Baby names!

?Cee?view · 27-06-2013 11:05am

Hope99 wrote: »

We are really having a time finding the right name for our baby girl. WHat do you think about the name Adare or Adair for a girl ? Have you heard this name for a girl in Ireland? do you like it?

Is that not a surname?

Lisha · 27-06-2013 11:37am

Hope99
I've never heard Adare as persons name. I don't dislike it. Dara (can be both boygirl s name, darragh is more a boys name are nice too. Sorry for off topic but I thought of those two when thinking of Adare )
But similar to balmedout for Adair all I think of is the terrorist connection

MurdyWurdy · 27-06-2013 12:02pm

I also thought of the terrorist as soon as I saw it - sorry!

A girl I know in New Zealand had a little girl a while ago and called her Bailey. In NZ there is an infamous (male) murderer whose first name is Bailey. He was 12 years old and killed a pizza delivery man. It's all I could think of anytime I heard it!

eyescreamcone · 27-06-2013 12:05pm

Red Adair was a famous firefighter

wolfpawnat · 27-06-2013 2:06pm

sure then there would be no Jacks, Charles, Roses's, etc. a name shouldn't really be chosen based on what serial killers you can think of, just what makes you happy.

I never would think of Adair, it does remind me of the town, but there are far worse out there

implausible · 27-06-2013 6:36pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

sure then there would be no Jacks, Charles, Roses's, etc. a name shouldn't really be chosen based on what serial killers you can think of, just what makes you happy.

I never would think of Adair, it does remind me of the town, but there are far worse out there

But those are very common first names and your first association isn't with a murderer, whereas surnames like Adair, Dahmer and Cromwell would have strong associations for people.

However, OP, in America, the name Adair may not have the same associations and given that you have a nice back story for the name, it might work. In Irish, it's Ath Dara (I think), so Dara would work either and it has become a unisex name.

How Strange · 27-06-2013 7:33pm

I knew a girl called Ardagh when I was a child.

Hope99 · 28-06-2013 5:10am

implausible wrote: »

But those are very common first names and your first association isn't with a murderer, whereas surnames like Adair, Dahmer and Cromwell would have strong associations for people.

However, OP, in America, the name Adair may not have the same associations and given that you have a nice back story for the name, it might work. In Irish, it's Ath Dara (I think), so Dara would work either and it has become a unisex name.

You make a good point. In the US, you do hear the name Adair for girls and boys, not too often, but mainly girls is what I've noticed. Given the association it has in Ireland, I think we'd have to spell it Adare, which my hubby says is more of the Irish spelling anyway. Hmm...still thinking about it. Thanks for all the feedback.

Hope99 · 28-06-2013 5:15am

churchview wrote: »

Is that not a surname?

That's not very common in Ireland, right? We have a ton of surnames used as first names in the US. A particularly popular one right now is Ellis for a girl. I honestly that Adare/Adair was a proper Irish name...can't trust the Internet!! I read Adare was an old Irish boys name.

Moonbeam · 28-06-2013 9:28am

I have read a lot of those names sites and I am not sure where they get their info from as there is more then 1 that most people here would have never heard of.

Das Kitty · 28-06-2013 9:35am

Ellis is probably an anglicisation of Éilis (pronounced totally differently)

The only person I've ever heard use that name was Emily Bronte as her pen name, Ellis Bell. She was British.

Moonbeam · 28-06-2013 9:37am

Ellis is a Welsh male 1st name name rather then Irish, but it is not unusual for boys names to become names used for both eg Naoise.

Das Kitty · 28-06-2013 9:45am

Moonbeam wrote: »

Ellis is a Welsh male 1st name name rather then Irish, but it is not unusual for boys names to become names used for both eg Naoise.

Ah yeah. The Welsh have even weirder names than us.

Comic Book Guy · 02-07-2013 9:25pm

Hi All,

We named our first born Noah. No.2 is on the way in late august and struggling a small bit for names although I haven't really put too much thought into it yet so was flicking thru the last few pages for ideas!

What do ye think of Rhys for a boy and Sienna for a girl??

elfinka · 03-07-2013 9:15am

I am Polish and my husband's Irish, expecting our first. We don't know if it's a boy or girl yet...

