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!

Funny cos I was 'coco' on the bearpit! I wondered if you knew that.

I am glad Seamus is having a revival. Love it.

Naoise pronounced neesha

cikecaka you were right. I bit the bullet and asked them It's Caolain.

Happy now...and it's a lovely name too. Thanks all.

Cookoo - Liadan means "grey lady", sort of, but is an old mythological name, so "meaning" isn't really important iyswim.

(Incidentally - I posted my "birth announcement" exactly 2 hours after the birth and my antenatal thread (from last May when I had last baby) are wondering if that's a record. )

Caolain, as a girls' name is usually spelled Caoilainn afaik. Caolain is a surname.

I like Aine for a girl, I called my boy Conor. Or if your baby is due around Xmas Nollaig (for a girl meaning Christmas)

I have a Keeva which is Caoimhe but as we are in England we decided to anglicise it for ease of pronounciation and spelling. Keeva says she prefers the Irish spelling but I guess she can change it when she gets older. In my opinion a beautiful name.

I met a little girl yesterday whose name is pronounced 'Grieg' as in the composer.

However, it is actually spelt 'Grug' and is a Welsh name.

Pretty name but shame about the spelling.

My boys both have Irish names, but pretty mainstream ones iyswim. ds2 was going to be Roisin if he had been a girl.

So as he didn't need the name, I nabbed it for here. I love it!

I always put the accent on the second syllable, sort of Ruh-SHEEN, which I think is common in England. But I believe it is more correct to say ROE-sheen (as in Roe deer).

Cai is nice for a boy (it's welsh)

What about soirse, i think thats very pretty

how exactly do you pronounce maeve?

Some nice ones on here. I am biased but I love Aidan - its my ds's name! Our kids are in a Gaelic language school in Scotland so there are lots of scots gaelic names but also Irish - Seamus is popular, also Finn, Ruriadh (spelling?) Lachlann, Uilleam, Colm, Iain. For girls, Roisin, Caitlinn, Siobhan, Eilidh, Morna, Muireann,

Saoirse is lovely, but the only place I have ever come across it is in the book 'Round Ireland With A Fridge' - its the fridge's name. So that would put me off just a little!!!

We have a Roisin. DH's beloved maternal Nana was Roisin, she was from Cork, so we named DD2 after her.

He liked the lady, I never had a chance to meet her, but I am a sucker for a good story, and the story of how she came to Scotland and stayed I liked.

I am reading 'West Highland Tales' and there are some great names in there.

Fraoch for a boy.

Diarmuid, of course.

Grainne for a girl.

Aisla for a girl.

Our son will be a Struan.

A boy piper in Bute stopped to speak to DD1, who is an Eilidh and his name was Coinneach, the Gaelic for Kenneth. I thought that was as lovely as him on his pipes!

A boy piper in Bute stopped to speak to DD1, who is an Eilidh and his name was Coinneach, the Gaelic for Kenneth. I thought that was as lovely as him on his pipes!