Irish Names Starting with O

From the Irish word uan “a lamb” or may come from the Latin una meaning “one,” hence it is sometimes translated as “Unity.”

Orla in Irish is Orlaith, pronounced OR-la, meaning “golden princess.”

Orlaith comes from the Irish Órlaith (older Órfhlaith), from ór “gold” and flaith “ruler, prince,” which is read as “princess” in women’s names, so “golden princess.”

All variants of odhra meaning “dark haired.” Seventeen saints have used the name and Odhran, abbot of Meath, was one of the 12 devotees who accompanied St. Columba to Iona.

Odran in Irish is Odhran, pronounced O-ran, meaning “dark-haired.”

The son of the legendary warrior Fionn Mac Cool and the goddess Sive. His mother was turned into a deer by the Dark Druid and she reared him in the forest until he was seven years old.

Owen in Irish is Eoghan, pronounced O-in, meaning “born of the yew tree.”