St Paddy’s Day Names🍀

In the spirit of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, what are your favorite names for boys and girls that might fall into any of the following categories:
•Irish Origin
•Feel Lucky
•Related to color Green

Or, if you had a baby on St. Patrick’s Day & had to give them a name in spirit of the holiday, what would it be?

[name_f]Aoife[/name_f], [name_f]Niamh[/name_f] and [name_m]Tadhg[/name_m] are firm favourites!

[name_m]Green[/name_m] names:
[name_f]Sage[/name_f]
[name_f]Celandine[/name_f] (although it has yellow flowers, the plant grows with a lot of green foliage)
[name_f]Emeraude[/name_f]

[name_f]My[/name_f] synaesthesia colours names beginning with A, H & T green usually. Inexplicably, [name_m]Peter[/name_m] is also green (flouting my brain’s ‘rule’ that P names are blue. :joy: Thus [name_m]Patrick[/name_m] is blue!)

Names with lucky meanings, hmmm. From a search for names meaning ‘blessed’, I think these are lovely:
[name_f]Anwen[/name_f], [name_f]Arianwen[/name_f]
[name_m]Ayman[/name_m]
[name_m]Arwyn[/name_m]
[name_m]Asher[/name_m]
[name_f]Eurwen[/name_f] means ‘gold’ and ‘blessed’ - very stereotypically st Patrick’s themed
[name_m]Finbar[/name_m]
Finnouala
[name_m]Macario[/name_m]
[name_f]Mairwen[/name_f]

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[name_f]Clodagh[/name_f], [name_m]Tadhg[/name_m], [name_f]Liadan[/name_f], [name_m]Lorcan[/name_m], [name_m]Cormac[/name_m], [name_m]Nevan[/name_m], [name_f]Naoise[/name_f], and [name_f]Caoimhe[/name_f]

[name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f], and [name_f]Felicity[/name_f]

[name_f]Clover[/name_f], [name_f]Emerald[/name_f], [name_f]Chloe[/name_f]

I’d probably choose [name_m]Nevan[/name_m] [name_m]Felix[/name_m] and [name_f]Clodagh[/name_f] [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f]

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my friend born on St Paddy’s is [name_f]Martha[/name_f] [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f] - [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] is after her grandma obviously is also the female version of [name_m]Patrick[/name_m], which is was she would’ve been named if she were a boy!

I love the [name_f]Aoife[/name_f] and [name_f]Clodagh[/name_f] for [name_m]Irish[/name_m] girls names, I don’t have too many for boys but I like [name_m]Finn[/name_m], [name_m]Hugh[/name_m] and [name_m]Oscar[/name_m] (even though these are definitely more english ones!)

I tried to find some lucky names:
[name_m]Lucky[/name_m] - the obvious one but I actually think its quite sweet!
[name_f]Sadiya[/name_f]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m]
Beatrice/Beatrix
[name_m]Macario[/name_m]
[name_f]Clover[/name_f]
[name_m]Asher[/name_m]

I think that I might give my child and [name_m]Irish[/name_m] middle or a theme-y middle name like [name_f]Clover[/name_f], [name_m]Felix[/name_m] or [name_m]Lucky[/name_m]. But if their whole name had a theme I would called a girl [name_f]Clodagh[/name_f] [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] or [name_f]Aoife[/name_f] [name_m]Lucky[/name_m] and for a boy I would do [name_m]Oscar[/name_m] [name_m]Felix[/name_m] or [name_m]Finn[/name_m] [name_m]Patrick[/name_m].

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Yay happy St Patrick’s day :four_leaf_clover:

[name_f]My[/name_f] family always do tons for Paddy’s day so [name_f]Sunday[/name_f] is going to be fun!!! [name_f]Happy[/name_f] Paddy’s day to you lovely berries!

I love [name_m]Patrick[/name_m] he’s such a handsome classic. [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] + [name_f]Patsy[/name_f] are also sweet.

[name_f]Saoirse[/name_f] feels like a great St Patrick’s day name! For more [name_m]Irish[/name_m] choices I love [name_f]Niamh[/name_f], [name_f]Aoife[/name_f], [name_f]Maeve[/name_f], [name_f]Roisin[/name_f], [name_f]Caoimhe[/name_f], [name_f]Ashling[/name_f], [name_m]Darragh[/name_m], [name_m]Rafferty[/name_m], [name_m]Conall[/name_m], [name_m]Cormac[/name_m] + [name_m]Niall[/name_m]. I also think [name_f]Erin[/name_f] meaning [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] would be a great shout. I also like the idea of [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] something like [name_f]Caoimhe[/name_f] [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] would be very apt.

Colour inspired choices like [name_f]Emerald[/name_f], [name_f]Sage[/name_f], [name_f]Clover[/name_f] & [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] would be fun. Along with names meaning happy like [name_f]Felicity[/name_f], [name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_f]Joy[/name_f], [name_f]Allegra[/name_f] + [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f] would be sweet.

I think I would go [name_f]Emerald[/name_f] [name_f]Niamh[/name_f] + [name_m]Rafferty[/name_m] [name_m]Patrick[/name_m]

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[name_f]Ivy[/name_f] [name_f]Maeve[/name_f]
[name_f]Maisie[/name_f] [name_f]Clover[/name_f]
[name_m]Finn[/name_m] [name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Declan[/name_m] McCoy

Some of my favorite [name_m]Irish[/name_m] names!

[name_f]Fiadh[/name_f]
[name_f]Aoife[/name_f]
[name_f]Caoimhe[/name_f]
Áine
[name_f]Oona[/name_f]
[name_f]Meadhbh[/name_f]
Caotríona
[name_f]Eilís[/name_f]
[name_f]Róisín[/name_f]
[name_f]Niamh[/name_f]
[name_f]Saoirse[/name_f]
Órlaith
Máiréad
[name_f]Bronagh[/name_f]
[name_f]Cáit[/name_f]

[name_m]Oisín[/name_m]
[name_m]Finnian[/name_m]
[name_m]Ciarán[/name_m]
[name_m]Darragh[/name_m]
[name_m]Rónán[/name_m]
Séamus
[name_m]Eoghan[/name_m]
[name_m]Rowan[/name_m]
[name_m]Tadhg[/name_m]