Irish names: The best celebrity imports for St. Patrick’s Day

Love both Aidan and Liam, although they’re now too popular for my tastes.

I also love Tierney, Maeve, and Declan. Saoirse and Roisin are growing on me.

I love Saoirse and the meaning behind it. Both Maeve and Saoirse are on my list. Enya is lovely, and I like the look of Eoin, though I want to pronounce it “Ian.”

Oh, and Cillian Murphy is hot. And so is Liam. Poor Liam. The anniversary of his wife’s death is in a couple of days!

Love Sinead too. Irish names are so much fun. Tierney is interesting, but it sounds too much like tyranny.

I love Saoirse, Roisin, Maeve, and Enya, and I agree UniqueNameLover, that Tierney just brings that sound.

Likewise, I love Irish names. Too bad Liam and Aidan are just explosively popular.

I thought maybe Rooney Mara would be present here, though I know she’s been featured not too long ago, and is a fairly new name influence.

I love all of these names, especially Maeve and Liam! Also, don’t forget Kyle MacLachlan!

I ‘ll second Cillian Murphy is HOT! Gotta love those eyes.

I live near Boston and hear the same Irish names day in & day out. I’d just about kill to find a Roisin, Cillian or Malachy. I adore those three!

I love Saoirse, Roisin, Maeve, Aoife, Cillian, Liam, and Eoin.

One thing re: Enya…Maire is a female name. Enya’s sister Maire also sometimes goes by Moya Brennan.

Wow! I know a set of brothers with names off this list, as well as their surname. Cillian Tierney & Cormac Tierney. They do both hate their names though. Cillian is exclusively Ian, Cormac only answers to Cory or Mac. It’s a shame in my mind, such nice names.

One more thing- my brother brought home a friend a week or two ago named Malachy. I thought it is was cute

Most of these names didn’t share the pronunciation, and/or included more Irish names within the post that lacked the pronunciation. I’m disappointed.

I adore Irish names so this was a post I really enjoyed! Thanks:)

Love Irish names! Especially Roisin – my ultimate favorite right now I wish some of these names were more popular. But surprisingly I know someone named Cormac. I always thought they were calling him by his last name as though he was a football player or something. Also, I know one kid named Declan, whom everyone thinks is annoying. Why can’t more kids be named Declan to get his image off this wonderful name???

I love Irish names too. Fun post. Just this January I met brothers named Cillian and Tadhg, who were raised near Dublin, and I was so pleased. I’d seen the names in my baby name books and liked them, so I was thrilled to meet them in the flesh. I didn’t hear anyone have trouble pronouncing Cillian’s name, but Tadhg (prn Tige) was more trouble. I like it anyway!
I would have liked to see the pronunciation for Aoife…

Love seeing posts on Irish names as an Irish berry!
@auroradawn, Aoife is pronounced EE-fa.
Just a note on Enya, this would be quite an unusual regional pronounciation of Eithne, which the majority of people would pronounce ETH-na (which I much prefer). I would pronounce her relatives’ names
Máire= MAW-ra,
Pól= POLE,
Ciarán= KEER-awn
Pádraig= PAW-drig,
although if they are also from Donegal they may have slightly different ways of pronouncing their names. (They speak very odd Irish up there ; )!)
Colm would usually be pronounced COL-um, although I have known one Colum who pronounced it CUL-um.

I love so many of these names! Malachy, Cormac, Cillian and Colm have all danced around my name list at one time. Such great Irish names!

As an Erin I appreciate this so…Erin Go Bragh!

@murp–Thank you! I appreciate the pronunciation notes on Aoife and the others.

I love Irish names, but I was a little surprised you didn’t have Niall Horan.