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Ginganinja123 · 2024-09-29T08:21:45+00:00

Love Tadhg and Ciarán but feel like it’s just not clicking the way my first baby’s name did. Any suggestions for really strong Irish boy names?

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Scrabbelator · 17/02/2025 22:28

Congratulations op!

Copperoliverbear · 17/02/2025 22:43

Saoirse, Aoife, maeve, Niamh, roisin, Caoimhe,

IntheVicinity · 17/02/2025 22:44

Travellingwithacarpetbag · 17/02/2025 20:39

This is an old thread anyway, but the above is clearly from one of the baby name sites and they are anything but reliable unfortunately.

The names above don’t all have ‘warrior’ as part of the meaning. In fact most of them don’t, though Donnacha might (that’s one interpretation of the meaning) and Duncan is an anglicisation of Donnacha. Doran, Clancy and Flannery are surnames. I’ve never come across them used as first names anyway.

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Exactly. Those baby names websites just make stuff up. The Irish claims are particularly mad.

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Ginganinja123 · 17/02/2025 23:07

We’ve a few lined up:

Dáire (I know this can obviously be male or female but I love it for a girl)
Fiadhnait
Éabha
Clodagh

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loropianalover · 17/02/2025 23:09

Senan for a boy!

Eabha is beautiful for a girl, and I also love Clodagh and Sorcha.

Notgivenuphope · 17/02/2025 23:10

Ginganinja123 · 29/09/2024 09:39

Love Tomás. Just don’t like the nickname Mossy

So don't allow it. Nobody needs a silly nickname and you get to choose what he is called at least until he is much older by which time he will have got used to Tomas (which is fab)

KnickerlessParsons · 17/02/2025 23:39

My favourite Irish boy's name is Jarlath

Strokethefurrywall · 17/02/2025 23:48

Saoirse please!! Love love love this name, was on my list for baby #2 but had a boy!

IntheVicinity · 18/02/2025 00:17

KnickerlessParsons · 17/02/2025 23:39

My favourite Irish boy's name is Jarlath

DS was nearly Iarla.

Pallisers · 18/02/2025 00:36

Ginganinja123 · 17/02/2025 22:14

Thank you for all the suggestions. My own wee boys name is on here ❤️ but we found out we are having a girl this time so we’re onto strong girl Irish names 😂

For girls names:

Liadan (no fadas anywhere)

Ademar

Apileofballyhoo · 18/02/2025 00:55

Niamh

Travellingwithacarpetbag · 18/02/2025 00:57

Sadhbh is lovely.

Pallisers · 18/02/2025 01:44

Also Sorcha

PiggieWig · 18/02/2025 02:07

Eabha is beautiful.

I also love Aine for a little girl. Congrats OP!

user1492757084 · 18/02/2025 05:31

My favourite Irish relatives names are ..
Jane
Catherine
Mary
Eadaoin
Aileen

mumbruh · 18/02/2025 07:05

Collins
Daragh
Oisin
Lorcan

Scarydinosaurs · 18/02/2025 07:10

Aine
Róisín
Órlaith
Gráinne
Meabh

Huckyfell · 18/02/2025 07:28

Paddy
Murphy

stayathomer · 18/02/2025 07:32

Ah our childhood neighbour was mossy. Salt of the earth, I know the point was that a poster didn’t like it but it’s after bringing back memories. Love Donnacha but see it’s to be a girl so Orla, Ròisìn or Deirdre

ThunderFog · 18/02/2025 16:33

Ginganinja123 · 17/02/2025 23:07

We’ve a few lined up:

Dáire (I know this can obviously be male or female but I love it for a girl)
Fiadhnait
Éabha
Clodagh

Love Dáire but in a tired moment i would read it in English and poor kid will get fed up being called Dairy and will change it to Jonathan, or Olivia, or just Dara.

Fiadhnait I can't get on with the spelling. I quite like Fiadnat but there are so many little Fiadhs and Fionns and Sophias it's all very confusing.

