just wondering...

[spikes-sexkitty.livejournal.com]

what y'all thought of these names.

when thinking and planning names i plan on one biblical and one from my and my SO's heritage. so this list is JUST the names from irish/gaelic/celtic origins that we both like and would match with a more traditional 'accepted' biblical name.

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[laminy.livejournal.com]

Love Saoirse, love love it. It's on my list too. Same with Callum; those two have to be my favourites from your list.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I love Madigan. St. John I never heard of before I read Jane Eyre 3 years ago. Maybe part of it is that I dislike the character, but I really dislike the name.

[tiphanism.livejournal.com]

I think it depends a bit on where the child will grow up - if you're not in Ireland, won't people tend to mangle names like Aine and Saoirse? I love them, but I think they'd be frustrating as first names if people can't spell or pronounce them.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the name Siobhan. I wish it were my name (my mom loves Irish/Gaelic names and she thought about naming me that, but my father didn't like it). It would've given me great pleasure to have a name as a child that no one knew how to pronounce or spell. I also like Aislinn, Aine, and Saoirse.

I'm thinking a lot of the voters on your list don't appreciate the beauty of traditional Irish/Gaelic names. The only names that got more yays than nays are Catherine, Erin, and Shannon.

I have a professor named Niall and he's awesome (and he's also Irish) and so I like that name a lot now. I also like Riordan and Seighin

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

At first, yes. We had a lot of people in my classes with seemingly unpronounceable names as I was growing up. They corrected us a couple of times and we eventually got it right. Either that, or they went by a nickname -- I had a friend in high school named Itohowo, pronounced eh-tug-eh-wuh, and we called her Tuggi.

[spikes-sexkitty.livejournal.com]

thank you!!

i think the same thing; it's like, foreign names aren't thought of highly. which is sad. my SO and I both agree that when the time comes we'll honor our heritage and ancestors and give our kids links to their cultural identities.

and it's not as if we'd saddle the children with JUST one of those names. we both adore Biblical/traditional names like:

Michael, Aaron, Adam, Nathanael, Joseph, James, etc. and would combine them with a traditional Irish/Gaelic name --- that way the kids can choose which name they'd like to go by as they age.

i too favor Seighin and Riordan as well as Siobhan and Saoirse. :D