If you’re searching for a unique name that won’t be regularly heard around the playground, we’ve rounded up some of the rarest Irish boy names used in Ireland right now.
With the Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) having launched their list of the names chosen for all the bundles of joy welcomed into the world last year, we’ve picked a few of our favourites that didn’t make the top 100.
Deserving to be shown more love, keep reading to find out which beautiful Irish monikers were given to fewer than five baby boys in 2023.
The rarest Irish boy names:
Turlough
- used 5 times in 2023
- pronounced ter-lock
- meaning ‘abettor’ or ‘instigator’
Eamon
- used 5 times in 2023
- pronounced ay-min
- meaning ‘wealthy protector’
Eolann
- used 3 times in 2023
- pronounced oh-lin
- meaning ‘a kind of ornament’
Pauric
- used 5 times in 2023
- pronounced pour-ick
- meaning ‘nobleman’
Fergal
- used 4 times in 2023
- pronounced fer-gil
- meaning ‘man of valour’
Aodh
- used 5 times in 2023
- pronounced ay or ee
- meaning ‘nobleman’
Caoilte
- used 4 times in 2023
- pronounced keel-che
- meaning ‘swift runner’
Finbarr
- used 3 times in 2023
- pronounced fin-bar
- meaning ‘fair-headed one’
Cahir
- used 3 times in 2023
- pronounced cah-her
- meaning ‘battle man’
Eimhin
- used less than 3 times in 2023
- pronounced ev-in
- meaning ‘swift’
Feilim
- used less than 3 times in 2023
- pronounced fay-lim
- meaning ‘ever good’
Garbhan
- used less than 3 times in 2023
- pronounced garv-in
- meaning ‘rough’
*This article was originally published on RollerCoaster.ie.
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