Éabha makes me stammer - I read it with a w, but I don't know if it's meant to be v.

Clodagh makes me think of clods of earth, I think it was the name of a muddy river which some English person thought was romantic. I prefer Clothach, which has a lovely sound, although that might be a minority view (and a boy name, it says here).

Lallóg
Liadan
Lonnóg

are all strong and easyread.

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Ginganinja123 · 18/02/2025 16:40

ThunderFog · 18/02/2025 16:33

Love Dáire but in a tired moment i would read it in English and poor kid will get fed up being called Dairy and will change it to Jonathan, or Olivia, or just Dara.

Fiadhnait I can't get on with the spelling. I quite like Fiadnat but there are so many little Fiadhs and Fionns and Sophias it's all very confusing.

Éabha makes me stammer - I read it with a w, but I don't know if it's meant to be v.

Clodagh makes me think of clods of earth, I think it was the name of a muddy river which some English person thought was romantic. I prefer Clothach, which has a lovely sound, although that might be a minority view (and a boy name, it says here).

Lallóg
Liadan
Lonnóg

are all strong and easyread.

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Are you English?

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Travellingwithacarpetbag · 18/02/2025 17:27

ThunderFog · 18/02/2025 16:33

Love Dáire but in a tired moment i would read it in English and poor kid will get fed up being called Dairy and will change it to Jonathan, or Olivia, or just Dara.

Fiadhnait I can't get on with the spelling. I quite like Fiadnat but there are so many little Fiadhs and Fionns and Sophias it's all very confusing.

Éabha makes me stammer - I read it with a w, but I don't know if it's meant to be v.

Clodagh makes me think of clods of earth, I think it was the name of a muddy river which some English person thought was romantic. I prefer Clothach, which has a lovely sound, although that might be a minority view (and a boy name, it says here).

Lallóg
Liadan
Lonnóg

are all strong and easyread.

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Éabha is said with a v sound @ThunderFog, at least I’ve never heard it otherwise. Sounds like Ava more or less.

Clodagh is from the name or a river, but doesn’t mean muddy or anything.
It’s said Clo-dah, with the first syllable rhyming with glow or low. It wouldn’t cause any confusion in Ireland, where OP is I think.

I haven’t heard of Lallóg or Lonnóg before, they’d be quite unusual. I think they might get a variety of pronunciations…as would Fiadhnait I’d say. Some people are bothered by that, others aren’t.

IntheVicinity · 18/02/2025 17:36

ThunderFog · 18/02/2025 16:33

Love Dáire but in a tired moment i would read it in English and poor kid will get fed up being called Dairy and will change it to Jonathan, or Olivia, or just Dara.

Fiadhnait I can't get on with the spelling. I quite like Fiadnat but there are so many little Fiadhs and Fionns and Sophias it's all very confusing.

Éabha makes me stammer - I read it with a w, but I don't know if it's meant to be v.

Clodagh makes me think of clods of earth, I think it was the name of a muddy river which some English person thought was romantic. I prefer Clothach, which has a lovely sound, although that might be a minority view (and a boy name, it says here).

Lallóg
Liadan
Lonnóg

are all strong and easyread.

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First off, it’s Daire — no fada on the ‘a’, which would make it DAW-ruh.

Éabha, as a pp said, is pronounced ‘Ava’.

Clodagh is pronounced ‘CLOE-duh’, not ‘clod’ as in earth.

Are you getting your information from a questionable bsby names website? Because they invent names, etymologies and frequently pronunciations.

IntheVicinity · 18/02/2025 17:39

And ‘cloth’ can mean a rumour, so it’s not something I’d saddle a child with, Ben if it can also mean renown.

LifeInAHamsterWheel · 18/02/2025 17:40

I love Róisín, Réiltín, Maebh and Niamh for a girl (and Tadhg for a boy, but you don't need that now!)