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Below is the updated list of the Top 100 Irish Baby Names for both girls and boys based on statistics, traffic patterns and research. Research the meaning and listen to the audio so you can learn the pronunciation and how to pronounce the names in Irish and Gaelic correctly! Also view: Top Irish Boys Names and Top Irish Girl Names

Siobhan

Meaning of the Irish name Siobhan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Siobhan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: Siobhan is another Irish form of Joan meaning “God is gracious.” A popular name in Ireland where the anglicised versions are often used. Siobhan McKenna, an Irish actress who died in 1986, was considered by many as a woman who personified all that was good about being Irish.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Siobhan

PRONUNCIATION: shiv + awn”

ENGLISH: Shevaun, Shavon, Chevonne

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Saoirse

Meaning of the Irish name Saoirse. Listen and learn how to pronounce Saoirse so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

Related Girl Names

Siobhan, Ava, Aoife, Anna, Ciara, Caoimhe, Niamh, Saoirse, Maeve, Keeva

MEANING: Irish word saoirse “freedom, liberty.” It has only been used since the 1920s and has strong patriotic overtones. It has become a very popular baby girl name in Ireland in recent years.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Saoirse

PRONUNCIATION: sear + sha”

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Famous People with the Irish name Saoirse: Saoirse Ronan is an Irish actress whose films include ‘Hanna’

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Aidan

Meaning of the name Aidan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Aidan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: A diminutive form of the name Aed meaning “”fire”” and would imply “”born of fire.”” It became a popular name in honour of St. Aidan of Iona (c. 630 AD) who founded a famous monastery on the island of Lindisfarne which he used as a base to evangalize the North of England. In art Aidan is usually represented as a stag, a reference to the legend that he saved a deer that was being hunted by making it invisible.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Aidan Aedan Aodhan

PRONUNCIATION: “aid + an” or “aid + on”

ENGLISH: Aidan

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Aiden

Meaning of the name Aiden. Listen and learn how to pronounce Aiden so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: A diminutive form of the name Aed meaning “”fire”” and would imply “”born of fire.”” It became a popular name in honour of St. Aidan of Iona (c. 630 AD) who founded a famous monastery on the island of Lindisfarne which he used as a base to evangalize the North of England. In art Aidan is usually represented as a stag, a reference to the legend that he saved a deer that was being hunted by making it invisible.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Aiden Aedan Aodhan

PRONUNCIATION: “aid + an” or “aid + on”

ENGLISH: Aiden

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Alby

Meaning of the name Alby. Listen and learn how to pronounce Alby so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: From an old Irish word meaning “”white,”” the 6th century St. Ailbe was associated with the monastery at Emly in County Tipperary. The local people requested that he bless a river that had no fish. St. Ailbe did and that very day the river was filled with an abundance of fish. The people built five churches in St. Ailbe’s honor at the best fishing spots along the river. Ailbe may be used for a boy or a girl.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Alby Ailbe

PRONUNCIATION: “all + bay”

ENGLISH: Alby

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Alroy

Meaning of the Irish name Alroy. Listen and learn how to pronounce Alroy so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: From rua “”red”” and would make an appropriate name for a red-headed child.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Alroy

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Ardan

Meaning of the Irish name Ardan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Ardan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: From ardanach meaning “”high aspiration.”” Ardan was one of the sons of Usna who helped Deirdre escape to Scotland so that she would not be forced to marry King Conchobhar MacNessa.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Ardan

PRONUNCIATION: “”are + dawn””

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Barry

Meaning of the name Barry. Listen and learn how to pronounce Barry so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: Meaning “”fair-haired,”” the name has been popular since the sixth century when St. Finbar came to an area of Cork that was being tormented by a serpent. The people begged him to do something to help them. One night he went to where the serpent was sleeping and sprinkled it with holy water. The angry serpent tore and devoured the land until she slithered into the sea at Cork Harbor. The track she left behind filled with water and became the River Lee and that’s why St. Finbar is the patron saint of Cork. It is said that the sun didn’t set for two weeks after Finbar’s death.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Barry Finbar

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ENGLISH: Barry

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Aideen

Meaning of the Irish name Aideen. Listen and learn how to pronounce Aideen so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: Formed like Aidan from aed ”fire.” Aideen loved her husband Oscar, a grandson of Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend), so much that when he fell in battle she died of a broken heart.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Aideen

