Baby Names For My Twins Please!

NiamhEile

Hello, myself and my partner are expecting twins -- a boy and a girl -- in May, and I want Irish names, but a lot of the less common boys' names don't sound great to me, and the common ones are, well, far too common -- lovely, but we would like something a little more interesting. For our girl, we have the names Ailbhe and Liadan in mind, and this morning my boyfriend suggested 'Lúgh' for our boy, but the toilet came to mind. Any other ideas? Appreciated!!! Niamh

Mulan

Ta siad agam.

Roco agus Jay

Biochus leat
slan

BanzaiBk

Tadg/Tadhg! One of my own favourite Irish names.

rainbowtrout

Cathal and Sadhbh or maybe Lochlann and Iseult

Enright

denise and denephew

at least their uncle will know what to all them


if all else fail, you must have a risch relation to call them after

Nevyn

Fionn
Dáire
Cian
Cathal
Cormac
Devlin
Fiachra
Jarlath
Nevin
Orran/Orrin
Ultan
Aengus
Nechtan

Jimbo

Mulan wrote: »

Ta siad agam.

Roco agus Jay

Biochus leat
slan

/\ Tá tu hilarious.

How about Caoimhe?

DinoBot

NiamhEile wrote: »

Hello, myself and my partner are expecting twins -- a boy and a girl -- in May, and I want Irish names, but a lot of the less common boys' names don't sound great to me, and the common ones are, well, far too common -- lovely, but we would like something a little more interesting. For our girl, we have the names Ailbhe and Liadan in mind, and this morning my boyfriend suggested 'Lúgh' for our boy, but the toilet came to mind. Any other ideas? Appreciated!!! Niamh

Thats so weird. I had picked the name Lúgh for my youngest son but like you my wife just thought of the "loo" and "lunatic" so alais I had to leave it. But tell your boyfriend thats a great name!!!

I love the name Liadan but others I like

girl:
Aoibhe (aoife)
SADHBH ( Sive )
Sabha (SE-va)
Síomha - (SHEE-va)


A boy:

Conall - (KAW-nal)
Cormac - (KAWR-mak)
Tiarnán - (TEER-nawn)

for the brave:

Caoilte

NiamhEile

'denise and denephew' - Haha that's deadly! They're goin on the list for the craic! hah!

Thanks all for the suggestions so far!

NiamhEile

always loved the name Cormac but had a boyfriend for three years called Cormac and he was a horrible baxterd so that one's out unfortunately... and Aoibhe is different from Aoife -- it's pronounced more softly -- 'Eva'... But Aoife is one of them lovely-but-common ones.... hmmm... Liadan is great, I agree... and there was I thinkin it'd be easier trying to decide on our boy's name....

witchywoman

sorry i did not realise you were looking for irish names.... i have boy and girl twins . mine are named anthony and aiesha. [it means a gift from god]

adsgirl

Ruadhan is a great boys name.

NiamhEile

oooooh i like it, thanks for that suggestion -- Ruadhán. That's goin on the list. Cheers!

Jeapy

Boys... Naoise, Cillian, Liam, Ruairi, Caolan, Diarmuid, Neimhin.

Girls...Aoibhe/Aoibh/Aoibhinn, Saoirse, Sorcha, Ailbhe, Cliona.

Good luck!

Fast_Mover

I like:

Girls: Ailis, Cora, Deirbhile, Abiageal, Roisin, Orlaith, Laoise, Fionnuala, Aoibheann

Boys: Cathal, Dáithí, Daragh, Fionn, Caolan,

lezizi

adsgirl wrote: »

Ruadhan is a great boys name.

Thats a nice name.

Lizzykins

Boys. Kevin
Gearoid
Donal
Brendan

Girls
Labhaoise
Muireann
Blaithin

FatherTed

How about Rodge & Podge? Sorry only joking (I've got twin girls myself)

How about Sean? Here in the US it has gotten popular again recently.

ablelocks

boys : hugh, aidan / aodhan, ruairi / rory, darragh, fin,

paul666

DinoBot wrote: »

Thats so weird. I had picked the name Lúgh for my youngest son but like you my wife just thought of the "loo" and "lunatic" so alais I had to leave it. But tell your boyfriend thats a great name!!!

I love the name Liadan but others I like

girl:
Aoibhe (aoife)
SADHBH ( Sive )
Sabha (SE-va)
Síomha - (SHEE-va)


A boy:

Conall - (KAW-nal)
Cormac - (KAWR-mak)
Tiarnán - (TEER-nawn)

for the brave:

Caoilte

can u spell aoife as aoibhe

adsgirl

Ruadhan translates as "little red one".

Fast_Mover

No good if her boy is fair/dark haired now is it?!

adsgirl

:D
Thats why i added the translation:D

littlebug

paul666 wrote: »

can u spell aoife as aoibhe

No, the "bh" as Gaeilge sounds like "v".

Boys names I like : Rian, Dáire, Darach, Fiach, Eoin

Girls names I like: Aoibhín, Muireann, Caoimhe, Laoise, Ríonach

embee

Boys names : Donnacha, Seamus, Odhran
Girls names : Reiltin, Cadhla, Clodagh.

