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Somhairle - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Somhairle

[ syll. som-hai-(r)le, so-mhai-rle ] The boy name Somhairle is used chiefly in the Irish language, and its origin is Hebrew and Irish Gaelic.

Somhairle is a variant of the name Samuel (English, French, and German) in the Irish language.

Somhairle is also a variant of the name Sorley (Irish).

Somhairle is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is listed outside of the top 1000 names. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly linked to Somhairle, Samuel (English, French, and German) was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Somhairle include Samiri (Albanian), Shomari (Swahili), Samaru (Japanese), Sameer (Arabic and Indian), Samir (Albanian, Arabic, Indian, and Iranian), Sener (Turkish), Seymour (English), Shamir (Hebrew), Siegmar (German), Summer (English), Sumner (English), and Semir (Arabic and Slavic).


 
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