Our problem is finding names that would be easily pronounced/spelled in both languages. So we wouldn't pick Siobhan or Niamh as my side of family would struggle with that. Similarly we wouldn't call a boy Grzegorz (Polish for Gregory).

So far we kind agreed on girl's name - Maya (it's spelled Maja in Polish but pronounced the same).

We cannot think of any nice boys names. We don't like Adam, Mark, Lucas etc, even though they all have Polish equivalents... Any ideas? >.<

The Cool · 03-07-2013 9:37am

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

What do ye think of Rhys for a boy and Sienna for a girl??

My brother is called Reece. I've always thought it was a lovely name, though that could be down to how I would generally associate names with people and he is the biggest sweetie going! There were a few Reeces born around the same time (1997) - my mum had no notion of the name until she was in the hospital, and on the ward they were watching the telly and a fireman named Reece had saved a baby from a burning building or something along those lines!
Sienna's a gorgeous girl's name.

Moonbeam · 03-07-2013 2:42pm

elfinka wrote: »

I am Polish and my husband's Irish, expecting our first. We don't know if it's a boy or girl yet...

Our problem is finding names that would be easily pronounced/spelled in both languages. So we wouldn't pick Siobhan or Niamh as my side of family would struggle with that. Similarly we wouldn't call a boy Grzegorz (Polish for Gregory).

So far we kind agreed on girl's name - Maya (it's spelled Maja in Polish but pronounced the same).

We cannot think of any nice boys names. We don't like Adam, Mark, Lucas etc, even though they all have Polish equivalents... Any ideas? >.<

My friends named their baby Maya for the same reason:)

cee_jay · 03-07-2013 4:59pm

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Hi All,

We named our first born Noah. No.2 is on the way in late august and struggling a small bit for names although I haven't really put too much thought into it yet so was flicking thru the last few pages for ideas!

What do ye think of Rhys for a boy and Sienna for a girl??

I love Rhys for boys name. I am biased though as its my godson's name, but even still, it's one of my favourite names. Sienna is a lovely name, and not one you would hear every day.

cee_jay · 03-07-2013 5:01pm

elfinka wrote: »

We cannot think of any nice boys names. We don't like Adam, Mark, Lucas etc, even though they all have Polish equivalents... Any ideas? >.<

Are you looking for names that have Polish equivalents, or just names that would be easily pronounced by both families?
Some ideas of boys names with similar Polish equivalents could be Alex, Jacob, Joseph, Thomas or Matthew?

ElleEm · 03-07-2013 5:06pm

cee_jay wrote: »

Are you looking for names that have Polish equivalents, or just names that would be easily pronounced by both families?
Some ideas of boys names with similar Polish equivalents could be Alex, Jacob, Joseph, Thomas or Matthew?

I love all of these names!

McBubbles · 03-07-2013 5:14pm

Really like Thomas or Hugh for a boy. Struggling with girls names though, OH likes Emma, I'm not sure

Balmed Out · 04-07-2013 10:54am

cee_jay wrote: »

Are you looking for names that have Polish equivalents, or just names that would be easily pronounced by both families?
Some ideas of boys names with similar Polish equivalents could be Alex, Jacob, Joseph, Thomas or Matthew?

Barbara and Maria other options for a girl. Dereck is similar to Dariusz, edward or maybe adam?

elfinka · 04-07-2013 11:39am

cee_jay wrote: »

Are you looking for names that have Polish equivalents, or just names that would be easily pronounced by both families?
Some ideas of boys names with similar Polish equivalents could be Alex, Jacob, Joseph, Thomas or Matthew?

Preferably names with Polish equivalents, but easy to pronounce ones would be fine too.

I quite like Matthew/Mateusz, but have one baby in my family with this name already so it would a bit awkward.

Joseph/Jozef is a very old-fashioned named with countryside vibe in Poland, so no.

Alex or Thomas... not loving them but not too bad either... didn't think of them before, thanks.

From the easy-to-pronouce category we quite like Conor/Connor recently. Is there any difference between the two btw?

Balmed Out wrote: »

Barbara and Maria other options for a girl. Dereck is similar to Dariusz, edward or maybe adam?

I think we'd like something more original than Maria/Barbara (Barbie?!), but not totally weird either, but thanks

implausible · 04-07-2013 4:57pm

elfinka wrote: »

From the easy-to-pronouce category we quite like Conor/Connor recently. Is there any difference between the two btw?

