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I'm Irish, my partner is Dutch. We considered calling our daughter Eimear. In her dialect it would have been like calling her "bucket".

We opted for a different name ;)

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The Irish name selection on this site is totally bogus. Apparently Cody, Jacqui, and Kelsi are Engish & Irish feminine names. Those are not even Hiberno-English names.

https://mixedname.com/english_irish_feminine_names

My approach was to Google things like “Irish names” and add names coming up on such lists. Do you know of a good source I should use instead?

The trouble with that is that "Irish" name lists are often written by Irish-Americans, rather than Irish people.

For instance, you would often see names like Cailin, or Erin in American-Irish (they mean girl, and Ireland respectively) names, but these would be incredibly uncommon in Ireland itself.

This page seems reasonably legit: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/100-irish-language-first-...

Limburgs?

Uitstekend, jij hebt gelijk

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