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Opinions on these welsh names

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Christelle2207 · 16/05/2015 18:20

Rhys
Ioan

Ds2 due today and still no closer on agreeing a shortlist. I'm welsh and dp is english- child will grow up in England. IME English can't say Rhys as a Welsh person would so I would have to accept "Rees" pronunciation which I think is ok if not "correct" in my eyes. Ioan is pronounced yo-anne (emphasis on the yo) which I think is easier for english to say, but it's not very obvious looking at it is it?! Would I be setting up the child for a lifetime of misspellings and mispronounciations with either name?

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CaptainAnkles · 16/05/2015 18:24

I think most people would know how to pronounce both of those.

peaches1999 · 16/05/2015 18:24

I like the names, but you will probably spend a lot of the time spelling and pronouncing it correctly , my dC is called Evan. It's a family name. My uncle and great grandad was called it