PRONUNCIATION: ay + deen”

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Ailbe

Meaning of the Irish name Ailbe. Listen and learn how to pronounce Ailbe so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: From an old Irish word meaning “white,” the 6th century St. Ailbe was associated with the monastery at Emly in County Tipperary. The local people requested that he bless a river that had no fish. St. Ailbe did and that very day the river was filled with an abundance of fish. The people built five churches in St. Ailbe’s honor at the best fishing spots along the river. Ailbe may be used for a boy or a girl.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Ailbe

PRONUNCIATION: all + bay”

ENGLISH: Alby

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Aileen

Meaning of the Irish name Aileen. Listen and learn how to pronounce Aileen so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: Ancient Irish name from ail ”noble.”

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Aileen Ailene

PRONUNCIATION: ay + leen”

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Braden

Meaning of the name Braden. Listen and learn how to pronounce Braden so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: Comes from the word bradan meaning “”a salmon”” in Irish and the bradan feasa, the “”Salmon of Knowledge”” (read the legend) is central to the tales of Fionn MacCool (read the legend).

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Braden Bradan

PRONUNCIATION: “bray + dawn”

ENGLISH: Braden

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Brandan

Meaning of the name Brandan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Brandan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: There are at least seventeen saints who bear the name but St. Breandan the Navigator is probably the best known. Tradition has it that he was born in County Kerry, set sail in a small boat with a group of monks in the early 6th century, visited an island inhabited by birdmen, rode on the back of a whale and was the first European to set foot on the shores of the Americas, nearly a thousand years before Columbus. In the 1970s Tim Severin recreated St. Breandan’s voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a flimsy, hide-covered rowboat known as a “”curragh.”” St. Breandan is venerated in Ireland as the patron saint of seafarers and travellers.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Brandan Breandan

PRONUNCIATION: “bren + dawn”

ENGLISH: Brandan

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Breandan

Meaning of the Irish name Breandan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Breandan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: There are at least seventeen saints who bear the name but St. Breandan the Navigator is probably the best known. Tradition has it that he was born in County Kerry, set sail in a small boat with a group of monks in the early 6th century, visited an island inhabited by birdmen, rode on the back of a whale and was the first European to set foot on the shores of the Americas, nearly a thousand years before Columbus. In the 1970s Tim Severin recreated St. Breandan’s voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a flimsy, hide-covered rowboat known as a “”curragh.”” St. Breandan is venerated in Ireland as the patron saint of seafarers and travellers.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Breandan

PRONUNCIATION: “”bren + dawn””

ENGLISH: Brendan, Brandan, Brandon

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Alby

Meaning of the name Alby. Listen and learn how to pronounce Alby so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: From an old Irish word meaning “white,” the 6th century St. Ailbe was associated with the monastery at Emly in County Tipperary. The local people requested that he bless a river that had no fish. St. Ailbe did and that very day the river was filled with an abundance of fish. The people built five churches in St. Ailbe’s honor at the best fishing spots along the river. Ailbe may be used for a boy or a girl.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Alby Ailbe

PRONUNCIATION: all + bay”

ENGLISH: Alby

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Anna

Meaning of the name Anna. Listen and learn how to pronounce Anna so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: Ancient Irish name from the noun aine that means “splendor, radiance, brilliance.” Aine is connected with fruitfulness and prosperity. The queen of the Munster fairies was called Aine as was one of the wives of Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend). Aine appears in folktales as “the best-hearted woman who ever lived – lucky in love and in money.”

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Anna Aine

PRONUNCIATION: awn + ye”

ENGLISH: Anna

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Brian

Meaning of the Irish name Brian. Listen and learn how to pronounce Brian so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: From brigh “”high, noble, strong.”” This is one of the most widespread Irish names ever, in honour of the most revered High King of Ireland, Brian Boru (read the legend) who defeated an army of invading Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 but died of wounds he received in the battle. Kincora – a poem by James Clarence Mangan (translated).

