Irish names

Risteard: how to pronounce it and what it means

Boys' names

Name and meaning

Irish form of Richard

Origin

Borrowed from Middle English Richard, whose ancestral Germanic elements mean ‘powerful’ and ‘strong’.

How to pronounce it

RisteardIPA: /ˈɾˠɪʃˌtʲɑːɾˠd̪ˠ/

Used as the equivalent of: Richard

Naming equivalents do not always have the same origin.

Sources

Name definitions adapted from Wiktionary via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). CC BY-SA 4.0

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