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I'm looking to have my children's names tattooed in Ogham. it will be vertical, not horizontal

Dylan

Colin

Paisley

From my understanding the names are written from to to bottom?
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Sorry, they are written from bottom to top, correct?

Here is a link to a site with links to all sorts of info on and help with Ogham:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ogmharc.html

One issue you're going to have is that there is no letter "y" in traditional Ogham, although I think some people have created an artificial version of Ogham with added letters.

Another issue you may not be aware of is that Dylan is not an Irish name, and comes from Welsh (think Dylan Thomas). There is an Irish surname of Dillon (Diolúin in Irish), but it is of Hiberno-Norman origin (one of my great-great-grandmothers was a Dillon).

The name Paisley is also not Irish, although there are Ulster Scots with that as their surname (the most famous being the deceased preacher and politician Ian Paisley). The surname (and the location(s) in Scotland from which it comes) comes from the Middle Irish word baslec, borrowed from the Latin basilica, and essentially means "place with a church". It eventually ended up as Paisley in Scotland, and was brought to Ireland in that form as a surname..

Colin is an Irish name, and has several derivations, and thus several forms in Irish, including Cóilín, Coilín, and Coileán.

If you want to punt the Ogham as being a problem and instead use an older script for writing Irish, you can use the font choices above on this forum, resulting in:
Dylan
Colin / Cóilín / Coilín / Coileán
Paisley

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.