My son.

[babywrigley.livejournal.com]

My spouse and I are btoh of Irish/Gaelic decent, and wanted our son to have an authentic Irish name. We chose: Killian Braeden Wrigley. And it's a sure thing, but...

What do you all think?

Comments

[nearlyalegume.livejournal.com]

Cillian is on my list, but with that spelling. If you want authentic Irish names for your son, spell it the traditional way. Thanks to Cillian Murphy, people are familiar enough with Cillian in the non-Irish world to know that it isn't pronounced Silly-an.

There are some Irish names that really don't need Anglicizing... I mean, if you were having a daughter and wanted to call her Caoimhe, I can understand why you might Anglicize it to Keeva, but I don't think that Cillian needs to be spelled with a K to make it 'easier'.

Besides which, written down, Cillian Braeden Wrigley looks so much nicer than Killian Braeden Wrigley. Just my two cents, but I've been tossing up 'authentic vs. easy' for a while now, and have come to the conclusion that people will learn if they don't know, and that it's better to spell something right than to spell it 'easy'.