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Brian

PRONUNCIATION: “”bree + an””

ENGLISH: Brian (pron. “”bry + an””)

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Aoife

Meaning of the Irish name Aoife. Listen and learn how to pronounce Aoife so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: “beautiful, radiant, joyful.” Known as the greatest woman warrior in the world, Aoife was the mother of Cuchulainn’s (read the legend) only son, Connlach. Aoife Dearg (“Red Aoife”) was a daughter of a king of Connacht who had her marriage arranged by St. Patrick himself. In 2003 Aoife was the third most popular Irish girls name for babies in Ireland.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Aoife

PRONUNCIATION: ee + fa”

ENGLISH: Eva, Ava

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Famous People with the Irish name Aoife: Aoife Walsh who won Miss Ireland in 2013. You can view Aoife Walsh personal twitter page here.

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Ashling

Meaning of the Irish name Ashling. Listen and learn how to pronounce Ashling so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: From aislinge which means “a vision” or “a dream,” Aisling is the name given to a popular poetic genre from the 17th and 18th centuries in which Ireland is personified as a beautiful woman in peril. A very popular name in Ireland now.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Ashling Aislin Aislinn

PRONUNCIATION: ash + ling”

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Ava

Meaning of the name Ava. Listen and learn how to pronounce Ava so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: “beautiful, radiant, joyful.” Known as the greatest woman warrior in the world, Aoife was the mother of Cuchulainn’s (read the legend) only son, Connlach. Aoife Dearg (“Red Aoife”) was a daughter of a king of Connacht who had her marriage arranged by St. Patrick himself. In 2003 Aoife was the third most popular Irish girls name for babies in Ireland.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Ava Aoife

PRONUNCIATION: ee + fa”

ENGLISH: Ava

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Barbara

Meaning of the name Barbara. Listen and learn how to pronounce Barbara so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: Anglicized as Barbara. May come from gorm “illustrious” or “splendid” and flaith “queen, princess.” Lady Gormlaith, a legendary beauty, was queen of the Danes in Ireland as wife of Olaf, The Viking leader of Dublin; later she was wife of Malachy II, king of Ulster and finally married Brian Boru (read the legend), king of Munster and later king of all Ireland. Her three sons, Sitric, Murdach and Donough continued to rule Ireland after The Battle of Clontarf where Brian Boru died in 1014.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Barbara Gormlaith Gormla Gormley

PRONUNCIATION: gorm + lee”

ENGLISH: Barbara

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Briana

Meaning of the Irish name Briana. Listen and learn how to pronounce Briana so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: “noble, virtuous.” The feminine of Brian.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Briana Brianna

PRONUNCIATION: bree + a + na”

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Brigid

Meaning of the Irish name Brigid. Listen and learn how to pronounce Brigid so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: The name Brigid from brigh meaning “power, vigour, virtue” epitomizes the Irish genius for layering old and new. The main female deity of the Celts, Brigid made the land fruitful and animals multiply, she blessed poets and blacksmiths. Her namesake St. Brigid of Kildare carried her powers into the Christian era. The stories of Brigid”s compassion and miracles are told now as they have been for more than 1500 years in every part of Ireland. She is equal in esteem and shares a grave with St. Patrick and St. Columcille. Her feast day, February 1st, is the first day of Spring in the Celtic calender.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Brigid Bridget

PRONUNCIATION: bridge + id”

ENGLISH: Brigit

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Brigit

Meaning of the name Brigit. Listen and learn how to pronounce Brigit so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: The name Brigid from brigh meaning “power, vigour, virtue” epitomizes the Irish genius for layering old and new. The main female deity of the Celts, Brigid made the land fruitful and animals multiply, she blessed poets and blacksmiths. Her namesake St. Brigid of Kildare carried her powers into the Christian era. The stories of Brigid”s compassion and miracles are told now as they have been for more than 1500 years in every part of Ireland. She is equal in esteem and shares a grave with St. Patrick and St. Columcille. Her feast day, February 1st, is the first day of Spring in the Celtic calender.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Brigit Brigid Bridget

PRONUNCIATION: bridge + id”

ENGLISH: Brigit

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Clearie

Meaning of the Irish name Clearie. Listen and learn how to pronounce Clearie so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: cliareach “”minstrel, scholar.”” A surname now used as a given name.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Clearie Cleary

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Colin

Meaning of the name Colin. Listen and learn how to pronounce Colin so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: From coll “”chieftan”” and the diminutive -in and would mean “”little chieftan.””

