Saoirse Name Meaning & Origin
Saoirse
Pronunciation: SEER-shə (key)
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- Irish Girls Names: Most Popular Names for Girls in the Republic of Ireland 2014
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- Irish Girls Names: Most Popular Names for Girls in Northern Ireland for 2012
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- Nicknames for Saoirse
Seer, Seerie.
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- Meanings and history of the name Saoirse
Meaning: Freedom, liberty.
- Famous real-life people named Saoirse
Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
Saoirse Róisín Hill (1997-2019), daughter of Irish activist Paul Hill and Courtney Kennedy. She was Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter.- Saoirse in song, story & screen
The movie "Song of the Sea" the main character is a little girl named Saoirse.
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This name is pure Irish Gaelic, but that doesn't mean it's traditional. Saorise is the Gaelic word for freedom, which patriotic Irish parents adopted as a girl's name starting in the 20th Century. Most Americans who know the name met it in the form of actress Saoirse Ronan.
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