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

I've just thought different people pronounce orange differently, so maybe Oar-an a better phonetic spelling!

The use of Irish words as names. As a young woman working in the US I told people my name was Sneacta or Sugrudh or Siamsa

Ah now for me Aodhán is pronounced ay-awn. No D sound at all.

Lol

their beard game would be on point! And they'd have a good hard stare.

Think that's just a dialect thing Flooper and it makes sense with the spelling for sure but plenty of Ay-dawns around!
Mea culpa, Dillon's mum spells it with two ds! 😂

Dara can also mean ‘the second one’ (céad, dara, triúr, etc) so it brings a nice symmetry for a second child.

what about Ronan?

I love Donagh!

Love this and was just thinking the other day why this wasn’t used much anymore.

Irish for James. NN Shea

Really like Séimí/Sé.

@Flooper the fada gods ha - love it 😂

@mikado1 ah, Oran as or-an - gotcha

Unfortunately lots of Irish names in close family so ruling out a number like Niall, Seamus, Aidan for those reasons

@SarahDippity I hadn't thought of Dara like that, that's really cute

Ronan - I can't shake the Ronan keating association

@schnubbins Donagh is a new one, like it

Do update me on the Dilon vs Dillon as the two ls I don't love

I know an Irish man called Cahir. He’s lovely and so is the name. I don’t really see the logic of ‘that’s a made up name/place name’. Most people’s names were used for something else first!

See it here OP! Two ls I'm afraid!
It's that a place-name is not an actual Irish Christian name. Of course, work away, and I'll bet there are some lovely place names you could use, just that they're still not seen as Irish names but would of course gave Irish links, and actually a nice nod to someone's Irishness. Same with using an Irish surname, that can work well. Knowing Cahir the place so well, I just can't imagine it being used for a person!

I don't like Ronan either. Aside from the Keating association I think I just associate it with those Irish readers in primary school. 'Tá Mamaí sa cistín, tá Daidí ag léamh an páipéar...' Áine would be playing with Bran and Rónán was always stuffing his face with subh. Think that lad had a tapeworm.

I have always loved Malachy!

Dylan is Welsh and Dilon is French. I think Dillon would be Irish. It's a common Irish surname anyway.

I prefer Eoin to Eoghan, because of a lovely lovely friend. Also really like Cillian

We pronounce it more oh-ran, like ohran not or-an not o’ran if that makes sense and helps!

I worked with an Eoin who'd put his hands in his pockets and fiddle with his balls. Put me off the name I must say.

So also, he’s never had to explain the pronunciation to anyone… occasionally a teacher says O-ran or Or-ran rather than Oh-ran and he ignores them tbh!

Thanks @noideaboutanything feels like Oran has some pronunciation options which is no bad thing

Shame about the Dilon thing. I won't rule Dillon out yet

Ronan with the tapeworm is ruled out, thanks @Flooper 😂

I'm sorry I'm roaring at this 😂 I'm sure you know exactly as you mean, as I did with my oran(ge) effort above! Funnily, it's not actually a difficult one but you'd tie yourself in knots trying to get it exact phonetically.