That's a great name - very strong. Connor is a surname, but I have seen people spell Conor this way.

I teach a Daria, Roksana and an Ilona, which are great names. I particularly love the name Natalia.

Lisha · 04-07-2013 7:12pm

Gabriella works too IMHO also Isabella (could spell it as izabella if you liked maybe)
Nadia ?

missis aggie · 04-07-2013 9:03pm

elfinka wrote: »

I am Polish and my husband's Irish, expecting our first. We don't know if it's a boy or girl yet...

Our problem is finding names that would be easily pronounced/spelled in both languages. So we wouldn't pick Siobhan or Niamh as my side of family would struggle with that. Similarly we wouldn't call a boy Grzegorz (Polish for Gregory)
So far we kind agreed on girl's name - Maya (it's spelled Maja in Polish but pronounced the same).

We cannot think of any nice boys names. We don't like Adam, Mark, Lucas etc, even though they all have Polish equivalents... Any ideas? >.<

I was on the same boat:) I'm Polish, my husband is Irish and he love Irish names

. So our first daughter is Roisin ( Roza / Rose in polish ) - its not to hard to say. We named our second girl Anna. If I will have a boy he will be named Connor. Good luck

icescreamqueen · 14-07-2013 2:51pm

Was thinking hard over the last few weeks of any other names I like. Only have 10 days to go so need to be definite about her name now. I'm thinking of Cassie-Rose, along with my mothers name. It'll be quite long but I want my Mums name on the birth cert too. I haven't have that scrunched up face from people when I've told them so it might be ok

carolinespring · 15-07-2013 12:58am

A friend a baby girl recently and called her Carolyn Leah and I think it is beautiful. So pretty. Everyone so far has gone"oh, that's really beautiful"

icescreamqueen · 15-07-2013 1:09pm

carolinespring wrote: »

A friend a baby girl recently and called her Carolyn Leah and I think it is beautiful. So pretty. Everyone so far has gone"oh, that's really beautiful"

It's a beautiful name, very girly and original but not too different at the same time

wolfpawnat · 19-07-2013 10:03am

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

Mr.Fred · 19-07-2013 10:07am

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

Back to the future just sprung to mind.

It's a nice first name but I guess it depends on what the surname that goes with it is.

icescreamqueen · 19-07-2013 10:18am

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

I used to teach a lovely little boy called Emmett so I think I'll always like that name now because I associate the name with him. It's not too common from what I know. I'll always like Robert as it's my babies father's name but will get lots of variations like Rob, Robbie. Both Robert and Emmett are solid, strong, masculine names though.

loubian · 19-07-2013 11:14am

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

My boys name was Jacob n my girls name is annabelle, wh the possibility of it being shortened to belle! If anyone has twilight names, it's me :P

McBubbles · 19-07-2013 12:13pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

I think Emmett is a fab name. Would love to use it myself but have a close friend called Emmett.

Moonbeam · 19-07-2013 7:08pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Baby will be here at the latest Tuesday, getting sort of nervous now :eek:

I leave the names to the OH (I couldn't actually even name our gerbils!!!!) So we had two that I liked/was okay with, but he then suggested a slight alteration.

For the boy it was supposed to be Robert, with the middle name Emmett, now he is feeling out for Emmett as the first name. I am not sure, I think Emmett and I fear anyone who has read those Twilight books will think it is after that! Damn Stephanie Meyers.

Is it a common enough name these days?

Tues,brilliant:) so soon. Your big boy must be getting excited.

wolfpawnat · 19-07-2013 7:41pm

Moonbeam wrote: »

Tues,brilliant:) so soon. Your big boy must be getting excited.

He is off to nana's tomorrow because I am nearly sure I could go beforehand. He knows Tuesday is d-day, he's all excited. He wants to find out what it is too.

We discussed the names again and we will probably stay with the original plan of Robert emmett. But if it looks more like an emmett who knows

XxMCRxBabyxX · 19-07-2013 8:12pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

He is off to nana's tomorrow because I am nearly sure I could go beforehand. He knows Tuesday is d-day, he's all excited. He wants to find out what it is too.

We discussed the names again and we will probably stay with the original plan of Robert emmett. But if it looks more like an emmett who knows

Just out of curiosity, is the reference to the historical figure deliberate?

