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Babyboyno2 · 2024-09-05T13:31:51+00:00

Got this into my top 3. Just curious of how people would pronounce it, is it “REE-ON”

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KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 22:23

@Psychologymam , it is when it's my name.

Psychologymam · 05/09/2024 22:22

KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 21:49

@Psychologymam , it depends on the name, and how much you mind if it's not right. Yours might have been ok.

If you have sounds in your name that aren't in English, then you just get an approximation. Some languages have many of them.

My point being it’s respectful to get it right, regardless of the origin. I recall HR having to send an email to everyone at work in relation to people not making a good faith effort to pronounce Asian names appropriately and being correctly reprimanded for it. It’s really not up to you to decide if people’s names are okay or not - how bizarre that you’d think that!

KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 21:49

@Psychologymam , it depends on the name, and how much you mind if it's not right. Yours might have been ok.

If you have sounds in your name that aren't in English, then you just get an approximation. Some languages have many of them.

Psychologymam · 05/09/2024 19:52

HungryLittleCrocodile · 05/09/2024 14:55

I have to admit, even though my husband is Irish, we would never, ever give a child a 'traditional Irish name' that's spelt and pronounced unusually. You're just setting them up for a life of never having their name pronounced or spelt properly... Just my opinion.

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People generally make an effort to do so in the same way I would if it was a name from a different culture - most people in the part of the UK I was in did fine! Although I did live in a pretty liberal area, could be different in a UKIP voting place. If someone didn’t make effort I would see it more as their issue and a good clue as to the type of person they are!

sel2223 · 05/09/2024 19:46

Could it be Raygun the Australian breakdancer?

BarbaraHoward · 05/09/2024 19:30

Oh I assumed girl.

And100 · 05/09/2024 19:25

I would have no clue, sorry

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Babyboyno2 · 05/09/2024 19:21

@Releasethebat know 2 and then going through lists online came across it.

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Babyboyno2 · 05/09/2024 19:20

Was for naming a boy

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KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 18:42

@stanleypops66 , is it a girl's name?

Releasethebat · 05/09/2024 18:20

Out of interest OP, where did you come across this name?

stanleypops66 · 05/09/2024 18:18

In NI it should be fine. It's not overly popular but lovely.

It's pronounced Ree-awn anytime I've heard it.

MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 05/09/2024 18:13

Haven't got a clue

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 05/09/2024 18:10

I'm Irish but live in the UK. Thought it was a boys name and would have gone with Ree an as in Rian with a fada over the i.

Looking at it a second time I'd pronounce it Ree-o-Gawn given where the fada's are.

I spend quite a bit of time at work being called by colleagues to coach them on how to pronounce Irish names. Dearbhaile has been a repeat offender. Even when told, people just can't remember consistently. Poor girl.

That said, I have plenty of colleagues with diverse backgrounds and do have the same issues. You just have to go out of your way to make the effort and drum it into your brain. Tedious for them though and I did not give my kids Irish names as they would spend their lives here having it mispronounced.

MouseofCommons · 05/09/2024 18:01

I would assume Ree-gan. (And that's probably wrong).

MidYearDiary · 05/09/2024 17:59

cheezncrackers · 05/09/2024 17:42

Ree-on? I'd have guessed Regan, if a girl.

I always say the same thing on these threads, which is: If you live in Ireland, go ahead. If you don't, expect him/her to have a lifetime of explaining how to pronounce and spell their name and having it misspelt and mispronounced. Personally, that would drive me nuts, but each to their own.

And I say the thing I always say on these threads, that the large numbers of us with Irish names and surnames who live outside of Ireland do just fine, simply by telling people how our names are pronounced and spelled, and people doing that. The way I did when I was introducing a film by Apichatpong Weerasethekul film at a student film thing.

MidYearDiary · 05/09/2024 17:56

KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 17:23

@MidYearDiary , how do you say Ríoghán?

Depending on dialect, I suppose it could be Ree-AWN or Ree-oh-GAWN? I've not actually come across it.

Liv999 · 05/09/2024 17:54

I'm Irish and I would pronounce that Ree-gawn, surely Rían is Ree-an? Could be wrong though!

cheezncrackers · 05/09/2024 17:42

Ree-on? I'd have guessed Regan, if a girl.

I always say the same thing on these threads, which is: If you live in Ireland, go ahead. If you don't, expect him/her to have a lifetime of explaining how to pronounce and spell their name and having it misspelt and mispronounced. Personally, that would drive me nuts, but each to their own.

soundsys · 05/09/2024 17:36

Releasethebat · 05/09/2024 15:24

I think it's pronounced more like Ree-uh-gawn, but I might be wrong. Are you Irish?

I would pronounce it more like this also

soundsys · 05/09/2024 17:34

I think a lot of people would say Rogan, unless you're in Ireland in which case it's lovely

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Babyboyno2 · 05/09/2024 17:32

Thanks all, don’t want anything complicated so guess I’ll just have to rethink

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 05/09/2024 17:23

I haven't seen it before but my first guess when seeing it in the title was ree-awn or ree-eh-awn with a very short middle syllable.

KirstenBlest · 05/09/2024 17:23

@MidYearDiary , how do you say Ríoghán?

Topseyt123 · 05/09/2024 17:22

I would literally have no idea at all how it should be pronounced.