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OK, I've had so much fun on your name threads, please come and slate my delusional choices

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Lionstar · 21/01/2009 11:49

Still TTC No. 2 at the moment. Girls names are impossible, but for a boy I am liking:

Cyrus
Tyrone
Oshian (Oshi for short)
Oren
Keir
Lukas
Amies
Bryn

DP is stuggling with all except Bryn (which is probably my least favourite) - we need a Welsh element so it may become the middle name.

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SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 22/01/2009 10:21

Bryn and Kier are nice.

Tyrone sounds like a pitbulll terriers name.

Lucas is okay.

Hate the rest.

Nantucket · 22/01/2009 10:19

Ah OK, they seem very welsh to me but not welsh speaking. At least the adults aren't, all the kids seem to speak weslh these days though.

millenniumfalcon · 22/01/2009 10:05

well, there's welsh and there's welsh-speaking welsh i grew up in n wales where it was about 30% welsh speaking so everyone pronounced welsh names the welsh way.

Nantucket · 22/01/2009 09:55

I know a welsh Huw and he and all his welsh family and mates call him Huw same as Hugh (hYou) never met anyone who said it differnt.

millenniumfalcon · 22/01/2009 09:52

ah but then she'd get us lot on her back about how he's pronouncing huw (in welsh the u sounds like an i )

lol can't win!

Fennel · 22/01/2009 09:51

Go for Oisin!

Or Cyrus or Keir or Lukas.

I would have been slated for my dds' names if I'd posted them on musment beforehand. But if you just call the child a name then everyone will be much politer about it, after the act.

Nantucket · 22/01/2009 09:50

Bryn is nice.

Lucas (Lukas) is nice.

If you want welsh how about Huw? Ilove that.

Huwie is cute when little.

d0glover · 22/01/2009 09:48

The trouble with names is that everyone can find a bad/good connotation with every name.

I think you and DP should just go with whatever name you both like, you have to live with it after all. Even after you have registered baby you have time to go and change it if you decide you can't live with it - I know 2 different people who did that.

Personally I'm afraid I don't like any of them but then I know dogs called Tyrone and Cyrus and Bryn makes me think of chap in Gavin & Stacey! But then I like names like Emrys, Gethin, Gwillum and Felix - it takes all sorts!

You just go for it..!!

Fennel · 22/01/2009 09:32

We don't live in or near Wales or Ireland and the little Oisin we know doesn't seem to be struggling with his name. He's 7. pronounced OSH-in. Stress on the first syllable. Not difficult once you've heard it once.

I like a lot of the other names on the OP's list too though.

millenniumfalcon · 22/01/2009 08:57

we have an "ll" although according to the babyname police that means they'll never let us in to england, or something

RachieB · 21/01/2009 21:41

hmm Oren = Orange and Bryn = hill so im not keen on either ! lol

wha tabout Dewi ? Dafydd ? Geraint ? Gethin ?

I love all of those

also quite like Osian

boccadellaverita · 21/01/2009 21:40

Lowri - No offence taken! I know David scores -10 on the originality-o-meter - and it wasn't an entirely serious suggestion - but, if you live outside Wales, I think you risk making life difficult for a child if you give him or her a name which is so hard for English speakers to pronounce that they need to listen to a website to get the right pronunciation!

I dislike the name Bryn because the only one I know is a love rat. I like Rhys, though, and once had a lovely colleague called Ifor.

lowrib · 21/01/2009 21:27

Oh no, Lionstar, you're not delusional! Don't lose heart!
These are much nicer names than something like David (sorry boccadellaverita but that's just too boring!!)

millenniumfalcon ooh I love lleucu!!!
Although using "LL" is probably pushing it I suspect

lowrib · 21/01/2009 21:15

Oh dear! I hope I'm not adding to the confusion! I was trying to describe this ...

Welsh Osian
(nappyaddict's brilliant site - it actually says it out loud)

Lionstar we haven?t started using a nick name yet, but one of my friends has started calling him Oshi already, and I really like it.

Well spotted millenniumfalcon, everyone thinks I'm Low-Rib! (Although I don't mind )

I pronounce Lowri the anglicised way I'm afraid, like the painter Lowri. But I think if you want to do it the Welsh (proper!) way it's more like Low-ree (Low as in low-down, and rolling the r if you can - sadly I can't )
Like this

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 21/01/2009 21:09

I love Bryn and if I have a ds3 I would name him that! Not keen on any of the others though

We have an Aled and Evan already.

What about Rhys, Wyn, Gwyn, Iwan?

hellymelly · 21/01/2009 21:06

Oshian is actually spelled Osian as an S in welsh has a SH sound (like Sian)

seeker · 21/01/2009 21:04

Please don't make me link to my baby naming advice post again!

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Lionstar · 21/01/2009 20:59

That is a great girls name actually. I like Esyllt too - but there's no way that works well in England (even the anglicised versions Iseult/Isolde is hard to say in English!). As a completely random fact my DD has a stuffed dog called Isotta which is the Italian form (thought you'd all be riveted by that factiod)

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millenniumfalcon · 21/01/2009 20:50

oh cool, yep me too, that's a relief. now, about the spelling... ;)

shame that site doesn't have lleucu, now there's a name i'd like to see used more often

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Lionstar · 21/01/2009 20:45

It's just too hard to get the pronunciation written down . The site nappyaddict linked to has sound clips - THAT's how I would pronounce it (but not in a male voice obviously)

And yes, I can see that I'm totally delusional, as DP has been telling me all along. Thanks for the reality check (still like the names though)

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boccadellaverita · 21/01/2009 20:31

Well, it was you who used the adjective delusional. How about David for the Welsh connection?

changer22 · 21/01/2009 20:23

I only really like Bryn. I know of a little one but (the lovely) Rob Brydon's portrayal of Bryn in Gavin and Stacey is putting me off.

stleger · 21/01/2009 20:21

Oren is spelt Odhran here (Ireland). I dare ya to use it and get people to spell it!

millenniumfalcon · 21/01/2009 20:17

lol at brainachey long/short o confusion orange=short o, ocean=long o, surely?

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Lionstar · 21/01/2009 20:05

Thanks lowrib, and Yey an Ossian - congrats on your new son. I admit I have probably chosen an anglicised form of the name, but as I like Oshi for short I thought it fitted better. Do you shorten yours?

Having lived in Wales I have always pronounced Osian with a long O as in orange. If it was a short O woulnd't it come out sounding rather like 'ocean'? Maybe only in an English voice though, with a Welsh inflexion it is different? It's so hard describing Welsh pronunciation!

I do realise the Oren/orange problem in Welsh. It probably does rule it out as we spend a fair amount of time in Wales.

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