What do you think of these Irish girl names?

[name]Teagan[/name] Cessaiar (Tee-gen Keh-seer)
[name]Saoirse[/name] Ailidh (seer-shuh Ay-lee)
[name]Mairead[/name] Eibhleann (Muh-raid [name]Ave[/name]-linn)
[name]Cassidy[/name] [name]Deirdre[/name]
[name]Siobhan[/name] Iseault (Shi-vawn Yeh-salt)

Opinions?

I like [name]Saoirse[/name] Ailidh a lot. Very pretty, nice flow, #1 favourite. I love [name]Saoirse[/name] so much.

[name]Siobhan[/name] Iseault - I would spelt the middle name [name]Iseult[/name]. I like [name]Iseult[/name] or [name]Isolde[/name] better than I like [name]Siobhan[/name], but the combo is fine.

I like [name]Teagan[/name] and [name]Deirdre[/name] far more than I like the names they’re paired with, no offense. I might spell it [name]Tegan[/name] though.

Thanks for the reply! I love [name]Saoirse[/name] Ailidh, I think it’s my favorite :slight_smile:

i find them really hard to pronounce!! apart from [name]Teagan[/name], [name]Cassidy[/name] and [name]Siobhan[/name] (because i’ve known a few Siobhans and still cringe at the day i called one of them [name]Sy[/name]-oh-ban)

[name]Teagan[/name] i like it spelt [name]Tegan[/name] better i think. [name]Saoirse[/name] looks really pretty written down but again i dont understand how you get Seer-shuh from that! i am terrible with irish spellings though! and lots of foreign spellings!
i know some irish girls, [name]Maeve[/name] i can pronounce like [name]May[/name] with a V on the end and i know a [name]Roisin[/name] ([name]Ro[/name]-sheen) but it looks like Raisin to me!!

I think all the names you listed are pretty i am just a bit pronounciationlly-challenged :stuck_out_tongue:

[name]Saoirse[/name] Alidh is the only one that really thrills me. It’s great.
I like Iseault spelled [name]Isolde[/name] as well. I’d do [name]Isolde[/name] Cessaiar rather than [name]Teagan[/name] Cessaiar (sounds too crackly harsh to me.)

[name]Teagan[/name] Cessaiar (Tee-gen Keh-seer) - sorry, but [name]Tegan[/name] is boring and screams 80s
[name]Saoirse[/name] Ailidh (seer-shuh Ay-lee) - love Ailidh
[name]Mairead[/name] Eibhleann (Muh-raid [name]Ave[/name]-linn) - [name]Mairead[/name] is one of my favourites. Obviously most Irish names don’t look as they seem, but Eibhleann is too much for me/
[name]Cassidy[/name] [name]Deirdre[/name] - very nice
[name]Siobhan[/name] Iseault (Shi-vawn Yeh-salt) - I don’t like [name]Siobhan[/name] as a name. [name]Iseult[/name] is pretty.

Cliodhna and [name]Honora[/name] are my other two fave Irish names

I like [name]Aislinn[/name] (pr. ash-linn) much more than I like Eibhleann pr. [name]Ave[/name]-linn, but even I am not sure why? I guess it looks a little more streamlined, and I prefer the ash- sound to the whole ava-family, even names that aren’t really [name]Ava[/name] at all.

I’ve always heard [name]Iseult[/name] pr. ee-salt though. [name]Even[/name] ee-salt when it’s spelt [name]Yseult[/name]? So the “yeh” throws me a bit.

I think I prefer both [name]Sinead[/name] (shuh-nayd) and Siofra (shee-fra) to [name]Siobhan[/name], but only because in my American hometown I knew far too many [name]Shavonne[/name]/Chevaughn/Sha’Vonnes.

I’m Irish and would have called on of my twin girls [name]Saoirse[/name], meaning “freedom”, but it’s the name of the [name]IRA[/name]'s magazine.

I like the first one…

I can’t stand middle names, but I have a friend named [name]Siobhan[/name], and it’s a really beautiful name.

[name]Saoirse[/name] Ailidh seems to be the winner so far :slight_smile: haha. Thanks for everyone’s input! I understand that Irish spellings are really difficult :confused:

I also like [name]Caoimhe[/name] [name]Siobhan[/name] (key-vuh)?

If you’re not Irish, make sure you’re on board with the very polarizing political nature of the name Saorise before giving it to an actual child. It implies you support the [name]IRA[/name] and the reunification of [name]Ireland[/name].

I love Irish names and I’m not trying to be negative but I feel like the spellings are just too cumbersome to name a child. You and they will have to explain it and spell it for LIFE on the daily. So I guess that means that I like [name]Cassidy[/name] best:-) With a more Irish middle name perhaps. Like [name]Cassidy[/name] Cessaiar.

I like [name]Siobhan[/name] Iseault but I have only seen “Iseault” spelled as [name]Iseult[/name] (not taking into account [name]Yseult[/name], etc) and it is prn “ee zoolt/ee soolt”

The spellings are all so complicated!! But my favorite is other Ailidh or Saorise. :slight_smile: They are beautiful !!