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[quote=Anonymous]I would investigate your interest in the name, a bit. It's easy to fall in love with a name when you are pregnant but you have to take the long view.
 
Saoirse has become more popular recently in large part because of Saoirse Ronan. On the one hand, this will make people more familiar with it (and more likely to correctly pronounce it) than they would have 10 years ago. But that will fade, and then your DD will have an extremely Irish name that few people in the US will know how to spell or pronounce. And yes, they will all assume your family is very Irish and will probably be a bit confused. It will either seem kind of disingenuous when you explain that you have some Irish but not strong roots, or they will just assume that you're very Irish without asking and that could be confusing too.

So I'd really ask if your fondness of the name will last. People will mispronounce it, make incorrect assumptions about it, roll their eyes about you behind your back, etc. Now, people are ridiculous and if you love the name, who cares what they think? But if it's just a temporary infatuation, it might bother you more once that infatuation has faded.[/quote]

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