Pretty sounding irish derived baby names?

[Bella321]

I'm so stuck for a name for my little girl.

We have been wanting to go with a name with Irish origin because my partner and his family are Irish. However, we live in England and I don't want her to have the life long annoyance of people misspelling or mis pronouncing her name.

Me working in childcare and him having a large family is limiting options too as names like Orla and Fia are already taken.

Please correct pronounciation if wrong.. but my maybe list so far is:

Éabha- Ava

Aoibhe- Eva

Maeve

Úna- oona

Éala- Ayla

Talullah

Íde- eeda

But none are quite feeling like the one. And also the Irish origin is questionable on some even though they have all come from "Irish baby names" lists online.

Help! Any more suggestions or ones to eliminate?

I know it's a derivative of Bridget but I think Bridie sounds quite modern.

My octogenarian mammy and several of her childhood friends are called Bridie and they think it’s hick beyond belief!

It’s not I can guarantee you, not in Ireland at least.

Such a shame, I think it's such a lovely name.

Ffion

Which is Welsh.

As the bearer of a complicated Gaelic name myself, I can tell you that if there are fades in your chosen name, nobody will ever bother with them other than Irish relatives. I've got two myself and even I can't be arsed with them unless I'm sending a card or message to an Irish person.

My own name is not pretty and I'm generally referred to by my initial.

Roisin is pretty and I think most people will be able to pronounce it.

Those are typing errors due to feeding a wriggly baby when typing, and not realising the phone did autocorrect Bronagh, Clodagh and Bríd I got them from being Irish!

I have a name with an unusual spelling (not Irish, though I'm like OPs husband, Irish but born here). It's no bother to correct people. Admittedly they usually pronounce it correctly but I would say many Irish names are widely recognised in the UK and would be pronounced broadly correctly. And it's more and more common for people to include a note on how to pronounce their name on emails etc, so honestly just pick a name you love.

@caringcarer , Ffion is Welsh. It's often confused with the Irish boy's name Fionn.

Aisling?

@Bella321 , Baby Names of Ireland interactive visualisation | CSO Ireland
Many of the names are not Irish.

Yes, Irish baby names and baby names used in Ireland are different things.

@Dearmalt , I added the "Many of the names are not Irish." to prevent a deluge of comments.

I love the Irish name Fiadh, so pretty. If I had known of the name years ago, it would have been a serious contender for our daughter.
In England, with the habit of name shortening being very common, you could have the correct Irish spelling on her birth certificate, but AKA ‘Fia’ on her school exercise books with no loss of pronunciation.

They would only need to correct people if those people were seeing it written down..otherwise Hi I'm Éabha and Hi I'm Ava sound the same. I also taught an Éabha in England once and don't remember there being an issue around pronunciation or spelling. The UK has a wide range of diverse names from all over the world, I would say embrace the Irish spellings and the names you like.

Laserian pronounced Lasereen ( some people spell it that way too)
It means flame

Anastatia is a big name in my family aswell- all Irish
( I’ve just looked it up and the Irish version is Annstas )
It means Resurrection

Then Johanna another one used by every family of mine. Think that one came over with the Vikings though as our family were friendly with them 😆
It means God is Gracious

I thought that was one of the names constantly said wrongly by English people.

Sign into Rootsireland and trace dhs family ( or get him a subscription for Christmas)
perhaps you’ll come across a name you like that has a family link

@GreyCloudsLooming , is it Row-sheen or Row-SHEEN? In the UK, it gets said as Rosh-EEN.

Cara is one that's quite easy to pronounce universally and has an uncomplicated meaning - friend/dear
Mara is much more unusual - means sea- again easy to pronounce
Bronagh and Clodagh - I've had friends whove lived in UK with those names and found pronunciation OK as UK people are familiar with the gh being silent from surnames like Cavanagh, some people spell Brona without the gh which probably leads to less confusion

Edited to add the CSO central statistics office in Ireland shares the top 100 names yearly it's a great list for inspiration

That makes a lot more sense.😀 Though I wouldn’t in the least be surprised if one of those batshit baby name sites was claiming Clydach and Brí as ‘traditional Irish names’.

@DrPrunesqualer it’s Lasairfhíona! Like Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola. Meaning ‘wine flame’ or ‘flame of wine’.

I also seem to have several dozen Johannas going back many generations on my mother’s side of the family. The women are mostly called Johanna, Mary, Ellen or Honora.

Niamh

I’m of Irish descent and I think ‘pretty sounding’ is quite unusual with Irish names. They tend to look and sound quite ugly to me.

Ciara and Orla are quite nice.