What are Irish baby names?

Answer 1

One Answer:

A lot of names are believed to be Irish but are not. A great place to see true Irish names is www.babynamesofireland.com. There you can see pronunciations as well. For example, Zaira, Kelsey, Peyton, Africa, Gracie are not IRISH names, more of American-Irish names.

Laoise - (Lee-sha)

Ciara - (Ce-ra)

Aoife - (E-fa)

Kathleen - (Kath-Leen)

Siobhan - (Sha-von)

Niamh - (Neav)

Roisin - (Ro-sheen)

Mairead - (Mi-rad)

Sorry, I am hopeless with boys' names.

I have some corrections from the above names - Katie is a Greek name, Ryan is Welsh & I do not believe Gary is Irish.

Just a couple of corrections from above. Mairead is the second half of my first name, and is actually said "mare+aid". Siobhan is said "shiv+awn" and Ciara is said "keera".

But some male names are Aidan ("aid+an"), Eamon ("aim+an"), Seamus ("shay+mus"), Sean ("shawn"), Daithi ("dah+hee"), Oisin ("osh+een"), Padraig ("paw+drig"), Conchobhar ("conor"), Lochlann ("lock+lann"), Miceál ("mee+haul"), Caoimhghin ("keevin").

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Another Answer:

The most used Irish Gaelic names for 2008 included the following:

Masculine names: Seán, Cian, Oisín, Eoin, Cillian, Liam, Ciarán, Cathal, Fionn, Cormac, Rónán, Eoghan, and Brian.

Feminine names: Aoife, Ciara, Caoimhe, Niamh, Róisín, Aisling, Saoirse, Áine, Caitlín, Eimear, Órla, Aoibhe, Aoibhinn.

Irish names in an English form: Conor, Darragh, Rory, Kevin.

Irish Given Names by Type:

1. Old Gaelic names: Brian, Cathal, Cormac, Niamh, Deirdre, Órla

2. The Christian Saints: Seán, Séamas, Máire, Caitríona

3. The Irish Saints: Breandán, Ciarán, Gobnait, Bríd

4. Scottish/Welsh borrowings: Evan, Dylan;Calum, Alexander

5. Anglicized spellings of 1. through 3.above. Cahal; Maura; Kieran.

6. Anglo-American influence: Lee, Scott, Jack, Jamie, Ben, Alex, Jake, Charlie, Harry, Sam, Adam, Aaron, Joshua, Nathan, Samuel, Noah, Ethan, Kyle, Ryan (as a given name).

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