Boys name Jan

[misdee]

if you saw thie written down, how would you pronounce it?

am trying to decide on boys names.

Yon (because a Dutch uncle and that's how his name's pronounced).

I missed out 'I have' - from the above sentence.

thats one for i gyuess.

i am worried in case its get mispronced as the girls name iyswim.

and i cant type well today it seems.

It's a nice name in flemish but it won't be pronounced correctly in english.

What about:

Jonah
Jonas (both versions of John)
Jorick (George)

That makes 2 of us. I was at school with someone called Jan - pronounced Yan - his mother was Czech - but I think people would mis-pronounced it if they saw it written, but not if they heard it, iykwim?

it would be Yan.

I would call him Yan, but imagine his friends would call him Jan or Janet. I know how cruel children can be.

I used to go to a college with a Jan. Lovely name and everyone pronounced it correctly.
dd goes to school with a Jan and he has no problems as far as i am aware.
i think it is lovely.

Jan (pronounced Yan) is quite a popular boys name in Germany. I really like it!

Yan - recalling Jan from The Silver Sword.

Jan (spelt Can) is a Turkish boy's name

I would say Ian becuase my unclue (who was Polish) was known as Ian but it was spelt Jan. His parents pronounced it differently, possible Yan.

And unclue? I mean uncle of course.

I'd pronounce it Yan. We're a Polish family and I have no end of relations called Janek!

I'd like an 'unclue', myself!

I would say Yan, if I knew it was a boy's name, as I know a male Jan and it is Yan (Dutch-German)

We have a lovely Polish decorator called Jan (Yan).

I'd pronounce it Yan - but am married to a czech, so I have started pronouncing all Js as Ys in names - it's a bit ridiculous, when I saw the Judith written somewhere, I started saying 'Yu-dith'...

In Czech, Jan is almost always called Honza though :)

I'd say [yan] because I know German, but if that's the pronunciation you're going for and you live in an English-speaking country, you (and your child) will probably spend a lot of time explaining or correcting the pronunciation.

We've ruled out a bunch of names because we're afraid they'd be slaughtered in English.

Yan. Went to school with one and not aware of any issues, even back in the unenlightened seventies!

Definitely Yan.

Here in the deepest Westcountry it may well be Jaan. As in Jan (John) Stewer, for all those fans .of Victorian comedy literature out there But I do also know a Yan, being quite cosmopolitan really ...