Seamas

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What are your favourite Irish names, might run a poll?
I like seamus and siobhan

mike65

*sighs* I always liked atractor myself

Mike.

CathyMoran

Sean, Aebhric, Deirdre, Cait

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mike65 wrote:

*sighs* I always liked atractor myself

Mike.

Irish names

Stench Blossoms

Seamus, Aoife, Cathal, Tadhg, Saoirse

Chinafoot

Aoibhe
and
Connor

Pighead

Peachi
Pantsie
Muc-Ceann
mmmmmmmmmm

Oriel

Meghan

mike65

|johnsadro| wrote:

Irish names

Dont red letter me sonny!

Athracht if you insist.

Mike.

LadyJ

Anything with og after it is always funny!

ApeXaviour

I think fella's irish names mostly don't sound so great..

Sadhb on the other hand..

Ro: maaan!

ApeXaviour wrote:

Sadhb

Pronounced?


I like Séan. Have to say.

Ron DMC

Ro: maaan! wrote:

Pronounced?

Syve

LadyJ

Don't like Ronan tbh

Repli

Caoimhe

A$$A$$IN

Darroch, bit of a battle name tbh

Bottle_of_Smoke

ruán, radie

LadyJ

Not a big Ruadhari fan either!

ApeXaviour

Repli wrote:

Caoimhe

good one..


I think I'm having daughters

Ron DMC

LadyJ wrote:

Don't like Ronan tbh

Why the hell not?

I also like Feidhlim for a guy, and ailbhe for a girl

LadyJ

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

Why the hell not?

I also like Feidhlim for a guy, and ailbhe for a girl

Sorry,twas a jab at Ro:maaan

Bottle_of_Smoke

Ro: maaan! wrote:

Pronounced?


I like Séan. Have to say.

I know a Sive, thats prob how she spells it.

ladyj wrote:

Not a big Ruadhari fan either!

leave me alone!

LadyJ

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

I know a Sive, thats prob how she spells it.



leave me alone!

Ah my friend,I kid,I kid!

Kernel

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

Why the hell not?

I also like Feidhlim for a guy, and ailbhe for a girl

Terrible... terrible... Christ, I know you're a D4 head and all, but don't name the kids that.
:rolleyes:

Bottle_of_Smoke

Feidhlim

we had a teacher called feidhlim, never has evil been seen in a purer state

sceptre

orla wrote:

Seamus

I'm sorry but that's a terrible name handed out by bogger parents who should really know better. I frequently think of Minnie Driver's deliberately bad Oirish accent when I hear that name (depending on the accent), unfortunately I hear it a lot.

And a firm "no" to any names with completely unnecessary consonants that are only there as an affectation since we revised Irish back in the fifties.

I once went out with someone who wanted to name her first three boy-childs "Nessan", "Sennan" and "Tiernan". Ignoring the notion that all three together sound like a circus act or an Irish teachers conference, I rather hope she's gone a little less loopy since she got married and presumably started thinking seriously about breeding.

Stench Blossoms

sceptre wrote:

I'm sorry but that's a terrible name handed out by bogger parents who should really know better. I frequently think of Minnie Driver's deliberately bad Oirish accent when I hear that name (depending on the accent), unfortunately I hear it a lot.

And a firm "no" to any names with completely unnecessary consonants that are only there as an affectation since we revised Irish back in the fifties.

I once went out with someone who wanted to name her first three boy-childs "Nessan", "Sennan" and "Tiernan". Ignoring the notion that all three together sound like a circus act or an Irish teachers conference, I rather hope she's gone a little less loopy since she got married and presumably started thinking seriously about breeding.

I like it, I'm not a bogger and i shall give that name to my first son (if i have one)

seamus

Moved from AH

I'm sorry but that's a terrible name handed out by bogger parents who should really know better.

Bitter much?

I like Irish boys' namesm there are a good few around that aren't used too much. Very few girls' names are good in Irish. Siobhan, Ciara, Aoife...*shudder*, just say it to yourself in a Jobstown accent.

Eolan, maybe Sennan are nice names. There are plenty of horrible ones though - Conchur (ugh!), Breffni (suits you!) for example.

mike65

sceptre wrote:

I once went out with someone who wanted to name her first three boy-childs "Nessan", "Sennan" and "Tiernan". Ignoring the notion that all three together sound like a circus act or an Irish teachers conference...

I belive they were made by Datsun in the late 70s....

Mike.

Shyster

there are nice girls names?!
Aoibh, Sadhbh, Caoimhe....eh......a little help here...Simón?
for boys:
Fiach(r)a, Seán, Donnacha, Eamonn, Eolann, Cuán

Its the old names that people dont like ie. Gobnait

apologies in advance if you have been graced with such a name

uberwolf

Caolán
Caoimbhe

Laoibhse (nó an leagan níos easca Laoise)

Suaimhneach

Fiachra, Saoirse[an tainm a bhfearr m'athair dom], Con[aimn m'athair], Setanta, Ruadhraí [tar éis Gallagher].

Daráine freisin.

Eilís.

Sin é cheapaim.

Gael

LadyJ wrote:

Sorry,twas a jab at Ro:maaan

Ronan Keating has a lot to answer for. He's ruined the name for me anyway.

Matthewthebig

Orlaith and Rioghnach for girdiles

*Sinéad*

taithníonn seadna agus tadhg liom, o buachaillí dar nóigh, nílim cinnte faoi cailin.

