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I want to get the Gaelic translation of my daughters name "Shaylene" for a tatoo

RoyAmb08 wrote:I want to get the Gaelic translation of my daughters name "Shaylene" for a tatoo

There isn't one. Names only have Irish forms if they're Irish to begin with or, in some cases, if they're Biblical, saints' names, or have long-standing association with Ireland. "Shaylene" doesn't fall into any of those categories, so it remains as it is.

Redwolf

Wheres the name from? Is it a mashup of 2 names? If so there may be a way too get an Irish version but other than that its as Redwolf said

I'd say that is an unique name.

Thanks for the responses...My original query was because of the variant of the name:
Shaylene \

sha(y)-le-ne\ as a girl's name is a variant of Shayla (Gaelic), and the meaning of Shaylene is "from the fairy palace".

Shayla is not Gaelic and from the fairy palace would not be anything like that. Sounds like a defination from a baby name book which are not noted for research

BridMhor wrote:I'd say that is an unique name.

Me too, a Bhríd. I wouldn't change a thing.

RoyAmb08 wrote:Thanks for the responses...My original query was because of the variant of the name:
Shaylene \

sha(y)-le-ne\ as a girl's name is a variant of Shayla (Gaelic), and the meaning of Shaylene is "from the fairy palace".

That sounds purely made-up, I'm afraid. "Shayla" is not a Gaelic name ("Síle" is, but it's pronounced SHEE-luh," and the Anglicization of it is "Sheila").

There are a lot of made-up-out-of-whole-cloth names out there that consist of appending the suffix "-ene" to another syllable. They were really popular in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s, particularly in the South. I suspect that "Shaylene" is just a modern take on this trend. Baby name books love to make up meanings for modern manufactured names, typically based on little more than fancy.

Redwolf

Shaylene could be spelled phonetically as Séilín

fiairefeadha wrote:Shaylene could be spelled phonetically as Séilín

That could be a solution.