cant think of unique irish boys name. suggestions please.

[breaghsmum]

ds1 is called Bréagh, (pronounced bray)
we have a girls name already but cant think of a boys name that will compliment our son's. we want an irish name as our son's is irish and we dont want a name that someone we know has. any suggestions would be lovely.

MacDaragh.
Think the village you are refering to is called Termonfeckin

Is it true, as DD1 tells me, that people with non-translatable names, are called Gobnait and Phelim at Irish college? (Have a baby girl, isn't Gobnait a great name?)

how about Torran? not sure if its irish,.but know someone who's irish and its his name, does that make it an irish name??

those are all fab, i have a patrick, saoirse(girl),colm, niall, jarlath, sé (shay), ruaidhrí(rory), ciarán, séan, pearse, connor,in my family, well thats all i can think of right now. huge family. im liking lorcan and eóin. and theres a few new ones i havent heard before. shall have to sound them out. thanks

Eoin, Pierce or Oisin would be my preferences as unusual spelling bt pronoucable!
Love Dermot too!

breaghsmum, I have an Irish names book I'd be happy to send you if you like?

rosmerta thats a lovely offer, i wouldnt want to take that off you, im sure there's plenty of names on the internet. thank you very much though.

What about Mylo?

off the tweenies?

Gobnait means barbara doesn't it? My dd might go to gaelscoil, but I'll be cross if they call her Gobnait (not sure her name translates)

Gob for short! that is so rude. Hey sauce a knocka, we gonna call you GOB!

Thought Gobnait was Deborah, could be wrong though

liffeybag

No, Uisneagh is an Irish name.

Naoise, who ran off with Deirdre of the sorrows, was one of the sons of Uisneagh.

Every Barbara I've ever come across that tried to Irish themselves up went by Bairbre (e.g. Bairbre de Brún)

Anyway, just insist at the school that they not translate your daughter's name. I hate that they translate forenames. I went to a Gaelscoil and they put a random fada on my (totally Irish, and probably not very difficult to guess from my last post ) name that isn't there they way I (or any normal person spells it).

I knew boys called Peter who had to endure being called Peadar, and a boy called Sam outside school but Sómhairle (yuck!) there. It's so unfair to mess about with a child's given name when they are so little.

The worst I heard was a girl called Verity who was called Fírinne FFS

PS Gobnait is the most ugly name there is. Such ugly sounds in either Irish or English.

Oh Verity is lovely, and firinne is totally different and a bit weird. That would be mad.

Gobnait is like a joke name. I read it was still being used. According the Irish daily mail quoting the icso. NeVer MET one!!

i'D Be hard pushed to choose between Queenie and Gobnait! (other thread)

How about....Eamon?

Noooooo, not Eamonn! Every Eamonn I know is a nutter!

me too, D

(DD1 escapes Gobnaitisation by having a Catalan name, and if necessary uses her middle name and my surname. Her own surname is Welsh - why would anyone translate a Welsh name into Irish? She loves Irish!) I know a nice Eamonn, but he is eccentric. Daire?

Caoimhin (Kwee-veen). Bit too close to Kevin, maybe?

Desmond
Declan

both due a revival, surely?

I know of a boy called something that sounds like Tray-lock (Turlough??)

I liked Lorcan but dh said it reminded him of some radio DJ...

A lot of the names mentioned so far were popular when I was growing up so seem a bit old-fashioned to me now (Niall, Eamonn, etc)

What about Donncha?

I'm also curious what TiggyR called her ds - I chose easy-to-pronounce names for mine too as we live in the UK but people still get them wrong...

Oran is my little nephews name

Colm, or Donal

Yes grapefruit, I wouldn't call a baby Colm, Niall or Eamonn. Or even Declan tbh, although it probably seems 'new' elsewhere.

Just like calling a baby Stephen really. Ok, but,,,,,,,