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

I like Kieran Jago for a boy and Merryn Roisin for a girl

I'm sure it is - I've only heard it as jaygo- but I'm trying to figure out why.

I want a word that has an A followed by a G (or D or N) and another syllable to see if the A is 'ay'.

It's possible IMO that the Jago is to match the pattern in Jacob, not the Cornish.
Iago and Jacob are popular in Wales but Jacob can be Jake-ub or Jack-ob.

How to pronounce?:
Cadan
Pascoe
Cadwur
Madern

Pascoe - would be "pah-z- co" when in England. Or "paaaaah -z-ku" when in Cornwall 😀

Oh yes. Like in a paaaarsty.

Cornish is basically a mix of Welsh and Breton with a bit of Irish mixed in.

Merryn is out. Way too close a relative with that one.

I think I will stick to the traditional. Although my own name is a saint that is also a village.

If picking an Irish name but living in the UK (bar some Scottish isles!), I’d pick an Irish “lite” name or one that is so popular as to be mainstream.

Girls: Maeve (rhymes with Wave), Alana, Emer, Niamh, Sinead
Boys: Cillian, Liam, Dara, Oran, Finn/Fionn, Conor

Irish is a cousin but Welsh and Breton are siblings.
I'm sure there'll be a bit of English and Latin in there too.

@MoreCraicPlease , I think OP wants an Irish middle name and one that's not 'Irish lite'.

If it was a first name, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but with a middle name not. I think there's scope to choose something that might be misspelt and mispronounced because it won't be used much.

Something like Elowen Maeve looks like 'we just liked the name and it flowed' whereas Elowen Meadhbh looks a bit more intentional.

Or Ding Dong ...

Talskiddy Spunkane

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Exactly! Ding for short.
There's something to be said for creating a unique supposedly Cornish name for a baby...
"Oh, you haven't heard of Rinsey before? It's quite well known in Cornwall"
I'm 100% Cornish. Our grandson is Jago, pronouced Jay-go, as that's the only way I've heard it pronounced in Cornwall. Jago as a surname or as a first name.

In which case what about "Trago"?

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With Mills as a middle name

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I know a couple of Treeves

Definitely not. Have you read the posters they put up?

Definitely not Cormac!

def jay-go, though I find people often try to pronounce it as Spanish sounding, like yay-go

Love jago

Yes it’s a shame that a nice name in Irish is the road maintenance arm of Cornwall County Council

There are a million and one Cornish saints - try them for names? Enodoc, Petroc and Erme amongst others. Or what about Endellion, Teath, Issey or Winnow? Limitless fun!

Im in Ireland and all of the girls I know with that name are Maeve