Tadhg or Paxton

I like Tadgh, it's not terribly unknown. Not keen but n Paxton.

They are really different! I do really prefer Tadhg. I don’t think Paxton is nice at all.

If it helps OP I have boys with traditional Irish names in England. Really not a big deal.

An English 'th' not an Irish one @SeanCailleach

I think the names used in either order work fine despite being so different.
I think it is incredible that people living in multi cultural societies have problems with names.

It might be a good idea to read the thread, @Escourtie

Paxton 100% Its Beautiful

I dont know the other name you suggested never heard it It looks like a made up word sorry if I offend anyone

I have a friend called Grainne from Fermanagh. I pronounce it the way she does, I m from Ulster. My manager is from Munster, it has a sort of ong in the middle when he says it.
I worked with a posh lad from Edinburgh in England. He was known as Fraser pronounced Freezer.

@Pomegranatemolasses Th like in English or Gaelic?

Siobhan isn't pronounced Shivonne. You are saying it is in certain accents and I don't believe you.

It's pronounced Shivonne in northern Irish accents. If your friend lived anywhere north of Clones she would have been most unhappy.

I have an Irish name. It can rhyme with an English word and the consonants can all be pronounced as if they were English consonants.

Or the consonants, the broad ones and the slender R, can be properly pronounced, and when that happens it sounds like a different name altogether. The only people who pronounce it 'properly' here in the US are my Russian friends, despite the fact that I used the simplified pronunciation which rhymes with an English word when introducing myself. In fact, they are possibly the only people I know anywhere who pronounce my name properly. My own Irish relatives from all over Ireland pronounce my name using various iterations of the consonant sounds. None of them get that slender R as right as the Russian family do. There is a four-way Dublin/SE/W/NW divide.

I accept pronunciations from all over the ballpark. The alternative is to spend my life fuming over something that is very trifling.

The reality is most Irish names have a variety of pronunciations depending on the dialect and accent. If you insist on everyone pronouncing it exactly the same way you do, you're going to spend a lot of time annoyed.

I have an Irish name. Generally the only people who pronounce it correctly are fluent Irish speakers from the Irish speaking region I'm from. However, I accept other pronunciations as valid (there are at least 3 or 4 variations, with one being the most commonly used). Equally I accept reasonable attempts by non-Irish people. The only time I get irritated is when people correct my pronunciation of my name. So I say my name is X. They might ask me to repeat it and they will then say Oh, you mean Y.

I did once work with a woman from Cork who corrected anyone who didn't pronounce her name using a Cork accent. She eventually gave up.

Having grown up with a first name there are two well known ways how to spell (think Jane / Jayne) so I had to establish that each time I gave my first name and then a surname I had to spell out EVERY TIME, then the main criteria on the list for naming my dc was a name that was easy to pronounce and easy to spell for the overwhelming majority of people in the country they would be growing up in.
So I wouldn't use Tadhg.

I personally don't like Paxton at all. I don't like names that sound like surnames being used as first names. That's my own tastes, which obviously are different from yours. At least it is easy to say and spell though.

I know.

The Siobhan I know hated being called Shivonne. It wasn't her name, and the reason they said it like that was because they were familiar with the name Yvonne.

You are being tiresome.

Siobhan isn't pronounced Shivonne. You are saying it is in certain accents and I don't believe you.

You're the one who said some people are likely to pronounce Siobhan as Shivonne . No, it's not a correct Irish pronunciation (which varies by area) but is close enough that most Irish people would accept it as a reasonable approximation given accent variability, particularly in a different country.

My misspelling of Siobhan was a typo. If we're going to be pedantic about it, the correct spellng is Siobhán.

[quote OchonAgusOchonO]@MikeUniformMike - well then I don't understand your argument. Maybe you could clarify?

What I took from what you said was people would mispronounce names like Shiobhan in a way that means it's not correct. My response to that is the reality is that most people are accepting of varying pronunciations of their name as they recognise that it will sound different in different accents.[/quote]
Siobhan isn't pronounced Shivonne. You are saying it is in certain accents and I don't believe you.
I used the example of Sean being said to rhyme with John to illustrate how wrong it sounds, and of course Sean doesn't rhyme with John, any more than Siobhan sounds like Shivonne.

Given that you have misspelt Siobhan, I don't think that you understand.

You are being deliberately argumentative.

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@MikeUniformMike - well then I don't understand your argument. Maybe you could clarify?

What I took from what you said was people would mispronounce names like Shiobhan in a way that means it's not correct. My response to that is the reality is that most people are accepting of varying pronunciations of their name as they recognise that it will sound different in different accents.

Tadgh is a great name and I think it’s becoming more popular now in the uk so I don’t think you’d have to guide people much with how it’s said.

Just to add fuel to the fire, I pronounce Tadhg as Thige, ie tiger without the r and with a h added.

I'm Irish and live in the west of Ireland. This is how I've always heard ot being pronounced.

That's not my argument at all Ochon. You are being deliberately argumentative.

On the subject of mispronounciation, you can't worry about that. As a child I read the names Daphne, Phoebe and Margot in books and pronounced them all wrong. I learnt. People learn

@MikeUniformMike - It's not Shivonne though is it.

I don't expect a foreigner to pronounce my name exactly the same was as I do any more than I expect someone from a different part of the country to pronounce it exactly the same. By your argument, someone from Liverpool is pronouncing Sara's name incorrectly if Sara pronounces it using a Devon accent, for example.

Disclaimer: I'm not familiar enough with the 2 accents to know if they say Sara differently but I'm sure you get my point.

Tadhg. I have a Niamh and I'm really glad I spelt it Niamh. Its beautiful. I really like Tadhg 😁

Eggandonion - I’m in East Clare, and our Cornelius’ are traditionally called Neilus!