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Irish baby boy name suggestions please!

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Chellooo · 07/10/2023 11:09

Hi folks, due in a few weeks now with a little boy and having a full on panic about what to name our little one.
Both myself and husband are Irish and are keen to look toward an Irish name, but cannot for the life of us settle on anything!
Front runner seems to be Oisin but I'm not completely sold, so any suggestions welcome x

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DaffodilDora · 21/07/2024 10:25

RogueFemale · 20/07/2024 23:02

Yes, I know - to different posters who might not read through everything. Thanks for citing Tara Ferry as another (and more recent) example of a male Tara. It really is a boy name originally and continues to be.

It's originally a place name. The Hill of Tara, seat of the High Kings of Ireland.

It seems to have been used very occasionally for boys or girls whose parents had an interest in Irish history. Tara Browne's biography says his mother loved Irish history and named him for the Hill of Tara. When Gone With the Wind was released in 1939/40 it also popularised the name in the US at least (it was the O'Hara homeplace).

Online there are records of Irish baby names since 1964. These show the name became increasingly popular as a girls name in Ireland from the mid 1960s and stayed quite popular for the next 35 years or so. There is no record of it geing used for boys during this time - but, for privacy reasons, they don't keep an online record of names if there are fewer than 3 per year. So there could be a few boys/men with the name in ROI. Like pp, I've never met any.

Keith Richards had a son who died in infancy who was named after Tara Browne. Perhaps Bryan Ferry's son was too? They were contemporaries and moved in the same circles.

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