Fwiw, I think I'd prefer Emmett but both are good names.

wolfpawnat · 19-07-2013 8:28pm

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, is the reference to the historical figure deliberate?

Fwiw, I think I'd prefer Emmett but both are good names.

Yep, daddy is an irish history nut. I am just glad he didn't go after theobald wolfetone! Our oldest has Pearse and Connolly in his name.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 19-07-2013 8:31pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Yep, daddy is an irish history nut. I am just glad he didn't go after theobald wolfetone! Our oldest has Pearse and Connolly in his name.

I figured that it had to be too much of a coincidence! :-)

Tombo2001 · 23-07-2013 10:25am

Any thoughts on Finian? Yay or nay.....

Am looking for nice three syllable names that go with our surname...

Malachy
Cameron
Finian
Jonathan

Alison
Dorothy
Emily
Isobel

Of all the ones we've looked at, we like Finian for a boy and Alison for a girl.....

Lisha · 23-07-2013 10:31am

Finian would not be for me.
Of the 4 malachy would be my favorite.
Alison for a girl is lovely.

Moonbeam · 23-07-2013 3:17pm

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Any thoughts on Finian? Yay or nay.....

Am looking for nice three syllable names that go with our surname...

Malachy
Cameron
Finian
Jonathan

Alison
Dorothy
Emily
Isobel

Of all the ones we've looked at, we like Finian for a boy and Alison for a girl.....

Finian is the only one of your boys names I would like.
I love Alison and Isobel and I like EMily but it is really common.

Tombo2001 · 24-07-2013 11:27am

Moonbeam wrote: »

Finian is the only one of your boys names I would like.
I love Alison and Isobel and I like EMily but it is really common.

Funny how things change.

When I was in school, there a bunch of Fiona's, Deborah's, Aisling's and loads of Sarah's.......doubt if there was a single Emily in the entire town.

I actually think Sarah is one of the nicest girls names......

Moonbeam · 24-07-2013 11:49am

We had Jennifers,Alisons,Niamhs,Amy,Susans,Sarahs names you rarely hear now.
For boys there were loads of John Pauls and Jonathan's and Pauls.

There are so many Saoirses , if you forget a childs name it is a good guess but it was not common at all before.

Tombo2001 · 24-07-2013 12:06pm

Moonbeam wrote: »

We had Jennifers,Alisons,Niamhs,Amy,Susans,Sarahs names you rarely hear now.
For boys there were loads of John Pauls and Jonathan's and Pauls.

There are so many Saoirses , if you forget a childs name it is a good guess but it was not common at all before.

Dont remember so many Amy's when I was a kid (1980s).

But I do recall an American family moving in near us for a while - the kids were call Zach and Amy.....for ages I thought the boys name was Zachinamy. That was fairly exotic at the time. They had BMX's and all the Michael Jackson albums. We had Triumph 20s and a Nana Mouskouri LP.

Amy is a great name, though for a lot of Irish names I think it doesnt work.....any name that ends with 'y', it clashes.....Murphy, Healy, Reilly, Dooley.

Moonbeam · 24-07-2013 12:29pm

Ciara is a name that I love and was popular then and now and Róísín and Aoife.
I was born in the 80's:)

January · 24-07-2013 12:31pm

Moonbeam wrote: »

We had Jennifers,Alisons,Niamhs,Amy,Susans,Sarahs names you rarely hear now.
For boys there were loads of John Pauls and Jonathan's and Pauls.

There are so many Saoirses , if you forget a childs name it is a good guess but it was not common at all before.

I only know two Saoirse's didn't think it was that common at all!

Tombo2001 · 24-07-2013 2:36pm

Finn or Fionn?

I always preferred Finn to Fionn (or phonetically Fee'yun).

Am I wrong?

Tombo2001 · 24-07-2013 2:38pm

January wrote: »

I only know two Saoirse's didn't think it was that common at all!

I would have said Sophie for a girl, and Noah for a boy, were the 'uber' names in our district.

Jack is the most popular boys name apparently, but I honestly cant remember coming across a single Jack......

aknitter · 24-07-2013 2:44pm

Lauren, Leah and Megan are uber popular in Cork. My daughter had 3 Saoirse's, Sarah's and Chloes in her class in primary.

Alex is popular here.

I know 2 people who have named sons Noah, sorry, can only see an old man with a stick on an ark when I hear it!

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