Nature/happy/Irish girls’ names

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We’re having a girl in June and would love some name ideas! Her older sister is Indigo, usually called Indi. They are half Irish so new baba will have an Irish name either for first or middle (we live in England so if first must be pronounceable/well-known).

We like but not going for:
Hazel - doesn’t go with surname.
Ruah - worried about religious connotation (we are not religious) and rua in Latin/Portuguese means road.
Muireann (pronounced Mirren) - think the spelling makes it sound like Miriam.
Aoife - sounds too much like all the Evie/Eva/Avas.
Ayla - sounds like all the Layla/Isla etcs.

A longer name with a strong nickname would be great eg we considered Tazmin ‘Taz’ and Jocelyn ‘Joss’ but neither is quite right. Nearly sold on Beatrix ‘Bea’ but not 100%.

For me it needs to have a meaning eg something natural, or meaning ‘joyful’, ‘kind’ - something positive! I’d love a name that has some nature/elemental connotations but not too out there eg Storm/Fern are a bit far out for me.

Can’t start with a hard C cos surname does.

Thanks!

Really like Beatrix, Roísín, Roíse and Aoife

Sylvie/ Sylvia
Robyn/ Robin
Wren
Zoe
Zinnia
Azalea
Elowen

I was just about to say the same thing!

Olive - because it is a nature name but also a Symbol of peace
Violet - flower and colour but maybe too matchy with indigo
Maeve - would be a nice middle name for violet
Evelyn - because you like Aoife. There is also an Irish spelling.
Adeline - because it is a nice name and goes well with Indigo

Bridget Aoife
June Beatrix
Anastasia Jane

Nothing helpful to add except I LOVE Indigo! I wanted to call our daughter that but was vetoed. Then wanted to call our son it, vetoed again. I met a little Indigo in a cafe recently and probably went overboard to her mother about how much I loved it 😂

What about Joni? Short and sweet? Or maybe there's an Irish-ish version of it?

Iona? My daughters name so I'm biased 😊

Or Runa? If I have another girl I'm calling her that, love it.

Catastrophe demonstrated well the challenges the name Muireann would throw up in the UK so I'd probably scratch that one from the list.

I'd focus more on the nature than the Irish

Rowan
Sorrell
Laurel
Tansy
Zinnia

Fiadh (pronounced Fia) as mentioned by a pp is crazy popular in Ireland at the moment. It means deer. But then if you're S England there's that whole Fia/Fear thing which might not make it very appealing.

Yes @StrychnineInTheSandwiches i think this discussion has definitely put Muireann in the middles-only category! And I agree about Fiadh/fear with the accent where she’ll likely be growing up..

@rickandmorts Iona is gorgeous. Might be a bit religious-connotationy too for us though, but it’s such a lovely name.

Maeve I do like, and May actually, but hubby not unfortunately. Ditto most of my suggestions! eg Robin he think sounds like ‘robbing’ and Sylvie/Sylvia is close to top of my list but he’s convinced she’d end up with the nn windowsill.. wtf, but he was a nightmare choosing a name for DD1 too!

Merryn is lovely but we’ve no Cornish connections, is that a bit appropriation-ish? And @Bamboozle Mara is a great name.

@forwardsandbackwardsandup we absolutely love Indigo, it’s familiar but unusual and for us feels quite elemental (earthy, watery, and airy all at the same time)... Hard to find another one to go with it! I do like Joni actually but her dad’s name is Johnny 😂

Fiadh, as mentioned above, is very popular atm.

Aine. Means radiance. Simply beautiful.

Fraoch (FRAYoch) is Nature and Irish.

the och is like loch in scottish Loch.

It means Heather

Shona means happy and sounds like it's spelt.
Dara ( a few different spelling varieties) is a unisex name and means oak.

Eimear (ee-mer)
Mairead (Muh-rawd)

River, Darla.

After nearly 30 years in Ireland some of these are news to me! No one has mentioned Aisling = Ashling (vision or dream), or Bláthnaid (blaw-nid) which means flower. I love Daire, oak.

Marigold (Goldie)

Briona with Bri for short?

My DD would have been Aisling, meaning dream or vision. It's an Irish word that means so much more than its translation.
Living in UK, we might have gone for Ashling (same pronunciation but easy to explain).
Ended up having a boy!

I always really liked the name Keavy, which is of Irish origin, but had two boys so never got to use it! Means gentle.

@rhetorician i mentioned blathnaid on page 1 - love it!

@SuzyQ12 youre thinking of Caoimhe (Keeva/Qweeva, though the “a” is more of an “uh”).

It’s not Muh-rawd, it’s Muh-raid.

Blathín - blaw heen - little flower

I love Aisling, but husband doesn’t. Also really like Áine but we have one in close family.

Thanks so much everyone for your input. Feel like for now I’ve got a shortlist of 4: Amber, Róisín, Merryn and Ruah. Still a few months to go so hopefully one will shine brighter for us than the others, or will particularly suit her when she gets here!

Bláithín - little flower (blawheen)

Rua is more of a surname. The English translation is the surname Roe or Rowe e.g. pádraig o' ruadh