irish names

[mum2niamh]

my dd is called niamh and i would like a celtic/irish/scottish name for my next child, sex as yet unknown. Suggestions please!

pronounced as sorsha?

saoirse is beautiful. nearly named dd that. my favourite irish names are

sadhbh
laoise
siofra
muireann
beibhinn
riona
dearbhail
caoimhe
i have named dd from the above list.

for boys-
fionn
naoise
fiachra
tadhg
oisin

My favorites are..
Boy: Aonghus, Kieran, Lorcan, Quinn
Girl: Aisling, Clodagh, Maeve, Tegwen
Got them from the list of Irish names at:
www.babynamespedia.com/search/f/irish
www.babynamespedia.com/search/m/irish

ciaran

Finn

I have a Sorsha... We saw Sorcha in a book and fell for it , only to discover its correct pronounciation is sora-ka, or Sor-ka, so we decided to go with the phonetic spelling, which to be honest we now regret a bit - think it just doesn't look as nice. Just a word of warning if you are thinking of doing the same with a gaelic name.

I have an Eilidh - I live in England though and its not known down here but suits her down to a T very unique. Its pronounced Aylee and she knew how to spell it from 2 years old.

Shona means happy in gaelic and I believe that Siobhán is gaelic from Joan.

No idea what Dannan means but I've come across that name a couple of times recently, along with Liadan. Were they daughters of Lír (from the Irish folk tale, the children of Lír)?

source of inspiration for Irish names in Ireland now?

Ciara
Ursula (is this Irish, one of my irish cousins called it)
Helena (pronounced Heleena)

Aine (pronounced Onya).

always loved aisling -"a dream" but was the name of make of exercise books at school.

one of ours is an eithne(enya) which everyone pronounces "ethnee"!

also love Bosco but didn't have any boys! and whether would have used who knows.

Milo is a great boys name but of course link with tweenies!

Cashel also interesting name- Daniel Day Lewis has called one of his sons.

Thanks everyone, I'm scottish but my grandfather was irish hence the irish name question!

I like Cian but DH hates it

How do I pronounce Saoirse? It looks like a pretty name!

My DH is complaining beside me that if it's going to be gaelic, it has to be something scottish people 'know' and 'can spell'

PS we both like Eilidh but my mum moans that it's 'too common'.

DD1 is Saoirse. We pronounce it Seer-sha but people from other parts of Ireland say Sore-sha. Not to be confused with Seoirse (See-or-sha) which is George. Or Sorcha, which is Sarah.

DD2 is Aoife (ee-fa)

Just gave birth to Oisin (we say Ush-een, but Osheen is also correct) this morning!

I like Aidan.

What about Conal - is that how you spell it? Irish, nice sound. Or Cormac.