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Colin Coilin

PRONUNCIATION: “koh + lin”

ENGLISH: Colin

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Colm

Meaning of the Irish name Colm. Listen and learn how to pronounce Colm so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: A Gaelic form of the Latin columba meaning “”dove.”” St. Columba of Iona or Colmcille colm + cille or “”dove of the church”” was a prince of the O’Neill clan, a great poet and scholar. When Columba copied a book belonging to a monastery the abbott claimed it. Columba refused. His royal relatives got involved and a battle ensued. The High King decided in the abbott’s favor “”To every cow it’s calf, to every book it’s little book”” and Columba was exiled to Iona – the closest place from which he could not see Ireland. His monks created “”The Book of Kells”” and he himself may have illuminated some of the manuscripts. Born in 521 AD, by the age of 25 he has founded 27 monasteries and 40 churches in Ireland, before setting up a monastery on the island of Iona, and from there he christianised Scotland and northern England.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Colm Colum Colmcille Columb Columba

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Cara

Meaning of the Irish name Cara. Listen and learn how to pronounce Cara so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: In Irish cara simply means a “friend.”

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Cara Caragh Caera

PRONUNCIATION: car + a” “keer + a”

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Conall

Meaning of the Irish name Conall. Listen and learn how to pronounce Conall so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: Means friendship or could be from con “”a hound,”” as applied to a swift-footed warrior, and all “”great, mighty.”” In legend Conall Cearnach (“”Conall the Victorious””), one of the mightiest warrior heros in the Red Branch Knights, the forerunners of the Knights of the Round Table, avenged the death of his foster brother Cuchulainn (read the legend). It was also believed that he was in the Holy Land when Christ was crucified. Every nation on earth was reputedly represented and Conall Cearnach was Ireland’s representative and it is further believed that he was one of the people who put their shoulders to the rock that covered the entrance to Christ’s tomb and rolled it back on that first Easter morning.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Conall Connall

PRONUNCIATION: “”kun + al””

ENGLISH: Connell

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Catherine

Meaning of the name Catherine. Listen and learn how to pronounce Catherine so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: An Irish form of Catherine that derives from an older Greek name meaning “clear, pure.” (See also Caitlin.)

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Catherine Catriona Caitriona

PRONUNCIATION: ka + tree + na”

ENGLISH: Catherine

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Catherine

Meaning of the name Catherine. Listen and learn how to pronounce Catherine so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: Devotion to St. Catherine came to Ireland with Christianity. Revered for her courage and purity, Catherine in the Irish form, Cathleen, became such a popular name that W. B. Yeats chose it for the heroine of his 1899 play “The Countess Cathleen” which was inspired by an Irish folktale. In a time of famine the Devil offers food to the starving poor in exchange for their souls. But Cathleen convinces Satan to take her soul instead. When she dies the Devil comes to collect her soul but God intervenes and carries Cathleen to heaven, saying that “such a sacrificial act cannot justly lead to evil consequences.”

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Catherine Caitlin Cathleen

PRONUNCIATION: koit + leen” “kath + leen”

ENGLISH: Catherine

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Connor

Meaning of the name Connor. Listen and learn how to pronounce Connor so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: Means “”lover of hounds.”” Conchobhar MacNessa was the king of Ulster and, according to legend, was born on the same day as Christ. Conchobhar, an uncle of Cuchulainn (read the legend), loved Deirdre and wished to marry her. But she fled with his nephew Naoise and his brothers. Conchobhar gave chase and althought he promised to forgive them, he killed Naoise and her abductors. In the battle a sling-shot lodged in his brain which doctors could not remove and on hearing of the crucifixion of Christ he over-exerted himself in his rage and the sling-shot fell out and he died. In 2003 it was the fourth most popular baby name for boys in Ireland.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Connor Conchobhar

PRONUNCIATION: “con + r”

ENGLISH: Connor

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Chevonne

Meaning of the name Chevonne. Listen and learn how to pronounce Chevonne so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: Siobhan is another Irish form of Joan meaning “God is gracious.” A popular name in Ireland where the anglicised versions are often used. Siobhan McKenna, an Irish actress who died in 1986, was considered by many as a woman who personified all that was good about being Irish.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Chevonne Siobhan

PRONUNCIATION: shiv + awn”

