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Thoughts on the following Turkish names:

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user1470907786 · 07/05/2025 10:11

Hi there

Hoping for some thoughts on the following boy and girl names (mainly how you think they are pronounced upon reading them and how they sound to a non-turkish ear)?

We have lived in UK our entire lives and are from a Turkish background and have a son with a Turkish name. Would greatly appreciate any feedback! I like names with e’s and r’s as you can probably tell :-)

Boy names:

Reyan / Reyyan
Evren
Kerem
Reis

Girl names:

Meryem
Serenay
Esra
Serin
Dilara

Thank you! 🙏🏻

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user1470907786 · 07/05/2025 11:33

Thanks for sharing your honest thoughts!

We don’t mind the names sounding like other non-turkish names :-) would you mind sharing which ones sound the nicest to your ear not counting that they sound similar to other names?

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Emanwenym · 07/05/2025 11:24

I'm not Turkish, and without an obvious prompt would guess anglicised pronunciation

Boy names:
Reyan / Reyyan - RAY-un. Too close to Rayon?
Evren - EV-run,too close to Evelyn and Everly?
Kerem - KERRum, looks like a girl's name
Reis - Rice, Rees?, too close to Reiss?

Girl names:
Meryem - MERRy-em
Serenay - SERRunay
Esra - ESS-ra, too close to Ezra?
Serin - SERRin, too close to Sarin
Dilara -Dill-AR-a, sounds pharmaceutical

None of them are bad, but I'm more familiar with the Arabic spellings of some.

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user1470907786 · 07/05/2025 10:27

Thank you so much!

I do love the name Ryan which is why I included Reyan as it’s the closest I can get to it :-)

Open to anymore feedback and thoughts!

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TheCurious0range · 07/05/2025 10:17

Reyan Reyyan my phone autocorrects to Ryan and you might get people making the same mistake

I like Kerem mainly because I used to work with a Kerem and he was the loveliest person!

Girls I really like Meryem or Serin

CreationNat1on · 07/05/2025 10:14

Reis and Serin are both very pleasant and memorable.