French Irish Names combos? I want to learn about Irish names and need your help!

[thetxbelle]

I am HORRIBLE at combos in general and I am stuck on my list so I am enlisting the help of all you nameberry geniuses! Can you help me come up with any French and Irish baby name combos? Everyone else on the board seems to be great at this and I seriously suck at it plus I know nothing about Irish names and want to learn about them.

I am open to anything you can come up with but here are the names I love (I starred my favs) so maybe you can find something to go off even if it's just similarity in sound or syllables. Please help me out of my rut and discover new names!


Girls
Anne-Sophie
Athénaïs*
Béatrice
Bérangère
Colombe
Eléonore
Geneviève
Honorine
Ivy
Josephine*
Mazarine
Meredith

Boys
Ambrose*
Aristide*
Auguste
Emmanuel
Lambert
Lucien
Maxence
Ulysses
Yves

[east93]

I'm sorry, I don't know much about Irish names, and very little about French.
owever, the site Nymbler has a tool where you enter names you like, and it suggests names that you may like based on those inputs.
Perhaps that will be of help to you.

[thetxbelle]

Thanks nymbler is pretty cool!

[norseberry]

Anamarie is french Its my name too!

[tinabina]

Cool site of Irish names... http://www.babynamesofireland.com/irish-girl-names http://www.babynamesofireland.com/irish-boy-names

Anne-Sophie Eveleen
Beatrice Fiona
Athenais Neave

Ambrose Kian
Aristide Patrick
Auguste Redmond/Raymond

One thing I love about French/Irish names is that a LOT of the names are the same but spelt and pronounced slightly differently. I am French with some Irish background so I've considered a lot of the names.

[thetxbelle]

@tinabina, there isnt a single one of those combos that isnt beautiful! Thanks so much

[thetxbelle]

@tinabina, there isnt a single one of those combos that isnt beautiful! Thanks so much

Do you say Neave like "leave" or "nev?" like never?

[amberdaydream]

Do you say Neave like "leave" or "nev?" like never?

In Ireland they use Niamh, NEEV, rhymes with 'leave'. Neave is a more phonetic variant. I know a Niamh and there is a teaching assistant that calls her 'nee-am-huh'. I think Neve and Nieve are the most familiar English variants, but as far as I know Niamh is the most frequent.

[amberdaydream]

Irish names can be seriously tricky in terms of pronunciation, they are usually best off as middle names, or you can respell them as with Niamh/Neve.
Béatrice Saoirse (sair-sha, sear-sha or sir-sha)
Geneviève Ailis (ay-lish)
Colombe Aoibhe (Eva, sometime Ayva)
Colombe Aoibhinn (Ee-vin, sometimes Ayvin)
Eléonore Aisling (ash-lin, ash-ling)
I like Irish names because of the spellings, though, Saoirse wouldn't be as pretty if it were Sairsha. Seirsia or Seartia might work.

[thetxbelle]

@amberdaydream, those are beautiful as well! I am pretty clueless on Irish names and mispronunciation is one of my fears, I dont want to come up with a name I love only to find out Im saying "sa orsa" or something like that though in this case I think Saoirse Ronan has made the name more accessable. I'm finding that I have a hard time learning how to spell them when I add them to my list :/