About names in Ireland
Ireland has seen a genuine, decades-long revival of Irish-language (Gaelic) given names — names like Saoirse, Fionn, and Aoife have moved from being distinctly Irish-speaking-region choices into mainstream use across the whole country, including among families with no Irish-language background at all. This shift tracks alongside a broader cultural revival of interest in the Irish language itself since the late twentieth century, and today it's common to meet children with fully Irish-language names growing up in English-speaking Dublin just as often as in traditionally Irish-speaking rural areas. Traditional Catholic saint names also remain common, often carried as a middle name even when an Irish-language name is used as the first, reflecting how Ireland's naming customs blend its long Catholic history with its more recently reasserted linguistic identity.
Names covered for Ireland on this page
This page currently covers 146 names for Ireland as missing-letter worksheets — 71 boy names and 75 girl names — including Aara, Aaradhya, Aaron, each already rendered and ready to print below, split by gender.
Using a Ireland missing-letter worksheet
Print at full size, hand a child a pencil, and let them fill in each row's blank at their own pace. Getting one row wrong doesn't affect the rest of the page, so it's fine to work through it out of order or come back to a harder row later.