Edit : I should really put my own name forward too, even though I'm not that keen on it. My name is Sorcha. In my family there is a Meabh, Eimear, Aine, Niamh, Grainne, Una, Deirdre, Eilis, Mairead, Aoife, Ailbhe, Sinead, Fiachra, Darragh, Conor, Diarmuid, Tomas, Emmett, Tadhg, Donnacha, Cian, Seamus, Ruairi, Antoin, Donail, Cormac, Padhraig, Pearse, Oscar, Seoirse, Tiernan, Ciara, Fergus, Malachy.....

Quality

Why not go for something different

Like meanings of names

Solas = Light

Dubh Prounounced dove = Black

Ban = White

Or what about the months

Lunasa =August

Eanair= January

Hotblack Desiato

Quality wrote: »

Why not go for something different

Like meanings of names

Solas = Light

Dubh Prounounced dove = Black

Ban = White

Or what about the months

Lunasa =August

Eanair= January

Sorry, but those names are terrible and I doubt any child would thank a parent for being called after a colour or a month. It's kinda like Man Friday out of Robinson Crusoe :eek:

'Bán' and 'Dubh' might be ok for a dog! assuming they were the appropriate colour!

Going for a 'trendy' name is always a mistake imho as it will sound horribly naff in a few years, Kylie! Jason! C'mere!!! :rolleyes:

Going for a fashionable name is a mistake too as too many other kids in school will have it, but you don't really want a 'unique' (i.e. made up) name either.

Go for a good solid traditional name that would be in the top 100 but not the top 5

But if going for a less well known traditional Irish name, do take the trouble to make sure you spell it correctly on the birth cert :eek:

Finally, I really hate the trend of using surnames as first names.

rainbowtrout

ninja900 wrote: »

'Bán' and 'Dubh' might be ok for a dog! assuming they were the appropriate colour!

I agree, I have a cat called Samhain( i got it at Halloween), I would hate to think there are children out there (and there probably are) who would be called after months of the year and are then saddled with it for life. Not to mention the hundreds of dogs that are called Blackie or Snowball etc.

Giving a child a name that would be better suited to a pet really doesn't show a lot of respect for the child, more a selfishness to look trendy in my opinion.


But back on topic, I went to school with a girl called Gormlaith (pron. Gorm-la), think it translates as Barbara. I've never met anyone else with that name. Or Eavan or Eithne are not too common. Or maybe Fintan for a boy.

nesf

Quality wrote: »

Why not go for something different

Banbh for a girl perhaps?

rainbowtrout

nesf wrote: »

Banbh for a girl perhaps?

The poor child would end up being called Miss Piggy for the rest of her life! :eek:

metrovelvet

Una and Darragh [one and second]

folkswagen

Oisin
Peadar
Caoimhin

Quality

ninja900 wrote: »

Sorry, but those names are terrible and I doubt any child would thank a parent for being called after a colour or a month. It's kinda like Man Friday out of Robinson Crusoe :eek:

'Bán' and 'Dubh' might be ok for a dog! assuming they were the appropriate colour!

Going for a 'trendy' name is always a mistake imho as it will sound horribly naff in a few years, Kylie! Jason! C'mere!!! :rolleyes:

Going for a fashionable name is a mistake too as too many other kids in school will have it, but you don't really want a 'unique' (i.e. made up) name either.

Go for a good solid traditional name that would be in the top 100 but not the top 5

But if going for a less well known traditional Irish name, do take the trouble to make sure you spell it correctly on the birth cert :eek:

Finally, I really hate the trend of using surnames as first names.

Right

Cian, Caoimhe, Niamh and Oisin

The most common Irish names going.

Crea

adsgirl wrote: »

Ruadhan is a great boys name.

how is this pronounced? Looks lovely.

littlebug

Crea wrote: »

how is this pronounced? Looks lovely.

Roo-awn ( I think)
Lovely name.

luckat

Are you thinking of pronouncing Liadhan in the modern phonetic way or as lee-awn?

For a girl: Étáin, Niamh, Maeve, Fionnuala, Muireann?

For a boy: Liam, Dara, Setanta, Deimne (pronounced Devneh), Nevan, Éamonn, Aodh, Rory or Ruairidh?

Gillie

Siofra for a girl

ciano14

i think you should go for Cian
...not like it's my name or anything *cough cough* *shifty eyes*:p
but really it is a nice name i'm glad i was called it
good luck with the twins

dame

rainbowtrout wrote: »

But back on topic, I went to school with a girl called Gormlaith (pron. Gorm-la), think it translates as Barbara. I've never met anyone else with that name. Or Eavan or Eithne are not too common. Or maybe Fintan for a boy.

I knew a girl in school who was called Bairbre (pronounced Byre-Bra). That was Barbara apparently.
Fintan's a terrible name, unless he's called after a relative.

I agree with you about the silly names though. Taking the celebrity trend of calling children by a common noun such as "Apple" or "Peaches" or something and being "cool" by translating a common word into Irish is just ridiculous. You wouldn't name a child "Water" so why would anyone think "Uisce" was any better?


There are already names out there if people wanted to name their child after a month: Augusta/Augustus, April, May, June, Nollaig, Carol, Holly, Caroline, etc.


There have been some lovely names suggested by other posters. I'd like to add Fergus for a boy and Blathnaid (fada on the first a which my keyboard is refusing to do) for a girl.

Rogueish

Senan for a boy.

Good luck with the twins

oh well

make sure the names go with the surname, and all forms of shortened/nicknames. also, see the initials are suited to each other. know a friend who called daughter name beginning with V. Surname was Dunphy. nice initials eh .... VD.