29 May 2009

Hey Anne! Name That Baby!

This list is mostly for Ms. Anne on my "People I Stalk on the Internet". I've only met her a couple times, long ago before she was married, but I found her to be lovely then and even more so now. She has five kids at home right now so I kinda caught a pattern in her naming preferences (I think!), so hopefully she’ll find a winner here!

I love names! I’ve been making name lists since I was in preschool. Writing lists of names over and over helped me stay calm and not so bored as a child and also is to be credited for my excellent penmanship.

Any name with two asterisks by it is my unsolicited advice for what to name Anne & Dominic’s son :) Feel free to offer comments with your opinions too! For the record, their other children at home are Bridget & Piper (the girls) & Regan, Ciaran, & Quinn (the boys)

IRISH NAMES THAT I COULDN’T FIND A SAINT FOR:

**Emmett
Fergal – brave & courageous
Garret – spear carrier
**Lochlan [LOCK-lun]
Riordan [REER-don] – royal poet
Seamus [SHAY-mus] – Irish form of James
Turlach – one who aids
**Dubhlainn [DUV-lin] – dark sword
Desmond
Cillian (Killian) – fierce & loyal
Carrick – rock

SAINT NAMES:


Finnén [FIN-yayn] (Finnian)
Fionnbhar (Finbarr)
Crispin
Cyprian
**Corcán (KURK-awn) – red, crimson
**Daigh [day] – fire
Faithleann [FAL-yan] (Fallon)
Farannán
**Librén [LEE-bren]
Lonán
Lucan
Marcán
Meallán [MYAL-awn] – lightning
Oliver
Rúadhán [ROO-awn] (**Rowan)
Tiarnach
Tressan
Ultán
Brogan
Beccán
Berach – pointed, sharp
Breccan – speckled
Cassán
**Abbán
Cairbre
Eoghan (Owen) – born of the yew tree
Faolan (Phelan) – wolf
Fergus – strong warrior
**Hugh – fire
**Lorcán – silent or fierce
Odhran (Oran/Orin) – dark-haired
**Ronan – little seal
**Tadhg [tyg] – poet philosopher
Simon
Simeon
Éimhín [AY-veen] – prompt, ready
**Declan
Dallán


A FEW GIRL NAMES FOR PASSERS-BY:

Aine (Anya) – splendor, radiance, brilliance
Alana/Alannah – darling child
Aislinn [AYSH-leen] – vision, dream
Caoimhe [KEE-va] – gentle, beautiful, precious
Blinne
Claire – clear, bright, famous
Graínne [GRAW-nya] (Grania)
Cadhla (Keela or Kyla) – beauty only poetry can capture
Maeve [mayv] – cause of great joy
Radha [ROW-uh] – vision; if you have a large Hindu population this name is also a diety-consort of that faith but is pronounced more like Roddah.
Saoirse [SEAR-sha] – freedom, liberty
Siobhán [shiv-AWN] – Irish form of Joan

5 comments:

Anne said...

Oh my gosh! So many of those names are fantastic! Yes, you definitely caught a pattern, we do love the Celtic baby names. LOL

Okay, so we've met before...were you in the singles ward in Long Beach?

Claire said...

I'm glad you found some good ones on there :) I actually met you at Denny's when Crimson was a toddler (barely!). I saw you once with Regan and one time when you brought Dominic to meet the crew and then I never saw you again! I like to call that period of my life the "Post-Separation, Pre-Divorce, Lost in Limbo Idiot Phase". I can honestly say I turned my back on every single thing I ever cared about when my first marriage broke up. I took him divorcing me pretty hard!

So yeah, glad I met ya (and Gwen & a couple others) but the rest of that Early OC time I'm trying to forget!

I actually started wondering if you had connected dots or not when you said you knew someone in CA with a daughter named Crimson. Either you know another, you remembered me, or you were thinking of Jennifer. It never occurred to me that you might be friends with her but then I realized that you must know her since she hung out with that group of people for many years before I even met them. So yeah, the situation is complex and hard to actually describe to people without breaking out visual aids, but Jennifer is married to my ex-husband. You probably know the rest.

Anne said...

Okay. Yes, I do know the rest. It never occurred to me that it was you that I knew with a daughter named Crimson! Small world, huh?

Claire said...

Yup! I didn't know it was you until I saw a pic of Dominic and then it clicked that you didn't just resemble Anne, you ARE Anne! hahaha

Anonymous said...

Small world! Six degrees of separation.