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Vowel-y boys names?

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pandarific · 08/08/2018 21:53

DH and I have the following list on the go for our first baby - mostly shortish vowel heavy names. Just looking for some more suggestions in the same vein really, not incredibly common (not sure about Leo and a few others for this reason), that will work with a surname beginning with P?

(I know I've left off the fadas on the Irish names, can't work out how to add them on phone but they will be there in the correct place!)

Elijah
Noah
Oisin
Dara
Leo
Ruari
Luke
Cillian
Luan
Rowan
Elliott
Sebastian
Jesse
Oscar
Lucan
Jude
Toby
Oran
Robin
Louis

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MikeUniformMike · 09/08/2018 19:09

Iolo isn'y I-olo or Yolo. It is pronounced like Yollo but with both o's having the same sound, like the o in off.

FawnDrench · 09/08/2018 18:39

Giorgio
Luca
Mario / Marius
Iain
Otto
Eugene
Rio

AlliKaneErikson · 09/08/2018 15:15

Love Stellan- it was on our list too!

LostInTheColonies · 09/08/2018 05:01

Jago
Ivo
Iolo (sort of I-olo / yolo). Probably a lifetime of explanations though Grin

EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/08/2018 04:19

Owen
Noah
Inigo
Angus
Arlo

fieldmuse · 09/08/2018 03:24

Placebogirl, Stellan and Arlo were on our list!

OP how about Raphael, nn Raffi?

Placebogirl · 09/08/2018 02:59

I liked vowelly names for a boy too--what we didn't use but spent time on the shortlist:

Osmo
Sacha (technically a shortening of Alexander, but who's counting?)
Arlo
Stellan (not super-vowelly but soft)
Elias

sycamore54321 · 09/08/2018 02:46

Aodh
Cathal sounds a lot more vowel-ish than it looks
Eugene
Hugh or Hugo

Moving to Italian, how abou Ilario?

SemperIdem · 09/08/2018 01:40

Mike I love how we appear on the same threads so consistently.

HeyDolly · 09/08/2018 01:14

Evan or Ivan.

Jeanclaudejackety · 08/08/2018 23:51

Go for Irish then, Connor, Ciaran, Aidan or Aodhan, Caolan, Cormac, Eamon, Eoghan or Eoin, Finn, Fintan, Finn, Iarla, Ronan, Tiarnan or Tiernan, Darragh... Love all these and considered most for my dc if a boy!

EightdaysaweekIloveu · 08/08/2018 23:20

Fionn
Ronan
Colm

MikeUniformMike · 08/08/2018 23:20

Osian is OSH-an (Osh rhymes with Cosh, an rhymes with can). Very popular in wales.
Most Welsh names don't work outside Wales. Dons tin hat.
Some like Owen and Gareth are OK as they are quite mainstream.

Picknickers · 08/08/2018 23:17

My dh has a friend called Enzo. I love it!

MikeUniformMike · 08/08/2018 23:15

Leighyum has a few vowels.

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pandarific · 08/08/2018 23:05

Thing is, we'll probably end up living in Ireland while the baby grows up and I can just imagine the many and various manglings of a Welsh name, the repeated questions, the confused looks... I think in the UK people will be that bit more familiar and be able to have a stab at least, but I have concerns it might be a bit of a tall order in a country where people are going to be even less familiar with welsh pronunciation.

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MikeUniformMike · 08/08/2018 22:56

a lot of welsh boy's names are very vowely. Iori (Yorry) is a great one. Iolo is great too but would probably get Yo-lo instead of YOLL-o'.
There's an MP called Guto ond I've heard his name said correctly on the news (GIT-o' - My o' is like the o in tot, cot, hot, of etc)

SemperIdem · 08/08/2018 22:54

*Macsen.

Having a fat finger moment.

SemperIdem · 08/08/2018 22:54

I like Oisin a lot.

Similarly vowelly is the Welsh Osian prn Osh-an or Osh-un (depending on area of Wales)

And the Germanic Ossian which is pronounced as it reads.

Mascen is the Welsh equivalent of Maxim, fair few vowels there!

MikeUniformMike · 08/08/2018 22:52

Ieuan would get mangled, Iestyn probably wouldn't (YES-din)

AlliKaneErikson · 08/08/2018 22:49

Harri

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pandarific · 08/08/2018 22:41

@LadyMonicaBaddingham ah, those are nice names, but all a bit 'high potential of being mangled' for me - keen to have relatively phonetic spellings. nice though!

@Quangot I like a good 3/4 of that list, thank you! Any others you like, discarding the shortish vowell-y rule? We seem to have similar taste.

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LadyMonicaBaddingham · 08/08/2018 22:17

Iestyn
Aeron
Eirian
Ieaun
Ioan
Aneurin

Look to Wales, the Welsh language is rich is names that might appeal. Iestyn remains my favourite Wink

Jeanclaudejackety · 08/08/2018 22:16

Logab
Gus
Angus
August
Lochie
Lennox
Quinn
Ramsay
Reid
Seamus
Sinclair
Eoghan
Aidan
Elis
Ifor
Ifan
Ieuan
Elgan
Lucas
Cian/Kian
Eamonn
Eirnin

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