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Her sister is Lily Aisling, they both have beautiful names. Faolan — fay lawn. My boyfriend is from Co. Also with Niamh and Sean, they are definitely Neeve and Shawn. Sorry, this is not my opinon, this is FACT.

As a writer, I have need of many names. In my current project, I have need of several Irish names. Any idea which is more common? Or is there a similar Irish name that this could be a variant or even misspelling of? My daughter is called Aoife and the amount of people that mispronounce it or look at me in a funny way when i sound it out for them!!

One doctor just ignored her first name and called her Elizabeth her middle name. Thank you! It is. My sister is Brigid and we call her Brighde sometimes. We spell it Brighde because people use to mix up Bridie with Birdie. Thank you Grace! That is very helpful. I was thinking the same thing about spelling it Bridie, I know people would see Birdie instead.

Are you from Ireland? I know the name would be rare here in the U. My two boys have rare and unusual names in the U. Anyway so it would work for a name if we have a girl. Which name do you prefer, Padraig or Rory?

Please click through and vote! One of my readers is down to these two names and needs help deciding between them. Good morning, I just stumbled across this blog! Deirdre, Hello!

I just read your post and thought I would get your input on my post. Mine is just a few ahead of yours. Could you review it and please respond to it. This name is on our short list if we have a girl. I like this spelling but was wondering if it is pronounced like Bridie bride-EE? Thanks in advance for your time. It seems that Brighde is a Scottish Gaelic name, rather than an Irish one, which is why I, and some of my colleagues, have never come across it spelt that way and have been scratching our heads as to how to answer you!

Can anyone help with the correct pronunciation of Faiion please? Is it FY-un, rhyming with lion? Thanks for your input Deirdre, it is helpful in my search to gather the most information I can. If anyone has more information on the Brighde, I would appreciate it! Shea — shay. Its optional whether you put it in or not, i prefer it. The few people I know with this name pronounce it differently, and are all native to Ireland.

Lee-a-din for one, in whose family this name is common. Another woman pronounces it Lee-uh-dawn. These names are really hard to pronounce but they really are nice to the ears when pronounced correctly. The problem is your child would have to be ready to correct others in pronouncing their names.

I have a friend named Courtney who is full Irish and has cousins visiting us here in the States soon. To save myself the embarassment of asking the pronunciation of each family member, I reviewed this page over and over! Her oldest cousin is Cobhlaith. And the baby is Keelie Niamh which I learned the pronunciation of, but is Keelie still the same? Kirsten …. Deirdre what can you tell me on the name Ciejae…. I am not certain on the spelling but I heard it is pronounced like the letters c soft and j in english.

Ada — The pronunciation of Liadan would indeed depend on the location of the fada. I think….. Keelie is not an Irish name and no special pronunciation required! The fact that an Irish-speaker pronounces Eibhlin like Eileen confuses me. If someone knows better, please correct me. It helps a lot! I do really want to pronounce the name correctly and in the US, I think the spelling is too far off from the sound.

I am currently reading my illustrated encyclopedia of mythology and I am, at the moment, reading up on Celtic mythology. I have just finished reading about the goddess Aoife and her child with Cuchulainn, Conlain. Does anyone know how to pronounce Conlain? I have used it to create a character in one of my computer games, but I want to know how to correctly pronounce it. Any help would be much appreciated. I read up about him further into my book and it did mention that that is an alternative name for him.

Thanks for your kind help! Ireland is a beautiful country and it is my dream to visit it one day! I know how to say it finn-AH-veer but I was wondering why.. I know the bh makes a v or w sound, but its the beginning of the name that confuses me. Where does the d go? Or is this an incorrect spelling? Anything help will be extremely appreciated. Thank you :. It annoys me that some people e. Pronounciation is also a big issue so all of my friends and family call me cash-lin instead, which I like more.

My eldest son is named Seosamh. I pronounce him Sho-sieve, my hubby says Sho-shiv? Are either of us correct??! Also, we are expecting a boy who we wanted to call Ailbhe. I hoped the pronunciation was Alvay, but understand it is Alva. Is this a dialect discrepancy? Is there any name pronounced as Alvay? Help appreciated :D. We would be double barrelling like me to Aoife Adair-McAuley for our child if its a girl! But my hubby is put off cos of the spelling for the child and mispronunciation.

Any words of advice? Incidentally we like jared and noah for a boy…but I love irish names if there are any other suggestions.

Daisydoug The name Seosamh i spronounced Sho-su or Sho-sav depending on which area in Ireland you are sho-sieve is closest. Something else I have noticed are that Niamh can also along with Neeve be pronounced as Nee-av. Daisydoug Also forgot to mention that Ailbhe is pronounced Al-va without much variation.

So just to throw my bit in! Also the E at the end is not a harsh A. It is not Hebrew without the fada. None of these are simply a harsh EE at the start, none have a fada and none are Hebrew. There is a slight lilt and softness to the pronunciation of aoi starting words. I do not know who to write this phonetically in English. Hope the link helps a little!

Hi there people. Also, is Paige an Irish name? Thanks, Siobhan. Hi everyone! I was looking for some outside opions on a couple of name choices, as well as suggestions, and stumbled across this blog filled with some wonderful insights! We already have two boys named Seamus and Declan, and are looking for a name that will go well with both. For a girl, I love Orla and Aoife, and my husband loves Brigid. But we have no boys names at all! Do youhave any opion of which girl name would be best used in Canada, as well as any suggestions for another boys name?

Thanks so much for your help everyone!!! Jodi Ann. I love the name Eiley or Ailey. Hi Holly! But it is such a lovely looking name, I would be interested to see if it is pronouced Eye-Lee or A-Lee. Good luck in finding your answer!

