How would you pronounce Bleu?

In Brazil they pronounce Ryan how Ryan is logically pronounced in Brazilian Portuguese.

Bleu is not logically pronounced as "Blue" in English.

It's more like a Brazilian calling their child Matthew and then telling everyone that it's pronounced Mateus. Not offensive or anything to me, but would be pretty weird.

"In Portuguese it sounds nothing like how we say Ryan."

But Bleu doesn't spell out blue phonetically in English either...so it's not the same at all.

Ryan isn't a word like bleu is in French though. Ryan isn't even the original spelling of Ryan, Ryan is the anglicised version of an Irish surname. So that's a little different imo.

I know a lot of boys here in Brazil called Ryan. In Portuguese it sounds nothing like how we say Ryan. So they are ignorant of the culture they "pilfered" the name from. How embarrassing for them . I don't preach to them about the proper way to say the name just as I also don't preach to friends and family who say piranha as pi-rana or São Paulo as San Paulo. And I can bet everyone says Paris with the s too. Accent/pronounciation snobbery is usually selective to benefit those who want to sound "cultured". If the boy has to say his name is Blue not Blu I'm sure he'll cope! Hardly a major life drama.

Bl-er as in the way French people say the French word for blue.

In a bid to seem you-neek and cultured they look silly.

Not like the poor child gets a choice.

Agree with this^^ really. I love unusual / 'different' sounding names, but unusual / alternative spellings like this one could so easily be interpreted as being ignorant of the culture they've been pilfered from. That could be kind of embarrassing for the person who has to introduce themselves with a name like this, imo.

I'm not English and I'd find it a bit odd, if not a little irksome, if someone took the version of a name, which was from my own culture but which also existed in English, and then insisted on pronouncing it the English way anyway.

I agree with you OP.

Why spell the word the correct way, but pronounce the English translation.

Yes Bleu is French for Blue, but spelt the French way it's Bluh/Bleurgh/Blerr.

People who do this to their kids are ignorant with pretentious tendencies. And chippy when you get it 'wrong'.

That doesn't work when you see the names written down.

And no matter what way people say they are pronounced, the letters have to actually make the sounds you are claiming they do, in some language. I can't tell you that my kid is called Bob, spelled T-R-A-C-Y, can i?

And "their baby their choice" is an asinine response. Not like the poor child gets a choice.

I pronounce names the way people tell me they are said. People where I live have adopted names and words from other cultures/languages and changed the pronounciation to fit their language. No problem with that, certainly a lot less poncy than insisting it's said the native way when they have no native links.
There's something about French that people get really snobby about saying words/names totally correctly and any alternative is a big social no no. A lot of speakers say it with a hint of a u sound, not the rgh at the end that just sounds like an English person unsure where the word really ends, it's similar to Blu.
Not that it really matters. Their baby, their choice.

Quite a few people on here know someone called 'Bleu (wrongly) pronounced Blue'. I'm hoping you all know the same one!

If I saw it written down in this context I would know it was intended to be pronounced Blue, but in my head I'd say 'bleugh'. It's really very silly, like writing it 'in French' makes it a more valid name when it's a colour.

I know a Luca Bleu and always think this.
I pronounce it more like 'blergh'

I see all kinds of this nonsense at work. Today for example; Lundyn, Makkenzee, and Jaklynn, all young women.

Pyewma-Bleu is reason enough to have another DC.

Pyewma-Bleu?
Jagoir-Bleu?
Lyon-Bleu?
Links-Bleu?

Bleugh

I'd like to think the registrar would raise an eyebrow, but they probably hear all kinds of weird shit.

DS is 2.5yo and bilingual English/French. At the moment he mixes words and his word for the colour blue is the French one so pronounced Bleugh. In the middle of English words it sounds very funny and has in stitches. Poor kid, I have to agree he is called Bleugh.

I also have a random Sixtine story. I met a young girl at a party for French kids who were learning English so everyone was encouraged to speak English. I asked her her name and she said "16" so I gently said "No, not your age, your name" and she repeated "16". Her mom intervened and said "Her name is 16". So I came on MN to say WTF what bad luck to call your child the number 16 in another language when kind MNers introduced me to the name Sixtine.

I know a child called Blue and a child called Bleu. Both where pronounced as 'blue'.

I know someone who has hyphenated their DDs name with Bleu.

I think it's just a way to make them appear quirky and different.

Hilarious! I would say Bleurgh. It's so embarrassing when parents do this.

Pronounced bleugh

Not blue.

It's pronounced Blue and is quite popular in the US

It's not, and I'm not surprised if such an abomination of wrongness is popular in the US, but I challenge to prove it.