Gael

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taithníonn seadna agus tadhg liom, o buachaillí dar nóigh, nílim cinnte faoi cailin.

GOBNAIT!!

poppins9000

aoibhinn.............
meadbh........
ruan..........
fryia........

hullaballoo

Caoilfhoinn...girl (pronounced Keelin)
Fionnán...boy
Suppose Setanta's a no-go area these days

Feenikusu

Not sure if they are all irish, but I like Sinead, Roisin, Ciara, Nuala, Gwendolyn, Cassidy, Mailin, Sean, Seamus, Cillian and Ryan.

hullaballoo

Feenikusu wrote:

Not sure if they are all irish, but I like Sinead, Roisin, Ciara, Nuala, Gwendolyn, Cassidy, Mailin, Sean, Seamus, Cillian and Ryan.

Gwendolyn & Ryan = Welsh(unless u spell ryan rian, stupid),
Mailin = Scottish (but let's not split hairs)
Cassidy = American

But yeah, the rest are all fairly much Irish. Except Seán, I'm not a fan of Seán, just from an Irish point of view. Seán is an anglicised-irish-esque word for John. The real Irish for the name is Eoin, or Eoghan.

I can just imagine how many people are going to tell me I'm wrong about that, so as a pre-emptive move--each to his own,

Gael

hullaballoo wrote:

Gwendolyn & Ryan = Welsh(unless u spell ryan rian, stupid),
Mailin = Scottish (but let's not split hairs)
Cassidy = American

But yeah, the rest are all fairly much Irish. Except Seán, I'm not a fan of Seán, just from an Irish point of view. Seán is an anglicised-irish-esque word for John. The real Irish for the name is Eoin, or Eoghan.

I can just imagine how many people are going to tell me I'm wrong about that, so as a pre-emptive move--each to his own,

Well as it happens you are wrong about "Seán". It came about from the Franco-Norman name "Jean", not "John", with the arrival of the Normans to Ireland. It's actually one of many misconceptions about many Irish words. Anyway it's originally a Hebrew name, not an English one. But it has a history in Ireland going back nearly a thousand years. Seán O'Neill, Uncle of Hugh O'Neill(he of the battle of Kinsale, 1601) being probably the most famous historical character to bear the name.
There are many words that came into Irish from Latin, French and Norse. But a lot of people assume that the words were recent makey-uppy words taken from English that were created by Irish revivalists in the 20th century, just because they are similar to the English words.
Very often both English and Irish borrowed the word from another language. It's another one of these fallacies that convinces many people of English's inate superiority to Irish.
Some examples:
"Sráid", comes from Norse, not the English word "street".
"Dáinséar", comes from French, not from the English "danger"(which came from French as well)
"Maighnéad" comes from the Latin, not the English "Magnet". In fact it's use in Irish in medieval scientific manuscripts, is known to be older than in English.
"Mainistir" comes from the latin, not the English "monastery". And the list goes on.....

sceptre

seamus wrote:

Moved from AH
Bitter much?

Naw, not at all. It's put the hex on my chosen career of action movie star though.

I see lots of unnecessary consonants up there, people.

Lighthouse_Cat

hullaballoo wrote:

Caoilfhoinn...girl (pronounced Keelin)

Damn someone got there before me!
How about Cliodhna? (couldn't do a fada)

I've always been fond of Cathal, but then I've always been very vain. It's great, until you leave this country and become Ka-thal (or Kay-thal). I was once asked if it was latin. Then it's a bit of a b!tch really.

unkel

I quite like most girls' names and some boys' names as long as it is not sweet little fooking jaysis (only came across it twice but it is very sick and sad indeed)

melekalikimaka

Freya(dunno the irsh spelling)
Niamh
Aisling
Aislinn

simu

Freya's Scandinavian or something.

What about Lorcán for a boy? I think it's nice.

embee

My names Sorcha, but I don't like it.

Elfish

Is maith liom na h-ainmneacha:
Seamus, Eoin, Finghin, Niall

agus do na chailíní:
Meadhbh, Caolfhoinn(ceapaim go bhfuil fuaim an deas ag an ceann seo), Róisín

Shyster

Until that doctors surgery programme on rte last year I'd never heard of the name keelin before, and I loved it,
but tbh I think it'd be a curse on the child to call her caoilfhionn(as much as I like it) because people would be forever calling her quailfun and the like......
not trying to take from the name but theres nothing worse than people constantly getting your name wrong!
I suppose if it became more popular there'd be less people that ignorant to it like me

Gael

Shyster wrote:

Until that doctors surgery programme on rte last year I'd never heard of the name keelin before, and I loved it,
but tbh I think it'd be a curse on the child to call her caoilfhionn(as much as I like it) because people would be forever calling her quailfun and the like......
not trying to take from the name but theres nothing worse than people constantly getting your name wrong!
I suppose if it became more popular there'd be less people that ignorant to it like me

There is a more modern/simpler spelling that I've seen used - Caoilinn. Although it's does betray the meaning of the name somewhat.
I met a Caoilfhionn once who was amazed I could pronounce her name properly when I read it off a page. There are a few of us who can you know!

Shyster

see at first glance Id look at that like the name Caolán and pronounce the first bit more like "caoimhe" than "kee".. doesnt make much sense written down so ill shup!