Baby names!

pooch90

I'm a primary teacher, just about every name gets spoiled by a brat you've encountered at some stage! The only name that has been consistent as always being nice kids is Ben.
There are mountains of Sophias and Caras coming through.

RE Barbara becoming Barbie, I know two or three.

We have two lists

Girls:
Charlotte (Charlie)
Zoe
Sarah
Eve (Evie)
Maeve
Kate
Jessica
Anna Beth

Boys ( We don't even know if we like half of these!!)
Stephen
Sam
Leon
Darragh
James
Benjamin
Nathaniel (Nate)
Lucas (Luke)
Aidan
Aaron
Conor
Oliver
Alistair
Hugh.

keeponhurling

Eneas is a grand Irish name, quite popular out Mayo way, pronounced Anus

Neyite

keeponhurling wrote: »

Eneas is a grand Irish name, quite popular out Mayo way, pronounced Anus

Mod:
Troll like that again in Parenting and it'll be cards and bans handed out.

Blingy

Is Finley a unisex name?
Thought it was a boys name but looking online i see it may also be a girls name!

pooch90

Wasn't there a girl in home and away years ago called Finley?
Also a surname.

misterdeeds

Name for A Boy........ Ronan

Name for A Girl ........ Ella

We love both of the names so hopefully itl happen :-)
just the one will do us fine :-)

cruais

For a girl

Sarah - Louise
Amelia - Louise
Isabella - Grace

For a boy

John
Ben
Conor
Ethan (Hubbie doesnt like this one)
Daniel

Balmed Out

Funny how names come and go in popularity. My kid is in a creche with about a dozen others but there's two of each of Emily, Elly, Darragh and Tom but no Niamh, Aisling, Sarah, Shane or Conor.

Saralee4

Thank god we have finally come up with a name after we had confirmation we are having a girl the other day.

Im not going to say what we picked but its a very short name.

Anyway other names we had picked were:

Andrea
Melissa
Fay
Alice

If it had been a boy i liked:

Dara
Killian
Stephen
Jon

retro:electro

Thoughts on the name Ailbhe? Overdone?

Into The Blue

anna080 wrote: »

Thoughts on the name Ailbhe? Overdone?

The child will be spelling the name down a phone for life.

Why not Anna after you? Beautiful name.

mocha please!

anna080 wrote: »

Thoughts on the name Ailbhe? Overdone?

I really like it.

In fact I love loads of Irish names. I just wouldn't use one myself because I know personally it would annoy me if I had a name I had to constantly spell out or correct the pronunciation. (I imagine most people will spell it Alva when they hear it, and many will be unsure of the correct pronunciation.)

That wouldn't bother many people though, so go for it if you like it. If I were going to use an Irish name, it would be Aoibhe - I just LOVE it. (Again, though, it would end up being spelled Eva most of the time, which puts me off!)

Oh and I don't think it's overdone at all, in fact I can only ever remember meeting two Ailbhes in my life!

Sligo1

If we ever have another girl I think a name in the running could be Freya. Any thoughts?

cant26

Sligo1 wrote: »

If we ever have another girl I think a name in the running could be Freya. Any thoughts?

Freya is a lovely name. It's on my list along with Faye and Olivia if I ever have a girl!

Xdancer

Sligo1 wrote: »

If we ever have another girl I think a name in the running could be Freya. Any thoughts?

I wouldn't be a fan but that might be because I associate it with an underwear brand.

Sligo1

Xdancer wrote: »

I wouldn't be a fan but that might be because I associate it with an underwear brand.

Lol lol. O yea! I wear Freya!!! Lol lol. And I never even thought of that!!

Xdancer

Sligo1 wrote: »

Lol lol. O yea! I wear Freya!!! Lol lol. And I never even thought of that!!

I hope I haven't spoiled the name for you.

Sligo1

Xdancer wrote: »

I hope I haven't spoiled the name for you.

Lol. No not at all. I think it's a really pretty name. Besides... The Freya bras are really pretty aswell! Lol

irishgirl19

Due in August with a little girl and we are planning on calling her Eva.
I love it and so does my OH.
I also really like Evie (could've put Genevieve on the birth cert,my names Jennifer so would be nice too) but himself thinks its too similar to evil! Where he got that from,nobody knows but he turned me off it lol

pooch90

Evie is high on my list too,never thought of it as Genevieve,girl from home us called that and just uses Genny.


A girl I taught last year was called Eva,the kids in class got it wrong from day one and think her name is Aoife!! She never corrected them! Still like Eva though.

Freya is another name teaching has ruined but its so pretty,they mention the God Freya a lot in Norse mythology.

irishgirl19

pooch90 wrote:

A girl I taught last year was called Eva,the kids in class got it wrong from day one and think her name is Aoife!! She never corrected them! Still like Eva though.

Oh no! I've had a few people say Aoife? When I said Eva. I hope they don't get mixed up

implausible

anna080 wrote: »

Thoughts on the name Ailbhe? Overdone?

I love it, any Ailbhes I know are 30+, so not overdone at all, in fact I'd say it might be a bit unusual. It's a really pretty name. I wouldn't worry about the spelling, I have a very common, easy to spell name and people get it wrong all the time.

pooch90

irishgirl19 wrote: »

Oh no! I've had a few people say Aoife? When I said Eva. I hope they don't get mixed up

Just get Eva printed all over her babygros

I think once you're very specific in your pronunciation of it they won't get jumbled up.

mocha please!

irishgirl19 wrote: »

Due in August with a little girl and we are planning on calling her Eva.
I love it and so does my OH.
I also really like Evie (could've put Genevieve on the birth cert,my names Jennifer so would be nice too) but himself thinks its too similar to evil! Where he got that from,nobody knows but he turned me off it lol

An alternative could be Evelyn? I think that's a beautiful name, and you could always shorten it to Eve/Eva/Evie. I also love the Irish version, Eibhlín.

Sligo1

pooch90 wrote: »

Freya is another name teaching has ruined but its so pretty,they mention the God Freya a lot in Norse mythology.

Is Freya a popular name in your school? The reason I was thinking of it is because I was trying to get away from the more popular names and I don't know of anyone who has named their little one Freya

danrua01

It's gonna be Layla and Alessandro for me!

pooch90

There is only one in my school and she is the only one I've met in 9 years of teaching. One of my friends called his daughter Freya.

Saralee4

Having a girl but heard a boys name today that i thought was nice, Ennis

Moonbeam

I love the name Genevieve.
There are loads of small children called Freya around atm but it is still a lovely name.

tamcp

My son is called Odhran