Irish Names Now: What’s doing in Dublin?

Love this! I don’t have time to say much, but I wanted to say that I would love more blogs like this one (and I didn’t even write anything about that on the survey!). I would really, really love to see French Names Now as well as Japanese Names Now!

Love this!! Thank you!

These are great; the examples you picked are beautifula and so authentic. I’m excited for the Scottish equivalents. Maybe some Welsh birth announcements can follow?

I am also excited about the prospect of seeing more current baby name announcements from around the world. Please be sure to let us know where they come from so we can check the sites ourselves in the future… I’m so disappointed that most major American newspapers don’t seem to have regular birth announcements anymore.

And–wow, I just cannot wrap my mind around some of the Gaelic pronunciations! Sabhbh = “sive”? Language is an amazing thing.

Incidentally, what do the slashes mean? E.g., Freya Kate/Rosalind Antonia? Is that indicating twins?

Sorry-I should have explainted that the slashes are between the different middle names attached to that name.
And the current list came from the Irish Times:
http://notices.irishtimes.com/?_fstatus=search;type=birth

Thanks for the list – I’m less than a week to my due date and hunting for a specifically Irish name. I have to say that the Irish Times is not necessarily the best indicator of widespread Irish trends: it’s very geographically and class specific.

Also, “Sabhbh” is a typo, or just bad spelling on the parents’ part: it’s correctly spelled “Sadhbh” – which answers SJ’s question (a little): the “dh” is basically silent, while the “bh” produces the “v” sound. A double “bh” is just about unheard of in Irish Gaelic.

Finally, the boy’s name “Ailill” is usually pronounced “AY-leel” or “a-LYL”.

Cheers for a few more suggestions, though!

Yes, Sabhbh was indeed a typo.

Thanks very sharing, very interesting

Lovely list. I just published some of these on my blog. I love going through the birth announcements from London, Ireland, Scotland, and Australia. It’s nice to see what other countries are naming their babies.

Thanks for clearing up a couple of my questions, guys! I love these lists!

I always wondered how to pronounce those names.

When I was looking for baby names for my daughter a decade ago, I got out a map. I wanted something Gaelic if possible (settled for something of historic significance instead). I can’t remember now if it’s an island, river or town, but I came across “Brennish”. I mentioned it on a baby naming forum, and someone actually used it. I didn’t have a boy, so I didn’t. But I still think it’s a cool name for someone who wants a name tied to Ireland.

Wow. These are like a hundred million times better than the Scottish names in the most recent post. We came off pretty bad in that one.

There’s me. Well not actually me obviously! Nice to see another Bevin around. Her parents obviously have great taste

Really nice to see what’s going on back home. There’s a few pretty terrible Irish names that have been doing the rounds for a number of years, it’s good to see such great names becoming popular.

Cathal is pronounced KAHILL

I know this because it’s my name and I’m from Ireland.

I think one of the girls’ names in your list is misspelled.
Rose Amiread should be Rose MAiread? This would make a lot more sense to me — Mairead is Irish for Margaret. Amiread looks like a misspelling.

Thanks, Margaret–I changed it.

I understand that these names are unusual in the USA and around the world,but when you call them “unusual names” its a bit misleading. Here in Ireland 90% of those names are extremely common!

Also Cathel isn’t pronounced KOH-hal, its KAH-hal but much softer.