To ask how you would pronounce this name?

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Hi all,

Sorry if this is the wrong place:

My little sister is expecting her first child and if it is a girl wants to call her “Sian”.

She sent it to me in a text and I replied “What - like See-Ann?” And she told me I was being daft.

So how would you pronounce such a name?

Sharn if you put random Rs in words

This bollocks again. 🙄

Shahn.

Interesting those who have said it isn’t produced as an R, as when I spoke to her she clarified that it was intended to be “Sharn”

I just felt a little culturally ignorant that I didn’t even consider it could be a welsh name.

Balonz

Shan

Sharn. It’s not exactly an unusual name

This reminds me of my now departed gran who couldn’t get her head round a new arrival in the family called Siobhan. The little girl, in my head, will forever be sigh-o-bann

I thought the shaan prnouncation was fairly universal

Never heard it pronouced see ann the only name i've ever heard prounced that way is Sean, and thaf was by my step brother who was delibrately trying to put my brother and i down and he thought he was being clever

It's Sharn. Nice name.
Its like Isla and Niamh although not pronounced the way it's spelt. People are familiar with the pn so she won't have go through her life having to explain and correct people.

It's the Welsh equivalent of Jane.

Shan in Scotland

Eliza9917

It's Sharn

Will she spell it Siân or Sian? Siân without the is a different meaning so my mother tells me., which is why she spelt my name with the ^. For some reason my post went italic mid post!

No one I know calls me Siân with the added r!!!!

What do people pronounce certain names with the letter r when it's not in it?

Shan

Shouldn't it have a circumflex over the "a" ?

Siân

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A2n

Sharn

Shan. Just like Sophie Webster's first lesbian love.

Yes, it's Sh-ah-n.

It’s ‘Shaan’ in welsh, like Shaun but without the ‘oh’ sound. Is this going to be the new Rhys or Dylan in terms of people mispronouncing Welsh names?

Oh for heaven’s sake. Could we do one or these threads without people with rhotic accents pretending that they don’t know that people with non-rhotic accents prounounce ‘ar’ and ‘ah’ identifically in the middle of words?

Or are you saying all the complaints about the southern England bias of media, film and TV output are baseless?

Could we do one or these threads without people with rhotic accents pretending that they don’t know that people with non-rhotic accents prounounce ‘ar’ and ‘ah’ identifically in the middle of words?

Ha ha, this!

I'd say Sharn but I live in Australia so See-an or even Si-an would be possible too.

padparadsasha i always thought Shaun and Sian were similar sounding names, there was a girl in my class called sian and people used to look at me strangely when i said it sounded like my brothers name, which is the irish spelling of Shaun.

I had a friend in my teens called Sian - pronounced Sigh-Ann. Her parents named her after a model they saw on page 3 apparently - and I always wondered if it was meant to be pronounced ‘sharn’