Do you love or loathe the name Elhan for a boy???

[Claramam]

Hi
Myself and husband are trying to pick a boys name but cannot agree on the name Elhan which I adore and is my only choice.
I'm due in 3 days, Can I have everyones honest opinion do you love it or hate it?
I won't be offended 😜

No sorry. What about eben if you want something different

Loathe. Sorry!

I’d here it as Ellen. So I wouldn’t

Hear...

The toilet we use for camping is an Elsan so I don't like it because it's too close to that.

No, it just looks like Ethan (which is a fine name, but confusing when your name isn’t Ethan!)

Too like Alan. Don't like it

No, but I like Ethan though.

What are your husband's choices of names?

Ilhan (pron. Eel-hon) is quite a common Muslim boy's name, and apparently Elhan is a variant spelling.

I went to school with a really nice guy called Ilhan, who was of second generation Pakistani heritage.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about it being used in a white middle class family setting, but I have also known non-Jewish people called Rachel and Jacob, so maybe that's just me.

No.
never heard of it. don't like it. sounds like hell.
he will have a lifetime of explaining/correcting. tedious.
pick a proper name.

I looked at it and presumed it was pronounced ‘Ellen’.

So it would be a ‘no’ from me.

I taught a Turkish boy called Elham a few years ago. I probably wouldn't use if it i wasn't Turkish

Awful sorry.

Ethan is far better. What names does your DH like?

Nope , too much like Ellen also major factor your husband doesn’t like it .

I thought Elsan too! Like chemical toilet. It's a no from me. My name was forever misspelled and it really gets boring having to correct people.

Anytime someone sees it written he'll be called Ethan. A lifetime of corrections.

No. In the immortal words of Marian Keyes, it feels ‘cobbled together’. Made up. Yoonee’que.

Everyone will pronounce Eh-lan, and within a remarkably short amount of time, that will annoy the living daylights out of you.

If you're not pronouncing it like Ellen, I can't think how you would pronounce it.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

If you're not pronouncing it like Ellen, I can't think how you would pronounce it.

I assume OP means Ee-len. Except that not one looking at that spelling would pronounce it that way: it's inevitably going to be Ellen, El-han, Alan, or Ethan.

It also makes me think of toilets, presumably because of the similarity to Elsan.

I knew a Turkish boy called Elvan.

That's similar sounding but without the Ethan/Ellen confusion. Elhan just doesn't really work in my opinion.

That's what I thought. I've never heard the name before.

It's an Islamic name, are you Muslim? If so I think it is very appropriate and charming. It means:
"Elhan is an indirect Quranic name for boys and girls that means to eloquently state something, to say something beautifully, to have a beautiful voice, and to read Quran in a beautiful voice."

If you not Muslim I think it is highly inappropriate!

It's a lousy choice of name, as many PPs have indicated.
Eli?

If your DH won't put the work in to look at names then call your child whatever you want.
Your not his staff.
What about Adam, Adnan, Enda, Eli, Aaron, Alan, Ultan?

Unless you’re from that culture, I’d think it very odd.

Have any of you been into an English (assuming England OP?) school lately (covid excepting obvs!)? Our registers are full of all sorts of names from all sorts of backgrounds. Elhan isn't going to trouble anyone these days.

I don't love it but the spelling or pronunciation isn't an issue.