Need some nice Irish names..

[mica23]

Dont know sex of the baby yet but would like to give it an Irish name.DP is Irish but no help!!Thank you..

Yes, northern Irish people pronounce oven (part of the cooker) not uvin but Oven, like almost rhyming with em,,,,, Boffin.. So maybe they do the same to Oisin.

Galwaygirl, do you write 'ye'????!!!

I remember thinking it was quite sweet hearing people say 'ye' but then I was snooping over a girl's shoulder in college and she wrote ye. I thought that was extremely funny at the time

I used to think I spoke perfectly, but 15 yrs in the UK made me aware of my various mistakes. Everybody makes different ones and we don't notice our own. I split my infinitives apparently.

Ohhhh I LOVE Irish names but no Irish at all in my family so wouldn't use...

Off top of my head, like Aithne, Aoibhe (Eefa) and I adore Caoibhe (keeva).

(apologies for spellings/approximations of pronunciation)

caoimhe is my dd's name but we pronounce it kweeva, pronounciation depends on the part of the country.

just in case you needed that pointless info

I like Louhgjhhtvnvnhdfrhhve

pronounced "Louise"

I'll go now

That's why I always suggest to people that they should feel free to spell Maedhbh 'Maeve' and Dearbhala 'Dervla' and so on.

There was an article in the paper the other day about how 'we' (Irish people) can't spell Irish names, so I definitely wouldn't expect British people to be able to do it.

I met a fantastic elderly lady called Ethne (Eth-nee) recently. Apparently Ethne was an Irish Queen or a goddess - she wasn't quite sure

But anyway, I thought it was a lovely name for a lovely person

my dds middle name is Maevelyn - i had no idea you could spell it with all those d's b's and h's !!

I love Caitlin, quite popular it seems in recent years. I also love Iona, I think it is associated with the word blessed. It was our choice if we had a girl, but we had a boy instead (and called him Josiah, not an irish name!)

I met a little girl called Ethne the other day - thought it was lovely. DS is friends with an Aoife and I like that too.

Oisin (I'd say Osh-een) is cool. Have you seen 'Into the West' - charming film about two little kids - and has Gabriel Byrne in it. One is called Oisin - Ozzy for short. I know a very charismatic 6 months old baby with eyes like Yoda and a black hoody. He lives in Dublin and is called Oisin - got to love it.

Iona is Scottish - after the island. But lovely.

Shannon

Pauline would be Seanín/Shauneen. Other names are Emer (that's mine!), Maeve, Niamh, Orla, Róisín (Rowsheen), Grainne (Grawnya), Máiréad,

Boys names: Cillian, Padraig, Eoghan, Finian, Ciarán, Declan, Emmet, Brendan, Liam, Colm, Ruaraí, Fionn,

I just got these from my phone contacts

I know a whole Irish-named family, they've all been mentioned. Would agree that a name pronounceable by outsiders would be kind if you're not actually living in Ireland.

Oh, Maurice (as in Twenty Years a-growing)

Bridget/Bride (not sure how you spell that)

Margaret?

Luibhaoise. That's how you would spell Louise

Maurice is Muiris in Irish. Pronounced Mwirish.

weebump, Pauline is Poilin, isn't it? With a fada over the a?

Oh and Liffey, Mine's a Point of Hoineken please!

Girls names: Muireann, Shona and Bronagh
Boys names: Daragh, Fionn and Oisin

Chipmonkey, yeah Pauline isn't Seanín. That's Joan, or Jane I suppose. I just got carried away, as I came across a Shauneen today.

weebump

Am glad I had the right translation of Pauline purpleduck, was beginning to think I was wrong!

ha ha chipmuuuunkee! If I see a lady on the 'dort' with four boys heading in to 'tone' I'll be wondering if tis yourself.

I think Pól is just hilarious as a name. There's a journo who writes for various papers called Pól. It's like 'Rod'. Seems just a tiny bit rude!

Irish names rock, don't they?

Liffey - yes I do write 'ye' in emails and texts, but not in formal reports for work as I live in the UK and people don't say it here. I write it because I say it and it is correct English, just look up the dictionary This is what I always advise people in the UK to do when they slag me off and tell me it's not a word - usually shuts them up

And don't worry about the split infinitives, most people do that!

Something I also do, which I never noticed as everyone else at home does it too, is end questions/sentences with 'so'. For example, 'will we do that so?'/'I'll do that so'. Drives one of my friends nuts!