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[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

First a question!

What are your favourite Irish names, male or female?

My fathers family is full of Irish names, but they're mostly very common (often anglicized) ones - Sean, Deirdre, Caitlyn, Erin, Patrick, etc. And it's a tradition I'd like (eventually) to carry on, however I don't want to reuse any of our names and I'd like to find less common onces, here are a few I like so far:

Female:

Liadan
Eavan
Lile


Male:

Finn (or maybe its original spelling Fionn)
Eoin
Declan (suggested by the boy, whose family is also very irish)
Kiernan (another of his suggestions)
Riordan



Secondly, a few names, WDYT?

-Sibling Set (cousins daughters)
Grace (3)
Sophia Berkeley (infant)
Grace is a family name, I kind of hate the name Berkeley but I suspect it may be a surname from my cousin's husbands family.


-Sibling Set (girl i went to high school with):
Mylie (2)
Ava Lynn (infant)

-Sibling Set (another cousins babies):
Andrea (5)
Ervin Jr (1 year)

I'm not big on any of those names, Grace is probably my favourite even though I usually dislike the Joy, Faith, Hope, etc type names. After that Sophia or Ava I suppose. Poor Mylie, right?

Comments

[02895.livejournal.com]

my favorate irish name is my nephews, Mason Mikel. my daughter father & family are very irish, and my daughter is the only one in the family without an irish name.

[blueberryeyes17.livejournal.com]

I love Kieran, but my husband says it reminds him too much of "Karen" and would never use it for a boy. Boo!!

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but I suspected it was true so I googled and Mason comes up with English and French origins, but not Irish.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Róisín! I love that name, it's so pretty. I also like Niamh/Neve.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

oh those are nice, how would you pronounce Roisin?

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

Kieran is nice, I've definitely been told before that Kiernan was too girly and fancy for a boy, but since its not some made up name I think that sort of protest is silly.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Ro-SHEEN.
Babynamesofireland (http://www.babynamesofireland.com) has a really good pronuciation guide, by the way, if you want to hear them out loud =).

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I assume you've seen Behind The Name's list of Irish Names (http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/iri.php).

My favorite Irish names are:
(f):Aislin
Bridget
Maeve
Nola
Siobhan
Sorcha

(m):Brady
Brendan
Brennan
Ciaran/Kieran
Cillian/Killian
Conor
Declan
Kevin
Liam
Lorcan
Riordan

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

Maeve is a good addition, its so pretty.
Kevin is my boys name and Brendan is his brother, haha. I like Liam but it was so popular for a while, maybe it won't be in a few years though.

[heyskeleton.livejournal.com]

My favourite Irish names are Fionnuala, Clodagh and Riordan. There's probably more, but they're the ones I love the most to actually remember.

[zaggytiddies.livejournal.com]

Girl- Grainne (grawnya) total guilty pleasure name
Aine (Anya) my daughters name

Boy- Finn/Fionn
Liam (my sons name)

[zaggytiddies.livejournal.com]

Roan too!

[mossmade.livejournal.com]

I like Aislin, Aoife, Róisín, Ciaran, and Liam.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

When I was pregnant, we had the name Liadan picked for a girl and Finn for a boy. We now have a son named Finn. It goes without saying that I love your taste in names. :)

[hoochiehoops.livejournal.com]

Logan & Connor for boys

Aislinn for a girl.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Out of your names listed I love Finn (prefer Fionn), and Eoin and Lile are nice too. I've always loved Irish names, but neither DH nor I are Irish enough to justify using any. But these are my favorites (*most favorite):

Alastríona
Fennore*, Finora/Fionúir
Fiadh
Fiona
Fionnuala*
Maeve
Mairéad*
Maura
Maureen
Róisín
Saoirse*
Saraid
Sorcha
Úna

Alastar
Ciarán*
Colm
Connor
Dáire*, Darragh
Diarmaid
Éamonn*
Eoghan
Feidhlim
Fionnlagh
Malachy/Maeleachlainn
Oisín*
Pádraic*
Ruaidhrí
Séamus*

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I'm so psyched someone else likes Liadan

[arbus.livejournal.com]

my favorite irish girls name is brighde (pronounced breezha, pronounced just like the plant/flower/whatever freesia, only with a b).

i am absolutely in love with the name saoirse, but my husbands cousin already named her daughter that (sister is maeve). i also like fiona and aoife and siobhan.

our top boys name is finnegan/finn, currently.

i also love owen, seamus and rowan but they are all already in the family (x2 in rowans case). my husband has a very irish family!

[snappedapple.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mason isn't an Irish name at all.

[snappedapple.livejournal.com]

I really love Declan.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Kiernan and Riordan is also very nice, i think they deserve more acclaim - and I like them much better than the increasingly popular Finn... I hope you consider using one of them! ^^

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

Me too! Also glad to meet someone else who likes Riordan.