Siobhan
Gaelic feminine name
Siobhan is an Irish feminine given name, the Gaelic form of Joan or Jane.
The spelling obscures the pronunciation for non-Irish readers: it sounds roughly like "shih-VAWN." Siobhan was named after her grandmother in County Cork.
Shannon
Irish river or name
Maeve · Deirdre · Bridget · Caitlin · Colleen · Seamus · Declan
Celtic
Of Irish-Welsh descent
shamrock · Emerald Isle · Hibernia · St. Patrick · Guinness · brogue · bodhran · craic · colcannon · soda bread
- Irish Gaelicfocal, cat, bean, teach, la
- Celtic NamesCiaran, Cormac, Fergus, Sinead, Saoirse
- Hard to pronounceWorcestershire, Saoirse, Xhosa, silent letters, tongue twisters