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The name Saoirse was given to 271 girls born in the US in 2016.
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On this site, it lists it as both a girls and boys name. https://www.ireland101.com/irish-baby-boys-names.
I'm hoping to name my child Saoirse regardless of the gender.
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I'm hoping to name my child Saoirse regardless of the gender.
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The name Saoirse was given to 158 girls born in the US in 2015.
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The name Saoirse was given to 107 baby girls born in the US in 2012.
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Saoirse has only been used as name since the 1920s, when the Republic of Ireland was created & the Irish got their "freedom" from Britain (hence Saoirse). It's a strongly patriotic name, making a bold statement, a controversial name full of recent Irish history & National pride (to some). The Irish Republican Sinn Fein monthly publication is called 'Saoirse'.
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Where are people getting that this name is unisex? I live in Ireland and the only Saoirses I know and know of are female. A boy called Saoirse would get teased. And grammatically, Saoirse couldn't be a male name, since "Saoirse" is a feminine noun in Irish.
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Saoirse has only been used as name since the 1920s (more specifically 6 December 1922, when the Irish actually got their freedom from Britain). It's strongly patriotic, full of Irish history and national pride. Because of the name's history and meaning, it is regarded as Republican too. Today, Saoirse a popular girls' name in Ireland, but it used for boys as well, though it's less common. Saor Éire! (http://homepage.ntlworld.ie/derek.ivory/saoirsename.html)
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Saoirse is also used for males.
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Saoirse is a feminine name. Seoirse (SHOR-shah, version of George) is a masculine name that has a very similar spelling.
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There's a guy in my Irish book called Saoirse. Weird. I'm pretty sure it's a girl's name though.
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"Saoirse - Irish Freedom" is the name of a magazine that belongs to the Republican political party that is campaigning for Northern Irish independence (from Britain). Not the same as the American Republican party but if you move to Ireland people might assume that this is the reasoning behind the name. The party wants Northern Ireland to cut ties with Britain and to reunite with Ireland.
This name was also originally used in Ireland with the thought of an independent Ireland in mind. Its use roughly dates to 1922 when Ireland gained independence from Great Britain. People used it to celebrate independence and Irish culture by using an Irish word name (and not anglicisation or British name).
Something to be aware of, because you might be setting a statement without being aware of it. Most people in Ireland support independence and reunification so it is a name many people would find agreeable, but it still sets a statement.
It might seem like an easy choice for an Irish name due to Saoirse Ronan and "Song of the Sea" (which I love) but there is so much more to this name and it has so much significance to some people that without Irish roots this might be more of an odd choice, even though I don't have a problem with people naming their daughters Saoirse without Irish roots at all (and I love people using more Irish names in general).
What I definitely wouldn't do is use an anglicisation such as Seersha or Siersha as given its history that might really come across as disrespectful (I don't have anything against anglicisations such as Kiera in general, though).