Is Kerry nor an Irish name? I have a nephew called Fergus which I initially disliked bit have now grown to love. I know a Ceallach, everyone pronounces it Kay-lock, but softer than lock, like loch, i guess, is that right? Bagged myself in Irishman! My middle name is Maire, and my parents and relatives have argued for 31 years over its pronunciation.

Anyone care to settle it? I really wanted to name our daughter Saoirse, but my Italian husband refused. We ended up with Brynn, which I think is Welsh. Always remember in southern Ireland they generally speak in an older dialect. My name in most regions is lor-kan however we pronounce it low-r-cown.

Gin u need to ask to b sure. Gaelic is a very unusual mixture of latin and Anglian letters used to try and bring ink to a language that had not nearly enough of the same sounds to make any sense.

For most learning to speak Irish gaelic is quite easy but learning the rules of the Anglo-gaelic writing seems to be among the hardest on earth. Hi — I stumbled on this site and being Irish I want to give my first child an Irish name but my husband is Tunisian and wants a Tunisian name. I am keeping Murphy in the hyphenated surname. I am sure you can imagine the confused with my name but I am determined to use an Irish name.

So this site has been v useful. Thanks from no not eemur, emir, ember yes and eiameare, eemere — yes I have had them all!! I come from an irish family who live in england, but was given a Gaelic name, and the way people pronounce it is horrible.

To the other Eimear- whereabouts in Ireland are you from? How do you pronounce Aileen correctly? And Aiofe is Eef-eh? I am English- Dutch myself, but English people always call me Dominic or Domineek, when you actually pronounce it in a French way! What is the correct pronunciation of Faolan? I actually like fway lawn better but I want to get it correct. Gin — Rionadh is pronounced Ree-on-ah on as in opposite of off — sorry just trying to give you easiest way to say it! I saw someone ask for the pronunciation of Caitlin on here!

How do you pronounce the name Mileac? I thought the last syllable was a short i, not a short a? Am I wrong? My husband and I loved the name Mairead for our daughter, but decided to use it as her middle name instead because of the mis pronunciation that we were already getting from people when I was pregnant. Could I suggest giving your children names that the rest of the world knows how to pronounce?

I feel this would save them much frustration in their lives. Silent letters are not big or clever. Jane Alexandra, I think your comment is quite offensive and is definitely not in the vein of the conversation and the people who use this forum. Irish is an ancient language and many if not most of these names have been in use throughout thousands of years, the silent letters you are referring to do not in fact exist in the Irish language as in some others, french for example which is widely spoken.

The letters simply have different sounds and put together in certain ways allow us to make full use of the traditional 18 letter irish alphabet. When you are born in Ireland or to an Irish family these names are known and common in fact and most people can spell them. Your name and mine are not that different in age of use, yours is simply more widely known and used.

Jane Alexandra makes a good point about pronunciation. I was wondering if my name is Irish? We came across this name as we were looking at Irish saints names.

I live in the U. Thank you…. What, no one wants to know how to pronounce Colleen? I always taught Caitlin was pronounced like kotch-leen. At least that is how they called my Auntie Katie and my family is from Connemara where Gaelic was their first language.

The problem with the Irish language is that there are many dialects, they have added letters, and that even the Irish themselves will pronounce one word a bunch of ways. And yet, there is the Irish golfer Padraig Harrington who goes by the paa-drig pronounciation. We get really wound up by the names some of the Teachers call them. We have had Lacie, Kelain, Mora, Ayfee.

Teach Teachers how to pronounce names!! Thank you in advance :. Kealey is more usually an Irish surname or family name, although the use of Irish surnames as given names has become common in the US Kelly, Shannon, Ryan, Murray, Donovan… There are a number of variants of the spelling of the Kealey name including Keeley, Kealey, Keeley, Keely, Keiley, all pronounced more or less the same.

Roisin has two pronunciations…one from the southern regions Row-sheen and one from up north Raw-sheen. Most of the people who emigrated to the United States were from the southern counties…thus almost all of the Roisins in the U.

The difference between the pronunciation of the name in the northern counties of Ireland has more to do with the Derry and Belfast accents than a deliberate difference in pronunciation. Thank you, Deirdre! There seems to be a significant amount of local variety in pronunciation! Likewise, Aoife is most defintely Ee-fah and there is no r in it anywhere!

We are an adoptive family and I know her birth grandmother deceased was also Gathel. Does anyone know either the origin or pronunciation of this name? Possibly the old form of Gael? Also, Padraig is pronounced pawd-rig in the Northern parts of Ireland, so that pronunciation is equally correct. And also, by no means is a Dublin accent the official accent of Ireland!!

That last bit is true! Not that I doubted you, Ciara. It was just too interesting not to look up. People do think the Donegal accent is sexiest.

And they think the Tipperary accent is the least sexy. Is Aoibhlin pronounced eve-lin, Aibhlin like av-lin, and Eibhlin like ehv-lin? Does anyone know which pronunciation is right? The second syllable should not be emphasized. Lots of Welsh influence around Philly. Used to live in a community west of Philly called Gwynedd. In Ireland a lot of people prounce it using a more irish sound.

Actually my Irish first name was anglicized many years ago. I wonder how many Irish lads today still use the old spelling? I have a traditional Welsh name, Ceri. People from other countries outside the UK pronounce it wrong! Patrick himself. In Aoife was the third most popular Irish girls name for babies in Ireland. Back to Irish Girl Names. My little baby aoife she it beautiful just like her name.

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Ethan House Killarney. The Pink Door Westport. Breenville FarmHouse. Let us know in the comments! Thank you! My grandmother was from Leenaun, County Galway. It actually meant that it has our short a sound. Maybe a better way could have been that Gael sounds like the English word gal as in a female. The two strands are thought to have common roots but separated by time and two distinct waves of migration to the British Isles.

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