Irish girls names

Naoise (Neesha) is traditionally a boy’s name but I’ve heard it being used for girls too

Liadán

Caoilfhionn

Doireann

Muirne

Laoise

Labhaoise

Cáit

Íde

Ríona

Odharna

Lasairfhíona

Nainsí

Fáinche

Gobnait

Deirdre

Ailbhe

Clíodhna

🤣🤣🤣

Caragh.

Could go for an irish name that people outside of Ireland can pronounce

Tara,

Orla,

Eileen

As someone with an Irish name who has to explain it 20 times/day living overseas, please don't put your child through the torture of having a crazy Irish name

Favorite would be Saoirse, Aoibhinn or Roisin.

Only concern here would be to avoid names with fadas ' because nobody will ever use them and in a digital world nobody will ever type it either.

Alt gr and the vowel gives you the fada. 😉

Gobnait

Went to school with a girl called Fainne, never met another one

Also met a little girl last week called Croi

Both really nice names I think.

And as someone who always has to spell my name for people, give your child whatever name you want. It's not a big deal to spell your name or tell someone how to pronounce it.

Can't get more Irish than Gráinne!

My daughter's name is Aislín - (Irish for Little vision, pronounced Ashleen) Bear in mind though, you end up having to spell any non standard name again and again

I have a fairly bog standard English name and surname and I still had to spell out and tell people how to pronounce when I lived in a non English speaking country so I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Would worry more about if it causes problems at home - which some obscure names can.

I live in Ireland and wouldn’t consider any of the above names ‘obscure’. People are generally very accepting of a persons given name and if they aren’t they are d***s and few and far between. It hasn’t been my experience that people in Ireland behave like that and if they do they should be called out for it and not supported by trying to placate them. Jasus you’d swear everyone was called John or Mary in this country like Father Ted by some of the above responses.

I work with teenagers. The variety of names is pretty wide, plenty with fada’s and plenty without. Plenty Irish names and plenty international ones. Over twenty years I’ve come across a lot of names more unusual names than above and no-one bats an eyelid even in Ireland.

Other countries don't all just speak English y'know?

Other countries have their own languages and their own names. I say my name to people and then automatically spell it, it's not a big deal and No one thinks it's unusual that I do that.

I do not understand the shame people have for their own irish names

@suvigirl Good luck with the name. One more suggestion.

One of the Clare hurlers is called Séadhna which is nice. I have also met a girl at work with the same name. Not so common but an old name. I quite like it.

Síomha

Donnfhlaith or Donnla