What’s the most beautiful name you’ve ever heard?

[Renenma]

Just that really

What’s the most unique and beautiful name you’ve ever heard?

My name is on your list. I’ve never considered it a beautiful name (I go by a shortened version of it now as I really didn’t like it growing up), but seeing someone say it’s beautiful has made me smile.

Sorcha
Manon
Seraphina
Grainne
Solange
Ottilie
Scheherazade
Celeste
Tabitha
Rhiannon
Seren
Siri

Roman
Gabriel (Gabe for short)
Thierry (a billion miles away from Terry)
Joseph (so plain, but good)
Emil
Pascal

Annis
Annora
Cecily
Lilas
Thalia
Kelda

Aldric
Callan
Hayden
Kester
Caleb

Woodbine, sweet musk rose and eglantine are all mentioned so I don't think so.

According to Google translate, eglantine is briar rose....

Gabriella
Rhiannon
Loinnir (apologies for lack of correct accents)
Brigitte

How do you pronounce Loinnir?

I think it’s like what I would say if I saw something written Lunna. But I’m not an Irish speaker.

If it’s Irish it’s pronounced as in this link:
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Loinnir
The letter r is always pronounced in the vast majority of Irish accents.

I don’t know if it’s Irish though.
For a start pp apologised for the lack of correct accents, but the Irish word doesn’t have any accents.
Secondly, though it is an Irish word meaning radiance/brightness, it’s not used as a name in Ireland.

How can you say it’s the most beautiful name you’ve heard when you don’t know how it sounds?

ETA Sorry, I quoted the wrong person.
The above question was for @PermanentTemporary.

Giovanna - another Italian one.

This is going to be overkill as a response, but as there’s a lot of responses - I first heard of Loinnir as a name when Roísín McAliskey called her daughter by that name. It seems that I must have remembered the fadas used for Roísín and thought somehow that I’d seen them on Loinnir as well. Apologies.

Then I interpreted ‘heard’ in the thread here as ‘heard of’. I pronounced Loinnir differently in my head (not being an Irish speaker) and thought the sound in my head was very beautiful, but I also think it is visually beautiful as a word. I checked the pronunciation as best I could when the question was asked here.

It does look really beautiful.

Fair enough. I do like it, the look of it especially.

The correct sound would be hard to get right if you didn’t speak Irish…to be honest I don’t know if it’s a great idea to guess at pronunciations of words in a language you don’t speak and then recommend them to others. Though I guess it’s happened often enough with names 😅

Loinnir isn’t usually used as a name. It’s not listed in Irish naming records. Who knows, maybe it will take off? Fiadh came out of nowhere twenty odd years ago to top the charts within a few years 🤷‍♀️