Gaelic girl names

[Pooh's Pixie]

We have a lot of transplanted Irish in our town. We have friends named Maeve, Aodin (pronounced Aa-deen), Mairead, Niamh, Cailinn, Una, Finola, and lots of the Americanized Irish names like Caitlin. I can agree with the previous poster that the actual immigrants from Ireland I know would not do Erin or Caitlin or Colleen. Good luck!

 

[golfgal]

I also have to vote for Brenna. If we had another girl, which we are not so feel free to use it , I would name her Brenna. My BIL/SIL just had a boy, Cormac, but if he were a girl they would have named her Rowan, which I like too.

We are very Irish with a very Irish last name. There is a book out called "Name you Irish Baby". We picked pretty Americanized Irish names though.

 

[Chloe'sMom]

My SIL name is Sionann pronounced Shannon. It is the Gaelic spelling.

~Amanda

 

[profdsny]

Funny, we have an Irish friend who is a traditional Irish musician, from, and still living in, Dublin, and neither his wife, daughter, or son's name is on that big list. I wonder if that's not an Americanized list of Irish names.

 

[wheeler1]

My daughter is Sheridan.

 

[cccm]

Being lazy and not reading through all posts

Saraid it is gaelic

 

[Aisling]

I vote for Aisling.

 

[Reflection]

I've always liked Aisling and Siobhan.

 

[castleview]

Megen, Kathlyn (pronounced Kathleen), and baby boy Kian here. I get crap from the middle one's name, but it's a great aunt's name who was from Ireland.

BTW, I love the name Aislyn

 

[100%Disney]

My DD name is Logan (Scottish) and there are very few females named Logan. Her middle name is Camryn.

 

[debster812]

If DS (named Ian) had been a girl, his name would have been Aisling Meghan

 

[minkydog]

Some of these may be Welsh, but I think most are Irish.

Arianell -- silver
Arianwyn -- silver, shining
Briallen -- primrose
Ceridwyn -- song or beloved
Cliodhna -- beautiful, guardian spirit
Dairine -- legendary princess of Tara
Ealisaid -- form of Elizabeth
Eithne -- mother of god Lugh
Gwyneira -- happiness, bliss, shining girl
Kanna -- an early saint
Kerenza -- love, affection
Melle -- lightning, an old Irish saint
Rhiannon -- divine queen
Saorla -- noble, queen
Triona -- Irish diminuative of Catherine
Tristana -- feminine form of Tristan

Poor kid. Unless you want to spend the next 18 years explaining how to pronounce your daughter's name(and she will spend the rest of her life doing it!) you might want to think twice about this. At least, that is, if you live in the U.S. where the average person will not have a clue as to how to pronouce these names. The phonics rules for Gaelic are not the same as for English and I foresee a lot of frustration in your future if you give your child a name like Eithne,Cliodnha or Ealisaid. Of course, if you live in Ireland knock yourself out

 

[JKanownik]

I'm partial to Colleen as it is my name. It comes from the Irish word meaning girl. It may not be an Irish given name, but it is rather uncommon and I always get compliments on it.

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

I'm partial to Colleen as it is my name. It comes from the Irish word meaning girl. It may not be an Irish given name, but it is rather uncommon and I always get compliments on it.

My daughter is Colleen. Caitlyn is the gaelic spelling of Colleen, but most americans pronounce it Kate Lynn.

 

[phillybeth]

My daughter is Colleen. Caitlyn is the gaelic spelling of Colleen, but most americans pronounce it Kate Lynn.

Caitlin is the gaelic spelling of Kathleen. It's pronounced Kat-leen or Kat-lin. Gaelic doesn't have K's or Y's.

Cailin is the gaelic spelling of Colleen. It's pronounced pretty close to the east coast American pronunciation of Cahl-leen. Co-leen (long O, like in open) is strictly an American pronunciation.

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

Caitlin is the gaelic spelling of Kathleen. It's pronounced Kat-leen or Kat-lin. Gaelic doesn't have K's or Y's.

Cailin is the gaelic spelling of Colleen. It's pronounced pretty close to the east coast American pronunciation of Cahl-leen. Co-leen (long O, like in open) is strictly an American pronunciation.

I was under the impression all of america pronounced it cahl-leen. I have never heard anyone pronounce it (correctly) co-leen.

 

[Tinijocaro]

I was under the impression all of america pronounced it cahl-leen. I have never heard anyone pronounce it (correctly) co-leen.

Me too.

 

[JKanownik]

My neighbor used to call me Co-leen and it drove my mom nuts. She would always correct her, but my neighbor never got it even after nearly 20 years. It started to get to me after awhile too.

 

[ToTLaugher]

I was under the impression all of america pronounced it cahl-leen. I have never heard anyone pronounce it (correctly) co-leen.

I knew a girl who went by Co-leen but she was the only one I ever met who did that. I never even thought to ask why, but now I wished I had!

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

My Colleen actually goes by the nickname Nina, but it does drive me nuts when people say Co-leen Just like when people say MAY gun instead of Megan for my older daughter.

My neighbor used to call me Co-leen and it drove my mom nuts. She would always correct her, but my neighbor never got it even after nearly 20 years. It started to get to me after awhile too.