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?

Danu? I think that’s pretty.

Don't do it...check the other post where Eva's name is being mispronounced...Irish names are in a league of their own🤣

Irish names that are easy to pronounce for English people that I’ve known used for baby girls in the last few years include:
Aisling
Sorcha
and more unusually but still pretty and easy to say, Eadin.

Sorcha gets mispronounced a lot! People seem to confuse it with Seoirse and pronounce it ‘Sore-shuh’.

I actually really like both.

Though our supposed family ghost/inherited memory/familial urban myth/whatever (apparently has a habit of tucking in children at night, despite having died in the Spanish flu) is a Hanora.

Our is that pesky Flaherty man in a big hat standing at the end of the bed
There’s a banshee that hides behind the hedge too 🥴
( wonder if all Irish families have this )

Thinking of famous Irish women have you considered ‘the pirate Queen’s name.

Gráinne - sometimes called Grace

Id love to be named after a famous pirate

Agree!

How about:
Alanna
Fia
Darina
Muireann (pr Mwirrin)
Fionnuala or Finola
Nora or Onora
Bridget
Beibhinn (pr Bevin)
Mairead (fada on the E)
Eithne (pr Enya)
Emer (anglicized spelling of Eimear, pr EEmer)
Fiona
Catriona (pr Cat-TREE-uh-na)
Eibhlis - (fada on the second I, pr Eye-LEESH)

From your list, OP, I'd choose Una.

Johannas and Anastasias went all the way into Carlow, and Laserian is one of the patrons of the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin so you find the odd one here and there - also used as a middle name.

My mother's parents followed the tradition of naming children after grandad's parents, then granny's parents, then significant relatives. Makes genealogical research a little easier.

You are absolutely spot on there with tracing family history

I am Irish and a lot of Irish names in my family so I understand where you are coming from as I have a niece called Saidhbhe (Syve is pronunciation) and Craoiadh, Aoife and a few others that are similarly bonkers for outside of Ireland to spell nor pronounce but there are many others I would think easier to say like Clodagh or Cushla etc

This post reminded me of the name Aideen , an anglicization but it's pretty.

Fia is the modern Irish spelling of the word anyway. Fiadh is a bit of an older spelling though it’s more popular as a name. But either is correct Irish.

Fiadh/Fia only started being used as a name fairly recently, with the first instance of its use in the 1990s I think, so that may be why you hadn’t heard of it years ago @Fifiesta.
OP said she can’t use it anyway as she already knows one.

I know an Enya and always loved her name.

I also love
Fiadh (Fee-Ah)
Naoise (Nee-sha)
Aislinn
Áine (Awn-ya)
Muireann (mweer-in)
Ríona (REE-ona)

Yours reminded me of the only triplets I have ever met. Aisling, Aileen and Aideen.

I forgot about Aileen. Was relatively popular when I was growing up in early 90s Ireland. Eilís (pronounce Eye-leash) was really popular around the same time.

Is Cushla used often. I have never met or heard of a Cushla but love the meaning of it.
Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in a movie calked Million Dollar Baby with Hilary Swank and her character, a boxer was called Mo Cuishle (Macushla)- meaning beat of my heart/darling.
I think Macushla would be a lovely name.

Siobhan
Aoife
Aisling
Róisín (my favourite)
Caoimhe
Rowan
Clodagh
Niamh
Saoirse
Maeve
Cadhla
Ciara
Riley
Orla

Sloane is very nice too!

No it’s very, very rare in Ireland ime. More an ex-pat name, as is Macushla I’d say.

I wouldn’t consider Sloane an Irish name either @PeonyPatch, although it does say it’s derived from an Irish family name when you look it up. Too far removed if so imho.

Well, I’ve mentioned lots of others.

Caitlyn?

Dolores is very pretty too and you could call them Dora day to day - which I think is lovely

Or Dolly !!

My Irish friend at work is Orla. I think she has a beautiful name.

Saidhbhe and Craoiadh would be bonkers in Ireland too to be fair, as those spellings are completely wrong.

As for the poster who stated Eibhlín is pronounced Everleen... I actually despair.