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?

@Sagaciously , I wouldn't say they sound ugly but they don't sound nice when anglicized, e.g. Orla sound pretty in an Irish accent, but not when said as Awluh.

Yes, you’re right. My parents saying ‘Orla’ would’ve been infinitely nicer than me saying it.

Caoimhe …….. queevah
niamh……… neeve
aoibheann…….. ave-eene
keelin

Congratulations on your internalised anti-Irishness?

@Misbella , where is the stress in aoibheann? Is it AY-veen, ay-VEEN, EEV-een, Eev-EEN?
Caoimhe - kweevah/keeva
niamh - nee-(uh)v (very short schwa)

@Sagaciously , unrelated but I can't think of a single Welsh name that sounds nice anglicized.

@Mushrump , @Sagaciously is of Irish descent and has since posted that Orla sounds much nicer in an Irish accent.

Where I'm from it would be ay-VEEN. Depending on the region and the accent it can differ

Thanks @romdowa

Oooh, Enya! That's gorgeous!

I think ay-veen is an anglicised pronunciation which is widespread in Ireland. It’s not pronounced like that in the Irish language.
Aoibh is pronounced like Eve in all dialects.
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Aoibh

I was trying to figure out why 'aoi' would be 'ay'. @Dearmalt

Enya is the Donegal pronunciation of Eithne. The singer is Eithne but spelt it Enya as a stage name so the pronunciation was more easily apparent.
There’s no letter y in Irish.

Éala is fake Irish unfortunately. Eala means swan but it's pronounced alla. Adding the fada changes the sound to ayla but also changes the word entirely so it no longer means anything.
Cara means friend if you'd consider that...

I'm a gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker) btw x

Aoibheann = even

I know and or love Sinead, Siobhan, Caiomhe (keeva / queeva) Roisin Niamh Cara Clara Maired Ailbhe Siaorse Ita Oonagh Clodagh Eibhlin (everleen Evvy for short) my favourite is Fionnuala tho.

Saoirse

Sinéad
Siobhán
Caoimhe
Róisín
Mairéad
Saoirse
Úna

Aislinn (ash-lin / ash-ling) means dream or vision

Yes louds called
Mary and Maryanne plus
Ellen on the Westmeath side for generations and still now.

and the Johanna, Anastasia side also has Honoras

Are those Johanna’s in the Tipperary/ Kilkenny area ? because there’s a lot of them about.

ps. I didn’t know that’s how Laserian was spelt. My lot maybe have been blighted historically by not being able to read or write and it’s just been followed down the line to now. Who knows

Fódhla (foe -la) one of the three goddesses of Ireland and used in poetry to refer to Ireland?

No, further south. Ditto for illiteracy, though. (At least judging by crosses on parish registers.)

Was just going to say this.

Eala - Swan (beautiful name) in my dialect pronounced allah.

Éala would be aaaaalah. Not Ayla.

Johanna and Hanora were very popular at one stage but not now really. I’m in my 50s and I had grandaunts and great-grandaunts with those names, but their popularity waned over the years. Rare now.

My family still carry on with a tradition of naming the first girl after the husbands mother and the same with sons after their grandad.

So there’s a lot in my family.
I have one of those names and I’m not old enough to be a grand anything yet. Happy to be rare though 😁