We named our youngest daughter Ceilidh. As a result, she was not terribly pleased with us, as she has spent all of her school years, informing new teachers and others that her name was niether Sea-Lid nor Seala-Duh, a hard thing to do when you are basically a very shy person. She was also distressed because Ceilidh was also the name of a neighbour's Collie. When she was first born, I had spelled it Ceili but my brother insisted that if we were going to give her a Gaelic word for a name, we should at least spell it correctly. I have noticed both spellings here at the Mudcat, and assumed that Ceili is the Irish spelling and Ceilidh is the Scottish. Could someone please clarify this for me? What is the correct Gaelic pronounciation? ie. caylee, cayliegh and does the "h" mean that the "d" is silent?