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Taliesin - Opinions

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lloydlf76 · 21/09/2014 11:48

We're having our fifth child in December and it a boy! Currently have one boy and three girls. Names are a contentious issue here and hotly debated but we both rather like Taliesin. DH is set on it and I do like it too, although my real love is for Dashiell but DH hates it :-( We're Welsh and live in Wales so it won't be totally unheard of but it is still unusual. Other children have equally unusual but not made up or obscure names so it fits there too.

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fishfingerSarnies · 26/09/2014 14:26

I love it, dh is welsh bit I'm not, we live in London so I don't feel like I can use it without sounding a bit pretentious.

Izzy24 · 25/09/2014 20:58

Love Taliesin. But I'm from mid Wales too ....

Llareggub · 25/09/2014 20:58

I have one!

BestIsWest · 25/09/2014 20:55

I like it, Tal is great as the short form too.

AlwaysHoldingOnToStars · 25/09/2014 20:41

I love it! I love Welsh names, Aneurin and Macsen are great too.

I'm not at all Welsh, and don't live in Wales so it would have been rather odd to have called my boys Welsh names.

Taliesin is one of my all time favourite names that I couldn't use.

kaycat · 23/09/2014 14:47

I love it. I know a 12 year old taliesin who lives in south east England. His name has caused no problems for him. He is mainly called tali

muffinino82 · 23/09/2014 13:42

Love it and Tal as a nickname (Welsh speaker living in South Wales). I went to Swansea university too but already knew the name from school. One of my favourite Welsh names for a boy, along with Aneurin, Ianto and Sianco (my Welsh cob's name).

PattyPenguin · 22/09/2014 21:46

Taliesin is the name of a semi-mythical poet from the very early period of the Welsh language. There's even a 'Book of Taliesin', one of the most famous medieval Welsh manuscripts.

It means something like "shining brow", originally.

It's a bit popular with people of a new-agey, neo-Druidical persuasion, so if you live outside Wales, one or two people might think you tend that way. You could tell them you like the sound, and the idea of your son being named after a legendary poet.

Aneirin was another poet from the same era - as in Aneurin Bevan and Aneurin Barnard (the version with a 'u' is a modern mispelling, strictly speaking, but it's the same name).

Tal is the usual shortened form.

JemimaMuddledUp · 22/09/2014 21:44

I think it is lovely. I live in mid Wales and know several Taliesins, most are known as Tali.

TooManyDicksOnTheDancefloor · 22/09/2014 21:40

My friend has got a Taliesin, he's Tali for short. I love it!

Castlemilk · 22/09/2014 17:17

Great name. Tal is a fab nn.

manicinsomniac · 22/09/2014 16:59

I love it. And agree that all the potential nns are cute too.

Anjou · 22/09/2014 15:31

Love it! Second favourite welsh boys name (after Idris!).

UriGeller · 22/09/2014 14:35

I love it. I think its absolutely fine to use it whether you're welsh or not. I would have if DP had agreed its the finest boys name ever, but he didn't.

Tally is a lovely nn too.

KoalaDownUnder · 22/09/2014 14:32

buggerthebotox (love the name btw), thanks for explaining! I had no idea. I've never heard the proper Welsh pronunciation, and thought it was pronounced something like Loo-WEL-en.

ageingdisgracefully · 22/09/2014 10:54

Yes to Macsen! Shortened easily to Macs, so no confusion.

debijon11 · 22/09/2014 10:46

I'm loving Macsen Welsh for Maximilian at the mo, having a hard time convincing OH.

buggerthebotox · 22/09/2014 10:41

koala "llew" would be pronounced the Welsh way, ie using "ll" as a consonant, which makes a sound unlike anything in English, made by putting tongue at the top of the mouth and sort of blowing through the teeth iyswim. Follow that with EW (not OO) and you've got it, pretty much.

When non-Welsh people pronounce "ll" it usually comes out like "ch" (as in "loch" followed by "l". It's basically an aspirated "l".

My friends are English and pronounce it "loo". I don't really get why they've given their ds a name they can't pronounce!

Marcipex · 22/09/2014 07:04

Just don't move to Devon! I know one whose parents call him Tal for short. However the locals cannot pronounce this one syllable sound and call him Towel. And apparently can't hear the difference.

MollyBdenum · 22/09/2014 07:02

Love it.

KoalaDownUnder · 22/09/2014 06:56

I have a friend whose baby is called Llewellyn. In North Wales so called Llew by everyone apart from his parents, who call him Loo!

Confused here! Aren't Llew and Loo pronounced the same?

OP: I've never heard of Taliesin but I like it. Much prefer Dashiell, though; easier to say, and nn Dash is cool.

Guin1 · 22/09/2014 06:55

Never heard of it, but really like it.

hellokitty123 · 22/09/2014 06:47

I like it. Also love Dashiell.

Alisvolatpropiis · 22/09/2014 00:16

I like it!

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lloydlf76 · 21/09/2014 23:42

DH is convinced it's the 'one' and I must say it's growing on me more and more.i like Tal and Tally as no and even Essie is cute. Do wish I could convert him to Dashiell though.

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