Spelling IRISH names!

[TheNewMrs]

Oh yes your going to get lots of that

My cousin has a little girl who is almost a year old called Niamh. So she had alot of it too.

My friend live in TX and called her daughter Saidhbhe [Sive] , and u should see the looks she gets when she writes the babies name , people called her [sad-ab] until said friend corrected them... It was quite cute watching her grampa trying to give it a go!!!

 

[sun]

Hey girls, just on the topic of the name Niamh it is certainly IRISH, and it is pronounced my IRISH PEOPLE as

[Nee-a-uv] or [Nyee-a-uv]

Neve is not Irish, its an entirely different name.

Hope that helps!

Very helpful! xxx I was wondering why I never came across the name Niamh when looking at Neve!

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

I spell my sons name Aidan. Pretty sure thats the Irish spelling x

 

[xSarahM]

My friend live in TX and called her daughter Saidhbhe [Sive] , and u should see the looks she gets when she writes the babies name , people called her [sad-ab] until said friend corrected them... It was quite cute watching her grampa trying to give it a go!!!

In all honesty, i wouldnt have known how to pronounce that!
I'd have had to ask

 

[Lucy22]

I spell my sons name Aidan. Pretty sure thats the Irish spelling x

It is the Irish spelling I love Aidan, and I especially love it spelled the original Irish way

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

My grandad was irish so I wanted an irish name I fell in love with it when I saw it x

 

[secretbaby]

Welsh names are the same - people don't spell some of them or pronouce them correctly (although I have trouble with MIL name).

 

[mushroom]

My friend live in TX and called her daughter Saidhbhe [Sive] , and u should see the looks she gets when she writes the babies name , people called her [sad-ab] until said friend corrected them... It was quite cute watching her grampa trying to give it a go!!!

In all honesty, i wouldnt have known how to pronounce that!
I'd have had to ask

It's quite rare, even in Ireland actually. You'd be lucky to come across one outside of Ireland at all. It's my favourite girl's name though

 

[Lucy22]

My grandad was irish so I wanted an irish name I fell in love with it when I saw it x

I'd love to name a future boy bump Aidan

I love the girl version of Aidan too, which is spelled either Aideen or Eadaoin, and pronounced like "Aid-een". So sweet!

 

[TheNewMrs]

I spell my sons name Aidan. Pretty sure thats the Irish spelling x

The Irish spelling is in fact AODHAN

But Aiden has been widely used since the early 1800's...

 

[TheNewMrs]

My friend live in TX and called her daughter Saidhbhe [Sive] , and u should see the looks she gets when she writes the babies name , people called her [sad-ab] until said friend corrected them... It was quite cute watching her grampa trying to give it a go!!!

In all honesty, i wouldnt have known how to pronounce that!
I'd have had to ask

Yea Only we have a mutual friend called Saidhbhe I would have been the same... The "dh" becomes silent and the "bh" makes the "v" sound...

I just love the Irish language!

 

[Lucy22]

I spell my sons name Aidan. Pretty sure thats the Irish spelling x

The Irish spelling is in fact AODHAN

But Aiden has been widely used since the early 1800's...

I thought that Aodhan was the actual Irish version for Aidan, isn't Aodhan pn like "Aya-dawn"? I thought that Aodhan was the Irish, Aidan was the English of it?
Would you pn Aodhan the same as Aidan? I wouldn't
Kind of like Shauna and Seodhna, if you know what I mean?

 

[TheNewMrs]

I spell my sons name Aidan. Pretty sure thats the Irish spelling x

The Irish spelling is in fact AODHAN

But Aiden has been widely used since the early 1800's...

I thought that Aodhan was the actual Irish version for Aidan, isn't Aodhan pn like "Aya-dawn"? I thought that Aodhan was the Irish, Aidan was the English of it?
Would you pn Aodhan the same as Aidan? I wouldn't
Kind of like Shauna and Seodhna, if you know what I mean?

No not at all, You can pronounce Aodhan either [Ay Dawn] if u put a fada over the a, it will give it that [aw] sound, but with out it , its just good old [ay-don] or [Ay-den] depending where you live.

As for Shauna,
Well The Irish spelling is actually Séana [Shaw-na]
Séodhna - [Show-na]

Again, entirely different names.