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Irish baby girl names---which one is your favorite?

I'm starting to really like all of these names even though they may be difficult to pronouce.

Aoife (EE-fah)

Saoirse (SEER-sha)

Caoimhe (KEE-vah or KWEE-vah)

These are my top three favorites...which one do you like the most and why?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I love all three, but Saorise is my favorite!

  • Milly
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Saoirse is my all time favourite Irish girls name. It's very underused here too. In my entire life, I have met one Saoirse. Aoife and Caoimhe (KWEE-vah) are lovely too, but incredibly trendy here in Ireland.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Aoife - lovely!

    My name is ShannEn, with an E!

    My mum and dad thought it would be unique if they spelled my name with an En instead of On. I like it, though. The name has more appealing/cleaner look than Shannon, Shannan, or, recently discovered, Shannun. PS I'm a woman! Apparently, people think Shannen is a male name!

    Careful choosing, love!

  • 1 decade ago

    I love Irish names.

    My favorite is Saoirse.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Aoife

  • none of them. I'm all for cultural names and i get why you are so into them but really now... you're gonna do that to your kid? at least spell them the way they are pronounced so the people in your child's life will be able to say their name. Picture a resume with a name like Caoimhe... at my husband's restaurant her application would get passed over because the name is so unpronounceable

  • 1 decade ago

    Saoirse is my favorite out of your top 3. I also love Alaide (pronounced Al-la-ee-duh). I think it's unique and gorgeous!

  • 1 decade ago

    My parents are both from Ireland and wanted to give both my brother and me Irish Gaelic names. While we both ended up with those names they are our middle names because no one could pronounce them if they were our first names! As it is it's difficult enough to explain the whole middle name thing instead of being able to just say, "My middle name is..."

    In school, on the playground, and in sports kids strive for peer acceptance and something as simple as having one's peers not be able to pronounce one's name is enough to cause that child to be outcast.

    Save the unique names for middle names!

  • 1 decade ago

    Saoirse is my fave from these.I love the Irish name Aisling also-Ashleen.I just think it's beautiful, romantic,etc.It reminds me of the beautiful pictures of ireland we often see.Or the romance novels we read.

  • Pixie.
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I like Aoife and Caoimhe. I would never have known how to pronounce them myself, but I think they both sound really cute. :]

  • 1 decade ago

    Ooo.Never heard these but I LOVE Saoirse.

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