Welsh names for English speakers

@PlatiPlus , I'm sorry, I @ed the wrong poster. It was @tinytemper66 .

I’m aware I’m wrong, I was giving what my attempt would be as someone who knows nothing about Welsh. Idiot testing the names, if you will. If I met a child with these names, I would make investigations before reading the name aloud, but not everyone would.

Bronwen and Megan are Welsh I think.

Lovely names.

As this thread has demonstrated - do you want a Welsh name that people who don't speak Welsh can pronounce and do you want it pronounced the Welsh way? That sounds like I am tying myself up in knots but I promise I'm not!

There are Welsh names that sound the same in English and Welsh - Jac.
There are Welsh names that have different English and Welsh pronunciations -
like mine, Rhian. I would never expect a non-Welsh speaker to be able to pronounce 'Rh' the Welsh way, but I would expect them not to call me Ree-Anne. It's the vowel sounds that make this a cross-border issue!

That's how I interpreted it, and your suggestions IMO are a guide to how others might say them. @FunnyOrca .

@Arlanymor has a good point about the sounding the same or not. I worked with a Rhian and some said Ree-un (like Ian) and others said Ree-anne (like Leanne) even though she said Rhian.

@Girliefriendlikespuppies , Bronwen is Welsh and Megan is accepted as Welsh. Bronwen would probably get said as Bronwyn and Megan as Meggun.
Neither seems like a baby's name.

I'd use a name you both like and use a Welsh middle name. A lot of the really nice names would be mispronounced/misspelt a lot as a first name.
Something like Cara isn't really Welsh but is acceptable.
Something like Anna Mererid seems very Welsh.
Something like Noah Goronwy would be fine.

Or maybe the English among you can learn how to pronounce a Welsh name 🙄 MN are so weird for insisting it has to be easy first time for the English to pronounce whatever name it is. People around the world survive and learn different names and their pronunciations all the time.

@Queeniechip , it is impossible to get everyone to get a name right.
I only know one non-Welsh speaking person get the pronunciation of my name right after asking me how to say it, and he wasn't English.

People around the world survive and learn different names and their pronunciations all the time.
Possibly but if I can't replicate a sound, I won't say it properly.

Then you didn’t read my post.

What part of, “offer my very uneducated guess at pronunciation” makes it sound like I was offering actual pronunciation?

I thought spelling Bronwen as Bronwyn made it more masculine in Welsh? The wyn bit is male?

My friends have a baby Bronwen and it’s very cute on her, think they will use nn Bronnie though.

Megan is a good name but fairly common I think.

Nye for a boy - short for Aneurin.

@FunnyOrca , I read it properly. You gave the pronunciations someone not familiar with Welsh names might give them, which I think is great because it's what will happen in real life. The dentist receptionist or whoever won't be thinking Mali will be 'Mally', they'll just say it how it looks.

@Girliefriendlikespuppies , the -wyn names are masculine. Non-Welsh speakers tend to say -wen as -win. Bronwyn appears on here often and gets a chorus of 'It's Bronwen's. Bronnie is cute but Bronwen's a granny name.