Thoughts on using the name Clodagh for our baby girl

[Rossmayo]

Both me and partner are Irish but live in England, thoughts on calling our baby girl Clodagh?
Pronounced Clo - Dah
I think it’s easy enough to say but interested to see people’s reactions with no Irish heritage.
Any advice is appreciated,
thank you

English and no difficulty in pronouncing it correctly from the spelling

I'm English. I've heard of the name and think it's easy to pronounce but it seems quite old fashioned to me.

Lovely.

Yes, but I don’t think we need to do other people’s under thinking for them.

I knew a Clodagh as a child (in Liverpool). I always thought it was a pretty name :)

Native English speakers shouldn’t mispronounce it because it’s a standard pronunciation for a Celtic origin name. It’s unusual in England but I have met one so not that unusual

I think it's a really ugly name I'm afraid. But I love Bronagh and Clover.

I like it but it is quite dated. What about Fiadh ?

Love it, like the sound. One of the easiest Irish names to pronounce (or understand easily how to pronounce).

I like it a lot.

Fiadh is currently so overused that in a few years it will feel incredibly dated!

I like the name (and live Irish names in general) but in mainland Europe it's shorter version, Clo is used to refer to toilet.

I live in England but English is my second language.

I guessed Clodag or Clodda.

Looking upthread, I think it’s much nicer than Bronagh. Clodagh sounds like a stronger, less twee version of Chloe. Whereas Bronagh sounds like ‘Bro’ or bone and is less nice than Bronwyn or Briony.

I'm not Irish and don't think I know anyone with this name. I knew how to say it. It's beautiful.

I think it’s lovely! Once met a little Aoife (I’ve probably spelt it wrong) pronounced Ee-fah.

I think it’s just a case of once someone knows their name they will pronounce it correctly. I’m 43, do have a slightly ‘rarer’ name that is NOT difficult to pronounce from the spelling of it but you would be amazed at how it is pronounced by some people. Put it this way - I give a different name if I ever visit Starbucks as we’ve had some howlers!!

I like it but think she will find that people don't spell it correctly so if you go for it, be prepared to be correcting certificates/spelling it out for people etc.

I would say it clod-uh, which sounds heavy. If it's cloe-dah then it's a bit nicer but imagine it being said with an English accent, probably CLOE-duh, like the beginning of Chloe. English people are terrible with sounds that aren't 'English' so if it is somewhere between a short 'o' in CLOD and a long 'o' in CLOE they won't manage it.

DD's friend is Aine and she is used to correcting everyone at school! At least it's easy to say once you know.

It’s a long o, like the one in Chloe.
It’s an anglicised spelling and pronunciation anyway. The name came from a river (called An Chlóideach in Irish).

You're right. Maybe okay as a middle name but the right thing to do is to think about the child's experience with the name and where they live / opportunities available to them. It's easy for parents to forget the child isn't 'theirs'. It's not your personal property. It's a human being with its own rights and needs so what you want as a name isn't relevant. They can change it later anyway.

It's a no from me.