Can you name the most popular Irish baby boy and girl names for 2009?

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Baby Names: Ireland Quiz

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	DonnyB:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:12 GMT		30 points
	I'd take most of these over the most common US baby names any day.

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	Boourns:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:37 GMT		43 points
	No Wee Baby Seamus?

	ZapRowsdower:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:40 GMT		13 points
	Guessing Father Ted characters didn't get me far, but it did get me the top boys name!

	afrownfe:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:40 GMT		20 points
	I'm surprised at the lack of Erin and Shannon.

	acbc66:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT		32 points
	No Shannon? No Colleen?? My stereotyping is crushed.

	BamaRainbow:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:48 GMT		1 point
	Okay. Something was wrong when I took the quiz. I spelled the name right for the #21 Girls name, but it would NOT accept the answer.

	Djibouti:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:56 GMT		12 points
	I knew the moment Erin didn't appear I was in trouble. I also hoped Siobhán would show up...always liked that name

	moegoldberg:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 19:59 GMT		10 points
	What? No Conan ;-)

	kingtorres:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:00 GMT		10 points
	@Boourns -actually, Seamus is the Irish name for James or Jamie, which are both on the list :)

	muse:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:06 GMT		10 points
	@wordnerd mac is a scottish prefix why would that be here...

	raltfillisch:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:15 GMT		4 points
	#21 for the Girls name didn't show up for me either when I spelled it correctly.

	Statto2:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:16 GMT		9 points
	Any pronounciation advice for Saoirse or Oisin? I can do the others!

	kingtorres:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:18 GMT		25 points
	@statto2 saoirse is pronounced seer-sha and oisin is pronounce ush-een.

	Statto2:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:29 GMT		4 points
	kingtorres - thanks!

	eringurl34:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:34 GMT		1 point
	iIm surprised Erin isnt on this list! I mean im not just saying it because my name is Erin Its just that Erin means Ireland!!

	rockgolf:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 20:40 GMT		18 points
	@Eringirl: My daughter's name too, but not a popular name over there. It makes some sense, tho. Outside of Ferrara, how many girls named America do you know?

	1derfool:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 21:00 GMT		12 points
	In desperation I started all guessing Irish singers I could think of but alas, Sinead wasn't there.

	ABarrett1124:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 21:33 GMT		0 points
	Megan? Erin?

	Sapphire_Hart:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 21:54 GMT		2 points
	Of course it was Eoin and not Ioan...

	bazmerelda:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 22:26 GMT		23 points
	So Bono and The Edge aren't actually common Irish names. Who knew? ;p

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	Mackadal:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 22:54 GMT		2 points
	I think the title should be altered- I wasn`t sure whether they were looking for names used in Ireland or for names of Irish descent popular in English-speaking countries.

	Statto2:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 23:05 GMT		3 points
	Mackadal - when you say ugly do you mean ugly looking? Personally I find it hard to think of them as ugly sounding!

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 23:10 GMT		7 points
	@muse: Although Mc/Mac is a Scottish prefix the Scots were Irish Gaels who invaded from Northern Ireland. In otherwords it was originally an Irish (Gaeilge) term meaning "son of". It is extremely common in Ireland probably more so than in Scotland. Many of the Macs in Scotland arrived as immigrants in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The majority of the North American Macs who like to claim Scottish ancestry were actually immigrants from what is now Northern Ireland.

	eab21:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 23:58 GMT		12 points
	Any one else guess "Patrick" first?

	westing1992:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT		7 points
	The Irish sure love vowels.

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	RetroGirl:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:13 GMT		2 points
	Turns out, guessing the names of my Facebook friends' babies, and baby names I've always liked (Jack, Lucy...even Ruby?) worked fairly well!

	MallowKevin:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:15 GMT		11 points
	Mackadal - Surely seeing that the answers came from the Irish Central Statistics Office is enough to see that the answers are from Ireland, and not every English-speaking country?

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	chikka2:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:58 GMT		1 point
	first list of girl's names on Sporcle that had no Dorothy. And somehow I missed Caoimhe...how is it pronounced?

	QuintFan:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 01:19 GMT		1 point
	I've never even heard of half these names. I guess that's what you get for being third-generation American on the Irish side. I guessed Seamus and Sean and then I was out of ideas (Seamus didn't even appear!)

	Triizore:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 01:47 GMT		3 points
	I kept thinking of my realatives and got none- Sabina, Dara, Seamus, Eileen etc. etc.

	Dublin2011:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 02:08 GMT		5 points
	@zeppelenoid, Although there are more Mc's or Mac's in Ireland than Scotland and although many Scottish Mac's or Mc's are the descendants of recent (19th century ) immigrants (about 20% of Scotland's present population is of Irish origin ) there are distinct Scottish clans with the prefix Mc or Mac which you will find in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland but which are not frequent elsewhere in Ireland .Some examples would be McNab (son of the abbot) McPherson , McGregor etc . As opposed to those 'small 'mc Clans there are the McCarthy's who are probably the most numerous apart from the McDonalds . The McCarthy's originate in the south of Ireland ( Cork and Limerick etc) and the McDonalds in the gaelic speaking western isles of Scotland . Unique of all the Mc clans were the McGregors who were for generations under an edict of extermination from the British king and forbidden to use their name . Many were exiled to Canada to make way for sheep but the McGregor name still survives.

	Dublin2011:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 02:15 GMT		3 points
	Mackdal, 'And yes, I hate both the look AND the sound of those Irish names, as well as the fact that EVERYONE is using them nowadays, regardless of whether or not they have any Irish blood.' It's a free country and you have your first amendment rights but 'hatred ' of 'names '? sounds more than a little retarded . I dislike the name Cecil and find Ponsonby maybe a bit too poncy but 'hate ' them ? I don't think so. Whether people have any Irish blood or not is immaterial. The salient fact about most of the names is they are brief and short and easy to pronounce even for non Irish speakers and if you don't or can't pronounce them then that says more about you than the names .

	yodasmom1148:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 03:06 GMT		1 point
	I didn't see but only6-7 that were different from USA baby names.

	on_the_shelf:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 03:46 GMT		6 points
	@chikka2: Caoimhe is (roughly) "kee-va." Fun to say, not as intuitive to spell.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 07:23 GMT		4 points
	@Dublin2011: Good information. The point I was making in response to the comment that "Mac" is a Scottish rather than Irish prefix, is that the reverse is the case. All of the pressnt day Scottish clans originated in Ireland (admittedly many centuries ago).