ENGLISH: Chevonne

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Conor

Meaning of the name Conor. Listen and learn how to pronounce Conor so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: Means “”lover of hounds.”” Conchobhar MacNessa was the king of Ulster and, according to legend, was born on the same day as Christ. Conchobhar, an uncle of Cuchulainn (read the legend), loved Deirdre and wished to marry her. But she fled with his nephew Naoise and his brothers. Conchobhar gave chase and althought he promised to forgive them, he killed Naoise and her abductors. In the battle a sling-shot lodged in his brain which doctors could not remove and on hearing of the crucifixion of Christ he over-exerted himself in his rage and the sling-shot fell out and he died. In 2003 it was the fourth most popular baby name for boys in Ireland.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Conor Conchobhar

PRONUNCIATION: “con + r”

ENGLISH: Conor

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Ciara

Meaning of the Irish name Ciara. Listen and learn how to pronounce Ciara so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: The feminine form of Ciaran, from the Irish ciar meaning “dark” and implies “dark hair and brown eyes.” St. Ciara was a distinguished seventh-century figure who established a monastery at Kilkeary in County Tipperary. It was the fourth most popular baby girl name in Ireland in 2003.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Ciara

PRONUNCIATION: kee + ra”

ENGLISH: Keera, Keira, Kira

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Claire

Meaning of the Irish name Claire. Listen and learn how to pronounce Claire so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: A medieval name derived from Latin clarus ”clear, bright, famous.” St. Claire, a follower of St. Francis of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to found the order of nuns known as the “Poor Clares,” has always been very respected in Ireland and the name is still popular today.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Claire Clare

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Craig

Meaning of the name Craig. Listen and learn how to pronounce Craig so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: From carraig “”a rock.””

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Craig Carrick Carrig

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ENGLISH: Craig

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Cloda

Meaning of the name Cloda. Listen and learn how to pronounce Cloda so you can get the correct pronunciation for this girl name.

MEANING: The river Clody runs through County Tipperary and County Wexford and like most Irish rivers is named for a local female deity. Rivers become places for prayer and Clodagh is a popular name in this part of the country.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Cloda Clodagh

PRONUNCIATION: clo + da”

ENGLISH: Cloda

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Colleen

Meaning of the Irish name Colleen. Listen and learn how to pronounce Colleen so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: From the Irish cailin meaning “girl” and used by the Irish in the USA and Australia as a way of connecting to their Irish roots.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Colleen Coleen

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ENGLISH:

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Dalaigh

Meaning of the Irish name Dalaigh. Listen and learn how to pronounce Dalaigh so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: dalach meaning “”frequenter of gatherings”” and refers, therefore to a “”counsellor.”” The Irish Parliament is known as the Dail (pron. “”doyle””), which means “”a gathering.””

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Dalaigh

PRONUNCIATION: “”dawl + ee”” or “”dale + ee””

ENGLISH: Daley, Daly

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Daniel

Meaning of the name Daniel. Listen and learn how to pronounce Daniel so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: domhan “”world”” and all “”mighty”” implying “”ruler of the world.”” “”Donal Og”” (“”Young Donal””) is the title of a fifteenth-century love song that is still popular among Irish traditional musicians and singers.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Daniel Donal

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ENGLISH: Daniel

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Dara

Meaning of the name Dara. Listen and learn how to pronounce Dara so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: daire “”fruitful, fertile.”” The Brown Bull of Cooley (read the legend) was owned by Daire Mac Fiachna, and his refusal to sell his bull to Queen Maebh was part of the reason for the fight between the provinces of Ulster and Connacht. At present it is a very popular name in Ireland with all four spellings and it is often used as a girl’s name with the spellings Daire and Dara.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Dara Daire

PRONUNCIATION: “di + re”

ENGLISH: Dara

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Daragh

Meaning of the name Daragh. Listen and learn how to pronounce Daragh so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: daire “”fruitful, fertile.”” The Brown Bull of Cooley (read the legend) was owned by Daire Mac Fiachna, and his refusal to sell his bull to Queen Maebh was part of the reason for the fight between the provinces of Ulster and Connacht. At present it is a very popular name in Ireland with all four spellings and it is often used as a girl’s name with the spellings Daire and Dara.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Daragh Daire

PRONUNCIATION: “di + re”

ENGLISH: Daragh

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Darcy

Meaning of the Irish name Darcy. Listen and learn how to pronounce Darcy so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: From the surname O’Dorchaidhe “”descendant of the dark one.””

