Daisy, Daphne, Fiadh

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Any views on these names?
We have been obsessing over names now for months and we really have been through pretty much every name in existence.
Our baby girl is due soon and we really need to decide.

I love the sound of Fiadh (Fee-ah) and the meaning (wild or deer), and it's link to nature.
The only thing stopping us is we live in a England and the tricky spelling. I've tried it out on a few people and I get 'oh Thea' straight away, or confused faces, which could be irksome.

Daisy has always been a favourite of mine. I know some find it twee but I don't personally see it like that. My DH is struggling to get on board with it due to the twee factor.
Daphne is a name we both like but I'm finding hard to commit to.

Not really looking for suggestions as I've discounted everything else! Thank you.

Can you change the spelling of fiadh? To make it easier. As someone with an apparently difficult to pronounce name (it's not, every letter is it's correct sound, it's bonkers.) she will spend her life correcting people and just accepting random names to save the embarrassment.
I like Dafne, I think it's become more common this year though, I think in a few years there'll be a few in school.

I have Sophia, known as Fia.

Can you change the spelling of fiadh? To make it easier. Why? Would you suggest changing the spelling of Michael, Thomas or Matthew?

What a strange thing to say. Why on earth would you not? I can't imagine thinking twice if I met an "adult professional" called Daisy, or most names really. (Bambi might make me blink, unless it was the other kind of adult professional).

I like all your names OP, as an "adult professional" the name I would choose out of them to be called myself is Daisy, I think it is a lovely name, but they are all good, there are plenty of Niamhs and Aoifes and Aislings round here (South of England), also a Grainne - as you say if the name is really popular in Ireland no doubt people will learn how to spell and pronounce it.

What do you think of Cara op? Easy to spell and say

In Ireland there was a spelling reform in the 1950s and the spelling of the word fiadh was changed to fia.

So the spelling has already been changed.
Deer is spelt fia in Irish today, not fiadh. It also means wild.

Lots of people do use the older spelling for the name, even though it only started being used as a name fairly recently. Both Fia and Fiadh were first recorded as baby names in the 1990s. Fiadh is the more popular spelling now.

Scottish Gaelic still uses the older spelling, fiadh, for a deer as far as I know.

@Signout , it was the 'to make it easier' I was commenting on.

I'm trying to avoid the letter C T and R due to siblings. Also Cara is a friend of my son's so feels a bit close.
I feel like with three siblings and a huge family so many names have been discounted!

People in England are ridiculous about names. Fiadh is a beautiful name and I honestly wouldn’t be put off. How about Fiadh Daisy which I think sounds lovely

Fiadh or Daphne; I don’t like Daisy for the same reason as your husband.

That was one of the aims of the Irish language spelling reform as it happens, to make it easier, for learners in particular 😁

i think you are missing the point and I don't really care anyway.

Call the child Daphny.

Fiadh is a beautiful name, easily the best on your list, and her friends and teachers will quickly get used to how to say it.

I'd say if you are looking for the nearest English sound Sophia is a lot nicer than Thea - but Fiadh is lovely.

Actual Irish person here (with one of those hard to pronounce names), god I have to eye roll at all these little Englanders

I live in england now, all my kids have traditional Irish names - people get used to it and the kids love the link to their heritage. Yes we get mispronunciation, but we politely correct them and move on and then next time they get it right

Please don't rule out a lovely name because of these lowest common dominator posters and for the love of god don't use some butchered anglasized version

Hear, hear.

And no to Neeves and Shivauns.

Daphne is lovely.

Daisy is too popular.

Fiadh sound the same as fear.

Daphne or Daisy. Other one too annoying to spell and pronounce. Daphne is very trendy at the moment though so might date.

There’s a Fiadh (with an Irish mum) at our school in the south west of England and everyone seems fine with it.

I get the point but I think your concern was misplaced in this particular example. In this case there is an easier and valid spelling option. Not sure if pp knew that of course, but it had already been explained upthread.

Have you not come across the Sunday Post. Daphne Broon is a legend.

I don't care about the name Fiadh or it's spelling, it's the simplification of names that I care about.
People wouldn't suggest simplifying Michael, Phoebe or Chloe.

Daphne Broon rocks! As does Daphne from Scooby Doo!

Okay, but pp wasn’t suggesting simplifying them or any name other than Fiadh, which you can legitimately simplify.
Maybe she didn’t know that, but maybe she did.
Anyway.
I’m not going to say any more about it now.
I’m sure we’re boring people!

You were the one dragging it out.

Well. That's certainly taken a turn 😊
Perhaps stick with Daisy!