Donnacha …….

[Babyboyno2]

Donnacha, Daithí, Darragh, Caolán what’s your favourite ?

@Babyboyno2 I’ve only heard it as a surname. Is it an Irish first name?
Cian I think is lovely. Nice sound and good on children and adults.

You beat me to it

@Siblingnamehelp it says it is used as first names online and it’s Irish. Gaelic and Scottish history

Some of that derivation seems dodgy OP.

Caol means slender, not battle. Cath is battle. Cathalán is a diminutive of the name Cathal I'd say, but it's not used today ( though Cathal is).
Cathal means strong in battle, battle mighty.
'n' does not mean rock???

The anglicised Callan isn't much used in Ireland as a first name, at least I've never met one. I know it as a surname and the name of a town.

And the etymology of the town's name is different to the surname.

@Slidesclipsandbobbins thanks, I really do like it as a first name

Cal is nice as a short version too.

Sorry to say that's an AI fail OP.

Darragh is my favorite name of the ones you listed.

@Babyboyno2 agree with others that response isn’t correct. I don’t think it’s actually an Irish first name and it doesn’t have that meaning. It’s meaning is most likely re surname ‘descendant of Cathalán’.

all that said - if you like it use it. Plenty of people use surnames as names especially in the US.

@Babyboyno2 , AI picks up info from baby name sites, and many of them are rubbish.

Caolan

I replied earlier but just to add that there’s a kid in my kid’s new class named Donnacha. We’re not in Ireland and I’d never heard of it or seen it written before seeing it on the class whatsapp group very recently. I was taken by how beautiful and striking the name is: strong and somehow soft at the same time. It didn’t read like ‘doncha’ to me on seeing it for the first time fwiw

@MotherofAllMatriarchs thank you, I loved it when I first heard it also, easily pronounced and if you don’t know how to easy once told I think. Baby boy names are so hard

Thoughts on Ruairí, Malachy & Aidan / Aodhán

I love all those names.

@ThatTealViewer what would be your favourite, so hard to narrow down

Ruairí is one of my favourite names, in general. But, depending on where you live, they’d be forever spelling it and/or correcting people.

So, Aidan. Almost impossible to misspell, nice and strong. Not very common, but not ‘out there’. Lovely sound.

Also, it’s pretty much a guarantee he’ll be good looking. Much like the name ‘Sophia’, I simply cannot imagine an unattractive Aidan. 😊

@ThatTealViewer thank you I really like it aswell. I also love the spelling Aodhán however people here in Ni pronounced it “ay-dawn” but have read it’s actually “ay-awn” so completely different pronunciation

I love Malachy, somehow it feels a bit arty to me.

Love Darragh also helps I've known 2 who both were lovely

Callan is lovely too