What's your favourite Irish name? [Only Irish People]?

Question

What's your favourite Irish name for a girl and for a boy?

and which Irish name is most common in Ireland/Northern Ireland?

Answer 1

Sinead, Yellesinsen, Laghnetollsunzeynebeensuratyna & Oisin are my favourites.

Answer 2

hi for a girl it would have to be "OLIVA"  and for a boy "OISIN"

Answer 3

Eabha for a girl..pronounced Ava

Daria for a girl

Danny, Declan, Brendan for a boy

Answer 4

Boy: Cian or Ronan

Girl: Roisin or Saoirse

Answer 5

saoirse, siobhain, aoife, ciara, cara, aonghus, sean, rumhain, croi (i kno it means heart, and its not STRICTLY a name but a m8 of mine is called croi ellen and i love it!!), aebhe, nia, ceoladh, cillian, dearbhla, dara/darragh....all so pretty!!!!! i love em all, 2 b honest!! aoife or ciara r most commen...dunno bout up north!!! sz....

Answer 6

Darragh and Aoibheann are my favourite!!I would say Enda is a fairly common in Ireland. Well around Galway anyway.

Answer 7

Oisin for a boy, Soairse for a girl.  (little deer & freedom)

Answer 8

Boy: Fionn

Girl: Maeve

Answer 9

for a girl i love the name Blaithnid and for a boy Aodh. i dont know the most common names but i know a lot of people called sinead, aisling, niamh, oisin and sean if that helps

Answer 10

My favourite is Bridget too, I also like Áine a lot.

For a boy, I like Liam and Conor. Although they're not really in Irish, I don't like Irish names in general.

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Answer 11

Etain and Ailbhe (al veh) for girls Sé (SHAY) for a boy

Answer 12

Síobhradh and Éireann. And Sean.

Answer 13

For a girl, I like Bronagh.  For a boy, I like Óisín.

Cloe, Niamh, Aoife, Emma and Siobhán are common girls names.

Seán, Séamus, Micheál, Conor and Patrick or Pádraig are common boys names.

Answer 14

My name is Irish but I dont like it much. I come from Ireland but I dont really like Irish names much. I do like Caoimhe (Cwee-va) for a girl and Donnacha (done-aka).

Answer 15

My favourites are Oisín and Aoibheann.

According to the central statistics office the most poular name for boys is Séan and for girls its Sarah.

http://www.cso.ie/statistics/top_babies_...

Answer 16

I love Caoimhe and Sibe for a girl. And Paedar for boys.

Answer 17

Bridget

My sisters name. Haha!

(wait, or was that a scottish name......!! )