Baby names!

SusieBlue

Digs wrote: »

Ah YH I hope you and the kids are doing well! I am expecting #3 in November! We don’t know what we’re having but have Tadhg or Rory for a boy. That’s where it ends, after naming two girls we’re struggling! My husband loves traditional Irish boys names but is less receptive to girls!
This is what we have but none are completely grabbing us - Aoife, Laoise, Naoise, Ada. Doesn’t necessarily have to be Irish at this stage. I’d take anything that sounds attractive haha.

I know Naoise is a boys name before anyone murders me but it seems to be going 50/50 these days. My daughter has a girl Naoise in her class also.

A few that came to mind that you might like.

Aideen
Saorla
Blaithín (blaw-heen, meaning little flower)
Alana
Caoimhe
Meadhbh
Síofra
Aoibheann

Not so Irish..

Sadie
Hannah
Freya
Emily
Zoe
Ruby
Lydia

Would any of those catch your eye?

Digs

I love Róisín, Caoimhe, Eimear & Alana but family rules them out!!

Aoibheann is actually one we both agree on but my sisters friend is called Aoibheann and she’s constantly correcting people, she was warning me recently it drives her nuts. People seem to get confused with the Aoibh, Aoibhe, Éabha type names. I know there’s the Eavan spelling but again is this going to cause her problems?

We’ve toyed with Saorla and Ceola too. Freya my husband mentioned last night aswell, I quite like it. Our other issue is my first daughters name ends in agh, and my second the letter A so we seem to be drawn to names that end in the ah sound, a trio of them sounds a bit rhymey :O

ETA: if we had a daughter in the morning we’d genuinely struggle. Didn’t have this on the other two! I don’t want to give a third girl a name I don’t love as much as her sisters!!

Foweva Awone

The mispronunciation of Aoibheann drives me mad!

Some Irish girls names I like are ... Cora, Aoibhe, Sabdh, Macha, Una, Siobhain, Tara, Riona, Nora, Deirdre, Eadaoin, Clodagh.

Lisha

My daughter is Deirdre, I like that it’s Irish but not very used in children lately. Must Deirdre’s I know are 40plus...
Other names I Love are Clodagh, Grainne and Maisie.

I love Tiernan for a boy.

Purple Lemons

Lisha wrote: »

My daughter is Deirdre, I like that it’s Irish but not very used in children lately. Must Deirdre’s I know are 40plus...
Other names I Love are Clodagh, Grainne and Maisie.

I love Tiernan for a boy.

I had a little boy 2 weeks ago, was going to be named Tiernan or Lachlan but 2yo daughter couldn't pronounce either so we went with Jacob/Jake :pac:

snor

Love the more traditional Irish names - Ciara, Ròisín, Òrla, Aoife.
Some of the make recent ones I am not a fan of. Also don't like names that are constantly mispronounced - esp of parents give the name the incorrect Irish spelling in the first place and then correct anyone who calls the chi,d the correct name for the spelling! Drives me nuts ��

Betsie_xr3i

Digs I hear you on the struggle for girls names, we had a boys name straight away but struggling big time with a girl x

Foweva Awone

Maeve is another nice one that you rarely hear these days. My newest niece was very nearly named that recently, it's a beautiful name. (They went for Lucy in the end.)

Digs

Thanks for all the suggestions! My husband loves the more traditional boys names but for some reason is a hard sell on the girls ones. He does like Aoife though and well think further on Aoibheann.

Maeve is just one I don’t like and neither does he. I’m not sure why but I think I associate it with a girl I went school with. Typical Irish response!

Jillapino

My little boy is 5 weeks old and we named him Rowan mixed responses to it but we love it, people do think it's ronan tho!