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Is Wyn a Welsh name ?

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dontflametheOp · 11/10/2017 13:17

I am looking for a short Welsh boys name that is said how it's spelt ( as I live in England) Is Wyn a actual Welsh name as I like it a lot ?

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dizzy174 · 14/10/2017 19:25

how about robat? though he would probably be called Robbie

MikeUniformMike · 14/10/2017 19:14

or Deli

MikeUniformMike · 14/10/2017 19:14

Dewi is like if someone who pronounces their Ls like Ws trying to say Delly

MikeUniformMike · 14/10/2017 19:12

Gwilyam ? I think you mean Gwilym. Osian is pronounced
Osh-an
the an sounds like the an in English can, the stress is on the OSH bit.
Huw sounds like if someone who pronounces their Ls like Ws trying to say Hill.

Dylan is very dated if you are Welsh. Dylan pronounced Dillan is an anglicised version and is a bit cha...

TittyGolightly · 14/10/2017 14:23

Aslan is the lion.

2ManyDicksOnTheDancefloor · 13/10/2017 22:13

My uncle is called Wyn, I like the name. Easy to spell, easy to read, easy to pronounce. Go for it!

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dontflametheOp · 13/10/2017 22:06

Thanks TittyG

Serious contender Gwilyam

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dontflametheOp · 13/10/2017 22:05

Osian is too similar to our very Welsh surname ... hmmm could be a novelty. Makes me think of a lion! What was the lion called in the chronicles of Narnia?

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MonaChopsis · 13/10/2017 21:30

I would avoid Dylan, Huw and Rhys if you aren't Welsh speakers... The difference in pronunciation is quite marked with those three.

Osian? Pronounced OSH'n is a lovely name and easy to pronounce once you know how.

TittyGolightly · 13/10/2017 21:28

Gwilym = Gwill-im

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 13/10/2017 21:27

Agree that Wyn us often a second name, but still like it. Dewi is more like DOW-EE in pronunciation. My favourite Welsh boy's names are Iestyn and Brychan... But my boys have English names as DH and I are Saes

Thegiantofillinois · 13/10/2017 21:18

Geraint.

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dontflametheOp · 13/10/2017 21:13

Gwilym is that said how am thinking
G wil am ? so no willy if you know what I mean ?

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dontflametheOp · 13/10/2017 21:05

Gethin makes me think of that quite handsome Tv presenter. DH vetoed this name last time around.

His suggestion is Bran .. but that must be a shortening.

Quite like Carwyn but unlike Huw, Dylan or Rhys no one around here will recognise the name.

Dylan is too Bob Dylan for me though. Choosing names is tough Grin

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NinonDeLenclos · 13/10/2017 15:03

Like Wyn prefer Bryn.

raisinsarenottheonlyfruit · 13/10/2017 13:47

*nearer not neayere!

raisinsarenottheonlyfruit · 13/10/2017 13:46

Dixiestampsagain it depends what accent you're speaking in!

My Welsh reletives would say Huw and few neayere to how I say hoo!

I have an English accent. If I say Huw it's like adding H to the word you. Few is like Fyou

There's no y in my Welsh relative's Huw. It's more like how a English person would say Hoo.

If I see Huw written down I always think it the Welsh way but I say it H-you because that's my accent.

Dixiestampsagain · 13/10/2017 10:31

I've never heard Huw/Hugh pronounced as 'Hoo'; in this part of Wales it's a bit more like Hew to rhyme with few not you i.e. An ew sound not an oo (not sure that helps in any way at all, though!!).

M4Dad · 13/10/2017 09:40

But in Wales there was a strong tradition for a long time of your family and friends calling you by your middle name and your first name being for official stuff and "Sunday best"

Indeed! Mainly in North Wales though.

cocoboots · 13/10/2017 09:39

i know 2 men called Wyn and and 1 lady, all welsh (obviously!) i dont know if they are they official first or seconds names though!

cocoboots · 13/10/2017 09:37

Carwyn is another boy's name - Wyn could be a shortened version
Rhys? again though it;'s not pronounced 'reece', you gotta roll the R and emphasis the 'y' to a u.
Dylan is lovely, again pronounced differently in Wales emphasising the y.

raisinsarenottheonlyfruit · 13/10/2017 09:27

Wyn isn't a first name, it's a last or middle name.

But in Wales there was a strong tradition for a long time of your family and friends calling you by your middle name and your first name being for official stuff and "Sunday best".

So if a name is tradiionally a middle name in Wales it's a given name by definitiion - isn't it?

M4Dad · 13/10/2017 09:09

Wyn isn't a first name, it's a last or middle name.

for example:

Dewi Wyn Williams.

raisinsarenottheonlyfruit · 13/10/2017 09:05

How do you pronounce Huw? Is it said more Who than Hugh?

It is, really, but then again Hugh with a Welsh accent is Hoo also!

Same name, different accents rather than an actual different pronounciation IYSWIM. I always say Huw as Hoo with a Welsh accent in my head though :)

BurnThisDiscoDown · 12/10/2017 23:22

I love Aneuryn and Ianto but think they'd get mispronounced an annoying amount if OP doesn't live in Wales. And I can see Dewi being pronounced Dewey by everyone. Gethin is nice, and easy to get right!

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