Irish(ish) Name help!

Boy Names
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i will try and make this as short as possibel…So my husband and I have finally decided on a few girls names if the next one is a girl… but we are still haveing a really tough time with boys names… Our son is [name]Josef[/name] [name]Patrick[/name] [name]James[/name]… We like it because it is a traditional name that honors my husband ([name]Jose[/name]) and it isnt that common where we live but it is not by any means a strange name! (#78 in our province)…

We have 2 different themes going on with our names… Traditional/old fashioned names and Irish(ish) sounding names… for girls at least…

My dads side is Irish ( which is where the [name]Patrick[/name] came from… family name in [name]EVERY[/name] generation!!!)

For girls we like [name]Fiona[/name], [name]Bridget[/name] and [name]Nora[/name] which are all from and or popular in [name]Ireland[/name]… (I know [name]Fiona[/name] is scottish BUT Fion, Fionan and [name]Finnian[/name] are Irish… soooooo…)

What boys names could go into our Irish(ish) name theme???

We dont want TOO popular ie. [name]Liam[/name] or [name]Owen[/name]… and DH doesnt like the surname names ie.[name]Sullivan[/name]… (i know… i’m sorry… we are picky)

Can anyone give us some suggestions???
Classic but not popular Irish or Irish sounding names???

Thanks a bunch!!!

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Well, I’m Irish so I feel I need to weigh in. I’ll give you the traditional and the Anglicized spellings. (I do quite like [name]Owen[/name] though)

traditional :: anglicized

Ailbe :: [name]Alby[/name]
[name]Ardan[/name] (ar-dawn)
[name]Bartley[/name]
[name]Bradan[/name] :: [name]Braden[/name]
Breandan :: [name]Brendan[/name]
Carrick :: [name]Craig[/name]
[name]Cian[/name] :: [name]Kane[/name]/[name]Kean[/name] (key-in)
[name]Ciaran[/name] :: [name]Kieran[/name] ([name]Keer[/name]-awn)
[name]Cillian[/name] :: [name]Killian[/name] (kill-ee-an)
[name]Clooney[/name]
[name]Conall[/name] :: [name]Connell[/name]
[name]Cormac[/name]
[name]Darcy[/name]
Deaglan :: [name]Declan[/name]
[name]Desmond[/name]
[name]Dillon[/name] :: [name]Dylan[/name]
[name]Eamon[/name] (aim-an)
Eirnin :: Ernan (air-nin)
[name]Faolan[/name] :: [name]Phelan[/name] (Fail-an)
[name]Fergus[/name]
[name]Finn[/name]
[name]Gearoid[/name] :: [name]Garrett[/name]/[name]Gerard[/name] (gar-roid)
[name]Hugh[/name]
[name]Jarlath[/name]
[name]Lochlan[/name] (lock-lun)
[name]Lorcan[/name]
[name]Malachi[/name] :: [name]Malachy[/name] (the first is said mala-ki and the 2nd is mala-key)
[name]Odhran[/name]/[name]Oran[/name] :: [name]Odran[/name] (o-ran)
[name]Oisin[/name] (osh-een)
[name]Quinlan[/name]
[name]Redmond[/name]
[name]Reilly[/name] (rye-lee)
[name]Riordan[/name] (reer-don)
[name]Ronan[/name]
[name]Ruari[/name] :: [name]Rory[/name]
[name]Seamus[/name] :: [name]James[/name] (shay-mus)
[name]Tierney[/name] (teer-ney)

There you go! [name]Hope[/name] that helped a bit, let me know if you got one you like.

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Thanks Jonothon…

I do like [name]Owen[/name]… but where I am it is top 10… plus on of my very best friends has a little [name]Owen[/name]… so its off limits for us!

I like your suggestions of [name]Cian[/name], [name]Desmond[/name], [name]Dillon[/name] and [name]Finn[/name]… I do like [name]Seamus[/name] too… but my ds’s mn is [name]James[/name] sooo…

And I [name]LOVE[/name] malachi BUT my husband wont go for it!

Thanks for the suggestions!

anyone else?