To never have heard of the name naveah

[Littlejayx]

I just went to a toddler class with my two year old, really lovely arty (or as arty as a a toddler can be) and I saw it on the sign in form and thought it was pronounced like Niamh (had no clue how to say it so asked the mother) and just said it was a lovely name, to which I was rather abruptly told its Na-vay-uh I’m so confused!

Oh no I remember as a teenager vowing to name my first born daughter Heaven-Leigh, after the character in the Virginia Andrews series. Im an atheist! This name is even worse!

*dd is NOT called Heaven-Leigh

Yes but I don't know any boys called Bawbag. Backwards or forwards

HalfBloodPrincess. I named my cat Troy because of those books

Lonewolf, me too, but they’re pronouncing it incorrectly and should have spelt it an English way if they say it as ‘Kate lynn’, Caitlin (fadas?) is not an English name and is not pronounced Kate lynn,

"Isn't it fair to say that every name was made up at some point. Names have to start somewhere, don't they."

Agreed. Sure, didn't Shakespeare invent the name Miranda (for his character in The Tempest). Didn't exist before 1611 as a name and now it's star of its own BBC comedy. Don't like the name as I find the premise of Nevaeh to be really stupid (and it brings out my latent snob, which I hate). Although the name itself, when just heard, is actually quite pretty. I did meet the most beautiful baby in the world who had this name and when I told her grandmother that I'd never heard it before, she did the whole, "it's heaven spelled backwards" explanation. To be fair, the little girl really suited it.

I've never in my life heard this name. But I like the way it looks written down. Not so much how it sounds.

Yeah I think it sounds quite nice. I'm not a snob about the origins of names.

Oh that name caused me great embarrassment once. I was told that the new baby of an aquaintance would be called that if it was a girl (this was about 20 years ago, pre the kind of internet we have now) and when I said that I had never heard of it before I was told it was Heaven backwards. I laughed and said "Oh you had me there, I thought you were serious!"

They were.

@HalfBloodPrincess
I loved those books!

Every time I hear it, I think the girl is in for a world of lecherous comments about 'being in heaven' when she hits her teens.

Maybe she got angry because she has to explain it so much and now wishes she had called her Sue!

I have never come across this name yet

Iv only ever heard it pronounced Ni-Vay-Ah. Not a fan but it’s pretty popular here

I only heard the whole Kate-Lynn thing too when I moved to England, that is not how Caitlin is pronounced.

Check out Wikipedia - "in the 1970s non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name as KAYT-LIN which led to many variations in spelling".

So it's basically pronounced as it's spelt then. So why the confusion OP?

Dreadful. Sorry, I mean Lufdaerd.

And for those who don’t know how to pronounce it... have you been living under a very large rock?

No. Been managing to go out and about and live my life just fine thanks, I've just never met anyone with this name so no idea of the 'correct' pronunciation.

I once met a girl called Chinese
Her mother honestly thought that was how you spelt the name!

I thought Neveah was an American thing, I used to watch Maury, there were an awful lot of people with Little Neveah,s that had to bring several potential father,s to be DNA tested .As for Niamh,it's a lovely name but increasingly popular ,my much younger cousin was named Niamh in the early 90,s (our family is from Ireland ) and it was very unusual in Britain then quite popular now though.

The name Chinese Kizkiz?I'm not getting it?

I saw someone on fb recently referring to a family member as Issac. Further looking confirmed that this is indeed how his family spell it. Just looks wrong to me as we have an Isaac in the family and are used to that.

There is one Nevaeh in dd's school. Awful name.

Pardon me for pronouncing them Coitleen and Chavvier

Tbh I've never met anyone with those names pronounced that way. I daresay if you tried to name a child with those names pronounced that way in many places in England you'd spend your life correcting the pronunciation.

Kayt-lin sounds so much nicer than Coitleen and makes more sense in phonetic English, so I'm not surprised it's overtaken the name it was derived from in some places. Xavier is more tricky, but I'd have gone for x-ay-vee-er or zay-vee-er as my first guess.

I think kizkiz means Chaniece ?

There was a little girl named Etsy at our local farm park over the weekend. It sounds quite pretty but

My daughter is called Ciara said KEER-A but it’s spelt differently to Kiera which is more popular in England so I get CI-ARA etc etc but I don’t get mad about it like she did 😂.

I asked my sister and she said she knew a baby last year at her nursery called evenley, because heavenly without the H it’s all odd really

I remember when Cribs was big on MTV and the singer from P.O.D showing his house getting to his daughters room 'her name is Nevaeh, that's heaven spelt backwards'.

I eyerolled then and I was 13/14ish. She must be in her 20s now.

@x2boys @noeuf is correct. She was trying to spell the country. Lol