Isla with Irish spelling

[Qwerty1991]

We love the name Isla for a baby girl but our two boys have Irish names (Cillian and Donnacha). So we would like another Irish name. Can Isla be spelt in Irish to sound the same? Or is there a close Irish name similar to Isla?

Maybe without the fada then, like the fadhb that it is.

I get all of it but not the adjectives, are they Big, Small and Red?

Personally I’d stick with the Isla spelling, OP.
Me too.

If my own name is anything to go by Ádhfhlaith will get a few 'How do you say that?'s or 'Adflayth's (or worse).

Yep!

Okay, but you shouldn’t really suggest that OP uses a fada if you really mean no fada. It’s a different spelling, different pronunciation, different meaning.

If my DD will go to a Welsh-medium school in Wales, and we speak Welsh, but we love the names Niamh and Aoife, but we'd like a name spelt the Welsh way, same as DC1 and DC2, could we spell it
Nîf Îffa?

or Nî'f Îffa?

Or should we use something else like Nia Efa?

** accept that Aoife and Efa aren't direct equivalents but they're examples of popular names.

I think Eileen is a gorgeous name and due a revival. Much more unusual than Isla now too, which has become very popular.

@VenusClapTrap , I think it sounds pretty but there was a ghastly party song that made reference to the name.

I loved Isla for a little girl however we had Lila set as second name (after a grandmother) and thought Isla Lila was a little sing songy so we changed it to Éala, she was only born last December and we pronounce it (Ay-la) however I have seen people spelling it Aela also. It’s still quite uncommon in our county however my aunt teaches about 30 mins away and she said there’s 6 Éala’s in her school ranging from P1-P7 so not as uncommon as I thought!

Currently expecting twins, gender unknown, but they’re identical so 2 of each and really struggling with short, not super common Irish names! Feel like Fíadh, Croía etc are doing the rounds for girls as gorgeous as they are I know so many now so any help would be great 😂

Please don't try Inis!

Yes, if you wouldn’t call your child ‘Island’, don’t call her Inis. I sometimes think English people don’t grasp that Irish people actually understand and/or speak Irish, that it’s not like Elvish.

Isla / Islay is pronounced eye-la

@villainousbroodmare that's a good point. It's a very popular one these days.

@Qwerty1991 I meant to add, if you love the babe I'd just use it as it is. No need to spell it differently in my opinion.

Yes, I know that.

Name. Not babe🫣

My MIL uses that song as her ring tone, and she is an Eileen.....