Cillian?

[babydue2025]

What do you think? We're both English living in England for context, but with Irish heritage and an Irish surname.

Because it's a traditional name roughly as outlandish as Ben?

Because languages other than English exist?

But this child will be in England!

Where thankfully most people manage to cope with Cillian Murphy’s name, for one.

Cillian, Killian, Kyllian is used all over Europe, there was a St Killian in Germany, I believe.

It is a derivative of Christian.

There are many Cillians in Ireland, I have a 16 year old one!

Kit, Chris, Christian, Krys, Cillian, all derived from the same origin.

In Ireland you have Chill and Kill place names everywhere as a result of places being called after Christian Churches, Kildare, Kilkenny, Killarney (for example). We don't associate Cill/kill names with killing anyone.

It is a derivative of Christian.

Is it? I thought cill meant church in Irish historically and St Cillian acquired the name as a nickname (little church) because he was holy/prayed a lot etc. He travelled to Germany and is still well known there.

The correct pronunciation is still Killian, even if it is being spelled as Cillian. If you are pronouncing it Silly-Un then you are totally wrong.

It's a lovely name, I think. My DD had an acquaintance at uni with it. It didn't seem to get mispronounced. Cillian Murphy (of Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer fame) has seen to that pretty effectively.

This what the OP asked: What do you think?

I wrote what I think ........

And I responded to your thought.

Super handsome name

Is this pronounced Kill-ian or Silly-an?

I'm not sure I like either pronunciations (one contains Kill and the other Silly)!

Because it's a traditional name roughly as outlandish as Ben

What ? I know about 10 Bens but have never met or even heard of anyone named Killian.

Killy-an.
Rhymes with Gillian.

Cillian Murphy?

Countries other than the UK exist.

Never before reading this thread did I think the name started with the word Kill. So weird.

It’s a different language so doesn’t actually mean kill.

I know, I'm Irish. I meant it's weird to think that it does.

Do people not like Robin because it starts with Rob?

I like it. With the C.

Or the start of Diane is Die, and so on.

Also like Fintan (in case you want suggestions)

Ah ok I thought you were rhyming Cillian and Kai 😆

A non-english name in ENGLAND?? How dare she!

If you pick a non-English name for a child who is going to be living in England it might be better to pick one that does not mean something unpleasant in England!