Taliesin?

[DeepTurquoise]

What do you think of the name Taliesin? About to start ttc and me and my partner love it, just wanted to get some feedback!

[WestEast]

I've not heard of it before, but I read it as tail spin. How is it pronounced?

[DeepTurquoise]

It's pronounced tal-eeh-ess-in, it's an old welsh name meaning 'shining brow' (we are welsh!)

[Cinnamoncookie]

It's a theatre in Swansea. I'd wonder if you were Welsh actors

[Bluestocking]

Love it! There was a thread about it a little while ago.

[Etihad]

Pronounced tally-ass-in? I like it, I know of a boy with that name - in Wales, so I always presumed it was Welsh.

[DeepTurquoise]

Haha not actors but my partner is a bit of a Mabinogion / legends geek! And I just love the sound of the name

[emeline]

love it.

Love nn tali, too.

He was a legendary poet shaman, I believe!

[DeepTurquoise]

Ahh I love Tali as a nn too

[fishfingerSarnies]

I love it, dh is Welsh and he really loves it and wants it on the list. We live in London between two posh areas and I'm worried about it sounding pretentious outside of Wales?
Will be watching this thread to see what people think.

[IsadoraQuagmire]

I like it. I've only seen it spelled with double S before (probably in Tennyson) but I prefer it with one.

[Marcipex]

Love it.

[Showy]

Fab name. Really like it.

[CaptainJamesTKirk]

It used to be the name of the 'canteen' in the Cardiff university union. I used to get jacket potatoes there.

[shoobidoo]

Love it!

[DramaAlpaca]

It's one of those names that I love but I'd never use myself DH would put his foot down

[Rhubarbgarden]

I like it, but it's a bit of a mouthful.

[daholster]

I met one who is 3 months old in Surrey the other day. Being English I had no idea how to say it when I had to call him in!!! So to me it's an unusual name. In Wales it would be lovely. In London it would also be lovely fishfinger for the very unusual factor but you would spend your whole life (and so might he) trying to explain how to say and spell it to the majority of the locals!

[Guin1]

Love it. It would be on my list if bump were a boy.

[fishfingerSarnies]

Hearing such positive feedback I'm debating haveing it back on the list. We plan on moving to Wales at some point in the next 2 years anyway and if we don't he will be at the Welsh school in London. Mmmm it's hard this naming business.

[YoureMyWifeNowDave]

Our neighbours named their house Taliesin!

[MamaLazarou]

It's lovely.

[thatstoast]

I'm welsh and I love that name. I probably wouldn't use it outside of wales but only because I have no patience for people who pronounce things incorrectly.

[PattyPenguin]

The neighbours who named their house Taliesin might have done so since it was the name of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright's series of houses (4 in all). Wright's relatives of Welsh descent gave their houses Welsh names, and Wright in turn used the name of the ancient Welsh poet for his homes.

[DeepTurquoise]

Thanks for all the feedback guys! Seems like it's a pretty popular name

[Velvetbee]

I used to child mind one, it (and he) are lovely. He's 17 now.