My friend has an Aoife and a Niamh. But she's a Maireadh
As long as you are prepared to educate people, and deal with the ones who will insist on deliberately getting it wrong ( unusual, non phonetic surname here) it will be fine.
My cousin married an Irishman and they have Patrick (Paddy), Rauri (Gaelic spelling of Rory, and I think I got it right), Frances and oooh, I've forgotten number 4's name! Oops...
I love Eamonn and Declan - they're lovely names without too much explanation of spelling.
Niamh is a lovely name to look at, but would certainly need correcting when people were reading it. Amusingly, in Ireland, Neve is pronounced Nev - wouldn't it be nice if everyone embraced phonetic name spelling!
I like Niamh but I knew how to pronounce it. It will be confusing to the non- Irish but if you want an Irish name I figure you need to use the Irish spelling. Siobhan's another one that confused me but once you learn it it seems normal (sha-vorn)
Some Irish boy names are Patrick, Liam, Declan, Conor, Rory, Michael, Sean, Cabhan (Cavan), Ardan, Eoghan/Owen, Fergus, Finn, Riordan, Ronan.
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