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Darcy Darcie D’Arcy

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David

Meaning of the name David. Listen and learn how to pronounce David so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: It is an old Irish name meaning “”swiftness, nimbleness.”” Daithi, the last pagan king of Ireland, ruled from 405 AD to 426 AD, and he had twenty-four sons. Along with Crimhthan the Great (366 A.D.) and Niall of the Nine Hostages (379 A.D.) (read the legend) Daithi led Irish fleets to raid the Roman Empire. He was killed by lightning in the Alps and is buried under a standing stone called “”King Daithi’s Stone.”” As in all these matters there is debate over where the stone is located, either in County Roscommon or on the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: David Daithi Dahey Dahy

PRONUNCIATION: “dah + hee”

ENGLISH: David

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Deirdre

Meaning of the Irish name Deirdre. Listen and learn how to pronounce Deirdre so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish girl name.

MEANING: The most beautiful woman in ancient Ireland, she was bethrothed to the High King Conchobhar Mac Nessa but she fell in love with his nephew Naoise. Deirdre and Naoise eloped to Scotland where they lived a blissful exile for many years. By offering forgiveness, Conchobhar tricked them into returning to Ulster where Naoise was slain by the jealous Conchobhar. Deirdre threw herself from Conchobhar’s chariot rather than live with the man who had caused Naoise’s death. It was said that her grave was near to Naoise’s and that a yew tree grew from each plot. The yew trees grew toward one another till their branches intertwined, joining the two lovers even after death.

GENDER: Girl | Female

IRISH NAME: Deirdre

PRONUNCIATION: deer + dre” or “dare + dreh”

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Declan

Meaning of the name Declan. Listen and learn how to pronounce Declan so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: From dag “”good”” and lan “”full”” suggesting “”full of goodness.”” St. Declan was the founder of a monastery at Ardmore in County Waterford and may have preached in Ireland before the arrival of St. Patrick. Many miracles are attributed to a rock on the beach at Ardmore known as St. Declan’s Stone. According to legend, on a trip back from Wales one of his disciples, Runanus, forgot Declan’s sacred bell. But a prayer from Declan and, miraculously, the stone carried the bell over the waves back to Waterford.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Declan Deaglan

PRONUNCIATION: “deck + lan”

ENGLISH: Declan

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Dermot

Meaning of the name Dermot. Listen and learn how to pronounce Dermot so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: “”without enemy.”” The name of early kings, legendary heroes and saints, Diarmuid was the lover of Grainne and the most beloved of that warrior band, the Fianna (read the legend). Grainne, as the daughter of Cormac Mac Airt, the High King of Tara, was betrothed to a much older man, the legendary Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend). When Grainne saw Fionn at the wedding banquet she realised he “”was not for her”” and put a a “”geis,”” a spell, on his nephew, Diarmuid, to run away with her. For sixteen years the lovers were forced to roam the countryside, all the time knowing that they were being constantly pursued by the furious Fionn. Each night they made a fresh bed in a sheltered spot and legend has it that these beds can still be seen today in many remote places. (Read the legend of Diarmuid and Grainne).

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Dermot Diarmuid

PRONUNCIATION: “deer + mid”

ENGLISH: Dermot

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Dillon

Meaning of the Irish name Dillon. Listen and learn how to pronounce Dillon so you can get the correct pronunciation for this Irish boy name.

MEANING: From dealan “”a flash of lightning”” or it may come from an Irish word for “”faithful, loyal.”” A common surname it is the Irish form of the Welsh name “”Dylan.”” As Dylan it was the tenth most popular name for Irish baby boys in Ireland for 2003.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Dillon

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ENGLISH: Dylan

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Donagh

Meaning of the name Donagh. Listen and learn how to pronounce Donagh so you can get the correct pronunciation for this boy name.

MEANING: donn “”brown”” and cath “”battle”” meaning “”brown-haired warrior.”” Brian Boru’s (read the legend) son Donncha was a High King of Ireland until his death in 1064.

GENDER: Boy | Male

IRISH NAME: Donagh Donncha

PRONUNCIATION: “done + acka”

ENGLISH: Donagh

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