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Leofric

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greekyogurtaddict · 19/02/2022 06:11

DH is very keen on this name. He has been watching/reading 'The Last Kingdom' by Bernard Cornwall and is a history enthusiast in general. The name is pronounced "Lay-off-rich' on the show with emphasis on the first syllable but I believe "Lair-frich" or "lair-vrich" is more accurate. The name sounds nothing like "Leo". I would probably be saying it "lair-frich". Has anybody met one outside of a history book to confirm this?

I actually like the sound of the name. My concern is that he will spend his entire life explaining how to pronounce his name to anyone that didn't grow up in coventry hearing the lady Godiva story regularly. Also, that it sounds a little like we are trying too hard to be different as it isn't exactly a classic anglo saxon name like Alfred or Edward and therefore sounds a bit fantasy genre.

I already have a girls name in mind thankfully!

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3luckystars · 19/02/2022 09:32

Lousy to do that to a little child. No way.

HeadPain · 19/02/2022 09:29

@lunar1

Either you or your husband change your name to that one, give your child a name that isn't a complete burden.
Agree
SpaghettiArmsMurderer · 19/02/2022 09:27

Definitely not! Lairy as a nn? Or Frick? No one will know how to spell or pronounce it. An all around terrible idea.

HeadPain · 19/02/2022 09:26

Don't do it. It's horrible and will be a total nightmare for the child to have this name.

Also people will just say Leo Frick. And will never be able to spell it from sound. It makes life harder to have a name like this. So unnecessary.

Sockpile · 19/02/2022 09:25

Save it for a cat or dog.

Beck01 · 19/02/2022 09:22

Is this a joke?

Catnipdelight · 19/02/2022 09:22

I would never normally criticise someone's name choice but I really think you have to stop your husband pursuing this one!

Filthyslattern · 19/02/2022 09:20

Would YOU like to be called it? Would you like to walk into meetings and introduce yourself to strangers as it?
Get dh to use it as his name for a month and then decide.
It is truly awful.

TheUsualShitshow · 19/02/2022 09:20

It's one of those 'ooh aren't we ever so literary' names. Your child's name isn't a vehicle for you to show off about your interests - see also people calling their kids Atticus without ever having read TKAM.

inheritancetrack · 19/02/2022 09:17

😂😂😂😂 😱

liveforsummer · 19/02/2022 09:13

Sorry but it's none of the pronunciations you prefer. It's either the one you've heard or lay off rick/ Lee off rick. Either way it sounds like a cleaning production medicine brand name, not for a human boy.

ohidoliketobe · 19/02/2022 08:50

I initially misread it as Leo-rific

LuluBlakey1 · 19/02/2022 08:47

Horrible name- looks and sounds ugly, awkward and hard to pronounce.

Soubriquet · 19/02/2022 08:47

No. I immediately said “Leo-frick?!”

So no

Tsubasa1 · 19/02/2022 08:46

Bit of a mouthfull tbh

Soontobe60 · 19/02/2022 08:45

Interesting name! (By interesting, I mean awful) If your DH is set on it, use it as a middle name.

4thtimethecharm · 19/02/2022 08:39

It is a no from me, too, OP. Unless your baby would evolve into the coolest kid ever, who could pull off any name, it is an easy topic to lash onto for a bully. If you are very keen on it, I would go with a very conventional, but nice, middle name that your child could switch to, if it proves too much of a burden.

lunar1 · 19/02/2022 08:31

Either you or your husband change your name to that one, give your child a name that isn't a complete burden.

SirChenjins · 19/02/2022 08:27

No - you’re no naming yourself or a pet, you’re naming another person who will spend the next 80-odd years correcting its pronunciation and spelling. It’s an utter pita.

tiredanddangerous · 19/02/2022 08:24

Hell no. Poor kid.

scandikate · 19/02/2022 08:22

I would pronounce it Leo- Freak without knowing. I don't like it to be honest

Cocogreen · 19/02/2022 08:14

He will hate you because he'll spend his life explaining it and spelling it.
I have heard of a child with a similar outlandish name tell everyone when he was 8 that from now on he'd only answer to his middle name ( which was John).

TheVanguardSix · 19/02/2022 08:09

Nope. It's an easy no.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 19/02/2022 08:08

Dangerously close to Le Freak for me.

Moonswimmer · 19/02/2022 08:00

I know one! He is nice, clever, quirky, carries it well, and pronounces it Lairfrich as you said.

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