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Which Spanish name for a boy?

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FirstTimeMom12 · 13/12/2013 20:11

Aarón
Andrés
Diego
Mateo
Emilio Or Eloy?

Which do you like best of the above?

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Sigma · 15/12/2013 22:15

Conyo, do you really know Kevin Costner de Jesus??!! I remember hearing about it on tv in Spain when he was a small child. What is is like? Does he introduce himself by full name? This is very exciting!
I like Emilio, Marcos and maybe Fernando

Liara · 14/12/2013 20:18

The English do not get the és sound. That e seems to be completely beyond their ability.

I even mispronounce my own name when introducing myself in the UK or US. Saves having to repeat it six times...

FionasFatFairy · 13/12/2013 22:36

DS is Valentino (more Italian, unusual in Spain but they get it)

Leandro
Luis
Diego
Jesus
David (but pronounced Dav-eed)
Cesar
Fernando
Francisco
Rafael (DD would have been Francisco Rafael)
Javier (but the Spanish J is hard for English people to pronounce)

We recently discovered DH's great grandfather's name was Espantaleon (which means lion scarer!)

lydiamama · 13/12/2013 22:25

I like Carlos if it was for my boy, but Andres is my favourite from your list

OKmum · 13/12/2013 22:19

Mateo or Emilio :)

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GoodtoBetter · 13/12/2013 21:35

I've never really liked the j names as they sound so harsh in my area and where we are Javi is such a ten a penny name.

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FirstTimeMom12 · 13/12/2013 21:32

Leaning towards Emilio from all the comments, DH loves it
Or Andrés, my favorite but worried on pronunciation...

It's a shame an acquaintance already named her son Emilio (well actually Emilios in her case as she is Greek) and would hate to be seen as a copycat, we do not see her though anymore, it's been a few years...
DH says it does not matter, but feel a bit uncomfortable naming my baby as he boy :(

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Umlauf · 13/12/2013 21:32

Andres is lovely. So is Mateo.

I teach in Spain so lots of kids' names and I like:

Xabier
Ander
Endika
Alberto
Anton
Hugo
Fermin
Ignacio
Joseba
Oliver
Imanol
Markel
Manex (pron Manesh)
Julen
Inigo (badass!)

(NB some of these are regional to the area I live in)
(NNB I probably like a lot of them by association to lovely owners)

almapudden · 13/12/2013 21:29

I like Ignacio and Santiago.

cafecito · 13/12/2013 21:22

I went with Nicolas as it's so easy to import/export wherever you are and whatever language is spoken... but wished I had gone with Javier as I think Javi would have been a good nn for him

somersethouse · 13/12/2013 21:20

I like Hugo. Great in English but so cool when said in Spanish. My DD's 'novio' is Hugo (she is 5)!

cafecito · 13/12/2013 21:20

Emilio is my grown up cousin, it's a great name

cafecito · 13/12/2013 21:19

Javier
Nicolas
Mateo

were all on my list

  • my friend has just called her Spanish DS Sebastian
GoodtoBetter · 13/12/2013 21:17

I liked Tomas but DH didn't'. I liked James if we had been in the uk and Dh loved it but it felt to cruel here in Spain. He'd have been Hammer the way they pronounce it here Grin .

Liara · 13/12/2013 21:02

I was going to say if you don't want it mispronounced don't go for Andrés :)

Diego would probably be the least mangled. But they all will be (and it is a pain, I say this from someone who has one!). Eloy will be particularly bad, is my guess.

elQuintoConyo · 13/12/2013 20:54

Thank you Sofiamum Blush

I'm biased about Alberto Coconutty as I'm married to one!

Nicolás is lovely. We also toyed with Simón and Tomás but they suck in English, quite frankly, which is a shame because I love them both.

I know a fresh newborn Iago (not a Santiago, just a Iago) with an older brother León.
Dávid
Sergi
Alfredo
Xavier
Victor (several of them)
Adolfo (poor Bil got the fuzzy end of the lollipop when they were handing out the names!)
Ramon
José
Luís

And plenty of Catalan names, although I get that they aren't everyone's cup of tea Grin

Can I repeat the best name I've ever heard, on a man I have met:

Kevin Costner de Jesus Grin

Poor guy is about 25.

blackandwhiteandredallover · 13/12/2013 20:39

I used to know a gorgeous Spanish guy called Jesus... Grin

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ProfondoRosso · 13/12/2013 20:34

Mateo is lovely. I'm a big fan of good old Miguel too. Smile

Sofiamum · 13/12/2013 20:32

elQuintoConyo love your MN name

GoodtoBetter · 13/12/2013 20:31

I have a Nicolás. I think any Spanish name will be pronounced "wrong", just depends how badly you mind it being mangled. For instance Brits would say NICholas, whereas obviously he's NicoLAS.
Alejandro would be hard for non Spanish speakers to get right unless they were told.
We choose Nicolás as I wanted something my family had a shot at pronouncing and it has Nico as a nn (which is what we use actually), other possibility was Alejandro as it was the only other we agreed o and it could be Ale, which is easy enough.

elQuintoConyo · 13/12/2013 20:27

We live in Spain. IMHO....

Aarón will be pronounced Áaron in English. I prefer the English pron I'm sorry to say.
Eloy is nice, I know an Eloi (we're in Catalunya).
Diego I flat out don't like Blush
Mateo is my favourite on your list.
Emilio very close second favourite. You don't hear many young ones these days. I mean that in a nice way.

We went for the international alphabet word for O so myUK family and friends can all spell and pronounce it. It isn't as popular here as it is in the UK - top twelve name, iirc.

Hoe that helps.

Sofiamum · 13/12/2013 20:26

Emilio is nice. How about Santiago or Benicio?

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FirstTimeMom12 · 13/12/2013 20:19

Too many Alvaros in our family already...

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