Irish or Cornish baby names suggestions.

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Suggest some Irish or Cornish baby names please. With Irish please add how to pronounce them

Kerensa, Demelza and Ysella are my favourite Cornish names.

I have a Jago. He’s 19. We don’t live in Cornwall and he’s always the only one. He LOVES his name!

Warleggan is a village in the middle of Bodmin Moor, near a place called Mount. Good Methodist area! You could go for Stenalees, Perranaworthal or Greensplat as alternatives. 😂

I had a lovely friend in primary school called Veryan. Perhaps not officially a name but definitely Cornish. Also Phaedra.

It was a jokey suggestion as I adored the wonderful Ralph Bates.

Phaedra is Greek. Veryan and Demelza are place names. Some of the names like Sennen, Mawgan and Endellion are saint names.

Aiofe is pretty (pronounced: Ee fah).

Laoise is nice, too (pronounced: Lee Sha).

Simply suggesting other fabulous Cornish place names. Don't you think Mount Loveday or Greensplat Siobhan have a certain ring to them 🤔

I have a teenage Merryn to honour my west country roots - it has suited her at every age. We live in the North and haven't met any others apart from one in Cornwall and one in Exeter. We've always had very positive comments and she adores her name.

Snozzle Sorcha or Lizard Liam?

Truro Ruairi

Welsh-Scottish heritage. DS IS Mold Innes.

Fionn (fee-un) i like this. Going on the list.

Any Fionns I know pronounce it Fyun, but it can vary according to dialect so I’d check with your DH.

Cillian I like this one but worry if it has connotations

What possible connotations could Cillian have…intrigued 🤔

Fionn (fee-un) i like this. It's more like Fyun - one syllable.
Ask your DH, he'll say it authentically to where he's from.
Irish: [fʲiːn̪ˠ], Scottish Gaelic: [fjũːn̪ˠ])

What possible connotations could Cillian have…intrigued Kill Ian

Aoife is spelled Aoife in Ireland not Aiofe.

Ah, but you only have to correct people once

That's not a connotation, though, it's the same kind of juvenile nonsense as saying Lana is 'anal' backwards and Orla is too like 'oral'.

Oh right, thank you. It’s not pronounced the same though, and I wouldn’t have thought it a problem especially when spelt with a C.

I wish that was true. My granddaughter in the UK had her name Aoife mispelt repeatedly throughout primary school. Mostly by friends on birthday cards but also on many occasions by her teacher 🙄

I'm Cornish. Our grandson is a Jago, which is seen as both a surname and a first name in Cornwall. Jennifer also has strong Cornish links - the Cornish version of Guinevere. I went to school with a lad called Granite (the rock that a lot of Cornwall is made from) and Garnet is a similar 'gender neutral' name. Also a girl called Selina... I don't think Selina is particularly Cornish but there was a nearby farm of that name. Clowance, Morwenna and, obviously, Demelza hve been popular since Poldark. Zenna (f), Zennor (m), Denzel (m), Loveday (f) and Jory (m).

@TerracottaBowl , That's me.

@Flintstonerubble , I know it's not true but I've read it on here 100s of times.

Typing without wearing my glasses is the culprit!

The O and I keys are next to each other so it's an easy typo to make.