think I'd choose a name without fadas rather than just leave them out.

Oran is gorgeous too. I know a Dilon, all Irish names so I take it that is the Irish spelling..

Conleth, Cormac or Feargal. Three fantastic names.

Malachi is not an irish name. Malachy has some irish origins.

Oh didn’t realise that @PartyHelp

@mikado1 @AppleCharlottie im not massively keen on fadas as something else for people to get wrong! But on Eanna I would as don’t think it would work otherwise (don’t know how to do it on my phone)

@mikado1 do you think Dilon with one ‘L’ then? That’s probably better as with two looks like a surname

Oran - is right pronunciation ‘oh-ran’?

@MissyB1 all lovely names but Conleth and Feargal not sure right for us

What about Niall op?

You can use Malachi if you like it but it pronounced Mal-ach-i which is more African whereas the Irish version Malachy is pronounced like Mal-ach-e. Sorry you may already know that!!

I've never seen Dilon before and if I google it, all evidence looks a bit made up. I'd stick with Dillon or Dylan.

me too. If I left them out I'd feel the fada Gods silently judging me for ever more.

Lots of my favourites have already been suggested so only have one to add!

Caolán or if you want a variation that might be easier phonetically Caelan.

the fada Gods
great name for a trad band

I will check with Dilon's mum! 😂 Brothers are Rian and Caelan BTW!
I'd definitely keep all and any fades. I would pronounce Oran Or-an, as is oran(ge), rather than oh-ran but the Ódhrán version Oh-rawn. What do you think of Aodhán? Ay-dawn (soft d)

Conall
Ruairi

seamus ?