GINEVRA
ELIANA ILARIA
FEDERICA INÈS
IRIS ISABELLA NEVAEH (heaven spelled backwards)
JADA OCÉANE
LÉA PALOMA
LENA PETRA
LETICIA POPPY
LILA ROMY
LOLA RUBY
LUCIA SADIE
LUDOVICA SANNE
LUNA SOPHIE
MANON TATIANA
MARINE VIOLA
NATALYA
Boys
ALEXEI HUDSON
ANDREAS ISAAC
CADEN IVAN
CLEMENS KRISTOF
COLE LORENZO
DANE MAGNUS
ELIAS MARCOS
ENZO MATEO
FABIAN MAXIMILIAN
FELIX MILLER
FILIPPO NICO
SEM TIBOR
STONE WOLF
TANCREDI WYATT
THEO
Either
ADRIAN PEYTON
DAKOTA PRESLEY
JUSTICE SASHA
LUCA SAWYER
MILAN TRUE
II. COOL COOL
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Cool Irish Celeb Names
There’s no question that being attached to a celebrity—of the past or of the present—sprinkles a certain stardust on a name, and in this celebrity-driven culture this has become a more and more influential element in baby naming. Some celebrity names are inspiring thousands of namesakes across various cultures—the glamorous Ava, for example, is now seen on popularity lists from Scotland to Scandinavia.
The following lists include inspirational Irish-named celebrities, mostly drawn from the worlds of entertainment and literature:
AIDAN QUINN
AISLING O’SULLIVAN
ARDAL O’HANLON
BONO (b. Paul Hewson)
BRID BRENNAN
BRONAGH GALLAGHER
CATHAL COUGHLAN
CIARÁN HINDS
CILLIAN MURPHY
CLODAGH ROGERS
COLIN FARRELL
COLM MEANEY
CONAN O’BRIEN
COLUM McCANN
CORMAC McCARTHY
DAIRE BREHAN
DARAGH O’MALLEY
DERVLA KIRWAN
DEVON MICHAEL MURRAY
EAMONN CAMPBELL (The Dubliners)
EAVAN AISLING BOLAND
ELVIS (b. Declan) COSTELLO
EMER MARTIN
ENYA (b. Eithne)
EOIN COLFER
FEARGAL LAWLER (The Cranberries)
FEARGAL (b. Sean) SHARKEY
FERDIA MACANNA
FINTAN MCKEOWN
FIONA SHAW
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
GAY (b. Gabriel, nickname Gaybo) BYRNE
LAOISE KELLY
LIAM NEESON
MAEVE BINCHY
MÁIRE NÍ BHRAOÁIN
MALACHI CUSH
MALACHY McCOURT
MILO O’SHEA
NIALL TOIBIN
NIAMH CUSACK
NOLAN RYAN
ORLA FITZGERALD
PADDY CASEY
PÁDRAIC BREATHNACH
PÁDRAIC DELANEY
PHELIM DREW
PIERCE BROSNAN
REDMOND O’HANLON
RODEN NOEL
RÓISÍN MURPHY
ROMA DOWNEY
RORY GALLAGHER
RÚAIDHRI CONROY
SAOIRSE RONAN
SEAMUS HEANEY
SINÉAD O’CONNOR
SIOBHAN MCCARTHY
SLAINE KELLY
SORCHA CUSACK
VAN MORRISON
COOLEST
CELEB NAME
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Saoinse
Starbabies with Irish Names
Celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic, those with and without Hibernian roots, have long been partial to Irish names. Here are some of the coolest, along with our reasons for thinking so: