About female irish names
How female irish names are built
A gender-tagged given name joins a surname from a 418-entry surname pool. The male given bank holds 226 entries and the female bank 208, giving male pulls like Killian Geoghegan and Glen MacGorman and female pulls like Angela McErlane.
Killian Geoghegan
Killian (given, male bank) + Geoghegan (surname)
Angela McErlane
Angela (given, female bank) + McErlane (surname)
Glen MacGorman
Glen (given, male bank) + MacGorman (surname)
Naming notes
Female draws use the female given-name bank, male draws the male one, and both close on the shared surname pool of 418 entries. The surname entries are stored in English-text spelling, including Mac and Mc forms (Geoghegan, MacGorman, McErlane). Region label: Ireland, present-day. The two given banks are close in size; the surname pool is the deepest of the three.
Questions about female irish names
- How is a name assembled?
- A given name is drawn from the male 226-entry bank or the female 208-entry bank, then a surname from the shared 418-entry pool, always two words.
- How does this differ from the Gaelic Irish set?
- This set stores surnames in English-text spelling with Mac/Mc tokens and feeds two given banks of 226 and 208; the Gaelic set uses different banks and orthography.
- How big are the banks?
- 226 male given names, 208 female given names, and a shared 418-entry surname pool across two gender patterns.