Old fashioned Irish names make a comeback for girls and boys

CitizenWhy-These names are not Irish and they are not being used here! Bartholomew, Arthur, Beatrice, Winifred?? Why do Americans use Irish surnames as first names? Murray for example, its a surname. Last year, Jack and Sophie where the most popular baby names here. RobbCobb-Mary and Kathleen are old ladies names! Neither of which have been in vogue for years! Colten, Ive never ever heard of! Maybe these names are all Americans interpretations of irish names but theyre just as foreign to the Irish as Mohammad is.

Would "A Boy Named Sue" fit in today?

Unless I've gone blind, these names are English names. They are not written in Irish and while they may have been used in Ireland, they are not Irish. I'm glad to say that I've seen a resurgance of really Irish names such as Maebh ,Béibhinn, Ciarán and Aodhán recently

the names listed in this article are not Irish. What are you at?

It seems that the Irish, in choosing these names, are identifying with the English, not that there's anything wrong with that. I regret that names used among my kin in Ireland for centuries have disappeared: Bartholomew, Luke, Arthur, Beatrice, Winifred, Bridget. Oh well.

"Names such as Beatrice, Violet and Florence,... Harold, Harvey and Stanley". Am I missing something here? Is Malone telling us that these are Irish names?

I'm in favor of a change up now and again - we even went a little against the norm when we named our eldest son Colten (yes, with an "e"), but I still personally favor the traditional "Cathleen, Mary, Sean and Ciaran" over the oldschool names that are making a resurgence.

I have an old fashion name and I like it. It suits me